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Debra Styer Illustration
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Artist and Illustrator with a love of history, literature and a good ghost story. https://bio.site/debrastyer
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It’s #SpookySeason! 👻🕸️

The Internet Archive is serving frights all week. Today’s treat: a 1928 Saturday Evening Post cover by Frederic Stanley of a woman carving a pumpkin 🎃
97 years later & still haunting! 🖤

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October 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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#FolktaleWeek2025, you say? Sure, I'll play!
October 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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#folktaleweek2025
Coming soon!!! 😊
Really looking forward to this event!🧡

@folktaleweek.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Here's my little ode to childhood friendships and the spirit world. This haunted watercolor painting, "The Gift of the Spirits" is showing at City Art Gallery in San Francisco until November 2nd. Hope you can stop by and say hello. Here's to all the spooky things... #illustration #ghosts #halloween
October 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The Official Folktale Week Prompts are here! Come join us on Instagram. www.instagram.com/folktaleweek/
October 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Just a simple reminder...#nokings #nokingsinanerica #protestfrog
October 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It's Happening...Time for Folktale Week 2025!
October 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Happy Spooky Month! Please join me this Friday, October 3rd for the opening of the October group show at City Art Gallery (828 Valencia Street, San Francisco). Here's a peek at my new paintings. I hope you like them...Stop by and say hello if you can.
October 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
New portrait for the October group show at City Art Gallery in SF. This is Miseria, Greek goddess of depression and anxiety, standing in forced silence. I have been pretty 'miserable" these days, but am still looking for signs of hope. What about you? Show opens Fri,Oct 3rd (828 Valencia St, SF).
September 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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I hope Charlie Kirk recovers quickly then, like James Brady, uses his megaphone to help advocate for common sense limits on firearms.
September 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
My piece for the Banned Book show at Cottage Valley Library in New York. The opening is today.
I decided to illustrate "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank back in April and couldn't imagine then just how far backwards our country would be heading in just a few months...it's so horrific.
September 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Playing around with #LillasStylePlay2025 Day 1: Nutella.
Here's a shout out Nutella's Number 1 fan, Iggy! #illustration #watercolor #squirrel #makeartthatsells
September 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Just a little teeny painting while I look forward to upcoming forest adventures. #chipmunk #illustration
July 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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July 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
THIS FRIDAY (June 6th) Please join me for the opening of the June Group show at City Art Gallery (828 Valencia Street, San Francisco). Stop by and check out my new portraits as well as the work of over 20 incredible Bay Area artists. #illustration #watercolor #sanfrancisco
June 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Here's a sneak peek at one of the new pieces I'm working on for the upcoming June group show at City Art Gallery in San Francisco. I'll admit the last few months of worries are definitely hitting hard...#illustration
May 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Mr. Poe stuck in a sun beam...Happy Caturday to all that celebrate! #caturday #blackcat
May 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Happy May Day from San Francisco! #mayday #maydayprotest #protest
May 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Happy Liberation Day to all who celebrate newrepublic.com/article/1934...
April 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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This article is one of the best, most poignant, most real, most somewhat optimistic but realist things I’ve read in a while.

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Elizabeth Goodspeed on why graphic designers can’t stop joking about hating their jobs
Designers are burnt out, disillusioned, and constantly joking that design ruined their life – but underneath the memes lies a deeper reckoning. Our US editor-at-large explores how irony became the ind...
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March 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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One of Kerry’s “Chromatic Cocktails” will be screening as part of a 3D showcase in Chicago in a couple weeks. Wish I could be there! (One of these days…) www.siskelfilmcenter.org/experiments-3d
March 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Finally got some of my folktale week prints in the shop! Say hello to the fabulously creepy, child eating witch, Baba Yaga and her chicken foot house. I am sure she would be happy to meet you ...
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#babayaga #illustration
March 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Oh.

The LA Times is editing out negative parts of an article about RFK Jr. that say he's unfit for Secretary of Health and Human Services.

If you haven't canceled your subscription already, you should.
January 31, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Happy 216th Birthday to the spooktastic Edgar Allan Poe! Here's my illustration for one of my favorite Poe stories, "The Masque of the Red Death". #illustration #watercolor #EdgarAllanPoe
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Edgar Allan Poe Art Print, Masque of the Red Death Illustration, Victorian Goth Portrait 6x9 - Etsy Poland
This Giclée Prints item by bluehourstudio has 5 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from United States. Listed on Oct 24, 2024
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January 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM