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Prison Blog

In which Possum recounts his experiences as an offender in the system.

Possum Bones is autistic. He has identified as a dirty kid in the past, and he’s attended multiple rainbow gatherings. He has several years left to serve in the Washington Correctional system.

He has been making art since he could sit up. He communicates better in writing than speech. If you are interested in the experience of an autistic person doing prison time, check out his Prison Blog. If you are a fan of comic art, underground/outsider music, Lovecraft, Clarke Ashton Smith, Murakami, Cixui Liu, etc.

gouache is so 2022

Kept trying to progress on the twilek painting but kept procrastinating inexorably drawn away from it. It'll be finished soon anyway , I'll be done any time now. I at least did most of the face. Not the eyes yet. There's only left to finish the paltry clothing , a few of the buildings in the skyline, and then if I feel up to it , go over the areas where small drops of water or paint have fallen . I know I could have gotten a lot more depth if this was a watercolor or casein painting , because I could have done additional layers of more detailed lighting. It took me a minute to even remember what I mailed out last. I guess it was the witch. So, look out for that. Pretty soon, I'll have another. I have a few more like, big sized pieces after that and then, if I can, I'd like to get to a point where I can kind of shift gears to the water color sketch book and , not actually away from gouache , but away from using gouache for an entire painting. It might be prudent to use gouache for individual figures , with a watercolor painting , id run into a difficulty where the rest of the picture seems insubstantial compared to the opaque parts. I might know how to correct for this now , though. I can make my watercolor seem more solid. Could also use gouache for figures in a painting with a casein background , and there'd be no issue. They all play pretty nicely with eachother maybe it will degrade or reacts over time but, as I've seen in this painting , you can even mix gouache in with acrylic gouache to correct for an area where the lower layer is patchy. Water color seems to make a better glaze over casein than even casein does, so if you want transparency, you can use that. Maybe the particle density of watercolors lets the color from the casein layer through better than a transparent layer of casein would ... because casein builds to opacity so it obscures the lower layer more than watercolor can ? Seems legit, right ? Anyway. I hate to say it, but the way you can't apply a transparent layer over gouache is beginning to irk me. Its probably the sole reason it doesn't see wider non commercial use.

Elisa Carlson