Admin Post: Community Check-In for June

[goss]

Today's the last day of June (wow!), and we'd love to have you check in and chat with us. How have things been with you this past month?

Did you sign up for or take part in any fandom activities in June, or have you been working on any personal art projects? Are you currently trying to meet a deadline? Feel free to share upcoming challenges that have got you excited, any frustrations you've been experiencing, possible goals for the next month, and so on.

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[amberdreams]

Oh boy, I've had a busy June...I hadn't realised quite how busy until I put this summary together! LOL

Art posted this month for fandom challenges:
SPNDystopia Bang - https://amberdreams.dreamwidth.org/851645.html
Wincest Reverse Bang - https://amberdreams.dreamwidth.org/852196.html
Dean Cas Reverse Bang - https://amberdreams.dreamwidth.org/852446.html
SPN-J2 Big Bang - https://amberdreams.dreamwidth.org/854404.html

Non fandom art stuff:
I did an acrylics speed painting workshop - https://amberdreams.dreamwidth.org/852594.html
I finished painting my bee sculpture which has gone up to Manchester for the trail which opens soon - https://amberdreams.dreamwidth.org/849998.html
I've also finished painting my car bonnet (which turned out to be much bigger than I was expecting!), though I've got to take some more photos of it now it's been varnished and before it's collected to go up to Sheffield to be reunited with it's car - https://amberdreams.dreamwidth.org/854108.html

So I suppose it's not that surprising I'm behind with my writing and posting here!
I do want to do that disability challenge but July is going to be a bit busy too so I'll have to see how it goes.

My next fandom art is for an Overwatch fic - not a fandom I know anything about other than it's got two very visually cool characters - for the wipbigbang, posting starts 11th July so I need to get cracking on that one asap.

In August I have two Wincest BBs to illustrate, and there's the J2 Reverse Bang too, which I'd like to do something for.

[goss]

Oh my goodness, your car bonnet painting is so cool! I love the time lapse thing too. FASCINATING.

[amberdreams]

i got a bit carried away with the time lapse stuff ha ha.

[mific]

Wow, so busy and productive, go you! Some lovely artworks there.

[minoanmiss]

Wowza! *cheers you on, you creator you*

[amberdreams]

Thank you!

[syntheid]

Oh wow you got through a lot! I really like the colors on the Jensen speedpaint. And it's neat to see of your refs and process.

[jainas]

Wow, You had a crazy month, and so diverse, too!

I love all your "backstage" posts detailing your process! Your working space look so cool! I think I'm jealous! :)

And what's the story behind you painting a car bonnet? You may have mentionned it already somewere else, but I'm curious!

[amberdreams]

My painting space is just our spare bedroom! I cleared out the middle of the room to use for painting the hare and the bonnet - which is why there's so much junk all around LOL. I'd love to make it into a proper art room but that's going to have to wait for more stuff to be sorted so hubby has somewhere to put his clothes etc.

The bonnet is for a charity event in September/October - teams bought a car for less than £650 and artists are decorating the bonnets. Then the teams will drive the cars from Sheffield to Monte Carlo over a long weekend, and when they get back, the charity will auction the bonnets off to raise money. Me and a friend who's a professional artist put designs in, and got picked out to do the painting. It was a lot of fun and made a change from painting the animal sculptures I've been doing. :D

If you do a search on my 'wild in art' tag you'll see more stuff about this!

[mekare]

I hadn't realised quite how busy until I put this summary together! ha me too!

Wow you were super productive artwise and such diverse projects too! I'm going to look at them soon.

HEY! And you are also doing WIPbigbang, cool! Good luckwith your artpiece.

Also, nice more bangart inteh future :-)