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The house, like the girl, is seductive.

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Fire

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Spring Evening by Arnold Böcklin (1879)

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Red Fox/räv. Värmland, Sweden (February 1, 2025).

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In the night garden, Mary Mattingly

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The thing that lives in the lake, Lachlan Turczan

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The World reversed and Page of Pentacles

The whole messed-up world may be too much to think about, but you can focus on taking care of your own small piece of it.

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The brave little archer, out to protect the people.

From my sketchbook /yesterday.

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Ronald Balfour, The Rubayat, 1920

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Aube - Carte postale des éditions D.P. - Paris, 1900.

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The Fireflies by Henri-Camille Danger (1896)

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Heyyy everyone! Dropping the latest Sketch-a-Wish, voted on by my lovely Patreon members for the month of December! Featuring Celia and Marco from The Night Circus @erinmorgenstern

My Patreon members have been getting a bit kiss-crazy with these SAWs. 😂 For this piece, I wanted to take my time to re-read The Night Circus over the holiday break to prep for this. It's been several years since I listened to it for the first time (back when I designed the Build Me Dreams papercraft) and I was really put off by the audiobook and the story comprehension suffered because of it. I love Jim Dale (who read the US audiobooks for Harry Potter), who has multiple but very distinct voices and accents. I kept getting distracted recognizing and comparing every Night Circus character to their HP counterpart which completely took me out of the story at times. Some of the characters were really goofy sounding, which works well for HP, but not for the ethereal cast of TNC.

I can wholeheartedly say that I much more enjoyed this white-noise re-read of TNC and was able to experience it without all the distractions. There were even several scenes I've pinned that I'm eager to illustrate / papercraft beyond the one chosen for this SAW. Please look forward to those!

This is arguably the most colorful scene in the book (everyone is wearing a bright variety of colors), the ballroom is gold and both Celia and Marco wear a deep green. A stark contrast to the book's signature black, white and red color scheme. I offered my Patreon members a handful of color keys to choose from and the one shown here won the most votes!

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Two of Pentacles and Seven of Pentacles

You got off to a minimal wobbly start, but things are coming along nicely.

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1925 c. Rene Lalique perfume bottle for "Boucheron Eucalyptus". From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.

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Spirit of the Healing Cup (2020)

Feeling like a reimagined repaint of this would do me good right now. I really will find any excuse to put a weird cup into a painting.

Wishing you all good health & a safe place to fall apart if you need to.

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Louis Icart, Doves (1922)

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Print for this month's Love letter Patreon tier. (Hopefully this should be die-cut...)

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