Catriona // Anaïs

I have no intention of it seeing the light of day rn but it’s nice to finally have a creative outlet that doesn’t make my brain cave in with self-punishment

I may not be drawing much these days but I love writing my book 💗

The creature carrying Elizabeth from Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein

Let us be monsters together 🍁

YouTube video by GraveyardTale The cramps--Way I Walk---78'

The Cramps - The Way I Walk (Live at Napa State Mental Hospital)

YouTube video by AdamAntVEVO Adam & The Ants - Antmusic

Adam Ant is 71 today. Hard to emphasise how seismic this was in playgrounds across the country in 1980. For a period he was as big as any act has been. Was he the perfect pop star? I think so. It couldn't last but if you were there you'll never forget it.

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YouTube video by Patti Smith - Topic Privilege (Set Me Free)

RIP Peter Watkins. Here's Patti Smith with the opening number from "Privilege"
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#vampirehunterd

Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call” Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

Nude I

Nude I 1913
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a simple digital drawing colored in distressed halftones. a white kitten hisses with its back up and tail puffed. There's a red and pink background behind it, with text that says "Tame as a kitten" and "if you can't scratch, don't hiss"

💥Tame as a Kitten💥
#art

4 drawings of black bryony vines

drawings about love and longing

comic page in bright colors and scratchy lines. panel one: the back of a person with red hair, in a long hallway with columns full of leaves "In my suffering I found a door." panel two: a close up of the person's eyes. "down a hallway the size of my hand, flush with leaves, I traced the veins of my desire and waited." panel three: a pink gloved hand holding roots of a dead plant with a clot of dirt "my life had shrunk to the size of it." panel four: all in blue, a person sleeping in a bed, "I became the arteries and architect of all I wanted, the world rushed in to meet me." panel four: berries, leaves. panel five: a close up of the person's face, nose running blood. panel six: the person next to the doorway, subsumed in pink light. "and I passed through."

thinking about chronic pain.

Two pencil sketches of the tennis player Naomi Osaka. Text reads: I have the one and only Billie Jean Bling Labubu

One of the nicer pages from sketching while watching the US Open 🎾

an illustration of angry harpies sitting over a man’s body. one is holding up his severed head. swirls of black and mustard yellows are in the background

very much on point mood wise, curt asked for harpies ripping men to pieces 😇

It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here!

Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!

And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.

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A knight mounted on a black horse in the lower right corner stabs his lance into the flank of a large and intricately detailed dragon.

A boy dressed in flamboyant garb is mounted on a dappled gray horse, carrying a large banner

An illustration of Achilles kneeling over Patroclus in a vivid green wood.

Jason in a flamboyant trojan helmet, holding the golden fleece aloft on his spear.

Works by Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone, a pair of identical twin sisters who worked (primarily in gouache) by passing their shared illustrations back and forth. Together they illustrated hundreds of ads, logos, and over 100 books, including Dodie Smith’s 101 Dalmations.

#historyofillustration

line——— Anxiety as script, shape, and destiny

I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line

Illustrations by the great Noel Sickles for the 1955 Reader's Digest Books edition of Alan Le May's The Searchers

cover of Creem Magazine June 1982 - Joan looking fierce in black leather with red fringe

Joan Jett, 1982

Two pencil sketches of the tennis player Naomi Osaka. Text reads: I have the one and only Billie Jean Bling Labubu

One of the nicer pages from sketching while watching the US Open 🎾

Sketched Trent Reznor to pay homage to my favorite music genre The Static <3

Sun Blot (1), oil and acrylic on sculpted panel. Video attached of the 3d black out hole.

Alice Rose Provensen (1918-2018) & Martin Provensen (1916-1987)

H.R. Giger's design for Debbie Harry's Now I Know You Know music video.

Tattoo on arm thats a pair of stork scissors with some red ribbon

New tatt ✂️🧵

paint marker cats

black and white illustration of moomin, a small hippo like creature stands at the bottom of a hill wearing a shawl blanket around his shoulders and holding a gas lantern. on top of the hill other whimsical characters are dancing around the midwinter bonfire, the moon is full and bright in the distance

the moomins went folk horror

Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy? “She painted a very clear picture about survival.”

A really excellent article, on imagination over blind optimism and collective preparedness over despair. Flipping from blind optimism to despair feels like two sides of the same coin, but Butler showed us a long time ago that there are other paradigms, even when collapse is a real possibility.

Stumpy little drawing of self with the text *COMPLETELY DISSOCIATED FROM MY ARTISTIC OUTPUT AND IDENTITY* Zoom in on face, drooling now. “HA HA MAN GOOD THING NONE OF THIS MATTERS. PHEW! HA HA”

Ha ha