Digital illustration of a lighthouse on a little island in the middle of the sea during a starry night.
#repostyourart day 9: light(house)
This is super old, from October 2023! I’ve sold a ton of prints of this one until I retired it from the shop last year. You can literally see how much
I’ve improved :) but I still love it!
#illustration #art
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are sitting with their backs towards each other, looking into opposite directions. Blue looks exhausted and annoyed, while Green is frowning with angry thoughts. Green, thinking: I can't be expected to know what you're mad about unless you tell me. What could you even be mad about? If I ask your opinion and you don't tell me the truth, that's on you! Green still continues to think, but raises an eyebrow as Blue turns around to kiss his neck affectionately. Green, thinking: It's not my job to guess whether you're lying ab- Green, speaking out loud: Aren't you mad at me? Blue, suddenly not weary at all but deeply baffled, looks at Green in confusion, while Green looks just as bewildered. Blue: What on earth would I be mad at you for? Green: I have no idea!
Reasons to own a cloak of moss:
- super stylish
- all natural
- absorbs rain
- good camouflage
- can blend in with moss goblins, and start a new life in the old forest as a twig witch or world weary hermit
A drawing of a little crying dragon looking up at the rain. The caption reads, "having a hard time does not make you a failure"
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A digital drawing of some smaller frames with landscapes in them, a big lower, and a vase of flowers. On top of it all is the text "let the wind carry you to where you're meant to go"
For #repostyourart prompt "soft"!
The cover of Jim Butcher's urban fantasy Dresden Files novel "White Night" as illustrated by Chris McGrath: beneath a cloudy night sky Harry Dresden, hat and duster donned and wizard staff in hand, stalks the drive of a looming gothic mansion all but swallowed in shadow, beyond which glitters the Chicago skyline in the darkling distance.
"Life's easier when you can write off others as monsters, as demons, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared. The thing is, you can't do that without becoming them, just a little."
—from Jim Butcher's "White Night" (Dresden Files, Book 9)
💙📚 #BookSky #SundaySentence
A digital drawing of some orange flowers and round leaves on a dark background, surrounded by sparkles.
#repostyourart day 11! Prompt is "sparkles"!
A photo of four library books stacked on a shelf in front of a tidy row of more books. The library books from top to bottom are: "Foundation and Earth" by Isaac Asimov, "Alien Clay" by Adrian Tchaikovsky, "Sorcery and Small Magics" by Maiga Doogy, and "Who's Afraid of Gender?" by Judith Butler.
Today was library day! Tchaikovsky's back—I didn't get to him last time. Asimov's here on probation ("Foundation's Edge" annoyed me).
–Isaac Asimov's "Foundation and Earth"
–Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Alien Clay"
–Maiga Doogy's "Sorcery and Small Magics"
–Judith Butler's "Who's Afraid of Gender?"
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Bookshops are: Travel Agents Rocket ships Time machines Mystical portals Safe
I’m in the shop all by myself today - so let’s have the best day ever, just to prove to the others that I do do some work.
It's time to vote for April's #BlueskyBookclub book!
Like any of the posts below to vote for your choice! Feel free to vote for multiple options.
Please repost, let's get as many people on board as we can!
Voting will close on April 10th!
💙📚 #booksky 📚💙
A drawing of a water dragon flying through rain towards a rainbow. The caption reads, "I will keep finding joys to carry on for"
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A juvenile cormorant resting in their usual place after a bout of fishing. This cormorant is sat on a protruding tree stump in water. Head turned to the right after I stood on a twig and was spotted.
Sometimes the Cormorant is black in colour. At other times, brown or with a hint of indigo. If lucky, you will see all of these colours at the same time. Then, there is the structure of the feathers. A cormorant. #UKWildlife #BirdOfTheDay #Feathers #Birds #Photography #ECK #WildlifePhotography
The cover of T.J. Klune's cozy fantasy novel "The House in the Cerulean Sea" as illustrated by Red Nose Studio: a red brick house with a turret rising above its roof and a detached guest house tucked into its shadow sits upon the very edge of a whimsical island cliff stretching out over the titular cerulean sea. A rounded Volkswagon van waits at a precarious angle in the zigzagging drive, beside trees bowed almost double from long years in the coastal winds. Sunset, or perhaps sunrise, paints the oceanic horizon with golden warmth and streaks the clouds above magenta and violet.
'"What's the point of living if you only do it how others want you to?"'
—Zoe, from T.J. Klune's "The House in the Cerulean Sea"
💙📚 #BookSky #SundaySentence
A digital drawing of a loosely drawn landscape with expressive strokes, depicting two little cotttages among trees in front of two white mountains.
#repostyourart day 5: mountain
This was also for #pleinairpril last year!!!
a semi-abstract painting of yellow flowers in front of a green background
#repostyourart day 3: spring! one of my first experiments in this style, which made me fall in love with painting flowers 🌼
#gouache #natureart
That's home. That's us.
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
A photo: a reader holds up a paperback library book in front of shelves of more books. The library book itself is Isaac Asimov's science fiction Foundation novel "Foundation's Edge" with cover design by Brock Book Design Co., featuring a geometric white vector shape on a background of black crosshatched with an undulating yellow grid pattern.
Today's book: "Foundation's Edge" (Foundation, Book 4) by Isaac Asimov
My local library now has all of the Foundation books! I've already started this one, and find myself missing the Encyclopedia entries (and the Michael Whelan covers). Ah, well. Onwards!
💙📚 #BookSky #CurrentlyReading #NowReading
a painting with lots of flowers in bloom. the colours are vivid and summery.
bloom, for #repostyourart by the genius @byjessicaelena.bsky.social
I can't imagine there's anything controversial in a rundown on how dialogue and sound effects were recorded for a 1960's TV show (at least those seem to be the missing topics, going by the chapter's concluding summary). My best guess is it was torn out for a photo or donated to the library damaged.
I get to tell the librarian about another damaged library book. Boldly going through William Shatner and Chris Kreski's "Star Trek Memories" and a whole page—page 181/182—has been torn out.
Maybe let's not tear out pages of library books.
💙📚 #BookSky
The cover of editor Alice Wong's anthology "Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century" as designed by Angela Carlino of colorful overlapping triangles on a white field.
The cover of Ursula K. Le Guin's speculative science fiction novel "The Dispossessed" as illustrated by Muhammad Fatchurofi: two planets—a red and yellow, and a blue and white—orbit in tandem in a great starry expanse; lines of matching color sweep out from each planet like radio waves; and where they meet a figure stands divided, one face toward the people of his home planet and one toward the people of his neighboring planet, faces alternating blue and red, yet within himself he stands small, blue and white like the righthand planet.
Another slow reading month for me (although I swear March started just last week). Favorite March reads:
–Alice Wong's "Disability Visibility"
–Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Dispossessed"
💙📚 #BookSky
Some advice:
Be kind.
Collect books, not enemies.
Leave the world a better place.
Stay on the good side of the old gods and you will forever find peace in the mossy dark places of the world.
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue approaches a mysterious pile of blankets that is almost as tall as a fox. Blue: Green? What's this blanket pile here? Blue sits down to study the blanket pile more closely as Green's voice is audilbe from within. Green, unseen from the blanket pile: It's me. Blue: Are you cold? Green: Not anymore. Blue: Okay. Do you need anything? Green: Get in here.
a sketchbook spread with playful shapes on the left and a landscape on the right, with yellow flowers and a forest.
saw these flowers on a hike and had to paint them! i really like these colours.
#sketchbook #sketchbookartist #gouache #landscapeart #nature
A drawing of a smiling gecko holding on to a sunflower. The caption reads, "maybe today's a recharge day rather than a problem solving day"
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A photo of a one-eyed ginger tabby cat curled up beside a reader with a book open in their lap, forelegs perched on their thigh and head up ready to receive pets.
Reading buddy Bagheera requests pets this #Caturday. He has no care that All The Things are going down in the hooman's book ("Proven Guilty" by Jim Butcher).
💙📚 #BookSky #CatSky
A drawing of a bee resting on a hydrangea flower. The caption reads, "Feeling exhausted is not a failing. Please be patient with yourself."
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A digital drawing of a journal page inspired composition of papers, images and stickers arranged on a page: photos of flowers, a mountain with a flag on it, and leaves, and the text "life is so much better with you around"
A drawing of a black cat smiling up at cherry falling cherry blossoms. The caption reads, "there's still a lot of good in the world"
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Vinyl sticker of a crow wearing a cowboy hat saying “yee-caw”
Artwork of a crow wearing a cowboy hat saying “yee-caw”
Vinyl stickers of a crow wearing a cowboy hat saying “yee-caw”
One day my husband said to me, “you should draw a crow wearing a cowboy hat that is saying “yee-CAW,” and that is how this sticker came to be. It was only when I was making the shop listing for him that I realized he came with the perfect name: C(r)owboy. 🤠
#cuteart #artbusiness #birdart