Rebecca Salinas Art

a bunch of works in progress/ doodles/1 year patreons??

Hello! here's some stuff I've been working on this month. getting back into enjoying painting again slowly. feeling good about my three 8x10" paintings on paper for class (critique in a of couple days!!).

I've been trying to draw when I don't fee like painting. I'm excited about learning screen-printing and will likely buy the whole setup later on for home so I can print my own clothing designs.

I'm a psychology minor, so I'm taking cross-cultural psych this semester and I feel ...

Noodle Bowl and Atlas Plums

Hello! For January rewards, I will be sending this Noodle bowl design as a 5x5" magnet and it will be available to y'all for free to download, print out and color at home! (link below)

The first 50 people to color the sheet, make an instagram post and tag @friendly.noodles and @rebeccasalinasart will get a free sticker of the noodle bowl design :)

I finally got to do some lino block carving with another Atlas design too 🥰 I will probably make a limited print series available f...

the winner announced! and my final book project

The winner of the giveaway is Derp Derpington! I used a random number generator and they were the 8th commenter on the previous post :)

I would love to do more of these patreon giveaways in the future.

I'll be packing rewards today and by pure chance, I'm able to give out TWO holiday cards to everyone!! :0

Please let me know in the comments if you prefer certain items for future rewards: stickers, prints, cards, magnets, or anything that ships flat in an envelope!

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Patreon giveaway!

I wanted to thank you all in a more special way, so I will be giving away this painting of holiday chicken Noodle. All you have to do to enter is comment below on this post :) I will select a random winner after Dec 1st! I won't mention this giveaway anywhere else, so that it stays Patreon exclusive ❤️

The painting is 2x4" acrylic on illustration board. I will send it along with your December package if you are signed up for those rewards!

I'll be adding...

making a tunnel book

for my final in book arts class, I'm planning on making a tunnel book of raining cats. this one was very quick so I'll want to spend more time planning out the final. I really like experimenting with my painting imagery in this way, using an xacto knife to cut out the drawings

bedroom painting

I had a lot of panic attacks recently and it was very difficult to complete this painting, and I even had a one while I was reading my artist statement during critique for this painting. I thought it could be my weakest painting just from how I was feeling making it, but it was by far the most successful painting of mine this semester to my professor (Amer Kobaslija-- check out his work from a google search). I was very surprised by the positive reaction from critique, mostly from the sort of...

My first book! and CatCon news

I finished my first book today! (I still don't consider that ABC book finished)

I may make limited copies. It would require quite a bit of effort to make each one with just me to do the printing, cutting, folding and sowing of the pages together. These books are different from normal books, they're more like art books. So we'll see about a limited run!

I've been waiting to officially announce that I'll be part of CatCon 2020! This is my first time being part of any con...

ABC book progress

I turned in my book for my book binding class, though I had wanted to paint it fully before cutting and folding it. My professors insist that it's done as it is-- and I get what they mean, because painting them would transform it entirely and lose those precious drawings. But I still want to paint them all. It's a project I need to finish on my own time. I want to film painting all of them for a series of tiktok videos perhaps :)

Acrylic paintings aren't good for books. The pages would...

One sheet Accordian Book (rough draft)

I'm taking Book Binding alongside my painting classes this semester and it is very exciting! Today we learned a few methods for 1 sheet accordion books. You fold and cut 1 sheet of paper a certain way to create it. This one in particular can be read like a normal book, read the opposite direction like a Manga (using the both sides of the sheet of paper), stood up like a sculpture, and flattened all the way out back to its original sheet form to reveal a bigger picture on both sides!

Dur...

September Patreon rewards preview

the new avocado Noodle sticker and HOW DARE magnet will be next month's rewards! I will package & ship them out by September 3rd ☺️

I also wanted to share this digital painting of Needles in progress from last night ✨ oh and Dipsy Noodle from today!

Thank you for your support!

concept ideas

someday, I'd love to illustrate a comic or a small book about my cats Noodle & Atlas. I've been having fun sketching pictures of them in this style, and I'll continue practicing it in my free time.

I've no idea when I could properly start the project, but I'm thinking when I make the pages I'll only upload them to here on Patreon as I go~

wishing you all the best in these trying times!

Becca

August Patreon sneak peek

Holographic Noodle stickers coming to you in August! ($8+ tier). they will be only PART of what is coming in next month's Patreon packages 😊❤️

these Noodle stickers are a limited release!

60 Commissions in 1 year

In a year's time, I've done almost 60 commission portraits. I have only two left to go since I stopped accepting new ones. 🙌

These portraits ranged from 2x2" marker drawings (1-2 hours each) to 11x14" acrylic paintings (6-8 hours).

Going forward, I know I have limits to what I can do. This much commission work has been stressful and great weight hanging over me, actually preventing me from enjoying painting many times. I would feel guilty wanting to do my own paintings becaus...

Life Updates: May 2020

Hello! I'll be doing two giveaways to celebrate reaching 5K followers on Instagram and 6K likes on my Facebook page. See my posts on IG and FB later today for details. 

I'm almost done with current custom portrait commissions! I took on WAY too many late last year/early this year. I've only got four more to go, before it was about 30 individual portraits. A huge weight has been lifted. I really want to enjoy doing each piece, but having so much to do ultimately stresses me out and ...

recent sketches + painting

I like sketching from life as well as from photos. I think it improves my drawings and paintings. Atlas, my cat, my sweet baby boy, is a somewhat easy model to draw when he is sleeping. He does move every 5 minutes though, because he can hear me scribbling away.

I draw myself by looking at a mirror. I hadn't done that in awhile since recently I have only been painting cats from photos. For my painting Self Portrait with My Cats, I struggled to paint my face. I had to practice drawing m...

time lapse painting!

first time lapse for any part of the Raining Cats series, what do you think of it? I may make it public eventually but I wanted ya'll to see it first! I took about a week break from painting, I think I burned myself out before. Now I'm back in it! 

I may have waited too late to ask for the month of May, but which cat would you like to be made into a mini print next for the $8 tier? (from the ones I've painted before) 

Hope you are all safe and well! <3

surprising my love with this drawing soon

noodle doodles

I got a used iPad and started trying my hand at digital drawings. posting these here for y'all to see because I won't release them all publicly till I can figure out a t-shirt provider!

I just packed all the mini prints and I'm sending them out tomorrow! 😊 ($8/tiers) Thank you to all who joined, hope you'll stick around for next months mini cat print!

Stay safe,

Becca

for my $8+ Patreons

I'll be shipping out this little print (ships in 4.5x5.5 regular envelope) of Thurston Waffles for my Patreons whose cards were charged on March 1st. 💕 New or more recent Patrons whose cards will be charged on April 1st will get this pront alongside the month of April cat print. c:

This print will hopefully be available sometime in the future on my Etsy shop.

Thank you for your support!

a little heads up...!

I'll be doing a giveaway of a few prints of this painting before/at the same time I set up a preorder listing for prints. I'm excited! I think the painting is done.

about 70 hours was put into this painting. and it's not supposed to represent everyone's favorite cats of the internet or this cat is chonky-- they're just some of my favorites and some submitted to me that worked with the composition, and fit while there was still room.

I want to do another one...

Time lapse video of marker drawing commission

I made this time lapse video of one of my commissions in November 2019, never uploaded to my instagram/ facebook page and still don't think I ever will. I think it took about 7 hours.  I hope you enjoy!

other series of work

I've been working on about 30 8x8" paintings based off of images from thiscatdoesnotexist.com

It's a very different way of painting and I'm really having fun experimenting with different materials, choosing what to express and what to leave out.

materials used: gesso, acrylic paint, block printing ink, japanese writing paper, charcoal, sharpie and cat whiskers.

finally, I found a use for my cat whisker collection! (collected off the ground, as they shed naturally like hair...

under paintings for portraits

I always try to cover up the blank canvas right off the bat because it adds more depth as I work on top of that. here's a side by side comparison of a recent commission, the first attempt/layer vs. the finished painting!

the beginning sketches of my "send noods" Noodle sticker

I've been wanting to make a Noodle sticker like this for awhile. I suddenly thought to add "send noods" because a lot of people comment that on the Facebook cat groups I post in. I love how it turned out

Current paintings in progress

Portrait of my partner, gessoed up 25/50 canvases for the AI cats series, a few commissions hanging to remind me they need to get done as well.

New painting series - AI cats

I've started a painting series which will contain 50 mixed media paintings based on images from thiscatdoesnotexist.com

A computer program attempts to make a new cat from random cat pictures and the results are terrifying. These images are creepy and hilarious and it's just something I'm really interested to paint.

I'll be using acrylic paint, oil paint, woody's pencils, charcoal pencils, whiskers and fur in these paintings.

I'm super excited to have these displa...