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ljmatthewsart.bsky.social
🦇LJ🦇
@ljmatthewsart.bsky.social
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Artist inspired by horror and folklore 🦇

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Busily prepping for the Small Press Fair at a Travelling Man Newcastle TOMORROW! 11.30-4pm! A lot of my pals from Paper Jam Comics Collective will be there and we have lots of lovely #smallpress goodies FOR YOU!! 💕
#newcastleupontyne #travellingman #comicshop #smallpresscomics
A composite of two images, one showing small price signs being repainted and the other showing a suitcase packed full of display tools and artist merchandise.
October 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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It was this for me 😂
Cover art for the playstation one game Loaded.
September 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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My big dumb cow cat can't wear a bell because he spent upwards of ten minutes looking for the mysterious jingly toy and I had to take it off before he drove himself insane. But that was nothing to do with his hearing, he is a remarkably dopey cat 🤣 this is him in all his glory. His name is Schultz.
Photograph of a large black and white cat sitting and staring intently at something off camera.
August 13, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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The Black Gryphon by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon. I LOVED it. I didn't enjoy the sequels quite as much though haha.
Illustrated book cover depicting the titular black Gryphon and a wizard with a staff.
June 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Nine Inch Nails were incredible live 😭😭😭😭
Photo of OP standing in front of an advertising billboard for Nine Inch Nails' 'Peel it Back' 2025 tour. Photo of the stage and crowd from a height at Nine Inch Nails' show at the O2 in London. The NIN logo is projected on the curtain Another shot of the stage at the O2 while Nine Inch Nails perform. Close ups of the band are projected at the sides of the stage. Photograph of the crowd at O2 arena, London, while Nine Inch Nails perform. The crowd is bathed in red light and the band are on the middle stage, while a curtain across the main stage shows live footage of the show.
June 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Hell yeah #battlejacket
Photo of the back print of a Pusheen denim jacket with 'eat the rich' written on the bottom in fabric pens. Pusheen is surrounded by flowers and has a heart above their head. Photo of a detail on a Pusheen denim jacket. Handwritten text states 'being kind is punk AF. In a cruel world, kindness is radical!' this is written above a graphic of Pusheen Embroidered rose on a denim jacket, with handwritten text surrounding it stating 'bread for all, and roses too!'
June 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Mari Lwyd drawing 🐎

Gonna do some more folklore pieces like this and hopefully submit them to an exhibition!

Would prints be good too?🤔

DM if interested in purchasing :)

#art #drawing #folklore #cornwall
Pen and ink drawing on Kraft paper of the Welsh spirit Mary Lwyd (a horse skull decorated with ribbons, cords and bells), under a full moon.
June 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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34 years old and still drawing eyes all over the page 👁️
(Junji Ito eye studies - I wanna do em slightly more realistic, but not too much, so seeing what I like about how he does it and how it compares to what I do.)
Sketchbook page filled with doodles of various eye shapes/expressions drawn from refs of Junji Ito's artwork and comics.
June 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Schultz was a bit spooked at first but he's coming round. I think he's realised this kitten is a lot friendlier and better socialised than Django was.
(I loved Django, don't get me wrong, but he could be a swine 🤣)
Photo from the perspective of a person lying under a blanket on a sofa. They are looking down at 2 cats, one black and white adult cat, one a black kitten, curled up at opposite ends of the blanket. There is a TV in the background.
May 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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This is Crowley. He came home on Friday night. He is a perfect little angel.
Photo of a small black kitten with faint tabby stripes, looking at the person taking the photo. Photo of a young black kitten looking at the camera. Photo of a young black kitten looking into a bathroom full of kitten toys and beds. We are looking at the kitten from the behind. He is sitting upright. His ears look very large in comparison to the rest of him. Photo of a small black kitten curled up asleep on a dark floral bedspread.
May 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy, but isn't a selfie ✨
Image of a tweet stating 'Freaks me out that u never know what anyone's actual u to, ur neighbour could be sitting in their gaff the now munching an onion like an apple and ur none the wiser'
March 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Pic from Luna Night Market last night! It was nice but I'm so tired today as it finished at 9pm xD
Photo of the artist LJ Matthews at an artist alley stall, surrounded by prints and various badges, stickers etc which all feature her drawings.
March 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Repost with the first album you bought with your own money.

(I got these two, I distinctly remember lol)
Cover art of the Iron Maiden compilation album Best of the Beast, featuring various versions of the band mascot Eddie. Album art for Believe by the band Disturbed, showing a sigil made up of various magical and religious symbols on a red background.
February 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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I, too, see ghost and post ghost
Digital illustration of a cartoonish sheet ghost drinking a pumpkin spice latte, surrounded by fall leaves.
January 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Bought this gorgeous new tarot deck. First card it threw at me in a reading was the Tower. Ok pal I see how it is 🤣
January 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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New fairy for my tree. XD
December 25, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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Please enjoy this very silly joke for which @raggedyman.bsky.social is partly to blame #dune #shaihulud #scifi #comic
A line drawn comic of two sandworms in a sand dune. There is a humanoid figure in the distance. One sandworm says 'Wow look Jerry! It's Mua'Dib' We should go say hi!'. Jerry the sandworm is cowering anxiously in the sand dune, saying 'I don't wanna'. The title of the comic at the bottom reads SHY-HULUD, with 'shy' as in bashful or embarrassed.
December 6, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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If you see this, post something monochromatic
December 3, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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I'm.not even that into wrestling but I just love @danhausen.bsky.social's vibe so much 🦇 we stan a spooky king #wrestling #fanart #digitalart
December 1, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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If you see this, post fungi.
November 30, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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Slowly getting better at #linoprint 🤗 #art #printmaking
Three linocut prints of a gothic church with bats around it and ghosts in the cemetery. Three lino prints of a cat with a skull face. Single lino print of a gothic church with elaborate window. It has bats flying above it and 2 ghosts in the churchyard
November 23, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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Me in my echo chamber
Screenshot from the Star Trek: Fleet Command videogame, depicting a tribble with Borg cybernetics in a sealed container.
November 18, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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You say you're goth, but are you Nivek Ogre in a coffin with a possum goth
November 15, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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Me: I will be responsible with my NHS backpay
Also me: Addams Family Polly Pocket....
(It's coming today 😅)
Photos of the official Addams Family Polly Pocket collector set, showing the front of the case, opened case with Addams house interior featuring Cleopatra the plant and figures of Gomez, Morticia, Pugsley, Wednesday and Thing).
November 13, 2024 at 9:43 AM
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November 11, 2024 at 11:08 AM