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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I just use the basic 4000 model cutter. I duct-tape my t-square to my drawing desk to use as a guide and go to town

Snapshot of the Logan model 4000 bevel mat cutter

Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I'm so excited about this project! "Will-o'-the-Wisp" is a graphic novel I'm writing and drawing. You can read the first half here: brianrwilliams.com/will-o-the-w... Consider joining my Patreon to support the project and get access to new chapters as I finish them! www.patreon.com/c/greygraphite

Title page for my graphic-novel-in-progress. The title text, "Will-o'-the-Wisp," glows green above the illustration. Leona (the mountain lion), Argyle (the extraterrestrial), Orick (the Sasquatch) and Ursula (the human person) leading the group with a flashlight, walk down a set of stairs in a cave lit by purple light.

"Will-o'-the-Wisp" is about a spooky light Ursula sees in the woods outside her trailer one night. She and Orick, Argyle, and Leona set out to discover the truth about the ghost light. But they're not alone; malevolent Sasquatches called wood devils are also hunting the Will-o'-the-Wisp. Ursula and her friends must catch up to the light before the wood devils do.

The first half of the novel is free to read here: https://brianrwilliams.com/will-o-the-wisp.html

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Survived my first comics expo. S.P.A.C.E. was fun, but I'm still tired today!

A snapshot of me sitting behind my table at the Small Press & Alternative Comics Expo just after setting up early Saturday morning, before the doors opened.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Day 2 of S.P.A.C.E.! www.backporchcomics.com/space #comics #comicart #digitalart

A snapshot of my table set-up at the Small Press & Alternative Comics Expo.

A close-up of my table, showing the Orick & Argyle sign and an excerpt of my Patreon comic lying open on the table.

A photo of a stack of my Orick & Argyle books on my table.

A photo of my Orick & Argyle prints & zines on my table.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Making prints for SPACE*! *Small Press & Alternative Comics Expo, March 28-29, Hilliard, OH www.backporchcomics.com/space #digitalart #comics

Poster titled, "Creature From Somewhere in the Midwest," a spoof on movie posters for Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Under the poster title text, a green, friendly-looking creature with gills, a pink snout, two arms, and six human feet is smiling and saying, Midwesternly, "Ope! Lemme just scootch past yah." He is holding a red plastic party cup and is wearing a yellow novelty t-shirt that reads, "It's Wine O'Clock."

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I got a job creating coal-powered wildlife for the regime. #traditionalart #drawing #worksonpaper

“Anthracite Deer,” graphite and charcoal powder on paper.

A drawing of a deer in an Appalachian forest landscape with a smokestack where its neck and head should be. The smokestack is belching out clouds of thick, black smoke.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Hi, I'm Brian, and here's my digital portfolio for #portfolioday, which comprises mostly of my webcomic "Orick & Argyle," about a Sasquatch and an extraterrestrial who team up to commit acts of civil disobedience in defense of nature. orickandargyle.com www.patreon.com/greygraphite

A digital drawing of comic book characters Orick, a Sasquatch; Leona, a mountain lion; and Argyle, an extraterrestrial, rowing across a pond at dusk toward an island with an old church on it.

A black and white digital drawing of comic characters Ursula, a human person; Orick, a Sasquatch; Argyle, an extraterrestrial; and Leona, a mountain lion, walking down a set of underground stairs in a cave-like environment. Ursula leads the group with a flashlight.

A digital painting of Orick, a Sasquatch wearing an orange scarf and carrying a hot drink of some kind, walking between some trees and saying "boo" to classic movie monsters Nosferatu, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and a werewolf, who cower in fear and run away.

A digital illustration showing a Sasquatch reading a book in his cave with his friends, a mountain lion asleep next to the fireplace, and an extraterrestrial laying on a rug watching The X-Files on an iPad. The cave is illuminated by the fire in the fireplace, candles, lamps and glowing crystals. Above the fireplace is a framed portrait of a Sasquatch ancestor. In the background is a bookshelf and a staircase.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

It's another #portfolioday ? Hi, I'm Brian. I have 2 portfolios, in fact -- a digital one and a traditional one. Here's a sampling of my traditional work. brianrwilliams.com

A graphite and colored pencil drawing on paper of a yellow and green seahorse perched on the couch from the painting, "Portrait of Madame Récamier," bt Jacques-Louis David.

A drawing of a woodpecker peeking out from a hole in a tree, which is emerging from the torso of a woman wearing an elaborately-decorated dress and ruff from the Renaissance.

A graphite drawing of a woman from a Neoclassical painting, wearing a wig and draped in a shawl, sitting beside a rural landscape showing a river valley. Above the river floats a Mothman-like spirit with glowing eyes.

A drawing of Krampus, dragging chains shackled to his wrists and carrying a satchel of twigs on his back, entering the foyer of a fancy house. He looks down the hallway at the viewer, letting his long tongue hang from his open mouth.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 5: Gruss vom Krampus! Krampus celebrations were banned in the 1930s by the Nazis in Germany and the fascist Christian government in Austria. Therefore, it's canon that Krampus is an anti-fascist symbol. Graphite and charcoal powder on paper.

Krampus, a furry anthropomorphic creature with a goat's head, long tongue, one cloven hoof, with a satchel of birch branches on his back and iron chains hanging from his arms, stares at the viewer from a hallway. The hallway is elegant, with an arched colonnade and paintings on the wall in the background, implying that Krampus is visiting the home of a wealthy family.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

#ArtAdventCalendar Day4. It's a snowy morning here. Thank you, @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca for organizing this event -- it's been a pleasure to see so much artwork in my feed!

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It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.

Stanza XIII of the poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," by Wallace Stevens. A digital illustration of a grackle perched in an eastern red cedar tree in a winter landscape. The iridescence and textures of the bird's feathers is emphasized. On the tree limb beside the bird are pebbles, a quartz crystal and a shell, all with iridescent surfaces.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 2. Still one of my favorite projects: illustrating "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," by Wallace Stevens.

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I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.

Stanza V from "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," written by Wallace Stevens. A digital illustration showing a red-winged blackbird perched on a twig next to a muddy pond at twilight. The blackbird is calling. Next to it is an old stone with a spiral pattern carved into it. The scene's reflection on the surface of the pond appears to show a moment in the near future: the stone is glowing and the blackbird is flying away.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Gonna participate in #artadventcalendar this year -- thanks to @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca for the heads-up! Day 1: Orick's Cave

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I'm halfway through "Will-o-the-Wisp," a story about a Sasquatch, an extraterrestrial, a human & a mountain lion who are following a spook light through the woods. The Will-o'-the-Wisp is also being pursued by wood devils, and the gang has to capture the light before the wood devils get to it first.

Cover image of "Will-o'-the-Wisp," a webcomic. The title is written in glowing green font. Below it are main characters Orick, a Sasquatch; Ursula, a human; Argyle, an extraterrestrial; and Leona, a mountain lion.

A page from the comic. Ursula is describing an encounter with a wood devil she had as a child. The illustration shows a flashback to her childhood room where a wood devil lurks outside her window while she cowers under her covers. She says she always thought it was just a nightmare until seeing wood devils as an adult.

A page from the comic. Ursula discovers a staircase inside an old tree. It goes down into the earth; the faint glow of the Will-o'-the-Wisp can be seen. Ursula, Orick, Argyle and Leona follow the stairs down.

A full-page illustration showing the characters following an underground staircase between stalactites and stalagmites. Ursula is in the lead, carrying a flashlight. Behind her are Orick, Argyle and Leona.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

A digital sketch for a drawing. I love sketching digitally even if the plan is to finish the drawing using traditional media.

A digital sketch of a giant jellyfish floating in the air in front of a large Tudor-style house at dusk. The jellyfish glows orange and pink, and its long tentacles drag on the ground.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Oh it’s #portfolioday !? I’m Brian, I like to do drawrings. You can see more at my website: brianrwilliams.com

A graphite drawing showing a surreal scene: in the foreground is a tree trunk with four square holes cut out of it. A man playing a violin emerges from the biggest hole; his arm holding the violin sticks out from another hole. His other arm holding the bow emerges from a hole in a second tree trunk. The violin is on fire. Diamonds and an ammonite are seen in the last two holes in the tree. Additionally, connected to the front of the two tree trunks are three smokestacks belching black smoke and sparks. In the background is an overcast landscape with a meadow, a creek and a forest in the far distance.

A graphite drawing shows Krampus stepping into the hallway of a fancy house. Krampus has one human foot and one cloven hoof. He wears a basket of sticks on his back and drags chains shackled to his wrists. He looks at the viewer and sticks out his tongue.

A graphite drawing shows an outdoor scene in a desert, with a mountain, clouds, stars and the moon in the background. In the foreground, a woman sits in a carved wooden sleigh being pulled by fantastical creatures whose whiskers the woman is using as reins.

A graphite drawing on sepia-toned paper shows a woman wearing a wig and garments from the early 1800s. She stares at the viewer. Behind her is a nighttime landscape with a river, trees and stars. The spirit of the Mothman floats in the sky above the river.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

If you see this post something monochromatic #traditionalart #drawing

"Carbon," graphite and charcoal powder on toned paper, 2025.

A pair of tree trunks in the foreground have square holes cut out of them. Emerging from the biggest hole is a man playing a burning violin; his arms holding the instrument and the bow are emerging from two smaller holes. The arm holding the bow is coming out of a different tree than the rest of his body, revealing the surrealistic and nonsensical nature of the scene. An ammonite and a pile of uncut diamonds are seen in two other cut-outs in the tree. Also emerging from the trees are steel smokestacks belching copious amounts of black smoke and sparks. In the background is a meadow with a creek running through it; along the horizon more trees can be seen. The sky is overcast.

Everything in the scene is composed partly or entirely of carbon: the trees, the violin, the diamonds, the steel smokestacks, the smoke, the man.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Tomorrow! My solo show, "Rare Earth," opens at La Luz de Jesus Gallery! @laluzdejesus.bsky.social This one's called "Alarm Call V," one of a series of absurdist little vignette drawings of birds & rusty old fog horns symbolizing nature's warning signs about climate change #traditionalart #drawing

Rare Earth, drawings by Brian R. Williams, Friday, September 5 at La Luz de Jesus Gallery

"Alarm Call V," graphite on toned paper. A pair of brant geese fly past a fog horn with 5 horns of various sizes, each facing in a different direction. The horns emerge from the top of a rust-stained cylindrical concrete structure built among an archipelago of sharp-edged triangular rocks. Visible at the base of the structure are metal pipes, wheels and drums of uncertain function.

A photo of "Alarm Call V" matted and framed in a gold wooden frame.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Here's a pic of "The Hermit III" framed:

A photo of the above drawing matted and framed in a wood frame with gold accents on the outside edge.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I also love digital art, and do a fair amount of it myself, but I'm always on the look-out for more traditional-media artists. If you see this, share some traditional art ✏️🦉 #art #drawing #traditionalart

“The Hermit III,” graphite on toned paper, 2025

An oak tree trunk emerges from the neck of a cloak worn by a sitter in a painting by Renaissance painter Hans Holbein the Younger. A barn owl peeks out from a hole in the tree trunk.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

New drawing: "Carbon." All drawings are carbon, of course, but this one is about carbon, too. #traditionalart #drawing

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

New drawing: “The Hermit III”

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Happy Portfolio Day! Here's a sample of my traditional-media work. You can see more on my website: brianrwilliams.com #portfolioday #traditionalart

A pencil drawing showing a young boy asleep next to a creek in the woods. Watching the boy sleeping are three fantastical creatures made of moss. A rabbit rests beside the boy, an owl is perched on the shoulder of one of the moss men, and a white-tailed deer watches the scene from behind a tree trunk.

Client: Worthy Tales Magazine

A pencil drawing of a woman driving a sleigh across an alien landscape. Pulling the sleigh are 4-legged creatures whose whiskers are being used as reins by the woman driving the sleigh.

Client: Worthy Tales Magazine

A pencil drawing of a cat dressed in a hunting suit, partially obscuring his face with a white mask in the shape of a French bulldog's head. On the wall behind the cat are paintings depicting hunting dogs.

Client: Drool Magazine

A pencil drawing showing a woman dressed in an elaborate Renaissance dress with a ruff poses for a portrait with her pets, two cats and a pug, who are also dressed in Renaissance clothing. On the wall behind the woman are framed portraits of more dogs.

Client: Johns Hopkins Magazine

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

New drawing: "Ventifact." A ventifact is a stone that's been shaped and weathered by wind-blown sand. #traditionalart #artonpaper #drawing

"Ventifact," graphite on toned paper, 9 x 12 inches, 2025.

A pencil drawing showing a man wearing a two-toned hoodie, buried up to his waist in sand in a desert landscape at dusk. The sand around him has been shaped into ripples by the wind. His head has transformed into a stone with cracks sharp edges all over its surface. The man's hands rest on the sand in front of him. In the far distance are mountains and clouds in the evening sky.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

"Bow Shock," digital drawing. REX INTERFECTVS EST ("the king is killed") is the titulus above the scene on the Bayeux Tapestry depicting King Harold's death during the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The tapestry also shows Halley's Comet, which appeared the same year King Harold was killed. #nokings

A digital drawing in black, grey and gold, showing an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon king painted in black and while being struck by a comet with a golden tail. The king is wearing chain mail and his hand is shown letting go of a lance. All that's shown of the king's head is his skull, which is being spun in the air by the force of the impact. The skull is still wearing a helmet and a crown. The night sky behind the scene is filled with gold stars. At the bottom of the drawing is an inscription written in gold that reads REX INTERFECTUS EST, meaning "the king is killed."

The drawing is inspired by the death of King Harold II of England in 1066 as depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Here's a portrait of bisexual anti-fascist icon Marlene Dietrich. My artwork is rarely overtly queer, but since everything I make is made by a queer artist, all my art is queer art due to the transitive property ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 If you see this, QRP this with your queer art.

Dietrich Instar, graphite and colored pencil on toned paper, 2024.

A pencil portrait of Marlene Dietrich with butterfly wings growing out of both sides of her face. Most of the portrait is black and white, except for the butterfly wings, which are in color.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Quote with a fantasy being that's NOT a vampire or a werewolf! "Gold Coast Siren" graphite on toned paper.

"Gold Coast Siren," graphite on toned paper.

A siren with a human body but bird-like claws stares at the viewer as she plays a phonograph, using her claw as the stylus. The phonograph is attached to multiple amplifying horns of various designs behind the siren's head. She wears a 1920s-era headdress.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Homo sapiens artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you 💀 #artshare #traditionalart #pencildrawing

“Chronospecies,” graphite and charcoal powder on paper.

A man in a black hoodie sits at a desk holding a book. A human skull is superimposed over his face. Next to the human skull are the skulls of two ancestors of humanity: Homo ergaster and Australopithecus. A pocket watch sits on the desk in front of the man and a cuckoo clock hangs on the wall behind him. Through a window in the background, behind the skulls, can be seen the landscape of Tanzania, Africa, the geographical origin of the human species.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Working on the next chapter of “Will-o’-the-Wisp” between laundry loads & grading anatomy diagram assignments 🙎🏽‍♀️🐵👽🐱 We need better emojis for Sasquatches and mountain lions. #orickandargyle #digitalart

A black and white digital illustration showing comic book characters Ursula, a human woman; Orick, a Sasquatch; Argyle, an extraterrestrial; and Leona, a mountain lion, walking down a staircase carved into a cave. Ursula, holding a flashlight, leads the group.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Whoop! Picked up the Orick & Argyle book from the printer this week — it’s a compilation of the first 26 Orick & Argyle comics! Shop link here: brianrwilliams.bigcartel.com Orick and Argyle comic webpage here: www.orickandargyle.com #comics #webcomics #orickandargyle

Photo of the front cover of “Orick & Argyle Book 1: Mischief.”

Photo of an interior spread of the book, showing a black-and-white comic page beside a full-color comic page.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

🦋Post your favorite butterfly or moth art or photo.🦋 Here's a portrait of anti-fascist bisexual icon Marlene Dietrich #art #portrait

"Dietrich instar," graphite and colored pencil on toned paper, 2024

A portrait drawing of Marlene Dietrich with swallowtail butterfly wings growing out of her cheeks.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

QRP with something watery ⏳

"Spring Tide," graphite on paper.

An image of a bay in the moonlight. The water in the bay is cut away to reveal two orcas swimming. Rising from the ocean floor is a brick tower with an hourglass inside it. On the ocean floor are some rocks in which Galileo's quote "Eppur si muove (And yet it moves)" is carved.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

✨ Show me how you draw men ✨ These are a couple self-portraits, inspired by Hans Holbein the Younger's merchant portraits. #traditionalart #pencildrawing #worksonpaper

“Chronospecies,” graphite and charcoal powder on toned paper.

A man in a black hoodie sits at a desk holding a book. A human skull is superimposed over his face. Next to the human skull are the skulls of two ancestors of humanity: Homo ergaster and Australopithecus. A pocket watch sits on the desk in front of the man and a cuckoo clock hangs on the wall behind him. Through a window in the background, behind the skulls, can be seen the landscape of Tanzania, Africa, the geographical origin of the human species.

"Schiller," graphite and gold paint on paper.

An image of a man seated at a desk with a giant shell on his head that covers his eyes. Behind him is a window, through which a cubic crystal hovering in the air above the sea can be seen. He is drawing a crude diagram of the crystal using a string of gold paint.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

It's a new year, so I'm thinking about all the drawing projects I want to start. I know for certain that I will be drawing more boids #digitalart #illustration

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The river is moving.
The blackbird must be flying.

Stanza 12 from "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," a poem by Wallace Stevens. Illustrated by me.

A blackbird flies upwards over a bottomless canyon, pulling a waterfall into the sky with it. In the foreground is a city of towers lit by the setting sun.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Greetings from Krampus! Gruss vom Krampus! Krampus celebrations were banned by the Nazis in Germany and the fascist Christian government in Austria in the 1930s. Therefore, it's canon that Krampus is an anti-fascist symbol. Graphite and charcoal powder on paper. #art #krampus #drawing

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

QRP with your skull art 💀 This is an illustration I did for a German poetry book. The poem's narrator wonders if insects are waiting in cracks & crevices for the Age of Mammals to end, so they can take over and be the dominant life forms on the planet. #art #artandpoetry #drawing

"On the Rise of Mammals," graphite on paper. An illustration for a poem in "Dodos auf der Flucht/Dodos on the Run," a collection of poems about extinct and endangered animals by German poet Mikael Vogel.

An anthropomorphic silverfish insect sits at a desk in a cave, wearing a suit and holding a quill pen in his hand. In front of him on the desk is an open book, its pages chewed by insects. On the desk beside him and in the foreground are skulls of various mammal species, including a human skull. The cave is illuminated by glowing crystals. In the background, stairs lead to the cave's entrance.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

QRP with your skull art! This drawing is called “Chronospecies.” It’s currently on view at StolenSpace Gallery in London. The skulls are, from left, Homo sapiens, Homo ergaster, and Australopithecus.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

If you see this, post a room

Comic characters Orick, a Sasquatch, Argyle, an extraterrestrial, and Leona, a mountain lion, are relaxing in Orick’s cave. Orick is reading in his chair, Argyle is on the floor watching The X-Files on his iPad, and Leona is napping in front of the fire. In the background is a bookshelf and a staircase, and above the fireplace hangs a painting of one of Orick’s Sasquatch ancestors.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

If you see this, post your bird art

Stanza 8 from “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” a poem by Wallace Stevens.

I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved
In what I know.

Image description: Two blackbirds perch on an antique phonograph in a clearing in the woods at twilight. The phonograph is printing out punched computer tape. One of the blackbirds holds the tape in its beak.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

If you see this, post a monster

A non-threatening sasquatch, wearing an orange scarf and carrying a coffee, says "Boo" to some classic movie monsters, frightening them. Nosferatu hides behind a tree, the Creature from the Black Lagoon cowers on the ground, and the Wolfman runs away.

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