Deleted all my side blogs. This one has some original art and text (notably my dandelion chalk drawing, which thanks to @missroserose kind boost went soaring!) but not much... Just so disappointed and angry that Tumblr is going to let blogs here be used to train AI. Will change my settings, but...
During the holidays I made some gingerbread stamps for people at the post office. These are, from upper left and going clockwise, representations of the laysan teal (endangered species stamp), the San Francisco garter snake (endangered species stamp), a highly magnified human hair (life magnified stamp), stylized rabbit face (lunar new year stamps for 2023), and--least intelligible application of icing--the dog-with-heart love stamp.
had been meaning to make this for a while, finally had some time over winter break. it's a jizo, guardian of children. i carved one before, coincidentally around the time the ukraine invasion happened, just as wood carving practice, but ended up thinking of it as being "for" the children caught in that conflict. so purposely this time, this one is dedicated to the children of gaza. i'm not a buddhist, and i know this doesn't accomplish anything meaningful, but its a meditation and remembrance for my own sake i guess ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ as i made it and whenever i see it, i think about the children who have died and will die in this assault, and those who will survive with mental and physical scars for life. the loss of life so far is unforgivable, but there are still so many people alive and struggling there, so don't write off the extermination as a forgone conclusion! don't stop calling for a ceasefire
my holiday cards finally reached everyone they were sent to (i think...) so i can upload this!!!
i posed some sylvanian family toys for a reference photo and a friend helped me with the color scheme
my new years card for 2024 -- simpler than i usually do, because i spent most of my energy on my christmas card and i had papers due
i wanted to draw a japanese style dragon with a european style dragon (and wikipedia says a wyvern counts as a dragon.) (i wanted to draw a wyvern.)
More medieval dyes for y'all!
If your solution to some problem relies on “If everyone would just…” then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At not time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and they’re not going to start now.
OMG YES.
Anytime I hear that "just," I shake my head.
dude it's almost 2024 and i just realized i never posted the new year's card i made for 2023
Catch your Rabbit-year art while you still can!
lonely rolling star ☆
karaoke night!!
And I alone remain to tell the tale
are you new?
