fine art by caroline serafinas
I’m joining in on the #portraitchallenge_2019 for the month of March with @ohn_mar_win and @augustwren . Hoping this also helps me make progress on my #100heads 😊 It’ll be difficult since I have some travel coming up this month but I think I can do it!
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Today, March 1 – March 2, sundown to sundown, is the National Day of Unplugging. If you are reading this upon my publishing you are…. probably not unplugged. That’s okay. My post is only coincidental with this holiday.
A few days ago I read a New York Times article called “Do Not Disturb: How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain.” The title is pretty self-explanatory- it’s a first-person narrative about trying to unplug from the addictive smartphone. It’s not about entirely ditching our smartphones, but about being more conscious of our use, and about being more conscious about opening up the phone to just… browse. After reading this article I decided that I too needed to scale back.
One of the tips in the article that stuck out to me was this:
“Catherine encouraged me to set up mental speed bumps so that I would be forced to think for a second before engaging with my phone. I put a rubber band around the device, for example, and changed my lock screen to one that showed three questions to ask myself every time I unlocked my phone: “What for? Why now? What else?””
And so I decided to implement this tip. Based on the three questions, I created a new Lock Screen image for my phone. And I’m including the full size image below as a FREE download in case you too want to use it to help yourself unplug from your smartphone a bit. Simply Right-Click and Save. Or Hold and Save if you’re on your phone 😉 And set it as your Lock Screen image. Enjoy and good luck 🙂
This image is of course based on my Wishmaker painting.
Head 14/100. Another little one part of a bigger work in progress 🦸♀️
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I think I’m late to the party but here’s my #artvsartist post 😊 A bit of a mix- some paintings from this year and some from last.
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Head 13/100. Still sourcing most of my heads from #pexels at the moment .
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Head 12/100
For this one I used a black and white reference photo and attempted to colorize it. I gave up on trying to detail the curly hair 🤷♀️ .
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An eye sketch. Trying to get back into it after a rough week last week 🤧 .
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I went in just planning to paint a border on this canvas since I had previously left it unpainted. And I ended up touching up the actual painting. It’s been bugging me ever since I “finished” last year. I added some highlights with white. Swipe to see the Before.
I also realized I miss painting with my oil paints! .
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Happy Valentines Day!
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▫️Madam Speaker▫️11”x16” watercolor on paper ▫️
Nancy Pelosi, first woman Speaker of the House. And the most powerful woman in US politics. I can’t help but love this picture of her 💪🏼 .
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