Empathy, Hurt people hurt people.

Mindfulness, if you can get your hands on it, read Why Buddhism is True.

Twilight

Breaking Bad

Move to a battleground state and vote there where your vote matters more.

The Opium of the Masses

Indoctrination.

Yes. I get called one everytime i defend or advocate for anything left of Bernie Sanders. "

“Communism is the riddle of history solved, and knows itself to be the solution.”

Is as true today as it was when Marx wrote it almost 200 years ago.

Reminds me of my thoughts after reading “Why Buddhism is True” by Robert Wright. If you haven’t read it before I highly recommend it.

The Hasan Abi Broadcast

Jungle - Volcano (the whole album)

Marxists.org is a great place to find the primary sources that your library doesnt carry and that right wing media demonizes.

Yes

What did you have in mind? I could paint it in oils and ship it to you.

I feel you, more than you know. If you aren’t on an SSRI, i can’t recommend seeking a doctor that will prescribe you one, I had to quit smoking myself because I had a panic attack that sent me to the ER before I was medicated, qnd havent started back since cause the antidepressant works so well. Really hope you can get your shit sussed out, i was spiraling just as hard if not harder than you before I decided to seek medical help for my mental issues. You dont need to completely disconnect from the internet and news like everyone is saying, just get your mental health to a level where you can deal with how heavy shit is getting lately.

Thanks!!! Thats the best complement a fledgling artist can recieve!

Its extremely challenging, but you learn alot from doing it. Its also important to choose only 1 or 2 artists and stick to them and try to learn their style. Ive landed on Edgar Payne and Monet after being a life long Van Gogh stan. Its really useful in developing your own style by blending 2 different masters together. I highly recommend checking out the Paint Coach on YouTube he has a bunch of great videos that really break down the process of composition and getting your values right. Either way Happy Painting! Cant wait to see more of your works!

I use a lavender brush cleaner as a paint thinner, it is non toxic and works great. I paint with winton oil colors by windsor and newton, and also paint in an unventilated apartment.

All of my paintings so far have been Alla Prima, with a base layer of Burnt Sienna and Permanent Crimson mixed with a paint thinner. I wipe most of that base layer off and then do a rough sketch of the painting with the same mixture before starting to paint actual colors I want to see. The guy I’ve done the most master studys of, Edgar Payne, did his paintings very similar with usually less layers than what I end up with. You can see the base layer he primed his canavas with on alot of his finished works.

To be honest, choosing which piece to do the study on ha. But the hardest part of the actual painting is mixing the colors and getting them as close as possible. One of the reason I like doing Edgar Payne studies is because his brush work feels so intentional and elegant in its simplicity. Copying him is extremely satisfying when I get close to what he painted.