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Lillith May
@lilustrations.bsky.social
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Artist/poet type person
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Lillith May @lilustrations.bsky.social · May 23
Hi, my name’s Lillith May and I want to spend my life making art. Follow along if you like oil paintings in progress, sketches, and women who write poetry when they ought to be sleeping 🌙 #art #painting #poetry
The artist taking a picture in her studio, her reflection in the mirror and a few green plants by the window. A black and white oil painting, a self portrait, rests on the easel. The palette has an array of colours around the edge, a mix of black white and grey at the centre, and features a handful of brushes resting on the neck of a palette knife. Oil painting on canvas, in progress. 3 figures stand arranged like a classic family portrait, a man with a cane standing tall at the centre, a stern expression. A young woman sitting on a stool to his right, her hands crossed in lap and dressed in blue. A girl, or another young woman, kneels in the floor to the left. She is wearing a green cape over a white dress, and smiles slightly. A light and loose pencil sketch of a young woman in a long dress. She sits and looks down at the sketch pad she holds, the hint of a pen between her fingers. She is adorned with jewellery and accessories, with a smile and curious expression. Labelled ‘Lucía 19.04.25’ and signed ‘Lillith’ To Lean and to Risk Solitary art My Silver, a slither of Stark - flickering - form
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applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
May 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Autumn Equinox 8”x6” oil
September 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Pieces from the same shoot
#oilpainting #glazing #pastels #sketch #art #artwork
September 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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One of the latest on my easel 🐌

#oilpainting #landscape #portraiture #autumnart #oils #oiloncanvas #art #wip
September 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Day 3 of showing my old animated #pixelart for a reason
July 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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What a mess I seem to be, all apart from myself on the screen like that

#selfportrait #procreate #digitalart #dotwork #stippling
July 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Progresses 🎨

#oilpainting #stilllife #painting
July 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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From the same shoot, part of a series in progress. Oil on 20x20cm canvas

#wip #workinprogress #art #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #oils #oilpainting #traditionalart #traditionalartist #chiaroscuro #terreverte #grisaille #glazing #paintings #selfportrait #selfportraits #figurepainting
July 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Bluebeard’s rejects 💙 Feat @nonsenseflowerart.bsky.social

#oilpaint #oilpainting #weddingdress #models #portraiture #witchart #art #artist #contemporaryart #fineart #reference #ghostbrides #haunting #oiloncanvas #canvaspainting #wip #workinprogress
July 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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"OXIDATION IN BLUE", Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. 05-05-22

📷: J.R. Rowan

#photography #blue #steel #metal #rust #red #orange #yellow #paint #peeled #peeling #surface #pattern #rough #texture #shape #abstract #abstractart #distressed #vibrant #color #colour #detail #urbex #EastCoastKin
June 29, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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No Hamet, you will not get me to a nunnery

#oilpainting #painting #portraiture #selfportrait #watchmyback #Imback #oils #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #oilpainter #softart #humanart #fineart #finerartist #artvartist #artwins #figureart #figurepainting
July 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Self portrait

#darkroom #darkroomphotography #poetry #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #vintageaesthetic #diy #oldschool #oldschoolphotography #selfportrait #imageoverlay #grainyphoto #lilith
July 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Playing around in the darkroom again, photos taken this weekend.

The dress was given to me by my grandma, she wore it when she was my age 🖤

#darkroom #darkroomphotography #poetry #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #vintageaesthetic #diy #oldschool #oldschoolphotography #selfportrait
July 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Really fun to see one of my favorite Van Gogh paintings—Flower Beds in Holland, c. 1883—in last episode of The Residence, with Uzo Aduba solving murder mystery in front of it. In "Van Gogh and the End of Nature" I talk extensively about that picture & what it says about Van Gogh's approach to nature
Three actors, including Randall Park and Uzo Aduba, in front of a Van Gogh painting in a scene from the Netflix series "The Residence" Van Gogh painting of flower beds laid out in rectangular rows, all different colors
June 28, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Blossom 🌸

#procreate #animation #framebyframe #digitalart #handdrawn #procreateanimation #sketch #artanimation
June 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Will scan them in once dry, but here they are fresh out of the water. First time processing & printing negatives by myself so they’re quite rough

#photography #darkroom #photoprinting #analogue #analoguephotography #blackandwhitephotography #doubleexposure
June 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Fussed with the arm placement a bit - finally happy with it!

Oil painting, wip - 20x20cm canvas

#artistsreference #contemporaryart #contemporyartist #wip #workinprogress #oilpainting #artstudio #selfportrait #portrait
June 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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#photography #tacoma #pnw #washington
June 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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From one of our little photo shoots at the end of last year. Laura & myself, oil on canvas ✨

#oilpainting #referencephoto #contemporaryart #selfportrait #portraiture #studio #witchyart #witches #wip #practice #glazing
June 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Pearl - oil painting
(pretty much finished but still unvarnished)

#pearl #oiloncanvas #oilpainting #contemporaryart #figurestudy #figuredrawing #oceanart #moodyart #totallynormalseascape
Oil painting of a contorted figure rooted firmly in the centre of the canvas, the hair merging into the waves as they wrap around the form. A pearlescent moon floats top left, appearing to cast a reflection on the ocean surface.
June 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Laura, Lil, and Shamaurie 🍃

From one of the times I begged them to dress up & pose with me in the garden :))) (Below an apple tree my grandparents planted when they lived here!)

#oilpainting #oils #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #wip #contemporaryartist #models
Pretty much done, unvarnished (still want to make some final tweaks) Cat In-progress, adding colour to the monochrome base layer Reference photo. Left to right: Laura, Lillith, Shamaurie
June 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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WIP: Emperor moth on a budding rose branch
Acrylic ink on clay board

I'm working on this project slowly in between other projects. These tiny marks give me serious hand cramps, especially since I'm already dealing with joint issues.

#sciart #traditionalart #painting #disabledartist #illustration
This is a wip work in progress illustration depicting an emperor moth 🦋 on a budding rose branch ⚘️ 🌱 The fuzzy moth is depicted in fine detailed white scratch marks on a black acrylics ink background. The rose branch is still an outline, but rose buds leaves and thorns are faintly visible. The style of the painting is monochrome realism science scratchboard art. The art is done on smooth clay board instead of canvas or paper. Disability disabled awareness crafts
April 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Two self portraits - same shoot, different media 💙

Oil on canvas, 20x20cm
Gouache & acrylic ink on watercolour paper, A5

#art #artist #selfportrait #drapery #painting #oilpainting #gouache #cat
June 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Laura, oil on 20x20cm canvas (early stages)

#art #oilpainting #portraiture #wip #paintingsofwomenreading
June 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM