Me and the kiddo are back on a soap making kit. This hobby, which we do strictly for fun, has turned out to be so much fun and such good mom/daughter time. It's also taught her a bunch of really great skills, that creativity can take a lot of forms. Best random hobby I ever got into.

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Mariah, I do a lot of b/w ink art and watercolor of vtinage inspired, whimsically weird & beautiful creatures, witchy things, botanicals, and animals Looking for cover work and open to commissions! Patreon: www.patreon.com/cw/MonsterTe... Site: mariah-mccourt.squarespace.com

I used to make mixtapes by putting tape over the tab and then playing them on this. As a teen. This one handled being dropped better than the original walkmans.

One of the reasons I love Zendaya and Lupita is that they treat fashion as storytelling and character ref as evidenced by their exquisite styling on The Odyssey press tour. www.youtube.com/shorts/8h7FY...

Munch's Vampire, 1895ish. I first saw it in a book and then in the museum in NYC. I used to visit just to see it and stare at the layers of paint.

Another day another reason to post this.

Every time I see Tr*mp this is who I think of. From Scrooged.

I took that "pretty" criticism more to heart than I realized at the time and it was nearly a decade before I realized 1. he was an asshole 2. "pretty" art is still art with meaning and purpose and what I create is worthwhile because I wanted to make it. 3. It has plenty to say.

Welp, signed the contract on a new project so I'm going to be on here a lot less. Need to hunker down. Be kind to each other! And I will likely be way more active on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/monstertea... where I have enabled chats!

The TLDR version of that Douthat piece because it's not worth reading:

Do I have a type, you ask? Yes. That type is "Humans with Incredible Profiles".

And by that I mean the cloche style or this smaller type of top hat. Which of course I only wear on Halloween when it's a whole look.

Here she is, Emma Thompson's mom,Phyllida Law looking fabulous. Her hair has always been so great.

Omg, look at this womans hat in this ep of Poirot! It's EPIC.

It's kind of a toss up between several Whoopie Goldberg characters from the 80's.

Me reading that...

Crop of a wip. I wonder if anyone can guess what the piece might be about. Also trying something a bit different with my technique and I think this might be my first wolf...

Today's random sketch for my kiddo, orange crayola marker on cheap ass sketchbook paper. Sort of a cute fey person.

Me every day.

Found some older art and I had completely forgotten I did this Susan and the Death of Rats sketch probably 10yrs ago???

Dangit, I completely forgot about Mermay this year. So here are some mermaids from the last couple instead!

A pic of me, my brother, and my Poppy. He was a WW2 vet who spent the entire war freezing in Alaska, grateful he did not have to see battle. Later on he was an IRS agent who made sure other agents weren't corrupt. He was a quiet, kind, man who would read to us and loved Matlock.

I love going to museums and being serious about art. And I also enjoy taking pictures of sweet statue butts...and whatever the is going on in that last one. These are from The Getty Villa last year.

Anyway, some progress on my fall fey piece. Ink, watercolor, and a little bit of collage.

Finally getting back to a this fall fey piece and painting with ink which I haven't done in well over a decade.

Huh. I'm not sure that would work with mine because I have a few styles and a lot of influences that are not based on any fandoms but art movements I love. But hey, sure, why not! Guess away!

Oh, if you want to see just had incredible Gwendoline Christie is, she was in that iconic Margiela show. There's a reason she always looks incredibly well dressed and on theme.

Just a few years ago the Margiela show had this incredible makeup by Pat McGrath where she made the models skin look like plastic by using a spray on peel off face mask over everything. That would've been PERFECT with the Sargent piece as ref.

I guess she paid to exclusively wear Schiaparelli to the gala and then got that thing. Other than the tailoring that dress is extremely meh. As a design house, they are known for much riskier work than this. They took her $ but they don't like her. 2024 collection: aeworld.com/fashion/schi...

Earlier I drew this grumpy gobling/orc and I'm reading medeival-ish historical romances by Alice Coldbreath that are very good. You?