#holiday art
My holiday art has been released from the vault for a limited time! Collect your favorites today, plus get 15% off everything in my shop during my Cyber Week sale!
Readmy holiday newsletter for all the details.
Head’s up. This sale includes all of my Ladies of the Months art as well! ;)
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season’s greetings!
happy holidays and merry winter solstice to all! In honor of the new snow outside my window, here’s my watercolor and pencil card design I made this year - fluffed up city sparrows keeping each other warm ❄️ Take care of yourselves and each other out there, friends.
psI have a free public post up my p@tr3on if you’d like to learn more about how I made this! and thank you to my wonderful partner @earnestattempts for the thumbnails and support throughout.
pps support your local mutual aid, immigrant rights, and prison abolition groups in 2022 like FANG Bail FundandAMOR RI!
[ID: 1) A watercolor and pencil illustration of 10 gray and brown city sparrows, with feathers so fluffed up they look like orbs, cuddled up with each other for warmth on a snowy tree branch against a winter sunset. The sky at the top of the page is already evening blue, but it shifts through purple to firey pink from top to bottom; 2) The inside of the card, digitally colored light blue with falling snow, with text matching the sky colors from the front. It reads “Season’s Greetings from RI” in dark blue, curly hand-written script at the top. Inside a little white circle, a smaller script says “and a Happy New Year!” over three stacked up purple bird orbs. Then beneath that in shades of purple and pink and red in simple text: “ART: Fluffed up sparrows after a snow, watercolor and pencil, 2021. take care of your neighbors - get involved locally to CLOSE THE CAMPS and FREE THEM ALL!]
Winter Wonderland
Ink, 5x7
This is the most difficult thing I’ve attempted to do with ink washes at this particular dimension.
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Reindeer Games
Ink, 5x7
Legend has it that Amanita muscaria (the mushrooms depicted here) are a bit of a treat for caribou/reindeer. Due to the hallocenogenic properties of this particular mushroom, it is said that it gives reindeer the “ability to fly.” :B
I was very happy to hear that this piece had a signficant meaning for the one who received it (it reminded her of the book, Fire Bringer, by David Clement-Davies). I love it when stuff like that happens.
Happy Holidays, everyone!
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The Journey to Cloud Castle
Turquoise and Cherry Red ink washes, 5x7
I have a number of these larger-ish paintings to do… They’re for patrons for the holidays. It’s going to take me a while to get everything done, and plus, I really don’t want to show anything until my patrons, individually, see their gifts FIRST. However, the recipient of this one travels a lot; so, I have noooo idea when she is going to lay eyes on it by the time she comes back home.
The “thought process” below is what I posted up on Patreon. Here goes.
I knew that I wanted to do something castle-oriented for Irene. Back when Rosa weasled her way into my brain, I heard her talk about Cloud Castle.
I had my moment of “reminding” myself what castles look like… And even so, I found myself trying to compare this elusive “castle in the sky” to genuine, real-life fortresses. Something didn’t feel right.
It was too rigid, guarded. Cold.
So I asked her to give me a nudge in the right direction. Anything.
“It shifts, transforms, and is always on the move… always playing a game of hide-and-seek. Some can see it clearly, and never in the same way as another; some cannot see it at all. It does no good to look at these,” she gestured to the images on my phone, “because it is not made of stone, wood, or metal… Nor is it made of cloud. It is made of wishes, and intentions. It is refuge. It is a place where nothing hurts, and everything makes sense.”
Realizing the truth, and already feeling defeated, I said, “It’s nearly unfathomable. There’s no way I could capture something of that magnitude.”
She smiled and said, “No. No one can. … But you can try.”
I sighed, almost about to object when she said, “I’ve ‘made’ this castle before in the company of a little girl. Do you know how it was done? … With tape, glue, cotton balls, and construction paper.
"It was everything we wanted it to be.”
And that’s when I saw it–despite her apparent age, there was something in her eyes. A light; a certain fearlessness and curiousity; child-like enthusiasm.
And so I did as I was encouraged. I tried.
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Happy Valentine’s Day to all th Kakayama shippers!
Their service and sacrifice gave us the right to raise our flag higher! I salute all who have served our country, especially the over one million who gave their lives in the line of duty!
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happy valentine’s day! here are my two lesbab gorls to celebrate
(kamala sharma and allie ginnapoulos)
speedpaint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evk_oIpTgjQ
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My first holiday collection @ society6.com/sthompsonart
Shop now! www.society6.com/sthompsonart
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It’s the only place to find my original, non-disney artwork available on a limited range of product.
Happy Winter Solstice! ❄️ Days are going to get brighter from here now on. I love taking this time of year to really appreciate nature and the quiet that winter brings. I also love the nature that people bring into their homes this time of year, food preserves from the summer’s crops, and the lights/candles that light up homes on these early nights.
So to celebrate I joined in on Day One of the #HMYuleArt challenge. ❄️
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
