Rory 🌙✨

Starting to put some finishing touches- This is 100% my aesthetic- heavy ornate frames, gold and black, verdant leaves. #illustrator #illustration #queerartist #folkart #folkstyle #witchyart #witchyaesthetic #handpainted #gouache #minitaurepainting #miniatureart #whimsigoth #pomegranate #persephone

Digital painting of a man and woman sitting on marble steps. The woman sits above the man and rests her hand in his hair; her other arm is outstretched and she crushes a pomegranate in her hand. The man wears a complex neckpiece and a red piece of fabric that only partially covers him.

Hades & Persephone (commission!)

A photo of a mixed medium illustration being held in front of an abstract painting. Both pieces are blue, but the one being held was made by OP. In the illustration, a fluffy creature holds their head, consumed with strong negative emotions . A red ex over their heart signifies pain/loss/anxiety. A transparent figure towers behind them, personifying their deep feelings in their heart. This piece is a reminder that our feelings don’t last forever. That “happiness” isn’t a destination, but part of the overall stops in the journey of life. To keep staying here and trying. Please stay.

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed. To let our fears/anxieties consume us. Especially in times like these. It’s okay to feel overwhelmed, to cry, to mourn. Don’t give up though. Please keep trying and fighting. I’ll be trying my best to do the same. I’m so happy you exist 💜🌈 #art #nonbinary #queerartist

4 images of hedgerows, loosely done, very colourful. Amateur attempts! Flowers. With no clear style established. Playing.

My first paintings, 2006, were of hedgerows. Winging it.
Odd sense of colour!

#paintings #hedgerows #experiments #acrylic

A leather book with a crack in the leather along the shoulder with detached board

A leather book with mostly detached boards and crumbling leather spine

Leather book that has been rebacked with leather and spine reattachment

Leather book that has been rebacked with leather and spine reattachment

A little leather reback from a workshop at school. In an ideal world I would have completely retooled the spine to replicate the existing tooling that was crumbling away, but the point was to practice spine lifting and reattachment. This is volume 2 of the odyssey.

From a past life reading I received the other day. Protection rune lodged under an amethyst when cast. A reminder that nature protects.

When you have no home, nature is your home. When you have no friends, nature is your friend. When you have no family, nature is your family. 🌿💜 #witchsky #nature

A close up shot of red, blue, and silver false turkey tail mushrooms growing on a moss and lichen covered log. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

From a past life reading I received the other day. Protection rune lodged under an amethyst when cast. A reminder that nature protects.

When you have no home, nature is your home. When you have no friends, nature is your friend. When you have no family, nature is your family. 🌿💜 #witchsky #nature

Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea and a black back of companion tea made by Old Growth Alchemy rest stop a blue and gold sequin cloth backdrop scatteeed with brass keys

The Starless Sea is rising 🐝🗝️🗡️

My latest collaboration with @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social is now live! A tea blend companion for The Starless Sea!

Wtf nooo ;n;

Have you considered essential oils? /s

This year has been wildly unpredictable and transformative for me, but also immensely exhausting. I want to take a quick little 1000 year nap.

So proud of my friend! Congrats on last chemo day! 🥳💜

I love this so much hahaha

despite everything, the world is beautiful

Art vs artist! I love painting silly animals it fills my heart with joy ✨

#art #painting

Green and indigo shell marbling

Green indigo maroon and copper shell marbling

Red and maroon stormont marbling

Red and black stormont marbling

Some examples of the marbled paper I made this week.

#omori

finished #omori yesterday and still feeling genuinely tired from sobbing

Today is the last day to join the guild! www.Patreon.com/oldgrowthalchemy

Shattering of the elden ring painting from 2006

Year of the snake

Anyone have any zines they recommend? Art, resources, etc. 💜

I’m really sick of seeing big creators say “my art is for everyone regardless of politics” my art is NOT for nazis, idk about the rest of y’all. My art is for trans people, for queer people, for folks with a sense of love & whimsy in their hearts. It’s not for people who vote against human rights.

A close up of a fantasty elf from dungeons and dragons, with half of their face obscured by their hand. They have an elaborate chain gold earring running over their one visible elf ear. Their box braid hair is falling to one side, and their visible eye is glowing flaming orange. Their hand has henna design drawn over it

Another elf ✨

Finish

Anyone have any zines they recommend? Art, resources, etc. 💜

Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
#BookSky #BlackBookSky

I can’t with that man lol

i will DIE ON THIS HILL
#handembroidery #audiobooks

The final calligraphy pieces of “Fix your heart(s) or die” because it is actually that simple.