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Simon MacEwan
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Hopeless dilettante
Picker-up of unconsidered trifles
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I decorated a cup
A stoneware cup with a chocolate brown angular octopus with an incised outline against a mint green background Inside of a stoneware cup with a decoration of a shoal of little brown fish circling the cup wall
June 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Some of us grew up with entirely inaccurate representations in the form of luridly coloured injection-moulded plastic Dinosaurs with made in Hong Kong written on their bellies
May 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Thanks, I had three attempts at an earlier version that I just could not get to work, and then I did this one. Here is the earlier attempt
A watercolour painting of a red painted iron Bridge across a Gorge and a forested landscape there is a small green roofed station house on one side of the gorge
May 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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My birthday present to my sister finally arrived in NY and so did some kind of summery weather in Copenhagen
A photograph of the Copenhagen Lakes people are sitting under the chestnut trees in the sunshine A painting of a tree trunk cross section with 40 rings the bark on the outside of the tree is covered in Moss and lichen
May 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Cloud River Crossing
A watercolour painting of a red steel arched bridge over a cloud-filled Forest Gorge. a small Combi van like narrow gauge rail car is crossing the Bridge between the heavily forested areas on either side of the gorge
May 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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February 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I had a very fun day helping friends make Pustovanje masks
A red painted horned mask with a slightly goat-like appearance made from cardboard and fringed with mountain sheep faux fur
February 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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The local train to the mysterious clifftop Research Institute
A watercolour painting of a coastal cliff landscape with a railway viaduct along which are small yellow train carriage runs to a tiny station which sits below a large Art Deco style building perched on the cliff top
February 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Forest Station
A painting of a tiny station in a forest with huge Sequoia-esque trees. Sunlight illuminates the tree trunks and casts long shadows across the mossy forest floor. A watercolour painting of a tiny station in a forest with huge Sequoia-esque trees. Sunlight illuminates the tree trunks and casts long shadows across the mossy forest floor. A detail photo with a pencil showing the small scale of the picture
January 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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The Cloud Factory
watercolour painting of a square building, drawn in an isometric view, with yellow ochre coloured walls, The bottom level is surrounded by a grey stone arched colonnade and the two levels above it have large Square windows, the top of the building dissolves into a mass of Golden Cloud tinged with pink and purple. Through the windows and through the arches of the colonnade we can see that the building is filled with dense greenery.
January 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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January 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Chocolate orange wrapper, real orange
A watercolour painting of an orange inside the foil wrapper of a Terry's Chocolate orange, resting on a blue-rimmed plate
January 14, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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They should change their name to Penguin Random Horse, I think that would fix everything in publishing #publishing #prh #kidlit
A drawing of a penguin and a random horse
January 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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❤️ this in particular
January 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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A watercolour painting of a figure asleep in bed with a pink mob cap on, surrounding the bed, 8 children, 4 boys and 4 girls dressed in 1820s clothing, sit on stools looking at the sleeper. The picture has the caption "I told him that Melville's mother is reported to have made her eight children sit silently on stools around her bed while she took her daily nap." Which is a description from Paul Metcalf's 1965 novel Genoa: A Telling of Wonders
January 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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A postcard sized painting of a Clementine orange on a blue and white porcelain plate
December 31, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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Padova-ish
A watercolour painting of a city drawn from an isometric perspective the buildings are three and four-story terracotta roofed structures with colonnades around the base and resemble the sort of buildings found in Padova, Italy
December 30, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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Low-poly Christmas Pig
A blocky geometric Pig cast in pink coloured chocolate with brown chocolate eyes nostrils and chocolate mud on its trotters (front view) A blocky geometric Pig cast in pink coloured chocolate with brown chocolate eyes nostrils and chocolate mud on its trotters (¾ view) A blocky geometric Pig cast in pink coloured chocolate with brown chocolate eyes nostrils and chocolate mud on its trotters (Side view)
December 25, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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2 versions of a shambling beast.
December 12, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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Seasonal monster. What season? Who knows
Suminagashi stencil picture of some kind of hairy monster with sharp teeth and antlers
November 29, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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Suminagashi, now combined with stencils
A suminagashi stencil print of a bat-like creature
November 29, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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Suminagashi experiment
November 28, 2024 at 11:56 AM
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November 28, 2024 at 8:41 AM
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The Void
A watercolour painting of a black cat, asleep, curled up into an almost perfect circle
November 24, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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Sketch Vs final
A pencil sketch of two girls riding the back of a leaping tiger
November 20, 2024 at 12:36 PM