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🏔🪶 Grace O'Hare ❄️🌲
@graceohare.bsky.social
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🏔🪶 Grace O'Hare ❄️🌲 @graceohare.bsky.social · Sep 12
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I write books about a young blacksmith and a giant bear monster. You can find more info on my website GraceOHare.com.
A pile of books. The series is "The Moth and the Bear." The book titles are "The Moth and the Bear," "The Crossing," and "The Summer Road."
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If you blur your eyes just right, you can pretend it's the sun on your face.
Digital illustration of a dense cluster of high rise buildings as seen from street level, like a tiny ant among towering trees. There ware gangways and balconies spanning the distance, making the city resemble a tangled thicket. It's dark here at the bottom, but a mile above the sky is white and blinding.
January 19, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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digital ink illustration. A character wearing a knit hat with pom poms faces the camera, eyes hard. The POV character is pressing a gun against his forehead. The character facing the camera is saying "You should know that won't kill me."
January 19, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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My collection is now complete~
Check out @graceohare.bsky.social 's series guys. It's INSANE 🩵🩵🩵✨

#themothandthebear #sizesky
December 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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"Hello there, do you know the way to Widewater? Oh, don't mind my companion. He's just shy."
On a rainy forest road, a hooded figure strides towards the viewer, gesturing casually with her hand. Behind her looms an enormous four-legged creature, bear-like, with softly luminous eyes.
October 4, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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The Long Wintersleep
The gigantic skull of some humanoid creature lays in the falling snow. A pine tree grows from its parted jaws, and a fox-like creature has taken up residence in its eye socket.
December 4, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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she won't wait for you
painting of a fox in cold autumn woods. She is silhouetted against the forest haze, turning back to look at the viewer over her shoulder. The first snowflakes of winter are falling gently down.
December 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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hnnng I've been meaning to pick watercolors back up. It was my favorite medium in high school.
kamakru.bsky.social Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · Dec 4
Hey so anyways I wrote a quick-start guide to professional watercolors, what I use and how to go about it without totally breaking the bank. I hope it's helpful to someone out there!

www.kamakru.com/blog/2024/2/...
December 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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the torrent
(Illustration of scene from The Moth and the Bear 1) “Are you done?” Kaelin asked. Ruyak’s eyes snapped to hers, and all at once he was pure rage again. He bared his sword-like fangs and snarled, then smacked the water’s surface with his hands. Kaelin looked Ruyak in the eye and stood her ground. He did it again, everything closer and louder and harder. Kaelin’s injured leg buckled and she nearly collapsed into the water, but determination kept her on her feet.
December 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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the tired sleepies have claimed two victims 😔
drawing of Ruyak (giant bear-sphinx) and Kaelin (human) sleeping/snuggling. Kaelin is being smushed in Ruyak's hand and her leg is sticking out between his fingers, but she's unbothered. Ruyak's face is squished against said hand and the back of his other arm. Morning light is just barely touching the scene. closeup of prev
November 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Brittle star swimming! Love this movement.
October 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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bear in mind
Three sketches of Ruyak the Kanai drawn in a cutesy style: One where he is sitting and smiling at the camera, one where he is yelling and upset, and one where he's blushing and touching his cheek like he's embarrassed.
August 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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“In school kids used to say if you dropped something from high enough, it’d bust right through to the underground. If the teachers heard you saying that stuff, you got sent to the guidance room for 'telling lies.'”
Illustration of a character sitting precariously on a balcony railing in a futuristic city filled with towering high rises. The light from below is an eerie green, catching on the character's features. She has dreads and casual street clothes, and is looking into the middle distance with a thoughtful expression.
October 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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I've been waiting...
Illustration of a snow-leopard sphinx character, laying sprawled atop an old stone archway. The sky behind her is purple with twilight, and an old broken lantern hangs from the arch's pinnacle. The sphinx looks relaxed, and she has a cool, knowing smirk on her lips as she looks down on the viewer.
March 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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I've been listening to the Scavengers Reign soundtrack obsessively for weeks. It's soooooo good 🎧✨️
October 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Some paintings
September 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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guiding light
digital painting depicting a dragon perched on the top of a broken tree in the sunset light. The dragon holds a small lantern in its jaws, glowing yellow and attracting small insects.
September 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Digital gouache painting depicting a purple moonlit sky, clouds lit in shimmering detail. In the foreground, small dragons fly to a shadowy jungle tree to roost for the night.
September 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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A digital gouache painting, depicting purple and orange sunset clouds, a nearly-full moon, and a dragon gracefully flying through a gap between the clouds.
September 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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red panda sphinx?
drawings and sketches of a red panda sphinx, a creature with the body of a red panda, a human-like face (with red panda markings) and pheasant wings. Sketches include: a neutral pose (colored with vibrant reds), an annoyed expression, and happy expression with paws pushing into cheeks, and a cute startled pose standing on back legs with paws in the air and wings spread.
August 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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post-snuggle regrets...
Sketch. Kaelin (a human) looks down at her clothes with a long-suffering expression. They are covered in shed hair from her boyfriend (a giant bear monster (he's very fluffy)).
August 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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"I'm not the same person I was when I started."
Illustrations of Kaelin, a human woman. There are two versions of her, opposed like the figures on a playing card. One version reflects her state at the beginning of "The Moth and the Bear" books. She's a frightened teenager gripping onto her duties as a smith, the hammer in her hand. She is surrounded by the leaves of a bush similar to a jasmine, its leaves touching her arm like a hand. The other version represents her at the end of book III, fierce and confident with her hair down, wearing a fencat cape and gripping a bloody arrow in her hand. (the same image as prev just flipped) Illustrations of Kaelin, a human woman. There are two versions of her, opposed like the figures on a playing card. One version reflects her state at the beginning of "The Moth and the Bear" books. She's a frightened teenager gripping onto her duties as a smith, the hammer in her hand. She is surrounded by the leaves of a bush similar to a jasmine, its leaves touching her arm like a hand. The other version represents her at the end of book III, fierce and confident with her hair down, wearing a fencat cape and gripping a bloody arrow in her hand.
August 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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- It was the same face he wore when he was hunting, but there was no time to stop and check the light in his eyes, not if she had any hope of winning the game. -
Ruyak the Kanai (giant bear-sphinx) playing a cat-and-mouse game with Kaelin, a human, in a glade. The lighting and angle make for a dramatic action shot. Ruyak's expression is intense, smile a little bit uncanny. Kaelin is running, midstride, and looking at Ruyak over her shoulder like she's scrambling to change directions at the last moment.
August 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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many thoughts, head full (of environmental imaging equipment)
An android with a realistic human face stares at the viewer over its shoulder, an expression of wariness or alarm in its eyes. The light is unsettling and cold, glinting sharp off the android's polished metallic head and shoulders, and the shadows hold an almost gruesome reddish hue.
August 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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✨ character design ✨
A sketch of a black cat. It kind of looks like if someone grabbed a wet black rag with eyes on it and scrunched it up in their hand, then set it down upright.
August 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM