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Wren Kay Franco
@wrexfx.bsky.social
63 followers 40 following 27 posts
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LA based Curious Crafter
Painter • Sculptor • Mold Maker • SFX Artist
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Sometimes you sketch a tree in a fun wibbly way
#sketch #watercolor #tree #art
Sketch of a tree using a brown pen. It has a loose outline. It is slightly colored in woth green and brown water color
September 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Sketch of my perspective while sitting in a redwood tree stump using charcoal from that same tree. #charcoal #redwood #sketch
Soft charcoal depiction of 3 trees in a sketchbook
September 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Sometimes you make art with a 3yr named Sylvia and it is one of the most healing expiriences you have had in a long time
#art #collaboration #marker
Pink & blue marker scribbles on a page in a sketchbook. Over top is a black scribbled mass with some googly eyes glued ontop.
September 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Sometimes you must create a little guy
#craft #sewing
A sew together dark green orb. Two bright blue buttons for eyes and a large bell hanging from a scarf around its neck.
September 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Gotta share one of my favorite photos from work
#dogtraining #dogs #rottie #rottweiler
One person playing tug with a rottwieler. Another person stands behind the dog holding their leash.
May 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Ive never had a more gorgeous place to set up and do FX. Enjoyed the view while smothering everyone in blood 💕
#larp #jacksonlakehorror #SFXmakeup #SFX #setlife #makeup #mua
A fold out table with a mix of makeup supplies. It is set up outside surrounded by trees.
May 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Its been a crazy weekend! Got to help out a friend run Jackson Lake Horror LARP. Lots of blood, guts, and screams this weekend 😈
#gore #SFXmakeup #SFX #Larp
Large prodthetic cut on upper arm. It is dripping blood Large gash on leg that is dripping blood. Woman holding a fake knife with blood dripping down her arm and face. She is smiling and striking a pose.
May 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Some fun Junji Ito esque sketches. I love the expressions he did so I copied aspects of either the eyes or mouth then created a new creature around them.
#junjiito #sketch #art #freaky
A sketch of a creature with a wide open mouth. Its teeth are needle thin. Two different sketches of creatures with odd expressions. Sketches of floating expressions.
April 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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And we have a bit of a tonal shift, but I wanted to show off some makeup I did a while back. Love getting to practice using some 3rd Degree Silicone.
#sfxmakeup #sfx #gunshot #gore #makeupfx
Fake gunshot wound on a persons side of torso. Up close of star shaped gunshot wound makeup.
April 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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This is my freaky clown. I love him.
I made him 2 years ago and hes still one of my favorite maquettes. I guess that means I need to do more.
#sculpture #freakyclown #maquette #creepy #clay
Clay sculpture of an elongated human head. It has a stubby nose and open mouth. One eye has a star in it rather than a pupil. Profile of the same sculpture. The head has a very long jaw with an unnaturally square chin. The corner of its open mouth is rounded upwards in an odd smile. It has no ears, only a small slit where its ear should be. Sketch of the freaky clown in the same pose. The eyes have a light red rhombus around each. The mouth has the same shade red wrapped around the lips.
April 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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And a second post to show off some more from the gallery!
Its good to know you can throw together a whole gallery in your house with a bartender and a photographer 💅

@nateypoo.bsky.social
#artgallery #art #community
April 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Some of my favorite photos from the art gallery that me & @nateypoo.bsky.social hosted.
We had over 30 art pieces submitted, which we were very ahppy about considering we have never done this before.
It was a very fun time and we look forward to doing it again next year!
#artgallery #art #community
April 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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My year long 2024 project based on the book Lets Become Fungal! By @letsbecomefungal.bsky.social

An amazing book that has changed the way I aproach my life. I did 1 painting per chapter in the book (plus an extra for fun 😜)

I highly reccomend this book to anyone who can read!
#letsbecomefungal
April 16, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Piece #12 & #13 from the How to Become Fungal Project

Title: Process
Competing with the desire to create for the viewer rather than the self.

Title: Accept
Be present & unbothered by the end result. Ground yourself in the enjoyment of creation.
#becomefungal #painting #grounded #art
Acrylic painting on canvas. The piece is tittled Process. A rough blue wash is the background. The top two corners have rows of dots in blue & green. Some of them streak downwards. The rest of the canvas has streaks of yellow, green, and blue paint that point downward. Acrylic paint on canvas. This piece is tittled Accept. The background is a smooth blue wash. There is paint streaking downwards. It is in shades of blue & white. The streaks come to a point at the bottom center of the canvas.
April 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Piece #11 from the How to Become Fungal Project

Title: Unoccupied x Unused
Only land that can be deemed productive enough throigh a western view is left untouched.
#becomefungal #painting #capitalism
Acrylic paint on canvas. A greyscale old timey family poses for a photograph. Each of them has a mushroom for a head with one wide-eye in the center. They all look towards the viewer. Several of the family memembers have their face crossed out with a red "X" In the background is a greyscale forest with red fires slowly engulfing the trees.
April 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Piece #10 from the How to Become Fungal Project

Title: Pulling Possibilities
In referance to the native american concept that the children we carry on out backs see the future that lay behind us while we reflect on the past we see in front of us.
#becomefungal #painting #nonlinear #swan
Acrylic paint on canvas. A purple gosling sits on its mother's back. The gosling dips its beak into the water behind its mother. The ripple it causes are various shades of purple.
April 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Piece #8 from the How to Become Fungal Project

Title: Interpret
Language is a living thing that we influence by our use of it. Our words feed our perception of the world.
#becomefungal #painting #slimemold #feedingfungus #language
Acrylic paint on canvas. The background is a orange-yellow with text repeating over and over. The text reads "Language is Alive & We Feed It". This text overlaps itself mamy times in different shades of white, pink, and orange. Overtop the text is a blue slime that wraps around the words.
April 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Piece #8 from the How to Become Fungal Project

Title: Held
Its easy to get lost in trying to block out all of the stimuli of busy life. This is a reminder that engaging your senses will nuture your soul.
#becomefungal #painting #grounding
Acrylic paint on canvas. Black muddled background. There is a blue & green bird's nest with a small egg in the center. Surounding the nest are 4 different neon lines. They wrap around the nest and look over the egg.
April 7, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Piece #7 from the How to Become Fungal Project

Title: Birth of an Angel
Escaping the confines that you are born into is subjecting yourself to being percieved in your most vulnerable moment.
#becomefungal #painting #trans #comingout
Acrylic painting on canvas. In the center a chick bursts out of an egg, gasping for air towards a shinning light. Outside of the beam of light there are dark greyscale eyes looking at the fleshy newly hatched chick.
April 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Piece #6 from the How to Become Fungal Project

Title: According to His Needs
Albino plants are dependant on their community for nutrients. They are unable to give back yet the forest still feeds them.
#becomefungal #painting #fungi #community
Acrylic painting on canvas. In the center there is a pale blue shrub in the midst of a red forest. On the lower half of the canvas you can see the purple roots of the shrub intertwining with the red roots of the trees around it.
April 3, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Piece #5 from the How to Become Fungal Project

Title: Please
Examining our need to cull vital organisms in seeking monocultures despite the harm to our global community.
#becomefungal #painting #fungi #monoculture
Acrylic painting on canvas. Black and white mushrooms are in the foreground. Each has a single eye in the center. The mushrooms look around worried. One mushroom in the center od the painting looks directly at the viewer. In the background a cloud of pink smoke is slowly engulfing the fungi.
April 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Piece #4 from the How to Become Fungal Project

Title: Happy Birth-Decay!
A reflection of how the death of something seemingly perfect can give life to something perfectly new
#becomefungal #painting #cupcake
Acrylic painting of a cupcake in a blue wrapper. Fungi is growing out of the base of the cupcake. The frosting is yellow with a single lit candle sticking out of it. The background is pink with blue spots.
April 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Piece #3 from the How to Become Fungal Project

Title: Unity
Being able to connect with other revolutions and other fights in order to support eachother & uplift. Learn from the revolutionaries around you
#becomefungal #unity #acrylic
Acrylic painting of a tall building being pulled apart by vines. The building has smoke coming out of it. Text in the background says "Listen. Care. Connect. Collaborate".
April 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Piece #2 from the How to Become Fungal Project

Title: Cultivated
The records we have curated impact how we view our history and our future
#becomefungal #sculpture
April 1, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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1st piece from my year long 2024 art project. Based on the book "How to Become Fungal. Mycelium Teachings and the Arts"
March 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM