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Rachel Kelly

@rachelkelly

Art / Poetry / Living with mental illness / The absurdity of life

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Rachel Kelly
@rachelkelly Jul 2, 2017, 4:03 PM UTC

Saturday | Color Challenge (Purple)

These flowers were outside of a pie shop on the coast about a year ago and they made me stop in my tracks. Beautiful day, that was. Thanks for reading :)

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Rachel Kelly
@rachelkelly Jul 2, 2017, 2:51 AM UTC

It's Hard When You're Color-Challenged (Indigo Blindness)

This might be the greatest color challenge of all, because I can't really distinguish blue and purple. I've had long extended arguments with friends about things being blue versus purple, and the con…

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Rachel Kelly
@rachelkelly Jun 30, 2017, 4:19 PM UTC

Color Challenge - Friday (Blue)

It's a great color.

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Rachel Kelly
@rachelkelly Jun 30, 2017, 3:23 AM UTC

Inkbox Review! (Temporary Freehand Tattoo Ink)

So I've been seeing ads for this company that recently popped up on my neat stuff radar called Inkbox. They do 2-week tattoos with vegan plant dye, and they have a bunch of different designs that are…

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Rachel Kelly
@rachelkelly Jun 27, 2017, 11:12 PM UTC

The Only Graffiti I Ever Did (And Got Away With)

As with most of my crazy stories, I was manic and in the mood to make some bold decisions. I had been living half out of my car and half on my friend's couch, mostly painting, befriending the homeles…

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Rachel Kelly
@rachelkelly Jun 27, 2017, 12:00 AM UTC

What to do with this...

Today's my day off, and I've been doing one of my favorite things, making surrealist art. I used a photo off Google for reference to work on this, since I'm trying to learn from my betters. That bein…

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Rachel Kelly
@rachelkelly Jun 26, 2017, 9:14 PM UTC

Beautiful Accidents

Sometimes your palette is more beautiful than your painting. In 2015, I had my first hypermanic episode and took up painting. I painted for days, on anything I could get my hands on, barely sleeping…

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Rachel Kelly
@rachelkelly Jun 26, 2017, 1:14 AM UTC

Deconstructed Japanese Maple Tree Painting

Hi Steemit! <3 I'm gonna walk through the process of my biggest painting ever. This is not necessarily my favorite piece--usually my work is more personal and relevant to the themes I'm thinking a…

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Rachel Kelly
@rachelkelly Jun 23, 2017, 12:56 AM UTC

Scrawled on a Karaoke Bar Porch

The Alley Sawed off moon tonight Siren pretenders tonight Wailing in hem-hawed jeans Deep throat microphone lullabies High notes are the money shot tonight Wide mouthed tumblers tonight Gaping straig…

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Rachel Kelly
@rachelkelly Jun 21, 2017, 3:15 PM UTC

A BitPoem

Below is the first verse of a longer piece. I always like it when first verses stand on their own, and so I put it on a background as an image and named it a BitPoem, which is a single unit of Intern…

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