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(Sue K.) 🇨🇦 Artist, drummer, relaxer. She/her #yeg Currently into: all things Tolkien, Arkham Horror LCG, pixel art, gouache painting, Long Covid recovery, hockey #canucks, my cats Currently out of: my wheelchair now, except for longer trips!

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tumblesticks @tumblesticks.bsky.social · Oct 22

I did a fan art!!

Here’s Círdan the Shipwright, one of my all-time favourite Tolkien characters, inspired by Ben Daniels in The Rings of Power

you can read more about him here tolkiengateway.net/wiki/C%C3%AD...

#trop #lotr #art

Procreate painting of Círdan the Shipwright, inspired by the character in Rings of Power. He faces us, bearded, blue-eyed and silver-haired, with a sunset and the sea in the background, and stars just beginning to show in the night sky above.
The piece is done in a chalky, cel-shaded style.

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tumblesticks @tumblesticks.bsky.social · 14h

good reminder! :) it's -1° here, I should throw a hoodie on Dan & go open the window for a bit before bed!

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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 1d

Hey hey #portfolioday
I’m Amalas and I’m open for cover work.
I love to draw urban scenes and human connections found between concrete and steel, sprinkled with some nostalgia

[email protected]
cara.app/amalasrosa
azantianlitagency.com/our-artists/amalas-rosa

Book cover for the YA book ICEBREAKER by A.L. Graziadei showing the two male main protagonist facing each other and holding onto each others collar.

Digital art of my original characters Aran and Tao as young adults out at night in their local nyc neighborhood kissing. Tao sits on a bicycle and Aran bends down slightly to kiss him.

Mock cover of Suzanne Samin and my upcoming graphic novel. The title still r wads Fear Of Falling but we changed it now to Wherever I’m With You.

The cover shows a brick house fall and Aran and Tao sitting on the rooftop, their legs dangling down the edge, and in big letters underneath them it reads “fear of falling”

Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao as young teenagers on a hot summer day walking down the streets in their local nyc neighborhood and playing around with a basketball.

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Joezer the Joezerian @joeblivion.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all need to see this Bilbo and Gandalf from the Portuguese version of The Hobbit. Illustrated by António Quadros

A whimsical and charming illustration of Bilbo meeting Gandalf outside of Bag End

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tumblesticks @tumblesticks.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t take any credit for the composition here, this is of course another excellent tutorial from Ruth Wilshaw that I did my best to follow.
When looking through her library, I immediately thought of Eryn Lasgalen from LotRO when I saw this one, and had to try and get it done for Tolkientober

tumblesticks @tumblesticks.bsky.social · 1d

#tolkientober #tolkienTrewsday Day 14: Colours 

After the defeat of Sauron and the destruction of Dol Guldur, the wood elves celebrate as colours begin to return to the once dark forest of Mirkwood, now renamed Eryn Lasgalen (Wood of Green Leaves)

7”x7”, gouache on 100% cotton coldpress

A small gouache painting in teals, greens, and yellows. A tangle of moss-covered tree branches in the foreground are darker, and in the background lighter. Bright new leaves sprout from all the foreground trees, and small round lanterns that glow with a soft yellow light are hung from various branches

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tumblesticks @tumblesticks.bsky.social · 4d

Fire department was doing testing in our building. Immediately after hearing “testing, testing” through the speaker I looked over and saw Stitch standing on the end table and making this face. He did not move AT ALL for at least a minute

Photo of a white cat, standing up with his front paws on a living room end table. He’s looking into the distance, and his mouth is shaped in a tiny little frown. How could an interesting stranger be somewhere in the house and not pay attention to gentle Stitch?

tumblesticks @tumblesticks.bsky.social · 6d

wow this is so wrong, I'm sorry!

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tumblesticks @tumblesticks.bsky.social · 8d

oh wait, they're shipping with other carriers, off to shop!

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tumblesticks @tumblesticks.bsky.social · 8d

wow, this looks great, I'll definitely try them once the postal strike is resolved!

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tumblesticks @tumblesticks.bsky.social · 8d

Got our covid vaccines today!

And despite all that's going on with Alberta politics rn, the nurse at AHS made sure to ask enough questions so both my husband and I qualified for the high risk category (which meant we didn't need to pay)

She genuinely wanted as many people vaxxed as possible

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ciil 🦭 @ciil.bsky.social · 10d

1am delirious motivational comic from moi #comic

comic of seal being self conscious abt sucking but evil ominous aggro positive seal screams at her that actually its cooler to try and flop than not try and not flop. seal screams AT LEAST I DID IT BROOOO

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tumblesticks @tumblesticks.bsky.social · 10d

Acalico Mouth yes a place for a box put box in calico mouth can trust calico for giveing good cronmch to box. friend calico

#caturday

a small calico cat biting the top flap of a cardboard box. along the top of the flap is an almost perfectly even row of teeth marks from previous bites

a cardboard berry box, on a table. the tops have been completely chewed, just little crescent bites taken out of the tops of all the sides

tumblesticks @tumblesticks.bsky.social · 10d

put box in calico mouth

calco Mouth perfec t size for put box in to c\ronch! inside very Sharp and Perforate box crunch sound put box in Calico Mouth. Put Box In Calico Mouth. no problems ever in calicco mouth because good Teeth and Bite for box weak cardboard side and flaps.

#caturday

photo of a small calico cat with her mouth open, top fangs exposed and about to sink into a delicious cardboard box

a closer photo of the same calico cat, still trying to bite the cardboard box. Her tongue is out and her eyes are intense!

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deeg 🤍 @deegoo.bsky.social · 12d

Pyaari is so decent 🥺

Two drawings and two small photos of the cat, Pyaari. The drawing on the left is wearing a blue dupatta. The drawing on the right is in a gold sari with a dupatta on the head.

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tumblesticks @tumblesticks.bsky.social · 12d

that mustang is a gooood yellow

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Becky Junkin Art @beckyjunkinart.bsky.social · 14d

It only took me 6 months but I finally finished this more detailed version of my previous study of Adar from The Rings of Power (S2).
Watercolour on gessoed paper, 16”x16”
#adar #glug #ringsofpower #watercolour #watercolor

A watercolour painting of a pale scarred elf, Adar, with long dark hair and wearing armour and chainmail, sitting in a shabby tent at a rough hewn wooden table on a haphazardly made throne made of pieces of wood. His sheathed sword is propped against the throne on his right. Lit candles are on the table and a torch is behind him to his right. A tall orc, Glug, stands behind him to his left, wearing random pieces of armour, his face partly lit by the torch.

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tumblesticks @tumblesticks.bsky.social · 13d

this is soooo good. their expressions! 😍

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tumblesticks @tumblesticks.bsky.social · 13d

but this time last year just one of these tasks would've had me on bedrest for days, so I'm really feeling the improvements right now and am looking forward to a more active autumn 🍁🍂

tumblesticks @tumblesticks.bsky.social · 13d

today I helped my husband take a cat to the vet (he's ok, just has a cough), went to the paint store to get 2 new brushes and a tube of Prussian Blue, and also went to the Purolator depot to pick up my big order of cheap canadian t-shirts and my goodness that was A LOT OF DAY for me

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tumblesticks @tumblesticks.bsky.social · 13d

thank you, that's very kind!

tumblesticks @tumblesticks.bsky.social · 13d

I hadn't thought of it like that, but you're right! and hope is so important

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 13d

It's finally time for Skinktober!

What's that? No, I'm pretty sure it was never called anything else.
#art 🦢

a digital painting of a juvenile five-lined skink sitting on a decorative pumpkin. it is surrounded by vine and leaves. the lizard is striped lengthwise down its body in white and black, transitioning to a bright blue tail about halfway down. the colors have been very saturated, and the shapes are abstracted to be rigid angles.

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 14d

I almost missed the flareup, but the lights were back out for a while this evening. #aurora

Swirls of green light dance in the sky, and are reflected in the water of a pond surrounded by the dark black silhouettes of spruce trees

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tumblesticks @tumblesticks.bsky.social · 15d

I think Lucius Galloway might be my new favourite Seeker!
arkhamdb.com/card/11004 Super versatile and powerful

I played him & Marion Tavares, and husband played Leo Anderson and parallel Jim Culver through the new campaign The Drowned City

#ArkhamHorror

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[reaction] After you successfully evade an enemy by 2 or more: Discover 1 clue at your location. (Limit once per round.) [elder_sign] effect: +1 for each enemy at your location.

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tumblesticks @tumblesticks.bsky.social · 15d

finally kicked this guy's butt last night

Three game cards representing Cthulhu, the final boss of the latest Arkham Horror Card Game campaign "The Drowned City".
The art is gorgeous (Fantasy Flight are committed to only using human artists for their games!) and each card shows his wings, visage, and claws that you have to fight. In the background, the city of Arkham both burns and floods.

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