Best of the Net nominees! Including @demisty.bsky.social @kcmeadbrewer.com @patrickcrerand.bsky.social @carrieconners.bsky.social @dsrandol.bsky.social & @jiksuncheung.bsky.social

Our hearts are very full after Amsterdam ❤️ Some quick sketches, watercolors, mixed media experiments, and alien robots while on the road.

Huge thank you to our Blue Frog Guest Artist @jiksuncheung.bsky.social !! Each of these three pieces is absolutely stunning! 🙏🏼💙

We drank down to our socks and jerked each other off with Electric Melon sweat, kissing until his braces cut my lip. “You’ve gotta drift when you hit those corners man,” he slurred, after finishing me off at Mario Kart too. An exquisite story by @kyleisamu.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social 🔥

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 🥇THE BLUE FROG 1ST PLACE WINNER!🥇 “Materials Needed” by @kyleisamu.bsky.social is now up! Art by @jiksuncheung.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2025/03/31/m...

"When attempting to navigate the perilous waters of a threesome, there is only one way to ensure safe passage: you must always be the third." A stunning and provocative piece by Alison Morretta in @flashfrog.bsky.social Honored to be contributing art to this story, thank you 🙏❤️

A absolutely stunning, bittersweet piece by @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social. Go read it now! So honored to contribute a watercolor to this story 🙏 The original painting will be on the way to you soon, Matt!

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 🥉The Blue Frog 3rd Place Winner!🥉 “Gulls of the Algarve” by @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social is now up! Art by @jiksuncheung.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2025/03/17/g...

My story, "Gulls of the Algarve," is live! Thank you so much to @flashfrog.bsky.social, @ericscottryon.bsky.social, Gina Chung, and @jiksuncheung.bsky.social for helping make this piece special to me.

🚨EXCITING NEWS! The BLUE FROG 3rd place winner — “Gulls of the Algarve” by @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social — will publish tomorrow!! 👀

With stunning new artwork by @jiksuncheung.bsky.social 👇🏼👇🏼

The 2025 Blue Frog Finalists are here! 🐸💙

I think I have subject matter ADHD whereby I'll be working on some technique or thing and then I'll FOMO and jump ship to some other thing. Anyway, it's faces lately, in this delicious palm green ink muddled with water.

Spent the afternoon drawing faces with the 7yo. A quick study from an internet reference, using this gorgeous vintage Cartier fountain pen from my mom ❤️

Tree blobs in watercolor

I'm not religious, but last year we went to 蓮花宮 to ask the gods (and there were a whole assembly of them inside) to watch over us in the Year of the Dragon. Now that the year is almost over, we returned to 蓮花宮 to 還神, literally to repay the gods for good year. And to do a sketch:

I'm thrilled to share my story, "The Free Throw Shooter," published on Short Story, Long by the greatest of editors, @aaronburch.bsky.social, with illustrations I LOVE by @jiksuncheung.bsky.social. I hope you read it and if you do I hope you like it. ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/the-free-t...

I'd worked with Peter at The Bureau Dispatch so when @aaronburch.bsky.social invited me to do the art for "The Free Throw Shooter" in Short Story, Long it was an immediate resounding ✨YES✨ It's an absolutely stunning piece. I'm honored to contribute some artwork to it. Enjoy! ❤️

So very excited to be in this issue of @barrelhouse.bsky.social! Thank you @writesloud.bsky.social! And omg that cover art by @jiksuncheung.bsky.social 😍

Had so much fun doing the cover art for @writesloud.bsky.social’s latest anthology of parenting stories with a musical twist in @barrelhouse.bsky.social! Can you spot the baby crow?? 🐦‍⬛ Be sure to click through to read all the stunning stories ❤️

Thrilled to share this new online issue of @barrelhouse.bsky.social! I love, love, LOVE these stories! www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/b...

Writer friends: so excited to be painting the artwork for your winning stories. Send in your best flash fiction!! ❤️

Some mysteriously nondescript buildings dappled with afternoon light. Admiralty, opposite Island Shangri-La. Did some sleuthing and the buildings are unmarked on Google Maps—what they are?? 🤔🤔🤔 Wrong answers only.

One more sleep for @smokelong.bsky.social On the Road in Singapore! Looking forward to reading with these amazing writers.

@kcmeadbrewer.com @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @alisonstine.bsky.social @rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social @ericscottryon.bsky.social @demisty.bsky.social @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social @cameronmackenzie.bsky.social @annagatesha.bsky.social and Michael Rowe! And cover art from @jiksuncheung.bsky.social!

Finishing up edits on this upcoming online @barrelhouse.bsky.social issue, and omgg these stories! parenting + music icons = 🔥

🚨The Blue Frog is now open! Theme: Voice Guest Judge: Gina Chung Guest Artist: @jiksuncheung.bsky.social $5 entry fee // $700 in prizes!! flash-frog.com/contest/

Some reminders for getting back into the practice of art after the holidays: 1) Stop thinking about creating the next "masterpiece".

"Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow...You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something." ~Kurt Vonnegut

Here's a little #artvsartist. Thankful to have been able to afford the time and space to make and share are—not everyone gets the opportunity to do so, so I'm extremely grateful. 🙏 We're on the road again from tomorrow so here's to a very Merry Christmas and an art-filled New Year! ❤️

My first 500 followers! I wanted to get a few words in before the imposter syndrome kicks in 😂 Building up a profile here as a painter when most of you know me from the old bird place as a writer feels a little strange but I've gotten nothing but love and support—thank you thank you 🙏❤️

if you're not already following this account, you're missing out! @jiksuncheung.bsky.social has some of the dreamiest sketches/paintings, turning the most mundane places into works of art!

Christmas vibes. Watercolor on A3 hot pressed paper #painting

You’ll—and I mean this sincerely—have to pry the em dash from my cold, dead hands.

Some weekend sardines in crayons and watercolors.

🐸💙2025 Blue Frog!💙🐸 Theme: “Voice” Guest Judge: Gina Chung Guest Artist: @jiksuncheung.bsky.social flash-frog.com/contest/

Thrilled and so looking forward to creating artwork for the winners of the 2025 Blue Frog ✨ 😭 Submit those stories!! 🙏 #flashfiction #writingcommunity

Hello friends! If you're looking for amazing painters on Bluesky—I've put together a handy list of some of the most inspiring working painters and hobbyists I've come across on this platform posting artwork regularly. See you around! go.bsky.app/KsQyqmy

As much as I love this little plaza on Braemar Hill, the place is starting to look a little post apocalyptic 😅 Quick thumbnail note & a bit of paint.

Hey friends! Quick survey: I read that bluesky's default feed is chronological so it would be super helpful to know when you're all on here (most of my followers are not in the same timezone) When do you use bluesky? What timezone are you in? I'm usually on at 9:30pm GMT+8, see you around!

Need some inspiration for your #FlashMonster entry? Check out our 2022 issue, which also ran in December, for some festively frightening #flashfiction ideas. Soft deadline is in 7 days! #writingcontest themolotovcocktail.com/past-contest...

Hey friends! Quick survey: I read that bluesky's default feed is chronological so it would be super helpful to know when you're all on here (most of my followers are not in the same timezone) When do you use bluesky? What timezone are you in? I'm usually on at 9:30pm GMT+8, see you around!

I love the storytelling side of painting and work mainly in watercolors, gouache, and ink. I sketch as a form of note taking. I'm currently working on an art commission with an amazing novelist on a novel coming out in 2025—can't wait to share more when the time comes!

I mean I guess I could've gone with something else but anyway here's a self portrait of me wearing my 5yo's Halloween costume. And a digital egg. Just saying hi again to all my writer and painter friends. Previously submissions editor at SQL, EIC of The Bureau Dispatch, and now painter of things.

Our upcoming issue of "Baby One More Time" is going to be 🔥 and this cover is perfect! Can't wait to share it!

It's been a looong while since I've typed these words, but I'VE GOT SOME WORK 😭 Not words, but artwork. Thank you @writesloud.bsky.social for commissioning the cover for a forthcoming @barrelhouse.bsky.social online edition, I'm so honored to be a part of this—the stories are PHENOMENAL. THANK YOU ❤️

Send in the clowns. #sketchbook

Some quick experiments with conté and watercolor. The crayons blend and get all smudgy when you add a little water—which I loveeeee. An old lighthouse from a reference photo and the view outside my window.

DEATH ON THE SWAYBACK Preorders open December 1! Here's the GR page: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

This is the new forever home, right? Right?? I'm so tired, I want to land somewhere. *says he, while juggling IG, Threads, X, FB*