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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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Big congratulations on 14K! 🎉

Thank you for the art share! (… take 2, because my brain is clearly somewhere else today. 😅)
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. Matted ink portrait of a young man with visibly scarred golden eyes and long white dredlocks. He stares confidently out at the viewer. Floated over the painting and the mat, is the golden outline of a Jacob’s sheep skull. 2 long, slender ink and watercolor paintings, side by side, of a pair of alligator-based merpeople. On the left is a character based on Baron Samedi, wearing the iconic skull face paint. He also wears a top hat, tuxedo tail coat, and white gloves. With one hand, he tips his hat to the viewer, wearing a knowing smile, with the other hand he holds a highball glass filled with a vibrant orange Sazerac cocktail. On the right is an alligator mermaid loosely based on Marie Laveau, famed VooDoo Queen of New Orleans. She has long dredlocks held back by a white headscarf, and wears a necklace of bones. In one hand, she carries a staff topped with a human skull, with mermaid-shaped poppets stuck with pins hanging from the top. Multilayered, handcut, 3 dimensional watercolor painting featuring a humpback whale and tiny mermaid companion breaching through cotton candy-colored clouds of vibrant pinks, sunset orangey yellows and sleepy violets. Beyond the clouds, the Milky Way ribbons it’s way across the sky.
June 13, 2025 at 7:29 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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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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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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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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Literally purring in my lap right now. 😁
Photo of black and white kitty sitting in a lap.
May 29, 2025 at 1:50 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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The Blep is strong with this one
Black and white cat with blep
May 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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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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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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Congrats on the 60K milestone!!
Watercolor painting of a regal mermaid emerging from the smoke plume of a hydrothermal vent. Watercolor painting of a curled snake with skin that resembles tree bark. The snake is dotted with patches of moss and small, pink flowers. It is the Year of the Snake. Watercolor and ink paintings of 2 alligator merpeople, one who resembles Baron Samedi, and the other a VooDoo Priestess. Watercolor painting of a murky green body of water. Beneath the surface, barely visible, is a mermaid waiting. On top of the painting are several handcut, 3 dimensional, watercolor painted bright green, gold-edged lilypads.
May 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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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
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MerMay day 20… only 11 more to go. 😵‍💫

#watercolor #mermay #shipwreck
Red-tailed mermaid curled lovingly around a skull in her arms. Behind her is a blue medallion featuring the silhouette of a shipwreck. Close up of mermaid and skull with pirate ship wreck in the background.
May 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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It’s World Bee Day today, so I’ll post a little collection of handcut watercolor bees I painted a few years back to celebrate the hard work these little critters do.

#bees #worldbeeday #watercolor
A collection of 4 small decorative white framed watercolor paintings, each of a unique and handcut painted bee.
May 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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MerMay day 19…. For the #bioluminescent prompt. 11”x17” She needs a pass of glow in the dark paint, but later when I have more time & I’m not wiped out from painting 11”x14” or bigger full watercolors every single day for a month. I could have a solo gallery show. 😅

#watercolor #jellyfish #mermay
Large watercolor painting of a glowing, ghostly jellyfish mermaid
May 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Guilty as charged.

My little 21 year old tiny bean, Manda.
Picture of a black and white cat sitting on a bed.
May 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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MerMay for day 18, a shiver (I LOVE that it’s called this) of sharks follows along beneath a tall ship under sail.

#mermay #watercolor #sharks #mermaid
Watercolor painting, in shades of blue, of a group of sharks swimming beneath the shadowof a tall ship at sea.
May 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM