MJ Lindo is an artist that I've been following on Instagram for a few years. When I first got Instagram, I used it primarily to keep up with smaller artists and to take inspiration from them. Although now I post more frequently and follow fewer artists, I still follow the ones I have been since I got my Instagram. The cool thing about keeping up with someone for so long is that you can see their progression as an artist throughout the years. Lindo has been painting pretty glowing girls for years. It seems to be her shtick and I'm into it. She pays close attention to color and incorporates beautiful color schemes into her pieces. She primarily paints on gessoed wood panel with oil paint. Another cool thing about following her on Instagram is that she posts a lot of process shots and process videos on it. This really helps me understand how her, and other artists on Instagram, get from a blank panel to a finished piece. She gets her saturated colors through numerous thin layers of oil paint. It seems incredibly painstaking, but it always adds a sort of depth that she could not have gotten with acrylic paint. One of the captions on one of her process posts is "It's not about being perfect, let the paint do what it wants to do" which has really inspired me to realize that the medium can really characterize a piece. She captures her subjects so well but also slightly abstracts them by using wild colors and adding weird objects to the paintings. I love how her body of work is so individual to her and how it is all tied together through her recognizable style.