Good day and welcome to The Grind and Bind Art Alchemist’s Guild. An artist’s community for the kind of people who don’t just paint, they scavenge pigment from rotten leftovers. It’s for potters who dig their clay from riverbeds, for weavers who spin their own wool (and probably know the name of fhe sheep,) it’s for collectors of pinecones and neat rocks who could definitely do something with them, some day. All flavors are welcome. Talk about your materials, your processes, post art lore and memes, discuss art-adjacent topics, and share your pieces for questions, praise and critique. How it goes: Be kind: Do onto others with kindness, curiosity and civility. Images: All posts must have an image, even if you’re asking for advice. Post your cat, or your neighbour’s cat, whatever. This isn’t the community for AI unless you built it yourself and trained it on your own work. Please attribute appropriately. Tag NSFW if necessary. Content & Tags [Show and Tell]— Show off your finished or mostly finished pieces, or your DIY art-making materials such as paints, spun wool, brick kilns, bioplastics reactor, etc. [Advice Wanted] — “How do you…?” and “Help, something exploded.” [Info] — Free, online information on DIY media. Please include a webarchive link if a site asks for personal details. [Discussion] — In the huddle of stained alchemists, debates and compliments are equally encouraged. (Mods only) [Challenge] — Try something new or show off your niche skills. [Misc] — Anything that doesn’t fit in the above categories yet still vibes with the community. Memes don’t need tags. On Self-Promotion We all need to put food in the ferret bowl, but let’s not talk money here. If someone asks to buy something, please take it to DMs. !artmarket@lemmy.world [/c/artmarket@lemmy.world] is geared toward self promotion. — This is a dark place. Most art will leave you feeling inspired, maybe even joyful — if not a little thoughtful. Not this art. This is a place of paint drinking gremlins with caustic burns on our hands and ink stains on our feet. A dark, damp basement smelling of bleach and burning and bioplastics, of empty wallets and ephemeral passions, of education, of science. Most art makes people better, but this place can only make you worse, poorer, stained, and consumed by the craft. Icon drawn by Wren Banner image taken by Cottonbro on Pexels — This is a new community, the structure and rules may change without notice. All things are ephemeral. Shoot Wren a DM if you have any ideas or want to help out.