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🧡Aur🧡

@defvaur.bsky.social

🌈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

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🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 19h ago

Tho distance be great Our moves change shared gravity Friendship and pressure #art #abstract #watercolor #painting #spheres #gravity #friendship

A 13x15cm abstract watercolor painting. Three spheres are arranged without overlap on a curve drifting out past the horizon. The closest spills off the bottom left of the page in teal and green, the middle is towards the top right in purple and brown, and a small gold orb sits just above the horizon at the middle top left. The background is streaked yellow, purple and grey.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 2d ago

Mundane desires Either one would do, except Coccydynia #art #watercolor #painting #chronic

A 19x17cm abstract watercolor painting depicting two overlapping, geometric chairs. The background features a pale, textured wash scored by heavy, vertical drips of coral and rose pink paint descending from the top edge. The chairs consist of angled, solid planes of color. The left backrest is magenta outlined with a thick teal border. The right backrest leans inward, painted in pumpkin orange with dark green shadows. Below, the intersecting seat planes display layers of deep red, fuchsia, and muted violet. A sparse framework of thin, dark teal lines serves as the chairs' legs and structural base. Scattered dark blue and green paint splatters speckle the entire composition, adding a raw, dynamic texture to the scene.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 3d ago

Marvel at marble Quiescent evanescence No longer ideal #art #abstract #whimsical #watercolor #painting

An abstract watercolor painting.

An abstract watercolor painting. Sorry I'm so tired.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 3d ago

Geometric start Etruscan burial mound Notes to remember #art #abstract #informationcomplete #watercolor #painting #arthistory

An abstract watercolor painting acting as notes for an art history class. Greek key at the top; the olive tree of Athena at the Erechtheion; triglyphs and metopes below the pediment of the Doric style; Doric, Ionic and Corinthian column samples; the peristyle, opisthodomos, and cella of a 2x+1 style temple; a Horus esque figure; a large clay dinos.

Etruscan Tumulus, styling on later Grecian temple, and a layout of the Parthenon.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 4d ago

Pythian tripod Acme of fumes, foretelling What you want to hear. #art #abstract #meditation #painting

A 25cm diameter round abstract watercolor painting. The composition is split roughly into horizontal thirds with the largest portion in the middle delineated by 9 pillars, 4 on left and 5 on right. Green yellow blue and purple stairs lead up to the 3d esque columns, the interior beyond is highly textured, centrally blue and purple and pink, shifting to green further from the central columns and fading out to textured greys. The top is a mottle of greens blues and greys.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's impossible Running away, staying still I've forgotten how. #art #abstract #watercolor #painting

A 14x20cm abstract watercolor painting of a figure in an exaggerated contrapposto stance, built from distinct geometric and organic shapes. The background is a pale, mottled wash of cream and yellow, divided by a horizon line from a cool grey and light blue ground. The figure's head is a sphere of mint green and dark blue-violet, flanked by a pale brown triangle pointing right. The left side of the body is a large, solid, rounded teardrop in dark, textured brown. The right side is a bright green diamond with a pale green mottled texture. Centered on this green diamond is a vertical maroon oval containing five small green circles. The figure's left leg drops in pale mint green, crossed by a thin yellow-green line near the rounded foot. The right weight-bearing leg grounds the figure in deep indigo fading to textured charcoal black. The layered watercolor washes create a balanced, asymmetrical weight shift.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 5d ago

I am reminded, Perspective is a tool used As reality. #art #abstract #watercolor #painting

A 15x13cm abstract watercolor painting. A horizontal line divides a pale grey-blue sky from a sandy tan foreground. The textured foreground features coarse, splotchy dark brown and olive green marks. Resting on the horizon line is a nested semi-circle of pink, light yellow, and blue warping into bands of teal, pale blue, and magenta which stretch to form a right angle triangular rainbow structure. Dominating the left side of the composition is a large, translucent, curved shape resembling a dirty glass sphere or pane. This overlay filters the background elements into murky olive greens, muted ochres, and deep charcoal shadows with mottled, water-stained textures.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 6d ago

Eat first with our eyes. Try these contrasting flavors, Heh, taste the rainbow. #art #watercolor #painting #abstract

A 15x13cm abstract watercolor painting. Three circular forms remind us if fruit spill off the page. A purple dragon fruit at the top left and a sweet lime in the bottom left offer an Impressionism counter to the third "fruit" which appears more a bulging eye.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 6d ago

Quarter remembrance Hindsight isn't twenty twenty Sadness spilling forth. #art #abstract #surreal #watercolor #painting

A 15x13cm abstract watercolor painting. The background is divided into two simple washes: pale sky blue on the top half and pale mint green on the bottom half. A surreal structure resembling a vertical slice of a face floats in the center. The top of this central form is a broad, dark indigo block. Below it sits a large eye outlined in deep purple. The eye's interior is light blue with a webbed yellow-green texture, anchoring a metallic copper-gold circular pupil.
Translucent petal-like shapes stretch from the eye to the left and right edges, built from layered washes of teal, ocean blue, and a sliver of magenta. Below the eye, the central "face" shape tapers into a smooth green curve with a thick dark blue drip extending straight down. Dropping to the lower right of the composition is a prominent grey, heart-shaped shadow. This shadow stands out with a coarse, mottled texture full of speckled blooms and variations in the grey pigment.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 7d ago

Resist air with string. Mullion, pane, scattered rain. Hidden distraction. #art #watercolor #painting #abstract #lyricalabstract

A 15x14cm lyrical abstract watercolor painting. It is built in four layers, from an alcohol textured purple/green/grey wash base. From top to bottom, then, squiggles and strokes shift from teal thru purple into orange and magenta. The third layer crosses two thick transparent pairs of perpendicular intersecting lines pink over yellow. The final fourth layer is a single metallic angled drip from rose to yellow gold top to bottom.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 7d ago

A break from haiku form: Your support for me, this human making art, is quite appreciated 🧡🧡 thank you thank you! #art #watercolor #painting #abstract

A 21x14cm abstract watercolor painting. The background is complex, composed of cool rainbow tones of layered glazed circles and pressed patterns in red and purple from another painting. Featured is an oblong metallic creature with 4 triangular spikes and highly stylized eyes with minimalist line for mouth and white blob for nose.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · last wk.

Got stuck in Art Hist. Out of myst, column shapes drift Oh, you get the jist. #art #watercolor #painting #impression #abstract

A 17cm by 19cm watercolor painting depicts a classical Greek colonnade in one-point perspective, inspired by the Temple of Aphaia at Aegina. Along the left side, fluted Doric columns and an entablature of cobalt blue triglyphs recede toward a distant vanishing point on the right horizon. Tiered steps in pale lavender-grey support the base of the stone pillars. A flat pathway textured with circular alcohol blooms in spearmint green, blush pink, buttery yellow, and cornflower blue borders a raised earthen bank in ochre and warm sienna on the right edge. Across the upper sky, a cerulean wash features cloud-like alcohol blooms over the receding architecture.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · last wk.

Three! Won't count to deuce! Negotiate a new truce, Prob'ly hides a noose... #art #watercolor #painting #lyrical #goose

A 20x14cm watercolor painting. It’s built in three layers. A first, vibrant neon wash forms the background, with a natural green-to-aggressive-yellow gradient from left to right. A lyrical abstract second layer of dark grey, blue, green, and purple strokes creates formless vines over the top and merges into a deep, mottled, textured dark blue and green hill area in the lower half. Reddish-brown pigment splatters scatter across the top and central areas. The third layer places a stylized white goose on the dark, sloping hill. The goose is rendered with a pale purplish-grey outline and an atmospheric alcohol-textured finish. It features an orange beak and feet and a blue eye.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · last wk.

Glass panes separate Exuberant photons from Grumpy pained stillness. #art #watercolor #painting #abstract #goldenhour

A 20x14cm watercolor painting with a white pressed texture first layer. A wet-color mixing abstract continuous flow creates a dense, cellular web of thick colored veins forming distinct horizontal bands of indigo, teal, yellow, orange, red, magenta, and blue. A third layer adds splatters in red, purple, and blue/black. Two perpendicular metallic drips structure the piece: a vertical gold line marks the left side, and a horizontal silver line marks the top side.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · last wk.

Gone in a flash, no They burn a long while before Terminating, stop. #art #abstract #watercolor #painting #lyrical

A 20x14cm abstract watercolor painting. It features a base layer of alcohol textured grey, with purple grey squiggles in a horizontal bar over the top, with. Blue and purple horizon line, thicker on the right, and what might be a meteor streaking down to the right with a green tail and golden mottled rock.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 2w ago

Focus now, be here Push water away and back Grab it fresh and pull. #art #abstract #watercolor #painting

18x14cm abstract watercolor painting in cool tones. A broad blue ovoid might be a pool, might be an eye.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 2w ago

Forgot how trees look Backlit in sunset syrup I'll see them again. #art #abstract #watercolor #painting

A 19x18cm watercolor painting on cotton paper. A thick metallic teal cross of mullions divides the painting into four quadrants. Top left: a large olive and lime green sphere with a dark plum shadow and pale yellow surface speckles rests against a pale grey background. Top right: an abstract wash of deep violet, indigo, and cerulean blue displays white and pale pink circular blooms. bottom left: a warm mottled texture of peach, rust orange, ochre, and magenta features dense clusters of pale circular spots. Bottom right: a rough brown tree trunk on the right edge extends branches to the left side, supporting blocks of forest green and sage foliage against a muted grey sky.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 2w ago

Mind hiding from sense Fire cooled in water-filled paint Howling helps the hurt. #art #watercolor #painting #abstract #emotive

A 25cm diameter round watercolor painting. Multiple layers of alcohol-textured wash create a deep, mottled background of bruised indigo, violet, and green. In the upper section, fine ink lines form concentric spirals and floating ovals, suspended in the cool colors. The bottom half contains a large, dark purple outline shaped like an open screaming mouth or a constrained cell. Inside this boundary, a dense, labyrinthine tangle of thick, jagged blue and purple lines forms a chaotic knot. The stark contrast between the upper spirals and the heavy, restricted lower tangle channels the raw, debilitating physical ache of chronic pain.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 2w ago

Find what you look for. Beholder, usher in light. Here's looking at you! #art #abstract #watercolor #painting

A 15x13cm abstract watercolor painting. The background consists of mottled periwinkle blue, pale lavender, and grey spots. Encasing the composition is an oval border, tinted in deep magenta and orange on top and soft lavender on the bottom. Inside this perimeter, fluid shapes float across the surface. A gold-yellow curved band arches near the top alongside a streak of sky blue. Below, a cluster of burnt sienna shapes resembling eyelashes sits above a circular iris containing royal blue, teal green, and white. Sweeping strokes of pumpkin orange, violet purple, and pale peach twist throughout the center. It might look like an eye inside an eye.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 2w ago

Imagine outside Play with curiosity Wonder what this is! #art #watercolor #painting #abstract

A 13x15cm abstract watercolor painting presents a view through an angled window frame against a mottled background. The wash consists of pale slate blue and grey multi-tones, textured with alcohol blooms and speckled rings. Thick diagonal stripes of dark indigo and violet intersect across the upper half to form the structural mullions of a window frame. In the lower-left pane, mottled rings of amber, peach, and slate grey outline the standing figure of a dog with dark eyes and nose. The dog faces a smaller shape in moss green and yellow wash, suggesting a resting cat.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 2w ago

For some time now I've Been in a Mondrian mood New word: Moodrian. #art #abstract #watercolor #painting #mondrian

A 13x15cm abstract watercolor painting. The background is a very textured wash on blue overtones with red and yellow and purple undertones. It is highly textured with alcohol, and is darker further down the page. There are two objects, one diagonal straight line and one curved line. The lines are shaded from dark blue thru lavender to yellow. One object is a blue triangle on the left below center shaded from dark purple thru green to sky blue. The other object is a balloon shape on the right side above center and very far right shaded from Mars red thru magento to orange. There are no matching spacings on the page and the triangle looks like it might miss the balloon.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 2w ago

Jungle, swamp, Forrest Looking from out of focus A creature appears. #art #watercolor #painting

A 14x25cm abstract watercolor painting on cold press paper. The background is composed of three horizontal stripes in a wash of cool yellow, purple, green. The middle layer is organized roughly by color into blue green on the left, granny apple in the middle and topaz on the right with each color being more green further down. The top layer is a splatter of translucent green/blue/black.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's humidity Water sitting in midair We could see rainbows. #art #watercolor #painting #abstract #colorstudy

A 15cm by 13cm abstract watercolor painting features a vertical color-study column set against an atmospheric pastel-pink background. The background wash blends tones of magenta, turtle belly, and pale blue, marked by a spray of sky blue, turquoise, and Prussian blue droplets. In the center, a textured vertical pillar transitions through a wet-on-wet spectrum from magenta and orange at the top, through amber and moss green, to teal and Prussian blue at the base. Alcohol drops form mottled craters across the stripe, creating translucent rings that reveal the underlayers in an organic, cellular pattern.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 2w ago

Paint gains character When something happens to it... Splattered alcohol! #art #abstract #lyrical #watercolor #mixedmedia #painting

Portrait style abstract watercolor painting with marker accents. The base layer is a wash from blue to orange textured with random alcohol splatters and drops. Then a single continuous doodle in translucent color from tangerine theu blush into berry and onto blue. Finally, a thin crisp pink marker line crosses perpendicular at the golden ratio, with a thick translucent orange shadow cast by the pink line with light from the right.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fields full of new crops Consistently inconsis... ...tent with such texture. #art #abstract #mondrian #watercolor #beampaints #painting

A 25cm diameter round watercolor painting. 4 curved triangles, each a different spacing apart from a head or shield shape with a light blue wash freckled in peach and lavender as border. The bottom triangle is deep orange/red with alcohol drops cutting thru the mixed colors. The larger triangle above and left is deepest purple with Fibonacci triangles of bark and cobalt. The triangle to be right is in greens, mixed wet on the page composed of yellows, greens and hints of blue. The top triangle is shaded sky blue. Surrounding the shield is the deepest purple blue with big organic alcohol drops cutting thru the mixed colors.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 2w ago

Climbing, speckled pink Leafy lines, lacy looping Iridescent splotch #art #watercolor #painting #lyrical #abstract

A 25cm diameter round watercolor painting in a lyrical abstract style. 3-4 transparent layers are stacks from a salt texture background with two waves, up to a color-play in abstract continuous brush strokes and mixing, up to a top layer of disjointed organic dots spots and splotches till we reach a top layer of iridescent blue/orange Interferance colors and white details.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dragons not drowning Leafy, spiked, salamander All around breathing. #art #watercolor #abstract #painting

A 25-centimeter round abstract watercolor painting. Created through an intuitive practice of mixing wet colors directly with the moving brush, the swirling pools of pigment form the loose, fluid shapes of at least two creatures. A large, sweeping band of deep blue, teal, and purple coils around the bottom and right edges like a massive sea dragon, detailed with small pinkish-purple vertical marks resembling spines or ribs. Cradled in the center is a bright, glowing cluster of vivid yellow and orange washes suggesting a second, smaller curled dragon or energetic fiery core. The upper left features organic, skeletal brown and purple brushstrokes that bleed into the watery, dynamic layout, leaving glimpses of the bare white paper beneath.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 3w ago

Given color, form, Tone and value, eyes and leaves Peak, twirl, ascend. #art #abstract #exercise #watercolor #painting

A 25x14cm abstract watercolor painting composed of an interconnected lattice of paint on exposed white paper. The image displays a continuous single-layer rainbow gradient from top to bottom. The top edge starts with a solid sky blue wash, breaking into a web-like structure. The color shifts into mustard yellow, creating a narrow band of grey-green at the mixed boundaries. Throughout the middle section, intersections of three or more colors form complex marbled nodes. The pattern descends into cherry red, changing into pumpkin orange where single and paired dots add pareidolia. In the lower third, peach hues blend with the orange and purple paint. At the base, the open lattice fills with pigment, ending in a dense wash of plum purple, pink and orange creM. .

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 3w ago

TTITD Saturday night in the sea Of multicolor #art #abstract #watercolor #ttitd #painting

A 14cm by 15cm abstract watercolor painting features a symmetrical Rorschach form along a diagonal fold line, set against an off-white background. The center crease displays canary yellow, neon chartreuse, and bubblegum pink pigments that blend into lobes of lime green, apricot, and terracotta on the upper right. The opposite side contains washes of sky blue, mint green, lavender, and dusty rose, with parallel curved streaks of lilac and pale turquoise in the upper-left quadrant. Jagged, dark charcoal-grey drip marks extend toward the top-left and bottom-right corners. Fine splatters of electric cyan, magenta, golden ochre, white, and shimmering silver flecks cover the surface.

🧡Aur🧡@defvaur.bsky.social · 3w ago

If you've got two friends Choose "The Rutabaga Bois" As your group costume. #art #absurd #watercolor #painting #abstract

A 21cm by 14cm watercolor painting set against a soft wash of blush pink and pale lavender. Three stylized humanoid figures with pointed, golden-tan rutabaga heads strike energetic, wide-armed star poses across the composition like a dancing boi band.
The largest figure stands in the center foreground wearing a shimmering cranberry-red jumpsuit accented with a dark purple collar, belt, and cuffs, lit from below by radiant vertical beam lights in hot pink, red, and yellow. To the left, a companion figure in a sparkling peach-orange suit poses in front of lazer-light streaks of turquoise, green, and gold. On the right, the smallest figure in brick-red dances before fine vertical rays of cyan and yellow, creating a playful rhythm of depth and stage lighting.