A little drawing I did a while ago :)

I tried painting it, but I really shouldn't have — I complitely messed it up 😅

#ArtFail #MastoArt #drawing #TraditionalArt #DailyDrawing #ArtistsOnMastodon #CreativeToots #ArtToot

You know how people are always telling each other that it’s okay to suck at things, that having fun doing them is the point? After my first go with pastels, I really hope that’s true…

The nicest thought I’ve had about this is that it vaguely resembles one of those terrible 18th century paintings people had done of their prize cow or pig, in that there’s no real talent on show but you can see what it is. #art #ArtFail #pastels

This is 'crumple' origami. Used a lot by French origamists 'Le CRIMP'.

Thin, crisp paper (here tracing paper) is folded and then crushed. The process allows the paper to be shaped into flexible, organic forms.

This paper was coated in cyanotype. The form I made was exposed in the sun for 10 minutes, and developed.

If I hadn't put my fingers through the wet paper it would be good!

#cyanotype #origami #blueprint #metamorphogram #sunprint #ArtFail #doh #crumpleform #CrumpledPaper #LeCrimp

A rejection today.

Rejections in art are hard. Most applications fail. There were 186 applications for this single residency.

Applications are days of unpaid work for no reward.

Not even feedback.

Feedback would help.

A reason. Something to build on, to improve next time.

But nothing.

A while ago, I put the excuses I'd received for no feedback into a picture.

It was cathartic.

'Here's Your Fucking Feedback'.

#rejection #artfail #Feedback #catharsis #NoFeedback #ArtOrg #ArtistLife #Why

That moment you realize - while removing a part of a mold from a not quite cured resin pour - that you left a thumbprint behind when you applied pressure in an obvious spot and now it’s there forever 😩

#artFail #resinNewbie

Pattern and chaos.

Here's the crease pattern in paper for John Montroll's Dimpled Snub Cube.

And then there's the chaotic failed collapse of it into a 3D shape.

I've folded these before, and it's an interesting fight, wrestling a sheet of paper into form.

Practice makes polyhedra.

#origami #art #artfail #polyhedra #polyhedron #DimpledSnubCube #ArtFail #chaos #Pattern #creasePattern #fold #folding

Sometimes things fail.

I've been trying to get back into origami practice with John Montroll's - 'A Constellation of Origami Polyhedra' (https://johnmontroll.com/books/a-constellation-of-origami-polyhedra/).

Using 75 cm squares of tracing paper made it harder - wrong paper for these models.

The crease patterns are beautiful - this is for a Sunken Cuboctohedron. But I've failed to fully fold them into 3D shape.

But it's OK. Sometimes things fail.

#origami #polyhedra #artfail #fail #cuboctohedron #polyhedron #folding #FoldingPaper