ugly stepsister
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My latest piece, Elegant Chicken Legs. As Frank Reynolds says, “I don’t know how much time I got left. I’m gonna get real weird with it.” Original piece pending sale to a private collector.
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Fall is here. With it comes all the spooky art challenges. I’ve kept busy with commissions, submitting work for shows, and creating products for my newer work. This weekend I was able to fit in a painting for the #12daysofghosts challenge. The prompt was “seaside.” I’ll be doing a few of these quick pieces when
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I’m sharing my post recent piece, Ribcage Garden. It was part of the #hauntedgardenartchallenge. (Use the hashtag to see the prompts for the month of June.) The prompt was “bones.” What better part of the skeleton to house a dark garden than a ribcage? TITLE: Ribcage Garden MEDIUM: Watercolor, tea staining, ink.
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Squirrels. Some refer to them as “rats in trees.” In fact, one of my favorite movies, Inglorious Basterds includes this infamous speech from villain du jour, Col Landa, ” I purpose to you, any disease a rat could spread, a squirrel could equally carry. Yet I assume you don’t share the same animosity with squirrels that
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I’ve been spending the last week in my apartment in Delaware completing my library day job from a distance, annoying my chinchillas and fiance, and trying to stay sane. It’s been heartening to see the collective artistic community both locally and abroad connecting with one another. I attended my first virtual drink and draw last
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A brand new vinyl sticker design is available in the shop! Flower of Naïveté is now in a bite sized version you can put on your car, messenger bag, hat, mug, or notebook. Want all the spooky girls? You can now get all 5 of my creepy girl stickers in a sticker pack. CLICK HERE
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I’m busy cooking up new paintings. In the meantime, here is a spotlight on on a recent painting. “Honestly, if you’re given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don’t say ‘what kind of tea?” ― Neil Gaiman “Spilled Tea” was a painting created for the Big Little Art Show in December 2019. The original is
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As I posted previously, I participated in the October 2019 Drawlloween challenge. There were daily prompts, but I chose to pick one prompt per week. I posted teaser images on my Instagram and Facebook, but I chose to release the finalized pieces in an online gallery here. The prompts I chose were “cryptid,” “pumpkin man”
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The spooky season always get my creative blood flowing. Here is “Devil Inside,” a piece created with Micron pen and colored pencil. Prints of her will be available at the Oddball Art Hall show on October 18th. CLICK HERE for more info on that. (Or go back to my previous post.) I will also be
Ugly Stepsister: Artwork by Kirsten Ashley 