Jessica Vaillant

Wait Theo got one, we are both binches

U binch haha

The last five sessions or so that Theo and I did, we thought it would be the last. It never ends. 🫠

Here’s the finished piece!

Altadena Angel’s Trumpets for #pleinairpril - here’s a process video. Tried to emulate acrylic paint with Procreate on the iPad. Finished image is in the comments!

@warriorpainter.bsky.social #pleinairpril2025 #pleinairpainting #digitalpainting #losangelesartists #observationalpainting

Apparently Adobe popped to Bluesky like a flower in Spring.
And then ended like that.

I love them.

Hazy LA morning. A digital one, still painted from life. #pleinairpril2025 #pleinairpril #digitalpainting #heavypaint #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainter @warriorpainters.bsky.social

Forgive the same image two slightly different ways, I'm testing some things 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

draw your friend. it feels incredible

An acrylic painting of a couple bright orange calamansi fruit amongst some green leaves

An acrylic painting of a couple bright orange calamansi fruit amongst some green leaves

Small paint, small calamansi. #pleinairpril2025 #pleinairpril #pleinairpainter #pleinairpainting @warriorpainters.bsky.social

A green, purple, and grey scene of a building with a clocktower.

#pleinairpril day 4, some rainy and chromatic colors :0

Day 2 of #pleinairpril2025 - using this month to play in my sketchbook and experiment with new palettes, who knows where it’ll lead!? I don’t know what this thing is but I loved its shapes. Limited myself to 3 primaries + white and a couple colored pencils. #gouache @warriorpainters.bsky.social

A view of a Californian landscape with many rolling hills, tree's, and some city lights. The sun is going down and the landscape is covered in a pink and purple haze.

4/30 #pleinairpril. California haze during twilight hours.

#krita #pleinairpril #pleinairpril2025 #environment #digitalpainting #painting #purple #art #cityfog

A smaller train with one cart is moving on a train track to the right. The sun is starting to go down and the environment is bathed in orange light and mist.

3/30 #pleinairpril. Pushing atmosphere a bit more.

#krita #pleinairpril #pleinairpril2025 #environment #digitalpainting #painting #train #orange #art

Acrylic painting of the backside of a heavy drooping rose. There are a few other bits, buds and leaves poking out of the dark areas surrounding the pale yellow blossom.

#pleinairpril 2… and 3 and 4

#pleinairpril2025

a stylized 3d render of two people reading in a field!

springtime ☀️

A painting in progress of a heavy rose hanging off a thin stem, perched on a pochade box. In the background is a rose garden.

#pleinairpril WIP because I couldn’t wrap it up in time, whoops 🥲

#pleinairpril2025

An acrylic and digital painting of the Griffith Park observatory in LA viewed from afar. The light is overcast, the background is in shadow and the foreground is brightly lit.

A simple thumbnail drawing for the previous image

#pleinairpril day 1, Griffith Park Observatory from a distance. Painted mostly from life in acrylic, then surrendered to finishing in digital.

#pleinairpril2025 #digitalpainting #acryclicpainting #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainter

A pencil drawing done in a sketchbook. The subject is a retro customized car that I can’t remember the make and model of, because I forgot to take photos. 🤷‍♀️ Pencil lines are selectively smudged in different areas.

Sketch done at Petersen Automotive Museum. Having fun w making wonk in shapes and textures.

#sketch #sketchbook #petersenautomotivemuseum

This is one of my all time faves!!

As soon as I started it I was like, “oh snap Tim Hecker? What kind of video is this?” And I’m still not sure.

Forbidden popcorn

My all time fave MTG illustration! Unforgettable and beautiful.

A heavily textured digital painting with lots of broken shapes and visible brush marks. It depicts a cat sleeping peacefully on a cat tree, her paw covering her face.

Played with some chunky textured brushes in Procreate, painted my kitty from life.

#art #artpost #digitalpainting #procreate #lifepainting

Only version of this that’s ever made me smile

This is gorgeous work!!But also, same.

This, of course, means that after Walgreens inevitably shutters CVS will take up more of the market. Their increased profits will then result in worse understaffing and more shampoo locked in cages because we live in an upside down world.

The artist’s hand holds up a sketchbook opened to a red page. On it lies a thumb-sized painting of two slices of cantaloupe, brightly lit and casting a shadow onto the surface beneath them.

Tiny cantaloupe paint.

#sketchbook #paintbook #stilllife #stilllifepainting #observationalpainting #lifepainting #sketch #study #art #artpost