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mermaid blur - ACEO sketch graphics

a truth you didn’t believe

is a lie in reverse

ACEO - art trading card - clown smoke kiss sketch pencil

Smoke & Mirrors

I don’t want to set the world on fire
I just want to start a flame in your heart

Mouthful - ACEO artist trading card - gothic, dark, twisted, and weirdly angled

There’s really no middle ground with you

“Either you don’t care at all or you care a hundred and crazy percent.”

“WHAT ELSE IS THERE? … Now saddle up and say goodbye to common sense =D”

I miss Better Off Ted.

curiouser & curiouser - purple trees, green grass, photo manipulation by catherine akens

some things only exist when you’re not looking for them

she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown-up people and the world they belonged to. she felt as if she had lived a long, long time.

black and white

Nothing but an echo

things aren’t always so black and white, or so they say. sometimes things are ink blotty and bleeding through the edges. the people that surround us, whether they be friends or strangers, pose as reflections – a way to see ourselves mirrored, or projected. helps us improve or grow or move on to become. just [...]

bad dreams - enhanced sketch of kara (the teacher)

if it t’were you, t’would be… t’werrific

I had a dream, no, a nightmare, about buying eggs and milk and then having no place to put them in my fridge. Not entirely sure what that means, but I’ve had lots of nightmares lately, and not nearly enough sleep. You know the dreams you get while you’re sick? All distorted, weirdly colored, and [...]

monkey bones

“sometimes when we hold on to things, we cheat ourselves”

kind of appropriate these days, but hey – no rest for the whiny. revisiting a recently put-away CG work, featuring some minor edits and major filtering… you’ll remember it from this post: Lighting’s pretty dark here but the contrasts make it work. In other news: Someone requested another private commission with a jazz/blues theme. That [...]

skulls, antlers and swirls oh my

We that are true lovers, run into strange crappers…

That’s right, crappers. Tonight I was domestic with the cleaning up and the making of roast beast in a big pot with po-ta-toes. The world is lonesome and… tender. BTW – Skulls eating horns in the 11th dimension of swirly, psychedelic doom… with amps and guitars and stuff. If only you knew how many incarnations [...]

monkey bones

good morning heartache, what’s new?

still no luck, but I’ll confess – I’m loving the monkey bones:

work in progress

attempting art that involves bone-like things… going back to near-gothic roots is a little intimidating. so far, it’s looking more quirky than gothic: color and other ideas tomorrow