Hi, I'm Rose, an illustrator in the PNW. I am a story artist and illustrator for animation. animals, clouds, plants liminality, no gravity.
After several years of dormancy, I have put over 10 years of my illustrations back on Etsy. There’s a sweeping range of fanart, original art, landscape, animal art, and more. I print & ship everything myself as I demand the highest quality product possible.
Go look & favorite stuff! Follow me, and watch my shop as I continue to stock never-before sold works!
I’m in a very in-between space with my art right now.
I am building a tarot deck, and I do want to post about it, but I also need to keep it incubating quietly a little longer. It’s taken me on a wild spiritual journey, & I’m putting everything I’ve learned into the cards.
I am very busy making work, but I look like a dormant winter tree. I am all twigs & stems. But inside there’s a lot flowing.
All I can hope is that you will all be there in the spring to see the flowers I’m preparing for you. 🌸
OKAY WELL i was going to wait to post the latest art telephone game on here until everything was finalized but one of the last artists got delayed by life stuff but everyone’s already posting their individual piece online so it’s silly to keep this secret now. i’ll hold off on posting all the art natively on tumblr until i get the last piece in but in the meantime you can check out the hydraphone 2025 tag on here to see a bunch of it
this was the most ambitious game of art telephone i’ve run to date and had so many artists that i split them into 7 teams but with each working off of the same starting image. seeing how the characters and world evolved and changed across the different teams was so insanely cool and i’m so proud of all the kickass artists who contributed to this.
These ‘Dreamer’ pieces came from an idea I had about dreams being woven from these golden threads. On their own, these individual threads symbolised nothing but a passing thought. But woven together the threads form something strong enough to create the sequences that are our dreams. And it was this idea I loved, that these little sparrows spin these threads around us each night to build a nest in which we fall into and dream in.
I haven’t posted very much lately, but my sketchbook is alive and well with ideas. I have a very small gallery show hanging at the beginning of December and I’m going to make a series of original paintings. These are the seeds for those paintings.
I had the high honor of participating in the magnanimous and esteemed @bowelfly ’s magnificent Gigaphone.
I think I’m #53 of 72 incredible artists, and I could never have guessed where this chain began, or where it ended. But I did get to draw eels, my one true creature.
If you haven’t seen it all, please do over HERE (Its also a list of amazing artists to follow)
Gentle reminder that often creativity decides to hibernate for a bit.
It’s okay. You’re not broken, you’re resting, and much like spring, creativity comes back.
In Art Therapy we call this incubating.
You’re incubating ideas. Like an egg. There’s stuff growing inside. Your ideas are collecting and culminating and melding, merging into something.
Don’t crack it open before it’s ready. Wait until you hear it tap tap tapping with its egg tooth. Then slowly help it from its shell bit by bit.
Be kind. Be gentle. We are all growing things tender and soft but capable of great power if given the time to grow and change.
I was ruminating on this a lot a few months ago, being so frustrated with feeling depleted with the interest to do the thing that usually gives me so much joy, comfort and connection.
The thought I held onto was that creativity is the like the Wadden Sea. The ocean is gone and it looks like what’s left is boring, plain mud flats all the way to the horizon. But this is actually precious ground full of life and an important part of our ecosystem.
So it is okay to cherish the plainness and muddiness of it. It is just part of the rhythm. The tide will be back soon again.
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