Rat King and other things Kia ora koutou!

Rat King and other things Broadening the open.substack.com/pub/johnatha...

A skull with a helm and visor raised is surrounded by dark wings in a circular pattern with text in Enochian Angelic script that reads Bahal Tahl or Dark Wings.

Here's a piece that I did as the cover for Strange as Angels Volume 1: Hell knights and Morbid Angels. It is quite a bit more embellished from the black and white cover piece. The text reads Bahal Tahl or Dark Wings in Enochian Angelic script.

It did! I had a lot of fun

Skull with the Bleak Forest Sigil (A tree-shaped cross rising from an infinity symbol).

OK, sometimes you just gotta put yourself out there and get on with it 🙂. Wellington Zinefest is today, and I have a stall. Gonna go ahead and put this out there.

RIP Dr. Goodall. Thank you for everything and for being such an awesome human. I am ever so grateful that we got to see her speak here in Wellington several years back.

Wellington Zinefest next weekend. For the first time in 11 years since I've been here, I'll actually be selling some of my own stuff. I am excited/nervous.

A skull with a medieval helm with raised visor grins out from a mass of dark wings encircling it, framed in a triangle within a black circle, and the words Bahal Talh or dark wings surround it. Cheers!

Kia ora koutou! I'm getting ready for a group show at Covenant Gallery. In keeping with the season, the theme is Occulture. Here's one of my four entries - Bahal Tahl or dark wings in Enochian script. I do love the spooky season. Cheers!

Wednesday morning here in Aotearo, a New Zealand. No rapture, but then again, we are left off of a lot of maps :)

It's Tuesday here in New Zealand. No rapture yet. Though we do get left off a lot of maps, so maybe we were missed. :)

Mission accomplished. Disney+ cancelled.

Adventurers discuss their course of action as an army of orcs spills forth from a skull-faced mountain. Above it all, a Dragon flies over and a castle floats in the clouds.

Just saw this pop up on someone's Pintrest board as part of a Dungeon Synth collection. I did this one around 2011 or 12 for James Maliszewski of Grognardia. It was a tip of the hat to David C. Sutherland III's artwork. I always loved how DCSIII had these wacky little things going on in his work.

Absolutely agree.

Hex map for the Escape the Bleak Forest solo ttrpg. This is the play area on which you lay randomly drawn hex tiles as you explore the Bleak Forest

Still very much a work in progress. I have renamed the solo game to Escape the Bleak Forest, and the multi-player game will continue as Beyond the Bleak Forest. The solo game can be used as a character generator for the multiplayer game. I work slowly, but I am having fun working on it. #bleakforest

Heh, I always check. Coming from punk to black metal, I love the sound but am totally suspect of the politics.

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The Cover of Agonist by Latitudes. Depicts a boar facing off against a dog.

In rotation today. Good stuff.

A skull-faced helm with ram's horns exudes octopoid tentacles and wields a flail.

Another in my knights and knaves series. I give you Vampyropoda. Cheers and happy gaming! #horrorart #osr #occultart #occult

I'm really digging Alien Earth. Three episodes in, and I really enjoy the glimpse into the wider Alien universe. I understand that it may not be everyone's cuppa and that is ok, but I'm here for it.

Tyto, a barn owl-headed hobgoblin knight. He is wearing goblin armour with a wicked man in the moon shield.

Meet Tyto - my latest edition to my knights and knaves. I feel like he is more of a hobgoblin rather than the more devilish knights I've done. I've got a few more things to do with him, but prints will be made available at Covenant in the not-too-distant future. Cheers!

Juggerknight

Skeletal knight takes to the field of battle against a horde of orcs.

Death Takes the Field. I recently sold the original of this piece at my solo show - Strange Alchemy. I love it when my art finds a new home :). #ostensiblecat #artsale #darkfantasy #wellingtonartist

Odin at the Yggdrasil with his wolves Freki and Geri and his Ravens Huginn and Muninn

Odin at the Yggdrasil by me :)

Beyond the Bleak Forest Sigil based off the Leviathan Cross. It has a stylized conifer tree rising out of an infinity symbol.

After my solo gallery show, I've been in sort of a post-project funk and trying to get my groove back. I need to work on Escape the Bleak Forest/Beyond the Bleak Forest. I have a lot of ideas for things, just not the spark atm. It'll come, but post-project blues is a thing. #ostensiblecat #BtBF

pig-faced orcs were the popular depiction of this nemesis back in the early days of Dungeons and Dragons. So, in honour of my gaming roots back in the old days, I've made my pig-faced orc piece available as stock art for you to use in your own projects. Cheers!

Anyone need a pig-faced orc illustration for their project? I have a royalty-free version up on my DriveThruRPG and Ko-Fi shops. legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5347...

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I just bought a copy of it. Great stuff! Thanks for the recommendation! Aroha nui no Aotearoa.

Nationwide protest September 1st. Find a protest near you for September 1st, Monday, Labor Day. Go to findaprotest.info And help spread the info about the protests by posting nonstop on every platform. We need 3.5% to show up. SHOW UP!!! Resist!

if u have artists in ur group and they post art its important to actually tell them that u like it and interact with it b/c man it hits me occasionally how demoralizing it is when you have people who dont bother looking at your shit unless you prod them to

Ostensible Cat Games Banner depicting several pieces of my artwork such as a mountain troll, the King in Yellow, Odin, and angel, a wolfwere, and Hecate

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Sweet. Great stuff! I picked up a digital copy. Cheers!

Copy of Strange as Angels Art Zine Volume 2: Gods and Monsters - Ostensible Cat's Ko-fi Shop Kia ora koutou! This is the second volume of Strange as Angels, an art zine of my recent works. Volume 2: Gods and Monsters showcases some pieces I've...

Digital version of Strange as Angels Vol 2: Gods and Monsters is up on my ko-fi page. ko-fi.com/s/4a46776d91