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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Folk landscape… but make it Hong Kong 👌

Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Today’s afternoon doodle depicting thieves after a bungled heist of the World’s Largest Portobello Mushroom. J/k sometimes you start something not knowing where it will go, this is one of those things 😂 Gouache on cold pressed paper

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I love this moment because I had taken the girls out for lunch and here I am trying to enjoy my tom yum goong while they’re going “dad look over here, do a face, dad, DADDD” 😂 Self portrait in watercolor

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Hello friends, it’s been a minute. Went digging through the girls’ toy cabinet for a matchbox race car or something to use as a reference. Behold the My Melodymobile: #watercolors #gouache #markers

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Ali Morretta @alimorrettawrites.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Celebrating the one-year anniversary of this one! Thanks to @ericscottryon.bsky.social and @flashfrog.bsky.social (and guest judge Gina Chung) for giving this a home. Also, a huge thanks to @jiksuncheung.bsky.social for the incredible art, which is now framed and hanging above my bar cart 🍸

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Thrilled and grateful to see my art in the US edition of Kristen Loesch’s stunning new gothic horror novel THE HONG KONG WIDOW, published by Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House. 10 pieces sprinkled across the novel as part of the creepy narrative. Available online and in a store near you!

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Our hearts are very full after Amsterdam ❤️ Some quick sketches, watercolors, mixed media experiments, and alien robots while on the road.

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Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Huge thank you to our Blue Frog Guest Artist @jiksuncheung.bsky.social !! Each of these three pieces is absolutely stunning! 🙏🏼💙

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

We drank down to our socks and jerked each other off with Electric Melon sweat, kissing until his braces cut my lip. “You’ve gotta drift when you hit those corners man,” he slurred, after finishing me off at Mario Kart too. An exquisite story by @kyleisamu.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social 🔥

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

"When attempting to navigate the perilous waters of a threesome, there is only one way to ensure safe passage: you must always be the third." A stunning and provocative piece by Alison Morretta in @flashfrog.bsky.social Honored to be contributing art to this story, thank you 🙏❤️

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A absolutely stunning, bittersweet piece by @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social. Go read it now! So honored to contribute a watercolor to this story 🙏 The original painting will be on the way to you soon, Matt!

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Matt Barrett @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

My story, "Gulls of the Algarve," is live! Thank you so much to @flashfrog.bsky.social, @ericscottryon.bsky.social, Gina Chung, and @jiksuncheung.bsky.social for helping make this piece special to me.

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Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

🚨EXCITING NEWS! The BLUE FROG 3rd place winner — “Gulls of the Algarve” by @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social — will publish tomorrow!! 👀

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Eric Scot Tryon @ericscottryon.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

With stunning new artwork by @jiksuncheung.bsky.social 👇🏼👇🏼

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Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The 2025 Blue Frog Finalists are here! 🐸💙

Blue background with title “2025 Blue Frog Finalists” with 12 story titles: the house by the dead end; When the rain comes; Materials Needed; The Third; Jesus Wept; A City by an Ocean with a Plant by a Window, and a Cat; Universal; How You Remind Your Mother That You’re Still Alive After Your Brother Dies; Inside Voices; Gulls of Algarve; The Bright Jars of Our Bodies; every glacier has a ghost

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I think I have subject matter ADHD whereby I'll be working on some technique or thing and then I'll FOMO and jump ship to some other thing. Anyway, it's faces lately, in this delicious palm green ink muddled with water.

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Spent the afternoon drawing faces with the 7yo. A quick study from an internet reference, using this gorgeous vintage Cartier fountain pen from my mom ❤️

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I'm not religious, but last year we went to 蓮花宮 to ask the gods (and there were a whole assembly of them inside) to watch over us in the Year of the Dragon. Now that the year is almost over, we returned to 蓮花宮 to 還神, literally to repay the gods for good year. And to do a sketch:

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Peter Witte @peter-witte.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I'm thrilled to share my story, "The Free Throw Shooter," published on Short Story, Long by the greatest of editors, @aaronburch.bsky.social, with illustrations I LOVE by @jiksuncheung.bsky.social. I hope you read it and if you do I hope you like it. ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/the-free-t...

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“The Free Throw Shooter” by Peter Witte

He told Tim about how this man arrived to the court and just started shooting free throws. “He hasn’t missed yet,” John said, “going on ten minutes now. He’s made over forty in a row.” Whir-clunk.

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I'd worked with Peter at The Bureau Dispatch so when @aaronburch.bsky.social invited me to do the art for "The Free Throw Shooter" in Short Story, Long it was an immediate resounding ✨YES✨ It's an absolutely stunning piece. I'm honored to contribute some artwork to it. Enjoy! ❤️

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Anna Gates Ha @annagatesha.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

So very excited to be in this issue of @barrelhouse.bsky.social! Thank you @writesloud.bsky.social! And omg that cover art by @jiksuncheung.bsky.social 😍

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Had so much fun doing the cover art for @writesloud.bsky.social’s latest anthology of parenting stories with a musical twist in @barrelhouse.bsky.social! Can you spot the baby crow?? 🐦‍⬛ Be sure to click through to read all the stunning stories ❤️

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Writer friends: so excited to be painting the artwork for your winning stories. Send in your best flash fiction!! ❤️

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Some mysteriously nondescript buildings dappled with afternoon light. Admiralty, opposite Island Shangri-La. Did some sleuthing and the buildings are unmarked on Google Maps—what they are?? 🤔🤔🤔 Wrong answers only.

Watercolor painting of some low nondescript buildings with a jungle in the background.

A red circle with a question mark in the middle, marking a spot on a Google Map where the buildings are supposed to be but are not shown or labeled.

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Mixed Bag @m-ixedbag.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

One more sleep for @smokelong.bsky.social On the Road in Singapore! Looking forward to reading with these amazing writers.

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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Finishing up edits on this upcoming online @barrelhouse.bsky.social issue, and omgg these stories! parenting + music icons = 🔥

Kourtney Kardashian, pregnant, in all black (but sexxxxxy), at a concert, holding up a sign that says "Travis I'm pregnant"

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Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

🚨The Blue Frog is now open! Theme: Voice Guest Judge: Gina Chung Guest Artist: @jiksuncheung.bsky.social $5 entry fee // $700 in prizes!! flash-frog.com/contest/

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Some reminders for getting back into the practice of art after the holidays: 1) Stop thinking about creating the next "masterpiece".

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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 18/12/2024

"Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow...You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something." ~Kurt Vonnegut

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Here's a little #artvsartist. Thankful to have been able to afford the time and space to make and share are—not everyone gets the opportunity to do so, so I'm extremely grateful. 🙏 We're on the road again from tomorrow so here's to a very Merry Christmas and an art-filled New Year! ❤️

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

My first 500 followers! I wanted to get a few words in before the imposter syndrome kicks in 😂 Building up a profile here as a painter when most of you know me from the old bird place as a writer feels a little strange but I've gotten nothing but love and support—thank you thank you 🙏❤️

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Christmas vibes. Watercolor on A3 hot pressed paper #painting

Watercolor painting of a red cabin in a snowy landscape.

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

You’ll—and I mean this sincerely—have to pry the em dash from my cold, dead hands.

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Some weekend sardines in crayons and watercolors.

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Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

🐸💙2025 Blue Frog!💙🐸 Theme: “Voice” Guest Judge: Gina Chung Guest Artist: @jiksuncheung.bsky.social flash-frog.com/contest/

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Thrilled and so looking forward to creating artwork for the winners of the 2025 Blue Frog ✨ 😭 Submit those stories!! 🙏 #flashfiction #writingcommunity

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Hello friends! If you're looking for amazing painters on Bluesky—I've put together a handy list of some of the most inspiring working painters and hobbyists I've come across on this platform posting artwork regularly. See you around! go.bsky.app/KsQyqmy

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

As much as I love this little plaza on Braemar Hill, the place is starting to look a little post apocalyptic 😅 Quick thumbnail note & a bit of paint.

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Hey friends! Quick survey: I read that bluesky's default feed is chronological so it would be super helpful to know when you're all on here (most of my followers are not in the same timezone) When do you use bluesky? What timezone are you in? I'm usually on at 9:30pm GMT+8, see you around!

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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Need some inspiration for your #FlashMonster entry? Check out our 2022 issue, which also ran in December, for some festively frightening #flashfiction ideas. Soft deadline is in 7 days! #writingcontest themolotovcocktail.com/past-contest...

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Flash Monster 2022

Creatures are stirring. I Rabbit Mountain by Michael Carter II Baby by Andrea Goyan III Night Shift by Carina Stopenski IV Ruination by JP Relph V Home for Christmas by Jo Withers VI Love Am…

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I love the storytelling side of painting and work mainly in watercolors, gouache, and ink. I sketch as a form of note taking. I'm currently working on an art commission with an amazing novelist on a novel coming out in 2025—can't wait to share more when the time comes!

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Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I mean I guess I could've gone with something else but anyway here's a self portrait of me wearing my 5yo's Halloween costume. And a digital egg. Just saying hi again to all my writer and painter friends. Previously submissions editor at SQL, EIC of The Bureau Dispatch, and now painter of things.

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