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Emerald Barkley - Gencon baybeeeeee
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Violet, 2020

This piece is a little older at this point but I always really liked it
August 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Sweet sweet Winifred is the August miniprint for Marrow Tier babes over on Pa. Treon. Neat! Also here is a list of the places that I will be this fall if you would like to say hello and peruse my fine bones and toads.

The toads are *particularly* fine this year, I must say
Watercolor painting of a real good toad jumping through the air with a crown of blackberry flowers.
August 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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I am in the chaotic scramble of Gencon prep, but somehow I managed to get these lil' guys painted and I love them so much

These buds will be joining me in Indianapolis for Gencon next week! I'll be in the art show at table 48 - come say hi <3
A watercolor painting of a toad leaping towards a ripening blackberry. the blackberry vine is loosely wrapped around the toad. The toad has a cute lil butt. a watercolor painting of a toad with a crown of blackberry flowers. The toad is jumpping though the air and the flower vnes are wrapped around its back leg. a watercolor painting of a toad jumping upward towards three blackberries in varying stages of ripeness. the blackbery vine wraps around the toad's form in an "s" shape.
July 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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QRT ✨the ladies✨
watercolor portrait painting of Jinx from the show Arcane. She is surrounded by soft pastel-colored peonies and pink snakes. The painting has a dark violet background.
July 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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This Tangled Thread, 2020

Thinking about the ways that we overlap, and the ways that we are connected to not just each other, but the natural world also.
Pictured is a print of a watercolor painting. The painting is of three overlapping pink skulls that form an upside down triangle. The bottom skull’s jaw is detached and connected by pink thread. The top two skulls have crescent moons on their foreheads. There are three ink-drawn barn swallow drawn over the watercolor skulls.
July 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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All set up in San Jose for the Oddities & Curiosities Expo! 10-6pm today and 10-4pm tomorrow - come by and say hi 🖤🖤🖤
July 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Wet stuff

A relic, a remnant, a memory, 2022

I gave a print of this to my dentist once
July 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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some days it feels like the tension that I hold stretches beyond my form, pushing outward in wild, graceful arcs.

My body feels so small to hold such large emotions inside of it
a watercolor painting of a coyote skull. The skull is distorted and stretched. The space where the jaw hinges is painted as loose, watercolor washes - like vapor. The pink thread of the outline connects the opper and lower pieces of the skull together through the vapor, but stretches and tangles. You have a sense that the coyote is being pulled apart and held together only by sinew and fragment.
July 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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lil bud
July 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Hi #portfolioday, I am a watercolor artist in Northan California painting bones and ethereal botanicals. I did my first book cover this year and would love to do more 👀
July 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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The Wild Edge of Sorrow, 2025

this painting was a beast and fought me every inch of the way. seems right though.
A watercolor painting of Godzilla surrounded by peony flowers and a Japanese rat snake. The painting is done in soft pastel tones, with Godzilla painted in blues and purples, the flowers in pinks, and the snake in purples and pinks that feel translucent.
July 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Green George
A large troll sculpture by Thomas Dambo. The troll is made from wood, is sitting cross-legged and is holding its cupped hands in its lap. The wall behind it reads "the world is in our hands" and shows a mural of a hopeful green city.
June 23, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Hey hey hey so some cool unexpected dental work that isn't covered by my insurance is prompting a shop update on my website! Drops next Tuesday 5/13 at noon PST. you can sign up for my newsletter to get notified when it's live! emeraldbarkley.com/pages/newsle...
May 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Here, Within, I Create Such beauty for the @wowxwowgallery.bsky.social show "Follow the Universe." The show is live, go check it out!
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A 12x25 watercolor painting of a human heart where the large valves turn into three blue snakes. The snakes gently entangle themselves in each other and in blackberry vines with leaves, flowers, and varying stages of ripening fruit.
March 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Here, Within, I Create Such Beauty, 2025 for @wowxwowgallery.bsky.social show "Follow the Universe."

Each person is an unfathomable universe. What worlds do we create within? How do we share them? How can we be generous as we receive that gift from others

My heart is a place of sun-ripened fruit
A 12x25 watercolor painting of a human heart where the large valves turn into three blue snakes. The snakes gently entangle themselves in each other and in blackberry vines with leaves, flowers, and varying stages of ripening fruit. A 12x25 watercolor painting of a human heart where the large valves turn into three blue snakes. The snakes gently entangle themselves in each other and in blackberry vines with leaves, flowers, and varying stages of ripening fruit. A 12x25 watercolor painting of a human heart where the large valves turn into three blue snakes. The snakes gently entangle themselves in each other and in blackberry vines with leaves, flowers, and varying stages of ripening fruit. A show poster for Wow X Wow's March show, Follow the Universe. the featured artwork is a pink calla lily in a orange desert sandscape. A woman's head emerges from the center of the lily with hair that flows around her. An egg with a single eye rests on top of the woman's head.
March 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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My Blood Glitters Like Rubies in the Thrumming Dark, 2025
A watercolor painting of a blue snake that has sections that are cut open to reveal pomegranate seeds instead of flesh.
February 8, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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If you see this, post yer ghosts
January 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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new year new blep
January 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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In a Lucid Moment, I See My Wounds so Clearly, 2024

gaaaaah I loved arcane so, so much I can't stand it.
A watercolor painting og Jinx from Arcane surrounded by pastel colored peony flowers and red-violet snakes against a darl blue-violet background. A watercolor painting og Jinx from Arcane surrounded by pastel colored peony flowers and red-violet snakes against a darl blue-violet background.
December 30, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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Favorite piece from 2024. I didn't get a ton of painting done this year, and while I think it was a needed break, I am so excited to get to work on the hoarde of a ideas that I have for next year.

Reverie, 2024
A watercolor painting of a coyote skull nestled in a bed of peonies and poppies and small blue and light purple snakes.
December 29, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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We were able to catch a morning matinee of Nosferatu for Christmas, and holy cow what a gorgeous nightmare of a film. I just loved it.
December 26, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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Reverie, 2024

Even after annihilation we can choose better, more beautiful, and more loving ways to occupy ourselves and our lives.

Monday, 12/9 is the last day to get your order into my shop before I close it down for the holidays. Thank you to everyone who has ordered already!
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December 9, 2024 at 12:52 AM
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QRP with your skull art. Ah, this is my time to shine
Pictured is a watercolor skull fine art print of A watercolor painting of a skull crowned by peonies, with two disconnected jaws attached with curving lines of color. Pictured is a fine art print of a watercolor painting of a skull with glowing pink eyes tumbling through ether, with three barn swallows drawn in ink. Pictured is a watercolor painting of a skull done in vibrant pastel tones. the eye sockets glow with warm pinks and oranges. the background is a wash of deep blues. Pictured is a watercolor painting of the underside of a human skull in pastel tones.
November 25, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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today's post on wormheart features the strange beast tarot by @shing.bsky.social

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A photo of the ace of wands from the strange beast tarot: a blue, horned beast holds a clump of earth from which a new wands sprouts. A key floats next to this beast.
November 24, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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By far one of the greatest additions to my studio

Hot tea all day baybeeeeeee
November 23, 2024 at 4:50 PM