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🌈Human making art, 🐈‍⬛cat-companion, 📊data munger, ⌨️engineer, 🕷️organizer. Aur, pronounced like the logic-gate 'or' Painting to find joy, process life, and build community. https://bit.ly/m/aurmonnik

A 12-inch circular watercolor and ink painting features an above and left of center, elongated pill shape painted in a bright, contrasting blue and filled with small, mottled speckles of red, purple, and green. Surrounding this central blue form, the rest of the paper is covered in a wash of warm watercolors that transition from yellow on the left to vibrant orange on the right, with hints of green near the top. The entire warm background is densely layered with thin, undulating ink lines that resemble a topographic map or mathematical contour waves. These continuous lines seamlessly warp and flow around the blue center, catching the light with a subtle, shimmering, metallic sheen across the surface of the piece.
An abstract watercolor painting on a bright yellow-green background. A stylized cow, rendered in shimmering, iridescent greens, blues, and golds with dark horns, stands in the upper center. Above its back floats a mottled pinkish-red shape. Below the cow is its shadow or reflection, painted in a textured, shimmery golden-bronze. Cutting diagonally through the lower half of the composition is a sharp, opaque geometric wedge of metallic silver that interjects between the cow and its reflection. The silver shape itself contains no reflection. Dark, ink-like splatters and speckles are scattered throughout the artwork.
A white plastic sheet acting as a mixing palette, covered in highly glossy, wet fluid paints. The colors are pooled and spread across the surface in organic, branching, and flowing patterns. On the top left, deep indigo-purple paint spreads in thick, dripping veins. The center features a swirling horizontal mix of dark brownish-grey, soft green, and light blue that pools and radiates outward. At the bottom left, a bright splotch of peach and vibrant orange spreads upward in coral-like tendrils. The wet paint forms thick, liquid curves across the white background.
A diptych of two side-by-side rectangular panels featuring an abstract mixed-media painting. The background consists of wet watercolor washes in pale orange and yellow at the top, transitioning into soft greens and blues toward the bottom. The watercolor has a textured, mottled appearance from a press-and-peel technique, accented with veins and patches of shimmering gold mica paint, particularly spreading outwards from the central seam. Overlaid across both panels are prominent, raised, and branching shapes of opaque silver metallic paint. These thick fluid silver forms trace abstract shadows, including the shape of a pear on the left panel and a rose on the top right of the right panel. The right panel is additionally accented with a scattering of small, dark pink and magenta paint splatters across the lighter background.
An abstract reflection-style painting on a square piece of paper. The background features vibrant watercolor washes in mottled shades of yellow, orange, and pink. These painted areas are separated by an irregular double"X" shape of unpainted white negative space that crosses twice thru the center. Beneath the watercolor, predominantly in the bottom-left quadrant and reprinted in watery color in the top-right, are repeating calligraphy strokes in bright magenta ink that resemble a practice drill of lowercase "d"s in uncial script on their side. Right in the center, where the white lines intersect, is a textured smudge of shimmering gold paint. A few isolated magenta ink lines and squiggles trace along the edges of the white negative space, and a darker, brownish-pink watercolor patch sits in the top-left corner.
A symmetrical, Rorschach-style watercolor painting on textured paper. The central axis is flanked by tall, pale blue washes that resemble abstract, organic towers or mirrored profiles. These are cradled by thick, textured forest-green forms that flare outwards at the bottom and taper as they rise. Thin, horizontal pink lines loosely bridge the green sections across the center, passing near two dark blue-grey oval shapes. The outer edges of the composition feature loose, mottled washes of earthy orange and brown. On the middle-right side, overlaid on the orange and yellow background, is a dense, repeating cluster of the letter "A" painted in a bright, pinkish-red uncial calligraphic script. On the far left edge, there is a vibrant yellow section with red texturing mirroring the As from ink lifted by the wet yellow paint.
On a bright yellow background, a green grey raccoon of absurd proportions goes.
A grey cat in a leash leans their whole head and neck over a wooden ledge with a rose bush above to the right and a metal chinen wire under the wooden ledge. I guess it's a porch?
A circular watercolor and ink painting. The composition is divided horizontally by a thick, metallic gold line. The upper section features a textured, purplish-blue background resembling a starry sky, dotted with white flecks. Floating in this space are a large, downward-pointing maroon triangle with a yellow border, a rounded, bright green organic shape, and a smaller, shimmering silver cloud-like shape. Two small, four-pointed stars sit near the center with a circle between them so they look like two people. The lower section depicts a stylized, pale blue and yellow landscape. Dark blue ink markings resembling the numbers "1", and "0" repeatin the center above a small wavy line. The bottom edges of the circle are framed by sections bordered with textured orange and pink lines, filled with repeating green, ladder-like stripes.
Red white and blue with ink-accented focus.
Deep blue sky filled with lightning bugs, both on and off. Trees and bushes grow out of a red-"z" calligraphy ground. A single purple blue metallic drip crosses diagonally from the ground in the bottom left to the sky in the top right.
The rectangular landscape page has a wet vertical red and pink left side, a stormy blue right and a white middle. Gold yellow and ream bars drip from top to bottom above the red white and blue spaced loosely together. A large shimmering white Y or Gamma sits above and disturbing the light-colored drips, and to its right a zentangle of purple ink sits above and beneath the drips.
Two tins of BeamPaint watercolor stones, about 46 in total, split across two shallow hinged-lid tim boxes. The lids have see thru plastic inserts. The bottom most tin has all ethical mica paint stones, and the topmost tin (actually in the center of the picture), contains guache matte and a sneaky mica paint stone or two, plus a roll of washi tape. At the top sitting on the inside of a lid from the top tin, a cut birch tree "cookie" has a rainbow of only smaller matte rainbow plus gold paint stones embedded in a ring of holes in a circle atop the cookie.
A black sheet of not quite rectangular hand made cold press paper has drips of colors from left to right, in rainbow order from top to bottom. The drips seem to fork the patterns of water in the ocean. A single boat sits in the middle top right, a heart shaped sail open, and from the bottom tip of the heart, good drips below, seemingly off the page.
A vibrant abstract watercolor landscape. A bright magenta sky sets the backdrop for shadowy, towering forms in warm hues. A shimmering silver horizon line boldly separates the sky from a textured, golden-yellow foreground that subtly mirrors the forms above. A scatter of white speckles dances across the entire surface, adding an ethereal feel.
An abstract sunset made by folding and pressing wet watercolor together, dripping ink down and outlining a red sun in a hazy blood red sky reflected from the surface with green and hints of foliage in the foreground and a yellow blue sky far above the sun. The page shimmers with aftereffects like staring into light too long.
The words I FORGIVE YOU in uncial script fill in the blanks left by an abstract metallic watercolor shape in colors from purple to blue with grey undertone which curves around in almost a circle, a peninsula just from the left. The whole extended watercolor shape is surrounded by lines which radiate out in a pattern spaced with wide distances in the bottom right to small distances across the whole left and top.
A sketchbook painting featuring a large red-orange four-pointed star and a large gold four-pointed star overlapping a faint, watercolor blue background. Scattered around the main stars are smaller dark blue stars, metallic gold dots. Between the two biggest stars is a central gold orb making it look like both an eye and an abstract head for both stars.
A grey kitty appreciates a shifting multicolored light which looks underwater. The shimmering pinks and purple light shines on the cats face.
A rectangular mixed-media painting on white paper featuring a vibrant, stylized landscape aesthetic. The background is composed of soft, horizontal watercolor washes transitioning from a deep magenta-pink at the top, down into warm orange, pale cream-yellow, dissolving into green above a blue lake. A series of wavy, parallel lines cascade diagonally from the top (right) toward the lower left, shifting in color from metallic purple to metallic crimson across the full rainbow. One prominent red line breaks away, stretching down toward the right side. In the lower right light blue space, perhaps a shorline, a small group of dark silhouetted figures stands gathered closely together. The very bottom of the piece features a soft lavender wash with a speckled, salt-bloomed texture.
A circular mixed-media painting on textured paper, showcasing a highly detailed, intuitive abstract style. The upper portion features sharp, structured diagonal bands filled with tightly packed, concentric chevrons in shades of green, gold, blue, pink, yellow, and silver. This geometric structure contrasts with the fluid, organic watercolor forms filling the rest of the piece. The composition is rich with shimmering metallic gold, copper, silver, and iridescent purple-blue washes that catch the light, outlined by fine ink details. Near the bottom center, a smooth golden organic shape is nestled among flowing crimson and yellow tendrils, echoing the natural flow of liquid across the page.
An abstract circular painting featuring a central golden, shimmering hummingbird silhouette in mid-flight with a drip of orange ink at its eye, layered over a segmented, radial background. The background is divided into wedge-like sections that alternate between matte neutral tones and vibrant, saturated colors including red, orange, green, blue, and purple. Various artistic techniques are visible, including intricate brushwork, calligraphic ink lines, and fluid watercolor drips that span across the segments. The interplay of metallic sheen and matte texture creates a complex, tactile composition.
Hand-drawn calligraphy in a bold brown Uncial script that reads: "SOUP OR STEW, MY LOVE, FOR YOU!" followed by "P.S. THERE'S DESSERT" in red ink. To the left, a steaming bowl of soup is partially visible. To the right, a whimsical pink and silver snail carries a large silver spoon.
Uncial-inspired hand-calligraphy on dotted paper repetitively featuring the word "EFFORT" in three large horizontal rows. The top row is in dark brown ink, the middle in black, and the bottom in bright orange. In the spaces between these large letters, the word "effort" is written in small, colorful cursive script using pink, blue, and purple ink.
Uncial-inspired calligraphy on dotted paper featuring the word "REJECT" in black with a pink offset shadow. Below it, a decorative border of interlocking black and blue zig-zags separates the top half from the word "ACCEPT," which is written upside down and mirrored. The word "ACCEPT" features a layered chromatic effect in red, pink, and blue.
Uncil inspired hand-caligraphy'd quote "LOOK FOR THE HELPERS" on dotted paper. The text features a stylized, multi-colored 3D effect using black, blue, red, pink, and orange ink, flanked by two circular scribbles and underlined with a black wavy flourish.
This is a fun collection of 50 hand-drawn cat faces, each numbered and showing a unique, often grumpy or weary expression. The style is minimalist black ink on a white background, capturing a range of "moods" through simple changes in eyes, mouths, and whiskers.
A framed watercolor painting of a white cat curled in a sleeping position, featuring soft yellow highlights and green-tinted outlines against a light blue background. The artwork is signed on the mat in a cursive script that appears to read Douglas W. Klein (or potentially Bleir).
A domestic cat with short, grey fur is lying inside a large, brown paper grocery bag, nestled on a yellow and multi-colored patterned rug. The cat's head is peeking out of the opening of the bag, and its eyes are closed, suggesting it is asleep. Bright sunlight shines in from the left, casting a strong diagonal shadow across the bag. In the background, a red and white holiday-themed cat tunnel is partially visible.
A grey kitty with eyes clothes is laying fully down on a pink sheeted bed and is receiving head scritches.
A meme featuring a photograph of a Chestnut-backed Chickadee. The bird is perched on top of an open book, which shows a picture of the same type of bird. The background is a blurry forest floor covered in brown leaves. White text at the top of the image reads: "Speaketh the Universe: buy thee the ticket of lottery".
A black and white cat (white more than black but black head) is laying comfortably in a seat on blankets and pillows, happy to have a recently heated bed.
A detailed, round painting with an abstract, earthy design. The artwork features a swirling composition of shapes and colors in shades of gold, silver, green, and deep red. A large, stylized eye-like form dominates the center, surrounded by organic, fluid lines and textured areas. There are also distinct, flower-like motifs with intricate details. The painting has a rich, metallic sheen.
A meme featuring three pictures of squid in different forms. The text says "Character selection for Squid RPG"
A meme featuring a photo of a strawberry colored squid, a deep-sea creature with two dramatically different-sized eyes. The squid has a reddish-brown body and is looking forward with its large, wide eyes. It has a tiny, almost cartoonish, mouth, and a curious expression. The text at the top of the image reads: "Hello fellow students..."
A square abstract painting depicting a celestial scene in a sketchbook. On the left side, a large, rounded shape in a shimmering dark blue and silver takes up nearly half of the canvas, resembling a planet or moon. A faint line of textured paint delineates its edge. The right side of the painting is a mottled, speckled, and shimmering gold and light blue, resembling a star-filled cosmos. Various small, stylized, and abstract shapes in gold are scattered throughout the celestial field, appearing to float or drift.
A circular painting in the style of abstract and Art Nouveau, created with watercolor and ink. The background is a textured, shimmering silver-gray. A horizontal sinusoidal interwined pair of lines across the center divides the composition. The main subject is a large, flowing, and intertwining ribbon, primarily in dark blue and black with iridescent highlights, that winds through the composition and across the mountain peaks. Smaller, organic, and swirling lines in various colors—including gold, purple, and blue—fill the background and wrap around the main form. In the lower part of the painting, a stylized, large periwinkle lotus flower is depicted, while in the top and bottom there are green, curved leaf-like shapes and other floral motifs. The entire piece has a sense of elegant, organic motion, filled with motifs.
Gravity ice dye setup in a bathtub with ice cubes atop cloth atop tin foil atop cardboard milk box. The dry dye is dripping down the fabric in a watery pattern typical of the style.
A circular watercolor painting on a textured, off-white background with a subtle shimmer. The composition is a complex network of abstract, interconnected shapes outlined in faint, delicate lines. Inside many of these forms, there are small, colorful, central points, and some have lines extending from them, with small, abstract forms at the end. The shapes are filled with very light washes of pink, light green, and other pastel tones. The word "phagocyte" is painted in the center of the piece in a stylized, calligraphic font. The word starts with "pha" in metallic pumpkin, "goc" in gold and "yte" in blues.
A circular watercolor painting of a serene, ethereal landscape. The top half is a shimmering, pale sky with soft washes of pink and lavender clouds, and a couple of faint, flying bird shapes. The bottom half depicts a vast field of soft green, with small patches of colorful, abstract flowers and tall grasses. A large, circular portal dominates the central-right foreground. The portal has a thick, pinkish-orange rim, and its interior is filled with a dense, textured mix of small, colorful specks, giving it a granular, glittery, and jewel-like appearance, as if looking through to another realm. The entire painting has a luminous and dreamlike quality.
A circular abstract watercolor painting with a mystical or celestial theme. The background is a gradient of deep purple and magenta, blending into a brighter pink at the bottom right. The word "TOGETHER" is written horizontally across the center in iridescent teal paint in a curling, round font, with each letter outlined in shimmering teal. Floating above and around the word are numerous leaf-like or petal-like shapes in a shimmering gold and silver-white with blue and green highlights. In the upper-central area, a large, translucent, kite-like shape in shimmering gold with pink and purple undertones appears to be floating. Small white and gold specks are scattered across the painting, creating a sense of starlight or magical dust.
A horizontal abstract painting featuring a variety of forms and textures. The background is a solid, shimmering pale gray. A prominent, bell-curve-like shape, or statistical norm, is painted across the center in thick, textured, and sparkling gold and silver, with the right side showing a light iridescent blue wash. Above and below this curve, seven abstract shapes that resemble trees are scattered across the painting. From left to right, there is a long poplar tree in deep browns and greens and golds at the incline of the curve. Next there is a large, textured gold leafless tree with an abstract shape in a blue circle nearby; a textured, gold and dark blue tree; a good tree, a dark star symbol with a gold outline; a purple and pink textured tree; and a purple Jacinda tree. A black heart shape is in the bottom left and an orange infinity symbol to the right. The entire composition has a dreamlike and ethereal quality due to the use of highly textured, shimmering paints.
A small, square watercolor painting with a diagonal composition, creating an alien landscape. The upper half is a textured, shimmering gold with washes of peach, and is splattered with tiny dots of blue, purple, and gold. The lower half is a textured, shimmering silvery-green and light blue, with prominent white and grey swirling lines that give a sense of fluid movement or waves. A sharp, diagonal line divides the two halves. A thick, textured, orange-gold line cuts across the upper half. The entire piece has a luminous and ethereal quality due to the light-fast mica paints.
A vibrant abstract painting on a solid grey background that has been painted with a mica-based watercolor, giving it a shimmering, textured sheen. The composition is filled with multiple overlapping geometric shapes, including squares, rectangles, and circles, all outlined with thin, colorful lines. The colors used for the lines are varied, from outside to inside, they start in shades of green, then orange, then blue and purple, then magentas and reds and whites. A thick, textured, and shimmering gold line runs diagonally across the entire page, intersecting and partially obscuring the other shapes. The texture comes from being pressed atop the others, transferred from another page.
A horizontal abstract painting with a textured, shimmering silver top and bottom border. The central area of the painting is a broad, curving, organic shape in a muted reddish-brown or mauve, with soft washes of darker tones. Winding across this central shape is a thick, textured, and shimmering gold line. Small, abstract shapes and fine scribbled lines in various colors, including blue, purple, and green, are scattered within the gold line and the background. In the upper central area, a distinct black heart shape is painted. The overall composition has a fluid, dreamlike quality.
A highly textured and abstract painting on a horizontal rectangular canvas. The background is a pale, off-white with faint washes of light gray. The central subject is a pair of intertwining, curving forms resembling abstract snakes or ribbons. These are painted in thick, textured, and shimmering gold and a silver-glitter paint. Scattered over and around these main forms are smaller, abstract shapes in pink and purple, some with a prominent glittery texture. Thin, organic lines and small, leaf-like shapes in a teal or dark green color are visible in the background spaces. Throughout the composition, star-like points are painted in metallic silver, gold, and pink, adding to the celestial and luminous feel of the piece.
A landscape painting with a horizontal, layered composition, created with watercolor and metallic paints. From top to bottom, the painting is divided into five distinct horizontal sections. * The top section is a mottled gray and light blue, representing a cloudy sky with stylized white glows to the clouds. * The next section is a shimmering, deep blue sea with a boat rendered in gold and white. Its sail is a deep blue with a white detailed stripe and it's probably having a rough sailing day as the sail looks to be going backward. * Below the sea, a light, earthy-toned strip with subtle gold marks depicts a beach. A white leafed-and-gold trunked, stylized tree with a textured trunk stands on the shore to the left of the boat. * The fourth section is a broad band of pink and orange, speckled with vibrant gold shapes, creating a colorful, shimmering foreground reminiscent of flowers. * The bottom section is a solid green, on which a white railing with vertical silver posts and horizontal bars is painted.
A meme featuring an illustration of the Pokémon Slugma in a hot spring. The Slugma is a bright red, slug-like creature with large yellow eyes. It is sitting in a pool of bright green water, surrounded by grey volcanic rock with smoke rising from other pools. In the background, there are two large volcanoes under a dark purple sky with light blue clouds. White text at the top of the image reads: "Sippin' my hot soup, don't care if it's summer."
A square abstract watercolor painting featuring a shimmering, flowing composition in cool tones. The background is a textured blend of iridescent light greens, teals, brown, and blues, overlaid with a network of thick, winding lines in shimmering gold and white. Small, oval-shaped forms of bright red and pink are scattered across the entire painting, resembling flower petals or buds floating on a shimmering stream. The interplay of the cool background colors and the metallic lines and warm petals creates a sense of movement and visual rhythm.
A circular watercolor painting with a soft, ethereal background in muted tones of pink, lavender, and shimmering gold. The word "FRIEND" is written horizontally across the middle of the painting in a textured, dark red, and appears partially faded or obscured by the background colors. The word "SHIP" is written vertically in shimmering gold calligraphy, intersecting the word "FRIEND" at the end of FRIEND, making it FRIENDS and a dark purple shadow is cast to its left below the P. The entire piece has a delicate, luminous quality.
A textured, horizontal abstract painting with a dark, shimmering background in gold and black. The word "JOY" is painted prominently across the canvas in large, stylized, and colorful letters. The "J" is outlined in shimmering gold, with a lavender and iridescent blue shape within it. The "O" is a rounded rectangular shape, outlined in pale green and blue, and filled with a thick, textured, vertical pattern in shimmering orange and gold. The "Y" is outlined in a deep purple, with a blue and light green shape within it. The letters are connected by thin, flowing lines in various colors, and the entire composition is surrounded by abstract marks and shapes in blue, gold, pink, and red.
A meme featuring a photo of a small, fluffy, gray kitten who was born to Sky Mama with KittensForDays assistance. The kitten is looking directly at the camera with large blue eyes. It is standing on a wooden floor, and its fur has a soft, muted grey look. The text at the top of the image reads: "tho I look like a Stratus cloud, I am a kitten ^..^"
A meme featuring a photo of a blue, crocheted Pokémon, Poliwag, sitting on a green felt surface. The Poliwag has a white swirl on its belly, a small pink mouth, and a tail that looks like a white and blue knitted leaf. In the background, there is a blue backdrop with three white, fluffy, star-shaped clouds. The text at the top of the image reads: "Moments before Godzilla's TKO arrives, vibing with hubris."
A circular watercolor painting featuring a network of swirling lines and abstract creatures on a shimmering, pale lavender-pink background. The network consists of thick, fluid lines in various iridescent colors, including purple, yellow, orange, and blue. Where these lines intersect, they form stylized, star-like points, with the color of each star point matching the color of the line that is intersecting at that specific point. Within this network, three distinct creatures are depicted: an orange and gold creature on the left, a reddish-purple, textured creature in the top center with spiky protrusions, and a long, cylindrical creature in purple and shimmering green-gold on the right. In the lower-middle, a stylized tornado-like shape is rendered in pink and gold with purple highlights. The entire piece has a luminous and otherworldly quality due to the mica watercolor paints.
A meme featuring a photograph of a single white egg against a clean white background. The egg is centered, casting a soft shadow beneath it. The text above the egg is a quote from Lois McMaster Bujold's novel "Cetaganda," which reads: "The bubble remained defiant. The bubble had nowhere to go and could not attack." The meme uses the visual of the egg to represent the floating pod chairs, or "bubbles," described in the book.
A close-up of an abstract painting on a textured, glittery pink background. The painting itself is dominated by a thick, highly textured, shimmering golden yellow rectangle, which represents a door. A thick, winding, raised line in a mix of textured iridescent blue and pink paint cuts diagonally across the door. In the lower left corner of the golden rectangle, a small, stylized swirl in a dark teal or green is painted, representing a fancy door handle. The entire piece has an intense, glittery sheen.
A circular abstract painting featuring a network of different-colored, rectangular shapes that resemble doors with various knobs, connected by a winding, thick line. The background is a soft, shimmery pink or lavender. The doors are painted in distinct, iridescent colors: a shimmering silver-gray, a vibrant purple, a bright fuchsia-pink, a light yellow-gold, a rich gold, a darker mustard yellow, and a muted, iridescent blue-gray. Each door has a simple knob or keyhole depicted with a single black dot or line. A thick, curving, and intertwining line painted in a mix of shimmering blue, green, and purple connects all the doors.
A multi-canvas acrylic flow painting, divided into three horizontal panels, titled "Ships at Sea." The background is a vibrant blue with white splatters and drips flowing downwards, creating a sense of dynamic water. Across the three canvases, two large, abstract, organic shapes are layered over the blue background. The top and bottom shapes are filled with cellular and marbled patterns in black, white, and a vibrant reddish-orange, with some areas of dark pink and purple. These forms resemble stylized, elongated ships or sea creatures, with pointed ends and bulbous bodies. The central shape is similar in form but is a more muted mix of black, dark purple, and pink marbling. The overall effect is of two ships sailing against a turbulent blue background.
A vibrant and chaotic abstract painting created with acrylic paint. The composition is structured by a series of diagonal bands that crisscross the canvas, filled with various painting techniques, including flow art. The bands are filled with swirling, cellular, and marbled patterns in a rich palette of deep purples, blues, magentas, pinks, and blacks. Some areas feature shimmering gold and iridescent blue accents. The background, visible in the spaces between the diagonal bands, is mostly a stark white with some areas of black and blue paint, creating a sense of fragmentation. The overall impression is one of dynamic movement and layered complexity, with the different patterns suggesting a mix of celestial, microscopic, or geological textures.