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Sorrow is the True Wild
oil on Yupo
17 x 24

Is sorrow the true wild?
And if it is -and if we join them - your wild to mine - what's that?
- ROSS GAY

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#art #oilpainting #fantasyart #womanandwolf #figurativeart #illustration #wild

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A woman and a wolf, oil painting. The quote continues; “For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I'm saying. I'm saying: What if that is joy?” There is so much sorrow in the world right now. But I love this idea - that joining our sorrow becomes joy. Because there is, indeed, a sweetness to shared sorrow, a joy in connection, a peace in being heard and understood.
January 22, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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Bad Red
oil on paper
18.5 x 14.25

Carmine’s actual name was never revealed in the fairytales. 

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#art #painting #redridinghood #faitytale #oilpainting #figurativeart#fantasyart

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Red riding hood and her monster, an oil painting. The narrative continues: Little Red Riding Hood was hardly a name she could use once she was no longer little. And her childhood, filled with dark forests, menacing wolves and devoured relatives - made her grow up as somewhat of a badass.  She didn’t care what others thought of her. After all, she survived the incident at Grandmother’s house (and all the other incidents that followed her in a seemingly endless life of forestry shenanigans). She kept the red cape, though it was more of a sentimental item than a practical piece of clothing. And she curated a menagerie of monsters to accompany her wherever she went.  She knew better than to go anywhere in the forest alone.
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 PM
beautifulbizarre.net
‘Mermaid in a Lonely Pool’ and ‘The Battle Within’ by Aidamaris Roman capture the essence of childlike wonder and the fantastical dreams we have when we’re young!
#art #beautifulbizarre #aidamarisroman #magicalrealism #fantasyart #newcontemporary #contemporaryart #figurativeart #realism
December 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM
elizahleighartwrit.bsky.social
A spectacle for the gods, upliftingly conjured by Chinese digital artist Fuyuフユ aka huyu_pm04💫🙏⛪✨🦋

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skeb.jp/@huyu_pm04

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#elizahleighartwriter #huyupm04 #art #artwork #butterfly #celestial #characterart #characterdesign #digitalart #digitalillustration #fantasyart #figurativeart
December 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
elizahleighartwrit.bsky.social
Get swept away by the mythology-steeped, kinetically kapow-y paintings of Kaysha Siemens

www.kayshasiemens.com

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#elizahleighartwriter #kayshasiemens #animals #animalart #art #artwork #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #fantasyart #figurativeart #figurativepainting #fineart #goddessart
December 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
mchernovart.bsky.social
Interior illustrations for “The Masque of the Red Death” by Poe!!
And yeah, all of them are with a spoon of medieval cringe, couldn’t help it :)

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Interior illustrations for special edition book of The Masque of the Red Death . . . #illustration #bookillustrations #specialeditionbooks #medievalfantasy #medievalart #edgarallanpoe #fantasyillustration #art #artwork #characterart #darkfantasy #digitalart #digitalillustration #digitalpainting #fairytaleart #fantasy #fantasyart #figurativeart #illustration #narrativeart #painting #procreate
December 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
entangledskies.bsky.social
#artistsOnBluesky #artfeed #fineartfeed
#illustrationfeed #aestheticfeed #art #fineart #painting #illustration
#surrealart #symbolicart #figurativeart
#conceptart #fantasyart #visualpoetry

Sometimes the next chapter begins in a #quiet place.
A warm-toned painting of a young person sitting curled in a small cave. Their head rests on their knees, eyes closed in quiet reflection. Golden spiral patterns glow softly on the cave floor and walls, and a winding golden path leads out toward a distant sunset. The scene feels peaceful, introspective, and symbolic of beginnings or awakening.
November 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
francescabrghtwood.bsky.social
The Trifecta
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#art #fantasyart #figurativeart #girls #nudity #nudeart #bodypositive #bodyfreedom #69
October 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
entangledskies.bsky.social
#art #painting #oilpainting #digitalart #portrait #surrealism #fantasyart #fashionart #colorstudy #figurativeart
#impressionism #expressionism
#livingcolor
the moment color becomes consciousness
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
the-q-spot.bsky.social
Old drawing that I need to pull out & finish one of these days.🤪 #artistsonbluesky #drawings #figurativeart #fantasyart #thefemalefigure
September 8, 2025 at 1:40 AM
lolajovan.com
Fear-Slayer
oil on artboard
16 x 20

One by one she slew her fears, and then planted a flower garden over their graves. - John Mark Green

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#art #painting #oilpainting #fantasyart #figurativeart #angel

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Empowered females continue their reign in the studio, determined to slay lingering fears and adorn themselves in feathered finery. I let them have their way, grabbing a few feathers floating down from their extravagent garb as they perch upon the skylight above my creative lair. We live in a feathered home. Inside, where feathers gathered on our wanders (crows, wild turkeys, eagles, hawks, pelicans, osprey, egrets, herons) appear in vignettes around the rooms, and outside where our own crow family leaves feathers of delight. We also live in a house of bones - found and gathered, collected and curated, real and sculptured imitations, highfalutin and kitchy both. Bones on the inside (inside our home on shelves, inside containers, inside our bodies) and on the outside (skeletons guarding the castle). And over the last year or so we've created a house of stones as well. Agates and other beauties gathered in and by the sea, tumbled, polished, stacked inside, tossed outside, in our Little Free Library for passersby. These things are exquisite on their own, each a treasure to be gently held and admired, but also reminders of the places we've been to find them, the beauty our eyes have beheld, the sweat and seawater and poison oak and bug bites and scrapes and falls and tangled hair and sunburned shoulders and frozen fingers and toes. Sometimes recalling those times with awe - wait, did we really go there and do that?
September 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
elizahleighartwrit.bsky.social
“Spark” from photographer/mixed media artist Natalie Shau was inspired by Björk's cinematic, magical realism-infused “Isobel” (from her 1995 album, Post)

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGPY...

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#elizahleighartwriter #nataliashau #bjork #fantasyart #figurativeart #newcontemporaryart
August 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
lolajovan.com
A little animation of a recent oil painting, just for fun!

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#animation #art #warrior #huntress #fantasyart #femaleform #figurativeart #painting #oilpainting
August 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
elizahleighartwrit.bsky.social
🎨: "Moonlit" (digital illustration, 2025) by Yuming Li

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#elizahleighartwriter #yumingli #art #artwork #artcommunity #alternativeart #angels #classicalart #digitalart #digitalpainting #drawing #ethereal #fantasy #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #figurativeart #newcontemporaryart
August 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
damianosborne.com
Temperance, oil on canvas, 2023.

Painted solely with my own hand-made oil paints.

www.damianosborne.com

#figurativeart #contemporaryrealism #selfportraitpainting
#portraitpainting #fantasyart #esotericart #surrealism #realism #alchemy #depthpsychology #tarot #esotericart #oilpainting #angel
Angel of Temperance oil painting
August 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
damianosborne.com
The Year of the Fool, oil on board, Damian Osborne, 2021. Painted only with my own #handmadeoilpaints

www.damianosborne.com

#figurativeart #contemporaryrealism #selfportrait
#portraitpainting #fantasyart #surrealism #representationalart #alchemy #depthpsychology #tarot #esotericart #oilpainting
Self portrait oil on canvas
August 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
damianosborne.com
Dream Bird by Damian Osborne, oil on board, 61 x 46 cm, 2021.

Painted solely with my own hand-made oil paints.

www.damianosborne.com

#figurativeart #contemporaryrealism #self-portrait
#portraitpainting #fantasyart #esotericart #surrealism #realism #representationalart #alchemy #depthpsychology
August 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
elizahleighartwrit.bsky.social
“A far horizon
embraced by a cloud
like a nameless God
beautiful and evaporating”
― Tamara Rendell

🎨: "Mystic" (2023) by Yuming Li.

www.yumingart.com

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July 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
lolajovan.com
The Constant Tinnitus Hum
oil on paper
14.5 x 22

Every woman lives with the constant tinnitus hum of low-level sexism.
― Catherine Mayer, ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN

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#art #fantasyart #painting #figurativeart #femaleform #oilpainting
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A gigantic woman against an abstracted city skyline “Attack of the 50 Foot Woman”originated in 1958. In the subsequent 67 years there is little evidence that the quote in this post doesn’t still hold true. There has been progress, for sure! But also setbacks. Big setbacks. Recent big setbacks. But women remember this. And we vote. We vote BIG.
July 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
mark45xxx.bsky.social
The red Priestess. This piece is available on a variety of different products on my website at 1-mark-bradley.artistwebsites.com #art #figurativeart #figurestudy #fantasyart #redhead
June 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
annettehassell.bsky.social
"Migration" 14x18 acrylic on board. Seems like a few of my paintings lately are about escape. Hmmm. Wonder why? #art #newcontemporary#wowxwow#surrealism#figurativeart #storytellingart#2Dart#acrylicpainting#fantasyart
#annettehassellart
June 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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The Wildling
oil on Yupo
14 x 23

Ebba’s very existence was a matter often debated among children, especially around the campfire or at a sleepover after dark.

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#art #painting #fantasyart #wildling #oilpainting #figurativeart

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A fantastical portrait of Ebba, a wildling with horns, ears of a deer, scraggly hair and piercing eyes. There wasn’t a single human who could say they had actually seen Ebba. Sure, pies and potatoes went missing. The henhouse sometimes had no eggs in the morning. Random bits of beads and feathers were left in their place - as payment, perhaps? Oh, there was more than one youngster who was double-dog-dared to stay up all night in the yard in hopes of catching a glimpse of the elusive wildling. Inevitably, sleep overtook each one who tried. But someone, something covered the sleeping youth with straw, moss and leaves.   It was enough to give them goosebumps, but no explanations
May 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
artstudioblip.bsky.social
“Musing” is pyrography, marker and colored pencil on birch veneer plywood. 30” x 24” It was juried into two international competitions. #art #pyrography #beautifulmodel #fantasyart #narrativeart #coloredpencil #figurativeart
May 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM