Artisan Spark

Artisan Spark My name is Paul Krikau. I am a life-long artist and gamer.

After decades in the education field, I am pursuing art as a career both as a freelancer and as a for-hire teacher.

As an independent artist and business owner, I have to choose my products and how I market my work. Due to recent change...
01/13/2025

As an independent artist and business owner, I have to choose my products and how I market my work. Due to recent changes with Meta (Facebook and Instagram), I'm no longer comfortable using these platforms for my work and I think I have better avenues to explore for marketing myself in the digital world. Please consider following me on Bluesky (artisanspark.bsky.social). Bluesky has an explicit user agreement that states it will not scrape photos and art to train AI. Also, I will be posting reels and other videos - including more long-form "how-tos" on YouTube (youtube.com/).

Lastly, my website has changed to www.paulkrikau.com. ArtisanSpark will still get you there for the time being, but the domain name has changed. For more on the hows and whys of all this, please consider subscribing to my newsletter by clicking the subscribe button at the bottom of my main website page.

Thanks and Best Wishes!
Paul

Early Taco Tuesday/Work-in-Progress pic. Here's the newest in the Defenestration series, called Self-Defenestration. G...
01/07/2025

Early Taco Tuesday/Work-in-Progress pic. Here's the newest in the Defenestration series, called Self-Defenestration. Getting back to so.e watercolor.

First painting signed as 2025! Leaving the background white is messing with the completionist in me. It feels unfinished...
01/06/2025

First painting signed as 2025! Leaving the background white is messing with the completionist in me. It feels unfinished...but I find that I love the tension of it.

Taco Tuesday...New Year's Eve...new Work-in-Progress. Another libation painting has begun.
01/01/2025

Taco Tuesday...New Year's Eve...new Work-in-Progress. Another libation painting has begun.

It's Taco Tuesday! Well, we had fajitas. But it also means it's Work In Progress post day. So, today, I'll show the fi...
12/18/2024

It's Taco Tuesday! Well, we had fajitas. But it also means it's Work In Progress post day. So, today, I'll show the finished product from last week and the one I just started today. They are part of a series on libations.

One of the things I have learned as an artist is that I don't know how to photograph art. Fortunately, I have a friend,...
12/16/2024

One of the things I have learned as an artist is that I don't know how to photograph art. Fortunately, I have a friend, Casey French, who is an excellent photographer and took beautiful pictures of some of my stuff...including some old ones. Here's a fantasy fan art acrylic painting I did of a Critical Role character a couple of years ago.

It's Taco Tuesday and that means a new Work-in-Progress pic and this week is a whole new project...back to melting some ...
12/10/2024

It's Taco Tuesday and that means a new Work-in-Progress pic and this week is a whole new project...back to melting some crayons:

I'm going to do something a bit different this week for the live drawing program on www.twitch.tv/artisansparkpk on Wedn...
12/09/2024

I'm going to do something a bit different this week for the live drawing program on www.twitch.tv/artisansparkpk on Wednesday at 7pm. Instead of a cartoon, I'll be doing some art for a homebrew D&D campaign where the dragons are the gods. I'll be doing a quasi-religious looking icon for one of the dragons. Which one sounds the most interesting to you?

Like = Machegehorsan the Blue
Love = Wachsam'Veya the Sapphire
Care = Khannibhavish the Crystal
Haha = Vaxilass the Green
Wow = Ixilanthus the Bronze

12/08/2024

I compiled all the WIP pics into a short little reel. Also, this might be the first royalty- free/commercial-use music available on CapCut that I like.

This one has definitely challenged me. I'm reasonably happy with the final results.
12/06/2024

This one has definitely challenged me. I'm reasonably happy with the final results.

Yesterday, I got to drop off my painting which will hang in the new Bank First building on Johnson Street in Fond du Lac...
12/05/2024

Yesterday, I got to drop off my painting which will hang in the new Bank First building on Johnson Street in Fond du Lac. Thanks and Bank First for selecting my painting as part of the decoration for a gorgeous new building.

Another Tuesday without tacos, but still a work in progress pics is due...this should be the last WIP for this bridge pi...
12/03/2024

Another Tuesday without tacos, but still a work in progress pics is due...this should be the last WIP for this bridge piece.

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N8128 County Road QQ
Malone, WI
53049

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