Tiger swallowtail detail 💛 Currently available on my website: www.nataliejunewernimoon.com #painting #butterfly #entomology #lepidoptera #sciart #insects #bugs #butterflies #paintings #art

We had another fresh snowfall early this morning. When I went to bed at 2:30am those big,fluffy flakes were softly falling, illuminated by the streetlights. There are so many awful things in the world right now. I’m thankful for snow and how it transforms everything. It’s so sparkly & bright today.

Mokey Fraggle watercolour work-in-progress.

Scraping snow off of the end of the driveway and a neighbour pauses on their walk past. Neighbour: “Oh, I was hoping to see some of your sidewalk chalk art on my walk!” *looks around at the snow covering EVERYTHING after our first big snow of the year* Me: “Uhhh..heh…maybe after things dry out?!”

it's my birthday today. i ask that you please make a shitty little drawing in a journal without posting it and revel in your human heart. maybe write a nasty curse against an ai bro in the same journal. 😌

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

Out for a night-time walk to admire the snow and took an Album Cover photo by accident.

Do you have the most comprehensive guide to modern comic lettering ever written? It's just $13.34 on Amazon, and it's still got 4.8 stars! 256 pages, full color! Written by Nate Piekos, Introduction by Tom Orzechowski, and published by Image! AMAZON: buff.ly/3SJCQjy

Just learned that Snuffy’s first name is Aloysius.

Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

This chocolate-dipped donut watercolour is up in the shop! www.etsy.com/ca/listing/4...

Out for a night-time walk to admire the snow and took an Album Cover photo by accident.

Poké Ball Battlers, anyone? (I bought a small bag of toys at the local thrift shop for a vintage TMNT figure and these were inside.)

Quite. Everyone panicking about the Wikipedia “AI deal”: this is just making the AI bros pay for what they’ve been stealing until now (and presumably hammering the Wikipedia servers in the process).

We’re getting snow, today! You can’t even see the pond at the moment. (Just looking through my photos to see what the garden looks like when it’s awake, for comparison.)

Some scribbly lil cats 🐱✏️ [ #cuteart #traditionalart #artshop ]

Comic-Con should be a celebration of illustrators, comic artists, writers and so on. Elevating the actual craftsmen and women who make the works that fans love! Instead it opens the door to slop that can only exist due to the stolen work of those same creatives, to then displace creatives. Gross!

re: SDCC allowing GenAI into their art show. SDCC costs creators *thousands* of dollars to attend and they think this is ok? Readers, attendees, and creators alike need to let them know there’s no place for GenAI in the arts, period. here’s their contact page www.comic-con.org/contact/

The trick to not eating the donut you’re using for a reference is to eat another donut, instead.

Heyoooo #PortfolioDay! I’m Alex, a Canadian illustrator/cartoonist on the prairies. Mostly focusing on tabling/print sales and taking on mural work at this time while I finish my first graphic novel!! #art 🌱 aplante.com/portfolio aplante.com/shop (🇨🇦) www.inprnt.com/gallery/apla... (elsewhere)

The trick to not eating the donut you’re using for a reference is to eat another donut, instead.

Hey #PortfolioDay, I'm an award-winning Canadian cartoonist & illustrator - I'd love to draw your comic cover, album cover, or any of your other strange and wonderful ideas! 🌎https://www.cuckoosnestpress.com/ ✉️[email protected] 🛒https://ko-fi.com/elainemwill/shop

Always repost a cute Donnie

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

Brother Gregor of the Order of Ascalaphid Come visit him this weekend at @ane.boston!

There’s a Fraggle in the Foxglove!

There’s a Fraggle in the Foxglove!

Listening to @fearlessfred.bsky.social reminisce about 60’s Batman and I remember watching the re-runs after school in the 90’s and going to school and joking about it with friends the next day. Bat-alphabet-soup-decoder was a fave ridiculous bat-gadget.

Drawing Gobo in my garden.

Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people. Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.

Visual art is 80% learning to see. That means not only learning how to see, understand and evaluate the world around you, the human figure etc. But it also means learning to see, understand and evaluate your own work. Seeing is the hardest part to teach and the hardest part to learn.

Anyone seeing Labyrinth in theatre this weekend?

In light of what happened to Renee Good, I thought it important to reiterate my grandmother's advice.

Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.” So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?

A drizzly day here on the edge of Lake Ontario. My pockets are full of smooth stones. (Should have brought a bag.)

“Do not get lost in a sea of despair.” - John Lewis #RIP

Sitting here, annoyed with myself for making Miss Piggy too tall in this painting.

Come and get your Valentine's Pigeons, a gift that lasts! So long as you order this weekend, I can guarantee they will ship in time for v-day! 🛒 VerdantSculpts.com #art #sculpture #birds #pigeon #bsnm

Taking art commissions to help Minnesota ACLU. DM inquiries.

Boober Fraggle for @2ndhandsquirrel.bsky.social !

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

In case you need some love on your timeline.

In case you need some love on your timeline.

Makers, dreamers, peddlers of whimsy and art (or your cats) Do NOT stop posting here. Post without apology, without fear of feeling your contribution to this moment to be trite or unnecessary. Your posts keep us all regulated, alive to joy, connected to our shared humanity. You are necessary.

Current mood. Definitely.