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Alien_Sunset 💜 commissions perpetually open 🌈
@aliensunset.bsky.social
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40s, Queer, Vegetarian, Spouse, Parent, Knitter, Nature Lover, Runner, Avid Reader, TTRP Gamer, Pen and Ink Illustrator, Minecrafter, Botmaker, Snail Mail Enthusiast, Tarot Reader, Future Crazy Cat Person || they/them

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Boop Beep: the bot says it's #selfPromo time!

Did you know that I’m a #PenAndInk artist & open to Commissions?
See a sampling of my #art here:
https://cara.app/aliensunset/portfolio/pen-ink

you can find more ways to support me at https://alien-sunset.neocities.org
two hand drawn, stippled, pen and ink drawings of swords, one has a roaring lioness’s head on the cross bars, which are depicted as outstretched wings, the grip covered in braided leather and a crossed circle for a pommel. The other with a snarling Ork’s head and crossbars resembling upturned horns with bat wings attached, the grip covered in studded leather and a pearl embedded in the pommel.
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Beep Boop: Alien hates doing #selfPromo so made a bot to do it instead!

I have tons of stuff available in my Ko-fi shop, including #knitting patterns, #crossStitch patterns and more!
https://ko-fi.com/alien_sunset/shop

check out https://alien-sunset.neocities.org for all the cool things I do!
the black and white cover of a coloring book that says "Alien Sunset Art Mandala Coloring Book" with five black and white line art mandalas arranged below it. a photo of some block prints on white paper laid out on a table, the prints are of a lava lamp with an orange and black striped base and top cap with yellow highlights. Inside the main lamp, instead of the usual lava, there are white ghosts floating around on a black background in a similar manner.
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Beep Boop: Alien hates doing #selfPromo so made a bot to do it instead!

Did you know that I have a Zazzle Storefront where you can buy my art on cards, stickers, mugs, & more?
https://www.zazzle.com/store/alien_sunset_art

check out https://alien-sunset.neocities.org for all the cool things I do!
product image of a mug with a geometric design made up light blue horizontal and vertical dashed lines, the patterns has been colored in with alternating teal and purple to accent the shapes. product image of a mug with a painting of two koi swimming in a clear pool with two lily pads and shimmering ripples The inside and rim of the mug have been glazed in light blue to match the water.
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Boop Beep: the bot says it's #selfPromo time!

Hey! I sell #knitting patterns on Ravely!
Including socks, hats, blankets, and more!
https://www.ravelry.com/stores/alien-sunset-designs

you can find more ways to support me at https://alien-sunset.neocities.org
photo of a lavender doll sized lacy blanket laid over a patch of purple pink clover flowers A cozy pair of bright orange socks with a pattern reminiscent of peanuts laid out flat, there is a small toy elephant between them, and they are surrounded by a scattering of orange candy circus peanuts.
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Boop Beep: the bot says it's #selfPromo time!

You can buy my hand block printed art and cards over on ko-fi!
https://ko-fi.com/alien_sunset/shop

you can find more ways to support me at https://alien-sunset.neocities.org
a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchent pattered card. each card has a yellow parchemnt strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a swimming merbunny, - a bunny with a fish tail a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchent pattered card. each card has a yellow parchemnt strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a small lizard like creature with two furry legs, a long split tail with leaved at the end, and a dog's head carrying a ball in it's mouth
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Beep Boop: Alien hates doing #selfPromo so made a bot to do it instead!

You can buy my hand block printed art and cards over on ko-fi!
https://ko-fi.com/alien_sunset/shop

check out https://alien-sunset.neocities.org for all the cool things I do!
a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchment pattered card. each card has a yellow parchment strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a flying snake like creature with feathery wings, a large leaf like structure at the end of their tail and a round furry head and sharp teeth a photo of some block prints on white paper laid out on a table, the prints are of a lava lamp with an orange and black striped base and top cap with yellow highlights. Inside the main lamp, instead of the usual lava, there are white ghosts floating around on a black background in a similar manner.
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Two pages down, three(ish) to go!

Pattern is Cat Garden from Una Buena Pieza

‪etsy.com/shop/UnaBuen...‬

#crossStitch #cat
a cross-stitch project in progress. The cross-stitch is densely filled with cats in various colors and patterns in various poses, and floral motifs in a multitude of colors.
November 21, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Boop Beep: the bot says it's #selfPromo time!

If you'd like, you can become a supporter on Ko-fi & get my art on a sticker (and/or Mail Art) every month!
https://ko-fi.com/alien_sunset/tiers

you can find more ways to support me at https://alien-sunset.neocities.org
A pen and ink drawing of a Rosy Maple Moth with one of the pens used to make it nearby. A collage of four photos of various mail art - rainbow colored crystal drawings with feathers. Collage image of a hand drawn bird in a tree on brown paper, rainbow kaleidoscope effect watercolor, pen and ink drawings of various March Hares.
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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not happy with how these came out - these are the best of the batch.
I usually make small prints, so not has this problem before, but the water based ink seemed to be drying too quickly.

I think i need to try the oil based ink next time.

#alienBlockPrints #linoCut #blockPrints #unicorn #noKings
four prints laid out on a tabletop, two on larger cream colored paper and two on slightly smaller white paper. the print is the same as the blocks above, but the ink has not transferred evenly and the words are distinctly patchy
November 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
aliensunset.bsky.social
Done carving!
Now to give it a wash, then hopefully making prints tomorrow

#alienBlockPrints #linoCut #blockPrints #unicorn #noKings
The same Lino block in the previous posts, all the blank spots have been carved away and smoothed, and the edges have been trimmed to contour around the design Next to it is a frayed purple toothbrush and a pink interchangeable carving tool and tips sitting under a rather large pile of linoleum shavings
November 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
Taking a break to get my undercut buzzed

#alienBlockPrints #linoCut #blockPrints #unicorn #noKings
The same linoleum block from the post above but with a section of the black space around and inside of the unicorn carved away and a pink interchangeable lino cut tool next to a pile of linoleum shavings nearby
November 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Starting a new #linoCut that I am very excited about.

This is the biggest single block I’ve cut to date!

#alienBlockPrints #blockPrint #unicorn #noKings
Photo of a slab of grey linoleum on a blue cutting mat. A design has been transferred onto the linoleum: an angry unicorn with a cracked and broken crown hanging off of it’s bloody horn. With the words “NO Kings”
November 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
One page down, 4(ish) to go!

#crossStitch #cats
A partially completed cross stitch project on cream aida gridded with orange marker. It is several small cats in various poses and coat colors interspersed with small flowers and greenery
November 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
aliensunset.bsky.social
Shroom!

#mushroom #art #mastoArt #penAndInk
A pen and ink stippled illustration of an amanita mushroom
November 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
Starting a new big #crossStitch project!

Cat Garden by UnaBuenaPieza

www.etsy.com/listing/1717...
Photo of a just begun cross stitch project on cream aida. The fabric marked in a grid with orange and red marker. There are four small cross stitch carts and a few scattered floral details stitched in,
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
market research:

block printed bookmarks, some with watercolor backgrounds., others on card stock.

tassel? (likely brown hemp/jute twine) yes/no?

laminated? (using 3M sticky laminating sheets, I do not own a laminator) yes/no?

#blockPrint #linoCut #alienBlockPrints #marketResearch #bookmarks
several block printed bookmarks laid out on a blue cutting mat. five on watercolor backgrounds, four on parchment patterned card stock. the block print is of a long wyvern like creature with feathery wings a corkscrew tail, and a beak like mouth with curls hanging out of it like it's eating something.
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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new medieval marginalia creature block print cards up on Ko-fi!

Book Bunny: ko-fi.com/s/cf7da99902

Bird Critter: ko-fi.com/s/1996abf9bb

Stork Creature: ko-fi.com/s/3e649cd81d

Devil Creature: ko-fi.com/s/946d7936e4

#alienBlockPrints #linoCut #BlockPrint #linoPrint
a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchment pattered card. each card has a yellow parchment strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a small lizard creature with leathery wings and a devils face a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchment pattered card. each card has a yellow parchment strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a tall stork like creature with a lizards tail with one leg lifted as if to grab something a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchment pattered card. each card has a yellow parchment strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a long legged bird like creature with a curling tail and very long beak a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchment pattered card. each card has a yellow parchment strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a bunny reading a book
November 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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In honor of the upcoming #minecraft update, I was inspired to draw a nautilus!
😄🦑(there’s no nautilus emoji! 🙁)

#drawing #art #penAndInk #nautilus
Photo of a white price of paper with a black and white pen and ink stippled illustration of a nautilus with a stripey shell. The paper is laying on a blue cutting mat with a sharpie pen laying across an upper corner of the paper
November 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Hello and welcome to November!

time for the October StoryGraph wrap up!

got sucked into some great series's (serieses?) this month so not quite as much variety as usual.

#books #reading #audioBooks #storygraph
a storyGraph book cover collage for @alien_sunset for the month of october 2025 there are a lot of books - 32 to be exact. sadly, too many to fit all the titles/authors into the alt text. (if you can't read the graphic and really want to know, send me a message and I'll type it up for you, but it WILL take multiple messages.) StoryGraph October 2025 wrap up graphic read 32 books 10,806 pages average rating of 5.0 average book length of 336 pages average time to finish: one day then a line graph marking number of pages read for each day of the month. it's very wiggly up and down. StoryGraph July october wrap up graphic 3 pie charts: chart one: all one color: fiction chart two: three colors, pages read: <300 = 44%, 300-499 = 53%, 500+ = 3% chart three: all one color, format: audio a bar chart of genres: Fantasy: 27 books Mystery: 15 books Historical: 6 books LGBTQA+: 6 books Crime: 3 books
November 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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New #crossStitch FO!
This was a lot of fun, just waiting for the proper sized hoop to arrive so i can hang it up.

Pattern was an insta buy from CozyDH as soon as i saw it:
ko-fi.com/s/6676734a0f
A finished cross stitch piece on cream colored aida: its a circular grouping of yellow, orange and red leaves, acorns, and red mushrooms with white spots
October 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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new medieval marginalia creature cards up on my ko-fi shop!!

Double Creature: ko-fi.com/s/e5af3420f6
Dragon: ko-fi.com/s/f68d2fc33a
Bunny Critter: ko-fi.com/s/49579eb3fb
Flying Critter: ko-fi.com/s/444bdf707c

#alienBlockPrints #medieval #marginalia #linoCut #linoPrint #blockPrint #art
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a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchment pattered card. each card has a yellow parchment strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a creature with two heads, wings and two legs with paws, one head is situated at the end of a long tail that is forming a spiraling circle up and over the main body, the ’main’ Head is biting the tail as it circles near it and the second head is looking at it in shock/outrage/despair a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchment pattered card. each card has a yellow parchment strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a a dragon standing it’s own tail like a platform spouting fire straight up with unfurled feathery wings a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchment pattered card. each card has a yellow parchment strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a creature with a bunny's head, upraised birds wings and forked lizards tail a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchment pattered card. each card has a yellow parchment strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a flying snake like creature with feathery wings, a large leaf like structure at the end of their tail and a round furry head and sharp teeth.
October 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Some more weird little guys i finally got around to printing up last night.

I now have a huge backlog of cards to package up and list in my shop 😅

#blockPrint #linoCut #linoPrint #alienBlockPrints #medieval #marginalia
Eight sheets of white paper with black block prints on them, they are: a bunny reading, a filigree wyvern, a grumpy looking wyvern lik creture forming a circle with its head/neck and tail, a horned, fancy and stuck up looking wyvern with a long curled tail, a happy smiling wyvern like creature looking over its shoulder, an offended looking wyvern with wings extended and and flames coming from its mouth with a a second smaller and astonished head on its tail, an oroboros made of two wyverns biting each others tails, one black and one white, and a small, dainty, and concerned looking wyvern with feathery wings and a curled tail flying with one paw extended as if to pat someone on the shoulder
October 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
a while back i said that medieval monks/artists were WEIRD and i'm not sure you really understood what i'm saying....

I mean.. just...
what!?!

Ormsby Psalter, Bodleian Library MS. Douce 366, f72r

a crop of some marginalia from a medieval manuscrip: at the bottom a person in pink robes and green leggings with curly hair is holding a long horn upwards while blowing into it. the horn's bell is pointed at the but of a creature with naked human legs and butt, transitioning directly into a long neck with a dog like head which is turned around to look at the horn, while apparently laughing. the creature also has a long thin green tail that ends in a hand which is curled around to point at it's butt/the horn.
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
haven’t been able to pull out the printing supplies, but can’t stop carving & have ended up with a bit of a backlog…

(Let’s not mention the drawings I still have to transfer, or the manuscripts bookmarked at the digital collections from the Bodlian, Morgan & British libraries)

#alienBlockPrints
A blue cutting mat with nine small/medium sized Lino cuts laid out on it, they all appear to be medieval dragons (actually wyverns) or similar creatures inspired by manuscript maginalia
October 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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medieval marginalia creatures hand block printed greeting cards!

available at my Ko-fi!

LeafPup Creature: ko-fi.com/s/964051cc10
UniCreature: ko-fi.com/s/5be4250ff2
Flower Creature: ko-fi.com/s/cb2325c4ee
MerBunny: ko-fi.com/s/eaef023737

#alienBlockPrints #linoCut #BlockPrint #linoPrint
a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchent pattered card. each card has a yellow parchemnt strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a small lizard like creature with two furry legs, a long split tail with leaved at the end, and a dog's head carrying a ball in it's mouth a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchent pattered card. each card has a yellow parchemnt strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a tall two legged creature with a long tail, furry legs and a horses head and unicorn horn a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchent pattered card. each card has a yellow parchemnt strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a small creature with two paws, a rooster's tail, small wings and a face like a smug bulldog with a flower growing out of it's head a set of three cards laid out on a blue cutting mat. a brown Kraft card, a plain white card, and a cream parchent pattered card. each card has a yellow parchemnt strip of paper wrapped around it that says "Alien Sunset Art" Hand Block Printed Card. the block print on the cards is of a swimming merbunny, - a bunny with a fish tail
October 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM