I received and put up this absolutely beautiful piece by @maxbanshees.com! Very inspirational! Others visible: @nataliehall.bsky.social @himmapaan.bsky.social @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social @celineloup.bsky.social @beavs.bsky.social and myself!

Dandelion Acryla gouache

bird people

Behenia, Ritual II Procyon, Body of the Little Canid 🌟: Nereid🧞‍♀️: Cancer♋ Additional info in alt-text and links to cleaner/uncompressed images in the thread 👁️

I said these would be released at the beginning of each month, but it's looking more like every six weeks. So, the next one will be published soon!

"He smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight"

The Front Endpaper of ‘The Bone Shard Emperor’ by Andrea Stewart 💙 (3/6) Book 2’s endpapers were the most fun of the six! I loved painting the intricate details and flow of all the characters/creatures here 💛

Mentally I’m always here.

Anyone else experiencing a sustained disassociation/derealization state?

I rather enjoy painting fire 🔥

To me, my divas Happy Pride season 💐🏳️‍🌈💐💃🏿💐

I deleted my linktree a few months ago because of their crazy pricing but this is even more insidious. There are suggestions in the original thread for alternatives.

I'm loyal to no platform and in light of bsky choosing to shadowban accounts for "adult content", make sure you can keep up with me somewhere: Patreon: www.patreon.com/cw/tendermia... IG: www.instagram.com/tendermiasma/ Twitter: x.com/tendermiasma Tumblr: tendermiasma.tumblr.com

friendly reminded that AI is literally the worst invention ever it spreads misinformation, has destructive impact on environment, poisons entire neighborhoods, people are losing jobs because of it, art gets devalued, it's used for war it literally has an influence on EVERY aspect of life

Artists, it looks like Adobe might be doing very questionable things at the moment by auto-enrolling you into a more expensive AI-heavy "pro" plan (potentially even charging you for opting out after the fact, which I should hope is illegal). Be vigilant 🧵 see further posts below

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

It turns out it's fine lol. Maybe the lesson here is actually go to sleep and look at your works with fresh eyes instead of sending yourself into a shame spiral over what is effectively meaningless self-critique. There are no rules, everything is made up! Free yourself!

Ever work on a piece for several hours (like 8) between a couple of sessions and then open an earlier version and have a breakdown because it was better before? This just happened to be yesterday and I'm still reeling from it. 😩

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

I feel you Willow.

bleed

Sneak peek WIP of the next Behenia image 💋 👑

You have until May 22 to comment! It's simple and takes a few minutes, here's what I said below. 🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏽

“Use AI or get left behind!” Please, leave me behind. Drop me off on the side of the road somewhere. Sentence me to a remote cabin with a typewriter and some wildflowers that don’t know how to use the internet

Memento Mori: A Selection

It's unclear when I'll actually get to painting this fully, but here's a composition of a mermaid from my upcoming project. I love mermaids, but don't participate in #mermay frequently.

"It's not the height, but the space between that matters" I painted this a long time ago, but this movie is often on my mind.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the starslayers out there who are the ruin of their mother’s lives (or so we’re told) 😂. Be free! 💫

Does anyone else have this BGM pop into their heads when doing mundane tasks like folding laundry or watering succulents? It happens so often! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgG6...

This is what I point to when folks try to justify genAI. "It's not so bad as long as they don't sell it." Meanwhile, these data centers are swallowing up resources, ruining local water infrastructure, & not really caring. All for plagiarized slop. It's gross. Every use counts. Every single one.

no one is coming to save us

siren warship #mermay

My legal team is now working on copyright cases against SHEIN. They were the first place that counterfeits of my work started showing up and I am glad to be able to finally go after them. If you have had your art ripped, please contact Justice for Artists. They won a huge case for me last year.

Actually you know what, let me just

Kono Onigoroshi - Yoko Kanno Paragon Point - Tim Hecker Simulations in Stasis I - bvdub Le Printemps - Natacha Atlas Dream it Right - Johnny Nash A Model of Reality (Tor Remix) - Max Cooper Yona 1.1 - Ash Koosha Sekihi wa Kataru - Kenji Kawai Nest (Portico Quartet Remix) Pyrrhic - Julianna Barwick

Behenia Capella, Goat Shoulder of Auriga 🌟: Faun 🐐: Aries ♈ Finally releasing the collection of work that I began last year(!). Each one will be posted at the start of the month, for sixteen months. Additional info in alt-text and links to cleaner/uncompressed images in the thread. 👁️

sing to me, sing to me, let me enfold you here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you 💧

Back on my bullshit 😆 #DD2 Crown (Main) & Sceptre (Pawn)

Btw, this is my absolute favorite type of music if anyone is interested 🖤 It makes me feel like I'm recalling an alternate reality where I exist solely as bird song or ocean waves or melancholy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx_o...

Gotta love when you receive an email for a commission inquiry but they put someone else's name in the greeting/introduction. 😆 Must be a HUGE fan of my work lol.

easy peasy

I know it has been mentioned ad nauseum but the carousel thing is truly abysmal wow.

Happy Earth Day.

It would be remiss of me to not include the two portraits I painted of my beloved dogs that passed in 2017. ❤️‍🩹 🐾

I'm never more active on social media than when I'm waiting for something to load/arrive/finish/process. Impatience is a tool of capitalism.

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As someone whose favorite color is yellow, buying yellow anything online is a nightmare. Every single online seller falsely edits yellows in product photos, I absolutely hate it!!!! Golden yellow? nope orange, or maybe green! You want saffron yellow? nope tan! Mustard yellow?? also tan. Misery.

Here’s just ONE of the artists Marvel Studios let go today: Wesley Burt, a brilliant veteran, one of the best in the industry. He made the viral Fantastic Four Valentine’s day card! He was also pivotal for the look of many films and shows like for example Loki, Black Panther, Avengers and so on!

I didn’t create over 200 paintings in the last 15 years just to see 1/3 of them scraped for training data & my name abused as a prompt thousands of times. These companies are blatantly laundering copyrighted artwork, displacing the artists they stole from, & devaluing the arts as a whole. FUCK AI.