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artistantlers.bsky.social
kenz 🌟
@artistantlers.bsky.social
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Minnesota artist: making stuff and thinking too much
currently making: soup zine, imodna art, learning to knit???
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email: kenznelsonart@gmail.com
Linocut prints here! https://artistantlers.etsy.com
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/artistantlers/
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Sharing these again because I love them a lot! (the Laudna is still the coolest thing I’ve ever made) #criticalrole #criticalrolefanart #linocut
A photo of two linocut prints hanging on a wall in black frames. On the left is Laudna and on the right is Imogen Temult, both from critical role. They sort of face each other, with their hands reaching up towards each other. Marisha Ray signed the Laudna print with “Kenz! Fun Scary!” And Laura Bailey signed the Imogen print with “to Kenz- my tether…”
October 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Hiiiiii #PortfolioDay
I’m Kenz, a Minnesota artist who loves drawing TTRPG and fantasy characters and getting really into a good painted background.

portfolio: artistantlers.carrd.co#portfolio
ko-fi commissions: ko-fi.com/artistantler...
email: kenznelsonart@gmail.com
A digital painting of Keyleth from critical role sitting on some rocks at the foot of a big tree. She wears a long green dress and on her shoulders is a mantle made of leaves that fade from green to yellow to red as it falls down her shoulders. Her red hair is crowned with a circlet and two antlers. A digital painting of SILAHA from critical role: downfall. He is a blue automaton with glowing orange eyes and gold accents on his body. His hand is reaching out towards the viewer, about to grab an amber glass vial. The distorted image of an eye and a hand is reflected in the glass vial. A mother polar bear and two cubs. The cubs are leaving their den for the first time. One only pokes its head out while the other stands on its hind legs to look around. The mother stands further back but watches them over her shoulder. The northern lights glimmer in the sky, casting colored light onto the three bears, and the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor are visible beyond the lights. A master study of John Singer Sargent’s “A Capriote” with Ylfa from dimension 20 painted in over the woman in the original painting. A young woman leaning against a tree with her arm wrapped around it. She has dark wolf ears and a red hooded cape is draped over the tree. A wolf fades into the dark forest background.
October 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Keyleth of the Air Ashari, Voice of the Tempest
🍂🍃🍁
For the Tourist’s Guide to Tal’Dorei showcase with @exandriaartists.bsky.social!
#tgtt #criticalrolefanart
A digital painting of Keyleth from critical role sitting on some rocks at the foot of a big tree. She wears a long green dress and on her shoulders is a mantle made of leaves that fade from green to yellow to red as it falls down her shoulders. Her red hair is crowned with a circlet and two antlers.
October 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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imodna sketch <3
#criticalrolefanart
A gray and black sketch of imogen and laudna from critical role. They are facing each other, imogen pulling one to laudna’s hands close to her and her other hand on laudna’s face
October 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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hiiiiii I’m opening up ko-fi commissions!

- digital art portraits
- custom linocut prints
- put your blorbo in a painting

✨

ko-fi.com/artistantler...
A drawing of a halfling woman with light skin and two long white braids in her hair, pictured from the chest up. She wears a star necklace and six stars float around her head like a halo. A master study of John Singer Sargent’s “A Capriote” with Ylfa from dimension 20 painted in over the woman in the original painting. A young woman leaning against a tree with her arm wrapped around it. She has dark wolf ears and a red hooded cape is draped over the tree. A wolf faces into the dark forest background. A digital painting master study of Caspar David Friedrich’s “Two Men Contemplating the Moon” but with a twist- the painting is tinted orange and Beau and Caleb from Critical Role are pictured in place of the men in the painting. They stand in a small clearing between some trees looking down onto the Malleus Key, a tall two-pronged tower. The red moon Ruidus hangs directly above the Key. Ley lines glimmer almost like northern lights in the orange sky. Beau has a hand on Caleb’s shoulder, casually leaning on him. A photo of four black and white linocut prints. Clockwise from the upper left they are two hands making a heart shape, a ghost with two pumpkins, pate de rolo from critical role- a rat with a raven skull holding a flower, and a loon floating on water.
September 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Ylfa Snorgelsson as “A Capriote” (by John Singer Sargent) for Mirror Image II: A Dimension 20 Exhibition as part of Dimension 20 Zine Jam

I’m so proud of this one!!

#neverafter #dimension20 #d20zinejam #art #dimension20fanart
A digital painting of a young woman leaning against a tree with her arm wrapped around it. She has dark wolf ears and a red hooded cape is draped over the tree. A wolf fades into the dark forest background.
August 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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This year my goal for #d20zinejam was to make my own mini zine from one linocut block. And I made it!! You can read it or print your own by checking out the zine jam bundle here itch.io/b/3221/dimen...
#dimension20 #cloudwardho #linocut #printmaking #d20zinejam2025
A linocut title page that reads: Cloudward, Ho! a Dimension 20 fan zine. The words are surrounded by clouds. A cropped page from the zine that reads: On high we go to break the binding bond The linocut scenery behind the text is part of the zephyr skyship, some clouds, and part of a floating island Another cropped page: a profile view of Olethra looking up at the stars
August 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I hope your week gets better!! Here are my babies plus the fox I occasionally babysit
a boston terrier smiling at the camera A different boston terrier about to roll over a frayed dog toy A Shiba Inu mix looking at the camera The same shiba laying on her back asking for a belly rub, with a silly smile
August 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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OH ALSO hidden in the 483928 trees in the print there is a very tiny moose 🫎

Here’s my original reference photo, taken from the Lutsen mountains last fall.
A photo of a lodge with a wrap around deck built on a hill, with a background of hills covered in trees and a lake that meets the horizon.
June 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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“The Lookout”

This is the first in a series of linoprints I’m working on, featuring some of the beautiful scenery around the north shore of Lake Superior. I love this place!

artistantlers.etsy.com/listing/4306...

#linocut #printmaking #minnesota #art
Photo of a linoprint, black ink on white paper. The image printed is a landscape, a lodge with a wrap around deck is in the foreground, with hills covered in trees and some rocky cliffs in the background. At the bottom of the hills you can see part of Lake Superior before it meets the horizon.
June 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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I’ve been wanting to draw this for a long time! Imogen and Laudna finally got their cottage 🥹
#criticalrole #criticalrolefanart #imodna
A digital painting of Laudna and Imogen from Critical Role. They are standing in an overgrown garden full of flowers, holding each other while they share a kiss. Off to the side Pate de Rolo is picking flowers in front of a small cottage, with thick forest and bright blue skies in the background.
June 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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I’m back with more linocut prints, this one’s for the hands appreciators
🫶 artistantlers.etsy.com/listing/4298... 🙌
#printmaking #linocut #art
A linocut print of two hands making a heart shape. A linocut print of two hands crossing their pinky fingers like a pinky promise. A linocut print of two hands holding each other with interlocking fingers.
May 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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ALSO hey look it’s me and marisha!
A selfie of Kenz with Marisha Ray.
April 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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I had the best time at the Chicago live show and C2E2. Thank you thank you thank you to @marisha-ray.bsky.social and @laurabaileyvo.bsky.social for signing my art! I love Laudna and Imogen so much, and having these signed means the world to me 🖤💜

#criticalrole #imodna #printmaking
A photo of two linocut prints hanging on a wall in black frames. On the left is Laudna and on the right is Imogen Temult, both from critical role. They sort of face each other, with their hands reaching up towards each other. Marisha Ray signed the Laudna print with “Kenz! Fun Scary!” And Laura Bailey signed the Imogen print with “to Kenz- my tether…”
April 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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The Common Loon is Minnesota’s state bird and I love seeing them on the lake every summer! I love this little print so much.

artistantlers.etsy.com/listing/1588...

#linocut #printmaking #minnesota #loon #art #bsnm
A messy pile of loon art prints. A linocut print of a loon, a black duck with white spots and a white chest. It is printed in black ink on white cardstock. A linocut print of a loon, a black duck with white spots and a white chest. It is printed in black ink on off-white mulberry paper.
April 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Do Not Separate Them 🖤💜

#criticalrolefanart #criticalrole #linoprint #printmaking #imodna #art
Two linocut prints in black and white, of Imogen and Laudna from Critical Role. Both of their hands extend outside their “frames” to reach towards each other. Laudna is in her form of dread with tree branches growing from her shoulders like wings, while Imogen is wreathed in lightning. They are framed by poppies and violets.
April 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Exaltant Hope is up on etsy along with my other critical role lino prints! artistantlers.etsy.com/listing/1895...
Three black and white linocut art prints: Laudna from critical role in her form of dread reaching up to our right, Imogen from critical role reaching up to our left, and pâté de rolo on the print in the center.
April 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Imogen Temult, Exaltant Hope of the Red Storm

13”x19” #linocut #criticalrolefanart #criticalrole @laurabaileyvo.bsky.social
A photo of a linocut art print, black ink on white paper. It features Imogen Temult from Critical Role, reaching and looking up to our left. She has long lightning markings going up her arms and neck onto her face. Her hair is long and flowy and she is framed by lightning and violets.
April 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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vexleth!
#criticalrolefanart #criticalrole
a drawing of Keyleth and Vex from critical role. they sit back to back on a bench, with keyleth's head relaxed on vex's shoulder. their hands hang off the bench with their pinkies crossed.
November 26, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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short rest
#criticalrolefanart #imodna
A drawing of Imogen and Laudna from critical role. They’re relaxing on an old fashioned couch. Imogen rests her head on Laudna’s shoulder and they are gently holding hands.
November 16, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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Sweetpea and Oppy Betabean: two definitely biological siblings. I loved them so much I had to crochet them. #criticalrolefanart
Two crocheted dolls standing in some tall grass in front of a fallen tree. They are modeled after Sweetpea and Oppy Betabean from Critical Role’s Daggerheart open beta oneshots. Oppy is a ribbet, a dark blue frog person wearing a hat and cape made out of leaves. Sweetpea is a fungril, a light blue-green mushroom person with a big triangular mushroom cap on her head. She wears a big brown cardigan over her frilly skirts.
November 14, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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Quote repost with your art that has stars 🌟
A mother polar bear and two cubs. The cubs are leaving their den for the first time. One only pokes its head out while the other stands on its hind legs to look around. The mother stands further back but watches them over her shoulder. The northern lights glimmer in the sky, casting colored light onto the three bears, and the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor are visible beyond the lights.
November 12, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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If you see this, post your orange art! 🧡
A digital painting of Beau and Caleb from Critical Role. They stand in a small clearing between some trees, looking down onto the Malleus Key, a tall two-pronged structure. The red moon Ruidus hangs directly above the Key. Ley lines glimmer almost like northern lights in the dusky orange sky. Beau has a hand on Caleb’s shoulder and appears to be leaning casually on him.
November 8, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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Pâté de Rolo with a flower for his mama 🌸 🐀 the boy is a 5"x7" linoprint on cardstock and you can find him on etsy ➡️ artistantlers.etsy.com/listing/1795... #criticalrolefanart #art
A linocut print of Pâté de Rolo from Critical Role. He is a rat with a raven’s skull head. In the artwork he is standing up on two feet and holding a poppy in his hand.
November 3, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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yeah that tracks <3
(A screenshot of my uquiz results) the text reads: Your result: Love You create from love. It is an overflowing love that seeps out of your heart and into all you create. You couldn't possibly contain it inside yourself, and so you dedicate yourself to depicting it through everything you make. Your art is a celebration of what you cherish most, a loving tribute to everything that captivates you. There are things too wonderful to be appreciated in silence, and so you sing of your love time and time again. You are determined not to let your vast love go unnoticed or forgotten. That's why your work is a declaration of affection, an expression of fondness for everything that makes your life worth living.
November 3, 2024 at 4:00 AM