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sarahboyce.bsky.social
Garlands & Gravestones
@sarahboyce.bsky.social
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Painting & Drawing. Time/Body/The Natural World. Keep it creepy. 💀🌾
From MI/Living in DC.

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sarahboyce.bsky.social
Interior scenes feel right for this time of year. I’ve been thinking about painting light in the dark. 🕯️

Pear (Sapor Luctus), oil on canvas, 12 x 12, 2024.
Still life painting with pear leaking red juice on a tablecloth. Wooden table, candle, and 2 moths.
December 4, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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mumblerjamie.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday on #AncientBlueSky🏺 from the Centrale Montemartini exhibition, a Mosaic with Representation of Mercury, Abundance and the Four Seasons.

2nd Century AD, discovered in 1870 in an insula at San Paolo alla Regola. Made of Palombino and basalt tesserae.

Photo my own at - bit.ly/3AZ3aQi
December 2, 2024 at 2:22 PM
sarahboyce.bsky.social
Took this pic at the National Gallery of Art, DC just a few days ago.
Fede Galizia, oil on panel, c. 1630, Still Life of Apples, Pears, Cucumbers, Figs, Plums, and a Melon.
November 30, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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phanesforward.bsky.social
Jan Parker. 1970.
November 27, 2024 at 10:57 PM
sarahboyce.bsky.social
Detail from a painting finished earlier this fall. Oil on wood panel. #oilpainting
Stack of produce with pumpkins, tomatoes, eggs, oranges, and corn. Also includes a skull, glass of liquor, and goat horn.
November 26, 2024 at 11:37 PM
sarahboyce.bsky.social
Hello, haven’t been active here in a bit. Haven’t much had the heart to go back to posting like everything’s normal. But glad to see people ditching X. Suppose it’s time to poke my head out again.
November 26, 2024 at 11:34 PM
sarahboyce.bsky.social
New additions to my movie collection. :) #horror 📽️💀
Two Blu Ray cases titled The Devil Rides Out and Quatermass and the Pit.
June 7, 2024 at 1:07 PM
sarahboyce.bsky.social
Genus ganoderma/reishi growing on a stump. #fungifriends 🍄📷
Reishi mushroom on tree bark.
June 4, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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hammerhorrors.bsky.social
But a day after Cushing’s heavenly birthday, we celebrate that of his eternal cinematic nemesis, and the other quintessential Hammer and genre megastar; Sir Christopher Lee. Born on this day in 1922 🖤
Colour still of Dracula (Christopher Lee) from Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966), depicting the Count with wide bloodshot eyes and bared fangs. He snarls against a red-lit background.
May 27, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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reviewwales.bsky.social
"It was formerly customary for the head of the household to tell the bees whenever a death took place in the family. The news should be whispered cautiously. Beehives were always turned round before a funeral."
Folklore of Wales, 1909
#WorldBeeDay
May 20, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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elisabethalba.bsky.social
"The Moon"
Arrroooooooooooo! 🎶

From the 78 Tarot Masters Medieval deck under production (2025). This is 6x10, ink, watercolor, acryla gouache. This was the card I was most excited to paint for this deck!

Painting available at www.albaillustration.com/original-art
May 17, 2024 at 6:36 PM
sarahboyce.bsky.social
Spotted this big chicken-of-the-woods (I think) on my walk yesterday. It’s finally been rainy enough to see some mushrooms! #FungiFriends 🌿 🍄📷
Large orange-colored fungus on the ground sutlrrounded by green leaves.
May 18, 2024 at 5:04 PM
sarahboyce.bsky.social
Haven’t posted in a couple of months, but I’ve been busy working. So many branches… #oilpainting #art
Oil painting of a leafless tree with many small branches reaching upward. Long, dry grass in the background against a light blue sky. A hand in the lower right corner holds a small paint brush.
May 18, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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gaijinrando.bsky.social
Italian poster for VIDEODROME (1983), directed by David Cronenberg, BOTD in 1943
March 15, 2024 at 11:56 AM
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essaeem.bsky.social
According to Orcadian folklore, the spring equinox is when the Mither o' the Sea returns to Orkney and dethrones her ancient enemy Teran, the spirit of winter. She then reigns over the ocean until the autumn equinox, bringing warm weather and calmer waters. #FolkyFriday

📷: Maxwell Andrews
Photograph of the coast of Orkney, Scotland
March 15, 2024 at 11:38 AM
sarahboyce.bsky.social
Green Man on Caldwell Hall, Catholic University of America, NE DC.
Stone building. Architectural arch above a small, square window. Carved stone face with leaves sprouting out of it.
March 15, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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baterfly.bsky.social
Illustrations from “Irish Fairy Tales” by James Stephens, 1920, illustrated by Arthur Rackham

www.gutenberg.org/files/2892/2...

#FairyTaleTuesday
March 12, 2024 at 8:33 AM
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icysedgwick.bsky.social
There's something eerie about standing stones. Why are they there? Who put them there & how? Folklore often tries to provide answers. Let's look at the folklore of standing stones in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore. www.icysedgwick.com/folklore-of-...
The Folklore of Standing Stones, Megaliths, and Menhirs - Icy Sedgwick
Standing stones are often highly mysterious. Folklore rushes in to fill the gaps since we don't know who built them or why. Learn more here.
www.icysedgwick.com
March 10, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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jenthetracy.bsky.social
I am a traditional watercolor and ink painter that focuses on horror and the occult. Here is a collection of covers I illustrated for The No Sleep Podcast.
June 22, 2023 at 4:33 PM
sarahboyce.bsky.social
15 horror movies I can’t live w/o 📽️👻🎃
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Halloween ‘78 ⁣
The Thing ‘82⁣
The Fog⁣
Satanic Rites of Dracula⁣
Wicker Man⁣
Masque of the Red Death⁣
American Werewolf in London⁣
Silver Bullet⁣
Suspiria ‘77⁣
The Shining ⁣
Children of the Corn ⁣
Killer Klowns
Dawn of the Dead⁣
Psychomania ⁣
The VVitch
March 10, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Three Hares Swimming in a River, 1547.
Two white hares, one yellow hare swimming.
March 9, 2024 at 9:33 AM
sarahboyce.bsky.social
Memory of Branches, oil painting on panel, 8x10. My piece for an online group show with Wow x Wow, beginning today. Mar. 8 - 29.
Painting of a woman’s head sprouting tree branches from the neck. A single pear hangs on a branch. Many pears lie on the ground. There are 2 birds, a spiderweb, and a vine stretching across the branches. At the bottom is a tree stump with shelf fungi. A small statue and 2 coins rest on top. A grassy, snowy landscape is seen behind and around the objects. A very small house is in the distance.
March 8, 2024 at 7:20 PM
sarahboyce.bsky.social
Did a little wandering around the Congressional Cemetery yesterday. The clouds were looking especially nice.
An old cemetery. A cracked sidewalk leads into the distance. There’s a large tree at the end of the sidewalk. Both sides of the walk are lined with gravestones. On the right side there’s a crypt made from stone and red brick.
March 7, 2024 at 2:36 AM
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horrorculturist.bsky.social
"It often grows in woodlands where there is little sunlight, obtaining the nutrients it needs by feeding off the hyphae of fungi."

Ethereal color variant of mysterious plant is actually new species
phys.org/news/2022-12... #gardening #gothic
Ethereal color variant of mysterious plant is actually new species
Green leaves and photosynthesis were once considered essential characteristics of plants. However, some plants have stopped performing photosynthesis and take the nutrients they need from other organi...
phys.org
March 6, 2024 at 11:53 PM