nikkiana

Maddog talks are always a treat!

Oooooh, those look fun!

I feel like I've already found most of the common wisdom around it, but if you have a thought that might be helpful I'm all ears.

I swear I've been searching the Internet to know the secret of how to declutter without actually having to take anything out of my house today, and I don't think it's possible. 😅

Two pinky purply flowers with yellow centers are overlaid over a pink background with a circular grid like pattern with some black for texture.

I've started to play a bit with digital collage using my own photography and gel prints. I ended up using Sketchbook for Android, not sure if that's my best option for Android or not, but it did work just fine for my purposes. Looking forward to playing with this technique more...

#digitalcollage

Two pinky purply flowers with yellow centers are overlaid over a pink background with a circular grid like pattern with some black for texture.

I've started to play a bit with digital collage using my own photography and gel prints. I ended up using Sketchbook for Android, not sure if that's my best option for Android or not, but it did work just fine for my purposes. Looking forward to playing with this technique more...

#digitalcollage

A Tiny Art Journal Project just for fun While sorting through a few folders of magazine clippings (meant to be collage fodder for art journaling) I found some very small ads for stamps that I cut out, maybe two years ago or so. They show black and white illustrations of what those stamps would look like stamped out. At the time I thought I'd use them in my art journal, but I haven't.

When you are too stressed to create, that's when you NEED to sit down and be creative the most.

NEW blog post alert!

#creativeblogs #blogging #creativity #artjournaling #stressrelief #happiness

I'd vote for you if your ever ran on that slogan 🤣

Love all the colors and layers in this one!

💛💚❤️🧡💙🤎🖌️🎨
2025 Art Throwback

#GelPlate #monoprint #weirdArt #abstractArt #humanmade

Black and white photo of a zine in progress in the sun next to a pillow

It almost seems cinematic.

Gelli print of cassette tapes in black over yellow pulled with a Russian book page.

Book page gel prints… I'm never sure how to handle these… It looks so finished on it's own, but so fragile. So, do I mount it to something? Do I scan and make digital prints? Argh! Decisions!

Notebook and coffee cup with a print of a blue and black with pink highlights abstract painting on the objects.

I've got coffee cups and notebooks now available for sale over on my shop!

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Orange gel print with yellow circles overlaid over a subtle honeycomb pattern with little white bubbles

I knew I had some cool #round art kicking around today for the #BlueSkyArtShow prompt today, but I'd completely forgotten about this digital collage composition made from some photographs and gel prints.

#gelprint #digitalcollage

Straws (2021) #BlueSkyArtShow #round #BNWmacro #classicmono #drinkingstraws #eastcoastkin

If you are feeling helpless in the face of All Of It (and it's a lot), I am telling you: find a way to plug in locally.

Figure out who is doing something-- anything-- meaningful, and see if you can help.

The first org you find may not be the one. But you will get there.

It will help your heart.

A circle of bright colorful peeling paint.

‘Cosmic Picnic’
#blueskyartshow #round #contemporaryart #art

Orange gel print with yellow circles overlaid over a subtle honeycomb pattern with little white bubbles

I knew I had some cool #round art kicking around today for the #BlueSkyArtShow prompt today, but I'd completely forgotten about this digital collage composition made from some photographs and gel prints.

#gelprint #digitalcollage

Two bunnies (one larger, one smaller) made out of discarded Mio water flavor bottles, wire, round plastic cylinders, screw nuts and pencil erasers.

I made a little family of "trash bunnies" to bring with me to the couple of flea markets I have before Easter. I was originally going to use the bottle and such as a "skeleton" of sort underneath some sculpting clay, but I like them much better made entirely out of trash.

Thank you!

Gelli print of cassette tapes in black over yellow pulled with a Russian book page.

Book page gel prints… I'm never sure how to handle these… It looks so finished on it's own, but so fragile. So, do I mount it to something? Do I scan and make digital prints? Argh! Decisions!

Black and white photo of a zine in progress in the sun next to a pillow

It almost seems cinematic.

I keep getting hung up on the question of what should I do if I want to sell my art so badly that I sometimes forget to work on the art. 😅

I've been avoiding scrollable socials lately in favor of working on my own art, but then forgetting to check in because I don't want to be tempted to scroll. It's kind of a vicious cycle.

Black and white photo of a pile of paper, artwork hangs on the walls beyond.

A doom pile of collage paper to be processed.

A black and white photograph of puddle in a parking lot with the upside down reflection of trees and power lines.

Parking lot reflections.

Don't want. 😭

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Congratulations! That's awesome!

Black and white photo of a gear room. There's a rack of milk crates full of audio things to the left, and the photo has a hazy look to it.

A conversation with @chrisbrogan.bsky.social has me down a rabbit hole of looking at old photos.

This was a gear room I was in once in NYC.