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J. B. Bartram

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Illustrator, ceramicist, graphic designer, studio gnome. She/her. Pottery shop: heywitch.bigcartel.com Newsletter: https://hey-witch.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hi there, #portfolioday ! I’m an illustrator, graphic designer, and potter who specializes in book illustration (currently illustrating my 5th kids book & working away slowly at a graphic novel) & design/illustration for NGOs & other similar organizations!

📖 www.jessicabartram.ca

A spread from Ghost Water Kiss, a book of short stories I wrote & illustrated, published in 2019. The image is of a surreal underwater scene with colourful seaweeds & corals with a green & mossy mermaid-like creature swimming through it.

A spread from Water Water, a picture book I wrote & illustrated (published in 2021). It’s a gouache & watercolour painting that shows a cottage at night with an illuminated window so you can see the living room within. Two ghostly giant fish (a musky & a sturgeon) emerge from the lake in the background & are floating over the cottage.

A spread from a report I illustrated and designed for JCRT. It shows the life cycle of a cecropia moth along a lichen-studded branch with paragraphs of text below.

A poster I illustrated for a local film festival — drawn in vibrant colours it depicts a crystal mountain nestled within a lichen-y / mossy landscape with a large salamander wrapped around the base of the mountain and a little furry guy at the top telling the text of the poster in a beam of yellow light.

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J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · 4h

a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in an elevator and says `` not great , bob '' .

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in an elevator and says `` not great , bob '' .

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J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · 5h

Ooh interesting! I like that as an alternate name (my longtime dream name is Olive, which was my dad’s mom’s name & I’m forever mad they didn’t name me after her!!)

J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · 7h

Hello!!

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Britt Wilson @britterson.bsky.social · 16h

1 more sleep!

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J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · 13h

I also made some cosy winter pigeons & find them so charming?!

A hand holds three bisque-fired clay pigeons. All are underglazed in wild rock dove grey with black wing bars & they’re in neck tucked in chilly/cosy mode

The same three pigeons upside down, showing the little orange feet I painted on their undersides

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 1d

Tyra Banks really is one of our most elite crazy people. Like you need YEARS of hardcore training to be this much of a nutcase

Defector @defector.com · 1d

"I want you to think about the phrase 'hot ice cream' for a second, because you will think you know what it is. And then Banks and the Smize & Dream team will do everything they can to dissuade you of your certainty." defector.com/tyra-banks-p...

Tyra Banks Please Explain What The Hell You Mean By “Hot Ice Cream” | Defector

Tyra Banks’s eyes are wild. Or maybe they were just always that way, her piercing green-gray irises one of many reminders that right, before she was a TV host, an MLM kingpin, and a meme, she was a…

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 1d

this one doin numbers on mastodon but bsky doesn't let me have enough characters

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elevated horror: what if you're grieving your loved one TOO MUCH?
folk horror: what if a child's disability could EAT PEOPLE?
supernatural horror: what if your childhood trauma could EAT PEOPLE?
psychological horror: what if your adult trauma could EAT PEOPLE?
body horror: what if your gender dysphoria could EAT PEOPLE?
slasher horror: what if a random guy was trying to kill you, instead of a cop or your boyfriend?

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J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · 1d

Underglazed some warbler worrybirds today & I’m absolutely thrilled with how they turned out. So excited to clear-glaze & fire these guys!

Eight little bisque-fired clay warblers sit on a steel banding wheel. They’re each painted as a different species of warbler — clockwise from the front left: redstart, yellow, northern parula, Canada, black & white, ovenbird, black throated blue, and in the middle, blackburnian!

A higher angle of the birds, showing off their back patterns!

Seven birds in a hand is better than…some in a bush?!

The birds after their first round of underglaze, before the patterns/details went on. I sponged this layer on for a very smooth finish.

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J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · 1d

Also, so many home runs in one game?!?!?!??!! Incredible, wish I’d been watching (I was out with a friend) 😭

J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · 1d

😂💕😂💕 exactly!!

J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · 2d

Looove seeing that Confident Jog 😍

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J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · 2d

Ha! I was just coming here to also recommend this — it’s a great podcast overall, but the 1933 series is a standout!

J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · 2d

It makes it so comfy to wear (& makes it fit beautifully over my giant headphones!!

J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · 2d

I have a sweatshirt from Simons that does this (unfortunately got it years ago, but worth checking to see if they still sell this style!). I have tried to photograph it for reference, but uhhh it’s hard to get pictures of a dark green sweatshirt 😅 It’s from their Twik line.

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J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · 2d

I had the same experience in Mexico City recently: reading signs & etc (also I definitely put a bunch of French interstitial words like et & que by accident as I stumbled through very simple Spanish sentences & nobody seemed to really notice)! Thank you, Romance languages!!

J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, to be clear not all of T. Kingfisher’s books are horror (but they are all amazing!!). She has a good number of horror/horror-adjacent ones tho.

J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · 3d

Also anything by T. Kingfisher! Her books aren’t super scary, but have some great body horror/surreal spooky-times.

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J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · 3d

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh (& its sequel) isn’t quite horror, but there’s a good amount of creepiness in them (especially the second one). Great folktale atmosphere!

J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · 3d

Timeline cleanse: my mom’s sweet Minou from our thanksgiving visit. As you can see he is tragically unable to ever get comfortable 😂

A grey tabby with a white belly and face lounges on his back against a person’s side/in the crook of their elbow as they sit on a couch. One of his back legs is stretched way out (he stayed like this for 10mins).

A close-up of the casual leggie. Yes, this cat is absolutely ridiculous.

Later on in this snuggle session — he’s still on his back against my thigh, but now his front legs are up in the air, paws limp and relaxed

How to started: a more regular cuddle stretched out against my side

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Sahar ⟀ @cathlynsa.bsky.social · 5d

'ANYMALS' puzzle game by Galt Toys ∘ Designed by Ken Garland ∘ Artwork by Daria Gan, 1960s.

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J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · 5d

I’m so interested to know why! I read & loved the book & the trailer looked gorgeous/promising, but it feels like a difficult text to adapt.

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Bloody Mary (mirror entity, not cocktail) @marygillis.bsky.social · 6d

I did this, took like 30 min.
Points I kept hammering: domestic cloud, regulations around copyright and likeness rights, focusing on machine learning with concrete, real world uses (creating new drugs, etc), the damage done by slop, the need to listen to AI experts who are realists, not boosters.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 9d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 11d

Years ago I went through a phase of putting chicken legs on ... stuff?
Everything I've ever made has always been a bit absurd and self-indulgent.

For example: here is a breakfast radish on legs, which I made of wool and wire.

Photo of an object in front of a plain white background. The object is a soft-sculpture made of wool. It's a breakfast radish in red and white with white roots growing out of the bottom and big leafy dark green leaves growing from the top. It's also in a bird pose and standing on two bright orange chicken legs. It's an odd animal.

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J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · 5d

I felt the same way! I got the rec off social media somewhere & it was very much sold as ‘heck yeah lesbian vampires sexy times woo!!’ and that was…not what the story ended up being.

J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · 9d

I mean, I liked it!! I look forward to hearing your thoughts!