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Hi! 👋 I’m Eve. 😊 Here are some things I do.

visualize data

translate polish poetry

make colorful paintings

Painted this outside right before the eclipse; added finishing touches at home today. A day’s worth of drawings from Big Bend National Park! This is really the way to do a scenic drive - stopping and drawing every few minutes. 🥰 Still trying to figure out how to express the electrifying vastness of the place… Come for the eclipse, stay for the wildflowers! When I realized that central Texas’s bluebonnet season coincided with the total eclipse, I knew I had to go. Really a perfect day - was out painting right till the big event, so I was super sensitive to the change in the quality of light. It was like the sun was on a dimmer switch - everything got less bright, but no less crisp (eerily unlike an overcast day). And then - movingly - the sudden twilight. Even the traffic jam after was perfect - when the side of the road is this blossom-dense, who would want to go any faster than 10 mph? I’ve been wiping my brushes on a second canvas when working on one of my big paintings, just to save paint when I switch colors. (Image 2). So when my random source photo generator landed on a backlit cactus, I knew where to put it. 🙂 I seem to be increasingly unable to lie in my drawings… I showed up at figure drawing in a bad mood (for unclear reasons), and it felt like my only options were making dark art or going home. I’m glad I stuck with it! Another one of these large 30”x40” canvases! I love working this big. Not 100% happy with this one - somehow it’s both underworked and overworked - but it’s at the stage where I have to set it aside, maybe for a year… A strange little side project. Felt compelled to capture the textures around me, in small, detailed, grayscale, unEvish grid cells. A couple of quick plein air paintings today! It’s been pretty cold the last couple of weeks, so I was really itching to be outside. And this week’s horizontal figures. I imagine Instagram might punish me for leading with the one with the butt, but it is my favorite. The model liked it too.

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