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unknown.garden
a hybrid signal
@unknown.garden
i lurk a lot. 40s. artist in watercolor, digital &etc, linux wrangler & hacker, plant hoarder, crossroads scavenger & sometimes writer. privacy nerd. unsolicited advice gets muted at *best*

they/them/oh god what is that
me, flat on a bed, like I've been since 10.30, having finished a giant blt, a seltzer and sleep tea, considering this plan
January 6, 2026 at 6:12 AM
i never did post these together & now i know why; my photos organization is atrocious, finding this took like twenty minutes across three different filesystems
December 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Show me what you can do with just a pen!

this was at least six pens but you get the idea
December 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
this is wholly @derekdesanges.bsky.social's fault

otoh this made me go 'okay if you can do this you can pick out art & make website thumbnails', and i DID
December 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
a doodle i liked whose only actual thought was wanting to draw something in blue & pink, hence the kind of awkward pose
December 25, 2025 at 2:35 AM
landlord scheduled the *rescheduled* oven for between 11-3pm

they called him at 9 to see if they could bring it through at 9.30, nobody was awake to see that message because we go to bed around 2am on a good night

still nothing as of 2pm
December 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Quote with your most detailed art! 🎨🔥

i'm usually reticent to join these on a total stranger's post, but i could probably also stand to feel more accomplished about this thing i drew to scan & use in other things
December 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
got some mats made for these yesterday to make them a more normal frame size. they aren't fixed in place yet just wanted a picture of them together while it was light out
December 20, 2025 at 5:22 AM
December 20, 2025 at 4:25 AM
oh my god they all nap with you :>

I'm going to end up playing this eventually but i really wish they had a 'no really i suck bad' difficulty because I've been watching most of it and it's So Much
December 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
if only i could reproduce this kind of screwing around outside of my sketchbook & planned at least nominally so that parts of it don't run into the spiral binding or edge of the paper
December 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
spent today on this because i slept for shit & staring at paints was about all i could bother to do after the whole healthcare thing

a couple are specific brand mixtures but most were either the same or an easy replacement
December 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
done? probably? won't be absolutely sure til it's in the scanner preview for reasons i still can't discern
December 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
alas the best version of mine no longer exists o7
December 14, 2025 at 4:31 AM
making another thing to scan, cut up & rearrange and realized that my plan to try this one with each color on its own pass is basically doing printing process by hand
December 14, 2025 at 3:49 AM
welp i redacted it earlier so i could actually check & be sure; oven's fucked now too. it heats but not enough to hit full set temps & come out of 'preheat' mode
December 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
🫩
December 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
spent the past week making design elements to scan at high res so i don't have to abuse the stamp tool quite so hard

also tempted to fill the rest of this & finally do the tapestry/blanket thing, it's roughly the same size as the thing i scanned for the other one
November 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
god these were daunting

haven't tried one yet but they Look nice and smell good?
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 AM
gouache sketch using whatever i had left on the palette and tray, with some paint pens to see how they behave together (better than expected for ~12$ Marshalls' knockoff Poscas)
November 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
it's been way too long since i posted any kind of art so: time for experiments in egregious stamp tool abuse
November 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
HAH
November 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

...i saved this to send to my mother, that might be kind of telling i guess?
November 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
gender AND art goals, honestly

also i realized tonight that if you count Sneaker Pimps I've loved their work almost as long as Nails
November 7, 2025 at 4:21 AM
as coping mechanisms go, it could be worse?
September 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM