A quick doodle based on something @vicorva said during their Tiny Bookshop Twitch stream about 'AI' / LLMs trying to appropriate sparkles, and em-dashes and semicolons and the likes being seen as signs of genAI.

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Inspired by my "Hail Butts" halibut pun (https://toot.cat/@FiXato/110699148766310533) I quickly drew this #wordArt of one using my Winsor & Newton alcohol markers.

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I'm a Dutch father to a young BeardGrabber, with an interest in creative outlets such as code and (aquarelle) paintings, living in northern Norway, making a career change as a prep cook.

This is a secondary profile, trying out #Socialhome. For my primary account, please see my mastodon account @[email protected] (https://toot.cat/@FiXato).

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Commonly used hashtags:

• #FiXatoPaints for my physical media paintings and #FiXatoPaintsDigitally for my digital ones.
• #FiXatoDraws for my drawings made with other materials than paint. Distinction is not always very clear cut, and I may use them interchangeably.
• #FiXatoWrites for my writing snippets.
• #FiXatoPUNishes for my puns and other wordplays.
• #FiXatoFoto for my photography.
• #FiXatoCodes for my coding related posts.
• #FiXatoStreams for my streaming announcements, should I find the time, energy, and hardware to get back into that.
• #FiXatoFood for food pictures, recipes, and other food-adjacent stuff.
• #FiXatoCooks specifically for food I've cooked.
• #FiXatoBakes for baking-related food preparations.
• #FiXatoCreative for all of the above creative work and more.
• #FiXatoDrinks and #BeersFiXatoDrinks for my beverages related posts.
• #FiXatoRecommends for general recommendations.
• #FilmsFiXatoWatches for film reviews and other tidbits, and #SeriesFiXatoWatches for series instead.

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Made a quick #bookmark out of some black paper and some pencils. It will live in the bedtime story #book I'm currently #reading for #BeardGrabber.
(For those interested, it's an omnibus by #EnidBlyton called "The O'Clock Tales".)

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If you have a #Rusta shop nearby, you might want to see if they also have the Playbox of Sweden "maleveske" on offer for 69.90 NOK. Clas Ohlson has the same set in their permanent assortment, rebranded, but at 129.90 NOK usually, so almost double the cost.

While aimed at kids, I've personally found the oil pastels to be quite satisfying, and even the water colour paints where vibrant and a joy to play with. Of course I don't expect lightfastness and they don't list the pigments used, but so far my rainbow whirlpool painting is still brightening up one of our walls. :)

Unfortunately I can't check how my oil pastels drawing of aurora borealis over Tromsø is doing, as I accidentally left it at the in-laws and haven't seen it since, and my peacock feather in oil pastels is too recent anyway.

#BeardGrabber really enjoys using his box from time to time, so I picked up two more yesterday; one for me, and one to either restock his, or to use as a gift.

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Stepping out of my comfort zone a bit for today's drawing by using a medium I'm not really familiar with: alcohol markers.
I recently picked up three Winsor & Newton Promarkers from the clearance bin at Staples, and wanted to give them a try.

Since my palette is rather limited with just three colours, I wanted to draw an example that was also rather limited in colours. Having recently watched Many a True Nerd's playthrough of Metro 2033 Redux, I decided to pick a scene of the Dark Ones near the end of the game.

I kind of like the results (though I think I prefer my monochrome version best?), and I might pick up some more colours if they still have them on sale, the next time I can pop in.

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Soul shade

We got a set of #NassauFineArt #AquarelBrushMarkers from an offer at our local #Rusta the other day, so after some experimenting last night to get a bit more used to this weird medium that's not quite markers and not quite water colour paint, I ended making this quick sketch with them.

I started off with the tree as I wanted to play around a bit with greens, and then decided I wanted to turn the pink spot in the top right corner that was leftover from last night's blending tests, into a pink and blue sky.
Filled up the remaining whitespace with a yellow beach.

Not quite sure if these #waterColourBrushMarkers are really for me, but I do like how the sky turned out.

I can certainly see their appeal, especially on the go, as they require far less setting up. Basically just need a surface, a drawing pad, and some water to fill up your water brush reservoir.

hashtags:

#FiXatoPaints #FiXatoDraws #FiXatoCreative #MastoArt #waterBrushMarkers #Nassau #BrushMarkers #artSensations #sunny #summerArt #markers
#aquarel #aquarell #akvarell #waterColours

@Taweret @apLundell well, here's my attempt at a #kitty with Mastodon's #doodle tool. :)
I think I'll stick to deviantART's muro instead. xD

Tried following this video tutorial.

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#hashtags I regularly use:

• #FiXatoCreative a collection of all my creative outlets. I usually combine these with one of the following:
• #FiXatoPaints for my physical media paintings and #FiXatoPaintsDigitally for my digital ones.
• #FiXatoDraws drawings made with other materials than paint. Distinction is not always very clear cut, and I may use them interchangeably.
• #FiXatoWrites for my writing activities
• #FiXatoFoto as well as #photography and #dailyPhoto for photographs I've taken.

Then there's also these other topics that interest me:

• #FiXatoCodes and #coding (which is perhaps better used as a profile filter: FiXato's #coding posts)
• #FiXatoStreams for my posts about my #livestreaming activities.
• #FiXatoBlog for posts I would like to expand to full blog posts at a later point, or for posts about the development of said blog.
• #MSX and #MSX2 for posts about the MSX #homecomputer from the 80s.
• #FiXatoFood for food I eat and/or make
• #pun and #puns for the puns I make

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