Toned paper with Graphite of varying grades and white pencil. Dry, flat plain stretches into the distance, decorated with an assortment of upside-down crucified warped humanoids

#DarkArt #WeirdArt #StayStrangeArt

Work in progress pen drawing of a sitting being covered in biomechanical growths while it raises one hand in a gentle pointing pose while the other is on its lap. The lowered hand is flowing into a dripping space looking fluid. In the background are stone structures, some floating

Made some progress on the piece I work during lunch/breaks at work on in office days
9x12 pen on paper
#darkart ##TraditionalArt #penandpaper

“Cahm wid meh iff you wahnt to smell nice.”

When I get new eucalyptus and verbena air freshener for the house:

If you're looking to preorder a SFF poetry collection, I've got you!

If you order from Inkwood, you can snag a signed copy! (Instructions below.)

Otherwise, available worldwide from your favorite bookslingers!

Howdy y’all,

I had to unexpectedly replace my phone this week, and to help cover it I’m opening up three painted token commissions at $25, the cheapest I’ve offered in a long time.

Feel free to share if you’re so inclined :)

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Mugshot of a person not good at math.

I didn't necessarily pick this career path to avoid doing math specifically, but today's work is requiring more math than I am qualified for.
God, I should've done better in school.
Happy Friday, mongrels.

cover art by Abigail Larson for "The Labyrinth of Souls" by Leslie Vedder. Image shows three kids and a ghost cat with a labyrinth in the background

Cover art by Abigail Larson for "The Nowhere Beast" by Leslie Vedder. Image shows a young girl looking over her shoulder at a large shadowy beast faded into the background. Two ghost cats look scared in the foreground

Looking for a ~good~ magical boarding school book series for your kids/nieces/nephews? Look no further 🖤
The Labyrinth of Souls series is suitable for middle grade readers who like creepy stuff, magic, and mayhem!

A brush and ink illustration of a creature that vaguely resembles a unicorn, made from human arms, face, and monstrous parts as well. It's prancing merrily through a forest of craggly trees embedded with human skulls. There's a shrine to a king who killed a serpent in the background too.

It's #NationalUnicornDay!
Does this count?

This was based on a dream I had about seeing a unicorn, and the closer it got to me, the weirder it got.
This is from 2019, brush and ink.

Awesome.

I’m down to *3* Godzilla, Shane Black, and bagel prints, and *4* coffees!

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I highly recommend that everyone follow artists. If you do, your feed is filled with art every day. Real, original art. It's bonkers that you can even have this. Amazing. Undeniably cool.

And then support those artists, when you can, because that helps the delight continue.

Photo of a fluffy gray kitten grabbing and licking the rim of a beer bottle.

Yet another photo of the same fluffy, gray kitten living the same bottle of beer.

I miss my drinking buddy.

NOTE: she’s absolutely fine. We just live in different places now.

Photo of a sheet of wood stained with a sallowed kaleidoscope of colors from the sheets of parchment stained on it. Strips of spirally-curled tape hang along the top edge.

A lot of my work takes place at the easel and drafting table, but there's also a lot of time spent hunched on the studio floor staining and prepping sheets of paper on this 24"x36" sheet of pine wood that has, over the years, come to like my abstract period.

Thank you, Kaye.

The mug is turning out more Tiffany blue than the seafoam I’d planned, but I ain’t mad about it..
About halfway done here.
Still need to finish the mug, do the dish, hair, cappuccino foam and text.
WIP.
Oil on canvas. 23”x36”.

The Monster.
Progress and finished illustration.
Charcoal, pencil and oil on toned paper.
11”x17”.
FOR SALE. DM for purchase inquiries.
#Horrorart #Illustration #art

Getting into the spirit and trying to create a print in time for Halloween.
We’ll see how it goes.

What Halloween-loving girl doesn’t want a fuzzy, black cardigan with lace trim?
I rendered the head in a harder, lighter 6H lead while the top is being done in a much softer, much darker 5B.
I still don’t know what I’m doing with the skirt yet.

Got the creases and wrinkles mapped out, now I'm adding the texture. Whether it's corduroy or tweed, it's something more dense and decorative. So this entails sharpening an H pencil as sharp as I can get it and pulling lines over the topography of the coat. This gives the coat some personality.

Sanding and buffing a small sheet of 300lb cold press watercolor paper to give it a deckled edge and transparency around the border before I put my first washes of color down.
I’m not sanding the entire surface, just the edges.

Early stages of August Gallows: Over the Moon.
2024.
I laid down a charcoal base and work with graphite over that, using an eraser for the highlights instead of white pencil.

The Vault-Keeper.
2024.
Oil and pencil on canvas.
11”x14”.
SOLD.
I’m still dying to do an Uncle Creepy piece. I’m not sure if I’d do it in the same style or go black and white.

I softened the shadows and gave her gown more jewel-like hues by making the shadows a deeper veridian green and laying warmer tones over them.
Pencil layers are usually applied in thin veils of color. I probably had 10-12 layers of very transparent pencil for the finished piece.

Some shots from the barn today.

A little girl stands before an anthropomorphic tree offering a peach that will ultimately lead to her demise.

Peach-Flavored Hearts.
Unfinished study. 2014.
Watercolor. 18”x24”
A little allegory about straying off the path and strangers with sugary words and bitter intent. The ground littered with the tiny shoes of his previous victims.
I still love the concept, but this composition did work for me.

Fall 2023. Sitting with a nearly-finished piece in the studio.
I’d originally painted this background and border for my The Last Unicorn commission, but as it progressed, I decided to go another route with that and use this for something else.
Yes, I use styrofoam plates for palettes.

I went through a few different designs for the moon. Some more playful and cartoonish, while others were more stoic and realistic. I found a happy medium in between.

The lettering is done in oil.
I wanted it to have a different weight and texture from the figures in pencil.

Private commission.
2024.
Prismacolor pencil on paper.
3”x5”.
The progress of layering tons of pencil to get those pallid, cotton candy hues.