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✨🌿🌿🌿ALERT!🌿🌿🌿✨ Moss Radishes are in the shop. Five of them, to be exact. 💕MelissaSueStanley.com💕

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Baba Yaga’s Chicken Shack follows Tardis rules, apparently. Sneak peek at something new for Free Comic Book Day! #wip #freecomicbookday #babayaga

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The Library Tree Watercolor + Gouache, 8″x10″ “...Scholars often visit, hoping to seek out obscure tomes or lost wisdom. They're usually disappointed to find mostly cookbooks and romance novels.“

Full story! ➡️ Patreon.com/posts/letters-from-74527292

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If we’re coming back to Tumblr then Imma need to post this thing Max and I did a long time ago. Give that a click. Yea. 

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OH HEY Tumblr I heard we were comin’ back here? What’s new?

This is “Mab”, watercolor and gouache. She’s one of the rarer Woolbeasts. 

Cheers! xo Melissa

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“Night”, for Month of Fear 2020 Melissa Sue Stanley 5″x7″, graphite  melissasuestanley.com

A Study of Night: A lot of the work I’m doing lately involves dark woods, forests at night. Learning to draw these places better means spending time in this environment. Which is also something, until recently, I was extremely afraid of. This summer’s camping trips and evening forest explorations have allowed me to literally face that Fear. During my most recent late-night study of the woods I realized it’s the obscurity that causes my fear. In the darkest of dark, shapes blend together and stop making sense to the eye. The imagination runs wild on what can barely be seen. Even worse is the periphery. In the moonlight or firelight there are some rain-damp leaves that catch barely a glint of light, which can’t be seen when I look directly at it. But a turn of the head and the light is brighter in the periphery. Is it really a damp leaf? Or a will-o-the-wisp? Or something more sinister? For me the real Fear isn’t in monsters that are right in front of you: it’s in the intangible that plays with your eyes. 

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Been working on finding my way around my Woolbeast characters with different media. Here's a pencil drawing of a water creature. I think he likes knocking acorns into little ponds because he likes the noise, so for now I'm calling him the Ploosh. 

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Today’s “Folklore Thursday” theme over on Twitter is “transportation” ~ and I was reminded of these wee tiny Baba Yaga Chicken Shack paintings I did last year for a show at @gristletattoo. 

“Baba Yaga in the Morning” is based on the comic/graphic novel I’m working on called Cicada Season. 

“Baba Yaga in the Evening” is an accurate picture of how I spend my evenings. 

(You don’t want to see a image of “Baba Yaga at Suppertime”. Eeek.)

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“Silver” was the first in the current oval-portrait-graphite-witchy-babe series. 

I drew this right after reading “Spinning Silver” by Naomi Novik, mostly as a way to process my thoughts on the book and its characters. 

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“Mothlight” ~ graphite on strathmore paper. Part of my recent witchy babes series. 

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OH HEY TUMBLR. 

Man it has been a while. But I’m excited for the @monthoffearart party that’s about to begin, so I’m back. 

Here’s a drawing I did recently! Last month I read “Uprooted” by Naomi Novik and loved it (I actually read it twice in a week, it was great). This drawing is of the main character, Agnieszka. I really loved and identified with her story and character. And, y’know me, I’m a sucker for a Baba Yaga tale. 

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Spock has returned! ... to my online shop.

Prints of “I Feel Fine” are now available at my website. 8″x10″ and ready to frame. Snag one for yourself, or as a nerd-tastic holiday gift for that special vulcan in your life. 

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Inktober away!!! This year I’m following the 31witches list created by @ochibrochi

My latest witches: Day 1 : Seasonal Witch Day 2 : Urban Witch Day 3 : Vagabond Witch Day 4 : Garden Witch Day 5: Socialite Witch Day 6: Oracle Day 7: Seamstress Witch Day 9: Lolita Witch …moving at my own pace 🎃

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Muchomůrky, Jaroslav Panuška, 1905

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Can you make a tutorial on how to make soft sculptures? They look amazing!!

Thanks! And, yep, I am working on this, you bet!  I’m editing a few videos, and I also have patterns available now.  They’re all at my Patreon page:patreon.com/melissasuestanley

Behind-the-scenes goodies start at just $3 a month.  

xo!

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"Nine Remain”

Ballpoint pen, watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil on hot press paper.  

She’ll be on display at the Atomic Sketch anniversary show, “Nine Down”, on July 27th.  The opening party is their regular monthly Drink & Draw, with an awesome panel of artists and a huge line-up of local folks. Come hang out and buy me birthday tamales.  Or, buy my $10 creepy mermaid sketches that I’ll be slinging.  Or, just come hang out.