Tessie
@seekingselkies.bsky.social
🍄 Artist, author, psychologist & abuse survivor
🦭 Rewriting my story via mythology, art & place
🌊 Healing my neurodivergent soul
🌳 Cheshire & Scotland
She/her
🦭 Rewriting my story via mythology, art & place
🌊 Healing my neurodivergent soul
🌳 Cheshire & Scotland
She/her
Barbara is trying to convince me that my heated back pad is better as a small cat bed…with added dangly toys
January 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Barbara is trying to convince me that my heated back pad is better as a small cat bed…with added dangly toys
Im aware of he irony of asking this on a social media platform…but has anyone read this?
I’m on page 29 and it’s already backing my constant need of the last couple of years to rebuilt a blog, 2000s style, and create a little online bubble…but I’m afraid that would be awfully lonely 😫
I’m on page 29 and it’s already backing my constant need of the last couple of years to rebuilt a blog, 2000s style, and create a little online bubble…but I’m afraid that would be awfully lonely 😫
January 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Im aware of he irony of asking this on a social media platform…but has anyone read this?
I’m on page 29 and it’s already backing my constant need of the last couple of years to rebuilt a blog, 2000s style, and create a little online bubble…but I’m afraid that would be awfully lonely 😫
I’m on page 29 and it’s already backing my constant need of the last couple of years to rebuilt a blog, 2000s style, and create a little online bubble…but I’m afraid that would be awfully lonely 😫
We need reasons to share cat pics?! 😏🤣
January 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
We need reasons to share cat pics?! 😏🤣
Tom is dying of the starve after being refused third breakfast
He’s claiming he’s never been fed…EVER
He’s claiming he’s never been fed…EVER
January 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Tom is dying of the starve after being refused third breakfast
He’s claiming he’s never been fed…EVER
He’s claiming he’s never been fed…EVER
This year I want to make myself my own version of this brambly house treehouse…and I shall call it therapy for my arthritic hands 😏
(Geneva Vanderzeil www.instagram.com/genevavander... on instagram)
(Geneva Vanderzeil www.instagram.com/genevavander... on instagram)
January 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This year I want to make myself my own version of this brambly house treehouse…and I shall call it therapy for my arthritic hands 😏
(Geneva Vanderzeil www.instagram.com/genevavander... on instagram)
(Geneva Vanderzeil www.instagram.com/genevavander... on instagram)
Well that’s very Sistine Chapel ceiling of him…
December 30, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Well that’s very Sistine Chapel ceiling of him…
So the lurgy I was afraid might be Covid turns out to be parvo
Well that’s bloody marvellous 😫
Luckily I have an attentive (if judgy and very needy) nurse…
Anyone have any cat pictures to cheer up my lurgy ridden heart??
Well that’s bloody marvellous 😫
Luckily I have an attentive (if judgy and very needy) nurse…
Anyone have any cat pictures to cheer up my lurgy ridden heart??
December 29, 2024 at 9:39 PM
So the lurgy I was afraid might be Covid turns out to be parvo
Well that’s bloody marvellous 😫
Luckily I have an attentive (if judgy and very needy) nurse…
Anyone have any cat pictures to cheer up my lurgy ridden heart??
Well that’s bloody marvellous 😫
Luckily I have an attentive (if judgy and very needy) nurse…
Anyone have any cat pictures to cheer up my lurgy ridden heart??
My cat Tom summing up this time of year perfectly
December 27, 2024 at 8:37 PM
My cat Tom summing up this time of year perfectly
“Hair of a selkie”
Trying a different way of drawing hair today, reminiscent of the 1970s mythology and fairy tale picture books of my late seventies childhood. Books I disappeared into and have never really come out of.
I love it!
Gouache, pastel pencil & coloured pencil
12x12cm sketchbook
Trying a different way of drawing hair today, reminiscent of the 1970s mythology and fairy tale picture books of my late seventies childhood. Books I disappeared into and have never really come out of.
I love it!
Gouache, pastel pencil & coloured pencil
12x12cm sketchbook
December 11, 2024 at 7:55 PM
“Hair of a selkie”
Trying a different way of drawing hair today, reminiscent of the 1970s mythology and fairy tale picture books of my late seventies childhood. Books I disappeared into and have never really come out of.
I love it!
Gouache, pastel pencil & coloured pencil
12x12cm sketchbook
Trying a different way of drawing hair today, reminiscent of the 1970s mythology and fairy tale picture books of my late seventies childhood. Books I disappeared into and have never really come out of.
I love it!
Gouache, pastel pencil & coloured pencil
12x12cm sketchbook
"A Meremaid reaches for the Sunlight"
Another quick study of colour & texture, a meremaid, a mermaid like creature in Cheshire mythology that lives in our deep dark meres guarding church bells & treasure amidst the reeds & algae
Gouache, pastel pencil, colour pencil & gold ink
12x12cm sketchbook
Another quick study of colour & texture, a meremaid, a mermaid like creature in Cheshire mythology that lives in our deep dark meres guarding church bells & treasure amidst the reeds & algae
Gouache, pastel pencil, colour pencil & gold ink
12x12cm sketchbook
December 6, 2024 at 7:37 PM
"A Meremaid reaches for the Sunlight"
Another quick study of colour & texture, a meremaid, a mermaid like creature in Cheshire mythology that lives in our deep dark meres guarding church bells & treasure amidst the reeds & algae
Gouache, pastel pencil, colour pencil & gold ink
12x12cm sketchbook
Another quick study of colour & texture, a meremaid, a mermaid like creature in Cheshire mythology that lives in our deep dark meres guarding church bells & treasure amidst the reeds & algae
Gouache, pastel pencil, colour pencil & gold ink
12x12cm sketchbook
“Selkie Textures & The World Within Us”
My arthritic hands can’t hold a pencil or brush for long just now…that means quick sketches & tiny layers of textures
I didn’t draw the first as a selkie but as a fast life study, so excuse the fact she has legs 🤣
Gouache & pastel pencil
12x12cm sketchbook
My arthritic hands can’t hold a pencil or brush for long just now…that means quick sketches & tiny layers of textures
I didn’t draw the first as a selkie but as a fast life study, so excuse the fact she has legs 🤣
Gouache & pastel pencil
12x12cm sketchbook
December 5, 2024 at 9:37 AM
“Selkie Textures & The World Within Us”
My arthritic hands can’t hold a pencil or brush for long just now…that means quick sketches & tiny layers of textures
I didn’t draw the first as a selkie but as a fast life study, so excuse the fact she has legs 🤣
Gouache & pastel pencil
12x12cm sketchbook
My arthritic hands can’t hold a pencil or brush for long just now…that means quick sketches & tiny layers of textures
I didn’t draw the first as a selkie but as a fast life study, so excuse the fact she has legs 🤣
Gouache & pastel pencil
12x12cm sketchbook
About me:
I've started creating again after autistic burnout & Long Covid poked my childhood arthritis, which flared up in my hands (again)
I'm working towards doing a multimedia project on transformation in Cheshire & Scottish mythology
Used to be a sculptor & will be adding that at some point
I've started creating again after autistic burnout & Long Covid poked my childhood arthritis, which flared up in my hands (again)
I'm working towards doing a multimedia project on transformation in Cheshire & Scottish mythology
Used to be a sculptor & will be adding that at some point
December 1, 2024 at 7:57 PM
About me:
I've started creating again after autistic burnout & Long Covid poked my childhood arthritis, which flared up in my hands (again)
I'm working towards doing a multimedia project on transformation in Cheshire & Scottish mythology
Used to be a sculptor & will be adding that at some point
I've started creating again after autistic burnout & Long Covid poked my childhood arthritis, which flared up in my hands (again)
I'm working towards doing a multimedia project on transformation in Cheshire & Scottish mythology
Used to be a sculptor & will be adding that at some point
“Curious puffin”
I drew this for my teenage son, he loves puffins and I was struggling with what to draw today 🥰
Puffins are so funny and friendly and curious…look at that face, and his feet!
Gouache, pastel pencils, posca paint pens
12x12cm sketchbook
I drew this for my teenage son, he loves puffins and I was struggling with what to draw today 🥰
Puffins are so funny and friendly and curious…look at that face, and his feet!
Gouache, pastel pencils, posca paint pens
12x12cm sketchbook
November 29, 2024 at 5:49 PM
“Curious puffin”
I drew this for my teenage son, he loves puffins and I was struggling with what to draw today 🥰
Puffins are so funny and friendly and curious…look at that face, and his feet!
Gouache, pastel pencils, posca paint pens
12x12cm sketchbook
I drew this for my teenage son, he loves puffins and I was struggling with what to draw today 🥰
Puffins are so funny and friendly and curious…look at that face, and his feet!
Gouache, pastel pencils, posca paint pens
12x12cm sketchbook
Using pastel pencils on top of my watery gouache layers has lead to pages smudging into each other
So I have started adding tracing paper squares between sketches to stop the transference
The sound they make when turning pages now is divine!
Why do you think? How do you alter your sketchbooks?
So I have started adding tracing paper squares between sketches to stop the transference
The sound they make when turning pages now is divine!
Why do you think? How do you alter your sketchbooks?
November 28, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Using pastel pencils on top of my watery gouache layers has lead to pages smudging into each other
So I have started adding tracing paper squares between sketches to stop the transference
The sound they make when turning pages now is divine!
Why do you think? How do you alter your sketchbooks?
So I have started adding tracing paper squares between sketches to stop the transference
The sound they make when turning pages now is divine!
Why do you think? How do you alter your sketchbooks?
“Red hair underwater”
The very left shows an attempt with just the pastel pencils but I need to layer over gouache…it’s my obsession!
Do adore the colours and matt smooth chalkiness of the Conté à Paris pastel pencils…was worth the set’s purchase
Gouache & pastel pencils
12x12cm sketchbook
The very left shows an attempt with just the pastel pencils but I need to layer over gouache…it’s my obsession!
Do adore the colours and matt smooth chalkiness of the Conté à Paris pastel pencils…was worth the set’s purchase
Gouache & pastel pencils
12x12cm sketchbook
November 28, 2024 at 10:22 AM
“Red hair underwater”
The very left shows an attempt with just the pastel pencils but I need to layer over gouache…it’s my obsession!
Do adore the colours and matt smooth chalkiness of the Conté à Paris pastel pencils…was worth the set’s purchase
Gouache & pastel pencils
12x12cm sketchbook
The very left shows an attempt with just the pastel pencils but I need to layer over gouache…it’s my obsession!
Do adore the colours and matt smooth chalkiness of the Conté à Paris pastel pencils…was worth the set’s purchase
Gouache & pastel pencils
12x12cm sketchbook
Well that’s enough Conté à Paris pastel pencil colours for now…maybe 😏
November 26, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Well that’s enough Conté à Paris pastel pencil colours for now…maybe 😏
Oh to be this cosy!
November 24, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Oh to be this cosy!
Testing my pastel pencils colour range when it comes to red hair like my Nanna’s…and my own…so I can create selkies and meremaids that feel like home
I need more colours…more auburns and russets
Don’t we always need more colours?
Pastel pencils, coloured pencils and pencil
12x12cm sketchbook
I need more colours…more auburns and russets
Don’t we always need more colours?
Pastel pencils, coloured pencils and pencil
12x12cm sketchbook
November 24, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Testing my pastel pencils colour range when it comes to red hair like my Nanna’s…and my own…so I can create selkies and meremaids that feel like home
I need more colours…more auburns and russets
Don’t we always need more colours?
Pastel pencils, coloured pencils and pencil
12x12cm sketchbook
I need more colours…more auburns and russets
Don’t we always need more colours?
Pastel pencils, coloured pencils and pencil
12x12cm sketchbook
Too tired today to open my paints or get out anything but my pencil…
Sketchbooks aren’t just for colour and layered, finished work are they?
“amanita and ferns”
Pencil
12x12cm sketchbook
Sketchbooks aren’t just for colour and layered, finished work are they?
“amanita and ferns”
Pencil
12x12cm sketchbook
November 23, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Too tired today to open my paints or get out anything but my pencil…
Sketchbooks aren’t just for colour and layered, finished work are they?
“amanita and ferns”
Pencil
12x12cm sketchbook
Sketchbooks aren’t just for colour and layered, finished work are they?
“amanita and ferns”
Pencil
12x12cm sketchbook
“Fallow deer”
When we were children we’d climb over Dunham Massey’s huge white styals & picnic under the trees
Eating in the parkland is now banned, maybe due to the number of times the deer herd stalked & mugged us for our butties
🦌
Gouache, pastel pencils, colour pencils, posca pens & pencil
When we were children we’d climb over Dunham Massey’s huge white styals & picnic under the trees
Eating in the parkland is now banned, maybe due to the number of times the deer herd stalked & mugged us for our butties
🦌
Gouache, pastel pencils, colour pencils, posca pens & pencil
November 22, 2024 at 3:25 PM
“Fallow deer”
When we were children we’d climb over Dunham Massey’s huge white styals & picnic under the trees
Eating in the parkland is now banned, maybe due to the number of times the deer herd stalked & mugged us for our butties
🦌
Gouache, pastel pencils, colour pencils, posca pens & pencil
When we were children we’d climb over Dunham Massey’s huge white styals & picnic under the trees
Eating in the parkland is now banned, maybe due to the number of times the deer herd stalked & mugged us for our butties
🦌
Gouache, pastel pencils, colour pencils, posca pens & pencil
If you ever think to yourself, after a night of cPTSD night terrors, whilst feeling discombobulated
“Oh I know, I’ll immerse myself in my favourite old master painting of my childhood favourite Greek goddess, that’ll be lovely”
DON’T DO IT!!
“Circe”
Gouache & pastel pencils
12x12cm sketchbook
“Oh I know, I’ll immerse myself in my favourite old master painting of my childhood favourite Greek goddess, that’ll be lovely”
DON’T DO IT!!
“Circe”
Gouache & pastel pencils
12x12cm sketchbook
November 21, 2024 at 4:33 PM
If you ever think to yourself, after a night of cPTSD night terrors, whilst feeling discombobulated
“Oh I know, I’ll immerse myself in my favourite old master painting of my childhood favourite Greek goddess, that’ll be lovely”
DON’T DO IT!!
“Circe”
Gouache & pastel pencils
12x12cm sketchbook
“Oh I know, I’ll immerse myself in my favourite old master painting of my childhood favourite Greek goddess, that’ll be lovely”
DON’T DO IT!!
“Circe”
Gouache & pastel pencils
12x12cm sketchbook
I’m Tessie and I create mixed media art around my healing from trauma via the mythology, stories and landscapes of the two places I belong: Scotland and Cheshire
November 21, 2024 at 4:27 AM
I’m Tessie and I create mixed media art around my healing from trauma via the mythology, stories and landscapes of the two places I belong: Scotland and Cheshire
“The Outrun & seaweed”
(Cropped)
*If you haven’t see this film do…as soon as possible…it’s my favourite film this year by a country mile!*
Gouache, coloured pencils, pencil and black fineliner
12x12cm sketchbook
#theoutrun
(Cropped)
*If you haven’t see this film do…as soon as possible…it’s my favourite film this year by a country mile!*
Gouache, coloured pencils, pencil and black fineliner
12x12cm sketchbook
#theoutrun
November 20, 2024 at 8:25 PM
“The Outrun & seaweed”
(Cropped)
*If you haven’t see this film do…as soon as possible…it’s my favourite film this year by a country mile!*
Gouache, coloured pencils, pencil and black fineliner
12x12cm sketchbook
#theoutrun
(Cropped)
*If you haven’t see this film do…as soon as possible…it’s my favourite film this year by a country mile!*
Gouache, coloured pencils, pencil and black fineliner
12x12cm sketchbook
#theoutrun
