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DEAR READER

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blake kathryn
Cosmic Funnies
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"

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JVL

@theartofmadeline
Not today Justin
Stranger Things
Today's Document
Xuebing Du

oozey mess
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her

Love Begins
KIROKAZE
dirt enthusiast
RMH
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda

Product Placement
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my one letterboxd credo is that i get good traction on my ghost story for christmas reviews. unfortunately they are all like this
here's some more for posterity
Schofield starts along the broken bridge, then climbs up onto the slim metal balustrade and starts inching downwards towards the waterline. It takes all his effort not to lose his balance and fall into the water below […]
I was talking about Sherlock Holmes with my cool weird 42 year old coworker the other day and he said that he had read other works by ACD but not any Sherlock Holmes. ACD is smiling down from heaven on his one and only true fan.
THE NICE GUYS (2016) dir. Shane Black
I’m not alone
ENYS MEN (2022)
affirmations they will not kill me at work today. it is not in my job description to get killed. if they did kill me at work that would be weird and probably not worth it for them
everyone please enjoy the m.r. james homage (read: rip-off) i have written for this week's english showstopper
The Cross with Seven Eyes
I can’t believe I’ve finally made it.
The view from the sanctuary of the ruined church is simply breath-taking. Through the ruined walls I can see verdant woods stretching to the horizon, slowly fading in the twilight. After days of driving through cities and towns, constantly surrounded by the roar of the motorway, the utter silence is unnerving. The only sound is my heart thundering in my ears.
However, I didn’t come here to sightsee. Clouds have covered the sun. The whistle of wind through missing stones raises goosebumps on my arms. The eyes of stained-glass saints drill into my back.
“You can do this,” I whisper to myself, the sound instantly caught by the breeze and thrown far away. “They’ll regret what they said to you…”
The journey here was long and treacherous. Years long. I wasn’t alone when I began, but now I stand, solitary, just inches away from my goal.
The altar before me is solid stone, cold to the touch and weathered by years of wind and rain. When I run my fingers along its surface, a patch the length of my forearm is smooth as silk.
The church, once the centre of a thriving community, is now an utter ruin of crumbling stone and rotting wooden beams. No living soul has crossed its threshold in decades.
All the texts I read claimed that I would find what I was searching for beneath the altar. With a deep breath, I crouch down and look beneath the stone. There! A silver cross carved with seven eyes. A shiver crawls up my spine. I can’t believe it’s still here. It should have been looted years ago.
This is it. “Just think of the articles they’ll write about you…” I whisper to myself. I reach out towards the central eye, set with a glimmering ruby. In the dim light, it looks like the eye of an insect.
As the tip of my index finger brushes against it, I hear footsteps behind me. When I turn around—
All ready to go at UK Games Expo, table 3A-165 this weekend!
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isn't it so crazy that 51 is divisible by 17. because 51 is such an ugly number that based on vibes alone i would 100% think it's prime 😭😭 like who in the world would even WANT to divide that shit? 17 and 3 i fucking guess...... 🤷
ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds
I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study
after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines
et voila
and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)
and now, the birds
Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus
Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius
hoo boy, ok *out of breath*
GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!
this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render
speaking of obnoxious coverts:
bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata
the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it
Madam....
birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female
pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr
*melts into goo*
BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus
genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??
nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)
in other news, I am losing my mind hairline
SHE'S DONE!!
Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis
my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on
this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏
*does a little jig*
BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos
the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise
ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!
Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹
aaaand another one bites the duck,
we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos
the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you
power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,
the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis
and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.
Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp
thanks for the reminder, kid
at long last, we've reached the end...
Bird number 14 out of 14,
The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius
thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.
i'll see y'all soon :')
the sewing machine is like if a horse and an inkjet printer had a child
Hullo! I used to run an LJ community for Biggles fans, and I think at some point in the dim and distant internet past of c. 2008 you posted some icons of the Worrals crew that you'd drawn. I love your art, and I was wondering if these were still available anywhere? I know a few more recent Worrals fans who would love to see them (as would I!)
Hello! Yes, back in 2008 I did post some Worrals icons on LJ. I wasn't sure if I still had the image files but it turns out that I do, although they're low-resolution and very much part of my wobbly early work.
So here for nostalgia's sake are Worrals, Frecks and Bill.
LOOK AT THEM!!! Thank you so much!!
goo goo dolls if they were in dune: and i don’t want the worm to see me