“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.

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. 👁️

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.

I'm an elder millenial (1981) and I didn't picture my adulthood at all, really. I grew up in a chaotic environment which I didn't want to be a part of and even now I have a threadbare desire to exist. Maybe that sounds petulant, but I've always felt like an outside observer wearing a human suit. 👽

This is gonna get me on blocklists again probably, but if you're mad about my overrated choice, you'll be extra mad that I almost put FF7 there. 💋 Make your own here: grids.fun/t/about-me-v...

The character // vs // how you drew them 🪄

evergreen

the icon // the artist // the work 🪷

There is a recurrent fantasy where I get to become a sort of sentient nothingness and the memory everyone or everything had of me vanishes without trace. Just a thing that exists outside of time and perception with the remembrance of a life that by all accounts never happened.

Unbelievably excited to share what I just found out! Sacred Trees has been officially announced - I'll be working on a new book with Kate Zimmerman and publishing with Andrews McMeel. Huge, massive thank you to my agent, Jessica Mileo, for always believing in my work and advocating for me!!

Sometimes I enjoy painting the mundane with slight distortion. Nothing is wrong but everything is.

Monster Hunter Stories 3 is one of the prettiest games I've ever played, wow.

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

Re: my last reposts “Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.

It is shocking that 10 years have passed since Bloodborne was released! An absolute favorite of mine. 🩸

Eponymously named for my favorite thing I paint less and less.☁️ #humanmade

One day I will post the new art I've been toiling on, but until then bear witness to the revelation that I recursively and unintentionally recreate the same feeling over and over ad nauseum. 👥 My human experience is a mirror trap. 🪞

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

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The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art) Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...

Old sketch that I was thinking about this morning. Spirit Walker "Only the birds can see you, Only the birds know what you've done"

This was more difficult to narrow down than I thought! I opted for titles that were influential as opposed to strictly favorites. 💛 my9games.com 1. Lunacy 2. Shining Force 3. Illusion of Gaia 4. FF6 5. Shadow of the Colossus 6. Okami 7. Dragon's Dogma 8. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture 9. Inside

Chicago.

I feel like my dog is literally a manifestation of beauty 😭🖤

I was in "Who's Who Among American Highschool Students"😂

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org