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Jessica Flood
@jflood.bsky.social
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Singer, mother of twins, teacher, reader. Was RichFloodDesigns at the other place. She/her.
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Went back to the creepy drawing and cleaned it up, added some detail.
#creepy #wip #trees #sketch #giantskull
Two trees. One growing inside a giant, monstrous, humanoid, desiccated skull. Spider webs between the branches. The one within the skull has branches extending toward the other tree that look like grasping claws. The tree on the right has a few leaves. Pen.
March 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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I drew a creepy thing. Not a lot of time for art lately!
#art #wip #penandink #trees
Two leafless trees. One growing inside a giant, monstrous, humanoid, desiccated skull. Spider webs between the branches. The one within the skull has branches extending toward the other tree that look like grasping claws. Drawn in pencil with some incomplete inking.
March 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Hey #art Bluesky!! A work in progress that has been on pause for more than a month now. Finally got a chance to sit down and work on it last night @castrogacio.bsky.social I’m still trying to put something beautiful
Into this world. #wip
February 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Reading this- about half way through.
Cover of J. R. R. Tolkien a Biography by Humphrey Carpenter. Tolkien in a tweed suit sitting under a tree- black and white photo
February 4, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Okay it’s been a hot minute. Playing around with some new art ideas while eating lunch. I want to get back to painting and finishing pieces, but I just don’t have time right now!! Also there are the horrors that persist. But anyway here is an idea . . . #art #wip
January 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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You guys you guys!!! Today was the mondayest Monday ever BUT I got a very special package in the mail!! I joined the @tolkiensociety.org and just got my stuff!! Including a membership card!!!! I’m so happy- this made today so much better! I have to go practice some music now but I’m so thrilled
Picture of the stuff I received from the Tolkien Society. Including Mallorn and Amon Hen, their publications, some postcards, my own membership card, a letter and Christmas card. In my ottoman.
January 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Hahahahaha!
January 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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I am not quite done with this piece. But I’ve started back at work and I don’t know when I’ll get round to putting the finishing touches on. I have a few more sketches for planned pieces, so we will see how stuff balances out. Enjoy!
Ink and watercolor. A stream moves through a forest with twisted trees under a luminescent moon. Mountains in the distance. Stylized, like an illustration from a book of fairytales.
January 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Back to work tomorrow- need to do training and planning today 😭but I’m so happy I started making art again. Here is a piece I’m actually very proud of. Hopefully I’ll continue to find time to create and mull over what to do with these pieces. Anyway here it is
Watercolor and ink painting of a landscape. Stylized. Trees flanking a stream feeding into a pond. Mountains in the background with a red setting sun. Inspired by the paintings of JRR Tolkien and Arthur Rackham.
January 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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This is my handsome boy, Kupo! He’s so gorgeous.
An orange and white American short hair cat, close up of face- he is looking to the right of the frame in profile. His yellow/green eyes are open. He is laying down on a tan sofa arm. He is a floofy loaf.
January 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Tolkien and a fire on New Year’s Day- good way to start things off.
Open pages of the adventure’s of Tom Bombadil in the foreground with a campfire in a fire pit and trees and grass in the background and beyond.
January 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Got my last new book of 2024. Can’t wait to set my reading goal for 2025 . . .
Cover of Tolkien: Maker of Middle Earth by Catherine McIlwaine
January 1, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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So I don’t know what I’m working on here- a gateway? A sunset? A sunrise? But each iteration, from the initial sketchbook conception to this third time around is getting closer to what I want. Learning as I go and refining. I just don’t know what it is yet.
#WIP
Theee different watercolor and ink paintings of a similar subject laid out on a wood table. Far left is smaller, in a sketchbook, middle and right are on watercolor paper. All three depict a stylized sun at the horizon line between six trees, three in each side. Trees, like the sun, are stylized with curling branches- art nouveau style. Far right is more symmetrical. The third, farthest right of the three paintings from the previous picture, photographed against a black background.
December 30, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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So I’ve been working on some art
Two pen and water color pieces with stylized, art nouveau trees frame a golden setting (or maybe rising?) Sun. One is smaller and in a sketch book and one is on watercolor paper.
December 27, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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So- it’s been a couple of really busy days- end of semester holiday performance- getting students and classroom ready for winter break- two performances back to back so social media has taken a back seat. But here is a happy, friendly tree who has made a friend-
Rough sketch of an anthropomorphic tree with a small bird perched on Its branch/nose.
December 22, 2024 at 3:47 AM
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Welcome Yule!
Watercolor and ink pine tree with a few decorations. Pretty sloppy. Not my best work.
December 17, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
9/20
#BookSky

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#BookChallenge
The cover of The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchet.
December 17, 2024 at 1:42 AM
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Tried something new this evening- and while I like the outcome it isn’t what I had in mind.
Watercolor, ink illustration of trees, river and a tower in the distance.
December 16, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
8/20
#BookSky

💙📚
#BookChallenge
Cover of Dubliners by James Joyce
December 16, 2024 at 12:30 AM
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Wearing my new necklace - the heraldry of Luthien Tinuviel and getting ready to sing tonight!!
December 14, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
7/20
#BookSky

💙📚
#BookChallenge
The cover of MacBeth by William Shakespeare.
December 14, 2024 at 12:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
6/20
#BookSky

💙📚
#BookChallenge
The cover of Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal.
December 11, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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December 11, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
5/20
#BookSky

💙📚
#BookChallenge
The cover of The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
December 10, 2024 at 11:49 PM
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Bookshelf update - there is a floor!
December 10, 2024 at 9:47 PM