Valdís

@valdisrevives

Scrap and sketch art, literature and lyrics, boundless sarcasm and occasionally cats. Teach yourself something. 🤘💀🖤Joy is resistance. ***All copper wire used is 100% industrial scrap⚒️

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Valdís@valdisrevives· 1d

Alright.. getting back into the swing of things⚒️

Small anvil showing off a brown, braided leather choker with copper wire vines and a spiral henna style flower in the center. A folding knife for stripping junk copper and a ring sizing mandrel sit next to these.

A hand holds up a copper circle with dangling loops, thinner wire is laced across the inside of the larger circle as if in the shape of a curved rainbow

Earrings hang from a cord by their hooks, fromt and center is a pair of hammered copper S-hook spirals each with a small 5-leaf fern tip at the lower ends. A few more pairs in silver wire shine behind the copper earrings

3 copper mini banjo figures are lined up displayed on a thickly painted box lid in slate grey, from back to front a larger banjo has 5 wire strings connected to their own tuning peg shapes at the head, and a round outline body with coiled wire in the center for a bridge, the 2nd and middle banjo is smaller but equally detailed, with 4 primary strings and pegs on the head but with the 5th connect further down the instrument's neck, the final 3rd piece is only an outline with spirals for a banjo head and no strings, painted in a enamel redclay brown

Valdís@valdisrevives· 3d

Super stoked everybody: found a shop that just opened this year in my area, TheCollective. YES, fellow creatives, they really are a collective of makers who are fed up with the corporate struggle life, building their own community hub for folks like them, myself, & YOU🖤 Here's just some of the shop:

Pottery and jewelry by Maker's Hand, a large coffee mug and swirling floral shaped trinket tray on display on little wooden stands on a merch table

Gorgeous hand carved, wood burned pieces on a wide shelf. Products in view range from charcuterie boards with cpu fish designs and chopsticks to sake bowls or cutting boards with dragon's eyes

A peek from the side of the wood burned shelves to a large painting of rich warm autum colors, pale aspen trees overlooking a lake

One of the backrooms of TheCollective shop has built-in wall spaces like a book book, but these are filled with beautiful driftwood sculptures that each hold at least one votive candle

Corlboards and canvases are on the wall above the lower shelves hosting crocheted keychain character poofs and handmade jewelry

To the right a cute table stands by a window, made of random slats of wood decorating white stacked milkcrates, with a cabinet door as its flat tabletop all white washed

Valdís@valdisrevives· 3d

#botanical #garden #photography Happy bees in happy plants : my partner's mom's yard😭🖤🖤🖤 Go, Pam!

Pollen-packin collection manager ms bee having a blast hovering over a fat, 8ft tall sunflower

Another pollen collector enjoying a plush sunflowerhead that grew so fast that it tipped over into the grass XD

Looking up from ground level at the 8ft sunflower, huge wide leaves climb the stem like a beanstalk XD

The wilting side of a huge sunflower head, each green supporting section overlaying the next where the petals used to be propped up. Love the fuzzy detail of the stalk!

Valdís@valdisrevives· 6d

What a happy camper XD This lil dude is PACKIN🌻🐝

A large sunflower is left of image center, bright orange edges to the yellow petals. A bee hovers to the right, covered in fresh pollen dust with huge deposits on his legs from previous visits to the other flowers. Wide, green leaves flair behind the sunflower head with the edge of a forest and one street light pole in the background.

Valdís@valdisrevives· 9d

State line between NC and SC... signs still lying about drugs in 2026 huh? NO IT IS FUCKING NOT And who the fuck has ever called marijuana "gas"... skunk is an odor, not good green. Fucking hell bullshit propaganda

Roadside billboard by Adams in which Keystone claims marijuana is addictive which is pure fabrication. If you got "hooked" on weed, your shit is laced with something else!!

Sign reads:
Image of grass, gas pump red leaf, cooking pot, and living skunk

Words:
"Whatever you call it,
IT'S STILL ADDICTIVE!"
Company: Keystone
Billboard host: Adams

Valdís@valdisrevives· 13d

Have I posted this one?? Damn. Don't think so. Doodle at my partner's house before we traded sketchbooks back. He's adding to it now:) • #art #pen #sketch #anime #manga #linework #sketchpad #music #regret #choices #storysnippet

Young pretty person with short bunchy hair and large eyes glances over their shoulder, wearing a heavy thick jacket and holding a violin. It's raining lightly and the right bubble over they're head and to be the shadowy impression of an outdoor stage pavilion with a large crowd, microphone on a stand, and no one on stage. One tear streak shows on their cheek amidst rain drops.

Valdís@valdisrevives· 19d

Couldn't really see the woods behind the fence in the first pic but she loves staring off at them XD

Side angle of Millie the cat staring off from her seat

Freddie the black cat says good morning to Millie, who ignores her, can actually see the woods behind the porch fence in this one

Valdís@valdisrevives· 19d

I wonder what cats wonder about...🖤💀🖤

Millie the American longhair cat, in black and white cowprint fur with bright green eyes, reclines on the window bench with her head stretched up to rest on its arm, glancing languidly out the window toward the porch and trees beyond. Raindrops slowly dry on the glass and the sky is overcast above the fence.

Valdís@valdisrevives· Jul 11

My partner's long lasting Black-eyed Susans really kicking off summer by taking over part of our back garden walkway, this is me doing some trimming XD Not even close to making a dent in the bush back there🤣🖤💀🖤🌱

Close up of kitchen mini table with bunch of black eyed susans in a green ceramic vase on black and white checkered table cloth. Cat food bowl and office supplies beside and behind the flowers

Valdís@valdisrevives· Jul 8

Partner's phone search says clematis viticella, "Italian leather flower" aka Purple Clematis or venosa violacalra clematis... Hopefully that's right!😅

Valdís@valdisrevives· Jul 5

Mehndi & botanical frame in ink, 6"x9" sketch paper🖤💀🖤

Black ink drawing of large petaled circular frame, the center circle blank, inner petals made of mahndi/henna style patterns, small black pip designs reaching outward from edges of larger petals

Valdís@valdisrevives· Jul 4

Sunflower in mehndi, 6"x9" ink sketch🖤💀🖤

Mehndi patterned sunflower ink drawing with floating designs in background on small sketch paper

Valdís@valdisrevives· Jun 29

Thank you for sharing!💜 Hopefully working these botanical studies will make me slow down and fine tune my linework😭🌱

Black and white ink drawing of the OP's botanical photo: Begonia "Tubby Tuba" of a bright orange and dark green begonia plant. Credits are written in cursive along the drawing

Valdís@valdisrevives· Jun 28

Omgs almost forgot #Caturday Finn doing everything to wake me up this morning walking over my face and snuggling WHILE trying not to let me actually get up🤣🐺

Finn the gray tabby being a sweet butthead, fuzzy cat curled against my arm in the sheets

Valdís@valdisrevives· Jun 26

What is up with the CLOUDS today - too many edgy little fluffs to capture when stuck in traffic !! I must have 5k of such stills in my "studies" folder...😱🖤💀🖤

Stormy low hanging clouds race across just highway, shades of heather blue and slate gray splashed against white

Valdís@valdisrevives· Jun 23

Here, real-life goobers:)

Gray tabby on chair bathing black cat's upside down face in cat hammock

Valdís@valdisrevives· Jun 23

I've been reposting exponentially more than posting my content. Oops. While I'm still unpacking art supplies and reconfiguring.. everything... here's Finn's ridiculously transparent ears in the mornings🤣🖤💀🖤🐺

Going gray tabby cat reclining on a puffy gray-blue blanket under a potted vine. Sunlight streams across him under the little wooden table and lights up his thin ears from behind like 2 lanterns on his head🤣

Valdís@valdisrevives· Jun 21

Took me a tick to remember the title @scalzi.com nailed this one with the "Wtf is wrong with our president" riff and your comment reminded me (trust me I'm actively looking for ways to replace Spotify. music/ literary podcasts and narration is the only way I can focus at work and ignore depression🙄)

Screenshot of Spotify showing audiobook short story by John Scalzi "The President's Brain is Missing: A Tor.Com Original"

Valdís@valdisrevives· Jun 16

Well, if you ever need a shroom design hmu.. just ignore the "cute owl" I have zero experience with either birds or "cute" things XD

Twisting giant mushroom drawing in ink with cartoon owl perched on top, lichen and slime bumps decorate the cap

Valdís@valdisrevives· Jun 12

About time I shared some recent commissions from a friend of a friend, who is taking the drafts to her tattoo artist♡ LOVE being the pen that helps get someone's ideas onto paper🖤💀🖤 🚫NO ai or filter used beyond reducing saturation from original photo of sketchbook.

Ink on paper in calligraphy pen of an Indian elephant with ears splayed and walking toward the viewer, one foot visible and one knee bent, flanked by massive sunflowers and leaves.

Valdís@valdisrevives· Jun 12

Has anyone seen this plant?? What a fun shape idea🙃

Purple stalk of flower buds in vertical spear shape

Valdís@valdisrevives· May 31

Twins time!!😭🖤💀🖤💀🖤💀🖤

Twin black female cats exploring the front yard thru a window together

Freddie really wanted that squirrel... Georgie missed it!

Georgie spent more time adjusting her seat than tree rodent watching for once XD

Valdís@valdisrevives· May 30

I should get into this again... Messing with various textures for cloth is always interesting😎

Henna/mendhi pattern on jeans pocket in white paint

Valdís@valdisrevives· May 27

Someone decided I cannot stay up too late on a work night, even if it is just knocking out a new paragraph. Finn's too used to passing out with me before like 9:30pm😭

Valdís@valdisrevives· May 25

Aawww precious😍 I have a Finn, too🐺

Valdís@valdisrevives· May 25

If you want a little eye opener for what we (humans with a uterus) may, and do, face right now, tune in...

Pseudopod short story horror podcast snapshot from Spotify of episode 660: Tiny Teeth. 2019

Valdís@valdisrevives· May 25

Ok. Time to take a break from the commission drafting. Fuck. My eyes hurt from staring so hard lol. Anyone else struggle with a doodle becoming basically the finished product aannddd then you're out of page??

Ink drawing of Indian elephant flame by three sunflowers and leaves, shaded with crosshatching

Valdís@valdisrevives· May 24

Few years ago my first legit model rocked the greenway in a series of copper and gemstone pieces - STILL I cannot get over the results. Lighting and color was perfect that day & Kasey is simply STUNNING😭 What designs capture your imagination? If you matched your look to nature, where would you go?

Image of lightly tanned model's hand with swirling copper and smokey quartz thumb ring with white bead, copper and malachite finger ring, and two delicate copper bangles on the wrist. Hand rests on metal bridge railing over creek

Image closeup of model's two thumb rings on left hand, one in finely wrapped copper wire holding a moonstone cabochon, the other a twisting copper band with a deep black obsidian stone. A third ring on the forefinger is visible but out of focus. Hand rests on lichen-spotted metal railing with forest in background

Close up of model's right hand thum ring in a wide s-curve of copper wire with smokey quartz and a white stone bead in the center. Twists and curls of the bangles are visible at the wrist, with the forest and stream in the background

Full wide shot of the model's right arm, draping the angled hand across the metal lichen covered railing of the bridge with two large rings and all three bangle bracelets visible, two close to the wrist but one slid further up the forearm with bits of the woven copper sparkling in the spotty sunlight of the greenway. Ring on forefinger has green malachite and small bits of smokey quartz on a copper wire wide band.

Valdís@valdisrevives· May 23

Back garden in the morning (can't really tell what time with the rain clouds around)

Close up blossom, altered white balance with dew

Yellow lily with dew and adjusted white balance

Valdís@valdisrevives· May 23

Happy #Caturday from all 4 of us🖤💀🖤