Catalyst Echo

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Artist. Maker. Streamer. Podcaster. Cats. (She/Her/They/Them) Twitch.tv/Catalyst_Echo_Designs catalystecho.com @art-inquiry.com

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A cartoon of swatch books in red and blue shades by Nathan W. Pyle.
Screenshot of the Art & Inquiry editing set up in Premiere Pro for behinds the scenes flavor to this post
An image of a Manila folder with the phrase working hard and a photo of a car with various files peeking out.
A picture of a black Hyundai sedan
This is a photograph of my gaming computer screen. It is a blue and pale orange vibe image (think cold foreground with warm background if you can't see the image). It says, "Aylied Sarcophagus - No! Don't touch the tomb! You'll be trapped forever with Khanni. Those I hired as protection tricked me into this tomb and left me to rot. Thieves! I shouldn't have trusted them." My dialog choices are "you speak?" And "goodbye"
This is a quick image that I made to ask you all if you prefer dark or might mode on websites. It is a square with the left half black with light text and the right half white with black text and it reads "Dark or Light? Which do you choose?"
This is a meme. It says, "my wife: why are you pulling over?" ME: "hand me my phone." My wife: "we are on the freeway!" Me: "Hand. Me. MY. PHONE!" and then it has an image of a mileameter where the milage is 80085
Enchanted by Nature Cover art. This art features mystical Sims, house plans, the apothecary NPC, and a fairy from the upcoming Sims 4 ENCHANTED BY NATURE expansion pack that releases today! This cover art is a forest scene with various NPCs from the pack. I do not own the rights to this. EA Games and the Sims 4 own the rights.
Just a little image of my simself and all of the 46,000 cats (reality: 3) on the sims 4 home screen. This is currently a deep green Enchanted Forest with a small fairy and an apothecary table from the new expansion pack coming out TOMORROW.
A look back into the deep, dark magic for the #Empowerment #ArtInqMe challenge. When we spoke to @chocoholic.keyah on the Art & Inquiry #podcast, I immediately thought of this piece. Something Keyah made reminded me of this and I knew I had to dig it out of the ether and bring it back into the light. It is called Fault Lines and I made it in 2005. It is about how the faults within us make for the most beautiful stories. It is exactly who Keyah is to me and how I related to her. check out the episode: https://youtu.be/xvP2XvUw5xE?si=zBTteNAgpSt5Jz4N and stay tuned for Fault Lines revisited. I have tried it 3 times now but I know I can revisit this with my current fault lines. This is a photo of me from 20 years ago with marble style lines drawn on my face and an artistic marble background.
2 twin tuxedo cats relaxing on a cat grey cat tree in my office near the window. I brought that in for them because they needed a special place to hang out while I'm on the computer. I brought it in, and this happened about 5 minutes later when I looked back to see if they had figured out what I did. They had.
potential color palette for Catalyst Echo design projects. This one features highly saturated purples and greens for a dark, spring academia vibe. I checked these against Adobe's accessibility color palette checkers for contrast, distinct colors and 3 types of color divergent eye types (Deuteranopia, Protanopia, Tritanopia). I like how they look in all divergent configurations (though the vibes are different).
Please feel absolutely free to ignore the messiness of my desk. This is a photo of my 2 monitors already all set up on the new PC.
This is my new computer! It is very pretty on the inside, super nice and shiny. It has a bright white case with black accents and everything as LED lighting. The colors of this moment are violet and aquagreen. It is very pretty.
Moodorgan photoshoot. Photo by Eric Charles. Outfit by me. Makeup by Erika Diehl-Marcus Okay, so the vibes of this photo are.... imagine you are in an artist and maker space in downtown Loa Angeles. There is a large projection screen behind me with some blue video footage (I'm pretty sure this was a cemetery scene). So, then there is me, set in bright red, black, and purple against the blue. My hair is red, I have 1 red striped arm thingies and these pleather cuffs I made with purple ribbon corset detailing. I'm wearing a bunch of other things I made out of fishnet material I got in the fashion district in LA. I've worn that "top" on stream over a tank top (little known fact). My video mixing controller has awesome blue lights. The vibes are immaculate. I loved this day in spite of spending most of it trying to find help to give my cat their insulin so I could stay for the entire shoot.
Sneak peak. #ArtInqMe Empowerment Artist prompt. I reached back into the deep magick to work on this prompt. This is a photo of 4 CD-Rs from 2003 against a purple space nebula background. The original art is from 22 years ago. The names say "fault lines" (the name I settled on) and "markings on flesh" (the working title of the photoshoot)
This is a really hard alt test. Okay, so picture this. There is a super high contrast, very well lit photo of a femme presenting person (me) with aqua/green/blue/purple ombre hair. The makeup is done to match with eyebrows reflecting the ombre. The background js a metric fuckload of various paints, glitters, random projects from one of my craft spaces. There are far too many objects to call out specifically, but there are many multicolored jars.
This is a 4 second video of the Oblivion Remastered log in screen that show the new fire Oblivion Gate logo. The fire is so much more realistic than the original and it is just one of many examples of why Oblivion Remastered is visually stunning.
A screenshot of the Oblivion Remaster logo that says. "Redescover Cyrodiil" on it and a downloading status bar at 19%
This is a wooden box I stripped and refinished. Key features include lace and black wash stripes and black with copper embellishments made with molds by Zuri Designs! It is photographed outside on a sidewalk in front of leafy green foliage. I love this box and kept it for myself.
"Keep it Melo" Digital Multimedia Collage by Catalyst Echo for Melographics. This image features a stunning dark vibes astronaut floating on a field of deep, jewel toned nebulous stars. They are framed by the inner gear of a vintage cassette tape as if floating up to a port hole window. Surrounding the subject are bright neon shapes such as a hand that holds the star stuff, neon space themed elements are scattered around as well. The right hand side features a small bouquet of flowers light in vibrant blues, pinks and rich peachy oranges. The words Keep it Melo are written in neon script over the flower and the whole collage is texturing by nebula imagery and illegible words.
This is a dramatic photo of lighting over pine trees. The color palette is dark, deep, primeval forest greens and blues. I have written, "It was a dark and stormy night...." along the bottom in the blackest part of the forest. I've included this simply for vibes, it isn't important to understand my post.
The prompt asked for no explanation, so don't click the alt text if you don't want my accessibility text. This is a photo of directions to build a cat tree with some tears in it from some impatient and excited cats.
This is a tiny portion of one of the slides from the next episode of Art & Inquiry. It's a teaser! I'm teasing you. It features cutouts and shapes on a dark background with letters and an eyeball. The color palette is black, white, grey, half tone, and turquoise.
Flashback to that time, I made a wordless video showing the process of casting this moving resin item. It is an astro labe styled in blue, faded gold and copper displayed on a vintage map.
Flashback to a note card box I made a few years ago. This is a black painted wooden box with layered resin peices to form a half creature and half design motif. It is colorized with blue, copper, and cold waxes. It was photographed on a rusty fan with leaves and branches framing the composition.
Another silly handlettering project. This one is also neon green, yellow, violet, and orange with hints of hot pink. It says Stay Focused, which is ironic because I made it procrastinating something else.
Another quick lettering silliness, a glowing, blacklight reactive reminder to have fun. It is in glowing highlighter colors, yellow, pink, orange, and purple.
The image is a charcoal and white charcoal pencil sketch of an eye with makeup on. It is black and white on blue paper, and it has Catalyst Echo as a watermark on the bottom.
Sunset colored resist in handlettering.
Rainbow resist. 🌈 This is a rainbow colorized attempt at faux blackletter with shading and highlights.
Another attempt at hand lettering in a modern black letter style. In this one, Resist is written in a blended rainbow starting with red and ending in purple.
This is the word "Resist" hand lettered in a modern blackletter style with purposefully expressionistic colorization with a hint of a rainbow 🌈...
A close-up picture of branches that are covered in snow. The braches are a dark brown and the whow is white and fluffy, newly fallen.
An image of a show logo that reads, "How'd you get $o RICH?" It's is shown in shiny, gold letters with a digital shine. In smaller letters below, it says, "hosted by Joan Rivers" the logo is on a green background with $100 bills falling down and, in the lower left corner, a photo of Joan Rivers dressed in gold crushed velvet.
Quiz results: Mx Spark. This image features a bright, neon character wearing vibrant yellow, royal blue, and turquoise with neon pinky orange accents. This dreamlike character design does not appear to have a visible body. Their clothing suggests their shape, but the spaces between their clothing items is invisible. Mx Spark seems to vibrate with orangey-pink energy but in a low-key way. Instead of a face, Mx Spark has a large, otherworldly eye with blue lashes that radiates sparkling energy. Mx Spark is rad AF.
This image shows a Fallout game style vault door that reads 76. It is set in a mountain, and it looks like a giant gear in Cooper, gold and blue set in a light grey rocky circle. It has a set of rock colored half ovals on each side, cut with the vault tech logo side bits. It is a sunny day in the photo, and it looks like a fun place to start a new video game. Is it? We shall see.
Image features the cover of the Dungeons and Dragons issue of Time Magazine. It has a white background with red border and red Time logo. The Title says Dungeons & Dragons in a rounded bold serif font in black and then, smaller in the same font but grey, it reads, "the Game That Changed the World." The cover photo is a large galaxy purple 20 sided die with bold yellow numbers that has rolled a natural 20 with accents of blue and magenta and flecks of shimmer.
A photo of an apparently black cat with yellow eyes and long, brightly white whiskers. He is looking back over his shoulder. It's a very close-up shot, appearing to be taken by the person whose lap the cat occupies. There is a window in the background with bright l, shining light coming through. Part of a ring light on a tripod is visible in the background as well as a knee with white, black and pink fuzzy cheetah print.
This image features a close-up shot of a very small mold of an Egyptian style cat with Isis wings, an ankh collar necklace, and a jaunty, relaxed, and happy tail. It is styled with copper and warm gold waxes and sits on a blue and teal textured backdrop.
A black and white photo of a pair of adult, male tuxedo twins cats. They have adorable white murder mittens, and they are cuddled together on a grey sheet with a black blanket. They look cute, and their white whiskers pop against their black fur.
This is a picture of one of my tuxedo twins on the ironing board they won't let me put away. His expression seems calm but determined. "This is my ironing board," he seemed to say. There is also toilet paper in this image. I wasn't going to post it because of the toilet paper but then I thought, "fuck that, lots of humans use toilet paper, probably some cats too. There's no reason not to post it with the toilet paper." And so I did.
I like this one. It has dark teal, pale buttery cream and Mocha Mousse escape and enter keys. Bonus points! The enter key says Create.
Look. I have to write an alt text about this image but the thing is it is a super thicc and juicy owl wearing shiny black thigh high boots and dancing on a pole so there isn't a lot I can say that will convey the true power of this thicc owl to you that won't sound super dirty instead of adorable. And dirty. Dirty Drawful is wild. I also loved the debating one.
Desi Lydic from the Daily Show inauguration show yesterday dressed in a Mocha Mousse overcoat. Pantone's COTY 2025
A picture of Bethesda's sweet roll plushie, an iconic food item from Skyrim.
This picture is an extremely funny meme about the song "No Diggity" that might just be the best new scale system to drop in many years.
Let's call it a screen test. Quick selfie against my makeshift green screen. New purple hair.
This is a picture of Oregon and Wyoming, my tuxedo twins. They're in a pile, and it is adorable. They love each other.
The official Purple AF color swatch image from Arctic Fox. It's purple. As fuck. Can I say fuck in an alt text? I just did. Whatchu gonna do about it, huh?
This is an image of a headdress I made with bird skulls, skeletal birds, and a pheonix rising triumphant from the crown of the head. The skeletal elements are silvery blue and black and the pheonix is firey copper and antique gold.
Short, subtle sparkle animation asking if the reader has (de) frost thoughts.
This is a reel I made for Ruger to promote this game on his socials.
Happy New Year! Love, Catalyst Echo
The new Infinity Nikki loading screen.
Infinity Nikki Shooting Star Season graphic featuring the new floating outfit
A moving graphic for the Chef challenge
The Fallout Official Cookbook!! Gift from the Bestie Fam.