A single panel cartoon. Moominpapa leans over a newspaper on a table, holding an empty glass. Snufkin is seated on the opposite side of the table, head in hands, puffing on his pipe disconsolately. Moomonpapa says to Snufkin: 'Tell us all that'a happening out in the world!' Snufkin replies: 'Fuss and misery..'

Mood

An excerpt of an interview with art historian and critic David Sylvester which i think feels relevant to the environment artists find themselves in the digital/social media/algorithmic content age

Transformation

There is already a problem with headlines of being disingenuous and biased.

Now they can literally defang and change any headline of any subject they choose. Anti AI titles, anti google, anti ICE, government criticisms etc. etc. all turned neutral.

I am hoping this ends in a class action.

"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.

Watercolor sketch inspired by the song She Moved Through the Fair

Sketch for "she moved through the fair"

Working in two shows for this summer. Most updates are going out via Patreon or my newsletter 🐌

4th spread of The Nutcracker, illustrated by me, published by Walker Books, 2015. Ink, watercolour, and gouache on Arches hot pressed paper. Silhouette illustration with elements in colour. Seven swans fly amid the falling snow through the night sky over a river with a beautiful cityscape. The leading Swan, with a crown on its head, bears Clara and the Nutcracker Prince.

"You saved me," he said. "Not just from the Mouse King - from a terrible curse, too. Will you do me the honour of accompanying me to my home, the Land of Sweets?"

They travelled by swan over gold-flecked oceans & silver-edged cities. 4/

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#NHPNutcracker

A repeating pattern in blues and muted purples featuring hand-drawn plants and flowers intertwined with a dark blue hummingbird

"Insomnia"

I drew plants I pass on my evening walks home from work, in my little neighborhood. I wanted something quiet and dark for this, because sometimes we're just quiet, and dark.

#patterndesign

Galadriel meme. "what do you have to be anxious about?" Things that were, things that are, and some things that have not yet come to pass.

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

Small painting of a lovers eye surrounded by lichen and moss

Challenging myself to get back into the painting groove with some low stakes tiny paintings

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Illustration of a witch with the text "Witches Against AI"

The luddites were right. Destroy the machines!

Dreaming of Artio painting

Knight of the Drowned Table painting

Troll Queen painting

Forest Lovers painting

I love working on a good folklore piece.
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Watercolour painting of a couple in an embrace surrounded by thistles.

Love amongst the thistles. Softness between the thorns. A wee little painting I recently did.

#art #watercolour

If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.

The best pony there ever was. And yes, Sam does wear a hat in the books.

`You are a wise beast, and have learned much in Rivendell. Make your ways to places where you can find grass, and so come in time to Elrond's house, or wherever you wish to go’
Bill the pony, everyone,
and of course Samwise Gamgee, his dearest friend.

brennan lee mulligan, frowning

kermit the frog, scrunching his face into a frown

it’s the same image

No kings in this country!

...except a few of the nice people we found walking along the Venice Beach Boardwalk 👑

One of my favorite Tor.com/Reactor.com commissions

Colour mural of an ethereal figure in a birch tree forest

Just finished up a forest spirit mural for a dear friend 🥰

illustration of a shirt that says "Solar Sucks, the dinosaurs sacrificed their lives so we could burn them for fuel." the illustration is of a smoggy polluted city scape with burning tires and oil refineries

I completely forgot about this shirt design I did several years ago for a solar panel company for their instillation people, I think? The AD had a very good sense of humor about them.

This is so good

A goose wearing shades on a pink background with text that says "people pleasing is over, become unacceptable"

When I was little I thought the little pig who went to market was going shopping. It's was not.

I still think about this sometimes

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I am a modern day Luddite! You can be one too!

Traditional painted stained glass, depicting a rabbit on green glass.

There is something just so magical about painting on glass 🐌

It looks like a lot of fun. I am a big fan of Conan Exiles (even with all its jank) and it looks like took that game structure and really built on it well. My partner is playing dune at the moment and enjoying it. I will probably grab it this winter when life is a little slower 🤞🏻