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Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC)
@kitsteele.com
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Chaotic good watercolor artist with lawful neutral tendencies. Revels in the random. Owned by an elderly cat.

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Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jan 6
Hi! I’m Kit, watercolor illustrator who paints tiny, cheerful dragons with tea & watercolor, dark animal oracles… & everything in between.

Shop:
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Artbook of adorable dragons:
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Patreon:
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Cover and page spread sample of my Tea Dragons illustration and recipe book. 64 pages, full color, matte cover and gloss interior. Measures 7”x10” Collection of my sticker designs Two VooDoo-inspired alligator mercreature people, available as prints in my store. Prints measure 6”x16” inches. Original watercolor painting of a shy ghost and a collection of jack o’lanterns.
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These are amazing! I’m in love with the mossy deer ones!
justinkingdesigns.bsky.social Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social · Nov 22
Im a sculptor living in St Louis. I use a lot of cardboard and other under appreciated materials to create taxidermy style art pieces. You can find my work at Houska Gallery here in STL or contact me directly for current available pieces or commissions.

#art #sculpture #mixedmedia
June 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Congrats on 14K, Aimee! 🎉

Thanks for the art share! 💚
Watercolor painting of a dark, murky green mermaid peering up from the depths through a scattering of 3 dimensional gilt-edged waterlilies, floated above the surface of the painting. 3 dimensional, hand cut, multi-layered watercolor painting featuring a humpback whale, with a tiny mermaid friend, breaching through puffy, cotton candy-colored clouds. Beyond the clouds, the Milky Way ribbons across the sky. Watercolor painting of a large, curling, twisting viper made of tree roots and tree bark skin. Along the twists and turns of the snake body are patches of vibrant green moss, dotted with tiny pink flowers. The snakes eyes are a milky green, staring out at the viewer. This is the Year of the Wood Snake. Watercolor painting of a long haired, young woman, outlined in ink. A golden arrow passes through her body, piercing her heart on its way out. Behind her, where the arrow pierces her back, is a large blooming pool of deep red watercolor.
June 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Every. Single. Time.

Or the variation: “Will you make prints of this, because I’ll definitely buy one!” 🙄
June 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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I feel bad for neglecting my daily animal sketchbook for so long, but I had to go back to it for International Lynx Day.

#lynx #traditionalart #internationallynxday
Greenish tinted pencil sketch of a Canadian lynx.
June 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Happy Birthday, Dad. I still miss you, every day.

Red, Right, Returning.
Watercolor painting of a small, white sailboat heading into a sunset above the clouds.
June 3, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
June 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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MerMay day 31

DONE! (And on time, too!) Today’s a 12”x18”, 6 layer, handcut watercolor piece…. I’m going to spend tomorrow dead, kthanks.

#watercolor #mermay #clouscape
Large watercolor layered painting of a night sky background, the Milky Way ribboning across the sky, topped with individual layers of cotton candy-colored clouds. From within the cloud layers, a humpback whale breaches uptowards the night. Angled photo of the painting to see the multiple hand cut layers of painted paper.
May 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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The NASA planetary science fleet chart if the president’s budget is enacted.
The NASA planetary science fleet chart. It shows two spirals with missions to Moon/Mars and the Solar System. I’ve crossed off all of the missions that will be cancelled in the president’s budget… and there are a lot of them.
May 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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MerMay day 30, I can see the finish line!!!!

All the blue lobster armor pieces and horseshoe crab pauldrons are handcut and layered over the mermaid painting.

#watercolor #mermay
Photo of long, rectangular watercolor painting featuring a bronze-skinned, dark haired warrior mermaid with a golden tail, wearing a cuirass, vambraces, and tasses of blue lobster shell and horseshoe crab shells as pauldrons. Close up of painting to see handcut armor pieces affixed over the painting surface.
May 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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MerMay day 29 (actually day 29 this time!)

#mermay #watercolor #darkart
Long, narrow watercolor painting of a dark-haired and dark-tailed mermaid struggling against the anchor rope caught around her neck.
May 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Random request time! My sister is convinced Sir David Attenborough did a documentary on fantasy creatures (like SW or D&D, not the 1975 “Fabulous Animals,” something more recent,) but we’ve had no luck finding anything. Did she fever dream this?
May 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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MerMay day 29

#watercolor #mermay #angelfish
Watercolor painting of a redheaded meemaid with an angelfish patterned tail. She’s smiling at a small anglerfish.
May 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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MerMay day 27, glow in the dark effect at work. (I did charge the paint with the flashlight on my phone before I took the video.)

#mermay
May 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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MerMay day 27

I love glow in the dark paint, it makes me ridiculously happy.

#mermay #creaturecreation #watercolor #darkart
Watercolor painting of a large sea creature lurking beneath an anchored tall ship on a full moon night. Close up of the sea creature and tall ship Close up of the glow in the dark effect painted over the sea creature, ship lanterns, and full moon.
May 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Just updated my Ko-fi to include all of the rest of my free assets since I can't deliver those via MailChimp anymore 🫠 Anyway there's a couple of mockup assets and some coloring book pages there now! ko-fi.com/acozza/shop

#Resources #Mockups
Screenshot from Ko-fi shop page featuring picture frame and VHS tape mockups, and some black and white coloring book page downloads.
May 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Art is process. Process IS art.

It doesn’t matter if I fail, or suck, it only matters that I make the thing.
oddletters.bsky.social m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · May 27
i dont care what AI can do "better" than me. the point of me doing something isn't to be the best at it. it's for me to do it.
May 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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MerMay day 26.

Not going to lie, this one might be my favorite so far. This is, by far, the best cadaver I’ve ever painted. 😅

#mermay #siren #darkart
Watercolor painting of a possessive siren, painted in shades of green and black, curled over the supine body of a dead sailor.
May 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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MerMay day 26.

Not going to lie, this one might be my favorite so far. This is, by far, the best cadaver I’ve ever painted. 😅

#mermay #siren #darkart
Watercolor painting of a possessive siren, painted in shades of green and black, curled over the supine body of a dead sailor.
May 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Opened 2 more slots 🖤
artvaris.bsky.social R. Riekkinen ✦ @artvaris.bsky.social · May 13
One Ko-fi commission slot is open!
✦ Style: portrait sketch
✦ Turnaround: flexible, 1 - 5 weeks
✦ Fantasy characters only
✦ Rate 160 €
May 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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MerMay day 25

#watercolor #mermaid #irridescence
Watercolor and ink painting of an irridescent silver mermaid wearing a golden crown Closeup of mermaid, showing off the sparkly silver painted outlines
May 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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QTP with your dark art
Small shadowbox frame of a watercolor, handcut muskrat skull, surrounded by watercolor, handcut butterflies and purple moss. Watercolor painting of strange alien sea creature emerging from choppy seas, illuminated by a lighthouse. Watercolor painting of a fox skull covered in red crystals and surrounded by flames in the shape of a fox head. Watercolor painting of an eel-like mermaid crawling on the banks of a river, her tail is curled around several skulls.
May 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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MerMay day 24, something minimal today. Impact without overcomplication.

#watercolor #mermay #mermaid
Watercolor painting of a silvery mermaid lying in front of a large window, through which can be seen a vibrant nebula.
May 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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MerMay day 24

#watercolor #siren #darkart
Watercolor painting of a deep sea mermaid with bioluminescent frills and scales.
May 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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MerMay for day 22!

#watercolor #mermay #mermaid
Watercolor painting of a silver sparkly mermaid sitting on the banks of a lagoon, as her long, silver hair cascades into the water Closeup of the sparkly silver paint
May 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Ack! Squeaking in under the wire (at least in my time zone) with MerMay day 21! Something with a little more children’s book feel today.

#mermay #watercolor #selkie #mythology #illustration #childrensbook
Soft watercolor illustration of a harbor seal-patterned selkie, perched on a rock and surrounded by seals, as she looks away from the viewer towards the sun over open water.
May 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM