Aspects of both Slavic & Japanese culture can be seen in these illustrations by Aleksandra Łysiak, which pay homage to Hayao Miyazaki's animations while incorporating Polish aesthetics (...she created a whole 'Folk Ghibli' series a few years ago). www.jeleniara.com/sklep ••• #elizahleighartwriter

“I looked out over the beautiful expanse bathed in soft yellow moonlight till it was almost as light as day. In the soft light the distant hills melted & the shadows in the valleys & gorges of velvety blackness.”― Bram Stoker 🎨 by nathanieljmoody.com ••• #elizahleighartwriter #nathanieljmoody #art

⭐🌙Forest Guardian, Portal Keeper (2023) by Brooklyn, NY-based illustrator and tattoo artist Gaby Verdooren. /)/) ( ᴗ͈ ᴗ͈) c( づ★‧₊˚⋆ www.instagram.com/b.ruja hestattoo.com/book-gaby ••• #elizahleighartwriter #gabyverdooren #art #artwork #alternativeart #characterdesign

“Before the blue of night meets the pink of sunrise, there is a transition of lavender. It's a gradient of color that stretches its fade through time and that gives each moment a unique and exquisite existence.”― Jarod Kintz 🎨by kimsalt.com •• #elizahleighartwriter #kimsalt #illustration #painting

This Vietnamese artist's vibrant & ornamental creative output is so obviously imbued with her hereditary DNA that you could easily recognize it across a very crowded room🌟😍🌟😍🌟 www.cameliapham.com •• #elizahleighartwriter #cameliapham #trapham #illustration #digitalillustration #colorful #drawing

What a heavenly way to depict the merging of hearts and souls💗🪷🌹💞🩷🌸 🎨ARTWORK DETAILS🎨 Title: "Surfing on Pollen" Artist: Reynier Llanes Marquez Medium: Oil and mixed media on canvas Dimensions: 60” x 54” Date: 2025 reynierllanes.com ••• #elizahleighartwriter #painting #oilpainting #love #flowers

Striking multi-cultural portraiture by Lara Hochreiter🌟 www.instagram.com/lara.hoch_pa... ••• #elizahleighartwriter #larahochreiter #larahoch #art #artwork #alternativeart #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #fineart #oilpainting #painting #portraitart

This is a rather fabulous feline PAINTING🖌️- NOT a photo! - and yes...I zoomed wayyyyy the heck IN just to double check🧐 🎨: "Guimauve and the Peonies", oil on canvas (2025) by www.rebecca-storm.com ••• #elizahleighartwriter #rebeccaastorm #artwork #animalart #animalpainting #blackcat #blackcats

Artistic inspiration by Giuditta Bertoni, who creates a soothing atmosphere in her art w/the intention of giving joy/calm to those who gaze at it ⋆⁺₊❅. *ੈ✩‧₊˚ *ੈ✩‧₊˚ www.instagram.com/heygiudi ••• #elizahleighartwriter

I'm grateful for the emotional solace that Jon Carraher's quietly celebratory, nature-steeped paintings - filled with wildlife innocents <embraced by moss/fern/fungi-dotted landscapes> generate within my heart. www.joncarraher.com ••• #elizahleighartwriter #joncarraher #art #contemporarypainting

🎨: Lovely calming hopeful unicorn tapestry-inspired illustration by Riley Samels aka bugboyriley - purchase a print here: www.etsy.com/listing/4453... ••• #elizahleighartwriter #rileysamels #bugboyriley #art #artwork #alternativeart #botanicalart #digitalart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration

🎨ARTWORK DETAILS🎨 Title: "Disbelief"💀🦇👻 Artist: Amy Earles Medium: Gouache Date: 2020 cara.app/amyearles www.pushedunder.com www.instagram.com/amy_earles ••• #elizahleighartwriter #amyearles #art #artwork #animalart #alternativeart #bats #contemporarypainting #darkart #darksurrealism #death

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”― Rebecca West 🎨: "Anna with Knives" (2023)🔪🔪🔪by Jansson Stegner www.janssonstegner.com ••• #elizahleighartwriter

🎨ARTWORK IN THIS POST🎨 Title: Love Light Magic Artist: Rebecca Leveille Guay Medium: Oil, Ink, Wax on Canvas Dimensions: 24 inches x 30 inches Date: 2024 ARTIST CONTACT DEETS www.rleveille.com www.facebook.com/rebeccaguayc... www.instagram.com/rebecca_leve... ••• #elizahleighartwriter #painting

Irresistibly theatrical images by photographer / art director Szilveszter Mako in which his fondness for utilizing natural light as well as homemade sets truly elevates each final image. www.facebook.com/szilveszterm www.instagram.com/szilveszterm... ••• #elizahleighartwriter #szilvesztermako

The night passed away & the sun rose from the ocean. My feelings became calmer if it may be called calmness when the violence of rage sinks into the depths of despair~ Mary Shelley 🎨Frankenstein fan art inspired by Guillermo del Toro's film www.inprnt.com/gallery/gvales ••• #elizahleighartwriter

"I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to be true and live up to what light I have."― Abraham Lincoln 🎨ARTWORK IN THIS POST🎨 Title: "I Die To Give Life" 命をあげるため、死ぬ Artist: Hope Doe Medium: Watercolor/Liquid Acrylics/Sumi Ink Date: 2025 www.artofhopedoe.com ••• #elizahleighartwriter #hopedoe

Striking cover art for the paperback edition of Kenzo Kitakata's neo-noir "The Woman in a Black Dress", created with 'less is more' perfection by Tatsuro Kiuchi *(YES, affordable prints of this cool piece are available).🍸🎞️🎥✨ www.inprnt.com/gallery/kiuc... ••• #elizahleighartwriter #tatsurokiuchi

Regarding this work of art (with three assault-rifle-toting angels ?!?!), the artist notes: "This is Earth, where we cannot fly like birds. We speak a different language than dogs & eat different food than cats. It's certainly not paradise." 🥺 www.instagram.com/ye_roong ••• #elizahleighartwriter

“Crisis”, acrylic on watercolor paper - created many years ago by Eric Fortune - yet I look at what he's depicted & think that it speaks to our continually turbulent times🥺 www.ericfortune.com www.inprnt.com/gallery/eric... www.instagram.com/ericfortunea... ••• #elizahleighartwriter #ericfortune

The opening reception for Kremena Chipilova's Beinart Gallery solo show "Bird Keepers" is happening one week from today <January 31st, 5–8 pm>🌹🐝🌈🐦 kremenachipilova.com www.artsy.net/artist/kreme... beinart.org/blogs/art-bl... ••• #elizahleighartwriter #kremenachipilova #art #artwork #birdart

You'll find this delightful acrylic painting (among many others) tucked inside the soon-to-be-launching "A Midsummer Night's Dream", which is illustrated by Julien Delval and published by Éditions Caurette. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cau... ••• #elizahleighartwriter #juliendelval

Very affordable signed limited edition prints of Maena Paillet's "Crimson Tide" (digital painting, 2025) are available here👇 maenapaillet.bigcartel.com/product/pre-... ••• #elizahleighartwriter #maenapaillet #alternativeart #art #artwork #darkart #darksurrealism #darkfantasy #gothic #painting

Glorious digital collages from Milan-based Andrea Zanatelli's ongoing embroidery series🖤🖤🖤 www.andreazanatelli.com www.instagram.com/andreazanate... ••• #elizahleighartwriter #andreazanatelli #art #artist #artwork #contemporaryart #creative #collage #collageart #digitalart #digitalcollage

🎨ARTWORK DETAILS🎨 Title: "Margaret of Antioch" Artist: Ksenia Dronova Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 50 x 40 Date: 2025 www.instagram.com/art_by_kseni... ••• #elizahleighartwriter #kseniadronova #art #narrativeart #dragonart #fantasyart #oilpainting #painting #dragons #dragonart

There was a time when *poisoning* the bane of one's existence was the preferred way to take them out, a curiously intriguing topic that Lisa Perrin playfully explores via "The League of Lady Poisoners"🍷☠️🧪 www.madebyperrin.com/the-league-o... ••• #elizahleighartwriter

If we conceal our wounds out of fear & shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others. 🎨: "Weeping Peonies", watercolors/colored pencils/coffee on paper, 2018, by Enys Guerrero www.instagram.com/enysguerrero ••• #elizahleighartwriter #painting #darksurrealism

Bab's Webb's “Same Window Different Visual” solo show is coming up at Arch Enemy Arts (January 24th to February 15th) - send a quick e-mail to [email protected] w/the subject line BABS WEBB for more information. www.babswebb.com ••• #elizahleighartwriter #babswebb #darkart #darksurrealism

“I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels & fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were hell.” ― Tom Holland, "Lord of the Dead"🐺🌲♛ 🎨Art: www.instagram.com/jeannettedar... ••• #elizahleighartwriter

Incredibly painterly (yet somehow digitally rendered?!?!?!) selections from Eva Eller's mystical neo-renaissance portfolio🖌️💻 www.evaeller.ee ••• #elizahleighartwriter #evaeller #art #artwork #alternativeart #clipstudiopaint #darkart #darksurrealism #painting #digitalpainting #digitalart

This is part of 조기석 Cho Gi-Seok's "Process of Love" series from 2021, using two real human beings, skin pigments, hand-rolled paper 'spikes' & glue. www.instagram.com/chogiseok ••• #elizahleighartwriter #giseokcho #chogiseok #photography #artphotography #artisticphotography #contemporaryart

I really hope that art lovers zoom in long enough to appreciate even just the *first image* in this carousel, which is a characteristically touching visual narrative from sethpuertoluna (one of so many) x.com/sethpuertoluna ••• #elizahleighartwriter #sethpuertoluna #art #digitalillustration

Bat Girl and Bat Girl 2 were painted in oils by the always brilliant John Brophy- a perfect case of creative lightning striking twice ⚡︎⚡︎ www.johnbrophyfineart.com ••• #elizahleighartwriter #johnbrophy #painting #oilpainting #fineart #bats #batpainting #darksurrealism #gothicart #gothic #surreal

“I have laughed more than daffodils & cried more than June.”― Sanober Khan 🎨: These colored pencil drawings were created by Marco Mazzoni who illustrated volume one/two of "The Witches of Venice" / “Les Sorcieres De Venise” www.gallimard.fr/collections/... ••• #elizahleighartwriter #marcomazzoni

Have you ever laid your eyes on the sculptural whimsies that Yukiko Sakurai dreams up? It sure seems like this artist, who is wildly prolific, draws from an endless well of inspiration (please visit their website to see what I mean)✨ ysakurai.official.ec ••• #elizahleighartwriter #yukikosakurai

🎨ARTWORK DETAILS🎨 Title: "Limen" Artist: Ali Warren Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 48 × 36 inches / 121 × 90 cm Date: 2025 galleriramfjord.no/artists/ali-... ••• #elizahleighartwriter #aliwarren #surrealart #painting #oilpainting #horses #horsepainting #fineart #figurativeart #surrealism #art

"Romanticizing the past and yearning for a life that never was is my passion", confesses Nigel Graz/Nye of their many dramatically illuminated campy vampies & bewitching, midnight-prowling beauties x.com/NigelGraz ••• #elizahleighartwriter #nigelgraz #art #artwork #alternativeart #darkfantasy

🎨ARTWORK DETAILS🎨 Title: “Snowy Egret in Hiding” Artist: Kevin Sloan Medium: Acrylic on canvas Dimensions: 36” x 36” Date: 2023 www.kevinsloan.com www.instagram.com/kevinpsloan www.facebook.com/KevinSloanFi... ••• #elizahleighartwriter #kevinsloan #acrylicpainting #art #artwork #birdpainting

Previously known for her cozy/imaginative cityscapes, lately Laura El has been "leaning into goddesses, mythology & folklore, wild animals & forests" - I LOVE this very exciting leap of creative faith that Laura has been taking! www.laurael.coml ••• #elizahleighartwriter #laurael #illustration #art

The stars slowly faded as the sun began to rise & I found eternity in the morning sky. ˚　 ⋆⁺₊✦⁺₊ 　 ˚　.˚ .　 ☁.　　. 　 ˚　⁺⋆₊　.˚ .　. ✦⋆⁺₊ 　. ☁ ˚　.˚　 ✩₊˚. ☾ ⋆ ⁺₊✧  　　˚　⁺₊ . 　 ˚　.　 　⁺₊✦₊　　　 ☁ 　˚　　 . 　⁺₊✧˚　　 . 　 ˚　⁺₊˚ . "Shared disease" by x.com/clarascintilla ••• #elizahleighartwriter

This fabulous alla prima oil sketch of Mary from Ryan Coogler’s supernatural Southern Gothic thriller "Sinners" was created by Arthur Gain🖐️ 🎤 x.com/ArtGain ••• #elizahleighartwriter #art #artwork #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #oilpainting #painting #vampireart #vampires

A little bit of atmospheric magic from Chinese digital illustrator washanapple <-- on Twitter. x.com/washanapple ••• #elizahleighartwriter #washanapple #art #artwork #alternativeart #characterart #darkart #darksurrealism #darkfantasy #digitalart #digitalillustration #drawing #fantasyart

May the bats in your belfry lovingly adorn your flowing locks with a plethora of delicate forget-me-nots ݁ ๋࣭⭑𖥔 ݁ ♡˖🦇 ݁˖♡ ݁𖥔⭑ ๋࣭࿐ . 🎨: "Small Friends" (2025) by ‪Kiu aka vampiroderancho / prettydaisis. x.com/prettydaisis ••• #elizahleighartwriter #alternativeart #bats #digitalart #illustration

This lovely bit of artistic escapism conjured by Ash Jon aka airitree can be found inside Kalie Reid's newly published character-driven gothic romantasy book, "The Sacred Space Between"✨ airitree.com ••• #elizahleighartwriter #bookillustration #fantasyillustration #illustration #painting #art

Viewing this animation makes you feel as though you're savoring a not-too-elaborate yet undeniably comforting home-cooked meal. It's the simple pleasures that tend to linger within our hearts & minds the longest, wouldn't you agree? x.com/artistvvitch ••• #elizahleighartwriter #animation #art

Published by BOOM! Studios, the 12 part apocalyptic fantasy comic series "Coda" - illustrated by Eisner-nominated Matías Bergara - includes THIS stand out piece🌟 x.com/matiasbergara ••• #elizahleighartwriter #matiasbergara #art #illustration

🗓️The final days of this wild ride🎢known as 2025 call for the hushed, sun-dappled moments of serenity that Mochitarouもちたろうhas so sweetly illustrated💮🧘‍♀️☯️🍃🌼 ☺☺☺ x.com/mochitaro2019 <--this seems to be the only social media account that they have ••• #elizahleighartwriter #mochitarou #illustration #art

What fueled the creative spark for this intriguing illustration, "A Failure to Purge"? While listening to the Swedish industrial black metal group Terra Tenebrosa's single "The End Is Mine To Ride", the artist began thinking about horses. x.com/DieTodesking ••• #elizahleighartwriter #horseart

When the holly jolly spirit manages to infiltrate the otherwise murkymorbs saddling your perennially downcast soul🦇🐦‍⬛❄️🌿🔴💀 When in Rome, do as the gothy Romans do, right? x.com/artofmmignola ••• #elizahleighartwriter #mikemignola #skullart #holidayspirit #gothicart #skullart #illustration #artwork

Inspired by the "Epic of Gilgamesh" (written in cuneiform on a clay tablet), this stylistic work of art captures the moment in which the bull of heaven is sent by the outraged goddess Ishtar to kill Gilgamesh (following her failed attempt to seduce him). 🎨: x.com/poliaths ••• #elizahleighartwriter