sillyhatsonly

u/sillyhatsonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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on New plant haul · c/houseplants · 3 pts · 158d

Propagating by leaf is one of the most popular methods in my experience because it’s so easy and you can do it year-round. I’ve started rooting leaves in both water and soil. Sometimes it takes a couple months for a baby plant to emerge from a potted prop so patience is key!

on Abandoned Shack · c/artshare · 2 pts · 161d

I like the fact that the greenery is rendered in more detail! It draws the eye in towards the shack. I guess if I were to give any feedback it might be that there isn’t much sense of depth because all the green sort of flattens everything out. There is a foreground and a middle, with my eye stopping at the shack with nowhere to go. I can tell there’s depth because of the perspective but a darkening or cooling of hue would help imagine a deeper forest. I really enjoyed this and like many others I feel a sense of peace and coziness. Thanks for sharing!

on Studies of my weird plants · c/artshare · 2 pts · 166d

I do love the transparency (and sometimes unpredictability) of watercolor which got me interested in the first place. There’s a vibrant and lively quality to gouache though, though, that really tugs at me. Maybe it’s the fact that you can go both opaque and transparent? Unfortunately money is tight and I can’t afford to splash out on decent gouache at the moment so I will focus on watercolor and squash the gouache for now.

on Studies of my weird plants · c/artshare · 3 pts · 166d

These are great! I keep seeing gouache popping up everywhere, it’s like the universe is hinting that I should paint with gouache… but I just started learning watercolor! Why must there be so many tasty media?!!!

My background is in graphic design/marketing and I’ve mostly worked in the non-profit sector. A few years ago I canceled my Spotify subscription after they hiked up the prices and decided I wanted a way to stream my own music collection from anywhere. I found Navidrone, began learning docker, fell down the Jellyfin/arr rabbit hole, and eventually stumbled upon Cosmos Server as a simpler way to expose my containers safely. It’s been a fun project and a welcoming community so far.

Idk if this helps anyone else but recently I couldn’t get any torrent results to load in Stremio so I did some digging and it turns out the developer of the plugin made changes and it no longer works with a VPN. If I turn off my VPN the torrent results will load and then I turn my VPN on again to stream as normal (I don’t have Real Debrid and live in the US so VPN is necessary)

Man sometimes I feel like the internet is an absolute garbage pit and then I come across treasure like this. Thank you for sharing!