Shawn Van Briesen
@shawnvanbriesen.bsky.social
Illustrator • Storyboard Artist • Comic Book Artist • Writer • Animator
Los Angeles CA
Los Angeles CA
I woke up this morning just tired of all the violence, rhetoric and chaos. I’m yearning for simpler times and better days. So here’s some old witchy art based on Barbara Payton. As usual I’m just doing Thursday. One day at a time and hoping today is filled with hope and promise.
September 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I woke up this morning just tired of all the violence, rhetoric and chaos. I’m yearning for simpler times and better days. So here’s some old witchy art based on Barbara Payton. As usual I’m just doing Thursday. One day at a time and hoping today is filled with hope and promise.
If you find a reason to be happy, take it. Life is short. Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
As Kurt Vonnegut was fond of saying, “So it goes…”
As Kurt Vonnegut was fond of saying, “So it goes…”
July 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
If you find a reason to be happy, take it. Life is short. Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
As Kurt Vonnegut was fond of saying, “So it goes…”
As Kurt Vonnegut was fond of saying, “So it goes…”
Joseph Clement Coll (July 2, 1881 – October 19, 1921) was an American book and newspaper illustrator.
With great command over his pen, he could form both delicate subtle lines and bold black slashes.
No undo or back buttons. Just pure art.
With great command over his pen, he could form both delicate subtle lines and bold black slashes.
No undo or back buttons. Just pure art.
July 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Joseph Clement Coll (July 2, 1881 – October 19, 1921) was an American book and newspaper illustrator.
With great command over his pen, he could form both delicate subtle lines and bold black slashes.
No undo or back buttons. Just pure art.
With great command over his pen, he could form both delicate subtle lines and bold black slashes.
No undo or back buttons. Just pure art.
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Eight years ago I made the hardest decision of my life. Recovery didn’t fix everything, but it gave me the chance to face it all with clear eyes and a sober mind. It’s a daily reprieve, granted by God, and I’m deeply grateful.
June 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Eight years ago I made the hardest decision of my life. Recovery didn’t fix everything, but it gave me the chance to face it all with clear eyes and a sober mind. It’s a daily reprieve, granted by God, and I’m deeply grateful.
My blue period. This was something I started doing completely by accident.I just dipped the brush into the wrong bottle and I liked the way the blue looked.
I find the blue kind of serene. It tends to add this softness and ethereal side to the ink washes. I’ve never used it for much professionally.
I find the blue kind of serene. It tends to add this softness and ethereal side to the ink washes. I’ve never used it for much professionally.
March 31, 2025 at 8:55 PM
My blue period. This was something I started doing completely by accident.I just dipped the brush into the wrong bottle and I liked the way the blue looked.
I find the blue kind of serene. It tends to add this softness and ethereal side to the ink washes. I’ve never used it for much professionally.
I find the blue kind of serene. It tends to add this softness and ethereal side to the ink washes. I’ve never used it for much professionally.
I’ve (finally) been working on my passion project again. I was happy with this panel today. I’m liking the work on this. It’s got really interesting villains, great heroes and spy werewolves. What’s not to like?
March 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I’ve (finally) been working on my passion project again. I was happy with this panel today. I’m liking the work on this. It’s got really interesting villains, great heroes and spy werewolves. What’s not to like?
“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
~ Samuel Beckett
~ Samuel Beckett
March 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
~ Samuel Beckett
~ Samuel Beckett
Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.
Art is Tuesday Weld. I worked on a movie with her way back in the 90s. Feeling Minnesota. Great script. Great cast. Not a great final product. I did like the crew jackets.
Art is Tuesday Weld. I worked on a movie with her way back in the 90s. Feeling Minnesota. Great script. Great cast. Not a great final product. I did like the crew jackets.
March 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.
Art is Tuesday Weld. I worked on a movie with her way back in the 90s. Feeling Minnesota. Great script. Great cast. Not a great final product. I did like the crew jackets.
Art is Tuesday Weld. I worked on a movie with her way back in the 90s. Feeling Minnesota. Great script. Great cast. Not a great final product. I did like the crew jackets.
My pal McLovin hurt his foot. So he’s wearing the cone. I’ve tried to convince him that all the COOL Great Pyrenees are wearing them this Spring. I’m not sure he believes me…
February 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
My pal McLovin hurt his foot. So he’s wearing the cone. I’ve tried to convince him that all the COOL Great Pyrenees are wearing them this Spring. I’m not sure he believes me…
"Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby: awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess."
~Lemony Snicket
No one is more romantic than a cynic.
Art is Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in 1955’s To Catch a Thief. One of my favorite of Alfred Hitchcock's films.
~Lemony Snicket
No one is more romantic than a cynic.
Art is Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in 1955’s To Catch a Thief. One of my favorite of Alfred Hitchcock's films.
February 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby: awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess."
~Lemony Snicket
No one is more romantic than a cynic.
Art is Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in 1955’s To Catch a Thief. One of my favorite of Alfred Hitchcock's films.
~Lemony Snicket
No one is more romantic than a cynic.
Art is Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in 1955’s To Catch a Thief. One of my favorite of Alfred Hitchcock's films.
“All creative people want to do the unexpected.
~Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl…
~Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl…
February 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“All creative people want to do the unexpected.
~Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl…
~Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl…
”Every love story is a ghost story.”
~ David Foster Wallace
Art is Constance Bennett. She was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress and producer.
I love a lot of her work but the Topper movies are my favorite.
~ David Foster Wallace
Art is Constance Bennett. She was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress and producer.
I love a lot of her work but the Topper movies are my favorite.
February 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
”Every love story is a ghost story.”
~ David Foster Wallace
Art is Constance Bennett. She was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress and producer.
I love a lot of her work but the Topper movies are my favorite.
~ David Foster Wallace
Art is Constance Bennett. She was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress and producer.
I love a lot of her work but the Topper movies are my favorite.
Art is Peggy Cummins. She was an Irish actress, born in Wales, who was best known for her performance in Joseph H. Lewis's Gun Crazy (1950), playing a trigger-happy femme fatale, who robs banks with her lover. As you do...
February 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Art is Peggy Cummins. She was an Irish actress, born in Wales, who was best known for her performance in Joseph H. Lewis's Gun Crazy (1950), playing a trigger-happy femme fatale, who robs banks with her lover. As you do...
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”
~May Sarton
Art is Lauren Bacall, an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute. She received an Academy Honorary Award in 2009.
~May Sarton
Art is Lauren Bacall, an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute. She received an Academy Honorary Award in 2009.
February 6, 2025 at 10:34 AM
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”
~May Sarton
Art is Lauren Bacall, an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute. She received an Academy Honorary Award in 2009.
~May Sarton
Art is Lauren Bacall, an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute. She received an Academy Honorary Award in 2009.
Lupe Vélez, was a Mexican actress, dancer, and singer during the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Her and ex-husband Johnny Weissmuller’s public arguments are the stuff of legend.
February 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Lupe Vélez, was a Mexican actress, dancer, and singer during the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Her and ex-husband Johnny Weissmuller’s public arguments are the stuff of legend.
Reposted by Shawn Van Briesen
If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it.
Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice.
But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word.
They aren’t firing for a reason.
Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice.
But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word.
They aren’t firing for a reason.
January 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it.
Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice.
But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word.
They aren’t firing for a reason.
Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice.
But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word.
They aren’t firing for a reason.
I was a gawky kid when The Blues Brothers came out in 1980, I loved this movie. I used to cut school to go see it. That probably explains a lot of what came later. But man it was such a great intro to R & B and all those giant musical performances. I still hate Illinois Nazis.
#onamissionfromgod
#onamissionfromgod
January 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I was a gawky kid when The Blues Brothers came out in 1980, I loved this movie. I used to cut school to go see it. That probably explains a lot of what came later. But man it was such a great intro to R & B and all those giant musical performances. I still hate Illinois Nazis.
#onamissionfromgod
#onamissionfromgod
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“Once you start loving your own presence, you stop chasing people in your life.”
~Unknown
Maureen O'Sullivan was an Irish-American actress, who played Jane in the Tarzanseries of films during the era of Johnny Weissmuller.
~Unknown
Maureen O'Sullivan was an Irish-American actress, who played Jane in the Tarzanseries of films during the era of Johnny Weissmuller.
January 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
“Once you start loving your own presence, you stop chasing people in your life.”
~Unknown
Maureen O'Sullivan was an Irish-American actress, who played Jane in the Tarzanseries of films during the era of Johnny Weissmuller.
~Unknown
Maureen O'Sullivan was an Irish-American actress, who played Jane in the Tarzanseries of films during the era of Johnny Weissmuller.
”The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.”
~ Steven Wright
Colin Clive: January 20th, 1900 – June 25, 1937) was a British stage and screen actor. His most memorable role was Henry Frankenstein in the 1931 monster film Frankenstein and its 1935 sequel, Bride of Frankenstein.
~ Steven Wright
Colin Clive: January 20th, 1900 – June 25, 1937) was a British stage and screen actor. His most memorable role was Henry Frankenstein in the 1931 monster film Frankenstein and its 1935 sequel, Bride of Frankenstein.
January 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
”The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.”
~ Steven Wright
Colin Clive: January 20th, 1900 – June 25, 1937) was a British stage and screen actor. His most memorable role was Henry Frankenstein in the 1931 monster film Frankenstein and its 1935 sequel, Bride of Frankenstein.
~ Steven Wright
Colin Clive: January 20th, 1900 – June 25, 1937) was a British stage and screen actor. His most memorable role was Henry Frankenstein in the 1931 monster film Frankenstein and its 1935 sequel, Bride of Frankenstein.
Blue skies and golden sunshine all along the way. Happy trails, David.
January 17, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Blue skies and golden sunshine all along the way. Happy trails, David.
As I near another trip around the sun in this brief and insubstantial life of mine, it makes me believe we often take too many things for granted—property, privilege, technology, and the comforts of home.
January 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
As I near another trip around the sun in this brief and insubstantial life of mine, it makes me believe we often take too many things for granted—property, privilege, technology, and the comforts of home.