Digital painting of a dark, cloudy sky, featuring an odd pattern of large pouches hanging from the clouds. The clouds are dark grey, but light is shining through gaps in between the pouches.

We report: this time, we were there as the mammatus were forming, instead of catching them as they were melting back into the sky. It was a single ripple that first caught our eye, and then we watched the clouds carve themselves into the pattern. We started feeling really small.

In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - Bolts A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.

NEW: The USPS changed its rules on how it postmarks ballots.

This may affect elections at every stage at which there's a mail deadline.

An underplayed one: VOTER REGISTRATION.

Many voters who send in their registration forms by mail could be postmarked late, missing out without realizing it.

Digital painting of a pre-dawn countryside landscape. It is misty, the sky is low and cloudy, blue from the dim morning light. There is a foggy field, and a wet road covered in puddles in the foreground. There are bare trees on both sides, and a low wooden fence on the side of the road.

We report: it is difficult to get rid of the damp these days, the way it has penetrated everything and everywhere around us. Our expert’s shoes hardly ever get to dry in between days of trodding through puddles and wet grass. It is not quite raining yet, this morning.

let’s be primitive horses with mama (pt.2)

Image of me wearing the Circulatory System cravat tucked into a waistcoat.

Image of me wearing the Circulatory System twilly in a bow at my throat

At long last, they’re here!

Just in time for Valentines Day outfits… I illustrated these scarves with anatomical hearts, veins, arteries, and little jewel-like droplets of blood.

Both are pure silk, and neither will ever be released again.

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Digital painting of a blue sky, with a wispy, scraggly sort of white cloud in the middle. It is surrounded by slightly more solid, small grey clouds on all sides.

We report: our expert has been complaining of a pebble in their shoe for a bit; they take a moment to sort it out when the rain lets up. As we look up, the clouds are moving to the same pace as our breathing, travelling from one end of the sky to the other in great strides.

Small post card sized painting made with paint markers. There is a black bird in the middle with beige, red and white details. The bird is walking fast toward something on the left side. There are more red and beige details in otherwise white the background in a floral form.

One step at a time!
#art ✧ #painting ✧ #bird

Very happy to announce that I'll be launching a new limited print drop with Theprintspace

For this occasion I'll be giving away a print of this artwork! ♥

More info below⬇️

Digital painting of a busy sky, sprawling storm cells rising into bright blue, with scattered grey clouds in the top right corner of the frame. The lower clouds are long and dark, moving in the shadows of the cumulonimbus. There is bright sunlight catching the tops of the clouds where it can.

We report under lively skies: the atmospheric pressure forecast maps looked strange this morning. There were high-pressure areas stuck between low-pressure areas, and the patterns of diverging winds that emerged made little sense to us. The resulting weather is adequately odd.

Turn on the TV. Doesn’t matter what channel.

"Danse Macabre", 2023, Acrylic on cardboard - Bahman Pezeshkzad, Iranian, born 1942

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Toshi Yoshida, 1985. “Camouflage”

#printmaking #woodblockprint #1980s #tigers #ToshiYoshida

Digital painting of a slightly washed out blue sky, with a very thin cirrus cover over a good half of it. There are long, scraggly, wispy white cirrus scattered across the frame; in the centre, one of the clouds is a bright, solid white with iridescent edges. The light is coming from the left-hand side, a slightly yellow swathe.

We report: the sun is obscured by the clouds, but there is a bright castaway to the side - almost brighter than the sun itself. The weather has been frazzled all day, so we came out in full rain gear, but the scales will not dip one way or another. We end up needing sunglasses.

let’s be primitive horses with mama

Digital painting of a seascape at twilight, dark blue sky overlooking the choppy dark blue sea, with a swath of pink on the horizon.

We report: when we come here, we know it will be much windier than everywhere else, and in the winter, the ocean wind is always harsh. It gets in our ears and rearranges every thought and memory we have ever had, until we too feel like wind and water. This is why we come here.

Digital painting of a night landscape: a dark grey, opaque sky above distant mountains, and marsh land in the foreground. There is a pond with clods covered in grass emerging from the water. There are hazy lights glowing above the mountains, lending a greenish tint to the sky there.

We report: in the depths of bog country, the will-o’-the-wisps of distant city lights are keeping the sky three shades above full darkness. This is not enough light to observe the night life we hear, no matter how much we squint. We still think we see things move above the water.

Digital painting of a twilight sky, dark blue, with a large cloud rising up into it. There is pink light cutting across the cloud. On top of the large anvil, a tangle of odd, tentacle-like shapes are spread out. There is a wash of dark grey clouds in the bottom tier of the frame.

We report: it is yet another beast that rose high in the sky at the last possible moment of the day. We could only follow it, and in the cold, we saw it reach across the sky with its strange arms and legs. Our expert looked at it with binoculars, and affirms it was only a cloud.

but wait

Digital painting of a sunrise sky, a pale blue sky with a layer of haphazard, pink clouds in the background, half-covered with some long blue-purple, fuzzy clouds.

We report when the dawn chorus is at its loudest, even over the morning traffic. All edges of the world are still blurry, whether it is from our sleep-filled eyes, or the simple fact of the dim light. It is chilly, and we are not all the way present, but we feel a little warm.

Illustration of two bears wrapped up in a quilt blanket. The beige bear shows a glowing pink heart to the smaller brown bear.

It's a love thing

Digital painting of a blue sky, filled with a variety of wispy and fuzzy white clouds. Some of them span the height of the frame, many are small and scattered all over, withering into the sky.

We report: around noon, the air is dry and the sky is blue like it has never rained before. It feels this way, despite the full gutters, the puddles, the mud we track wherever we go. The sun is as bright as it gets in late November, and the wind is a whistle instead of a howl.

A moment of appreciation for the camp food illustrations by George Kamitani for Dragon's Crown, it really set an insane standard for fantasy food illustration.

I've made about $17k all year, INCLUDING my adjunct teaching job.

There is this idea that anyone working in the arts has wealthy family help, and sure some do, but a lot of us are simply poor. If you enjoy someone's work please pay them for it. It is not greedy to want to be paid for your labor.

Digital painting of a cloudy sky in three layers: the tallest one on top, heavy, tinted silver, and underneath, a flat, opaque blue-grey. The last layer features distant, voluminous clouds bathed in pale yellow light.

We report as different skies meet into one: somewhere to our right, and to our left alike, something different is happening. We have to choose where to look, which is a common motive of heartbreak we suffer from. Worst of all, there comes a time when we must look away entirely.

Here are several happy Virginia opossums (Didelphis virginiana). Some are carrying babies on their backs. Fallen leaves surround them. The atmosphere is cozy and warm.

Happy possum

Digital painting of a blue sky, half covered in rain clouds. There is a rainbow in the middle, with a bright section showing against the clouds, looking washed out against the blue of the sky.

We report: after the fact, we think we drove through the rainbow, or by it, or under it. We cannot recall how it went exactly, although there were a lot of light and colours, and the rain glittered. And then, the rainbow faded so soon anyway, the whole moment felt like a dream.

Digital painting of a dark blue, starry sky, with a green glow above the horizon. There’s a couple of houses with glowing windows there, and a line of trees as well.

We report on a day that we stumbled through, tired, our mind stuck somewhere else. Only now, with the stars above our head, do we feel a little awake. Distant houses watch us with their orange eyes, but we do not feel observed, and we find our solace in this darkness.

Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...