Tag: mixed media

• Creativity vs Generativity

  Creativity and Generativity are wildly different concepts and practices. To make something just for the sake of making something without any real thought or passion and / or just to make a quick buck is generativity. One generates a thing for a specific and artless purpose. As they say “trained rats could do that” or…

  jerpir

  October 5, 2025

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• Boy howdy

  It has been a long time since I’ve been here doing the thing. It’s been over two months and I’ve barely had time to put pen to paper or fingers to keys. I have been making. Not much. But some. Really, I’ve been reading a massive book and loving it. I have been saying to…

  jerpir

  July 30, 2025

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  art, art generation, art-making, artist, artmaking, bonsai, bonsai-drawing, bonsai-painting, bonsai-watercolor, creativity, critic, criticism, digital art, drawing, experiences, experimentation, exploration, generation, generative, goals, gratitude, health, labor, life, love, Maryland Institute College of Art, mediation, mental labor, mental-health, MICA, mixed media, museums, pain, paint, physical art, physical labor, play, show up, sketchbooks, sketching, suit up, thank you, time, travel, watercolor, wip, work, work in progress, writing

• Pentaptych

  (5 small bonsai) These need some color. However, I don’t really see myself doing all of that. This piece is probably abandoned. Probably. I could get some opaques like some acrylic or gauche and fill in the greenery, maybe a little more in some other areas. I could but also I’m fairly sure I’m out…

  jerpir

  February 8, 2025

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  art, art generation, art-making, artmaking, bonsai, bored, creativity, drawing, mixed media, paint, sketching, watercolor, work, work in progress, writing

• Slackin’

  Only here though. I haven’t posted in a while because I’ve been working on a few things. I’ll be happy to show them to you soon enough, or you can chat and scroll down. Do you, buddybear. “What have you been working on?” you ask? In short some mixed media pieces,. They’re posted on my…

  jerpir

  December 29, 2024

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  art, bonsai, drawing, mixed media, PAinting, printmaking, screen printing, watercolor, work in progress