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morethanmud.bsky.social
House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly
@morethanmud.bsky.social
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i run a tight shipwreck; coming here was your first mistake.

fuck ai. i block that shit on sight.

this be the art account of @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social

art samples - https://upfromsumdirt.wordpress.com/visual-art/
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forever in love with the way Jack Davis drew Big Bird & Sesame Street
colorful illustration of all the sesame street puppets as autonomous characters running and playing chaoticly in a park colorful illustration of sesame street characters eating and making messes in a large kitchen. big bird wears a chef's hat and is serving spaghetti. illustration of a sesame street street-scene; bidg bird stands outside of mr. hooper's store holding several lollipops while other characters are in the background another illustrated sesame street street scene
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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by Akindele John
painting of two black-skinned women wearing blue dresses. their black hair assumes an umbrella shape, blending into a shared, united form. the left figure holds a red boxy container and the the right figure holds a white dove with a stalk of laurel in its beak. the background is pink with a single yellow sun encompassing the space behind both of their heads.
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Volontaire by Madeline Berger
watercolor of a young black woman with palette colors of mostly green and orange of various saturations for skin and clothing. she wears what appears to be transparent horn-rimmed glasses and her hair is braided back in cornrows.
November 11, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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by Agnes Cecile
watercolor painting of a brown-skinned woman with hair plaited into several, thick, long braids. she wears a dress decorated with flowers and her shoulders are bare
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Poise and Presence by Abasiama Umoh
photo of a painting: a dark-skinned woman with full facial features and an afro sits with her back to an ornate wooden desk. a gold framed mirror is above the desk and she is dressed in a long white gown baring her brown shoulders.
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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bookcover for Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel (1883 edition) by Ignatius L. Donnelly illustrating how a comet crashing into or closely bypassing earth is what ended the last ice age ended.
photo of a book with a dark blue cover and gold illustrations of the sun, a comet, the earth, and a glacier.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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The Skater
- Leonard Koscianski
bird's eye view painting of a neighborhood of a dozen small box houses covered in snow at night around a frozen moon-lit pond where a lone figure skates on the frozen aqua-green ice.
October 29, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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The Puddle Bathers
- Fiona Watson
painting of winter scene: a snow-covered field with black birds around a watering hole or puddle near a group of stark black trees.
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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in god we trust by Eric Amann
the words "in god we trust" repeated in 13 lines one above the other; with each line the dollar symbol replaces one letter starting from left to right until all the letters of the last line are fully replaced with dollar signs.
October 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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reportedly, Lois Duncan disapproved of hollywood turning her Hitchcockian psychological thriller into another slasher flick and tho ive never read her work i 100% agree with her...
bookcover for i know what you did last summer with a painted illistration of 4 young adukts, 2 male and 2 female, standing next to the open door of a car.
October 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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who robbed the louvre? right answers only.
photo of a bald grace jones shot by jean-paul goude. she is dark brown, wearing a white satin bowler hat completely covered in silvery crystals making the hat appear metallic or made of glass. a lit cigarette is clenched between her teeth and puckered lips. her eyebrow is a line of metallic silver.
October 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Storm by Brian Stelfreeze
illustration of the x-man character, storm, with a white mohawk with pink highlights. her brown skin appears atmospherically green (the sky behind her is green) as pink lightning streaks behind her.
October 20, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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or maybe it was spring 2024? 🤔 surely it hasnt been that long...

i only hesitate to consider because the sketches are preceded by the scraps of a poem at the front of my new collection of poems - THAT OFFICIALLY RELEASES TODAY!?!? a poem begun in spring of last year.
to lay prone as if black mold against the wall of you new gods rendered terribly mortal incised simply on the mere idea of love's tempestuous longing.
October 14, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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ah. the since-forgotten-about spring 2025 storyboarding for the planned graphic novel of my Fayre Gabbro suite of poems...

*stares wistfully out into the darkness*

"someday, my darling... someday."
quick sketch of a woman descending feom the clouds two close-up panels of a woman's face, one with eyes open and the other with eyes closed sketch of a conch shell with a few lines of text, "the sun burgeons, a long division between terra and divinity, so sepia, so celestial. until, like yemoja stepping from her conch, gabbro emerges. drylongso." sketch of a floating eyeball surrounded by text, "love is a bouquet of apertures; lean into this lens. your depth of field curls and unfurls around your soft, dark diameter."
October 14, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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one more.
this one from Maria Bubleva for a Soviet edition.
a blue slug-like creature sits on what looks like a sea clam with a striped stem (i guess it's still supposed to be a mushroom? idk). it smokes a hookah while down at a red-haired girl in a checkered red and white dress. the grass is green and the sky is pink.
October 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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two more Alice meets Caterpillar artworks...

the first is by Moomin artist, Tove Jansson. the second is by Bill Peet and was used in storyboarding for the Disney animation.
the palette is toned down or desaturated greens, browns, reds, and oranges. the caterpillar is purplish. very richly hued color palette; blonde haired alice wears a billowing blue dress; the caterpillar is blue and orange and blows out diamond shape smoke patterns of blue, red, and green.
October 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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four illustrations of Alice meeting the pipe-smoking caterpillar as it sits on a toadstool mushroom.
art by Gwynedd M. Hudson (1922). color palette is rich reds and orabges. the caterpillar is dark blue with orange symbols. art by WH Walker (1907) the color palette for sky and ground is pale green. alice is dressed in a white dress, the caterpillar wears a red fez and is smoking a hookah. art by Gertrude Kay (1923). alice has long blonde hair and is wearing a white dress, the caterpillar is two shades of blue and smokes a hookah. art by Bessie Pease Gutmann (1907). alice has short brown hair, thr caterpillar is pale and dark green and smokes a long pipe. they are in a field of yellow flowers.
October 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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two more droodles.

if these werent done 70 years ago then i'd say that last one was some sort of take on barack obama...
simple drawing of triangle shapes within a box. text reads "this, of course, appears to be a mother pyramid feeding its child but it isn't. it's called "a ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch" simple drawing of two black triangles with tips touching at a black line drawn down the center of a box forming a bow tie shape. it's captioned "1. man in a tuxedo who stood too close to the front of an elevator" illustration of 4 lines of text letters. the top line has is a circle or letter O. line two is B (dot) A (dot). line three is M (dot) A (dot) the bottom fourth line is P h (dot) D (dot) it's captioned "three degrees below zero"
October 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Droodles by Roger Price, from his 1953 book.

Droodles - a blend of “doodle”, “drawing”, & “riddle”
simple illustration of a fish tied to a helium balloon and floating into the air captioned "fish committing suicide" simple illustration of a line drawn straight down, halfing a box with 4 finger-like appendages halfway extending out. simple illustration of a single dot in the middle of clear, circular area within a box; beyond that circular area hundreds of other small dots fill the box. the shape imitates a crowd of people forming a large aread space around a single person at the center of the space. it's captioned "germs avoiding friend who has caught penicillin" simple drawing of a rectangular shaped house with a slanted roof; a small window of red bricks float in the middle of the rectangle. caption reads "modern home that is all glass except the windows which are brick"
October 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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G. Mackenzie Bacon, On the Writing of the Insane (London: John Churchill and Sons, 1870).
book cover. gold type on dark red cloth cover that reads "on thr writing of thr insane" G. Mackenzie Bacon, M.D. hundreds of line of handwritten words written in a spiraling, double-circular fashion. a graphic of 2 circular balls of various sizes of handwritten type.
October 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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some bot fucker is using my name to sell a product... ive lodged a complaint with amazon and waiting to hear back from them. but theyve likely data farmed some old blog of mine where im lauding on bearden, fusing us together. & pretty sure they dont have permission from bearden's estate.
screenshot of some ol' bullshit where my creative name is linked with romare bearden's artwork on amazon.
October 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Leopold Carl Müller (1834-1892) - Portrait of an Arab, oil on canvas
bust painting of a brown-skinned man wearing a green head wrap.
October 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Theodoros Ralli (1852-1909) - Stringing pears oil on canvas, 1882.
painting of a black-skinned merchant wearing robed layers and sitting on a decorative bench his hands before his face as he's stringing pearls.
October 6, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Rudolf Ernst (1954-1932) - The chibouk smoker, oil on panel.
painting of a brown-skinned person sitting in a room with polished marble floor and tiles on the wall with geometric patterns on them smokes a long slender pipe.
October 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Gyula Tornai (1861-1928) - A guard, oil on panel, 1911.
painting of a black man in red robes holding a ceremonial axe with both hands. he wears a slightly canonical brown fez on his head with a sack of provisions strapped over his back.
October 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM