Janet Chui 🎨🧶🖋🪐📚

Omg super cute!!!

It would be great to get back more into painting again. The last couple of months were a headache of planning and paperwork for this move. That said, all my art supplies aside from 2 palettes and 3 small watercolor books are currently in a shipping container on the South China Sea probably. Scary

We went looking at places today while the air quality index (PM2.5) around us was basically doing this. That said, we found a place we really liked and the annual records (aqicn.org/map/chiang-m...) show AQ has been worse in previous years #nomadlife

Photos of small watercolor painting in a notebook. The painting is close to finish. It shows a small building hidden in foliage.

A small watercolor painting in a notebook of a small building hidden in foliage.

Photos from across the street of a coffee shop hidden in foliage.

Bitty watercolor painting is done! I included the reference photo. Tom and I were working towards breakfast at Manifreshto when this little coffee shop caught my eye. #art #painting #nomadlife #chiangmai #Thailand #watercolor

Small watercolor sketch in progress, small book held in left hand

Same watercolor sketch, further along with more details

Progress photos of the same piece, based on a tiny coffee shop hidden in greenery in the Nimman area. Finished look coming tomorrow. #art #painting #watercolor #thailand #chiangmai

Been busy with life changes. Am now settling down in Chiang Mai. This tiny watercolor book I work in now has its second street scene from Thailand. #art #painting #paintingvideo #watercolor #urbansketch

I think its genuinely a virtue to accept that you could be wrong about anything and kill the part of yourself that needs to always be seen as correct and smarter than others on any given topic

MEDICAL EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS. During September I suffered a shoulder injury that causes extreme pain, after several appointments and X-Ray/MRI I got diagnoses with AC joint sprain, which will need physical threapy, but I don't have enough to pay for all sessions. All commissions will be the base price below, with + $20 USD extra character/background. Available via Ko-Fi. - BLACK & WHITE $30 USD - Flat Colors w/ shadows $50 USD - Rendered $70 USD - NSFW $100 USD. all via https://ko-fi.com/alexologyart/commissions

📢⚠️EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS

One month ago I suffered a dislocated/sprained shoulder, I will need PT to keep going but I can't pay it all right now :c

- B/W $30 USD
- Colored $50 USD
- Rendered $70 USD
- NSFW $100 USD

All via KoFi! Please RP and Like for visibility, thank you 💖 #commissions #fanart

Today's progress. Interesting to see the smoothness when the piece is zoomed out. Up close there are more hard edges than my usual style because this is the driest I've ever applied watercolors. Working carefully because it's on paper for pastels #wip #noAI #art #traditionalart #painting

Thank you!

I'm on medical leave right now, finding some time to paint with new brushes and in a way that adds more texture with dryer pigments. Old watercolor habits are still creeping in though. #wip #watercolor #painting #art

Anyway, I thought I knew Wordpress well enough but yesterday had a moment where I thought this stuff had gotten too complicated and felt like a total noob again. Until I found a good plug-in. So no overhaul needed. I'm also glad this learning happened on my own site and not a client's. End 🧵

This would break my brain? A new theme usually requires learning and reconfiguration of the entire Wordpress site, plug-ins just mean setting configurations for a new feature. Maybe I'm wrong and some themes make it worth it. I didn't hang around other WordPress web designers to actually know 🧵

This exercise was a trip down memory lane of the frustrations I had tweaking/building Wordpress sites to spec for old clients. When I no longer had the gigs (overcommitment) but revisited those sites for funzies, it would be to see some other designer change the theme just to have a new feature 🧵

The difference was so stark that I decided this was the last time and I suppose the theme will stay in this mode for good. But it meant if I wanted an image carousel on my site, it was Add Plug-In time. And apparently more expense time too 🧵

All this in a theme I paid for and have used for years, having a lifetime ownership and updates. Every time I've attempted the mode switch, same thing happened: site would break. I let an hour or two pass to see if this was a cache thing, forced refreshed, still zip. If I reverted, things OK again 🧵

I'm not dead, just recovering from a procedure and getting some off time. Yesterday had me trying to switch the theme mode on my WordPress site from Classical to Modern. Did not work bc everything showed down and "Font Awesome" navigation symbols broke. Rant🧵

"but art should be accessible" it is, you can learn to draw, paint, collage, sculpt, make pixels. right now, starting today. art has never been more accessible monetarily nor physically than it is now in this age. access to artist labor and machine production is not an accessibility issue.

Same. I just published a piece on the inadequacy of AI "therapy" and now this?

Aurgh. Clients deserve better.

Just unfollowed a BlueSky account that was using AI generated art. I doubt they'll notice but if anyone reading this is thinking about using the same even if you're not an art account, don't. Just don't.

No, AI Can Not and Will Not Replace Therapy Effective counsellors and therapists know AI isn’t enough.

Been preoccupied but coming into a little free time soon. Until then, I published on Medium today #writing #noAI #mentalhealth medium.com/artful-couns...

I've got this one too! Somewhere...

Green Aurora borealis, resembling a dragon silhouette, over arching rock sculptures in Iceland.

“Dragon Aurora”
#ArcticHenge, Raufarhöfn, #Iceland
(Credit: Carina)

#Aurora resembling a big #dragon over the rock pyramids, was the result of a geomagnetic storm (level G2) generated by a coronal mass ejection earlier that day.

#Astrophotography #AuroraBorealis #NorthernLights #NightSky

Screen capture of Redbubble Page with 3 of my fox designs.

Yeah, I may be on a fox kick. My most recent 3 designs at my (fantasy) RedBubble page are all foxes. I'm not even done yet www.redbubble.com/people/janet... #art

I don't even collect very seriously but I'm afraid to count how many Oracle and Tarot decks I have...

"Finish"? Lol. I have a notebook of ongoing projects. They're still too many but they're now organised by category/page! :)

It doesn't stop new projects but it does mean old ones get returned to when I'm bored.

View of a breakfast table. Two natural plant pods sit in the foreground, one closed, one open.

Extreme close up of a pod stalk with an inchworm on it. Very Georgia O Keefe. Much wow.

Met a kapok tree on the bike ride this morning and picked up a couple of pods (didn't pick up fluff; most of it was wet). While waiting for breakfast, had an impromptu table-top #photo shoot with a hitchhiker I found on my arm.

Too real

Video of yet another fox in progress. Will post both finished designs soon #wip #painting #art #watercolor #traditionalart