Vanessa Gillings
@vanessagillings.bsky.social
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autistic author-illustrator 🌿 (she/her)
https://linktr.ee/vanessagillings
I'm painting again! 🎉 So far it seems that wearing cotton gloves under nitrile plus long sleeves is working to curb my allergy, hooray! For now I'm painting a bunch of silly little things to retrain my hand to work while wearing gloves, but I'm getting better each day and I'm feeling hopeful! 💛
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thanks for all the allergy advice, friends! For now, I'm going to try cotton gloves layered under powderless nitrile + long sleeves (and maybe a carbon filter mask if needed) and if that doesn't work, I might investigate homemade/small-scale gouache and paper. I'll let you know what works!
about 1 month ago
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An update on the paint allergy: Winsor Newton got back to me, and yep, they use isothiazolinone as a preservative in their paints. Now to see if literally all my supplies contain it... I'll update when I hear responses if others are interested
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So...I was just diagnosed with a Methylisothiazolinone allergy, which means I'm probably allergic to all my paints and my paper 🙃 I've emailed every manufacturer I use to ask if they use this chemical, but do any of my fellow traditional artists have paint-allergy advice? Do gloves work?
about 1 month ago
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Happy Lunar New Year! May the fire horse bring us all safety, health and happiness. 💛 [
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#kidlitart
#watercolor
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about 2 months ago
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Happy Lunar New Year! May the fire horse bring us all safety, health and happiness. 💛 [
#illustration
#kidlitart
#watercolor
#gouache
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about 2 months ago
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Happy Valentine's Day! 💌 [
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about 2 months ago
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Happy Valentine's Day! 💌 [
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about 2 months ago
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HOORAY!!! So excited for this!!
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2 months ago
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Pigeon Mail reposting a piece from my solo show at Nucleus Portland because I'm writing a little love letter for my husband for Valentines day (d'aw) [
#kidlitart
#illustration
#watercolor
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2 months ago
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Still dealing with health problems (sigh) so things have been slow-going on the work front lately, but here's a little fan art I did a while ago of Gable and Angelica from
@trungles.com
's lovely comic Angelica and the Bear Prince which felt Valentines-y 💛
2 months ago
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Beanie (Alina T)
2 months ago
Author copies of book three arrived at my door today so now I can put all of them together in a pile 🥹❤️. The latest is coming out next month!
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Still dealing with health problems (sigh) so things have been slow-going on the work front lately, but here's a little fan art I did a while ago of Gable and Angelica from
@trungles.com
's lovely comic Angelica and the Bear Prince which felt Valentines-y 💛
2 months ago
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Hey everyone! I recently updated my personal print shop with all my recent personal work, as well as my MtG pieces! I’m also offering a week-long 25% discount code on top of inprnt's 40% sale that's running: LMDM2MNG. 💛
www.inprnt.com/gallery/vane...
3 months ago
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🌸Eski🌸
3 months ago
No more terror in our streets!
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Mariah McCourt
3 months ago
Bet extremely careful about what you share today. Propaganda is going to be -everywhere- and the less unvetted info is spread the safer it will keep people. My personal view is that I will not believe a single thing this admin says about the shooting. Ever.
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Natasa Ilincic
3 months ago
Turned my frustration into art. 📜You can watch the full video & read the transcript at
natasailincic.com/fuck-ai
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Sorry to post this one separately but for some reason I didn’t see that my illustration for this card was released 😅 But anyway, here’s my third and final card for
#MTGLorwynEclipsed
! It was a lot of fun to paint a Flamekin — thank you so much to ADs Jameela Wahlgren and Aliana Rood!
3 months ago
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So cool to see these, thank you so much for sharing! 💛
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3 months ago
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Kris Easler
3 months ago
One of the things that has especially bothered me about the ICE raids is that often folks are taken with no way to contact their loved ones to let them know what happened. One of the most helpful things you can do as a legal upstander is get this info - but these abductions are chaotic at best.
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Julia Lundman
3 months ago
I really hope artists know by now that Sticker Mule is toxic sludge. There are plenty of alternatives.
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Trung Le Nguyen
3 months ago
Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis.
#iceoutmpls
#iceoutcomics
#iceoutofmpls
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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛
3 months ago
Celestial Reunion - watercolour and acryla gouache on paper for Magic: The Gathering's "Lorwyn Eclipsed". AD: Jameela Wahlgren An emotional reunion between two elemental gods. I was asked to lean into a stylized representation of them, and I had a lot of fun playing with the intertwining shapes.
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moge
3 months ago
いつか描いた馬の絵
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Abby
3 months ago
Human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you! 🦊 💧 ☁️
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Chloé Stawski
3 months ago
Human artists, use only once piece to convince people to follow you! 🪐💚
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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛
3 months ago
Flitterwing Nuisance - for Magic: The Gathering's "Lorwyn Eclipsed". AD: Jameela Wahlgren
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4 months ago
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Hooray! I'm so excited to finally get to share two of the cards I made for the new
#MTGLorwynEclipsed
set! It was such a joy to work on these and I'm still pinching myself to see my name on a magic card, how crazy! Many thanks to my amazing AD Jameela Wahlgren who was an absolute joy to work with!
3 months ago
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Hooray! I'm so excited to finally get to share two of the cards I made for the new
#MTGLorwynEclipsed
set! It was such a joy to work on these and I'm still pinching myself to see my name on a magic card, how crazy! Many thanks to my amazing AD Jameela Wahlgren who was an absolute joy to work with!
3 months ago
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Having an allergic reaction to immunosuppressants feels like it should be against the rules
3 months ago
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Yay!! It was such a joy to work with you, Jameela! Little kid me is so stoked to see my name on a Magic card! 🥹
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3 months ago
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Wolfie dunwanna (and neither do I) gouache on paper
#kidlitart
#storybookart
#childrensbookillustration
3 months ago
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I've rented for almost 20 years but I've never seen landlords as blatantly money-grubbing as they are now. My current one just tried to raise my rent by 36% to penalize me for trying to go month to month to coerce me into signing a longer term lease. Longer term lease is still $120 more/month 🫠
3 months ago
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은돌이
3 months ago
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(๑・̑◡・̑๑)
4 months ago
I’ll see yall next year ✨
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은돌이
3 months ago
(=ↀωↀ=)_ᴄᴏᴍᴍɪssɪᴏɴ
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Happy New Year, friends! My goal for 2026 is to finish drafting this trilogy! 😤
#kidlitart
#illustration
#watercolor
#gouache
3 months ago
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Happy New Year, friends! My goal for 2026 is to finish drafting this trilogy! 😤
#kidlitart
#illustration
#watercolor
#gouache
3 months ago
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은돌이
4 months ago
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JesteniaS
3 months ago
All the birds together. I'd like to update this into a true print...soon!
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#illustration
#watercolor
#gouache
#kidlitart
#childrensillustration
4 months ago
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Maxine Vee
4 months ago
Tea and Books 🫖📚
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4 months ago
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Mari Costa
4 months ago
hes so beautiful (and yanthe is there too)
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SimzArt
4 months ago
Envision. 🎇
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🌿viktor aleksander🌿🌸looking for work!🌸
4 months ago
looking for work to be lined up once i fully recover from top surgery in March 2026! hire your local freshly flat chested trans man next year! 🏳️⚧️💖
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Heralding something new 🍂🔔
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#forestart
4 months ago
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❄️🦋
#kidlitart
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4 months ago
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Naomi @ FWA DD
4 months ago
I wanted to make an enamel pin to honor Nezuko, who tragically passed away a week ago. With costs being over $15,000, sales would help relieve some of the costs. This enamel pin shows the loyalty of the amazing Akitainu, with the most famous being Hachiko.
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