Inbox down to "5 unread" - but I can do better :D

Inari Krohn（Finnish Artist, born 1945） "August", 2024. Line Etching, Woodcut and Chine Collée on Paper, 30.5 × 21 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Ordering a copy for my bookshelf - I don't have many of my own books in the apartment, and I want to rectify that in a small way with this one :D (All art by krrma and text design by Christina P. Also! New 'Close-Up Books' logo, made by Vivid Covers):

Switching to Italian prog: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlEb...

More fusion, today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3A4...

I've had 3 demos from my old band sitting in a folder for years - waiting for the right circumstances to re-record. We never did them in the studio, but they're fun songs and I could do them more justice now. (Both in terms of my harsh and clean vocals). However -

Hit the limits of my juggling. Have taken on too much (again XD) and so something has to be shelved - it's going to be the metal song, sadly. "Shelved" means "delayed", I guess - but I don't know for how long. (Either that, or I grind myself into the ground to get it finished in March)

Reposting :D

Secret Garden of the Countess

#DailySketch: Brother Phil #illustration #drawing #art

If you're keen to avoid Amazon, my epic fantasy "The Raven's Price" is Deal of the Day over at Drivethru Fiction today :D site.drivethrufiction.com/product/4902... Art and text design by Vivid Covers!

Hello bsky, I'm looking to fill two art nouveau illustration slots (starting price 200€) for mid/late March! You can either reach out to [email protected] or fill the form linked below. info & tos: lyannacomm.carrd.co form: forms.gle/U4aGYaNw2gCH... Sharing is appreciated 💕

My review of Ashley Capes’ Concrete Whalesong #Haiku #Poetry open.substack.com/pub/thesehai...

Coming up with proposed chapter titles for this (short) thesis is fun but annoying - it's not my skill... but one of them might be something like this: "What does human art offer that generative AI content does not?" Only shorter XD

Its my birthday today! 🎈the first year of my thirties has been a wild ride, but I’m glad to still be here & making art, and it would mean so much if you could share my work 🖤

Bleeding heart Wanted to try white on white and a narrow value range

The most obvious highlight from the soundtrack: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm-u...

Marco Barberio (Italian Artist, born 1971) "A Kiss from a Rose in Paris", 2023. Acrylic on Canvas, 98 × 69 cm. Private Collection. #Art

Thérèse Lessore This view of Bath is taken on St Margaret’s Hill and focuses on Walcot Parade overlooking London Road. Lessore lived in a suburb of Bath from 1938 with her husband, artist Walter Sickert. Also a student of Sickert, Lessore’s work has sometimes been mistakenly attributed to him.

Bonham especially sounds like he's having an absolute blast here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUp1...

I finished painting this lady death knight:

Dragonposting 🐉 #dragons #watercolor #painting

Hey. I’m doing this walk-a-fucking-lot challenge to help raise money for the Children’s Cancer Institute - Australia’s only independent medical research body dedicated to curing childhood cancer. Next month I aim to walk 172km, and if you want to support, chip in here www.ccia.org.au/fundraisers/...

Sea turtles were swimming. Suddenly, a pod of whales swam by behind them. It was a strange sight to see whales swimming in a pod in these shallow waters, where coral reefs abound. #Illustration #CommentPls #RTpls

Oscar Hullgren (Swedish, 1869 - 1948), From Christiansö, 1929, oil on canvas, 68x97cm. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Hey, artist! Quote one art to promote yourself!

Between the following retailers, I never have to bother with the clowns at Spotify, etc etc *Bandcamp *Qobuz *Presto Music *zdigital Music *HDtracks Equally handy for me as a listener, is that I'm downloading the tracks not streaming them. Links below, in case you're looking for alternates:

Sometimes I'm thinking of the religion teacher from school, who explained to me that I cannot believe in dragons, because dragons aren't real.

in this heat - a cicada stop-starts his thrum #haiku #poetry

Promotional Illustration - Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess

Adventure? Check. Magic? Check. Sarcasm? You bet.

So sick of artists in one medium using genAI slop for work that should be completed by an artist of a different medium (ie: musician using genAI for their cover art, writer doing the same thing, game dev using slop music in their demo, etc, etc). You could well be worse than the tech-bros.

Got a possible new book title (maybe to be used for the phd project) thanks to something I stumbled across last night: "Whale Fall" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_f...

Roj Friberg (1934-2016), “Blandat Sällskap I [Mixed Company I]” (1992), mixed media on paper, 84 x 63 cm.

Meet Up is a very useful app... but it really needs to cool it with the "your new group is waiting for you" messages and notifications. Because no, my new group is not waiting for me. I have my small handful of volleyball groups already and that's all I'll ever have room for XD

pachinko blinking neon genesis climbs the wall I think I cut this senryu from my last collection - but either way, today I've switched the order of the first two words and it reads a little better

If anyone with a lion sona wants to claim this pose i need to do Black and White rendering practice so ill do a B&W commission for $50. Itll be this pose but Ill draw your character on top of it.

It's my pleasure to help reveal the cover of Catamorphosis, a horror novel written by @shannonknight.bsky.social. It features art by Scottish artist Candra Hope, with design by Winter Moon Press. Blurb and more info: jamreads.com/reveals/cove... 💙📚

Double Horizon recently accepted some of my haiku *and* also translated them into French! Of course, I can't read French - but the thrill is not diminished, not one bit :D Translated by Jean Antonini and Gilles Fabre:

Bearing - a haibun. More #poetry and #Haiku here: kasasagi.blog

Planning a game where the MC has at least 3 different transformation animations for the same 'ultimate' upgrade (like, say, how Sonic goes super). It'd be extra work but needed because I imagine the player getting tired of the same animation.

I look at sales for some of my books and the comparison to "kids no-one wants to play with at school" comes to mind. Which is not fair to kids being isolated at school, since that's an actual real problem (and something I always *hated* seeing as a teacher). 1/3

I might not actually be a writer - rather, I have a hobby called "Let's Commission More Art" and in fact, the writing of books is merely a justification (and income stream) for the hobby XD

The introduction of drafts won't help me, as I am no more or less articulate whether I've planned ahead or not, lol - but I really like that it's happened because it gives me hope that other useful things will be coming (scheduling posts, polls and private accounts, etc, etc)

Inspired by the great Gerald Parel, I've been exploring some portraits of Masters of the Universe characters, using pencils and a white uniball pen.

Easy to see why giant corporations hoover up popular IP, since the characters come in handy whenever it's time to paper over this or that atrocity / breech of ethics (as per say, Disney and the recent Muppets show). They know viewers will break boycott and come rushing back with open wallets.

Another of my favs - Paul Chowdhry. Amazingly dry delivery, so good. Taskmaster is one of the only shows I recommend to people (since I am not good at doing so) and it's usually successful. (*Especially* if people like UK humour).

Gabriel Cristian Matei (Romanian, b.1978) "Colors without a Name," Oil on canvas 35.4 x 35.4 in #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt