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Harpyteeth

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Mandy (🌈they) Visual artist, tattooing and painting mostly. I also dabble in ceramics and all of the fibre crafts. Co-founder of Baohaus Collective. Insta: Instagram.com/harpyteeth http://mandytsung.com

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Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · Jan 15

My name is Mandy and I'm a 1/2-white-1/2-Chinese artist in Canada. I tattoo at Baohaus Collective, as well as exhibit my paintings in galleries across North America.

Website: mandytsung.com

An ephemeral blue painting on canvas of a borzoi Cerberus with humanoid features mixed in. It has 2 canine heads and one human head, long hair and fur following together.

An ephemeral Blue painting on canvas of a beautiful person with a shaved head and dark skin embracing and being enveloped by a pale eel human hybrid creature. The creature has an eel head, human torso, and eel tails for legs that undulate around the person they are holding.

A colorful watercolour-like painting of a robed person with chin length hair. Superimposed on top is a tableau of a wolf chasing a deer in a circle. They are painting as though they form the pattern on the robe. A floating mask, different fungi and gingko patterns decorate the background. The person holds a bleeding chrysanthemum in elegantly posed hands.

A thigh tattoo of a tiger-human chimera. The creature with three heads leaps up and across the thigh, twisting in the air, claws out. It's body is decorated with shelf mushrooms, rib-like flower petals, scales and other organic textures. Wings sprout from its hips. One of its heads is human.

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Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · 17h

But someone is happy that I'm back in Vancouver. Rather than being extra sweet, she's been extra bossy and thowing tantrums 😆

Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · 17h

Montreal, you are lovely!

View from my hotel downtown that captures the pink and blue clouds at sunset over Mont Royal and an urban cityscape.

Another angle of my view from the hotel. The sun sits behind a glass condo building, illuminating the street to the left and the hazy sky to the right. The reflection of the hotel and blue sky in the sunlight can be seen on the glass condo front.

Le Plateau Neighborhood buildings with a bright red modern Art sculpture in the foreground. The trees have lost their leaves but there are some green bushes. The buildings have staircases up to their front doors, and each has a unique design window and various colors - reds, Browns, black and grey - on their frontage.

The Redpath museum interior, perhaps in the Victorian style, with sunlight shining onto the hardwood floors in patterns cast from the decorative openings in the handrails.

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Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · 1d

That would be very surreal!

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Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · 1d

Glad you're doing well! Can't wait to hear all about it!

Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · 1d

And I said, "yeah it is! Now imagine a big painting that takes a month or more, and it's ugly for at least half of it. And sometimes it never looks good." And she looked at me in fear, like she couldn't even begin to imagine.

I feel so so validated 😆

Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · 1d

My partner is really getting into art now that she's tried oil pastels. After struggling through a painting that ended up turning out well, she commented how difficult art is; that a piece will be ugly until suddenly it's not, and somehow you have to keep going.

She's an earthquake engineering!

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Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · 4d

What kind of boring lives are these people living that they've never heard of a harpy 🤯

Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · 7d

We'll it's definitely paying off 👏🏼 and it's very inspiring!

Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · 7d

The brushwork is incredible! Love all the textural highlights and looseness!!

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Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah the flight attendants just ignored her. I did have a bus driver yell at a man playing his phone extremely loud on the bus recently and everyone was very relieved.

Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · 8d

I was on a flight yesterday and the woman sitting a few seats across from me was doing the same thing. It boggles my mind.

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Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · 25d

Painting on the fanciest watercolor paper, which I haven't done in about 8 years, and I had all but forgotten the cat pee smell when it gets wet.

Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · Sep 23

What has your dad been smoking in the backyard lately 😆

Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · Sep 23

I didn't know spiders were (in)capable of this! I guess we're all feeling it this year.

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Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · Sep 16

That look idyllic!

Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · Sep 15

My dog got 2 dinners last night because she feigned starvation when I came home and my girlfriend had already gone out.

I should have known better, but my mind always jumps to the worst case scenario - like what if she didn't eat anything and a mysterious deadly illness takes her because of it.

Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · Sep 8

I have returned home after a trip to Europe! Happy to be back in civilization (ie I can use my own bidet).

Seriously, having a bidet has ruined travelling for me now, how do you function without one?!!

Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · Sep 5

Beautiful! Love the glaze gradient + relief details.

Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · Aug 31

Not me crying on the bus to Ghent because a chatty older man is sharing his lovely coming out story with his seat mate and I'm eavesdropping 🥹

Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · Aug 26

What's happening? 👀👀

Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · Aug 3

Oh no I didn't know they did these styles 😱

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · Aug 3

This is your occasional reminder that Rose O'Neill, creator of the Kewpies, first published female cartoonist in the United States, and among the first cartoonists to build a merchandising empire on their work, turned out some absolutely baller, romantic-feeling size-difference monster art.

A Rose O'Neill pen and ink drawing, featuring a giant humanoid embracing a smaller one. It is captioned "Man and the Earth."

A Rose O'Neill pen and ink drawing, featuring a giant female satyr embracing a small human male. She appears to be nuzzling him.

A Rose O'Neill pen and ink drawing, featuring a giant female humanoid nuzzling a tiny male humanoid. It is titled "Besieging the lips of the Earth."

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Jul 26

I made a quick and dirty anti-censorship cheat sheet to help onboard people and direct their energy in a productive direction. This isnt as comprehensive as various websites being shared around, but it should be easy to share and save.

Save the png and repost as widely as you can

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Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · Jul 31

Apparently it's the sound of a harp that lulls me into calmness. Does anyone know of a harpist+cellist group? I think that would be my dream combo.

Harpyteeth @moomcake.bsky.social · Jul 23

It really sounds like they want you to implement and fine-tune AI into their workflow so they can fire you later.