Erin Goatkeeper

@handtotheneedle

maker of art, yarn, fabric, garments, food, & music. Cherokee 🧶 she/her

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Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Jul 7

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Jul 2

ugh

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Jun 26

small art journal on a tabletop, lefthand page is a sketch/painting of two peppers on a leafy plant, the blue smudge of a different painting is barely visible on the righthand page

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Jun 25

decided on a whim to try the Beginner's First Sourdough in a bread book I bought recently at 4pm last night like a goofbucket & - honestly it's pretty good? Amazing really considering I'm basically baking bread in a toaster oven (last loaf out at 12:15am w/ me thumping it desperately, groggily😂)

two buttered, toasted, holey slices of sourdough bread on a brown enamel pie plate with white speckles on a table

three round sourdough boules of bread in a large zippered freezer bag, all sliced in half to investigate texture and doneness, sitting on a tabletop with a chair behind and the handle of a bread knife in the lower left of the photo

a small round boule of sourdough bread sitting on a cooing rack, taken while my husband was asleep so the lighting is dim but the bread's crust is gorgeous, lots of texture and color in and around the X cut into the top

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Jun 18

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it)

a large white dog has shoved her upper jaw and nose through a ring-style frisbee toy and is whipping it around in front of a post, a porch and a gate on graveled ground, but because she is in motion, it's hard even to figure out what she's doing, like she's the great ring-faced monster of the deep

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Jun 17

check out this studmuffin #dailyart #lineandwash #goatart

clipped to a tan art board is a line and wash painting of a white and black buck Nigerian Dwarf goat with a magnificent beard, gazing at the viewer, with a ramp on the left side of the picture and a bucket feeder in the background

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Jun 11

I don't think you should be able to pretend that a ceasefire is in place when opponents are firing on each other again

The Norman Rockwell painting entitled Freedom of Speech, a normie-looking dude standing and speaking in a room full if other normie dudes

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Jun 8

love this prompt, thank you!

line and wash of a cobalt blue teapot in a small notebook

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Jun 4

post by sensenoi:

There are only four Irish folk songs:
1. I had too much to drink and I regret nothing
2. I met a fair bonny lass and she was bonny and fair
3: We will fight the British for ever and ever and ever and ever and
4: I have left Ireland and I shall never be happy again

followed by a post by sarcasm-is-my-form-of-attack:

5. Those fucking faeries

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· May 20

#visiblemending #thehorrorspersistbutsodoI

closeup of a purple linen culottes cuff with a darker purple embroidered cluster of flowers and leaves over a now-covered bleach spot. There is a human thumb on the left side, holding the fabric up to view

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· May 2

meme: blurry image of an orange cat about to be hit by a ball, the cat is labeled "me trying to stay informed," and the ball is labeled, "yet another devastating historical event happening"

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Apr 6

the cactus is blooming rn #springstillcomes #dailyart #lineandwash

line and wash drawing/painting of a tousled yellow prickly pear cactus bloom on a curved pad of cactus on a watercolor paper page

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Mar 29

😭 tfw a history bk makes me cry AND point: "We return to the comfort of the 'Dark Ages' to distance ourselves from what we cannot bear to see in our own world, to impose at least some chronological alterity btwn then & now, btwn horror & hope." @profgabriele.com @lollardfish.bsky.social ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

oft-memed picture from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Leo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton sitting with his booted feet up and crossed, holding a beer and a cigarette, pointing at a tv screen

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Mar 10

Post your favorite “The Lord of the Rings” character, wrong answers only

Idris Elba in Pacific Rim, suited up to go be a robot brain and smash kaiju, standing with his helmet under one arm in a cool industrial chic room and looking smoking hot as always

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Feb 20

here is the original, from Wikipedia, I love it so much; I'm glad I didn't even try to copy it from this version bc no WAY could I have gotten all these colors in via line and wash unless I used a much bigger paper

An image of the original mosaic of Empress Theodora at San Vitale, absolutely magnificent depiction of the empress standing in a line of her clerics and ladies, with lots of interesting decorative elements; much more detailed than the line and wash sketch (of course!)

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Feb 20

not photographic perhaps but I'm pleased w/ this mixed media image of the mosaic of Empress Theodora in the basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna (insp by the color insert in The Bright Ages by @profgabriele.com & @lollardfish.bsky.social which I am rdg soo slowly bc of The Horrors) #almostdailyart

A fingertip holds open a small journal on a wooden table edge; the image is mostly a line and wash drawing/painting (with lots of pen work plus liberal use of glitter highlighters in green and gold) of the Empress Theodora mosaic panel from the San Vitale Basilica in Ravenna: a haloed woman in a magnificent robe is in the center of a line of people, clergy on her right, her women on her left, as she holds a bowl to the side. There are a lot of decorative elements and a lot of gold and the original must be completely stunning in person, including just thinking about the skill of the mosaicists.

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Feb 9

makin' art about art

line and wash painting of Bad Bunny standing on the cab of a truck surrounded by dancers in front of a background of sugar cane during his incredible Superbowl halftime show

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Jan 22

mood

it's a three panel shot of the moment in LOTR Fellowship of the Rings where Frodo says, '“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”' In Moria, which isn't where it happened in the book (shout-out to "Shadows of the Past," best chapter EVER), EXCEPT this is a joke, so it reads: "I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time" "So do all who live to see such times" and then this gem: "This is all exceptionally stupid, though" because bitches, IT IS EXCEPTIONALLY STUPID

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Dec 28

a fawn pug nestles adorably next to a woman in an apron on a porch swing

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Dec 22

I'm a day late but welcome Yule, y'all

the Christmas Revels illuminated manuscript style image of Susan Cooper's "shortest day" poem, with lots of flowers and butterflies and medieval style dancers and a Lady illustrating this text:

And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive.
And when the new year’s sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, reveling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us—listen!
All the long echoes, sing the same delight,
This Shortest Day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And now so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
Welcome, Yule!

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Dec 18

fortunately I was READY for this one bc I just listened to the Santa Claus episode of the @americanmedieval.bsky.social

Two posts by brainstatic; the first:

'I want a Santa movie where he's actually Saint Nicholaos of Myra. Three kids run away from home and find a portal to the Council Of Nicaea in 325 AD. Then the kids watch him debate the promulgation of canon law. In the end they return home and tell their parents that presents aren't important so long as Pentecost is counted 50 days after Easter on the Roman solar calendar and not the Jewish lunar calendar.'

The second:

'And the kids tell their parents the whole story and the dad is like "those kids and their imaginations." But then he sees a piece of paper in the dog's mouth and goes "whatcha got there boy? Is that... orders from the Holy See that the schismatic bishop Meletius is to remain in Lycopolis and keep his episcopal title but the ecclesiastics ordained by him must again receive the laying of hands? But...how?" And then he gazes off to the sky and you hear a light jingling of bells and then a voice over goes "Ho ho ho! The baptisms performed by the Paulian heretics are invalid! Merry Christmas!"'

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Oct 13

Everything is terrible but happy Monday from this absolute unit of (I think) a rhino beetle, garden clog for scale

on mixed duff of straw, goat poop pellets, dirt, and rocks, a very large beetle with a rhino horn stands next to a worn pink rubbery garden clog

on mixed duff of straw, goat poop, rocks, and dirt, an enormous beetle with a rhino horn stands immobile

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Sep 9

Kept working at it, am finally satisfied 💚🇮🇪🐑

A slightly different version of the same line and wash painting/drawing on a small spiral notepad on a wooden table. There is more contrast and a few of the colors have been deepened

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Sep 9

#ireland #sheep #dailywatercolor #lineandwash #keepsmefromscreaming

A small spiral notebook rests on a wooden tabletop with the spiral binding on the left side. On the page is a line and wash drawing/painting of the photograph linked in the main post, several mountainous outcroppings on the edge of the ocean with a twisty walled road making its way up the nearest; many white sheep are strung like beads along it.

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Sep 8

the image I kept thinking of while listening to @gregjenner.bsky.social talking with @ceaubin.bsky.social about Edmund Kean (just insert a tiny angry goofy falcon instead of a bat) 😅

a human fingertip gently pins a tiny bat to a flat surface, the bat's mouth is open and it appears to be protesting; text superimposed on the image reads "No, stop touching me! I AM THE NIGHT!"

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Sep 8

Topaz #babygoats #dailywatercolor #lineandwash

A line and wash watercolor on a spiral-bound pad sitting on a wood table top. The picture is of the head of a baby goat with blue eyes and buckskin coloring with an open barn door at an angle in the background.

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Sep 5

#lineandwash #dailywatercolor #stonefruitseason

A spiral notebook rests on a table top with the spiral binding on the left side. On the page is a line and wash watercolor of a colander of plumcots on the same wooden tabletop with a chair behind, a notepad on the left, and in the bottom right, a folded paper towel next to a small milk jug with a strawberry design on it. The image cannot demonstrate that this batch of plumcots was actually pretty mealy and tasteless.

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Aug 27

This wee anole and I are rolling our eyes and nodding sympathetically rn

A tiny green lizard with a curl of shed skin on its face peeks out from between the leaves of a fig tree. The leaves and the lizard are all a very bright green

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Aug 21

This bebeh anole says congratulations!

A tiny lizard clings onto a fig leaf among many fig leaves; all are a bright vibrant green. The lizard has a scrap of shed skin on its face

Erin Goatkeeper@handtotheneedle· Aug 6

#dailysketching #pugtastic