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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 08/07/2026

Fika time, midnight sun style~ ☕🌄 For those who don't know, fika is essentially a coffee break that originated from Sweden and is usually an occasion to relax with friends and colleagues. The concept of fika is popular in all Nordic countries though including Norway, Denmark, and Finland.

A cardamom bun by FikaTime in Anchorage, Alaska next to instructions about how to bake the bun as well as how to join the Cardamom Club. Fika is essentially a coffee break that is popular in Nordic countries.

The cardamom bun by FikaTime baking in an oven. The buns are take-n-bake, meaning that you bake them yourself at home.

My Bodum coffee burr grinder next to a bag of coffee beans by After Midnight Roasting Company, a coffee roasting company based in Anchorage, Alaska. After Midnight Roasting Company used to be Leroy's Coffee.

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 06/07/2026

Stereometry is a way of learning how to draw the human figure by breaking it down into geometric shapes and basic generic measurements. The stereometric approach to drawing people was popularized during the Renaissance by artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, etc. #jayjuno #alaska #artist

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 22/06/2026

Wishing everyone a Happy Father's Day~ 💙 I'm honoring my father by reading some of his favorite authors, Plato and Charles Schulz. Love you and miss you every single day, dad... 💙💔

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 16/05/2026

Another layer of paint and copper metal leaf applied to this portrait of Aphrodite Höst~ 🎨🙏🏻 Aphrodite is a character from naked. She's the mother of the protagonist, Sappho Höst. She's a witch too but more powerful. The cat is Mr. M (Mr. M is short for Mr. Mistoffelees). #jayjuno #artist #art

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 16/04/2026

Still life of fireweed, an apple, and a teapot in watercolor~ 🎨🍎🌿 #jayjuno #art #artist #alaska

Still life of fireweed, an apple, and a teapot in watercolor~ 🎨🍎🌿
This is watercolor on 100% cotton paper (cold press).

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 30/03/2026

No Kings protest sign in Anchorage, Alaska~

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 30/03/2026

No Kings protest sign in Anchorage, Alaska~

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 30/03/2026

Raw footage of Alaskans helping one another during the No Kings 3.0 protest in Anchorage, Alaska (March 28th, 2026)

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 14/03/2026

Watercolor painting of God, a character from Potential~🎨 Humanity is completely unaware that God is actually a woman. She is one of the last Anunnaki women to still be alive after Enlil murdered most of them thousands of years ago during the Great Flood. #jayjuno #art #artist #alaska

God is an Anunnaki who has been assigned Gaia (Earth) as her personal protectorate after it was confiscated from Enlil. It's her responsibility to protect and defend humanity- none of the other Anunnaki wanted the job, not even Grandma Ki. This is how she appears when she isn't fused with her technorganic raiment. God is not her real name, but rather the title given to any Anunnaki who's assigned to be Lord and Protector over Earth.

Here, God holds a summoning tablet (libra). This is one of several ancient tablets that can summon a powerful being.

Humanity is completely unaware that God is actually a woman. She is one of the last Anunnaki women to still be alive after Enlil murdered most of them thousands of years ago during the Great Flood.

This is watercolor on cotton paper.

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 14/03/2026

Concept art of Inanna and Enlil from Potential~🎨 They're beings who fuse with technorganic raiments to increase their power. They've mastered nuclear energy and the radiation radiates throughout their bodies, making them the most dangerous beings in the universe. #jayjuno #art #artist #alaska

Concept art of Inanna~

Like all Anunnaki, Inanna is thousands of years old and witnessed the beginning of humanity's rise into civilzation in ancient times. She has also been known by other names including Aphrodite, Venus, Isis, and so on.

This is mixed media that was cleaned up digitally.

Concept art of Enlil, the villain of Potential.

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 11/03/2026

Impressionist study of one of my teapots~ 🎨🍵 This is artist crayons and metallic ink on crescent board. The yellow was done with water-soluble crayons. This drawing is about 4x6 inches in size. #jayjuno #art #artist #alaska

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 11/03/2026

Impressionist sun over the ocean in soft pastel~🎨🌅 This tiny painting is about 3x3 inches in size. The dried flower blossoms are fireweed, which blooms everywhere in Alaska during Summer and Autumn. This is soft pastels on pastelmat. #jayjuno #art #artist #alaska

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 11/03/2026

Blackberry in soft pastel~ 🎨💜 This tiny blackberry is about 2x2 inches in size, so fairly small. The dried flower blossoms are fireweed. This is soft pastels on pastelmat. #jayjuno #art #artist #alaska

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 11/03/2026

Green apple in soft pastel~ 🎨🍏 This little green apple was drawn mostly with soft pastel pencils. It is about 2x2 inches in size, so pretty small. The dried flower blossoms are fireweed. This is soft pastels on pastelmat. #jayjuno #art #artist #alaska

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 11/03/2026

Figure skater painting~ 🎨❄ This is watercolor, gouache, and color pencil on paper. #jayjuno #art #artist #alaska

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 09/03/2026

Impressionist soft pastel study of a winter sunrise in Alaska, in high resolution~🎨🌄 This is soft pastel on toned paper. #jayjuno #art #artist #alaska

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 07/03/2026

Impressionist soft pastel study of a winter sunrise in Alaska~🎨❄ This is soft pastel on toned paper. #jayjuno #art #artist #alaska

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 06/03/2026

Impressionist study of birch trees at night in watercolor~ This is watercolor paint on cotton paper. #jayjuno #art #artist #alaska

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 01/03/2026

Blue underpainting (imprimatura) for an impressionist/expressionist oil painting of some birch trees and foot steps, scanned in high resolution~ #art #artist #jayjuno #alaska

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 23/02/2026

Purple winter birch tree, with the second layer of paint~🎨 This is oil paint on canvas #art #artist #jayjuno #alaska

Purple winter birch tree oil painting, with the second layer of paint~

Added thick paint to give texture to the snow. Mostly just smoothed out edges and applied another layer of light yellow paint (Cadmium Yellow with Titanium White). I used palette knives for some of the texture on the snow. This is the first time I've painted with palette knives since 2018 in Denver, Colorado.

This is oil paint on canvas (stretched over a wooden frame).

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 23/02/2026

Progress pictures of this blue monochromatic oil painting I've been working on. This is a still life of one of my teapot sets. This is oil paint on canvas- and this is probably as close to photorealism as I get. #art #artist #alaska #jayjuno

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 23/02/2026

This is an impressionist expressionist study of winter birch trees~ This is soft pastel on paper. #art #artist #alaska #jayjuno

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 23/02/2026

Chugkh is a raptor who lives in the water. He must swim through creeks & rivers to keep up with his companions, Sohlo and Jeann the snow raptor. After a traumatic event years ago, he was afflicted with a curse that causes him to start involuntarily self-immolating when dry. #art #alaska #jayjuno

Chugkh is a raptor who lives in the water and must swim through creeks and rivers to keep up with his companions, Sohlo and Jeann the snow raptor. After a traumatic event years ago, he was afflicted with a curse that causes him to start involuntarily self-immolating as soon as he's dry. To cope, he's adapted into a sea creature.

Some of his favorite catches include sockeye salmon and spruce tips. He also loves berries and honey.

Chugkh once went out onto the mudflats and got stuck when the tide started to come in. He almost got himself and others drowned because they had to go underwater to pull him free from the mud. Naturally, he's developed a bit of a phobia about mudflats and he avoids going near one as much as he can.

Chugkh is a character from Potential.

Chugkh and Potential belong to Jay Juno.

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 22/02/2026

Sunrise over the mountains from Anchorage~ 🎨🌄 This is soft pastels on paper. This is my impressionist/expressionist interpretation of the sunrise as I see it behind where I live. The lights represent houses.

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 16/08/2025

Raptor with autumn leaves in color pencil... #jayjuno #art #artist #alaska

This is a color pencil drawing of a raptor with autumn leaves against a green background of shaded grass.

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 12/08/2025

Coffee in watercolor and ink... This is titled "Love for Coffee". This is watercolor paint and ink on paper, with a flair of art nouveau. Coffee is big in Alaska. There are so many coffee stands and huts here. I like getting a lungo myself~ #jayjuno #art #alaska #artist

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 11/08/2025

Red apple in soft pastel, over an underpainting of blue watercolor... #jayjuno #art #artist

Red apple in soft pastel, over an underpainting of watercolor...

This is on Pastelmat paper, which can handle both wet and dry mediums like watercolor and soft pastels. I chopped it down into baseball card sized pieces and smaller sizes for miniature artwork. Mini art is less stressful, and good for trying out art techniques without wasting supplies. I like doing an underpainting of blue watercolor paint then finishing the drawing off in soft pastels or color pencil. The blue seems to glow through the crystals of the soft pastel.

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 09/08/2025

Sappho Höst, protagonist of naked... This is a digital sketch drawn with a stylus on a tablet. #jayjuno #art #character

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 07/08/2025

Salmon sketches with watercolor pencils... ^-^ It's salmon season right now in Alaska! They turn red after they start spawning and swimming upstream. Sockeye salmon are my favorite to paint and draw because they turn green, too. #jayjuno #artist #sketchbook

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 07/08/2025

Color pencil orange slices... ^-^ Drawing oranges is more fun than regular color swatching to test pencils. Color pencils used include Polychromos by Faber-Castell, Derwent Lightfast, Holbein, Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor, and Caran d'Ache Luminance. Toned sketchbook is from Hahnemuehle. #art #jayjuno

Oranges drawn in different color oencil brands. Color pencils used include Polychromos by Faber-Castell, Derwent Lightfast, Holbein, Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor, and Caran d'Ache Luminance. Toned sketchbook is from Hahnemuehle.

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Jay Juno @jayjuno.com · 15/01/2024

This is a scratch board illustration I made after Russia invaded Ukraine. The baby within the sunflower is meant to symbolize all the innocent lives lost as a result of Russia's terrorism. Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦

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