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Scott Murphy
@murphyillustration.bsky.social
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Traditional artist working on Magic: the Gathering, D&D, and other fantasy delights. Heavy Metal fan, Bike Nerd. All works are hand painted in oils unless otherwise noted. 🚫AI Website: www.Murphyillustration.com Shop: murphyillustration.etsy.com
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Hello Bluesky! I'm increasingly bad at keeping up with social media, but happy to try something new! Thanks for following!
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The Day To Shape The Days Upon
24”x36” oil on canvas
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New work for my Myth America personal series
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Along with many illustrations, I'll be showing this series of various monkey based experiments for your hungry eyes. Each available for purchase
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Working on a new cover painting for a science fiction novel and playing with the themes of geometric abstraction which helped build this piece for an anthology, Down These Dark Spaceways.
Psychohistorical Crisis II
30" x 18" Oil on Panel 2005
collection of Edie Stern and Joe Siclari
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Signal boosting!!

If you see someone with this proof, they STOLE it.
If you are at MagicCon ATL and see this AP painting it is MISSING FROM MY BOOTH
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"With hard work, and a little dollop of luck, our endeavors will eventually bear fruit. Celebrate the harvest!" 🌿

"Seasonal Harvest" from the Everyday Witch Oracle I illustrated, written by @deborahblakeauthor.bsky.social, for Llewellyn

Art prints + signed oracle decks: albaillustration.etsy.com!
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Just did a big update to my starter pack of non cis male fantasy artists to follow!

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Thanks to every person who helped out. Some timely matching from Trevor Project got our grand impact total over $100,000!!!

How will we break this next year? The best way you can help right now is the ol' "like follow share!"
Commander Sealed 2025 Raises over $104,000
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My 3rd alter on a Magic: The Gathering Forest card (beta!) for one of my patrons who collects Halloween alters. So tiny!!!!

Frog tape for the win, btw. Such crisp edges!

#mtg #halloween #mtgalter #tiny #illustration #badger #redfox #otter #chipmunk #trickortreat
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It's my birthday!! I'm 49 - how did that happen? I would LOVE it if you could share or follow my art for my birthday, that would be a brilliant gift! Thank you everyone who follows and comments, it is such a great place here! 49 feels ace btw. #artshare #birthday #watercolour
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Here's the cover art I did for The Poisoned King, Book 2 of Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, out today! In addition to the cover I also did 30 b+ w interior illustrations.

Many thanks to AD Carol Ly, type design by Jason Carne and additional interior illustrations by Virginia Allyn.
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BATTLE IN THE THRONE ROOM - 2025

been working on this over the summer, it's been really nice to work so much on a single image and I think I learned quite a lot doing it! please share it with your favorite art directors.

a little treat for you to bookmark.
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It's Caturday!! πŸŒΏπŸ’¨πŸ”₯πŸ’¦

These cats grace the back of the cards from the Everyday Witch Oracle (illustrated by me, written by @deborahblakeauthor.bsky.social, Llewellyn Worldwide).

The original painting, prints, stickers, coloring book (3 left!), AND signed decks are at albaillustration.etsy.com!
Here's a new character painted for the upcoming #humblewood book for @hitpointpress.bsky.social. "Zaya" is painted in oils on sealed paper. She's based on a great design by the amazing Steve Prescott. Love getting to do characters like this!
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You notice the tiny grabby hands in 3… 2… 1…

(If this cute guy gives you tiny grabby hands, you can grab a proof here:
www.aaronbmiller.com/proofs/p/fri... )
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While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:

At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
Excited to be a part of this event in a few weeks!!
We are quickly running through our tickets for this year. If you want to be a part of all our fun and chaos, get your ticket today at commandersealed.com/main-event/ All of our artists, vendors, players, content creators, and friends are waiting for you!
If you see this, post a vampire!
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Beyond the Quiet - watercolour and acryla gouache on Arches 300lb rough paper
Painted for Magic: The Gathering's "Edge of Eternities"
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