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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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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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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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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
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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
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Genus ganoderma/reishi growing on a stump. #fungifriends 🍄📷
Reishi mushroom on tree bark.
June 4, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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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
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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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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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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
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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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Should’ve read this a long time ago, but I’m finally getting around to it. #oilpainting
A hand holding a book titled ‘What Painting Is’ by James Elkins. The cover features a cropped image of Rembrandt’s ‘Self-Portrait’. Eyes, nose, and mouth are created from thick textured paint. Quote at the bottom of the cover reads, “will transform the reader’s understanding of painting.” -Booklist
March 5, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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Genus Fulvifomes. According to iNaturalist, anyway. From a walk around my neighborhood earlier today. 🍄📷
Shelf fungus growing on tree bark. Shelf fungus is green, beige, and brown.
March 2, 2024 at 2:12 AM
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rabbit rabbit rabbit. Spring is just around the corner.

Night Hare, charcoal on Canson paper, 2019
Black and white charcoal drawing of a jackrabbit emerging from the left side of the page, facing right. The rabbit is mid-leap with back feet coming forward, front feet moving backward. Very dark, nighttime landscape in the background. Hints of grass are seen in the darkness. The night sky has a few small stars.
March 1, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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A twiggy corner of a work in progress.
Cropped landscape with pine trees, yellow-green grass, and sky. Small waning crescent moon at the top. Branches point upward in the foreground. A spider web and a red bird are seen in the branches. Part of a face shows in the lower right corner.
February 24, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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Cinnabar bracket (I think) seen on today’s woods walk. 🍄📷
Red-orange bracket fungi on a log. Dead leaves on the ground underneath.
February 21, 2024 at 12:45 AM
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Working on this little face at the moment. This is not quite my smallest brush, but close. I keep saying I’m going to start working larger, but somehow, here I am again…
Close-up of an oil painting of a female face. The face is cropped at the upper lip. A small paintbrush touches the corner of the right eye. Some green landscape is seen in the background.
February 17, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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Feast of Fortuna, acrylic on panel, 8x10, 2022.
Stack of objects that includes a squash, jack-o’-lantern, cat mask, tomato with a face, skull with coins over its eyes, a molding pear, and a female head. Objects are connected with vines and a small spiderweb. Set against a hazy background landscape.
February 16, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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Perennation refers to a plant’s capacity to survive from season to season, particularly through winter or other adverse conditions, with the use of an underground storage element such as a bulb or tuber.

Premonition II, graphite on Stonehenge paper, 2023
Scopolia Carniolica plants sprout from a tuber-like structure that is shaped like a head. Roots form the hair. More plants are seen in the distance.
February 12, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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Signs of life 🌱
A group of snowdrop flowers growing up from the forest floor. They are surrounded by dry, fallen leaves. Trees in the distant background.
February 9, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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Some new work is in the sprouting stage after a few wks of planning & sketching. I’m currently finishing up the underpainting for a new piece, and have a couple more paintings planned for later. This is a little drawing from a couple yrs ago. 🌿

Garden Deity, graphite on paper, 2022.
Pumpkin vines growing out of the neck of a disembodied head with curly hair. Two pumpkin flowers decorate the hair. There is a spider on one leaf. Graphite drawing in a circular, black, metal frame which is shaped like a spider web.
February 8, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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Thought I’d do a short intro. Hey. I’m Sarah. I paint & draw. I’m influenced by mythology, folklore, still life and vanitas, horror movies & seasonal celebrations. My work includes themes of time/mortality, transformation, and our relationship to nature. I’m weird. ✌️

Perennation I, graphite, 2023.
February 7, 2024 at 11:31 PM