Emma Kirsopp

Drawing Breath | Emma | Substack The art and story of things. Click to read Drawing Breath, by Emma, a Substack publication. Launched 2 years ago.

firing up my Substack account again after a short / fraught hiatus... emmakirsopp.substack.com its a place where I post art and writing of today and many years ago

stunning

screenshot that reads Elon Musk almost needed SFPD wellness check after ‘breakdown,’ getting booed at Dave Chappelle show ‘He got to a point where he locked himself in his office, was so upset’ that Twitter employees feared he would hurt himself, the author of a new book says about the billionaire

Think we’ve forgotten about the time that Elon was booed so badly by fans of Dave Chapelle (of all people) that he locked himself in his office and Twitter employees considered calling the cops to do a wellness check.

What I’m saying is we can go harder.

Happy #worldbookday hoping that @angelaslatter.bsky.social 's The Crimson Road would just magically materialise itself for me this morning, but looks like I have to put the effort in and go outside and buy a copy... also determined to buy it from a physical shop, not from the online evil empire

A loose and wet into wet watercolour rendering of a folkloric figure with a stag skull head drifts through Holly and other English countryside vegetation

All platforms cropping this image. But #bluesky doing better than most.

Exploring watercolour and scale.
#watercolour #folklore #nonAI

Responding to the purple art post. Here are a couple from February 2024 - a kelpie and another malignant sprite

Hope you’re ok

The Villager | Tom Cox | Substack New writing on landscape, music, books, folklore, psychedelia, the natural world and other misty magical things outside the mainstream. Click to read The Villager, by Tom Cox, a Substack publication w...

My publishers are now seven (!) months overdue paying me. I've been kindly asked by a few readers how they can help.

Best of all is a paid subscription to my Substack: tomcox.substack.com

If you cannot afford that, I've set up this link on my site: tom-cox.com/support-toms...

Thank you!
Tom

Beautiful

Watercolour painting depicting a Eurasian wren perched on a branch

#eurasianwren #watercolour #wildlifeart

Loose watercolour sketch of a winged humanoid figure, moving and dancing against a diffused background

Pencil and watercolour sketch of a dragons face, three quarter profile

Cleaning out iPhone shots of work from the past twelve months or so. Hopefully 2025 brings more painting and drawing time

👏👏👏

Ink illustration depicting the god Mercury as a celestial body, holding his staff with winged sandals and helmet

Ink drawing depicting a dragon as a celestial body with the sun, moon and stars intertwining with its wings

Black and white Ink illustration depicting the four fold plant, with crystals as the roots, water as the leaves and stem, air around the blossoms and the seeds as fire

When I was growing up I had wanted to be an illustrator more than anything. Didn’t pan it quite that way, as life is life, but visiting home I rediscovered I my very first (and only) illustration job I had age 17 - Brian Keats’ “Betwixt Heaven” and Earth -I’d totally forgotten about.

I love this. Missing a cat from over 20 years ago, they do really stick in your heart

Cover of edited book 'Palaeontology in Public'

A new edited book by our colleague @chrismanias.bsky.social 'Palaeontology in Public' with @uclpress.bsky.social #openaccess uclpress.co.uk/book/palaeon...

Thank you!

❤️ she’s so delightful

Love her little cowlick tuft

Loose watercolour sketch depicting a green Dragon’s face breathing fire as bright flames circle its head

Trying out the alt text on images

Thank you! That’s helpful guidance

Sketchbook scribblings from the past few weeks… dragons and shapeshifting things

#fabtasyart #shapeshifters #fairytales

My nanna had a sneeze that seemed to come from every direction at once. Out of nowhere. It was capable of stopping hearts 5km away

Yay welcome to Bluesky!

This will be excellent.

Love the piece. Novel is a thing of beauty.

Haha. Yes

I so wanted to be Dot (still do, most mornings)

I remember Dot and the red kangaroo!!!

This is just amazing. I would have buggered that up on the first cut!

Granny Kettlebridge An early excerpt from a freshly completed novel

This slice of my upcoming novel wasn’t free to read before. But now, as a little New Year’s Day gift, it is: tomcox.substack.com/p/granny-ket...