Shari Emerson
@crowquill
Watercolor and mixed-media artist, Curiously Elegant Designs. Collaborating on “The Illustrated Dragon Diaries” with Kelly McCullough. (He’s the dragon…. I Might Be the Cat) Patreon! :
Art post (finally) My deep sea fascination pre-dates my reading of “Into the Drowning Deep” & it’s had *such*fun excuses to come out and play, in “The Illustrated Dragon Diaries” w/@kellydmcc.bsky.social Exhibit A: i’m not a hyperrealist (especially in watercolor😆) but.. TENTACLES! (That is all)
It’s exceedingly hard to be personal, genial, these days. It doesnt feel like depression tho More like - whooosh. Living in Grimtown again! At least Mom’s coffin-dodging skills are still 2nd to none. (And, by my count, she’d still have 5 lives left, were she a cat.) I clearly need sketching time.
Just finished Mira Grant’s “Into the Drowning Deep” and my god, if you need some maritime gothic/scifi/fantasy/mystery in your summer stack- GIT IT. It’s a wonderful summer read! Mira Grant is the pen-name of Seanan McGuire - if you’ve liked her past work, you’d likely enjoy!
Have fallen far behind in any art practice whatsoever…. So i decided to study the god-tier talent of Jan van Huysum & his floral masterpieces. I think i found a new obsession!!!
PSA I never in my life saw Aurora’s the way we have in the last two years, and i grew up an hour or so from Canada. There’s scientists exploring the ideas of consciousness, in new ways, & all things. I think the 🌞is indeed conscious. Slapping us with solar flares, as it’s done with our 🐮💩.
Painting NEARLY done to support Twin Cities Ballet, for their “Narnia” this weekend. Jadis/white witch caught by Aslan…
Hello. You’ve just reaffirmed my theory- everyone has the same black cat. That this cat has the same name as the featured cat in my reading tonight (Ninth House)… is s bit odd 😉
Study for “Narnia” artwork, for the Twin Cities Ballet. Watercolor/ink/pencil
ere’s to making wierdo fish art 😂😂😂 poor li’l mutants. I’m starved for these colors ✨💖✨
Looking forward to teaching the upcycled pointe-shoe process, for the TCB “Narnia” boutique ✨ these are a lot of work, but so worth it 💖
tarting another round of these guys, for ballet company fundraising!! Stick it to silly Timmy, and support your local ballet! For Twin Cities folks, Twin Cities Ballet performs their Original ballet, “Narnia” on Mother’s Day weekend, at Burnsville’s Ames Center.
Yup. I’m specifically referring to Hedge-Fund investment groups, who were sued by Ellison, principally for not actually having a clue abt how property management works ☹️
James SA Corey with “The Expanse?” I’d argue Nick Bantok invented visual novellettes/grown up picture books with his “Griffen & Sabine” series, & his standalone work, but… not too many others followed in that space
Something tells me I’m going to get bit by the pup after this …. Indignity
We were legit spoiled with a classic minnesota fall …. Im starting yo miss color (Obvs NOT A lazy AI piece. Its an original digital sketch from my lazy brsin. But its colorful and made me happy)
Also i work at a ballet academy & see ballet percormances..like 3-4 times/year (local prices are reasonable. Local opera, less so.) Tim looks like one of the Gashleycrumb Tinies
Took a class in making “paint” from flowers, with easy modifiers. A nice break from the current insanity.
Odd/strange/new stories satisfy. New animation projects are like new windows into the human heart, and it feels like a cool window just got boarded up. In favor of? Anyway, even awkward handmade art is better than what probably comes next. (Super Rough pen study of cat below, for pretty colors💖)
Posting digital art because its faster and cleaner than my oil pastels. (Tired cranky artist is tired 😆) Its a future overuse of ultramarine, but the color combo makes me reliably happy.
Annnnnd photos from one of my favorite places- a submersible tour of a man-made reef. Second photo is a pretty school of coronet fish!
A re-post, from instagram…. i’ve needed jazz, lately. I blame Stromae