As Woot the Wanderer and Zinnia travel northward through Gillikin Country of Oz, they’re about to be ambushed by an old companion, Scraps. #OzArt #ArtSky #Illustration #WizardOfOz

The map of Oz in my upcoming novel “Zinnia’s Wish”, as drawn in-story by Woot the Wanderer himself. Based in the maps drawn by Dick Martin and James E. Haff for the International Wizard of Oz Club. #FantasyMap #WizardOfOz #ArtSky #Illustration

My wife sketched this drawing of the Egyptian Goddess Qedesh on paper, while I traced it, colored it and added shading/textures. #artsky #Egypt #Kemeticism #Goddess

In this illustration for my upcoming Oz novel “Zinnia’s Wish”, Zinnia enjoys some pumpkin spice tea with Jack Pumpkinhead. #WizardOfOz #Illustration #ArtSky #JackPumpkinhead

Alcatraz High School: Celestial Daddy Issues Page 8 You probably know by now that Harry doesn’t follow advice very well. But at least he’s not getting mixed up with Zeus and Hera. You can find previous pages on the official website: alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com #artsky #nephthys #webcomic

This is the scene in “Zinnia’s Wish”, my upcoming Oz novel, where Zinnia first puts on her gloves, gifted to her by Ozma so that she doesn’t accidentally кill anyone with her “Touch of Death” that she wished upon herself. #WizardofOz #illustration #ArtSky #Ozma

The latest illustration for my upcoming Oz novel “Zinnia’s Wish” is from the chapter where Zinnia is under house arrest in the palace after wishing for the power to bring death into Oz. The art on the wall is a redraw of a John R Neill illustration. #illustration #wizardofoz #ArtSky #Ozma

This is a scene in my novel where Zinnia and her friends stop to spend the night with a family of bee keepers, who’s problem is that when the spell that keeps people in Oz from aging took hold, it left their son a baby for over a century, not even old enough to safely eat honey. #WizardOfOz #ArtSky

I spent today working on this illustration for my upcoming Oz book “Zinnia’s Wish”, of Woot the Wanderer and Zinnia setting out on their journey from the Emerald City, consulting his map of Oz. #ArtSky #Goth #WizardOfOz #Illustration

Alcatraz High School: Celestial Daddy Issues Page 7 You can find this and previous pages on my Facebook page, as well as on the official website, where you can also check out some character bios and the official blog: alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com #artsky #webcomic #Nephthys

An unfinished illustration for “Zinnia’s Wish”. This is Scraps the Patchwork Girl, a living dummy from L. Frank Baum’s “The Patchwork Girl of Oz”, and essentially my main character Zinnia’s complete opposite. #ArtSky #WizardOfOz #PatchworkGirl #Illustration

This is Lan and Zinnia, the first illustration for my upcoming Oz book Zinnia’s Wish. I was originally going to leave it as line art, but Zinnia just doesn’t look goth enough unless you shade her in. This is a rough draft. First illustration of many. #ArtSky #WizardOfOz #Illustration

Alcatraz High School: Celestial Daddy Issues Page 6 You can find this and previous pages on the official website, and also check out some character bios and the official blog: alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com #ArtSky #Webcomic #GrimReaper #Medjed #Nephthys

Been a while since I shared some art, as I’ve been working on the illustrations for my upcoming novel. But I haven’t completely neglected my webcomic. Here’s a sneak peek at Medjed, a ghost-like ancient Egyptian deity only mentioned in the Book of the Dead. #ArtSky #AncientEgypt #Kemeticism

Here’s the cover art for my upcoming novel “Zinnia’s Wish” by Kamui Ayami. Set in Oz in the 2020s, and based heavily on the original book series, it tackles the issue of immortality in Oz and its many drawbacks. #novel #coverart #wizardofoz

Page 4 of the Alcatraz High School short “Celestial Daddy Issues” is up. Progress has been a bit slow while I work on publishing my upcoming novel “Zinnia’s Wish”. Read more of the comic here: alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com/comics/347/ #Webcomic #ArtSky #Sutekh #Wepwawet

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I’ve updated my “The Decades in Music” mega-playlist, it goes back to 1970 now. These are my favorite songs of each year from 1970 to today. And yes, there’s still a lot of great music coming out in the 2020s. 🎧 surenity2.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-...

In planning for illustrations for my upcoming book “Zinnia’s Wish” I dug up some drawings I did of Ms. Zinnia Gair from her appearance in my webcomic a couple years ago. I won’t copy them outright but they’re certainly helpful as concept art. #Art #ArtSky

Here are the ancient Egyptian and Armenian holidays I will be observing this month. It’s quite packed, and Hathor gets two overlapping month-long festivities. surenity2.blogspot.com/2025/04/arme...

Today is the Feast of Set, Lord of the Oasis. In celebration, here’s a drawing of Set from my upcoming comic page in Alcatraz High. 𓇼𓀢𓏛𓇓𓍢𓏏𓐍𓃩𓀭, Սութեխի պա՝ռք! #Sutekh #Kemeticism #AncientEgypt #ArtSky #Art

My art of a pissed-off Thoth. He’s a really nice guy until you steal his book.

Some honest early impressions I have on BlueSky, both good and bad. Don’t worry, though imperfect this place is still better than Facebook in my opinion, and definitely better than the dumpster fire that is Twitter. surenity2.blogspot.com/2025/03/earl...

Page 3 of the Alcatraz High School short “Celestial Daddy Issues” is up. Read more of the comic here: alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com/comics/347/ #Webcomic #ArtSky #Thoth #Wepwawet

One of my sketches from back in the day; it always bothered me in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West how Fievel could turn his hat inside out and it became a cowboy hat. So I drew what everyone else in the movie saw. #ArtSky #TraditionalArt #AnAmericanTail #Fievel

I met St. Petersburg, Florida’s oldest resident yesterday, an anonymous 3,000 year old mummified Egyptian woman, who had previously been a carnival attraction before being donated to the St. Petersburg Museum of History in 1922. #ancientegypt #Kemeticism surenity2.blogspot.com/2025/03/st-p...

On this day in 1992, Billy became a bully, as told by this short comic I drew in 2021. Don’t forget to wear green, or your nonconformity will be punished. #Webcomic #ArtSky

I finished like the 20-something-th draft of my Oz novel “Zinnia’s Wish” just now. About time too, she’s been about waiting about seven years for her story to be told. Next step, when I have enough money I send it to an editor, hopefully next month. I’ll be self-publishing.

My wife Deborah and I worked together to make a homemade sistrum, a musical instrument used in ancient Egypt for rituals. I wrote a blog with the details of how we made it. #Hathor #Kemeticism #PaganSky #ArtSky surenity2.blogspot.com/2025/03/maki...

I lost my stylus for like the thousandth time and can’t draw. So instead I’ve been looking back at my older comic pages. One page I feel still holds up is this one, in which we see how Mike reacts to “Cold Category”. For context: alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com/comics/171/#... #goth #ArtSky

I need to look up Paralyzed Age, but I knew all the other bands listed. At least the guy at the end didn’t say Marilyn Manson.

Page 2 of the Alcatraz High School short “Celestial Daddy Issues” is up. Terrible people always seem to have all the luck, don’t they? Read more of the comic here: alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com/comics/346/ #ArtSky #Webcomic #Thoth

My latest blog, “Day of the Fight on Behalf of Sutekh the Great-One: Fighting Against The Nothing”, is up. In it I compare G’Mork and the Nothing from the film The NeverEnding Story to A𓌜p𓌜e𓌜p𓌜 and those in power who seek to demoralize us. #PaganSky #Kemeticism surenity2.blogspot.com/2025/02/day-...

This is some concept art for my webcomic of the Incan God of the Underworld, Supay. My wife Deborah (who is half-Peruvian) got a 3D print done which will help. He’s a very colorful deity, a challenge to draw but I’m up for trying. #Supay #Peru

“I realize that from the cradle up I’ve been much like the rest of the race. Never quite sane at night.” -Mark Twain youtu.be/DuE-fSKDnXU?...

Oziana 2024 is now available, a collection of art and writing having to do with the Land of Oz books by L. Frank Baum and others. I contributed the artwork “The Moment Glinda Won Oz”, and the short story “Hope Melts Eternal”. #WizardofOz #Oz #ArtSky www.lulu.com/shop/dj-tyre...

It is the ancient Armenian holiday of Trndez today, where lovers join hands and jump over a bonfire to purify and bring good fortune for the coming year. A few years ago I wrote an educational blog about the holiday. #PaganSky #Armenia surenity2.blogspot.com/2020/02/trnd...

Thank you for the 100+ follows! I’m meeting all sorts of interesting people on BlueSky. The art community alone is way above anything you would find back on Facebook. In celebration, I dusted off and updated this Meet the Artist graphic I first drew a couple years back. #ArtSky #SelfPortrait

My wife was making ghost-shaped cake pops, and we had the idea to base them on the minor Egyptian deity #Medjed, who was known for having laser eyes and looking like a bedsheet ghost with feet. The belt/bandana is from a sour belt candy. #Kemeticism #PaganSky en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medjed

Page 1 of the new Alcatraz High School short “Celestial Daddy Issues” is up! What will happen when Anubis and Set are finally in the same room together? #ArtSky #Webcomic #Thoth #AncientEgypt Read the rest of the comic here: alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com/comics/345/#...

Page 1 of the new Alcatraz High School short “Celestial Daddy Issues” is shaping up, as Harry continues Thoth’s (aka Djehuti) Introduction to the Astral Realm class, with his bully’s older brother Sid as a troublesome classmate. #Thoth #ArtSky #Art #Webcomic

Still got to be Covenant - Nexus Polaris. So much stuff going on, I love the blues and purples, and that mysterious woman at the center of it all who looks like she’s about to cast some kind of energy attack. It matches the vibes of the music too, which is melodic black metal.

I just encountered the hugest #Moth I have ever seen! Like I’ve seen birds smaller than this thing. And those pretty feather-like eyebrows. I don’t know if the photos do it justice.

My favorite thrift store stopped carrying #VHS and #cassettes, this was the last they had. I haven’t been this bummed since Blockbuster Video stopped carrying VHS. I have a mountain of VHS tapes I need to digitize anyway. On the bright side, that sealed TDK SA was a steal.

Random micro-blog thought: One of the many things that stops me from doing the “not all men” thing when someone bashes the male gender is remembering that for the most part they haven’t exactly been nice to me over the years either.

My DVD Recorder has to be the best thing I’ve purchased in years. Is recording off streaming services to DVD any less ethical than recording from cable TV to VHS back in the day? I dunno, but nothing’s guaranteed to be streaming forever, just saying.

Here’s my upcoming calendar of Kemetic and ancient Armenian pagan holidays this month. Might give you some ideas for alternatives to Valentine’s Day, such as Trndez, where lovers jump over bonfires for good luck, or the Feast of Nut. #PaganCalendar #PaganSky surenity2.blogspot.com/2025/02/arme...

I still try to keep the Saturday morning cartoon tradition alive with my kid, but without cable TV and its brainwashing, unskippable commercial breaks that constitute the real brain rot people don’t talk about. Anyway, Tom and Jerry marathon on YouTube. www.youtube.com/live/XDFKfdi...

It would be nice to go back to Garni Temple soon. We’ll see how things pan out this year.

Careful out there today, it’s one of those combo adverse/favorable days where the morning is favorable and the rest of the day is adverse (𓄤𓊢𓊢). But it’s also a Set holiday. Who’s he going to be fighting, I wonder? That dastardly serpent, perhps? #Kemeticism #PaganCalendar