Max Jordan

Watercolors, Illustration, & Sketches

[ghosthouseart]

hello!! the knitted crab you just posted is the best thing I've ever seen. Do you happen to have a pattern for it? I'm happy to buy it myself, I'm just trying to figure out where! ty!

Hi! I don't have a pattern for it unfortunately, I tend to make up patterns for things like this as I go, and use a lot of trial and error 😅 basically I knit a flat double hexagon like this: ⬡⬡ <- (imagine them attached to each other by one side), and sewed up the other sides to make the crab body, like a little pillow. the legs are all individual tubes that I stuffed and sewed on at the end.

I'm bad about checking my notes, but I'd love to see if you try making your own crab!!

[ghosthouseart]

Blueberry hat and crab, made for a friend's baby

[image description: photo of a blueberry shaped hat knitted in chunky yarn, and a soft orange knitted crab. the second photo is a closeup photo of just the crab. /end i.d.]

[ghosthouseart]

taking flight

[image description: a watercolor painting of a sunset in vivid orange, pink, and purple, over silhouetted trees. several v-shaped, bright orange birds fly out of the clouds, looking almost like slivers of sky. /end i.d.]

[ghosthouseart]

sense of home

[image description: a long vertical watercolor painting of a sky full of soft pink and blue clouds, over a dark silhouetted road, trees, telephone wires, and a church steeple. in the middle of the silhouetted street is a small house outlined in glowing yellow; above, in the sky, is a glowing crescent moon. /end i.d.]

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after an evening rain

[image description: watercolor painting of a double rainbow in a pink sky above silhouetted trees. /end i.d.]

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beach that makes you cold

[image description: a watercolor painting of a beach in winter; snow drifts cover patches of the sand, and the sky is a pale gray over darker gray mountains and a turquoise stripe of ocean. /end i.d.]

[ghosthouseart]

blue hour

[image: a watercolor painting of a crescent moon in a deep blue evening sky, over silhouettes of a house, trees, and telephone wires. /end i.d.]

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sunset walk

[image description: a watercolor painting of a path at sunset; the grassy areas on either side of the path are covered in snow, and there are several unlit lampposts along one side. there is a stripe of bright pink and orange cloud low in the sky, reflected in the water and ice along the path. /end i.d.]

[ghosthouseart]

Snowy window

[image description: a watercolor painting of a window framed by translucent pink curtains. the trees and ground outside are coated in snow. there is a potted plant to one side of the curtains. /end i.d.]

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winter sunset

[image description: watercolor painting of a road at sunset, lined with snow, telephone wires, and silhouetted trees. the sky is tinged with pink; there is a column of brighter pink cloud rising from the chimney of a house like smoke. /end i.d.]

[ghosthouseart]

Peachtober day 18: Toad

[image description: a black and white watercolor painting of a paved road, in the middle of which sits a giant, ghostly toad, staring right at the viewer. the road is lined on one side with telephone wires, and on both sides with a mix of pine trees and deciduous trees with leaves falling from them, leaving many branches bare, and the pavement dotted with leaves. a few silhouetted birds fly overhead. /end i.d.]

[ghosthouseart]

Peachtober day 17: Whistle

[image description: a black and white watercolor painting of a mountainside. the foreground is bare rock dotted with a few pine trees; in the background, tree-colored mountains are visible, with a long train winding over one of them. light, puffy clouds float over the mountains in the distance, blending with the steam from the train's engine. /end i.d.]

[ghosthouseart]

Peachtober day 16: Hatch

[image description: a black and white watercolor painting with pen outlines, of a spaceship shaped like an egg. it has two fins bolted to it on either side, a round porthole window, and two spindly metal bird legs that it is crouched on. a rectangular hatch is open in its front, with a ladder leading down to the ground, and in front of the ladder, having just climbed down, stands a baby chick wearing a bubble-like space helmet, looking up at the sky. the chick and the spaceship are surrounded by silhouetted pine trees, with a crescent moon and several stars sparking in the sky above. /end i.d.]

[ghosthouseart]

Peachtober day 15: Aquarium

[image description: a painting of several jellyfish in watercolor and paint crayon. the painting is tall and thin dimensionally, with a bright blue watercolor background. the jellyfish's tendrils are left white via wax resist, with vivid paint crayon in pink, red, yellow, and orange layered over the bodies and tendrils to create a glowing effect. /end i.d.]

[ghosthouseart]

Peachtober day 14: Brush

[image description: a black and white watercolor painting of a paintbrush coming in from the right side of the image, painting a pool of white onto a black background. several blobby white ghosts are rising up from the white paint. /end i.d.]

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Peachtober day 13: Marble

[image description: a black and white watercolor painting of a full moon reflecting over the ocean, with silhouetted dark mountains against the horizon. the moon has dark swirls running through it like a marble. /end i.d.]

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Peachtober day 12: Bark

[image description: a watercolor painting of a closeup of the bark of a tree. the bark is covered with different kinds of lichen and fungus in various shades of green. the tree trunk fills almost the whole image, but there are slivers of bright yellow background showing in two corners. /end i.d.]