The Art of Amy-Elyse Neer

Sennelier,( who many of you know as a manufacturer of fine art supplies, you probably have or have lusted after many of their items,)

Have for some reason (probably money) decided to release exclusive sets for sale at Hobby Lobby alone.

Hobby Lobby makes money off a primarily female presenting and LGBTQ+ customer base, which is typical for craft stores. I do not know why more cishet men don't enjoy the sort of crafts they carry, but I am not here to discuss that.

I do know that they make their money off the demographics that they pour their profits into oppressing. They also seem to think it is any of their business what their health insurance covers for their female identifying employees and they like to steal artifacts. (the list of reasons why Hobby Lobby is evil is long. But their ultra christianity cult-hood is high on the list)

So I have unfollowed Sennelier on all social media, and sent them an email explaining my disappointment, letting them know I will no longer be purchasing products from them, tagging them to pieces I used my leftover stock for, or recommending them on SM or in my podcast.

1) Hair

2) Skin

3) Nail Polish

4) The lip of the trash can

5) Toilet paper

6) The wrapper for the next one

7) Band-aids

Here is a Complete list of the things that the adhesive strips on sanitary napkins WILL NOT stick to:

I'm going to talk about the challenge I had this year for Inktober, a little bit.

I haven't really been public about it, because I did not want to field a billion questions and make a big deal about it if it turned out to be nothing. And the last time I had a health scare, people were super nosy about it, I tried to satisfy everyone who asked, that I was going to be okay, but people still wanted more information than I was comfortable giving in a public forum.

So I am going to talk about this here, and only here. So for Inktober this year I was dealing with a healing surgical incision on my arm. It was my inking arm, because while I am cross dominant and often draw with either hand, I do not own any left handed dip pens, mainly because I prefer to not get ink all over myself, and as an art form and drawing tool, ink is not left hand friendly without a lot of extra expense.

So the reason for the surgical incision was cancer. And as the biopsy found, it was a bad type of cancer. Superficial Spreading Melanoma.

This is a malignancy that spreads outward on the skin's surface, until one day it dives from the epidermal layer, to the dermis, and enters the rest of your system from there.

Now, I am pale, red headed, freckled to within an inch of my life, and see a dermatologist every six months because I also have (here's a shocker) a crap ton of shit wrong with my fucking skin. So we had been watching this one particular freckle for a while. Mainly because I have typical red-head "orange" freckles, and this one was brown, and large to begin with.

So for the last five years they had taken out their little scope thing and taken a good look at it and also the occasional picture to compare with later.

Well, sometime in June 2025, I was out with the fambly, and Bird said: "Oh! Your freckle looks like a little heart!"

I looked at it, and she was right, it was heart shaped!

Cool, right?

NO. NOT COOL, AT ALL!

it had never been heart shaped before.

A month later, it no longer looked heart shaped

So I was due for my next derm appointment in August and I made a note to mention that we might want to do a compare photo this time.

I told the doctor about the change in shape, he looked at it before I finished with story and said,

"yah, I can kind of see sort of heart... but really, to me, it looks like it's shaped like Paper Mario." I looked and it definitely looked like a silhouette of Paper Mario. I finished telling him that the heart she saw was gone in a month, and the Paper Mario-ness was new.

So they opened up my baseline images and compared, and then said

"Yup it's time for a biopsy."

I will spare you the aggravation of waiting three weeks for results (thanks, labor day weekend! My panic disorder and I really loved waiting through that, after not hearing anything for a two weeks)

It was bad, they said, but we caught it in time, they said, and we are sure we can get all of it, they said.

So to get all of it, they had to make a sort of circle around it and then like an eye shaped long oval around that to close it up in a straight-ish line.

The supervising doctor gave me a stay out of the sun lecture and I said,

"I DO stay out of the sun!"

"Everyone says that, but you really have to!" he said "I have been red-headed and freckled for 55 years, I have staying out of the sun down to a fucking science."

he said

"Holy crap you're 55?!?!" and checked my chart, "I thought you were mid 30's!!" "That's because I NEVER GO OUT IN THE FUCKING SUN."

He said

"Touché, you got me there."

I decided to trust him after that because he admitted he'd made an incorrect assumption, and I find that worthy of respect.

Anyway, I now have a, healing, 9 cm scar on my arm, to remove the freckle (which was about half a centimeter) and the surrounding tissue (to make sure they got a clean edge)

The post procedure biopsy says they got it all, the edge had no malignant cells in it.

But I now have to go to the dermatologist every 3 months instead of every 6, and they are going to be checking me over and cataloguing any sus looking skin stuff.

So that's what's been going on.

Hi... local art supply nerd and illustrator, gently reminding you to by small and local: Tee Public is doing their 15$ (US) (or your local equivalent) sale. Click this groovy shirt to be taken to that storefront and see my selection ⬇️

RedBubble has a better and wider selection of my stuff, and they have more items to print on, plus I get a higher royalty from them, but they are starting make "assholes to the artists" noises, but it's gonna take me a large chunk of time to get all the designs over to tee public so if you see something you want, they haven't tipped all the way into "asshole" territory yet. They are doing "up to 60% off" your order Click the kitty face ⬇️ to go there

Well that's it for another Inktober. If you want to see the highlight reel, with the music choices, it's up on my IG.

This year I used up

1/2 (15 ml) a bottle of Deleter Black 4 ink,

about 1 ml of Deleter White 1 (aqueous) ink,

Half a length of one 2.0 Mitsu-Bishi F lead,

two Sakura Sumo Grip eraser chucks in the electric,

and about an inch off the Sumo Grip block eraser.

I also killed one maru nib and one tama spoon nib.

The color is ALL Winsor & Newton Drawing Inks. I ONLY used liquid ink this year, no watercolors or copics.

The temptation was just to write, in white ink, of course, "I mean...?"