Jordan W. Thatcher

The New Galatea, a grand lady of marble, is carving herself out of a large marble block, in a baroque ruin. She’s given herself an outrageously elaborate marble gown and hairstyle, because she can.

The Rose Queen, in a grand rose gown, is surrounded by her court of elegant bee attendants in a spacious pavilion decked with roses. The bee courtiers are all vying for her attention.

The Storm Goddess, garbed in storm clouds, dances in a thunderstorm, her fingers snapping lightning.

A vast and mysterious faerie entity appears in the swirling clouds over an Italian mountain range, wearing a mystic golden amulet with a wonderful crystal. A lone cloaked traveller looks up at her.

Sneaking in some women for International Women’s Day!

The New Galatea, the Rose Queen, and the Storm Goddess!

Also the Fairy Queen from the Straight Way Lost TTRPG

(all oil on canvas)

A digital painting and work-in-progress of a painting I started at the end of last year. We see a star-filled sky at twilight, with a fiery-red light coming from the bottom of the frame where the top half of a fiery individual stands holding a sword to the sky, where a teal green comet falls down towards the point of the sword. The person's rib cage is visible, as a brilliant light is coming from inside their chest which has ignited their skin, bursting forth from their skin, eyes and mouth as they reach upward into the sky.

I wish I may, I wish I might,
use my power to create tonight 🌠 #nightsky

Perhaps you're right. Then I'm in good company

It's a difficult balance, being an artist and finding a way to make a living in this world.

They way I see true art, those concepts feel contradictory.

I feel like I'm quite experienced allowing feeling to guide my work, but I wonder at times if I shouldn't display more control and find a niche.

But trying to control the wind feels as though it would only narrow my artistic range. I don't feel like I can sacrifice my creative freedom for "success"

I'm trying to get myself together as an artist, I swear. Sometimes it's surpising where creative winds can take you.

If her borb art didn't convince you yet, then you gotta see what other amazing art Anna can do

Like building a puzzle, or Frankenstein

I love your version of Dorothy 😄👏

A serious-looking young woman dressed in a white button-up, blue suspender skirt, long white socks and red Mary Jane shoes. In one hand is a revolver, in the other hangs a basket full of ammo.

A woman dressed in a blue half-robe with an orange waist sash, short black pants and geta-like sandals. She has long silverish hair tied in a trailing ponytail. She looks to the side, holding a smoking pipe in one hand.

Black and white drawing of Donna Beneviento, an enemy character from the Resident Evil 8 video game. A tall, skeletal woman in a black dress, holding a creepy doll dressed in white. Their eyes are inhuman. Tendrils leak out from their forms.

Fan art of Weiss Schnee from the RWBY web series. A young woman dressed in a white military-esque outfit, with a cape and cloak, walks towards the viewers. In one hand is a rapier-like weapon - her left hand is posed palm up with a snowflake-like glyph over it.

Happy International Women's Day!
I need to draw more ladies!
#art

Thank you. Yeah I'm not sure if I will ever put this much detail into a piece again. The composition suffers a little because of it, I think.

That sounds like an interesting project! I suppose anything with "abomination" at the end will turn out to be interesting

Happy woman’s day to all the women out there! It is insane to see that we are still having gender based laws in the 21st century, that there are places in the world where women have to cover their faces, where they can be mistreated just because they were born as women. The madness should stop!

Quote this with your "eye strain" art! 🔍

Ooh, this piece is new to me. Love the color palette!

A pencil drawing of a boy rising to his feet, head slumped down, looking at the floor with heavy eyes. It's that feeling of not wanting to look up, to hide from things as they are now. The text bubbles read, "It took everything, just to rise. To stand and face the light of reality."

I'm really feeling this right now, but I know it will pass. These phases come and go, I just wish my mind wouldn't take them so seriously.

Photo of a purple crocus bloom with bright orange center and long spiky green leaves emerging from a blurred background of brown soil.

A bit of bright color for your day... 🌱

We thought the resident rabbit was going to keep nibbling on these but the crocus persevered! Don't let a little nibbling keep you down 😂

Thank you Jeremiah. Me too

Thanks! It was getting a bit messy, but it's looking better already

I had to go back and consolidate the color palette for this painting, so I removed the upper layers for now as I rebuild the scene from the ground up.

I have high hopes for this one, and now that the scene has come fully into being, I want to build it up properly.

A digital painting and work-in-progress of a painting I started at the end of last year. We see a star-filled sky at twilight, with a fiery-red light coming from the bottom of the frame where the top half of a fiery individual stands holding a sword to the sky, where a teal green comet falls down towards the point of the sword. The person's rib cage is visible, as a brilliant light is coming from inside their chest which has ignited their skin, bursting forth from their skin, eyes and mouth as they reach upward into the sky.

I wish I may, I wish I might,
use my power to create tonight 🌠 #nightsky

Ooh, I like her wicked pose!

A painting of a wicked-looking, mushroom-shaped hag. Watercolor on toned paper.

The Toadstool Hag.

If it does, remember it's okay to get frustrated. I know that companies, especially larger more ambitious ones, can end up treating you more as a cog in a machine than a human deserving respect.

I'm glad that you're feeling better 🙌

I couldn't agree more. Seasons used to be more definitive. Winter can come compacted into sporatically places days surrounded by days which feel more like fall or spring.

I hear that! Maybe we can send you some of our cool foggy days.

Wow, you just reminded me of a cover that I used as a reference for a monster in 4th grade

Selfie of me standing with Tim Jacobus, holding up a sketch that he made with a Goosebumps sign in the background.

I met a childhood hero of mine today. Tim Jacobus is one of the major influences who inspired my love for making art. I remember being beyond wowed by the Goosebumps covers. I stared at the covers and tried to draw them, just as much as I spent time reading the books themselves. (If not more so)

Close up photo of a bright golden yellow bunch of forsythia, delicate blooms with the petals drooping downward on a brown branch with dagger-shaped green leaves sprouting from its end. The blurred background of yellow is a plethora of other blooms on the bush.

Spring is sprung... forsythia in full bloom and expecting highs in the 80s next week. Hope we're not skipping straight into summer 😭🌱

So beautiful! We are right behind you here, as far as Spring goes. The temperature, not so much haha!