Brittney Braxton

@mintii

She/Her #Gouachetober I’m a software engineer that loves painting nature with watercolor and gouache. 🎨

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Brittney Braxton @mintii· 18d

Finished painting. #watercolor

Watercolor painting of various windows in three rows. It’s two buildings but they are very close together. Different windows reflect different color lights

My painting next to the photo reference from the book, Patternity.

Brittney Braxton @mintii· 20d

I checked out some neat art books recently from the library. I’ve reading these before bed, and find some fun pages to do studies of. #currentlyReading #art

Book cover for Patternity: A new way of seeing. It’s got a graphic black and white geometric design with a metallic blue band across its belly.

Brittney Braxton @mintii· 20d

Art WIP as I enjoy a Saturday the little one naps. #watercolor

Work in progress water color painting in a small sketchbook. It’s windows along three rows of two buildings.

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Jul 1

A nearby station shows more correct readings. Still hot. 🥵

Carpenter Station shows 94F feels like 113F

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Jul 1

The kids are not alright. The kids are melting!

Screenshot of wunderground.com and a station reporting at Carpenter Elementary School. It's currently 106F and feels like 142F
This station continues to have highly inflated "feels like" scores to the point of obscurity.

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Apr 27

What might quinacridone coral look like? How could it compare across different brands? There's so much cool data available here!

Screenshot that lists Quinacridone Coral for 3 watercolor brands: turner artists, michael harding, and Daniel Smith. There's a column for their pigment codes, and images of the watercolor swatched and their lightfastness.

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Apr 22

Today is Coltrane's fur-ever home anniversary. Still baby.

Coltrane da cat sitting in a bay window looking outside. He's an all black cat and he's looking towards something on his left out the window.

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Apr 20

Screenshot quote from article, "How was your Campfire? Bezos asked me an hour later, and because I am an honest person, and because I have been a host myself, I decided he would want to know that there had been a problem, but that his team had reacted quickly and been extremely helpful. To be clear, I was in no way blaming him, nor was I shaking down the richest man on Earth. Instead, I was simply offering Bezos, also a husband and father, a brief human connection.

But when I told him what had happened, Bezos looked horrified. He did not say “I’m so sorry.” He did not say “Do you need anything?” Instead, he made a face, and in an instant, an aide came and whisked him away. When presented with the opportunity for empathy, even performative empathy, he chose escape."

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Apr 17

Honorary mentions to Coltrane playing with the Equifax fidget spinner

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Apr 17

Post the best picture of your pet: Too many to choose! Also I think I have better Best of videos than pics. This one is special in retrospect because it was like a week before I found out I was pregnant.

Coltrane da cat laying on a pink pillow and a red blanket as his paw rests on my right hand

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Apr 11

I'm dying, I just learned about Future and Meryl Streep.

reddit screenshot from r/CelebrityLookalikes by ItsDoobs23. Picture of Future & Meryl Streep. They have a similar face shape and smile with cute pinchable cheeks

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Apr 11

I hope someone sent a message to the orcas to NOT intervene.

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Apr 11

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Apr 7

Here's a nice round up of them. From: www.instagram.com/p/DOMkUYfk8jO/

Collage of Andean cats. Top, they are crouched on some rocks looking at the camera, right, they are curled up with a big floofy tail wrapped around them, bottom left, they are looking at something off frame, bottom right, they are crouched on a rock against bright sun.

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Mar 27

I’ve got a kitty that keeps me on my toes with his mischief. He looks a lot like Mali’s illustration.

Coltrane da cat laying on a folded red blanket with one arm stretched out. He lets out a big yawn to show his teeth. Coltrane is an all black cat with distinguished white whiskers

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Mar 26

I’m not gonna share the book’s name but here’s a screenshot of the queue at one point. I eventually got to check out the book and tbqh don’t enjoy it that much.

You are 296th in line (started: 461st). 14 copies in use. 465 people waiting in total. 33 people waiting per copy in two lanes.

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Mar 13

For a while I loved painting galaxy abstracts, nebula clouds, and just neat blooms of space dust.

Gouache painting of a blue galaxy. A thick diagonal band of bright stars that transitions from white to light blue.

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Feb 28

Sometimes there's only 15 or 30 min to paint or make something creatively. I keep the work small in little sketchbooks so it can feel like a meaningful session.

2 by 2 grid of different lions painted in different colors. Top row is labeled "red" with two lions with red manes. Next is "blue" with a cutesy lion surrounded by clouds and stars. Bottom row has "yellow" with a rotund lion with a yellow mane. Next is purple, with a dark purple sky and black-purple sun. The lion sits with a dark purple mane.
All sketched with purple mechanical pencil and painted with watercolor.

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Feb 27

I used to spend days enjoying the experience of painting and making art. As a parent, that time is limited to early morning, late at night, or small 15-min chunks. With my recent art project on making a shapes and colors board book, those time chunks worked well!

Painted yellow triangles decorate a page. There's a large triangle in the top left and five smaller ones in the lower right. Painted with gouache.

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Feb 19

Sunny art desk shots of my gouache and watercolor palettes.

Collage photo of two paint palettes. The left one is all gouache paint, ordered blue, green, yellow, and red. They are kind of crusty and dried out. A blue pigment is bubbling because I just squirted hydrogen peroxide into it to kill some mold. The right picture is much cleaner palette of watercolors. There's blues, greens, and yellows with a few dried puddles of watercolor paint.

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Feb 16

WIP of a fun project I'm putting together for my baby. I painted shapes with a variey of colors, and I will get this printed out in a board book. That way, baby can enjoy my art, especially if it must go in his mouth!

3 paintings in a sketchbook: top is a red circle painted next to three smaller red circles, next is a green pentagon next to two smaller ones, last is a blue kite shape, next to three smaller ones.

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Jan 20

From dial-up days to now, travel through Wikipedia's history. wikipedia25.org/en/which-wik...

Illustration of different humanoid robots interacting with computers and other technology as they are all connected by green vine-like tendrils.

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Sep 28

Thinking of the Twinkies drink I saw at Dollar Tree. Only difference is that yours is alcoholic 🥴

Glass bottle of Twinkies iced latte
Some light brown milky coffee drink with a Twinkie cut open on the front.

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Aug 28

Aspirationally it me 🧡🔸🟧

Lil orange guy with a blue wizard hat sending love in the world.

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Jul 29

I think you’re in the US? Here’s the brand I get. They also have a gluten free version if you’d prefer that!

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Jul 24

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Brittney Braxton @mintii· Jul 12

Top down. Jew of a glass cup and a mug. The cup has two melting ice cubes and iced tea. The mug has dark black tea.

Brittney Braxton @mintii· Jun 17

A few years back I bought a 200 slot color pencil organizer case from Amazon. It’s bulky but I like how it keeps my colors organized and it’s easy to store flat into a drawer. I don’t use color pencils too often I find it a nice system for what I do!

A multi-zippered binder with color pencils in each layer.

Brittney Braxton @mintii· May 30

Coltrane da cat staring at me, one eye slightly bigger than the other. The smallest blep forming. He's back from the vet and has been ravenous for food.

Coltrane da cat on my desk, just taking a little rest against my phone charger. He's getting drowsy, but refuses to sleep.

Brittney Braxton @mintii· May 28

Took this pretty swatch page and drew a Mexican sunflower on it and tried painting a loose layer on top. Of course the pen I grabbed was not waterproof. Happy little accidents 🥰