One summer's eve

watercolour on arches paper cold pressed

cara/insta/bluesky/ store

Here's some more of my paintings and their respective reference photos! murphysletsdraw on inprnt if you want to buy prints!! It's my bday month so if you buy some prints I could maybe buy myself a lil gift hehe

me before i get my paycheck: i'm so excited to spend this on essentials and save the rest wisely

me as soon as that direct deposit hits: you know i've always wanted to learn the theremin

Heat waves.

Isopod

British Library, Harley MS 3244, c. 1236-1250, folio 64r

No pills back then...I wonder if there was something else they compared these little critters to?

after 2 years working outdoors all day i finally got stung by an onion for the first time yesterday and i wasnt even doing anything there wasnt even a nest nearby

a wasp. i was looking at a onion just now sorry

cannot stop thinking abt the paris review’s essay series on the history of significance of certain colours, hue’s hue:

But Wait, There’s More! as i found out after making the initial post, there are a few other colours katy kelleher also covered in other outlets: payne’s gray, haint blue, rose madder, falu red, glaucous, fuchsia, caput mortuum, prussian blue, gamboge, celadon, and puce.

also shoutout to her other series, the ugly history of beautiful things, which talks about: lockets, angora, perfume, pearls, mirrors, and orchids.

Euplotes ciliates resting and feeding. These single-celled organisms have cilia hairs which are bunched up into tufts called 'cirri' which function like little legs, allowing them to walk along the substrate.

This individual was found in a water sample from the Tama river in Tokyo, painted in gouache.

blockhead gets mogged

Yay! Palamedes and Camilla are here. Palamedes is probably marveling at an ancient skittle and Cam is taking notes and just repeating "indubitably Warden."

Lino-loon!

Oh, to be a tiny mermaid to escape the heat

has everyone seen the website that gives you a rothko for your local weather?

one day, i hope to be moved from your downloads folder into somewhere more deliberate

in some places fernwoods are less dense, and grey, tubular towers grow there instead. they are not fungus, not plant nor animal - yet something undoubtedly alive

HANDMADE Polymer Clay Blue-footed Booby figurine before and after painting.