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the birds and the bugs🪲🕊️🦋🕸️🦤

✦ find me on instagram @the.flightless.artist ✦

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I had the pleasure to work on this screen for Kinder World, an ‘emotional wellbeing game’ that’s currently available for early download in IOS and Android app °˖✧◜

You can check the link down below to know more about the game and the amazing company behind it:

https://download.playkinderworld.com/HVBd/Deborah

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Art by Yuming Li

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Dragon Vase Japan. Meiji period. 9" - 23cm A very well cast bronze model of a leaping dragon fish, with inlaid gold and Shakudo eyes. An overall rich patina. Unsigned. 

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hanzo shimada + tv tropes

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reminder that "allies welcome" was once secret code for "those not out yet can still participate without putting themselves at risk", and for those who aren't out yet to comfortably exist in these spaces you have to let allies exist in those spaces too.

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The Gay Coloring Book (undated), another gem from Cornell University's Images from the Rare Book and Manuscript Collections on JSTOR.

You'll have to visit the university library to see the inside of the book, though. But fret not, with more than 11,000 additional images in the collection, there's plenty to keep you busy—and they are all free and open for everyone!

UPDATE: @commander-kiranerys just shared a link to the full scan! https://www.houstonlgbthistory.org/Houston80s/Assorted%20Pubs/gay%20coloring%20book.pdf

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Cat Lore compiled by Marjorie Zaum Drawings by Fritz Wegner Publication Unknown

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East of the Sun, West of the Moon written and illustrated by Jackie Morris © 2013 Frances Lincoln Children's Books

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Clematis bowl by Iwabuchi Kan 岩渕寛 「鉄線図鉢」

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While the art's not exactly the same, it reminds me a little of the illustrations in the Caldecott Award-winning book, Saint George and the Dragon. Maybe sort of a cross between Trina Schart Hyman and Jan Brett's work...? Either way, it's beautiful!

Leif Engström (b. 1992), PÅ OMVÄGAR, 2024

Oil on canvas, 191× 150 cm

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Illustrations from The Ant And The Pigeon by Lev Tolstoy (1988) - Illustrations by Mikhail Komadin

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SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952) Dir. Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen

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Cotton Candy Sitting Negora (konatsuya) - source

[Image Description: A figure of a cat-like monster viewed from the front and the side. Its body is white and has light pink and blue spots. The figure is posed sitting with its legs stretched out and looking downwards. /End ID]

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Tapestries and frescoes [some old artworks]