THE BONE ZONE

im just a skeleholic skeletophile, enjoy!

[artwins]

tarot card for @maedaeme

[isnyr]

[dorywhynot]

"XVI (The Tower)" 8x16", Watercolor. 2025

On view now at Vakarie Gallery, for "Arcana: Painting the Fates," a Tarot themed group show

Original Artwork available for purchase

Prints

The Tower is a notoriously negative card, but the more I learn about tarot the less I believe in starkly positive or negative meanings. The Tower symbolizes challenges, difficult ones, like....the kind of challenges that leave you back at square one. But challenges in my mind mean change. Getting knocked down means you have to do something different when you try again, whether that is putting more care and effort into the techniques used before, or trying something new entirely.

Some of you know by now that I've been having an issue with my spine/sacrum for a few years now - while I'm able to carry out my days normally-ish now it has left me with chronic pain that I'm still hoping will heal. It's affected the way I work, the way I relax, the type of exercise that I can do...Pretty much everything part of a routine that I worked hard to build has had to be altered in some way. It's a journey I'm still on and frustrated by. I'm not fully convinced that the diagnosis I received is the entirety of the issue. I also think a part of it isn't a diagnosis thing at all, I'm just getting older.

The spine is the center. It connects the brain to the body, and serves as the conduit for every message between them. It's the foundation for our anatomical hardware and software.

So, is this a personal piece?....Who's to say.

Full painting process documentation of this piece is included in this month's Artist's Notebook PDF, over on patreon.

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Eternal Sleep by Iren Horrors

[snakeguy999]

OFFTOBER DAY 2. Impurity

[charnel-grounds]

Norman Saunders (1907–1989) - Mr. Maddox' Phony-Finish

cover art from 'Dime Detective Magazine' #233, December 1948

[buboplague]

[aphractal2]

osteo miku

[letheyim]

[ex0skeletal-undead]

The Apotheosis of War, 1871 painting by Vasily Vereshchagin

[bitterdatura]

[shapeshifting-demons]

[artwins]

illuminated illustration for @/calamarti (vgen/bsky) 🖤

[poison-ivy-on-drugs]

[godh8er-deactivated20220626]

how could op just leave out the resolution like dat

[littleredwritingcat]

This is what I look like standing next to the 20-somethings at the uni where I teach when we’re washing our hands in front of the bathroom mirror.

[murkbone]

Laid bare

[oddarette]

“Time for a good cry”

Notes: I’m really pleased with this one. I’m definitely getting a good challenge blending my art styles into something neat.

[oddarette]

"This Cat Was Special" Aight, I’ve been heavily debating integrating some of my art from my other account here to kind of idk… consolidate my soul? Idk. I’m hella nervous about posting this here but it’s my second favorite piece ever and I want more people to see it. This took MONTHS to make so I literally can’t afford to make this kind of stuff often. If you wanna see more of this idk, let me know or buy a print.