Delia

Illustration of two carousel ponies

Illustration of a carousel pony

Illustration of two carousel ponies

Illustration of two carousel ponies

Since it’s the year of the horse, I thought I’d share some pony designs from last summer’s mural for StrongTownsBlono 🌟 Designing these horses was especially joyful for me, since I love drawing ribbons and swirls. Please support StrongTownsBlono as another artist will be creating a new mural ✨

@skeuomorphpress.org (Just realized I missed the dot org in the tag! So much love to the Press, and to all the makers who create there ❤️)

I’m so glad! Thank you so much for appreciating everyone’s work on this project 💖

Book cover for a rant about technology

Technology is the active human interface with the material world

Photo of inside spreads printed for a rant about technology

During my practicum studies at the @skeuomorphpress, I had the joy of getting to design illustrations for a printing of Ursula K LeGuin’s “A Rant About Technology.” In keeping with the heart of the text, the book was printed using techniques and machinery from printing presses of the 19th century.

Cleaned up almost all the chatter from the proofs, so @deliadraws.bsky.social’s illustrations look even better!

Yayyy! So happy to see this coming together ❤️💖❤️💖

I send u healing vibes! (I haven’t had my wisdom teeth pulled yet) ❤️

Queen of hearts playing card design with an Alice in Wonderland theme

Queen of Hearts playing card design ❤️

Ace of spades playing card with an Alice in Wonderland design

Alice as the Ace of Spades ♠️✨

Friends, please share!

Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project

Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...

The illustrations for the book were created by @deliadraws.bsky.social during her practicum last year & print beautifully from linoleum. I set the type & the book’s printed on archival-quality paper. We know $60 is a lot for a single short book but that price reflects the labor of this production

Illustration of a vintage television on a desk with a glass figure of a lady, a dried rose, and notes from chemistry class

Scribbles and old notes and VHS memories 📺✨

Illustration of orange roses lit up by sunlight

soaked with sun ☀️

Illustration of a carousel horse

Small study of a carousel horse ✨

Illustration of two pairs of golden sunshine shoes with the shadow silhouette of a couple embracing beneath them and a ripple of golden leaves in the corner

trying to sketch out a feeling 🍂

Photo of Delia Kerr-Dennhardt painting wayfinding murals on a sidewalk corner

Photo of rabbit murals outside the Bloomington Public Library

Photo of murals of rabbits and arrows leading to the McLean County History Museum

Photo of sidewalk mural of balloon animals

Thank you so much to Strong Towns Blono, a grassroots advocacy group in Bloomington, Illinois whose mission is to improve the community with small actions, for commissioning these wayfinding murals. Learn more about the project here: bloomingtonrevivalists.com/resources/si...

Thank you so much Emily Bollinger with WGLT for the interview! Learn more about this temporary sidewalk mural project 🎨✨

Illustration of cartoon goldfish swimming

fish doodle 🐟

love YOU! 💗✨

Image of a cartoon devil in flames. Text reads: “The Devil doesn’t need advocates.” In a word bubble, the Devil says, “I’m doin’ GREAT! So you can SHUSH!!”

a friendly reminder ✨

Illustration of clouds at sunset in the shape of a bird, praying hands, a pinkie promise, and of a girl holding the moon. Olive branches are in the foreground.

An illustration from “The Olive Tree” fairytale

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Illustration of two people with hearts for heads discussing love in an outdoor cafe with the text “radical love” written on the side

two hearts philosophizing at morning breakfast, maybe in France

Illustration of a lady kissing a man on the cheek

Alyona and the farmer’s son, two lovers from a fairy tale

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Illustration of a coffee plant

coffee plant illustration ☕️

Illustration of a lady sleeping on the moon with a shooting star behind her

dreamer drawing 🌙

Illustration of a green fairy with wings made of stinging nettle. She is listening to a ticking beetle.

Nettle, a fairy whose words sting as well as her wings ✨

I love this ❤️🍓🐇

Illustration of a girl holding a giant heart beside the golden statue of a lion next to an olive tree

Image from “The Olive Tree”

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Illustration of goldfish in a lily pond surrounded by golden grass

fish in a pond ✨

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Illustration of robins in a golden apple tree with red apples and two songbirds

Another illustration from a fairy tale I wrote:

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