M. Cromwell > MFF Art Show
@marandart.bsky.social
Independent Artist & Author. Funny Animal Person. Tending 5 acres of Squaxin land, Turtle Island. Kill Capitalism.
34 • 🏳️🌈 agender/any pronouns 🏳️⚧️ • Gallery & Shop: www.marandart.com 💖 echomary.bsky.social 💖
34 • 🏳️🌈 agender/any pronouns 🏳️⚧️ • Gallery & Shop: www.marandart.com 💖 echomary.bsky.social 💖
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✨ We are Animals, Animals are Us. ✨
Animalfolk find their place in the world in my traditional mixed media explorations and fiction writing. Sometimes silly, sometimes serious, always real.
To support our studio (100% of our income), check out my site at www.marandart.com
Animalfolk find their place in the world in my traditional mixed media explorations and fiction writing. Sometimes silly, sometimes serious, always real.
To support our studio (100% of our income), check out my site at www.marandart.com
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WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership.
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
Moving Stories: Short-Form Graphic Novels for King County Metro Transit RapidRide
King County Metro and 4Culture seek six artists to create short-form graphic novels that illuminate community stories along new and existing RapidRide lines.
www.4culture.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership.
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
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This reminds me of some of the strips in Tonci Zonjic's Not/But series. www.to-zo.com/notbut
November 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This reminds me of some of the strips in Tonci Zonjic's Not/But series. www.to-zo.com/notbut
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Does anyone have recommendations on where to get cool esoteric/sigily/animal white on black patches? I wanna support artists and patch up my clothes and look cool
December 8, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Does anyone have recommendations on where to get cool esoteric/sigily/animal white on black patches? I wanna support artists and patch up my clothes and look cool
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last unicorn killed to protect assets
December 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
last unicorn killed to protect assets
I love that trope where a background character has the same specific bad thing happen to them over and over again simply by being Main Character Collateral Damage
(Like the gallows "dangit!" guy in Disney's Hunchback and the cabbage vendor in AtlA)
(Like the gallows "dangit!" guy in Disney's Hunchback and the cabbage vendor in AtlA)
December 8, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I love that trope where a background character has the same specific bad thing happen to them over and over again simply by being Main Character Collateral Damage
(Like the gallows "dangit!" guy in Disney's Hunchback and the cabbage vendor in AtlA)
(Like the gallows "dangit!" guy in Disney's Hunchback and the cabbage vendor in AtlA)
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it’s not the only reason to join your local DSA chapter but it is fun to call other people Comrade
December 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
it’s not the only reason to join your local DSA chapter but it is fun to call other people Comrade
I feel like I could record a very competently-read audiobook if I only had the recording stuff to do it with.
December 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I feel like I could record a very competently-read audiobook if I only had the recording stuff to do it with.
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this has become a very important video to me
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
this has become a very important video to me
I'm ultra-transparent about my techniques. Ask me anything.
Share your knowledge if/when you can. Teaching other people how to do what you do doesn’t lessen your art - it just means more and better art for everyone.
I appreciate when people are willing to tell me about their brushes, how they study, etc… I want to put that back out into the world.
I appreciate when people are willing to tell me about their brushes, how they study, etc… I want to put that back out into the world.
December 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I'm ultra-transparent about my techniques. Ask me anything.
If the first thing you think when you see a piece of art is how it could be better, and the first thing you think of when you look at the world is how it could be different, you really miss out on how it actually is.
December 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
If the first thing you think when you see a piece of art is how it could be better, and the first thing you think of when you look at the world is how it could be different, you really miss out on how it actually is.
The jump in quality of prose from book 1 to book 2 is gonna be i n s a n e y'all
December 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The jump in quality of prose from book 1 to book 2 is gonna be i n s a n e y'all
I wanna start asking people, "What's the fastest way to becoming friends with your dog?" So that way we get right to the chase: what does this animal like?? Even if the answer is, "Ignore her until she accepts you," shit, I'll do it.
December 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I wanna start asking people, "What's the fastest way to becoming friends with your dog?" So that way we get right to the chase: what does this animal like?? Even if the answer is, "Ignore her until she accepts you," shit, I'll do it.
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Last call! I'll turn the sale off probably Sunday
moose.ink/shop/
I have every order from last week boxed and ready to drop off either tomorrow or Monday
moose.ink/shop/
I have every order from last week boxed and ready to drop off either tomorrow or Monday
December 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Last call! I'll turn the sale off probably Sunday
moose.ink/shop/
I have every order from last week boxed and ready to drop off either tomorrow or Monday
moose.ink/shop/
I have every order from last week boxed and ready to drop off either tomorrow or Monday
Me, trying to do all the things Echo usually does (keeping the fire going, making lattes, cooking):
homer simpson is pouring a box of corn flakes into a bowl of cereal .
ALT: homer simpson is pouring a box of corn flakes into a bowl of cereal .
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Me, trying to do all the things Echo usually does (keeping the fire going, making lattes, cooking):
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Got my sculptures set up in the MFF art show!
December 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Got my sculptures set up in the MFF art show!
Not me standing in a rural gravel driveway in the rain picking through half-burned illegally-dumped trash. (Jk, that was me.) Scored some really shitty looking Cards Against Humanity cards. Hell-o collage material.
December 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Not me standing in a rural gravel driveway in the rain picking through half-burned illegally-dumped trash. (Jk, that was me.) Scored some really shitty looking Cards Against Humanity cards. Hell-o collage material.
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I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being.
Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.
Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.
December 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being.
Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.
Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.
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Original available! www.marandart.com/product/-kee...
December 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Original available! www.marandart.com/product/-kee...
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"Keeper of the Shallows"
29"x9"
Acrylic and wax pastel on reclaimed wood (a center board/dagger board for small sailing craft)
A great blue heron stalks his territory, seeking meals of tender frog and fish. Silent as a ripple, sharp as a knife.
29"x9"
Acrylic and wax pastel on reclaimed wood (a center board/dagger board for small sailing craft)
A great blue heron stalks his territory, seeking meals of tender frog and fish. Silent as a ripple, sharp as a knife.
December 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"Keeper of the Shallows"
29"x9"
Acrylic and wax pastel on reclaimed wood (a center board/dagger board for small sailing craft)
A great blue heron stalks his territory, seeking meals of tender frog and fish. Silent as a ripple, sharp as a knife.
29"x9"
Acrylic and wax pastel on reclaimed wood (a center board/dagger board for small sailing craft)
A great blue heron stalks his territory, seeking meals of tender frog and fish. Silent as a ripple, sharp as a knife.
Hot take, but the songs in A Muppet Christmas Carol are garbage. Completely forgettable. Not like the songs in the Muppet magnum opus, Muppet Treasure Island, in which every song is a banger
December 4, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Hot take, but the songs in A Muppet Christmas Carol are garbage. Completely forgettable. Not like the songs in the Muppet magnum opus, Muppet Treasure Island, in which every song is a banger
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Bird-Shaped Incense Burner
12th–13th century
Eastern Persia
(Met Museum)
12th–13th century
Eastern Persia
(Met Museum)
December 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Bird-Shaped Incense Burner
12th–13th century
Eastern Persia
(Met Museum)
12th–13th century
Eastern Persia
(Met Museum)
Finally finished the Earthsea Cycle. Tehanu might be my favorite in it's focus and message, and as always the prose is top-notch. I'm so glad I got back into reading.
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Finally finished the Earthsea Cycle. Tehanu might be my favorite in it's focus and message, and as always the prose is top-notch. I'm so glad I got back into reading.