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A painting of a white and grey cat surrounded by native Florida flowers. The painting is propped up on a bench in a backyard.

A close up of the cat painting

The cat the painting is based on, inspecting the painting by giving it a sniff.

A painting of a kitty and the kitty that inspired it. 🐱 10x10" acrylic on canvas. She was a commission and a wedding gift, so I'm glad the client loved it! Those are the most nerve wracking type of comms. 😅

I think I will, I've got the whole tub of ground to play around with anyway! I think it would have been ok if I went in a little thicker and wasn't trying to get a gradient, which I have a hard enough time with in gouache anyway 😅

I just recently tried out watercolor ground with gouache too. Definitely a weird experience! I ended up ruining my painting by getting it too wet. The ground started rubbing off in little pulpy bits.

The lighting in these are each so nice in different ways!

a tiled pattern of illustrations featuring redwood forest animals and plants on a dark blue background. The animals featured are a banana slug, ring-necked snake, slender salamander, ensatina, redwood sideband snail. The plants are redwood sorrel and redwood violet.

a quick redwood forest critter pattern for your feed ☘️💕

Lol at the one random instance of kleptoparastism

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An illustration of a western fence lizard, wearing a wizard hat and resting his front claws on a magical staff.

A closeup of the wizard lizard's smug little face.

Probably my favorite sticker design from last year. Wizard Lizard ✨🧙‍♂️🦎 Based on a Western Fence Lizard.

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i have realized these guys think the CDC creates outbreaks and NOAA creates climate change, like they're some sort of council of warlocks instead of an advance warning system

"Things might be tough but it's great for artists! They'll create more!" You might not believe me but going through a lifetime's worth of stress Every Single Week for years and years- is actually not the optimal set of circumstances that inspires artists to create

Reading Parable of the Talents now by Octavia E Butler. Found this passage relevant to our times. Actually this entire book is relevant to our dystopian reality. #booksky #booktok

Just watched Treasure Planet for the first time and I think it would have made a great animated series. There was a lot of neat world-building that didn't get thoroughly explored in the short hour + thirty minute run time.

I love the whole concept 🥹 and it's great advice too.

If you see this, post fungi! 🍄
#art #natureart #fungi

Nobody is pointing out the more obvious issue - no way they'd end up on a date without her already knowing he was an artist. That info is going on the dating app profile for sure. 😂

My friends and I are starting a new Pathfinder campaign soon, and this time I'm acting as "assistant DM". I'm helping to fine-tune the plot and lore, flesh out NPCs, write some side quests, and will probably play many of the female NPCs. Anyone done something similar before? So far, I'm enjoying it.

I'm an artist with a (non-art) part time job to help pay my bills, winter markets to prep for, failed projects I ran out of time for, holidays and birthdays coming up that I need to socialize at, I'm not getting enough sunlight, the government is about to tear itself apart, and I'm so so so tired. 🫠

Post your favorite Pokemon, wrong answers only.

If you see this, post your bird art 🪶

Yes! There's a thing now where showing enthusiasm for something is considered cringe, and I think that's sad. Enjoy things! Share them!

Normally I'm all about the mushroom ones but that adorable lil duckie in the reeds is calling to me 😍

Hi everyone, I heard we're all finally moving here :) I do art, usually featuring flora, fauna, or fantasy. I like hiking and hunting for fungi, and playing a witch in my latest Pathfinder campaign. Here's a video of my bookmarks, made at home and featuring my own designs. Happy to be here 👋