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scribbled down a couple little guys that have been bouncing around in my head today

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sky whales 😌 🐋✨

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Plein Airpril April 22, 2024

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Another Plein Airpril from a little creek by my house on the way to the mall.

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hey friends! i gave myself a concussion trying to be a good mama and now is a GREAT time to do any of the following as a “get well soon” gesture hehehe

1. buy a print or two!

2. subscribe to my patreon (as low as $1)!

3. toss me a couple bucks on ko-fi!

4. subscribe to my art blog (free)!

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if you think for one second that i’m exaggerating for effect

do not trust him

put my cat on the cover of CRIME Magazine, where he belongs

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put my daughter on the cover of CRIME Magazine, where she belongs

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put my cat on the cover of CRIME Magazine, where he belongs

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working on some more tourism posters today to prep for an upcoming market

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ok this is a super funny little tag actually because of course alex plante and hockey would be a confusing tag if you’re not talking about the hockey player, because you’re right, we are not the same person.

but funny thing!!

Alex Plante the hockey player is from Brandon, Manitoba. Alex Plante the artist, me, is also (broadly speaking) from Brandon, Manitoba!!

He’s also only two years older than me! Brandon isn’t big, especially so back in the 2000s, so strangers used to ask me if i was related to the hockey player alex plante and i’d always joke “yeah he’s my brother; our parents just really liked the name.”

BUT!! in retrospect i’m not entirely sure we’re not related?

His dad looks almost identical to my uncle to a degree where you’d be like “those guys are brothers for sure”. His dad is a real estate agent in town and i remember driving past one of his ads thinking “what’s uncle JP doing on a bus bench??”

What’s more, we also don’t have great records of what my Grandpa “i-don’t-know-how-many-grandchildren-i-have” Bruce was up to, and even less about anything further up the line… so despite having no actual evidence I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we are actually related somehow. There aren’t a lot of Plantes in Manitoba and the ones i know of all look vaguely… familiar. (I just quietly assume we’re all cousins, whether they like it or not.)

anyway, it has been a tongue-in-cheek goal of mine since high school to be the most famous Alex Plante from Brandon, Manitoba. sometimes i imagine this whole story going down on some late night talk show with the host like.. flipping around picture cards for the audience and pretending to be all in awe and shit and then the audience laughs hysterically at my “yeah he’s my brother” joke.

anyway sorry if you’re reading this extremely offputting post, members of the other plante family in brandon. i’ve never spoken to any of you specifically except the one time alex added me on facebook because he thought it was funny we had the same name around town and i agreed and then we never spoke again.

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a little bit of both!! looked at a bunch of screenshots then just tried to emulate the general “run them through a liquify filter” vibe while still having them look like themselves. thanks so much!!

well i hardly got any real work done today but at least i had fun

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well i hardly got any real work done today but at least i had fun

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david tennant + stripey sweaters

obsessed with this man's fashion sense

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makin good use of my time today

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we went xc skiing yesterday 😌