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YouTube video by Physics Girl My first science video in 3 years

Some welcome news: Dianna Cowern, aka Physics Girl, is back with her first science video in three years (long Covid), and it’s a really good one.

🙏❤️👏

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An abstract intuitive mixed media sketch in genuine earth pigment paints and acrylics. Portrait orientation. Handmade stencil patterns. Gold diamonds. A dark stencil spiral in center.

Same painting under a blacklight. Two spirals and three fluorescent stars appear.

“she has the fire”

(March 7, 2026)

An abstract intuitive watercolor and ink painting on black paper. Portrait orientation. Metallic blue and silver blobs. Handmade stencils in gold. With patches of white dots.

The same painting flipped and shown under a blacklight. Fluorescent lines appear on each end of the painting.

“experimental. (study)”

(March 7, 2026)

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An abstract intuitive watercolor painting, portrait orientation. Blobs of yellow ochre, rhodonite genuine (pink; compassion) and turquoise genuine (protection). Lifting and salt techniques. A colorful square painting inside a white “frame,” inside a kraft tape frame (from being stretched), on a green grid mat. 284 pound, cellulose mixed media paper.

“golden eye of the storm”

(March 3, 2026)

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Why Does He Run? (Was läuft er?) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/70156

Hey there, nice to see you here! 🦬

A canvas stitched in a pie, with sections for each month. January and February are filled in with tiny embroidered icons representing each day.

To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary--embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day.

These first 2 months have seen so many heavy developments. But making art helps me make sense of it all, so I think I can manage 10 more.

I was thinking earlier, to you a piece might be a “mess,” but to me would be a masterpiece 😉

I look forward to whatever you choose to share!

I wish artists didn’t have to stress and worry about money and supplies! 🙏♾️

A watercolor sketch of orbs of different sizes and colors against a black background. Portrait orientation, upright. To the right, a repurposed shipping box, repurposed for holding artworks. On its front is a failed painting of green blobs, reused as a collage piece. In the box, paintings and sketches. On a green cutting mat. With various other supplies in view.

The referenced sketch, cut from its stretching board, and taped on four corners to the mat.

“untitled watercolor doodle” and “art box from discarded materials”

(March 1, 2026)

Good idea! I’m thinking something like this would be great on our summer camping trip. And it’s compact for packing. It definitely needs the extra support in that case. TBC, but thank you for the inspiration! 🙏

Thank you for saying this! I was going to use it as collage pieces, but in this light I am seeing it differently. 🙏

And I want to encourage you to keep going and keep making those messes with your supplies, it’s one way we get better! Amazing things are happening with your art!

But it’s easy for me to say, as the cost of art supplies is getting out of hand!

(And thank you for sharing your process so openly.🙏♾️)

Awww. I’ve definitely been there! Also sad to read this, but I get it. ❤️💯

All the feels #oilpainting #art

This turned out great! Would be good for paint brushes and pens, too! 🤔💡

“Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.” — Carl Sagan

An artist’s workspace, with various sized plywood boards laid out. The wooden pieces, salvaged from a previous home renovation project, have various brands, weights and surfaces of watercolor paper taped to them on all sides with water-activated adhesive tape (kraft colored). Other tools and supplies are visible in the space.

A photo taken during the stretching process: On the kitchen counter: a soaking wet (on both sides) piece of watercolor paper is adhered to a discarded (then found, by me!) piece of plywood. The paper is buckling from the water, but will dry flat (or stretched). The paints will be applied while still attached to the board, then released with a craft knife once dry. This tape won’t come off. Traditionally, it would go under the mat when framed. To the upper left of the board, a white porcelain dish holds warm water and a sponge. These never touch the adhesive or tape. To the upper right, a smaller duo for the tape. Various precut tape lengths strewn about. It is advisable to do many of these at a time. An orange handled pair of scissors to the right. Dry flat, but easily storable vertically. The boards are reusable indefinitely.

Weekend projects: [All of the Things!], and maybe throw some blobs of paint onto 1 or 2 these lovelies!

Haven’t stretched my paper in a long time, but it’s a great watercolor best practice to know. And should help to keep the paper flatter (for more flattering pics!)

(February 27, 2026)

An abstract painting of a hand in an open outward-facing position, surrounded by a dark background of paint spatters, portrait orientation, on top of a green cutting mat. Genuine earth pigment watercolors (turquoise, yellow ochre, hematite), acrylic paints, gouache. Cotton watercolor paper. Lifted stencil patterns and applied marks. Handmade stencils and masks. Completed on 2-26-26; posted 2-27-26.

“cold. outside.”

(February 27, 2026)

A piece of hand painted collage fodder under a blacklight. Acrylic paints and inks.

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(February 26, 2026)

An abstract watercolor painting inside a circle.

“motion. particle.”

(February 24, 2026)

An abstract intuitive watercolor painting taped on four corners to a green grid. Portrait orientation. Date is handwritten in pencil in lower right: “2-23-26.” Yellow ochre, amethyst, turquoise, blue apatite.

“I don’t know what I’m doing this for,” an abstract intuitive watercolor painting in a sketchbook. Splatters and blobs. Diamonds. Turquoise, yellow, pink.

(February 24, 2026)

“talking of Michelangelo” a simple abstract intuitive watercolor painting.

A finished page in a square watercolor sketchbook, held open by binding clips, on a green cutting grid.

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Puns (and typos!) welcome hear. And thank you!

🙏☺️👋

What a beautiful picture you paint with your words here. 💛

Gift of Mme. Paul Klee

Two Men Meet, Each Believing the Other to Be of Higher Rank (Zwei Männer, einander in höherer Stellung vermutend, begegnen sich) from the series Inventions (Inventionen) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/62643

I love that I read it as “someone” in the first place 😆 ❤️

I’m back to thank you for letting me slide on “30 minutes to a half hour” 😆 (I meant 30 to 60 minutes ☺️).

But also to clarify that some happen very quickly, in one session, and some might sit on my desk unfinished for months. For me, it’s always about balancing art time with everything else ❤️💯♾️

Thank you! I love them, too. I can’t help myself 💛

Very kind of you 🙏