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Daniel F. Walthall

@axebane.bsky.social

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He/him. Hi! I love to draw/design stuff (like Axebane's Deck of Many Dungeons). My art is 100% human-made! Addicted to popcorn. Reposts art. #comics #poetry #art

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 2d

eventually I'll get motivated to take photos of the 60 some paintings I've made this year, and then it's all over for you folks

your eyes are gonna be DAZZLED and MYSTIFIED and CRYING tears of joy

I will open the rusty doors into my imagination

and let you see
#art

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1h

On this beautiful morning in Astoria, I cast my ballot for our city and our future.

I hope you will too.

Zohran and Rama smiling at each other in a gymnasium.

A wide shot of the gym with voting booths.

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 18h

I love this so so much! To me, it's almost as if each building has a personality, and the whole painting just has such vitality! Beautiful work!!

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · Sep 8

A Kerry #painting "Cahersiveen, Main St" I painted because I love right angles. If I’m having a conversation with you, chances are I’m looking over your shoulder, not because you haven’t got lovely eyes but because I love looking at right angles. And streets have loads of them. #ArtYear #SpeirGhoirm

Landscape format in very loose painterly acrylics and black ink line. A section of a main shopping street showing 5 buildings in a terrace, albeit they are independent buildings and of slightly different heights. All buildings are three stories high with shop fronts and with slated roof of blues and greys and a grey chimney with orange pots. The building at either end is cropped. First two buildings on the left have peach upper stories over black shopfront. Next is grey-green with corner stones over red shopfront, then blue with white window details over yellow shopfront, and then tan with corner stones over green and tan with black fascia. Sky is broken blue with orange peeping through, and footpath is grey. Signed bottom right, Liam Daly

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · Jun 12

Let me share a #painting with you. "Goldfinch" I painted for someone's birthday because, well, who doesn't like a goldfinch? Always feels like a treat to see one and some years back we planted a few teasels in the garden to encourage them - it worked. #ArtYear #SpeirGorm #SciArt

Landscape format in acrylics. A European Goldfinch in flight, viewed from the side the bird facing left with its wings extended downwards and slightly forward, fully fanned out with the mid-section of each wing feather a canary yellow, the top part close to the shoulder black, the lower part rendered black with a grey-green shine, and the tip white. The back of the body is fawn with some individual lighter and darker thin strokes. The face is red closest to the bill except for around the eye which is black. To the right of the red is a down broad stripe of white, then one of black followed by white at the back of the head. The bill is thick and a pale yellow. The tail is narrow and extends upwards almost reaching the right edge of the painting. The background is a painterly dark grey-green painted to be suggestive of movement. The painting is not signed.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · Sep 26

Anyway, have a #painting "Golden Leaves III" is another in the series that came when I had my little American dog here in Dublin, and we would walk looking for autumnal leaves. After jumping into a pile of them she would look at me wondering why I had done that. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #ForestFriday

Landscape format in acrylics with textural marks, on canvas. Against a deep blue painterly sky is a messy network of small branches, the main ones which come out of the bottom left and centre, generally fanning out. They are a rough black with touches of yellow, pale blue, and red, most without any foliage but there are several autumnal leaves, curling and readying to drop, in a cluster in the top left and sparsely throughout the rest of the painting. Each leaf is a mixture of yellows, dark reds, and greens, with some almost white highlights and small very dark shadows, all fitting on a fish-bone pattern if mostly curled a bit. I took the photo before signing the painting.

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 20h

I finished three more of the paintings that I already had in progress, and then I did the latest count:

somehow, I have finished 75 paintings in roughly 4 months

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 20h

Hi Stella, it is always nice to see you :)

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 10d

Hi all,

I need to ask for help again. I have some longer-term goals to work toward paying off, and if I want to keep my website active, it's definitely going to be hard to make rent this month. We'd be grateful for any shares and donations. Thank you all so much. ❤️

#helpsky

gofund.me/a0978348

May Peterson (You)

Just now

Hi everyone,

I've been going over our money situation, and here's where I'm at: I still owe about $1300 in back taxes, and I miscalculated my website renewal fee, which is about $360. There's a $240 bill I thought was going to be covered by insurance, too, but seems not to have been. If I keep my website active this month, I'm definitely going to be short on rent.

What makes all of this so tough is that in addition to being functionally unable to work for most of the summer, I was really hoping to be reimbursed by now for the nearly $3000 that we lost earlier this year due to a billing error. But I still haven't seen any of that money, and am worried now we may never get it back.

I'm setting a somewhat ambitious longer-term crowdfund goal of about $2450 for now, with the hope that I can raise enough to make ends meet this month and then start paying off the rest.

Thankfully, my mental health seems to be slowly but steadily improving, which means I should be able to bring in more money next month, but it's been a rough time getting there.

Any donations of any size would be hugely helpful right now. You all have been positively heroic in helping my partner and me keep a roof over our heads, and in being a light of hope for me while I've worked my way out of suicidal depression. Bear God also wants you all to know how sincerely and deeply they appreciate everything you've done for us.

As always—my blessings are on you, now and forever.

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Gemma Correll @gemmacorrell.bsky.social · 22h

I have some news…

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 23h

to every person that somehow has enough extra funds to donate to a local food-bank: thank you, thank you, thank you 😭

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 1d

reminder that food is food and if someone is hungry, feed them. don't judge. being food insecure is horrible. some people can't get over the shame of qualifying for assistance. please just be normal about food purchases.

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erick (still scared) @ericktheblue.bsky.social · 1d

If you changed just three letters in the word Monday, it would be Friday. Makes you think

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 1d

very tired, but I managed to finish 12 of my paintings today

I promise I will take some pics soon!!

Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 1d

whoa, the song Medicine by Daughter played and it shattered me

still painting, crying and painting

"you could still be what you want to be
what you said you were
when you met me
you could still be what you want to
what you said you were
when I met you
when you met me"

oh, sweet Rose 😭💕

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

I bet some future archeologist is going to be incredibly excited and then overcome with crushing disappointment when they discover all those giant Home Depot skeletons.

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 1d

finished 5 more of the paintings I had in-progress

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James Hargrove @jdrakeh.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to drum up $25 for the night. I'm still running a sale on my little games over at Itch! Two little games and supplemental material for less than $10!

itch.io/s/164487/foo...

Food assistance bundle! by jdrakeh

A bundle by jdrakeh, $9.62 for Front Range Minimalist, Front Range Minimalist: The Book of Words, A Minimalist Fantasy Affair (Embellished Edition)

itch.io

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 1d

oh, and one really important thing that applies to visual art: if you've picked it up somewhere, you have to discard the assumption that a lot of people have, which is the idea that a very skilled artist never produces a bad painting/drawing

does a very skilled guitarist ever miss a note? YES!

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 1d

I know it doesn't make any sense, but I swear that's exactly what it feels like

and also, as much as possible, you gotta avoid evaluating your own results WHILE you are doing/practicing your artform

that is to say: do not judge your works while you are in motion, only when you pause

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 1d

It really does feel, to me, that making good art (not just visual art) comes from doing two things:

spending a decent amount of time learning a bunch of guidelines/techniques/rules for that artform

..then forgetting all that and doing whatever the fuck you want!!

but you gotta do the first thing

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 1d

okay, enough sorrow for now, LETS FINISH SOME PAINTINGS!! 🎨🖌

Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 1d

how is daniel doing?

he had something to eat, and he's about to paint more!

oh, and they said that "this song is deconstructing me tonight"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBrZ...

Blue Lights

YouTube video by Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners - Topic

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 1d

it occurs to me that all of us, every single one of us, are trapped within a spiral

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it's the spiral galaxy we live in

haha, motherfuckers!! I guess I can make jokes even when I'm depressed!

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 1d

"I want a home and I've been waiting so long
I know it's coming sweet, and I'm holding strong
I want a home and I've been waiting so long
I know it's coming sweet, and I'm holding strong

but these blue lights are leadin' me into trouble
with a push right down the hill until I stumble"

-Blue Lights

Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 1d

Finished two of the paintings, then I walked into the woods and sang a song to the trees (I did, it was nice)

Then I fucked up, was a bit rude to someone I love dearly. I made it right, but I fell into a spiral again

I swear I'm trying to get better so bad nowadays

About to force myself to paint