Kate Drwęcka 🦇
@thisiskatedee.bsky.social
End is in sight! Going to try and be more loose on the flowers—hopefully it works out 😅
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
End is in sight! Going to try and be more loose on the flowers—hopefully it works out 😅
Slooowly chipping away on this piece. I think 2026 will be the year of really slowing down on my art process (yes, even comics!) as much as that spooks me 😅
November 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Slooowly chipping away on this piece. I think 2026 will be the year of really slowing down on my art process (yes, even comics!) as much as that spooks me 😅
Just a little panic. Finding skin tones so hard in watercolour??? I use the usual mixes from other paint mediums but it never feels right. Initially went to dark but salvaged it a bit and now it will be slow glazing (assuming my brain allows haha)
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Just a little panic. Finding skin tones so hard in watercolour??? I use the usual mixes from other paint mediums but it never feels right. Initially went to dark but salvaged it a bit and now it will be slow glazing (assuming my brain allows haha)
Cooking a little something. Can’t wait to fuck it up in the painting stage 😂
November 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Cooking a little something. Can’t wait to fuck it up in the painting stage 😂
Been playing around with watercolours to various success (i am new and impatient haha) but enjoying it
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Been playing around with watercolours to various success (i am new and impatient haha) but enjoying it
Showing up to the function like
October 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Showing up to the function like
New Elden Ring boss dropped (aka I signed up for hema classes)
September 12, 2025 at 3:14 AM
New Elden Ring boss dropped (aka I signed up for hema classes)
If any of you ever see these: burn them. This is actually the most rancid tasting thing I’ve ever had 🤮
September 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
If any of you ever see these: burn them. This is actually the most rancid tasting thing I’ve ever had 🤮
I said goodbye to one of my bestest pals today. It was 100% the right thing to do but I will still miss Freyja terribly. It comforts me to think she’s cuddling with Bijou again 💖
August 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I said goodbye to one of my bestest pals today. It was 100% the right thing to do but I will still miss Freyja terribly. It comforts me to think she’s cuddling with Bijou again 💖
More short portrait practice
August 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
More short portrait practice
This is of particular relevance
August 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This is of particular relevance
Algorithms in general. For folks curious this stemmed off my reading of Filterworld by Kyle Chayka (also currently on bookoutlet for $13!!)
August 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Algorithms in general. For folks curious this stemmed off my reading of Filterworld by Kyle Chayka (also currently on bookoutlet for $13!!)
Setup to stream some oil painting this Thursday
Just gotta move my screens and adjust lighting.
Just gotta move my screens and adjust lighting.
August 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Setup to stream some oil painting this Thursday
Just gotta move my screens and adjust lighting.
Just gotta move my screens and adjust lighting.
Met some folks for plein air painting this past weekend
August 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Met some folks for plein air painting this past weekend
More portrait studies. Not thrilled with today but still learned!! Definitely going to bump up the size for the next batch (this is just what i’d prepped in my sketchbook)
August 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
More portrait studies. Not thrilled with today but still learned!! Definitely going to bump up the size for the next batch (this is just what i’d prepped in my sketchbook)
Painting continues to be humbling but still keeping with the 1-2hr studies
August 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Painting continues to be humbling but still keeping with the 1-2hr studies
Getting back into oil painting for fun. Short practice from tonight. Faaaar from good but I finally started to get a feel for things and enjoyed parts of it (even while recognizing big mistakes i made)
July 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Getting back into oil painting for fun. Short practice from tonight. Faaaar from good but I finally started to get a feel for things and enjoyed parts of it (even while recognizing big mistakes i made)
Richard Schmid telling it like it is.
![TALENT. Don't bother about whether or not you have it. Just assume you do, and then please forget about it. Talent is merely one of those convenient words (like gifted or endowed), that we use after someone has become accomplished. There is simply no way to detect it before the fact, or when someone is still grappling with the learning process. It is impossible to predict when or if mastery will click into place. The only time we can be comfortably sure about high skill is when we finally go to Carnegie Hall and hear our little cousin Charlie play the Mendelssohn violin concerto for the second time. (The first time might have been an accident.)
The exceptional skill we label as talent is not a single capability. It is a complex mixture of motive, curiosity, receptivity, intelligence, perception, sensitivity, expert teaching, perseverance, problem-solving skills, timing, sheer luck, and countless other things. If any part of it is genetic, divinely endowed, the result of astrological fiddle-faddle, fate, or destiny, that part is not the sole determining factor. All the other ingredients must be present in the right combination-and no one knows the exact recipe.
Artistic skill the ability to draw well and make paint behave is not a natural endowment like big blue eyes or great legs
Nor is it a special knack you simply have or do not have, like a "green thumb," a "natural sense of rhythm," or "surgeon's hands." (Those things are nonsense too.)[…]
You can learn the skills required for painting in the same way that you can learn anything else you are strongly drawn to.
I don't mean to understate the difficulties, however. The great painters devoted their lives to their art, often to the point of total obsession. Serious painting is not something that can be learned casually. You must be willing to sacrifice many other things. So don't waste time worrying if you are talented and don't blame any failures on the lack of it-that is the ultimate cop-out.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yhuszvwbyrtsxxpjab3sy5ps/bafkreib2ximjwpjd6yl2pzwhrqbf2iz6nnzgvioqguam52qrrd6ag2cgda@jpeg)
July 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Richard Schmid telling it like it is.
qrp with your header art! 🩸🗡️
June 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
qrp with your header art! 🩸🗡️
All set up! Come catch me at TCAF this weekend Toronto :) Table 228
June 7, 2025 at 4:31 AM
All set up! Come catch me at TCAF this weekend Toronto :) Table 228
Some new prints coming to TCAF
June 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Some new prints coming to TCAF