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navate.bsky.social
Lauren K Cannon
@navate.bsky.social
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horror & dark fantasy artist • goth leftist • stealth queer 🖤🤍💜
tea, cats, bats & spooky shit 🦇 she/her
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juliedillon.bsky.social
I think the painted version of this drawing turned out okay. 👉👈This was done in watercolors, with graphite, gouache and chalk pastel finishing touches.
A watercolor and graphite illustration of a sad mermaid with long flowing hair holding a wounded albatross to her chest.
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
navate.bsky.social
This was harder than I thought! #the_color_wheel
August 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
navate.bsky.social
Human Artists

Use one piece to convince people to follow you
A nude woman steps out of a lava pool, facing the sea. She is surrounded by robed figures who worship her. A black swan covered in embers swims in the front of the lava pool.
June 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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fleebites.bsky.social
immortal death

#junicorn day 09
June 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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coreybrickley.bsky.social
guy pouring his feelings of dread and hopelessness at the crushing weight of existence into a painting

friend: "ooooOoO spooky lol"
April 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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rabentanz.bsky.social
Beneath the Zephyranthes

[ #art | #oc ]
Illustration of two figures, placed in the dark with only few details on the ground. The first figure sits on the left side, their arms resting on their legs. A sword is placed at their back, piercing the ground, while being slowly overgrown. The second person on the right is almost crawling on the ground, her upper body reaches up. She is pierced with four swords, but leaving no blood on the body itself. Her left arm reaches out for something, while right hand tries to balance her body. The light shines mostly on the second figure, highlighting the pierced back, while first person gets shine upon indirectly. Both figures are facing away from the viewer.
March 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
navate.bsky.social
Human artists!

QRP with your work

before / after
March 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
navate.bsky.social
My print shop is back open!
👉 navate.storenvy.com

Limited selection for now, but go grab a print if you've been waiting for me to get my butt back in gear.

#darkart #art
Bury the Moon - digital painting of a semi-cloaked figure holding a crescent moon. Egrets fly in the background. Kindled - digital painting of a woman rising out of a lava pool by the ocean and dark figures worship her. A smoldering black swan swims in the pool. Carmilla - digital painting of a woman staring at the viewer as a swarm of pale bats fly across the frame A Girl and Her Arrows - digital painting of a girl in a frilly black dress is peirced with multiple arrows, but seems unbothered.
March 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
navate.bsky.social
A girl and her arrows

This painting has been in the works for literal years. I finally finished it in October.

My print store is currently closed but I'll be reopening it soon.
#darkart
A woman in a black dress impaled with arrows.
January 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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sloppjockey.bsky.social
feeding. gouache watercolor painting on paper
December 6, 2024 at 12:09 AM
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sailorrooscout.bsky.social
I’m gonna wake up and keep trying to do good and so are you and no one gets to vote on that.
November 6, 2024 at 1:47 PM
navate.bsky.social
If you see this, post something pink!
A woman stares directly at the viewer as bats swarm around her
October 20, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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floatingworlds.bsky.social
#ShodaKakuyu (Japanese, 1879–1948)
Green Shade (Ryokuin) 1933
#Ukiyoe #Woodblock #PicturesoftheFloatingWorld #japaneseart #uridev
October 20, 2024 at 12:23 AM
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dannyschwartzart.bsky.social
Mycoid Resurrection for Magic’s Alchemy: Ixalan. AD Zack Stella. Dino bones!!
December 3, 2023 at 4:01 PM
navate.bsky.social
WIP
Actually doing some graphite pieces for IX next week
#DarkArt
An incomplete drawing of a spooky woman's face framed inside a coffin surrounded by smoke
October 19, 2024 at 11:14 PM
navate.bsky.social
If you see this, post a bird 🦤
A drawing of a crow perched on a crown
October 11, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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gammatrap.bsky.social
Hello bluesky. I paint dark fantasy/sci-fi
September 7, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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sasharjones.bsky.social
🔹 Dusklight Raven 🔹
6" x 8" oil on panel, really figuring out all the different types of feathers and the patterns along which they flow.

This print is part of my big online annual sale, alongside many others at www.sasharjones.com/store 💜
A portrait of a raven, looking up and to the right, with a calm but noble air. The highlights of their feathers range through sheens of blue and violet, and those same colors are present throughout the abstract background.
June 24, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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michaelwhelan.bsky.social
SUSPENSION (2008)

A small oil study done as a warmup one morning, later finished off in some limited color as seen here.

www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/su...
In a vast chamber with rough stone walls, a woman holds herself up on a chain that hangs among a series of suspended rings. With one arm she extends upward. Anguished, her head dips, her face covered by her other hand as she grips the chain. Sea green fabric twists around her, partially covering her but leaving one breast exposed. Her legs are raised in a tuck with her feet tangled in the metal rings with a chain threading through. Detail from SUSPENSION featuring a woman wrapped in sea green fabric holding herself up on a chain.
June 25, 2024 at 1:03 PM
navate.bsky.social
Hi folks, not dead yet, just been doggedly avoiding social media as I got the rest of my shit together. But it's time!

Weird how not posting online gave me such a backlog of work I've never posted online. 👀 Anyway! A commission from a few years ago for Reckless Deck.
A magic user casting a spell. Red skeletal birds emerge from the spell book in her hand.
June 18, 2024 at 6:51 PM
navate.bsky.social
Finally!! Congratulations Jingna! 💜
ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · May 10
sorry to post from twitter but this is actually so cool i feel like i’ve been hearing about this case for ever
tweet from @zemotion (Jingna Zhang): I won. I won my appeal. The Luxembourg court has ruled that Jeff Dieschburg infringed upon my copyright when he used my work without consent. Using a different medium was irrelevant. My work being 'available online' was irrelevant. Consent was necessary. 1/ (attached is an image of a headline showing zhang’s original art and the plagiarized version with headline: Appeal process / : Luxembourg painter Jeff Dieschburg convicted of plagiarism, photographer Jingna Zhang wins
May 10, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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artofmaquenda.bsky.social
What a day 🥰🌞🌸🌸🌸🌸🐸
April 7, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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perstephane.bsky.social
I like painting skulls!
a gold metallic skull hand drawn digitally, with a heart coming out of its mouth in a speech bubble.
April 3, 2024 at 9:39 PM
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michaelwhelan.bsky.social
ELRIC AT THE FORGE OF FOREVER (2019)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 14 ½" x 6 ½"

When I tossed out the old container of paints used to do the cover painting for "Words of Radiance", it landed upside down in my wastebasket on a piece of paperboard I had been using as a palette for something else. 1/2
Elric stands on an outcrop of rock with skulls at his feet. He wears a black hooded cloak trimmed in gold and jeweled bracers. He cradles Stormbringer as the length of the sword glows purple. Behind him is a stretch of water that gives way erupting jets of lava.
March 16, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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lehmannthiago.bsky.social
oh, it's been centuries since i've posted here.

time to reactivate?

mushrroooom knight!
March 15, 2024 at 1:09 AM