i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton

@ladycelery

little house on the prairie (the show) historian licensed tattoo artist, also i’m nice big big bee

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i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· 3d

i bought this chair at goodwill six years ago for $20. i LOVE this chair. it is now in extreme need of reupholstering and also some fine tuning in its actual construction that is going to cost upwards of $600. but that seems fair for something i would like to keep for all time

a cute wooden chair with pink cushions, very vintage inspired but i don’t know how old it actually is, maybe 90’s? hard to say. but has an antique look

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· 4d

a dark souls style screen that says “game purchased”

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· 10d

i got like 60% of the way through making this and then realized it isn’t actually funny but i finished anyway

a screenshot of a google image search for “most powerful hero of all time” but i replaced all of them with pictures of me, except for dr. manhattan in the top right because i figured we’re basically identical anyway

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· 25d

air signs

black and grey tattoo designs for Gemini: a flower with a woman’s face in the middle and a long stem, a skull with a shocked expression, a worried kitty in a jester hat, and a red hand with an eye in the center

black and grey tattoo designs for Libra: a rabbit head with an illuminated star eye, a filigree heart, two hands arranged with stars, a castle on a cloud with rainbows spilling out below

black and grey tattoo designs for Aquarius: a unicorn head with soft features and a long mane, a flower with a long twirling stem, a kitty head looking sideward with a star on his head, and a stretched star with an eye in the center

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· 25d

water signs

black and grey tattoo designs for Cancer: a watering can shaped like an elephant, a rain cloud with a single eye, 3 flowers whose stems swirl and tangle, and a very angry crab

black and grey tattoo designs for Scorpio: a sacred heart with a knife stabbed through it, a gauntlet delicately holding a graphic 4 point star, a skull vase with three little flower, and a rainy window with curtains

black and grey tattoo designs for Pisces: a warped house, a white glove with a black heart indent, a cut open fig with stem and leaf, and a sweet greyhound head with a bow

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· 25d

fire signs

black and grey tattoo designs for Aries: a butterfly with a woman’s face, a candle burning on a candlestick, an 8 pointed graphic star with comet trails, and a dragon in a medieval tapestry style leaping and breathing fire

black and grey tattoo designs for Sagittarius: a ballon with a happy face, a clown face in cartoony style, a mischievous cat head in a party hat, and a dandelion with dark shadow and roots showing

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· 25d

earth signs

black and grey tattoo designs for Taurus: a bird carrying hearts on a string, a lady head with devil horns and a large bow, a cactus in a pot, and a rose bent at a dramatic angle

black and grey tattoo designs for Capricorn: a pear on a branch with dramatic black shadows, a rose straight on with deep black in the petals and thorny stem below, three tulips posed symmetrically behind a heart, and an assassin beetle wielding four knives (this one is also red)

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· Jul 11

monty enjoying the perks of being a homeowner

monty the fluffy orange cat gazing out at the world from inside his new catio

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· Jul 4

went back and updated some of my very first flash pieces since they’re over two years old now and i’ve learned a lot since then ✨ really excited about these guys

a flash sheet of black and grey tattoo designs. there’s a burning match, a shooting star, a dandelion with sparkles around it, a weird leaf that sort of looks like cat’s eyes, a wasp moth, an eyeball, a screeching bat, a potion bottle with a cloud of smoke shaped like a skull coming out, a spiky looking poppy, and then a single leaf

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· Jun 21

thank you so much!!!! that was such a treat to work on 🤩

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· Jun 20

i hate when people use the thumbs up react to something i say because my brain only ever receives it like this

a meme of a group of stick figures talking but one of them is big and leaning away from all of them giving a thumbs up to someone not in the group to acknowledge that they have spoken without responding. usually because the person not in the group has a really annoying opinion that has been shared a thousand times

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· Jun 2

shoutout to @pikaole.bsky.social, my phone is so cute now!! still working through some of the others but i got too excited to show it off also i’ve kept my app layout the same for the past 5 years or so so i no longer need any labels, we’re doing just pictures now

a phone screen with a cute illustrative whale shark on a dark background and lots of cute little shark icons for the apps

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· May 22

everyone say happy birthday monty (he’s 5 today!!!)

monty the orange fluffy cat leaning back with his body at a slight twist but a straight torso. it makes him look very round and funny

monty laying with his body in a little cat house and only his head coming out—his mouth is open and he is staring wide-eyed directly at the camera

monty as a kitten with eyes too big for his head

monty sitting and wearing a little bib, looking absolutely miserable

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· May 5

i tattooed an arm band today and that means my attention span is -30 for the rest of the day. but the tattoo turned out so cute!!

a tattoo of some dancing spirits with radiant, star-like heads. they’re the blue spirits from howl’s moving castle so it looks like they’re dancing in a circle around the arm. there are some little sparkles here and there too

the other side of the tattoo, it looks like they’re having a party

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· May 2

i also filmed a bit of the process so you can see me fight for my life

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· May 1

i reworked the entire thing because the first version was not doing it for me at all

a similar painting to the finished piece but the jaw isn’t quite as symmetrical, the eyes are not the same size lol, the hair has light blue streaks in it that look kind of crazy, and instead of a dark green and magenta background this one is pastel pink and blue

the new background painted over the old—it’s now dark green in the center (basically black) and as it radiates outward it’s got magenta and blue. the face has been painted over so the eyes are more even, all of the hair is gone. also she has no eyebrows lol

progress! the hair is now mapped out but not detailed

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· May 1

this piece was sitting on my floor for months but i finally finished it, please clap

a painting on an oval canvas depicting a woman with green eyes and green hair made of venus fly traps that are going in all sorts of directions to fill out the canvas. she also has a very big fly sitting on top of her head. she’s kind of looking up and over to the side

the same image but close up on the head so you can see the fly and her face and hair more closely

the same painting but tilted at an angle to get it in some different lighting

an even more extreme tilt, because i need four pictures

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· Apr 30

i made a little video showcasing how i create my flash sheets, but my favorite part is how you can see day turning into night while i’m working on it

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· Apr 27

my fourth hummingbird this week!

a black and grey illustrative tattoo of a cute lil hummingbird on the outer bicep

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· Apr 27

life with monty looks and feels like this

a photo of my foot moving out of the way of a very blurry cat. you can barely make out his features because he’s flipping and twisting

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· Apr 25

we lost!!

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· Apr 25

this terrible photo i took of wemby is the closest we’ve ever been to seeing him play. we’ve tried four times

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· Apr 23

this week was kind of funny because i got to tattoo two things that are absolute staples (a bee and three hummingbirds) that i never get to do. it was bound to be my turn eventually! i had a good time

a folk art style black and grey hummingbird with a big eye and then some more eyes hidden in the wings. it has some ornamental decorations in the body and some thick black lines to emphasize the wings

a soft black and grey tattoo of a hummingbird. illustrative but more realistic than the other one, with gentle shading here and there but mostly crisp, small lines

a black and grey tattoo of a bee, illustrative but with some realistic touches in the shading

a fine line tattoo of a sun with an open circle in the middle and alternating tapered and dotted lines radiating out

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· Apr 23

i don’t really like the new puppet in mystery science theater

a photo of mystery science theater playing on a laptop. my cat’s back leg and foot are blocking the lower left quarter of the screen, near the puppets

i’m julia barnacle, proud owner of a 12 foot tall skeleton@ladycelery· Apr 17

i’ve been drawing a lot lately and then taking one million years to render anything. here is a lil flash sheet that is a sign of things to come, i’m really excited to put some more new things out!