Artist

Ink Tuesday

You might remember that a few weeks ago I wrote a blog post for the Threadless blog, Creative Resources. My article was about how I earn money on Threadless. I shared everything I knew so that you could start and grow your store, too.

Another artist, Ink Tuesday, wrote a blog post for Threadless too. They opened their store recently and also posted a lot of short videos showing how each design was made to TikTok. It’s a very inspiring article — it must have taken a lot of courage to write it when they are just starting out and have no idea if people will like their art.

Ink Tuesday mentions me and that my blog post “lifted their spirits” which I am so happy to hear! I am glad that what I wrote helped even one person.

Two paintings

Someone posted this painting by Ben McLaughlin on Facebook:

I immediately wanted to know more about the artist and see more of his paintings. And then I stumbled on the following painting, also by Ben McLaughlin apparently:

This is not the same painting! Those are two different paintings. Look at them side by side:

This is strange, right? Did Ben McLaughlin painted those two paintings? Did he like the scene so much that he painted it twice? Or is one of them painted by a copycat? There’s no way to know because Ben McLaughlin doesn’t have a website. Some of his paintings are shown here and here, but neither of those websites display either of the train paintings.