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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄
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🎨 Open for book / spot / ttrpg / portraits
🗺 Looking for the circular tread back to Gormenghast
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💌 MelissaStanleyArt@gmail.com
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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · Oct 9
(new 📌 post for the profile!)

"Shackling" has funded! 🎉
The campaign for my new book runs through October 30! Don't miss the fun exclusives ~ and you can help bring this weird little book to life! 💖

Kickstarter.com/projects/babayaga/shackling

#fantasyillustration #babayaga #witches
Mock-up info page with text running top to bottom and three examples of book layouts. The book pages appear to have graphite drawings of chicken-legged huts on them. The text top to bottom reads: Shackling Tales from Baba Yaga's Garden New Book! 52 pages of: Story & Art Divination Spreads Sketches Chili Recipe? Runs through Oct 30 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/babayaga/shackling
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houndsaint.bsky.social
There he goes
A carved linoleum block of a fish with legs. pencil beneath for scale
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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soengery.bsky.social
My friends at the co op sent me a pic holy shiiiiiii

(I will be selling a few of the shot glasses as a set after the original commissioner picks their faves.)
A photo of many ceramic shot glasses and mugs
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
melissasuestanley.bsky.social
Self-employed artist life = there are a lot of fires with a lot of irons in them. It's a little chaotic.

But today I talked for a while to a (maybe!) publisher for my Woolbeast book. I'm working on it a lot these days, back and immersed in this world. I love it so much. I hope y'all do, too.
Graphite sketch of a table set up with what appears to be many wares for sale on it. There are jugs, herbs, stones with hooks, and stone melons. In the middle is a horned creature named Eugene, reading a book with a cup of tea and a half-eaten stone melon.
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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tamiwicinas.bsky.social
Today’s kiln-bound goodies.
#ceramics #wip
November 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
melissasuestanley.bsky.social
Meanwhile in the world of art that I actually want to do and am in fact currently doing:

I'm sculpting *two* of these beasts for a show in January, and I'm very excited about them.
watercolor painting with a white border: The painting is of a tree canopy with strawberry birds perched around it. In the foreground is a large strawberry bird with teeth and jam dripping down onto the branch below.. where a bird appears to be missing.. oh no.
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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I forgot: In a past life (2019) I collab'd with local artist JC Rivera, and I stitched up five very fancy Bear Champ plush things.

I just stumbled on this WIP photo from that project. I also forgot how they all had their own doofy little faces 🤣

(I do not sew dudes anymore)
Photograph of a black table with three plush figures in process standing on it. They are bright mustard-orange bears with saggy eyelids. They are goofy looking.
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Good Ol' Boris - he's the only one left today!
🎃🎃🎃🎃

Melissasuestanley.com/original-art
Photograph of a small sculpture of a pumpkin on a stone with other seasonal gourds (real ones) and leaves behind it.
November 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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ryanbrowne.bsky.social
I’m donating all original art sale profits to the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Get some awesome art and feel good about yourself at the same time! Www.3dcowboycomics.com
3-D COWBOY COMICS
Www.3dcowboycomics.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Good Ol' Boris - he's the only one left today!
🎃🎃🎃🎃

Melissasuestanley.com/original-art
Photograph of a small sculpture of a pumpkin on a stone with other seasonal gourds (real ones) and leaves behind it.
November 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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claremccanna.bsky.social
It’s #kidlitartpostcard day! I’m Clare, illustrator living in DC. I love fantasy, whimsy, and nature.

The next few months are filling up but still looking for work and representation!

clarehenrymccanna.com
chenry74@gmail.com
Watercolour painting of a tiny blonde girl in denim overalls wielding a wooden sword on the back of a kestrel. Her brother is riding on an ermine wearing a colander helmet and has a round wooden shield. A blue tit perches nearby. They are surrounded by autumn grapes and foliage and stand on a mossy log with tiny mushrooms
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
melissasuestanley.bsky.social
2019 - 2025

Fuck 🖕 AI
A cute watercolor painting resting on a wooden table. The painting is a sort of stumpy tree spirit with beady black eyes staring at a bumblebee. Watercolor painting in greens and soft purples. The painting is of a foggy forest with pale light between the background trees. In the forground is an overgrown forest floor with a stumpy forest creature sitting in the moss. It has big glowing eyes, and is looking at a spider that's webbing out of its broken tree head.
November 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Squash Squad. Gourd Guys. Pumpkin Pals.
🌿✨🎃✨🌿

Pick your favorite:
Melissasuestanley.com/original-art
Photograph of a small sculpted jack-o-lantern. It's painted orange and has dark purple eyes with sparkly bits in them. There are leaves in the background of the photo. Photograph of a group of four small sculpted jack-o-lantern. They are painted orange and have dark purple eyes with sparkly bits in them. There are leaves in the background of the photo. Photograph of a small sculpted jack-o-lantern in front of some seasonal gourds and leafy background. The sculpted pumpkin is painted orange and has dark purple eyes with sparkly bits in them. Photograph of a small sculpted jack-o-lantern in front of some seasonal gourds and leafy background. The sculpted pumpkin is painted orange and has dark purple eyes with sparkly bits in them.
November 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Spooky season continues... only because I just last night finished the rest of the Pumpkin Squad. These derpy gourds should be in the shop later this afternoon 🎃 ✨
Photograph of a set of four pumpkin sculpts resting on a clear plastic box. The pumpkins are sculpted to look like jack-o-lanterns. There's a sculpt of a baba yaga chicken-legged hut with some skulls around it in the background.
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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shing.bsky.social
"a mask for dreaming of a home"

wood(walnut and cherry), brass plated metal, acrylic

7.5" x 16" x 4"
November 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
melissasuestanley.bsky.social
OH HEY game nerds: @aaronbmiller.com has a Kickstarter NOW:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/aar...

(I'm not a game nerd, but I got one because I've seen it and I just like ALL THE ART and little stories lol)
Primal Encounters - a 5E supplement
Over 400 beast encounters, plus an extensive guide expanding the utility of beasts in your adventures.
www.kickstarter.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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belcourttheatre.bsky.social
"I wanted a real ship, because the ship is a character... I wanted the movie to test the capabilities of every single craft in moviemaking." —Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social

More dates/showtimes added for FRANKENSTEIN > 🎟 bit.ly/Belcourt-FRANKENSTEIN
November 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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shing.bsky.social
One of the things in this show is a $50 blindbox of little handmade ceramic bugs! They are all one of a kind, and there were 25 made for this show. They are available here, mailed randomly : www.circusposterus.com/store/exhibi...
a small menagerie of small ceramic bugs a small menagerie of small ceramic bugs
November 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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calvinmasculpts.bsky.social
Most recent flock of chubby birds. 🐤

sanamastudios.bigcartel.com/category/cal...
November 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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stellabialek.bsky.social
“maybe someone will stop by today”
(theme ‘island’)
November 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
melissasuestanley.bsky.social
Have fun out there, ya spoops
pen and ink (black and white) drawing of a spooky slender person/thing wearing a pumpkin jack-o-lantern head walking through the mists under a full moon.
October 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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aaronbmiller.com
🦇 Happy Halloween! 🦇
Do something strange and spooky today!

"Abyssal Ritual"
Oil on panel for @hitpointpress.bsky.social
Oil painting in dark teal and bright orange. The painting is of a dark forest with craggy trees. In the center there is a large glowing orange pit opening in the forest floor with strange bat-like creatures coming out. A girl in a flowing dress hovers over the glowing hole in a witchy pose. It looks like they're all having a pretty good spooky time.
October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Coffee run this morning
nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 20d
The Witch — William Mortensen
A phallus on a chain around its neck as a necklace soaring Over the roots of a town a naked witch on broomstick which is clutched between her thighs
October 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Greatest Halloween Movie Ever
Or
Greatest Movie Ever?

Trick question, it's both.
A hand holding up a copy of the dvd of Spaced Invaders.
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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There are two hours remaining in my Kickstarter 🎉

Now is the time to get that chicken shack of your dreams:

Kickstarter.com/projects/babayaga/shackling

#babayaga #witchyart #fantasyart #illustration #graphite
Shackling
Tales From Baba Yaga's Garden
www.kickstarter.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
melissasuestanley.bsky.social
Ends tonight!
🐓🌿✨🍄

#babayaga #illustration #witch #fantasyart
melissasuestanley.bsky.social Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 15d
Ooo dang! The campaign for my new book ends tomorrow 🎉

If you love wee chicken shacks, could you share this project sometime in the next 24 hours?

Thank you so much to everyone who has backed ~ I can't wait to share the Shacklings with you. 💖

Kickstarter.com/projects/babayaga/shackling
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM