Chicken Of The Woods (with A Nuthatch And A Chickadee)

Chicken of the Woods (with a nuthatch and a chickadee)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laetiporus_sulphureus

Tonight I tried to clean my screen in the bathtub with hot water, baking soda,  and the wrong kind of screen cleaner. the streaky green stuff is diazo photo emulsion still on it from the last time I tried to clean it about two years ago. (fruitless note to past self: do not rely on lab partners to not use all the screen-cleaner, buy your own bottle and hoard it)

mixed results (obviously) but not bad for old fashioned bathroom seriography.

I do not want to buy a whole thing of special screen cleaner. I want to do some reductive work with the blue stuff and the brown stuff.

sometimes my wants are not at issue.

If you are a monster, stand up. If you are a monster, a trickster, a fiend, If you’ve built a steam-powered wishing machine If you have a secret, a dark past, a scheme, If you kidnap maidens or dabble in dreams Come stand by me. If you have been broken, stand up. If you have been broken, abandoned, alone If you have been starving, a creature of bone If you live in a tower, a dungeon, a throne If you weep for wanting, to be held, to be known, Come stand by me. If you are a savage, stand up. If you are a witch, a dark queen, a black knight, If you are a mummer, a pixie, a sprite, If you are a pirate, a tomcat, a wright, If you swear by the moon and you fight the hard fight, Come stand by me. If you are a devil, stand up. If you are a villain, a madman, a beast, If you are a strowler, a prowler, a priest, If you are a dragon come sit at our feast, For we all have stripes, and we all have horns, We all have scales, tails, manes, claws and thorns And here in the dark is where new worlds are born. Come stand by me.

A Monstrous Manifesto, by Catherynne M. Valente (via justaguywitharrows)

I almost never reblog, or post things that aren't my art.

but when I do, it's always things that make me want to make things.

Today I made a Christmas ornament. (and also did muh nails)

it is a snowflake made out of felt. I stuffed it with the little scrappy bits of felt that I had leftover so it's a bit of a little pillow. it looks good and is now hanging on my tree.

Yes, I copied the design off something I found on pinterest. because I am a hack. you'll note I didn't do as good of a job of it as Jody Bishel does, so I don't feel too bad about it.

Fly Amanita

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria

alright so these are all the blocks I just printed this afternoon shown with a good example of the prints I made from them.

valentine's day Gunnels I intend on coloring. they will be pretty glorious, not that they aren't already

the rose was originally a study but I liked it and I think I still do.  it's pretty basic but it's easy to get bogged down trying to work small and I have to keep it iconic to make it work.

next after that is a trillium. same deal different flower.

after that, queen of pomegranates. her face looks like it was mde by De Kooning and the idea was kind of stupid so these are probably going to become mixed media. but the dog turned out rather well so I'm happy.

after that is slugs posed in a classic crowned ouroboros. which I happen to love, fits very well into my general theme of taking classic mythological and alchemical symbolism and making it out of things native and familiar to me.

ta- fucking dah.