Just a heads up all Im gunna delete all social media from my phone for a while. I need a mental break and want to focus on my painting without it being a “I need to post right after” situation. My partner Katie has been just doing one post a month for insta and I think I may do the same, see ya l8r✌🏻

Making money as an artist online is kinda like if movie studios released movies for free and hoped a few people would buy the poster after.

Seriously eyeballing a cheap tattoo gun and then 3D printing a rig that will hold like 5 silicone turkey baster brushes so that way I could make a giant pointalist/stippled/encostic painting quickly and to maybe add a bit more color vibration (literally)

Yeah just totally normal brain things nbd

Fun fact: I painted this with a silicon turkey basting brush. Def going to use it in the future again…but maybe just a tad bit less 🦃

Hey illustrators I’m an executive art director for Scholastic and I’m currently looking for someone who LOVES drawing cats for a graphic reader series aimed at 2nd/3rd graders. Respond here w/ images + a link to your folio. Please no DMs. 💙❤️

I wish I could paint all day

@heathermahlerart.bsky.social seems accurate 🦇

Tulips

I don’t need to watch it…I lived it. Thanks for making my childhood just a tad bit stranger, I wouldn’t be who I am today if it weren’t for this show. You will be missed AHHHHHHHH!!!!!

4 paintings from the past 24 hrs or so

Two from Florence, OR

Two plaine air paintings from a camping trip at Lake Billy Chinook, Oregon. Both are 4.25x5.5 inches, acrylic on paper.

Two recent paintings to make this thing a little less empty