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Anne Newman Art
@annenewmanart.bsky.social
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Artist interested in nature and fantasy 🐛
Ecosystems and mythology 🐛
Oil paint/watercolor/gouache/pen
Website: www.annenewmanart.com
Prints & things on my Etsy:
www.etsy.com/shop/AnneNewmanArt
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K is for Kitsune. These are fox spirits from Japanese folklore. They are shapeshifters who often get up to mischief in human form. They get more tails as they get older until they reach their final ultimate form with 9 tails.
#kitsune #folklore #yokai #illustration #art #watercolor
A fox spirit with 7 tales. A kitsune
April 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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J is for Jenny Greenteeth. She is a water hag from English folklore who will lure children to the waterside and drown them. Lovely!
#art #watercolor #painting #folklore #folkhorror #alphabetbestiary
A woman in muddy pond water lays in wait to grasp the ankles of anyone who walks by
March 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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New sticker alert!
From my painting “Red-winged Blackbird”
It’s on my Etsy:
www.etsy.com/listing/1890...
#sticker #birdart #redwingedblackbird #artstore
A sticker of a red winged blackbird
March 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Time to paint!
March 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Last call for drawing dragons in my alphabet bestiary
#dragonart #alphabetbestiary #drawing #traditionalmedia #mythicalcreature
March 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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I is for Inkanyamba. The Inkanyamba is a water serpent living near the base of Howick Falls, South Africa. It was believed by the locals that its anger caused the summer storms.
#alphabetbestiary #fantasyart #mythicalcreature #illustration
#watercolor #painting
A ginormous water serpent rising out of the water with a storm in the sky
March 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Shipped my first painting today. I fashioned my own protective (and very janky looking) box and used an ungodly amount of bubblewrap. Hope she gets there safe! 🥲
March 5, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Just ordered 100 of these bookplate stickers 😬
#bookplate #bookdragon #booksky #dragonart #fanstasyart #artbusiness
A bookplate sticker that reads “ex libris” with a dragon asleep on a book. Surrounded by thorns and rose
March 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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If you see this, share a skeleton
#pen #sketch
A pen sketch for a painting depicting a skeleton king merged an riding a mass of skeletonized extinct animals trailing off into the distance
February 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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“Mothren” watercolor on paper. I had a dream about this moth messenger creature and this was my attempt to recreate it. Thought I’d share in honor of #mothmonday

#watercolor #illustration #traditionalmedia #dreamart #bugsky #fantasyart #painting #artsky
A moth humanoid with 6 wings and 6 limbs
February 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Just a heads up, I sell prints of art on Etsy (this is one of my favs)
www.etsy.com/shop/AnneNew...
#art #artshop #artforsale #artprints #etsyshop #painting #artist #traditionalart
February 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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If you see this post a bird #bird #art #oilpainting 🐦‍⬛
A red winged blackbird with reeds in the background and the moon
February 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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H is for Hobgoblin! Drawing silly goblins is essential to who I am as an artist and it is so hard to justify that in a Very Serious Artist’s Statement™️
#art #illustration #fantasyillustration #fantasy #goblin #mythicalcreature #folklore #watercolor
A googly-eyed goblin perched upon the mushroomed lettering of his name “hobgoblin”
February 21, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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G is for Griffin
This is the 4th version of this piece and I’m making myself stick with it. I was inspired by the bearded vulture (which are basically already griffins)
#watercolor #illustration #mythicalcreature #fantasyillustration #art #traditionalart
A griffin - he has a birds head, front talons, and wings, and the back half of a lion
February 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Fenrir (for the letter F)
#art #illustration #mythicalcreature #mythology #fantasy #norse
A large shackled wolf with a sword holding his jaws open
February 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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If you see this, post a knight
(Bug knight)
#knightcore
A beetle creature in strange armor
February 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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After fiddling with it for days, I think I’ve finished my “w” piece but I’m still not totally satisfied with it. The idea of starting over seems terrible so maybe I’ll just shelve “w” for now and come back to it
An illustration of a flickery flame-like creature holding a lantern in a swamp. At the bottom it says “Will o’ the wisp”
February 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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“Heart Tree” 2024. Watercolor. 18”x24”
#art #watercolor #traditonalmedia #artist #fineart #moth
A tree with a glowing human heart at the center. It’s leaking water that falls into one cup and out of another cup. There is bumblebee and a dove in the branches. The tree is crowned with a moth that represents a pair of eyes
February 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Elf for the letter E 🌿
#art #illustration #bestiary #mythicalcreature #fantasyillustraion #elf
An elf with green and fern patterned skin stepping out of a border made of tree branches
February 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Dragon! For the letter D of my Alphabet Bestiary
#illustration #art #fantasyart #dragon #watercolor #traditionalart
A dragon breathing fire on a stylized “dragon” lettering
February 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Working on this will o’ the wisp this week
#wip #drawing #art #illustration #folklore #bestiary
A drawing of a wispy incorporeal guy holding a lantern
February 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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C is for Centaur
#art #illustration #fantasyillustration #mythicalcreature #bestiary #ink
#sagittarius
A stylistic centaur filled with starry sky is drawing bow and arrow. His beard and tail flow around him
February 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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My most treasure pieces of home decor 🧐
A brass crab next to a frog candle next to a handmade scaly footed planter containing a ponytail palm
February 3, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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B is for Bogwitch. My Bogwitch is a dirty old witch who stomps around the bog doing swampy witch things.
#art #illustration #fantasyart #traditonalart #watercolor #bogwitch
A cranky old witch carrying a basket of vegetables and amphibians makes her way through shallow water. She holds a lantern.
February 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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This is the final. “Valravn” the letter V for my Alphabet Bestiary series. A Danish raven/werewolf monster that consumes the hearts of slain kings to gain power.
#folklore #art #fantasyillustration #bestiary #gouache
A painting of a raven/wolf hybrid creature with colorful swirls. From the heart that the creature consumed a banner unfurls with the word “valravn” on it.
January 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM