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With over 30 years experience, Aloe Artwork provides original artworks, prints, as well as commission

09/08/2024

A representation of the chaos of trying to work on new pieces while vending 😆

It is BEAUTIFUL out today in North Haven, absolutely perfect! If you’re looking for something to do today we’ll be here until 7!
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09/07/2024

Just a few hours left on day 2 of — if you’re around, come see me! I’m in the back corner of the craft barn closest to the petting zoo!

09/03/2024

come see me this week at the off the Washington Ave I-91 exit in North Haven where I will be debuting an entire SERIES of new Beetlejuice pieces based on some of my favorite OG characters, and the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice promo photos (like this one!) in honor of the release of a sequel I have been LITERALLY waiting most of my life for! 😍

ITS SHOWTIME!
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My first Beetlejuice portrait was done in 2014, in oil pastel, and has been a longtime best seller of mine. You’ll find a side by side of both of the portraits in my story later today so we can all marvel at what another decade of fandom and practice has done for my ability to depict everyone’s favorite bio-exorcist.
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09/02/2024

“Violence doesn’t end violence, it extends it.”

Words spoken by 11, convincing the townspeople of Mercy not to sacrifice Kahler Jex to The Gunslinger.

Doctor Who: you may come for the sci-fi, but you’ll stay for the deeply human way the Doctor wields logic, empathy, and connection to bridge worlds.

One of my absolute favorite Matt Smith (who doesn’t have Instagram… is that possible?!) stand-alone episodes 💗

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09/02/2024

If “HI BARBIE!” Was a chicken? Barbie goes modern farmhouse? Big mojodojocasahouse energy?

This is one of those, for sure 😅
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09/01/2024

based on one of my most favorite photos of Marsha P. Johnson — radical queer/trans activist, drag Queen, model, the Mayor of Christopher street, who was a founding member of the Gay Liberation Fund, STAR, and an AIDs activist with ACT UP until her death in 1992. She is remembered as one of the most prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising of 1969 that lead to the first NYC Pride parade down Christopher St. in 1970.— I may have to print each of these iterations, because I cannot decide which version I like best.

Which one is your favorite? (vote in the poll below? I always get asked to make a poll so, here it is meta! )

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08/31/2024

I have wanted to draw a mantis shrimp for at least a few years, and I’ll be honest; for more of half of this process I was fairly certain I’d messed it up and it would never turn out. 🥴

Y’all be the judge, did I capture it?
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Come see this guy and all my other new pieces NEXT WEEK at the north haven country fair!
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08/31/2024

I had gotten a bit of flak over my last 2 events that I didn’t have a blue Dane so…here we are!

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08/31/2024

I’ve wanted to ain’t this dog Halloween costume since LAST spooky season! We’re close enough now… right? 😅🎃

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08/29/2024

one year ago yesterday I submitted my application to to adopt a giant ginger goofball… in 2 weeks we will be celebrating 1 year together and I’ve finally managed to put his mushy mug on canvas (metaphorically, since this is a painting)

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Oso, you are my favorite part of this past year; I’m so honored you chose to let us be your family. 💗
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Thanks also goes to who helped Oso at the shelter, and gave us some invaluable tips for helping him acclimate to our home.
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08/28/2024

Maybe a new favorite breed for me 😍 Bloodhound shaped, but floofy! Do you know what this sweet pup is?

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08/27/2024

Why do I finish the eyes first? The moment the eyes go in, the dog becomes real and I am invested in making them the best good pup they can be. 😅

Anyone else have weird rituals while painting animals in the middle of the night when they can’t sleep?

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08/26/2024

if Breadface was a cat…? 🥴

If you’ve talked to me at an in person event you’ve likely heard me talk about how painting cat studies has NOT gone the same as dog studies… invariable to eyes are not quite right,5)3 fur pattern is off, or the cat in the painting is bigger, smaller/fluffier/or more sleek than the cat my would-be client is looking to commemorate. Solution? I’m not dedicating my cat painting skills to doing more generally silly or cute portraits… like Carb Kitty here 😅

Would you send this card to someone? For what occasion?

08/26/2024

Getting ready for the always seems to involve a few new bovine portraits, who doesn’t love a good grazing cattle painting?!

I’ll let any experts here (or at the fair) weigh in on whether these are Guernsey or Red & Whites; it’s been about 15 years since I’ve worked with cattle 😅

Come see me in the craft barn in 2 weeks and take home a print for yourself!

08/24/2024

on a classic Barbie pink background just makes sense 😘🤌🏻

08/18/2024

This week my family said goodbye to easily the sweetest (if a bit overwhelming… coonhounds, IYKYK) boy and we are shattered. Please hug your babies in Arlo’s honor, and enjoy a few of the paintings I’ve done of this goofy guy over the years. 💗

08/16/2024

It’s difficult to pick a favorite River Song iteration, but S6E8 Let’s Kill Hi**er is an excellent episode, and who doesn’t love a banana-gun joke?

as River/Melody (SPOILERS 🤫) is a forever favorite companion of mine, enjoy!

08/14/2024

Some if my very first dog studies, these were done in 2012 and are primarily chalk pastel (which I no longer use because I was finally able to identify the sensory distress being covered in fine chalk dust causes me 😆

Hey hey, fellow autistic artists! … anyone else else have to break up with a medium over texture issues? Even way back in art school I used to do my short figure drawing poses in china marker (in multiple colors!) and my long poses in mechanical pencil on vellum because charcoal on my hands was the equivalent of nails on a chalkboard for me 🥴

08/13/2024

I may or may not have stayed up WAY past my bedtime to finish out this portrait of Doctor.

1. This is my favorite Doctor and I say that after over a decade of dying on the Matt Smith side of the 10-or-11 debate hill (he got the Pond’s and River, as much as I loved Donna and Wilfred Mott, the Pond’s had a far superior story arc… until last Christmas?) Ncuti, should you ever see this, your iteration of the Doctor is pitch-perfect and everything we love about the Doctor as a deeply empathetic, kind, and nonviolent role model. 💗
2. These COLORS! 😍🤩

I do feel like I need to do portraits of each of 15’s costumes since he’s the first Doctor to fully commit to wardrobe changes, and I’m trying to conceptualize a painting from the scene of him dancing in the club in the kilt the night he met Ruby still, but for now, I love this! — bonus points if you know why I clearly *had* to use Kylie’s song instead of the show theme song for this one! Let’s nerd out about our hopes for a Rogue and the Doctor reconnection in the comments 😊

Let me know if y’all would like to see the video of this one, or still of the different layers.
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08/12/2024

4th Doctor, Tom Baker! Who is your favorite doctor?

The textures here were just SO fun to work with 😍

08/09/2024

I started a series of prints in the same general style as the small acrylic on wood ie es I’ve been bringing to markets this summer and y’all, I just love them!

What plants should I do next?
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08/07/2024

I cannot explain why I wanted to paint this scene so badly,but it’s been on my bucket list for literal YEARS

The Deetz’s do Chinese

Let me know if y’all would like to see the process video in the comments, this one was particularly “classic impressionist” style painting and I just ADORE that Procreate can do that!

08/01/2024

y’all asked for more musicians, and who doesn’t love Aloha From Hawaii Elvis?!

07/31/2024

someone asked me last weekend if I had painted any frogs and I’d had this one half finished, but took some time Saturday to finish him up, and sketch out these other two I’ve had lingering in my queue for some time so, from here on out I will have frogs!

07/29/2024

Reach the stars
fly a fantasy (yyyy)
Dream a dream
And what you see will be (eeeeeee) 🎶🎵

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Does Procreate make a video of every pencil move? Yes. Do I still prefer to watch an artists actual hand move while they make choices? Also yes! —— Y’all enjoy this fairly Luddite-friendly version of a progress video 😂 ————————— This Golden Retriever boy will be available for prints when he’s finished, and I’ll hopefully be doing a drop of things to my long-neglected Etsy and Fine Art America soon-ish 🙈 — related: anyone looking to barter art for type-A e-commerce work, please get at me! #adhdproblems