Something Shiny

I know it’s a few days late for this, but the Christmas lights in our neighborhood are still up so technically it’s still appropriate to post some Christmas-themed fan art.

This is my first attempt at fan art for Rachel Smythe’s Lore Olympus, a webcomic that I’m 100% addicted to. I could probably futz around with this for SEVERAL days (it started out with just colored pencils, but quickly progressed to a LOT of color-work in Photoshop) but really, we’re four days past Christmas now. Time to get a move-on.

This gallery features a whole random assortment of items, some of which I probably held onto for YEARS before I found a use for them. Shells. Watch faces. A tiny bottle of semi-precious stones and another bottle of random watch screws bolted to a slice of birch wood. The reel from a an old typewriter ribbon (but not actual typewriter keys; the ones on the choker are made from tiny plumbing o-rings. I’ll break apart tons of old ladies watches that no one wants anymore, but I draw the line at smashing up a typewriter)

My favorite medium is wood, and of course old watch parts. I’ll sometimes branch out to bottles and shells, like the tiny two-inch wide cabinet I made for the “From the Cities of Gears and Spice” piece. And the ebony and ivory pendants and earrings in this gallery were made from actual ebony and ivory piano keys.

The Totems and Bottle Pendant are something new, since the start of social isolating, actually. With all the obsessing about toilet paper and hand soap, it occurred to me that some items become worth their weight in gold. So why not make jewelry out of them?

If there’s a theme to my artwork it seems to be “Ooo, I’ll bet I could make something interesting out of this!” Materials used in making my steampunk jewelry include clock gears and cogs, glass bottles, empty watch casings, and layers of polished fine woods like walnut, maple, osage orange, and plywood.

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Issue #108 (a)

Tiny Tarot Card - Thirteen of Antiques by Llyzabeth

"This week we have no plan."

"We kind of have a plan."

"We have a little bit of a plan."

"We have two things to talk about, so, that's a tiny plan."

Here's another entry for Fan Art Friday!

Lucifer by LindaMarieAnson

Yay, it's Fan Art Friday again!

I just finished watching the first season of "Lucifer", a show that's a little too quick to fall back on tropes and cliched storylines, but Tom Ellis plays a very wickedly charming devil and MAN is he nice to look at.

Digital painting by @lindamarieanson, a Deviantartist who does ALL the fan art.

I think I first ran across one of John Hurt's many acting roles when "Watership Down" aired on TV in the early eighties. (Scared the CRAP out of me, but still an amazing movie.) Since his start in 1962 he appeared in over two hundred movies - including franchises like Harry Potter and Hellboy - in roles covering the entire acting spectrum: histories and animations, comedies and dystopias, Shakespeare and sci-fi.

A lot of people will remember him best as the first victim of a chestbuster in "Alien", or as the would-be revolutionary in "1984". I loved his portrayal as Marlowe in "Only Lovers Left Alive", but for me he'll always be the unnumbered War Doctor in "Doctor Who".

RIP, John. 206 acting credits, and it still feels like your story is ending when there was so much more to tell.

I was going to share a link to my review of Anne Rice’s latest book, but then ANNE RICE SHARED A LINK TO IT FIRST.

If you haven't listened to the podcast "Wooden Overcoats" then you're missing out. The story is about a brother and sister trying to run a funeral parlor on a tiny island, it's ridiculous, hilarious, and also very, very British.

The season one episode "Georgina and the Waves" is one of my favorites, and inspired one of those wonderful moments where the entire design for a drawing just appeared in my brain and demanded to be made into a piece of fan art RIGHT NOW.