The Playful Brush
Oakland, CA artist Paula Wirth capturing whimsies on paper with brush, ink, pencils, and paints. Chance of pet and people portraits, mushrooms, still life, and urban sketching.
Also @paulawirth.bsky.social
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- Winter squash, drawn by @paulawirth.bsky.social in colored pencil on clay toned paper.
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- I used to teach an adult art class, here are some samples from when I was teaching about drawing hands. #drawing #coloredpencil (My hand, of course!)
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- One of my favorite drawing subjects is people in coffeeshops. This drawing was made with brush and ink.
- Stare deep into my eyes. — Mochi
- I’ve never contacted my reps as often as now - nor have I needed cute dog, cat, and other cute animal videos and photos as much to cleanse my mind and reduce my angst. The rage is still there, tho.
- This is a tiny scrap of rice paper drawing in mixed media, probably one of my favorite drawing paintings (and the only one the curator at my grad school liked). Illustration © Paula K. Wirth from the "Those Who Wait" series. Brush with gouache, watercolor crayon, and sumi ink, on rice paper.
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- Live in the #sfbay #eastbay? Meet the @eastbaysketchers.bsky.social for some sketching amongst the plants Sun. April 27!
- Girl playing cards. Sketching in colored pencil at Milka in #Sacramento ©️ @paulawirth.bsky.social _ #urbansketching #coffeeshop #drawing
- Sketchers, save the date! April 27, 11am, meetup with the @eastbaysketchers.bsky.social at Berkeley Horticultural Nursery! #urbansketching #eastbay More details at www.facebook.com/events/12075...
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- #urbansketching folks in the #sfbayarea, SF Sketchers has a meetup Sunday, April 6, 2025 at the #Oakland Ferry Terminal. www.meetup.com/sf-sketchers...
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- The lack of quality of the generative AI “art” in @adobecreativecloud.bsky.social ads adds insult to injury. Maybe we need human artists after all? #humanmade
- Drawing of #persimmons in progress. Drawn in colored pencil ©️ Paula Wirth. #pauladraws #drawing #art
- This is Mochi. In this photo she is nearly nekkid, and posing in the tub. She loves a lion cut, and behaves like a kitten when her hair is short. Right now, in wintertime, she looks like a mochi ball, or more accurately, a Tribble. #persiancat #rescuecat #rbf
- Fruits 🍐 🍅 Yellow pears and red tomatoes drawn in #coloredpencil #Drawing ©️ Paula Wirth. Complementary and Contrasting Colors. #pauladraws
- Peculiar pelican. Drawn with vintage Prismacolor #coloredpencil #Drawing ©️ Paula Wirth, 2024. #artforthebirds #art
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- What I don’t want to overhear bragged aloud in a normally restful coffeeshop – “I’m gonna use AI to get all the content in there.” #artificialstupidity
