Kristy is a graduate of American Academy of Art in Chicago with a BFA in Illustration. Her work consists of mediums that vary between charcoal, colored pencils, digital, and watercolor. She enjoys doing photo-realistic drawings of people that tell a story. Most of her artwork that has dark subject matter but are depicted using bright colors to explore the contrast between those two things. This is her portfolio including work from 2009 to today. https://linktr.ee/KristyFlemingIllustration
see when people try and nitpick me because i call my dog “my dog” when it’s technically “the family dog”…….well first of all i still call my brother “my brother” and not “the family boy”. although maybe that should change. second of all sorry i’m still thinking about the family boy. btw i fell asleep while making this post last night and i think you can tell
“Snow freezes time, so the constant pressure of life is briefly suspended in a blanket of snow, and for one day, it’s like you can catch your breath.”
- KISS HER ONCE FOR ME by Alison Cochrun
I am so excited to finally share this commission of Ellie Oliver and Jack Kim-Prescott, the stars of Alison Cochrun’s Kiss Her Once For Me— a Yuletide rom-com to be released this fall (exactly 3 months from today)! Many of you may already be familiar with Alison’s other popular queer romance, The Charm Offensive (and if you haven’t read TCO, you genuinely need to get on that because it’s BRILLIANT). You can imagine my absolute joy at being asked to provide art for a novel that was pitched to me as “a sapphic “While You Were Sleeping”.” Lol
From Simon & Schuster:
The author of the “swoon-worthy debut” (Harper’s Bazaar) The Charm Offensive returns with a festive romantic comedy about a woman who fakes an engagement with her landlord…only to fall for his sister.
One year ago, recent Portland transplant Ellie Oliver had her dream job in animation and a Christmas Eve meet-cute with a woman at a bookstore that led her to fall in love over the course of a single night. But after a betrayal the next morning and the loss of her job soon after, she finds herself adrift, alone, and desperate for money. Finding work at a local coffee shop, she’s just getting through the days—until Andrew, the shop’s landlord, proposes a shocking, drunken plan: a marriage of convenience that will give him his recent inheritance and alleviate Ellie’s financial woes and isolation. They make a plan to spend the holidays together at his family cabin to keep up the ruse. But when Andrew introduces his new fiancée to his sister, Ellie is shocked to discover it’s Jack—the mysterious woman she fell for over the course of one magical Christmas Eve the year before. Now, Ellie must choose between the safety of a fake relationship and the risk of something real.
Perfect for fans of Written in the Stars and One Day in December, Kiss Her Once for Me is the queer holiday rom-com that you’ll want to cozy up with next to the fire.
Details for how to get art prints of Ellie and Jack will be forthcoming, but in the meantime, I encourage you to pre-order your copy!
I sincerely liked the inclusion of Glinda in the classroom scene with the lion because in the musical post-Popular she’s just not there when the lion cub is in the cage and Elphaba puts the class to sleep to save him with Fiyero but in the movie, Glinda is there, and she is put to sleep with the rest of the class while Fiyero isn’t, and it’s such a small but very significant detail of the progression of each character’s arc (Fiyero and Glinda) and how much Elphaba trusts them with. Seeing Glinda wake up alone was a gut punch, even if you understand why Elphaba didn’t trust her yet, even if it was an instinct on Elphaba’s part to exclude her, and it’s really cruel foreshadowing for the end of Act 2, when Elphaba and Fiyero once again leave Glinda behind and out of the loop with the truth of Elphaba being alive—and it enhances the tragedy because this time, at the end, Glinda’s character arc is complete and she should arguably be entrusted with that secret, but the seeds have already been planted so long ago, and now it’s too late
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