I'm about to try and make a print with a pice of old cereal box. I'm aware that the process of printing, especially in this way, is probably alien to some of you so I thought it could be interesting to show the process. And make myself accountable to finish it 😅 In my case it's going to start with a simple rough sketch on a piece of cheap flimsy-ish card and something pointy to work with. You can use a scalpel, Stanley knife or something with a sharp point. Here I've got a dry point tool but that's really not necessary. A fine knitting needle would work fine for example.

This is maybe the most important post till now. This post is going to help us all grow! 🔥 Let’s share all our knowledge. Sinds we are so much stronger together. We are now with 169 messy artists. What is incredibly! So let’s fire it up! And take over the art world 😂🙌🥳🔥 I go first 🥰 and than it’s your turn to start sharing and help your fellow artists friends grow and make a living of there art. No gate keeping 😉🥳💚 ————————————————- What I do to sell my art. 🎨 This is probably not the only or the very best way. But far I am really happy with my set up so far 🥰 ✅ Free Carrd site where I sell my originals + Linktree (does the job perfectly) My Carrd sites for an example, other example of my other business . HTTP://www.Sarlathideaway.carrd.co My link tree an example ✅ Ko-fi for gifs, commission and it has a shop! no crazy fees, 100% free! This is my link if you want to take a look https://ko-fi.com/responsiblymessyart ✅ set up a Stripe or PayPal account to collect money. PayPal cost (?) Stripes fees (around 5,5% ) ✅ I sell prints at Printumo. I have there my own shop in Printumo. They print & ship for you. Link here, check it out, and you are free to buy a print 😉❤️https://printumo.com/shop/messyart I make a photo of my artwork with my iPhone (16 pro) and upload it in Printumo as a TIFF file. ✅ Fair 50/50 galleries only (the ones that actually help you grow) I do not pay galeries. And only go 50/50 for galleries that really help me as an artist. I make my work 50 procent more expensive when it is in a gallery, so in the end it cost me 0. The work on my own site (other work, not the same as in the gallery)

Where do you find your inspiration? Or references? Do you use photo’s? From websites? Or do you shoot your own? Don’t use references at all? just look outside? Read books? Poetry?

Did a bit of testing on a handmade rough supposedly watercolor paper made by a local company who also sells art supplies and self proclaims as 300 gsm dual sized one. It's actually bookmark size, the same one I showed earlier with those bookmark designs but the testing today felt off from the start when I applied water with my water brush. Let me know what you all make of it. Was my instincts as an artist right or did I do something wrong here? This is what happened shown in the two images below 🫠🫠🫠 First one is the front side, next one is the back side. And the third one shows what it says about the paper as well too while claiming to be dual sized but I have my doubts about it 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

Does anyone have a fool proof way of sharpening soft charcoal pencils? I'm about at my wits end 😂