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Sketches by Saron
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Artist out of Athens, Georgia! Most of my work focuses on botanical illustration with heavy inspiration from Greek myth!
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Sketches by Saron @sketchesbysaron.bsky.social · Jan 11
Welcome! I’m Saron (they/them), and my day job is as mental health therapist out of Athens, Georgia, but I also love making pen & ink + watercolor illustrations of botanicals with heavy influences from Greek myth! Thanks for joining me over here 🌼
Imagine of a person with short green hair, a white cowboy hat, and a light pink suit leaning on a bar stool and smirking to something outside of frame.
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Come see us at the Winterville Marigold Festival today! 9-5 today and perfect for last minute Mother’s Day shopping 🌼
Outdoor art booth with Edison bulbs
May 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Thank you so much 😭 it was so, so good getting to see you and catch up!
April 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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AND FINALLY! I was invited to participate in the #JordanCon Charity Art Jam this year, which was SO fun. The theme was “corvids,” so I chose to paint a raven skull and a “raven” ZZ plant. The piece is named “Just the Tip” because the very tip of the beak has a touch of gold 😉
“Just the Tip”
April 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Part 2!
“Golden Hour” “Lil‘ Shroomies”
April 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Additionally, here is part 1 of my gallery from #JordanCon! The original of “The High Priestess” is still available as well as an embellished print of “Chthonic Sisterhood!”
“Mother” “Bitter Water” “The High Priestess” “Chthonic Sisterhood”
April 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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I’m emerging from my social media cave to say that I had such an amazing time at #JordanCon this year, as both a staff member and an attending artist. Thank you to everyone who bought my art and I hope you truly love it!
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April 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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My new piece, The River, is finally done! I had so much fun getting to work on this piece as the cover art for an EP my brother is releasing. Stay tuned! (no pun intended)

Prints, stickers, and all the things available at sketchesbysaron.com

#redapple #skeletalhand #autumnvibes #watercolorart
Watercolor painting of a skeletal hand stabbing a red apple with a dagger as it bleeds golden ichor. Honeycombs are dispersed in the background.
March 13, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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A WIP commission I’m working on for my dear brother!
Watercolor work in progress of falling maple leaves and a skeletal hand stabbing a red apple which is bleeding golden ichor
March 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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I have been extremely hard at work overhauling my website to make it prettier, easier to use, and MUCH more optimized for mobile. Go to sketchesbysaron.com to check it out, and as always thank you for your amazing support 🌼

#artistwebsite #artwebsite #botanicalart #watercolorbotanicals
January 31, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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#botanicalart #flora #SciArt
January 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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One of the blue display windows from the Dome room at the Montreal Insectarium and one of my favourites. Look at the awesome diversity of #bluebugs. #bluemonday
Exposition window displaying around 40 insects with blue coloration including butterflies, damselflies, and beetles.
January 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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More distracting & adorable sporophytes for #MossMonday💚🌱
#moss #nature #forestbathing
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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TikTok who? #Xiaohongshu is so much better. I know it’s been unbanned but I think I’ve found where I wanna be ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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January 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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The Watcher won an award!! 🤍

#art #fantasyart
The original graphite and gold drawing, framed with a white ribbon hanging next to it.
January 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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skulls skulls skulls
January 19, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Prints, stickers, totes, coffee mugs, apparel, and all sorts of other things can be purchased from sketchesbysaron.com 🌼
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January 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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My newly finished piece, “Bitter Water.”

A bouquet of black hellebore, ergot on rye, pennyroyal, cotton root, and tansy, which have been used for thousands of years to help uterus-havers take back control for their bodies.

#medicinalherbs #medicinalplants #women’shealth #prochoice #localart
Watercolor depiction of black hellebore, cotton root, tansy, ergot on rye, and pennyroyal. The botanicals are surrounded by a metallic gold diamond.
January 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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@theglazeproject.bsky.social hey there! I’d love to request an invite to webglaze and I see your DMs aren’t open, so I figured I would try here! (This is my official art account, so all posts you see are my original human work!)
January 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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So close to done on this one!
January 18, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Thinking today about how ready I feel for spring and for all of the flowers that come with it! My uncle commissioned this cherry blossom piece last year and it’s still one of my favorites 🌸

#cherryblossoms #sakura #localart #watercolorartist
A watercolor painting of a cherry blossom branch. There are several blossoms on the branch varying from full bloom to not yet open. The blossoms are depicted in various shades of pink to mimic the variety of shades found in nature.
January 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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January 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Offering III, the last in my first drawings of 2025 features a Peregrine Falcon talon. Reserved for the ChattaCon Art Show this weekend.

Graphite and gold pigments, 4x4 inches #art #sciart #drawing #magic
Graphite drawing of a bird’s talon with a gold spiral inside the curve of the claw.
January 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Exciting news! Sketches by Saron is officially Sketches by Saron, LLC! We legit now, baybee
January 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Reply with full alt text from the first image in previous post of Matthew Boroson FB post.

Last line cut off:
“Gaiman found it all in Tanith Lee's writing and never gave her any credit.”
This is about Neil Gaiman. Ta-Nehisi Coates BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME is a great book. Insightful, beautifully written, profound. Coates modeled his book on James Baldwin's THE FIRE NEXT TIME. We know this because Coates was open and up-front about this fact. George R.R. Martin's GAME OF THRONES/A Song of Ice and Fire is a great series. Martin modeled his books on a series by a French author named Maurice Druon. We know this because Martin was open and up-front about this fact. Viet Thanh Nguyen's THE SYMPATHIZER is a great book. He modeled it on a book written in Vietnamese, whose title escapes me. We know this because Nguyen was open and up-front about this fact. Neil Gaiman's THE SANDMAN is a great comic book series Gaiman modeled his series on Tanith Lee's TALES FROM THE FLAT EARTH. But you wouldn't know this, because Gaiman has never given her any credit. Despite the fact that the main character - a byronic, pale, otherworldly, deity-like character - is the prince of night and dreams. Despite the fact that every time people see art depicting Tanith Lee's main character Azhrarn, they think it's Morpheus from the Sandman. (How bad is this? When people see depictions of her character, they say SHE must have ripped HIM off.) Despite the fact that the dream lord's younger sibling is Death Despite the fact that other members of his family include Delusion, Delirium.... They are not gods but beings older than gods, and when the gods die, Dream, Death, Delusion, and Delirium will remain. This family of immortal, eternal, unchanging beings, who each embody an eternal abstraction starting with the letter D. Someone else on the internet, noticing the similarities, flipped open the third book in Tanith Lee's series to a random page, and lo and behold, there's a description of a character who was clearly the inspiration for Gaiman's Mazikeen The prose, the characters, the narrative strategies, the mythology, the story structure, all of it: Gaiman found it all in Tanith Lee's
January 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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A crow 🐦‍⬛ #birds #birdart #crow
January 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM