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I'll see you in the cypress grove. [IG link]

Becca O'Mara from Tana French's mystery novel The Secret Place. Shout-out to A. for plunging me into a devastating obsession with the Dublin Murder Squad series (luscious Irish psychodramas with lashings of Gothic and folk horror), and shout-out to Tana French for her service in representation of flat-chested maladaptive-daydreaming teen witches...

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Some scruffy invented landscapes

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Toxic faun and other noodles

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what sketchbook do you use? your art's amazing!!

Hi, thank you so much! I’m currently hooked on the Handbook Journal Co. watercolor journals, which come in a bunch of different sizes. They’re not 100% cotton, so you can’t layer watercolor on them infinitely, but they hold up well, and I generally like how the binding, paper texture, etc. feel.

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My second time painting this photo (from a 2011 walk) of this tree. It took some digging, but the first painting (in the line-up of 3 paintings) was from back in August 2014, almost 10 years ago. It's always weird to look back at old art and think, this is simultaneously better than I expected, and about as bad as I expected.

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Busy painting week/end. Love my brushes, love my set-up, love feeling and seeing the benefits of regular practice, but... there's still so much to leeeearn!

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Process video of the little dark woodland here!

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Im sorry if spam isn't wanted, but your oy is just such a little tjgugururjfkejdjcksldkcndbshfjfjdusjdjfjcjdjdbdbxbbddbbehxhxkdisosidkfjcjjxjsjaksjfj. You know?

Oh my goodness, haha. This is actually my first ask, so... the opposite of spam! THANK YOU, I find Oy in general to be such a ladjfklajdflkjadlkfa. I really struggled to translate my mental image of his face and body language, so I'm glad he pushed your "Oy" buttons.

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Memories of an idyllic autumn walk.

Tiny painting process video here, with warm thanks to @simply-sithel for the (underutilized, but I'm trying to make friends with it) phone mount.

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Feeling the need for a breakthrough; going to try doing <1hr paintings at night until I a) push past some of my recurring technique issues and b) run out of steam.

Keeping up with it for half a week so far has also been a telling readout of my energy levels, when I pull myself together in the evening and talk myself into painting. Who knew... commuting was exhausting ... ... ? Thank goodness for working from home.

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Oy the billy bumbler, faithful friend to the ka-tet of Roland Deschain, the last Gunslinger. "We are ka-tet. We are one from many."

Process sketches here!

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Oy the billy bumbler wishes you a happy new year! Billy bumblers are wary yet social creatures from Stephen King's Dark Tower series; Oy is reckoned to be one of the last bumblers capable of mimicking human speech. I imagine billy bumblers as a cross between a badger and a border collie.

[final art here]

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Gem Lake, Estes Park*, Colorado, summer 2022 (plus ground squirrel art assistant - somewhere on my partner's phone is a photo of the squirrel patting my hand in search of snacks...)

* yes, I went to see the Stanley Hotel! ahhhh!

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Faerie portrait of Ragini Rao, a longtime inspiration of mine. The queen of late summer!

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Quickie sketch of the glorious scarab, Chrysina gloriosa

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Another episode of "I don't really remember painting this," although I do know good ol' @simply-sithel was there for it. Clear influence of those old Lord of the Rings paperback covers by Barbara Remington, too!

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Jessie, a very, very old character of mine.