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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 · 4d

(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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Elliot Lang @ellistrator.bsky.social · 13h

'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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 2h

💸🙏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 · 2h

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 · 15h

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 · 3h

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 15h

Oh hi!
🎃🎃🎃

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 20h

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

This looks amazing!

Mr. Walters @nerfect.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 18h

Coveting, wildly.

Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 18h

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 · 20h

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 · 21h

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

Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 23h

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

A good recipe and excellent notes on what's happening in Chicago today. 💖

Sarah Becan @sarahbecan.bsky.social · 1d

New Sauceome comic this week, because it's winter squash season!

(also, a little rumination about what's up in Chicago these days)

buttondown.com/sarahbecan/a...

Roasting Winter Squash

It’s winter squash season! I drew this using butternut squash, but this method works for pretty much any winter squash: acorn, autumn frost, delicata,...

buttondown.com

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Marie Enger @soengery.bsky.social · 1d

What if...you could...commission....a cup?

Never before seen Glaze combos! You-Pick-'Em shapes! Become! A Patron! Of! The! Arts!

www.crwnstudios.com/collections/...

Glaze Support Commish

**PRE-ORDER ITEM** This Ceramic Item is a pre-order and will ship in 4-6 weeks, depending on studio kiln schedule. After the purchase is complete, I'll reach out to see if you'd rather a shot glass/tu...

www.crwnstudios.com

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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

So hey if you like things on chicken legs you should absolutely check out the Kickstarter thing I have going right now...

Kickstarter.com/projects/babayaga/shackling

Shackling

Tales From Baba Yaga's Garden

www.kickstarter.com

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

In the fall of 2009 I stitched a soft-sculpture of wool, cotton, & wire. I wrote a little story about Baba Yaga in the morning feeding her Shacklings.

After 16 years it's still one of my favorite pieces.
I'm delighted to be finally, slowly, finishing this story:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bab...