my mama is a luminous goddess and I love her very much!!

#art #artsky

Oh that's so cool, I don't think I've ever seen this style of perspective/depth work in a manuscript before!

A pool of shallow water reflecting a deep blue sky, surrounded by reeds

A smattering of red backed bracket mushrooms on a mossy log. A small fern-like moss frond has fallen on the tops of one of the fungi

A tree, the bark of which has fragmented into geometric patterns

Wet! Land! Wet! Land!

Tonsillitis sucks, my sympathies

@lycomorpha.bsky.social might have paints that use a different preservative, or thoughts on sources/what might be useful coping strats?

Man I gotta go see more theatre this year

Also thanks to Edinburgh I got to see Coriolanus as an opera in Mandarin where between acts they wheeled out stands with metal bands from either side of the stage and they did a lil solo

Not my fav adaptation but delightful in its out there choices

M is for maybe this starts with an m N is for next letter, and that one's an n E is for easy, like spelling this word M is for magpie, the stealingest bird O is for only three more letters to go N is for nearly there, you mnemonic pro I is for imminent, this poem's end C is for congratulations, my spellingwell friend

If you are unsure of how to spell mnemonic, here is a handy mnemonic:

Also they only had 15 minutes to clean up every day (joys of the Edinburgh Fringe) so had devised a full choreography set to music for it to keep on track, a joy to watch

I saw an incredible production by an all female Shakespeare troupe that had pots lining the stage and every battle was done with brushes liberally laden with red paint. Absolute bloodbath by the end, it was glorious

A top-down closeup photo of a pale yellow flower with serrated-tip petals, with the ground and leaves below out of focus. There are two little moths in the flower; the moths have a fuzzy gray thorax, and cream-colored wings with thin bands and edges of deep pink.

These pretty, day-flying moths (Heliolonche pictipennis), only about 1 cm. long, are one of my favorite desert spring insects. The only flowers they visit (desert dandelion, desert chicory, or scale bud) close up at night; the moths sleep inside them, which is scientifically adorable. #BugSky 🌿🐙🌼

It's lost some swooshiness that I want to bring back but we'll have to see if that happens when I'm tired of seeing the imperfections in the drying swatch or in a few years when I randomly find it in my swatch collection. I'm fine with either! This was fun to do, it's nice to learn by playing

Machine knitted swatch pinned to a beige mat to dry flat. On a green ground it shows a stylised white horse with a big flowing mane in profile, based roughly on some art in Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy

Getting over my fretting about "wasting" a whole 15g or whatever of yarn to make a swatch 🙄 when it is inarguably useful to have a knitted record of what the current pattern looks like before I shove it in a cupboard because I don't have the patience to fiddle with the tweaks I still want to do

Illustration of a lady knight with braids holding a sword on a backgorund of flowers

Knight of flowers

Trying to pick a crafting project for upcoming train travel and unfortunately I've realised it would be incredibly funny to bring my bobbin lace setup

The Small Gardener, a tiny cat-shaped plant guardian in a red cloak, scribbles in a journal while resting up in their cosy seed pod lodge, surrounded by berries, acorns, nuts, leaves, a huge persimmon, and a little fire warming up a tea pot.

The same ink and watercolour illustration / sticker shown in full, in the shape of the seed pod.

The Small Gardener has many secret shelters across their patch, from shady nooks for sunny days to cosy caverns for when the temperature falls. This seed lodge is one of the Small Gardener’s favourites, with a good stash of supplies for the cooler months. 🌾🌰🫖🪵

Photo of a flat section of rock completely covered in flat-growing lichens. Includes two yellow lichens, one orange lichen and one grey lichen.

A lichen collage on seaside rock. Newfoundland, Canada. Includes Xanthoria (leafy yellow), Physcia (grey), Rusavskia (orange) and Polycaulinia (the other yellow lichen). #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

AND I finally tackled some old crafting projects! And might keep drinking teas that bring me joy!
Now all is ready for Mending March, in which I dive into my always enormous repair pile in the hopes to have comfy trousers again eventually

Okay wrap up time: I ended sorta yesterday with tamales from the freezer and a mug of a lovely honeybush. Then promptly found a whole new unopened box of tea today!
Overall I'm really pleased, the freezer has new stuff but I finished like five teas and threw out a bunch more I'll never drink

A drawing of some things you might find in a kitchen: a tea towel, a bundle of herbs (parsley, thyme, sage, bay), two wooden spoons, some butcher's twine, a cutting board, a big knife, a candle stub on a little plate, a ceramic jar, some cardamom pods, a garlic bulb (bisected).

kitchenalia 🥄

Visit to the Conservatory Bonsai wing for this Mini Iris group with 6 inch tall green leaf blades among moss on a shallow plate

"Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed" 🌱 #bloomscrolling #Bonsai

View over a small lake with a rocky hill on the other side. Blue sky and clouds are reflected in the water, with a handful of ducks on it

Blooming cones that are a deep pink when closed but open up to a green tinged yellow, with blurred trees in the background

Whitethorn trees with tons of tiny blossoms reaching over a wall. The grey branches with white flower spots echo the white lichen splotches on the stones if the wall.

A bright yellow plastic wedge labeled "toad ramp" bridges the gap between street and pavement.

First blackthorn blossoms of the year today! Glad to have made it out

Nothing else will live up to these tbh, they're perfect

Character design commission. An alchemy themed fae with golden tubing and red orbs trapping smaller fae inside. 4 small arms puppet their larger ones.

🧚🌞

✦ #art #commission #characterdesign

Illustration of all 151 pokemon from the kanto region

Happy 30th Pokemon day 🥳
#art #pokemon

I've thoroughly enjoyed contemplating it solemnly these last couple days!

A linocut illustrated image of a dandy fox, printed on to cellophane that’s then been printed on to a second lino block.

Creating a second block for this linocut Reynardine illustration. I printed the block onto some cellophane then printed the still wet ink on the cellophane directly onto a second block. It’s a little haphazard but generally works.

We're coming up to the end of the month so it's time for the big guns, err, mug, alongside my oldest WIP: a reticule that I spent months embroidering and then never finished in case I ruined it. 2 years later I'm willing to take the risk rather than keep resenting it

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