Daniel F. Walthall
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Daniel F. Walthall
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He/him. Hi! I love to draw/design stuff (like Axebane's Deck of Many Dungeons). My art is 100% human-made! Addicted to popcorn. Reposts art. #comics #poetry #art
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I released another free hand-drawn map, it's free for everyone thanks to my patrons! Thank you so much!!!

As usual there are two versions: a full-page version with space for notes, and a version with numbers and secrets hidden!

www.patreon.com/posts/floode...

#art #drawing #cartography #TTRPG
I think maybe I'm intimidated by my 24" x 36" huge canvas panel, because so far all I've done is put a background color on it

no idea what to paint on it, all my other canvases do not intimidate me at all, so it feels weird. Just because this one is so big? what am I scared of?
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i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
?? two of my exes are chatting with me today and being sweet to me. people like me? wtf is this?

what is this sorcery?!

haha, it's nice though, maybe I should have a bit more confidence in myself afterall :D
listen, the artist who organizes the event does sound like a nice guy, and he's clearly passionate about art

which makes it even more confusing and sad to me

well, I'm gonna make a bunch of small works (and large!) regardless, I'll just do it on my own terms which sounds more fun anyway
LMAO! I was gonna join the Small Works Challenge until I got to the part of the video where the artist who organizes that event recommends that artists use AI to write "more personal, more compelling stories" about their art...

more personal? the algorithmic theft machine??

nah, no thanks, gtfo
I feel really embarrassed about it, but I had to cancel my two commissions :(

I thought I was in the right mindset to start doing commissions again, but then my personal life got more chaotic, and the storm in my mind got stronger

I feel ashamed to be so unreliable, but this is who I am sadly
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The crowd estimate for Portland's No Kings protest is currently at 40,000.

More photos to come but you can read our live updates here: www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
These are some of the paintings I'm currently working on:

(all of these are 16" x 20", on canvas panel, using casein paint)
#art #painting #abstract
Maybe I should have a little bit of confidence in myself, and in my artwork. Maybe I could just have that?

If not now, when?
finally, I have rose red pigment again!!

#painting #art
You are absolutely right!!

I remember when I was drawing a tarot deck and you were so encouraging, and even though I never finished that (I still have the drawings!), it was still a moment that gave me so much confidence in my art!! That, and for the many times you were kind to me: thank you!! 💖 🫂😭
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thank you, I really have to remember that and recognize that people do love me. It's not my fault that my brain wants to lie to me.

I hope you feel loved also, my longtime friend. I've never forgotten how you've believed in me over the years, dude!! 💖 🫂
I really have to stop assuming that everyone hates me.

Who hates me?

I don't know anyone who actually does, but I keep assuming my friends and family do, when really there isn't much evidence of that!!

my friend gave me good advice tonight: "it's just your brain being a dick!" 🥰
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I ordered paint! and also a 24" x 36" canvas panel!!!

the paint wont be here for a week though, so for now I'm using some dioxazine purple, and cobalt blue gouache mixed in with the casein (always with more than 50% of the mixture being casein) to finally get some freaking blues/purples again!!
I'm gonna run out of paint if I don't order some today I think

all I have left is green, a bit of yellow ocher, some browns, plus black & white!! I'm still painting though, so my most recent paintings are mostly just light brown and dark brown at the moment, LMAO!
I've completed 31 paintings in the last three months

as soon as I can get motivated to, I'm gonna photograph all of them, and I'll start sharing pics!!!
okay, this is fuckin' weird, and I don't really understand it, but I'm so addicted to painting now that I still find myself painting even while I'm sobbing
also, it's WILD how much more motivated I feel when I lean into my chaotic nature, and allow myself to start new paintings on a whim, and to have 10 to 20 paintings in progress at any given time

I've never worked this way before in my life, but it's the only way I want to paint now!!
I think I've latched onto painting so strongly lately because:

-I watched a bunch of videos of artists being interviewed, and it gave me a powerful craving to just go for it with painting

-my personal life has been chaotic this year, and I needed an escape

-a new-found love for semi-abstract art
I've been in such a painting frenzy for the last few weeks, that I'm starting to build up a stack of paintings like some kind of painting farmer growin' bushels of paintings

I really gotta take some pics to show you guys, it's sorta crazy