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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October

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🐓 Kickstarter.com/projects/babayaga/shackling 🎨 Open for book / spot / ttrpg / portraits 🗺 Looking for the circular tread back to Gormenghast ✨ MelissaSueStanley.com 💌 [email protected]

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 5d

(new 📌 post for the profile!)

"Shackling" has funded! 🎉
The campaign for my new book runs through October 30! Don't miss the fun exclusives ~ and you can help bring this weird little book to life! 💖

Kickstarter.com/projects/babayaga/shackling

#fantasyillustration #babayaga #witches

Mock-up info page with text running top to bottom and three examples of book layouts. The book pages appear to have graphite drawings of chicken-legged huts on them. The text top to bottom reads:
Shackling
Tales from Baba Yaga's Garden
New Book!
52 pages of:
Story & Art
Divination Spreads
Sketches
Chili Recipe?
Runs through Oct 30
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/babayaga/shackling

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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · 8h

I've been hard at work building hand carved wooden masks and spiky little guys for ARMOR, my upcoming solo show at Stranger Factory. You can get on the preview list on their website!

a bald person holds up a grinning wooden mask. the mask has three eyes. the banner also reads: armor, new work from shing yin khor. nov 1-31, strangers factory.

a spiky stegosaurus like creature, made from ceramic. the banner also reads: armor, new work from shing yin khor. nov 1-31, strangers factory.

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Leslie Levings @leslielevings.bsky.social · 12h

My next show, Insides, will be opening in just a couple weeks at Stranger Factory gallery!

Promotional image for an art show featuring a sculpture of a lizard-like creature in six pieces with tangled red rope between them. Text says: new works by Leslie Levings presented by Stranger Factory. November 1st through 30th. Opening reception November 1st 2025, 11am-4pm. strangerfactory.com

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 9h

o_O it's still going over there.

Behind every moderately-viral post is an artist horrified at being perceived, who is also quietly hoping at least a couple of these people find and back their kickstarter 🤣

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 1d

My shop closes this Wednesday as I get ready for Illuxcon ~ and everything in it comes with me to that show as well.

So if you're interested in giving Francie a good home, jump now before she's gone!

Melissasuestanley.com/original-art/francie

Photo of a black desk with vague books and such in the background. In the foreground is a small yellow creature sculpture with green leaves growing from its head and bright teal eyes. It's holding a tarot card in a slot in its back. It's a desk buddy.

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · Oct 28

I did a drawing based on a 100ish-year old photo of Louise Brooks and Hweened it up because we're still doing that. I like just the lines, too, so I'm including that as well.

Also, the next post is a version of what the esteemed Ms. Brooks was actually wearing in the photo.

A digital illustration based on a photo of Louise Brooks, standing on one leg, with her near leg raised and bent in front of her. Her arms are held up above her head and she's making kind of spooky claw shapes with her hands. He has her hair in her signature shiny blunt bob with bangs style. She's wearing something like a one-piece swimsuit but where the top part covering her chest turns into batwing shapes. She has on fishnets, garters, platform heels, and a dagger attached to the near garter on her thigh. She's also got fairly large bat wings spreading out from behind her back and curling around her. Her skin is shades of green and her wings and outfit are shades of purple, pink and red. The background is a grainy grayish green with streaks reminiscent of old film. There's also a large reddish stain or splatter over the background behind her and she's casting a shadow backwards as if against a wall.

The same image as previously described, but only the black and white linework and the cast shadow

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 14h

:D hah thanks!

Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 14h

I posted on a FB and "Look at my dumb thing" turned into "content" and OHNO.

The urge to disappear into the woods is strong today.

screenshot of a photo of my baba yaga hut sculpt WIP and a lot of FB activity on it

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 16h

Me, standing in my studio, trying to plan my "portfolio day post":

a man in a suit and scarf is standing in a desert

Alt: Christopher Walken standing in the desert in a suit saying "I dont want to"

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Emily Hare @emilyhare.co.uk · 16h

Don't Myth Out!!

There are also some sketch reward tiers available! They come with bookmarks, two prints and a sketch outside of the book. You can get yours here: buff.ly/Mg3qB6F
#sketch #strangehollow #watercolour #kickstarter #artbook

mockup image of a book (savage strangehollow), two bookmarks with creature art on them, two prints, one of a dragon and one of a troll and a drawing (just an example) that you can get in my kickstarter!

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Elliot Lang @ellistrator.bsky.social · 1d

'Poe' • Ink, acrylic, gouache on masonite board. New for IX and for the spooky season.
See you next week in Reading.

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Annie Stegg Gerard @anniestegg.bsky.social · 20h

Halloween is almost here, and the newest Moonlit March painting is nearly complete! 🎃 While I put the finishing touches on it, here’s a peek back at where the series began.

#MoonlitMarch #HalloweenArt #FantasyArt #AnimalArt #OpossumArt #WoodlandCreatures #AutumnVibes #SpookySeason

A group of animals including a pair of toads, a black cat, a bat, a snail, and a mother opossum and her children, march through a moonlit forest.

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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 20h

A squirrel is standing inside and peeking over the top rim of a hollowed out pumpkin. The top of the pumpkin can be seen behind. The squirrel is wearing a slouchy black witch hat with orange stripes and holding a squirrel-sized chef knife. The knife is because the squirrel has carved the words ‘MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN’ in the side of the pumpkin and in the ground in front the word ‘TODAY’ has been spelled with stringy orange pumpkin guts with seeds scattered all around.

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🌿viktor aleksander🌿 @ commissions open! @nooskadraws.bsky.social · 20h

💸🙏prayer circle may portfolio day be successful for everyone participating and i wish you all a very be hired and money 🙏💸

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Victoria Maderna @victoriamaderna.com · 20h

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Victoria, an Argentinian illustrator living in France who loves painting whimsical critters & mossy trees. Looking for new projects!

[email protected]
victoriamaderna.com

Open for animal painting commissions:
victoriamaderna.com/animal-paint...

#illustration #kidlitart

Digital painting by Victoria Maderna. A mouse pollinating a squash flower with a brush, a butternut house in the background.

Painting of a little witch on a comfy chair with a black cat and a crow. She has her shoes off and there's a spellbook and wand on a table next to her.

Gouache painting by Victoria Maderna: mushroom people walking on a mossy branch carrying a water droplet, pollen, backpack. One has a beetle on its head.

Digital painting by Victoria Maderna, a witch riding a giant capybara and drinking yerba mate.

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 1d

Oh hi!
🎃🎃🎃

Photo of three grey sculptures in progress on a dirty metal sculpting wheel. They appear to be sort of demented jack-o-lanterns.

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 20h

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 1d

Oh hi!
🎃🎃🎃

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday.

Parking Signs

If you want to print out a poster for October 18th, here are two; fully-guaranteed countrywide but maybe especially suitable for in and around New York. No King Anytime sign ...

kieranhealy.org

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 1d

How long is it up? I'm up to my eyeballs getting ready for a trip to Pennsylvania but I'll be home before the end of the month.

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 1d

This looks amazing!

Mr. Walters @nerfect.bsky.social · 1d

We just got back from hanging my new exhibition, “Neighbors from Dreamland” at Mestiza in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood. There is an official opening reception THIS FRIDAY from 6 to 8pm, and we’d love for you to come join us!

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 1d

Coveting, wildly.

Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 4d

Hen and Wren.
Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 95 × 64 mm.

Drawing in black ink, primarily in silhouette, of a hen and a Wren regarding each other quizzically. The hen stands in a patch of wild grasses whilst the wren perches on a small, leafless shrub in front of her. The hen's comb and wattle are the only touch of red gouache. The drawing is finely wrought and intricate. The piece is roughly the size of a business card.

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 1d

Wanna learn how the Baba Yaga sausage is made?
Join the Treehouse and you can help me make all this silly stuff 💖

Patreon.com/posts/i-didnt-like-141151257

"I didn't like that roof anyway" | Melissa Sue Stanley

www.patreon.com

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 1d

This tea is "Black Cats and Pointy Hats" - it's my regular afternoon jam. It's made by @dryadtea.bsky.social:
Dryadtea.com/products/black-cats-and-pointy-hats.
Love it. Highly recommend.

Pairs perfectly with halloween candy and working on my Baba Yaga book (still on kickstarter and rocking along!)

Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 1d

It's like 100% at this point, amazing.

Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 1d

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