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victorysmithart · 2 years

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Well meaning friend: You should paint this! *describes incredibly complicated/time consuming oil painting*

Me: Are you asking for a quote or a commission?

Friend: You know you’re never going to sell anything if you don’t do *that idea*

Me:

#commisionwork #seriously #starving artist #ranting #paint costs money #give me money #not ideas

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victorysmithart · 2 years

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Externalized Emotions Pt. 3

12x24 oil on panel, 2022

#artists on tumblr #adventures in art #art #oil painting #ptsd art #ptsdawareness #putting the pain in painting #this turned into a Rorschach test because everyone’s seeing different things #for me it’s just the impossibly big feeling of self hatred and fear #seriously this is a self portrait #can you see the skull

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victorysmithart · 2 years

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Externalized emotions pt.2

#ptsd art #ptsdawareness #ptsd thoughts #externalized emotion #I think this one is hollow #numb #gif warning #gif

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victorysmithart · 2 years

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What’s the statute?

My lawyer boyfriend anytime I claim something’s legal

#I get it #but my god it’s frustrating #and it’s hilarious #I’m learning so much #we don’t argue we discuss #law #lawyer #legal advice

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victorysmithart · 2 years

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I was super frustrated that nobody was using coasters on my (already ruined) table and then remembered I’m an ass who hasn’t had anyone over in like two years so I just didn’t think to have more than 3 coasters.

Problem solved.

#I made coasters #improvised #I don’t have a studio space because I am poor #but I make do with tea towels and Masonite boards #currently sitting in greenware purgatory #ceramics #freehand #hand built #my art #homemade

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victorysmithart · 2 years

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It’s one of those emotions I can’t put words to.

#ptsd #ptsd art #ptsdawareness #emotions #one of my treatments is externalizing emotions as things #but I can’t think of what this would be so it’s just my brain exploding #artists on tumblr #digital art

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victorysmithart · 2 years

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It’s not that I’m delaying my website, it’s that I care about UX and accessibility and I hate the desktop to mobile translations.

#artist problems #website design #accessibility matters #ranting

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victorysmithart · 2 years

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everyone’s debating posts of the decade, best and worst, and i have yet to see anyone mention moon moon

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victorysmithart · 2 years

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I did a pop up show with June Glasson in 2017 and there was this lady (also in the show) who constantly told me my style/method was Unhinged™️ in a bad way. I looked her directly in the eyes and painted this:

Troutmaid. V.Smith, 2017. Watercolor and quink.

My skills have since improved.

Troutmaid 2. V.Smith 2022. Oil on panel.

#adventures in art #adventures in painting #pop up show #Troutmaid #I’m sure many exist but this one is mine #oil painting #artists on tumblr #putting the pain in painting #he’s a himbo #not a furry #art progress

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victorysmithart · 2 years

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That time I was sleep deprived and put a touch dry oil painting under my record player to flatten out the panel and left it for a month bc squirrel brain and came back to it completely DRIED to the record player so I had to peel it off and then do restoration on my own fucking painting

#adventures in art #literally I just #this is the shit I don’t talk about on my other platforms #putting the pain in painting #painting #artists on tumblr #art #story time

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victorysmithart · 2 years

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tfw you realize you should have sold that last painting for a lot more

#ugh #it was one of my favorites #oil painting #art sales #artists on tumblr #art #painter

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victorysmithart · 2 years

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Thoroughly convinced I’m one of those people that can’t build a following because I’m terrified of becoming the next Bev Doolittle. I can’t stick to one subject/style/medium, which is cool cuz I’m never bored, and I won’t get pinned as The Guy That ™️

#I lack consistency #i lack self control #but also I was the quiet kid in school so I shouldn’t be THAT surprised #seriously I’m low key frustrated #fed up with this shit #ranting #artists on tumblr

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victorysmithart · 2 years

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I’m literally losing my mind and need to document the quick plummet into psychosis as I build up my side hustle.

I came crawling back to this hellscape after almost a decade because all my other platforms are so horrifically professional.

#introductory post #hi #artists on tumblr #i’m sad and tired #but I guess that’s art in 2022

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