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Watching Winter Perform ❄️🌸🌻🍁 - Early Access

Hello Patrons! 🤍Here's my latest piece! It's about seasonal princesses watching their sister, the ice princess; perform at a ballet recital! ❄️🌸🌻🍁This was a huge challenge because it originally started as a landscape format, but I couldn't figure out how to finish it composition-wise. I had to redo many different things in the painting to make it work. This piece won't have a step-by-step process because of all the changes I had to make sorry about that! 😥If yo...

Art Guide - ☁️ How to Paint Clouds + Real-time Painting Video ☁️

Hello Patrons! 🤍☁️Today I wanted to talk about how I approach painting clouds! Painting clouds can be a very fun process but it can also get daunting, so I will share simple methods and tips that have helped me approach painting this subject!☁️ Value Structure ☁️When it comes to painting clouds, it helps break them up into a simple 2-3 value structure. In the example below I’m taking references of varying cloud shapes. I usually use a hard round brush or a lasso tool to create a...

An Old Friend 🐉 👑🌼 - Early Access

Hello Patrons! 🧡Here's my latest painting!I’ve been inspired by old storybook illustrations lately, so I wanted to emulate the mood, story, and style in this painting! I’m trying to take my time with my process and adding more texture to my work!I also think this is the first time I’ve painted a full-sized dragon haha! Dragons are definitely my favourite mythical creatures! They’re just so majestic! 🥰Let me know what you think of this painting! 😊Thank you all so much for you...

An Old Friend 🐉 👑🌼 - Process

Hello Patrons 🧡Here's the process of my latest painting! This one took quite a while since I wanted to explore different textures and emulate the old storybook look.I was very inspired by these paintings' fantasy themes, woodblock prints, and illustrative feel. 🎨I've always loved how imaginative and colourful they are. I admire the flow and decorative elements these vintage illustrations display! Usually, I find my work quite structured but I am exploring ways on how I could ad...

✸ PHONE WALLPAPERS ✸ + Shop Update

Hello Patrons! 🤍Happy Friday! 🥰🥰Here's some phone wallpapers! I've also uploaded the files so you can download them!I will have a shop update on August 6th @ 10 AM ET! 🛍️ The shop will open at 10 AM for patrons and will be open to the public at 12 PM ET! I will have more details closer to the date! 😊🫶Thank you all so much for your support! 🌸🌸Have a wonderful weekend!Love always,Maxine

✸ Artist Retreat Video Premiere ✸

Hello Patrons!The video is here! The video will premiere in less than an hour at 12:00 PM EST I will talk about my experience in the art retreat, and productivity guilt, and share some fun snippets of my trip!Watch it hereI hope you enjoy the video! 🥰

📮💌 Help me choose an envelope design 💌📮

Hello Patrons! 🌸I sent the mail rewards yesterday and added some floral stickers to match the summer season! Here’s what they look like! 🥰I’m also in the process of designing new designs for the Rosella and Luna envelopes so I thought I’d get your opinion! 💌Let me know which one you like!Option A - The Moon and Starry BirdOption B - Floral Letter

✹ART GUIDE✹ How I learned how to paint Colour & Light - Course, Book, Practice

Hello Patrons! 🤍I will share some art guides that have helped my practice now and then! Today's guide is about How I learned how to paint Colour and Light. 🌼✨Over the years, I learned to apply light and shadow to my work to create a visual story. I still want to learn many things regarding colour and light, but I wanted to share some of the courses, books, and practice I have done that have helped me improve my skills!✹ Course ✹When I used to work as a 2D artist in a small gaming...

New Painting 👑 - Work in Progress

Hello Patrons! 🤍How's it going? 😊🫶I was swamped the past week with client work, but I've finished sending everything in today, so I have some time to edit the vlog and work on my latest painting! 🎉🎉This painting is going to be a little different from my usual paintings since it’s going to be in a landscape format!I love to work in portrait size, so this is going to be a nice challenge! 💕✨I often shy away from landscape format since it can be daunting, but I’m lovi...

🌻 Hello July Newsletter 🌻

Hello Patrons 🤍🌻I hope you had a lovely weekend! It was Canada Day 🇨🇦 this weekend, so I visited a lavender farm and a fair with my partner! 💜 I had a lot of fun, and it was quite relaxing! I hope you had a fun and relaxing weekend too! 😊We have an exciting month ahead! Thank you for the Patreon suggestions in my previous post! I will slowly implement some of these suggestions in the coming months. This month I will be working on several things: Mermay zine/mini book Stickers &...

✸ Sketchbook Prompt Challenge #5 ✸: 🫖🍰 TEA PARTY🫖🍰

Hello Patrons! 🤍How's it going? This month's theme is TEA PARTY! 🫖🍰🥰Are you more of a tea drinker or coffee person? I'm more of a tea drinker and drink green tea every morning! I also treat myself to a copious amount of bubble tea! 😅Thank you so much for participating in this challenge!😊💕Versaviya_art's entry is a realm to a beautiful tea garden! 😍 I love the arches that frame the gorgeous character! 🥰💕The PineappleTeaCat_AfernoonTea's entry is s...

La Promenade 👑🌼 🌾 - Step-by-step Process + Timelapse Videos

Hello Patrons! 💛Here's the process of La Promenade! I created this piece mostly on Procreate! Then I made colour adjustments in Photoshop. I'm trying to integrate using Procreate more into my workflow since it helps me create more painterly strokes! 🥰I've also attached the timelapse vidoes of the painting.Doing Plein air studies has helped me create a workflow with textured brushstrokes to indicate the shape. I am trying to be more mindful of my brushstrokes placement to simpli...

La Promenade 👑🌼 🌾 - Early Access

Hello Patrons! 💛Here's my latest painting! ✨ I've been so inspired by the artist retreat in France so I wanted to create a princess painting based on it! 🇫🇷I realized most of my princess pieces are set in winter time so it’s a nice change to draw one for summer! 🥰The place I stayed at had so many cats so I definitely had to include them in this painting! 🐈I will post the breakdown step-by-step process and inspiration of this painting tomorrow! 😊🫶Let me know what ...

Reminder - 💌 Last day to shop 💌 + 🫖🍰 SKETCHBOOK PROMPT CHALLENGE 🫖🍰

Hello Patrons! 💕I have a couple reminders for this week! 🧡✨💌 PATRONS-ONLY SHOP 💌I've extended the shop closing to the end of the day. I will be packing all the orders this week!Today is the last day to shop! ALL ORDERS will be processed on June 26th ~ 30th Prints will be shipped via Letter Mail (No tracking): Prints with quantities up to 2 will have free shipping but anything above that will include letter mail shipping‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾　　☽༓･*˚⁺‧͙‧͙⁺˚*�...

✹ Patreon Suggestions - I need your help! ✹

Hello Patrons! 🌸I’ve been doing some Patreon evaluation and thinking of adding new things on here!What else would you like to see on my Patreon?What are the current things on my Patreon that you look forward to on here? Polls? Mail? Sketchbook challenge?I love to connect with you more on here so I was thinking of adding early-access video content. I have one coming soon about the artist retreat, but I’m thinking of making more vlog-style videos in the future.Here are some future goals I�...

I'm back! Artist Retreat Update! 🇫🇷🎨

Hi Patrons! 🎨I’m back from the artist retreat in France! 🇫🇷 I’ve recorded a lot of footage from the retreat so I will be making a video about it soon!However, I want to share some of the things now! This is going to be quite a long post so I apologize in advance haha! I had the pleasure of staying at La Muse with my friend, Kate (poopikat) 🥰I had such an amazing time at the retreat! I felt like I was living in a fairytale. ⛰️🧺Being surrounded by nature and other creatives ...

Update - Artist Retreat 🇫🇷 + Plein Air Painting 🎨

Metamorphosis 🦋 - Early Access

Hello Patrons! 💙Here’s my latest painting! 🦋I want to try something different for this piece! I’ve been really inspired by exploring storytelling through different methods of painting! I always love the idea of seeing two different views in a painting! Let me know what you think! 😊🫶Have a fantastic Sunday! Thank you so much for your support! 🌸🌸🥰🥰Love always,Maxine

Metamorphosis 🦋 - Process

Hello Patrons! 💙Here’s my latest painting! 🦋I’ve been inspired by exploring storytelling through different methods of painting. I’ve been using Procreate a lot to do illustrations. It helps me let go of striving for perfectionism and embracing the process. ✨Doing traditional painting last month made me realize how much I enjoyed mixing colours and creating raw brushstrokes. I hope to translate that into digital painting! 💕I’ve also recently watched Across the Spider-verse twic...

📚 Book Cover Process Breakdown 📚

Hello Patrons! 🫶Yesterday, I shared a cover that I had illustrated on social media! I want to share the process breakdown of “The Unicorn Legacy: Tangled Magic.” 📚Last year, I was recently approached by a designer from Bloomsbury to illustrate the cover for Kamilla Benko’s latest book. Once I read through the synopsis, I was immediately hooked and decided to sketch out the characters and settings. Usually, the art director and designer would provide a summary or a book manuscript. Th...

💌 Patrons-Only Shop is Open 💌

Hello Patrons! 🧡✨The Patrons-only shop is back! Here are some key information about the shop: The shop will be open from June 8th - June 25th ALL ORDERS will be processed on June 26th ~ 30th Prints will be shipped via Letter Mail (No tracking): Prints with quantities up to 2 will have free shipping but anything above that will include letter mail shipping‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾　　☽༓･*˚⁺‧͙‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾　　☽༓･*˚⁺‧͙‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾　　☽༓･*˚⁺‧͙...

June Sketchbook Prompt Challenge - POLL

1. Cast your vote in the Sketchbook Prompt Challenge Poll. The theme with the majority votes will be the theme for the month’s challenge2. Fill in your sketchbook page or draw an image using the winning prompt.- Feel free to use any medium (ie. pen, inks, digital, watercolour, etc)- You can also use different art forms if you don’t feel like drawing (i.e., 3D program, clay, knitting, etc.)- HAVE FUN!3. Once you’re done, submit your files to Google Drive or submit your files via WeTransfer ...

Metamorphosis 🦋 - New Panting WIP

Happy Monday Patrons! 💕How was your weekend? 😊 Did you have any exciting plans? Here's a sneak peek preview of the new princess art I'm working on! The theme is metamorphosis; so I will add some butterfly motifs to her dress and around the background! 🥰🦋I’m really excited to paint her dress! I want to add some detailing that resembles butterfly wings! Im excited to finish it! I hope you are all doing well!! Thank you so much for your support! 🥰Love always,Maxine

Hello June 🌼 - Zine/Book + Artist Retreat + Patrons-only Shop

Hello Patrons 🌼It’s always sad to say goodbye to May because I love seeing mermaid art on my feed, but I’m so excited for the summer months! I have some exciting things ahead! 🥰I have a couple of painting ideas I want to do this month; I really want to get back into painting princess themes, so expect some princess art this month! 👑 I also want to paint more animals; if I have some time, I will try to squeeze in one animal painting! 🐱🦊🐻PATRONS-ONLY SHOP: JUNE 8TH-22NDI will...

✸ Sketchbook Prompt Challenge #4 ✸: 🐚🧜‍♂️🧜 MERMAIDS🧜‍♂️🧜🐚

Hello Patrons! 🤍How's it going? I am so excited to share this month's entries because the theme is mermaids! 🥰As you all may know, May is a special month for art because of Mermay! I am always blown away by the creativity you all display through these entries! 🧜🧜💕I love the variation of poses and direction in these artworks!I am also happy I got to participate in doing a traditional painting this time! 😅 I hope to do more traditional pieces soon, especially for our futu...

Reminder - 🐚🧜‍♂️🧜SKETCHBOOK PROMPT CHALLENGE🧜‍♂️🧜🐚

SKETCHBOOK PROMPT CHALLENGEHello Patrons, just a reminder to submit your challenge entries!The theme for this month is 🐚🧜‍♂️🧜 MERMAIDS 🧜‍♂️🧜🐚The sketchbook prompt challenge is due on May 29th at 9 PM EST.You can submit your entries to submit your files to Google Drive or submit your files via WeTransfer to maxinevee.sk.submissions@gmail.com 🧡Have a great day! 🥹Love always,

Mermay 🧜‍♀️ - Waterfall 🌊🌺 - Early Access

Hello Patrons 💕I am very excited to show my latest painting because I’ve challenged myself to paint traditionally! 🎨I am so happy I could finish a painting using acrylics this month! I kept delaying it, but I did it! 😂 I really wanted to do one this year! I had so much fun painting this piece! I can't wait to do more traditional paintings in the future 🥰🥰Thanks so much for your support! 🫶🥹🫶🥹Love always,Maxine

Mermay 🧜‍♀️ - Waterfall 🌊🌺 - Thoughts and Process

Hello Patrons 💕I am very excited to show my latest painting because I’ve challenged myself to paint traditionally! 🎨 I kept telling myself that I’ll eventually try it out, but I always delayed it this time, I told myself, no more excuses! 😂I’m sorry I didn’t take as many pictures as I’d liked or videos since this painting went through some changes and quite took a while to finish since I was trying to get used to the medium. I’d like to talk about my process, though and let ...

🛍️ My INPRNT SHOP is open! 🛍️

Hello Patrons!My INPRNT shop is open:INPRNT SHOPINPRNT SHOPI've uploaded previous artwork I won't be selling in my personal shop anymore! These artworks include the Mermay collection from 2020 and 2021, the Solitary Landscape series, and paintings from previous years.All the artworks are available in acrylic prints, canvas prints, metal prints, phone cases, etc.I'm also offering a 10% discount for all the prints this entire week using this promo code: I01P0Y7 (Click here to shop)Than...

Mermay 🧜‍♀️ - Palace Guardian 🏰🌙 - Early Access

Hi Patrons! 🤍Here's my latest mermay! 🏰 I wanted to create something fantastical and magical for this piece! I also wanted to try using some bolder colours! 😊🧡I had a lot of fun painting this especially the stars and all the sparkles!!Thank you all so much for your support! 🥰Love always,Maxine