Hop, skip, jump
I almost left out Jumpluff, but I guess that would be mean… I’ve just never liked the design for it, compared to the other two. Hoppip is the best!!! Skiploom is fine. In my original Silver game, I...
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New cat species, tilcayo, with that pesky Birmingham Pen Co Extradimensional Umber. Along with contamination issues when working on multiple pieces with different inks concurrently, this ink continues...
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Melanistic fennec with Kitty Inkpot’s Moon Jelly Travel Journal and intense brush/water contamination from Birmingham Pen Co’s Extradimensional Umber. ಠ_ಠ I’m learning that that ink just needs its own...
View ArticleMoody swallow
Violet green swallow with Noodler’s American Eel (lines), Dominant Industries’ Soleil couchant à etretat (background), and Tono & Lims 「時は満ちそして巡る」(branch, bird). There’s also some brush and water...
View ArticleLil guys with plants on their heads
One of my favourite genre of creatures is “blob with a plant on its head.” A lot of Grass-type Pokemon fit this category. I should’ve blotted the one Hoppip earlier so it’d be more pink, oh well. I’m...
View ArticleGlass bead travel journal of Future Trunks
Combining ink names with subjects for titles is getting silly. Future Trunks with Wearinguel’s The Glass Bead Game (background, face, hair) and Kitty Inkpot’s Moon Jelly Travel Journal (lines, jacket,...
View ArticleMixed ink warbler
Blackburnian warbler with Kitty Inkpot’s Farewell Poem of Yesterday (background), Noodler’s American Eel (lines, branch, dark markings), Push/Pull’s Autumn Leaves (orange) and unnamed experimental...
View ArticleAlligator farewell poem
American alligator with Kitty Inkpot’s Farewell Poem of Yesterday. Really love the subtle shades in this ink… *_* I do wish I could’ve gotten more of the reddish edging to show up though. Scanned...
View ArticleForest wind peony
Peony with Kitty Inkpot’s Forest Wind Knows Where to Find the Mountain Bird. I like fun ink names, but this is truly too long of a name in translation, lol. I did see someone else translate it as...
View ArticleMelancholic blue (Steller’s) jay
Inks: Teranishi Guitar’s Melancholic Blue (primary), Kitty Inkpot’s Forest Wind Knows Where to Find the Mountain Bird (background, some leaves), Noodler’s American Eel (top half of jay). The scan...
View ArticleTechnicolor Night magpie
European magpie with Vinta’s Technicolor Night , primarily, some Noodler’s American Eel1 to darken and differentiate parts that should be black, and a teeny bit of BPC’s Tesla Coil to re-establish...
View ArticleTesla coil swallow
Tree swallow with Birmingham Pen Co’s Tesla Coil, with some of Kitty Inkpot’s Pumpkin Head Teddy in the background. Went a bit overboard with the sheen probably!! The particularly iridescent part of...
View ArticleMr. Pumpkin Head hyena
Spotted hyena with Kitty Inkpot’s Mr. Pumpkin Head Teddy ink. I didn’t do much blotting with this one, so wherever the orange ended up is just where it ended up. I like how it turned out around the...
View ArticleRaven of fear
Raven with Wearinguel’s Valley of Fear and Teranishi Guitar’s Melancholic Blue (mostly in the background). Somehow I’ve ended up with three blue inks with purple sheen to fill the hole left by Vinta’s...
View ArticleGlass bead flamingo
Chilean flamingo with Wearinguel’s The Glass Bead Game ink (plus minor Push/Pull’s Autumn Leaves contamination in the background wash because of ink leftover on the brush, ha). The sun in the...
View ArticleOctober schedule (so far?)
The inks in my Parallels are so contaminated it’s not worth listing what they are/were, lol. Full schedule here. There might still be more for October; we’ll see.
View ArticleI Watch Gundam for the Music
That I can actually cram a decent amount of text into an eighth fold zine if it’s typed is a dangerous discovery… It’s funny to imagine that my irreverent opinions may be more widely read in zines...
View ArticleBuying books & reading them
I have so many stacks of books and zines I’ve bought over the last two years I need to read, plus some free pile gets, and yet I am checking out additional books from the library? Hmm. Stickers are on...
View Articledecorative gourd season
Scan with color correction. Playing around with fountain pen inks. The Safari’s inked up with Kyo no Oto’s Kokeiro. Used with brush: Push/Pull’s Autumn Leaves, Glacier Turquoise (discontinued), and an...
View ArticleNews Roundup: September 2026
Art, writing, and events since the last one of these, plus: price increases and some upcoming events. Not quite the end of the month yet, but I wanted to get this out before my next event this...
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