Turquoise Magpie
@turquoisemagpie
Soph- they/ them, 28, does illustrations and traditional art. ^^^^^
Herne Lowe - Cernunnos. (Another Celtic friend.There’s multiple interpretations of his realm of worship because like most pagan worship it was lost to the rise of Christianity. I like to think of seeing him as a modern deity of simple living and simple pleasures.) #magpiesketches #cernunnos
P E O P L E C I T Y (A collage piece based on the Air song of the same name.) #magpiesketches #collage #lyrics youtu.be/VGPoUNt92SY?...
Feelin’ Blue. (Back to more portrait paint studies.) #magpiesketches
Masks of the Fae. (When designing fairy creatures, my love for old traditional illustrations of other the top caricatures, and my urge to lean towards the inconceivable Eldritch unknown are always as war. So I’ve made a compromise of both. XD) #magpiesketches #creaturedesign #fae
Betrayal at Balders Gate. (Some self indulgent art of my Decent Into Avernus dnd party.) #magpiesketches #dnd #decentintoavernus #characterdesign
The Black Dog. Otherwise knows as Black/Old Shuck, Church Grim, or Barghest, the Black Dog is an omen of English Folklore. The sight of an ominous hound was a sign of troubles to come - rotten food, dead crops, floods or storms, or just an incoming death… #climatecrisis #folklore #magpiesketches
The Cuckoo. (Belated Summer Solstice sketch, but the current heatwave has me drained. Summer draweth near indeed! XD) #magpiesketches #litha #summersolstice☀️ #cuckoo #lyrics #pentangle
Once Was Willem. (I'd read Once Was Willem by M. R. Carey a while back and wanted to get around to drawing from it eventually. If you like period-styled writing of medieval times and monsters and found family, I highly recommend it.) #magpiesketches #oncewaswillem
Field Trip. (PHM brain rot got me thinking of Eridian world building. If humanity would be obsessed in recreating xenonite that Grace sent back in the taumoeba samples cases then for sure Eridians would be obsessed with growing earth plants with Grace’s teachings.) #magpiesketches #projecthailmary
ASH. (As a newly described trioecious tree, meaning it takes male, female, nonbinary and other unisex forms all at once, I think the Ash tree is a noble symbol for this. And another stab back by nature at the transphobes who say trans ‘aren’t natural’. Happy Pride!) #magpiesketches #pride
Blue! (Mini pages dedicated to PHM brainrot, including Eridian OC, DIY Eridian OC chart, and a mini Sign of the Times meme as I’ve not seen anyone do it yet.) #magpiesketches #phm #projecthailmary #projecthailmaryfanart #eridianoc
Be the Ent you seek in the world. (When nature can’t fight back, we must fight on its behalf.) #magpiesketches #fuckai
Nothing’s gonna change my world.. (Found a bunch of old magazines and decided to try a bit of collage. Pretty happy with how simple this was.) #magpiesketches #collage
Uncertainty. (It’s a heatwave, a lot of crappy stuff it going on everywhere, I’m teetering on the art block edge - feels like I’m melting.) #magpiesketches
- Rendlesham Forest - 27. 12. 1980 - “We’re looking at the thing… It looks like an eye winking at you… and when I put the star scope on it- it’s sort of has a hollow centre. A dark centre. It’s like a pupil.” #magpiesketches
Grace Rocky Save Stars. (Recently bought a collage book of space and some old astronomy stickers, so had to do a little homage to PHM.) #magpiesketches #projecthailmary
Small Prophets. (A strangely cosy bittersweet show. I’d highly recommend.) #magpiesketches #smallprophets
Life is Reason. (Caved and got the book, issue being that I personally find the trend of making the cover of books the adaptation’s poster a little tacky, so I designed a snug little front cover sleeve. I’m very pleased with how it turned out.) :) #magpiesketches #projecthailmary
Fairies and Elves for Rights to Roam. (A little vent linocut (if that’s even a thing). There’s a lot of whimsy towards the British countryside and it’s fantasy-feel for simply hiking in the wild.…
Bones. (I usually have a yearly rotation of bands I’ve liked over the years, and Editors came back on the iPod recently.) #magpiesketches #lyrics #editors
Remnants. (A niche piece on the Green Man character I’ve developed. He’s got great taste in beers, Red Stipe being his favourite. ‘Would a British woodland spirit be into Jamaican staple beers?’ Of bloody course! “The only white and red I trust!” The green man laughed.) #magpiesketches #greenman
Diana. (Found a bunch of portrait references that shared a cool lighting colour pallet, so I added them to one.) #magpiesketches #acrylicpainting
Rowan Birken - the Green Man. (I had my post modern Olympus last year, seems like another post modern deity is on the way.) #magpiesketches #thegreenman
Cycles. (Always had this specific imagery come to mind when listening to Perfume and Milk by F+tM.) #magpiesketches #florenceandthemachine #linoprint #linocut
Baby blue. (More paint studies, messing with blue paper as an overall background shade.) #magpiesketches
The Overseer. (A tarot styles piece of a common sight for me: black cats along the heavily littered railroad beds aside the train tracks. A modern spiritual witness to the dichotomy of human development.) #magpiesketches
… the figure’s relevance to be lost. I feel like reviving these lost deities into patrons of the old and new ways would be a cool way of getting back at the currently broken historical system.