Chris Yates

a half gallon jar with herbs macerating in liquor

wormwood (from my garden), fennel and anise 🌱

a beautiful and probably quite potent combination!

A basement alcove mostly filled with several hundred spray paint cans in every shade.

Restocked and rearranged my "paintry" today. Always a satisfying experience, I can't really sleep if I know I'm missing any of the colors ;)

A colorful hand-cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a rather abstract landscape

A colorful hand-cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a multi-level waterfall

A colorful hand-cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a content duck in a swampy pond

A colorful hand-cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a bunch of owls (or maybe cats) hanging out by a tree

Here's a dozen new hand-made Bafflers for August! chrisyates.net

There are some pros and cons to

Still have these i bought from @superyates.bsky.social ages ago.

I do! Usually as bonuses for puzzle orders, but I hope to bring the Ghost 6 Packs back in the fall in the new store :)

A wonderful cadre!

a simple comic about a bird realizing there are no worms on the moon, no matter how early you get up

that's how it is

A colorful hand-cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a rather abstract landscape

A colorful hand-cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a multi-level waterfall

A colorful hand-cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a content duck in a swampy pond

A colorful hand-cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a bunch of owls (or maybe cats) hanging out by a tree

Here's a dozen new hand-made Bafflers for August! chrisyates.net

Here’s something insane that happened last year. I was asked by the team at Otherworld to help design and visualise a “melting” room at their new interactive Philadelphia experience. Once my work was done ACTUAL wizards made it FOR REAL. Mind blowing.

#art #3d #cgi #textiles #design #otherworld

Is that a jumbo Connect Four set?! What a treasure!

A photo of a path leading through a picturesque Montana canyon a little west of Butte.

A photo of a path leading through a picturesque Montana canyon a little west of Butte.

A photo of a path leading through a picturesque Montana canyon a little west of Butte.

A photo of a path leading through a picturesque Montana canyon a little west of Butte.

Nice day for a bike ride through Durant Canyon! I'll probably modify one of these photos into a puzzle template, I like the super-dramatic clouds :)

Yo just a heads up that Retired Mascots account just sent me some very fishy DMs. Would recommend unfollowing and blocking

A demonstration of the game in progress with a bunch of body parts connected to a monstrous creature

The title of the game! Doctor von Gravenstein's Elbowpalooza

TODAY at Gen Con!

I'm demo'ing my card game ELBOWPALOOZA at the BackerKit booth, #1939, from 12–1:45 pm!

A half-assembled cheapo bookcase that is taking way too long to assemble because all the holes are misaligned. You get what you pay for!

Probably one of the more under-appreciated wooden puzzles out there is the Walmart Bookcase. If you can solve this one in under 2 hours, you’re in expert territory

Do you think the tree guys made this big goofy face on purpose

A colorful handmade wooden puzzle with multiple layers depicting an abstract flower design, in the midst of assembly

Working on the flowers

Taylor Ham in North Jersey, Pork Roll in South Jersey/Philly

the cover of SIMPLICITY: the main character of the story, Lucius, getting pulled down and off the page by glowing vines. A pair of hands from a robed figure reaches for him.

my new book is out today. it's about separatism and utopia and bodily autonomy and cults and capital and love and revolution and nature and sex and all the things we owe to each other. I'm so proud and excited and nervous for you to read it. i hope you do. simplicitybook.xyz

Nice!

Hey Mary! Welcome to Bluesky! :)

An oversized anthropomorphic plush smiling apple squeezed into a handmade wooden apple holder. There are also some ceramic spoons that look like cactus

Oh yeah found a yard sale apple to go in my thrift shop apple holder. Livin’ large

Did it at a con years ago and marked it as a 10/10 difficulty. I think someone bought it!

haha this is for the handful of my customers who just want the most difficult thing in my inventory ;)

A bunch of hand-made angular wooden jigsaw puzzle pieces with no joinery, meaningless stripes, designed to infuriate anyone who attempts to assemble them

I'm very glad I have a cheat sheet for these Frustrate-O-Tron™ pieces, as this is an absolutely brutal puzzle without it.

Spinal Tap sitting on a couch.

Crosy, Stills and Nash sitting on a couch.

Enjoyed this reference in the Spinal Tap 2 trailer.

A watercolour painting of a path leading through the Hokokuji temple towards a statue.

A watercolour painting of a street in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, featuring a police box (Koban) designed to resemble an owl

I’ve added a few new watercolour prints to my shop today. First up two new Japan prints - Hokokuji Shrine in Kamakura and an Ikebukuro street scene featuring the iconic owl-themed police box. jonathanestore.bigcartel.com

summer terrarium?

Just doing what I can