Brittle Bird (Shannon)

Drawing done in a realistic style with a white pencil on black paper of a figure with the head of a got caressing a skull. The lighting is dramatic following a chiaroscuro style. The drawing is inspired by a 1635 painting by Georges de la tour

“Desecration of the Magdalen” 2025
After Georges De La Tour’s “The Repentant Magdalen” 1635-1640
12x16
White pencil on black paper

#DarkArt #Gothic #TraditionalArt #ArtHistory #MasterCopy #WhitePencil #BlackPaper #Chiaroscuro #GothArt #BlackArt #Drawing #DarkArtist

Drawing of a woman in a fancy dress with the head of a deer holding a wolf’s head on a platter. The drawing is done with white pencil on black paper and framed with a black mat with a white border. The frame is ornate baroque style and hand painted by the artist to be black and silver. The silver in the frame compliments the white pencil of the drawing.

Recent drawing in a custom hand painted frame. Absolutely love it!

#Drawing #Art #FineArt #DarkArt #HorrorArt #Oddities #Gothic #TraditionalArt #ColoredPencil #WhitePencil #BlackPaper #CustomFrame

Thank you!

Oil painting of a dead mouse lying on its sad. It is painted in a dark umber with. Reductive method and left half finished on purpose. The mouse’s face and front paw is fully rendered while the rest of his body remains sketchy aside from some texture on his tail. The background is abstract with large paint strokes and drips

Poor sweet little mouse 🐁

Another quick 45min study trying to find balance between finished and unfinished, life and death.

#OilPainting #Art #DarkArt #GothicArt #SpeedPaint #OilOnPanel #StillLife #EmergingArtist

Oil painting in an expressive style of a dead hummingbird lying on its stomach. The painting is done on a wood panel and has a hand built frame around it. The frame and highlights in the bird are done in gold oil paint

Oil painting in an expressive style of a dead hummingbird lying on its stomach. The painting is done on a wood panel and has a hand built frame around it. The frame and highlights in the bird are done in gold oil paint. This photo shows how the gold paint shimmers in the light

An experiment with gold oil paint and building my own panels and frames

#OilPainting #Painting #Art #FineArt #TraditionalArt #BirdArt

Hi! I’m Shannon. I’m a super small artist who does dark, classically inspired art. All of these are white pencil on black paper.

I’d love to meet some more artists on here! 🖤

Wow I love your work!

Human artist, physical drawing

One piece to convince people to follow you

Image of a painting of a woman holding a baby in front of a window. She is backlit and mostly in shadow. The details of the window are visible although you cannot see through the open window, it is only light and fog. She is breastfeeding her baby who reaches up and grabs at her neck. She is leaned back against a wall and appears utterly exhausted but serene

I’ll Tell You How the Sun Rose: Part Two
36x48in
I was overly ambitious and tried to paint this during the baby’s nap time/after she went to bed. I was up until 4am and there’s still so much I wish I could’ve finessed.

#OilPainting #FineArt #ContemporaryArt #Motherhood #Painting #Art #FemaleArtist

Thank you! I really loved painting this one, I think it shows

Photo of an oil painting of a woman seated in front of a window holding a baby. She holds a bottle in front of the baby that the baby reaches for and it seated on a bench. Most of the background of obscured by shadow and painted black. The window is open with only light showing through and there is a decorative window pane with circular glass inlays behind her

Absolutely in love with my recent painting.
“I’ll Tell You How the Sun Rose: Part One”
36x48in
Oil on canvas

#OilPainting #Painting #OilOnCanvas #Chiaroscuro #Tenebrism #Motherhood #Art #FineArt #ContemporaryArt #WomenInTheArts

Thank you! It was so much fun to do! I’m looking forward to doing more like it in the future

The pink on the nose is so precious!

This is awesome

A small painting of a woman turning her face up to the sky and throwing her arms out behind her as if about to take flight. The painting is on a small framed panel and extends onto the frame so that the whole piece is cohesive. It is painted in a boxy impressionistic style with many vibrant greens and yellows

I’m learning how to prep and build my own frames and panels. I think I like painting on harder surfaces like this more than canvas. But also, incorporating the frame into the painting as a whole is so much fun

#OilPainting #FineArt #HumanArt #TraditionalArt #Painting #BlueSkyArt #OilOnPanel

Ooh that’s a good idea! I’ll definitely do that the next time I do one of these

Thank you!!

For sure! Definitely on my list for this year

I love this! I recently tried painting on a panel and frame too and it was actually really fun

Image of a painting of a woman standing with her hands on her hips looking up at the sky against an abstract background. A great blue heron is in the corner of the painting above her. The background and woman are painted with a sepia tone wash and the blue heron is painted in color. The feather of the heron are dripping down over the background and there are blue and grey splashes all over the painting

My friend Kat and the great blue heron. Inspired by an afternoon picnic on the beach

#OilPainting #BirdArt #WomenInArt #PaintingsOfWomen #FineArt #TraditionalArt #EmergingArtist

Image of an oil painting resting on an easel of a nude woman’s back. She is reclining on fabric with her arm raised. She has bold ornamental tattoos over her entire back, arms, and legs. Image is reminiscent of vintage photographs of tattooed women at freak shows.

Wet painting, bad picture, but added some awesome decorative tattoos to this lady. Credits for tattoo design go to @froggie.tattoos on instagram. Check out their work if you like this style!

Thank you! ☺️

A drawing framed in an ornate black frame with silver filigree. The drawing is a copy of artemisia Gentileschi’s Susanna and the Elders with Susanna as a deer and wolves as the elders drawn in white pencil on black paper

Framed and dropped off my first piece for an art show in over 10 years

#FineArt #EmergingArtist #WhitePencil #ColoredPencil #ArtShow #Drawing #TraditionalArt

Thank you! I really like this one too! They took it down for extreme gore and violence of all things. Over half the stuff I post over there gets taken down so it’s just not worth the stress anymore. Happy to say it’s been a lot friendlier here!

Image of a black and white rendition of whistlers “symphony in white no 1” done in white pencil on black paper. The image is zoomed in to focus on the bottom of the woman’s dress standing on top of the wolf skin rug

Another close up of my rendition of Whistler’s “symphony in white no. 1” 1862 the wolf’s face in this one is so interesting to me because of the look of shock. Highly recommend seeing the original in DC if you’re able to

#CloseUp #FineArt #TraditionalArt #WhitePencil #BlackPaper #ArtHistory

Painting of a nude woman facing away from the viewer seated on a chair draped in cloth. There painting is done with solely a sepia toned layer and has a solid black background

Image of a sepia toned oil painting on an easel of a nude woman’s back. She is seated on a chair draped in cloths and is turned away from the viewer, holding her head in her hands. The background is solid black and forms an archway over her

Nudity in art is not inherently sexual despite what censorship on other platforms insists.
Sharing her here since I can’t share her anywhere else

#OilPainting #FineArt #NSFWart #FigurativeArt #StopCensoringArt #nsfw #NudeArt #TastefulNudes #Artist #Realism #VintageNudes #Imprimatura #EmergingArtist

Thank you!

Close up picture of a drawing of two snarling wolf faces next to each other. Your can see the ear of a deer in the bottom left corner as well as a hand signaling stop and a hand pulling at one wolf’s bottom lip. The drawing is done with white pencil on black paper

Drawing the fur and texture in these guys made me never want to draw another wolf again. So of course I’m working on drawings with more wolves

#Drawing #FineArt #BlueskyArt #WolfArt #ColoredPencil #WhitePencil #BlackPaper #Surrealism #Realism #DarkArt

It was! So relaxing and meditative

Thank you! Me too!