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Knight in a dress

#11

Built a “3D” sphere (SVG) to show RYB transformations.
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The hyper-partisan tech baron who stole your data from FB is doing whaaaaat with an identity verification scam now? Shocking. 🙄

Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger, stares contemplatively across the sea as waves gently lap the shore. Footprints can be seen in the damp sand leading to where he sits, pistol unstrapped at his hip and bedroll at his side. The sun hangs low but intense, blazing a line of orange across the horizon.

To celebrate the release of the new open edition print of THE GUNSLINGER ON THE BEACH (with a special introductory price of $95!), we’re offering 20% off when you mix and match two or more other Dark Tower prints.

Promotion ends at midnight Sat (2/28)

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3/3

On the back of a saddled Martian bird, John Carter flies above a barren red landscape with the horizon tilted at a steep angle. His arms are spread wide as he grips reins in one hand and a rapier in the other. Dejah Thoris has a worried expression as she holds him around his waist. The bird twists with its eyes and beak pointing in a different direction than rider, giving a disorienting change in motion. Behind flies Tars Tarkas on his own winged mount. An elegant city with tall spires and onion-shaped peaks sits in the distance framed by a huge moon. Another smaller moon hangs bright in the gray blue sky.

JOHN CARTER OF MARS (1979)
Acrylic - 22” x 28”

I’ve had a special fondness for The Martian Tales by Edgar Rice Burroughs even since I first read them in my early teens.

This was the last of 11 covers, so it seemed fitting to have John Carter and Dejah Thoris ride off into the sunset. 1/3

#booksky

A woman in white robes kneels on the sand before an ancient archway. She is bathed in morning light that shines through. The abbey ruins around her include a fallen statue to the left and a pair of still standing statues set adjacently in high relief at the stub of a ruined pillar. Her red hair falls in a single braid down her back. Her robes trail across the sand to the edge of a shallow pool of water. The sky on the horizon is a line of purple that eventually gives way to blue punctuated occasionally by stars. A flame encased in a glass sphere floats above the ruins, high overhead and slightly behind her.

One of the layers of meaning behind my Passage paintings is the passage from one state of mind to another…and that’s often what my mind is doing while I’m painting them.

It gets hard on my back though, if I forget to get up occasionally and stretch or walk around a bit. 5/5

Ah, yes I was!

When I was in college, I discovered the artwork of Bill Martin. I was amazed at the psychedelic, intense level of detail in his paintings.

This is the first Martin painting I ever saw. It’s 20” in diameter or so. The butterfly and ants on the rock are life sized!! 1/5

A black dragon with flame smoldering in its mouth and lines of magma burning between its scales spreads mighty wings as it emerges from the ocean. Water spirals and froths, rising at opposite edges of the panel with the massive displacement of the dragon rising. The rib supports of its wings are thick and spiked, but the flesh between is tattered and showing through at the edge of its wings. A cloud of orange billowing smoke rises behind. Lines of fiery debris launch in random directions. A spire of rock rises from the ocean as a tiny figure perches atop faces the massive beast.

Tomorrow (March 4, 11am ET) we’re offering a pair of dragon paintings including a preliminary for DEATHWING from World of Warcraft as commissioned by Blizzard Entertainment.

A preview is now available for our paid subscribers on Substack:

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A tall alien in dark hooded robes points across a cavernous, futuristic space, giving directions to a group humanoids with cat-like heads. The Kif has gray skin, a long dragon-like snout, and red eyes. The Hani have muzzles like lions and ears pointed back. The hair draping from their cheeks forms modest manes, falling flat at shoulder length. The most prominent Hani stands with regal bearing while the rest of the group is poised for action on the ramp behind it. Exposed from the waist up, the lithe musculature of the Hani is covered in short golden fur. Its red pants are cuffed above the calf, and it holds a snubbed nosed laser pistol at its thigh. Accents of gold can be seen in a simple thin band around its upper arm and a thicker bracelet around its wrist. A dark furred ape-like humanoid stands above the pack with eyes lost in thought, closely following the directions of the Kif, while a bearded blonde human glances sideways toward the viewer.

CHANUR’S HOMECOMING (1986)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 30” X 18”

The biggest challenge painting alien creatures is finding ways to communicate information about the way they think via gestures available to their peculiar forms. 1/4

Train yourself to block transphobes and GenAI bros automatically to avoid risking your brain leaking out your ear when they speak

Transphobes are so fucking stupid holy shit

Had a comment on YouTube read “I know the show probably forced you to wear the protect trans lives patch but-“

And that’s as far as I read before autoblocking them on instinct lmao 🤣

I aspire to exude as much confidence as this little Kinesin protein strutting along a microtubule while hauling intracellular cargo.

Look at that little guy go! 🔬🧪

A meme of a summoning circle with the words "Catastrophic Gen Ai Bubble Collapse" in the center.

One day this stupid thing will work.

requiem for vanished birdsong

do this to your wolf friends

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

Low Tide

CATS/COSMO.GIF

過去絵

Sort of fascinated by the west/east alchemical goals. One is the creation of something to allow transmutation of materia, while the other is more focused on the transmutation of the self. Extrinsic vs intrinsic.

poop from a butt

Watercolor artwork depicting wormbo going down a slide.

Worm Slide
[ #art #oc #watercolor ]

Good night moon. Good night Mars. Good night rocket launching to Mars. Floodlights on the launchpad the night before an Atlas rocket sent the Mars Science Laboratory, also known as Curiosity, to the Red Planet. Update, November 29, 2011: She's on her way! Update, August 5, 2012: tonight she lands!

Goodnight Curiosity - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/aKQrug

This is Intuitive Machines' IM-2 lander that once again toppled over after trying to land on Mons Mutons near the lunar south pole. The picture had lots of detail hidden in the shadows which I brought out in processing. The picture was reprojected to a rectilinear image with a precise, photogrammetry derived camera model. Alt: Fisheye picture from the lunar surface taken by a camera attached to the top of the IM2 lander. The lander has fallen over on it's side and the legs point towards the small half lit earth in the far distance. The lander partially lies in the shade, which covers most of the foreground. A small hill is visible on the horizon. Original: flic.kr/p/2qQywoe Credit: Intuitive Machines Additional Processing: Simeon Schmauß

IM-2 Athena sideways on the Moon - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qRd6RU

Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

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Vyper deadlock is streaming making a tier list that makes no sense

What is Vyper even ranking?