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Sunshine Sionnach

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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Look, y'all, yes, using a warm tone as a base is a good way to work on a painting. But using magenta really is a *cheat code.* It's so lush! The colors are such a specific kind of warm and balanced! ...So note to self: base in magenta. You bought the paint for this reason, ding-dong. Use it!
An underpainting in magenta and blue. It is brushy and vibrant.Ope. We have started to add in more details on the painting. Wow, is that magenta doing work!The completed painting: a field of sunflowers in the gloaming. All warm, sunsetty shadows and the moon rising over the plants. It's warm and rich and makes you feel like it's early fall and maybe you're walking towards a corn maze.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Grey, rainy day, so here's some grey rainy day art.
An oil pastel drawing of a grey, rainy day with pine trees and clouds reflected in the water.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I guess it's still summer, so can we take a minute to stop and breathe?
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We did a demo night! It was fun and Cedar had a good time meeting people. ...And if YOU haven't played yet, you should give the game a try! You will make a small creator joyful!
A carrying case which says 'Dulle Griet' and has a QR code for the game sits on a table in the front of a game store. The carrying case has a stuffed Sandhill Crane in it. Her name is Cedar. Cedar is excited to be at demo night.A sign advertising the game demo of Dulle Griet on the table at the game store.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
In-person game demo tiiiiime!
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tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
All basic rules formats for Dulle Griet are now available for free on the itch.io page: sistercrane.itch.io/dulle-griet. All you need is a board to play on (chess board works great) & some game pieces (chess again for most of 'em, or whatever's handy) - you don't even need friends *or* enemies!
sistercrane.itch.io
Dulle Griet by Sister Crane
Raiding Hell is women's work.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's been mighty rough lately, friends. Hug your peeps, check in on your pals, and please take care.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Howdy! If you haven't tried this game, YOU SHOULD! (And maybe send the developer a couple of bucks -- I promise that she's super rad and cool.😉) sistercrane.itch.io/dulle-griet
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Dulle Griet by Sister Crane
Raiding Hell is women's work.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Cedar is Very Good and wants to say hello!
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sister crane | games made & played @sistercrane.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A big hello & deceptively dino-like call from Cedar, one of the sisters of Sister Crane! We're working on a currently unrelated-to-business rat-based wargaming project & staying cool in the meantime. Fingers & bird-toes crossed that everyone else is beating the heat too!
A close-up of a plush sandhill crane. The plush crane is in front of a blurry workspace full of miniatures, bottles of paint & airbrush medium, and small containers full of miniatures. As a sandhill, the plush's coloration is black for the beak, grey for the body and neck, white around the neck and below the beak, and red for the head.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Oh, and now there's a ZINE VERSION! This is so cool!
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Keep the Pride Month vibes going and take a bit of time to do a lil roleplaying and reflecting! (also, my wife rules and you should check out her stuff!)
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sister crane | games made & played @sistercrane.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
v.0.2 is out - a small update! The gameplay's unchanged, with the newest version doing the following: * cleaning up some of the text a bit here or there, * updating some of the images & examples, & * adding a section about integrating Dulle Griet into other games. sistercrane.itch.io/dulle-griet
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Dulle Griet by Sister Crane
Raiding Hell is women's work.
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tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
New version of Dulle Griet up on itch.io -- no changes to the core gameplay, just a little rewording here & there, making some of the example more visually clear, & adding a section about how to use the game along with other games. Still free! Find here: sistercrane.itch.io/dulle-griet
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Dulle Griet by Sister Crane
Raiding Hell is women's work.
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sister crane | games made & played @sistercrane.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Happy Pride! 🏳️‍⚧️🖤🏳️‍🌈 Why not ransack Hell with a cutie to celebrate? Basic/playtester rules & one-pager version available now! One-pager: ndcg.neocities.org/dullegriet-g... Playtester rules: sistercrane.itch.io/dulle-griet
This image is an ad and summary of Dulle Griet. The logo, based on blackletter needlework, is centered in white and black at the top of the image and has a marker-like pair of horizontal swipes behind it that are a bright minty teal. The game's tagline, "Raiding Hell is women's work," is below it, left-adjusted, with black text and the same minty teal color in a solid rectangular background. Below the tagline is a skinny white rectangle with a pair of icons to indicate the number of players and the amount of time expected per game, being one to two or more players and thirty to sixty minutes respectively. The left bottom area of the picture includes the Sister Crane logo in a minty teal circle. The Sister Crane logo consists of condensed modern yellow lettering reading, "Sister Crane," with a thicker black outline with a hand-drawn appearance; a vector picture of a sandhill crane's head in profile, with a white neck, red cap, yellow eye, and black beak, all with thicker black lines in a hand-drawn appearance; and a white dotted outline of a Gothic arch behind the text and crane elements. The background of all these elements is a zoomed in section of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "Dulle Griet" or "Dull Gret." The painting has been rendered in black and white and specifically shows the titular character and her band of raiding women.There is a minty teal background with a dotted white rectangular outline. The Dulle Griet logo in black is at the top of the picture. There is a link to the one-pager rules at the bottom of the picture. The middle is a block of text that reads, "[Dulle Griet] is a puzzle game based on Pieter Bruegel the Elder's painting of the same name in which the player(s) takes on the role of an army of women marauding across a hellish cityscape.  While the infernal garrison can do little to stop the pillaging, the raid only lasts as long as the getting is good. Seize what you can before inertia peters out and your comrades head home to plot  out the next raid." The next paragraph, in smaller font and italics, reads, "Dulle Griet can be played solo, solo + a human "computer," co-op, or versus."A photo of a game of Dulle Griet, showing hand-painted peg people figures for the women and demons and hand-painted 3mm thick MDF miniature bases for loot markers. The women are detailed and made to look like 16th Century Flemish women while the demon pieces are smaller pegs painted a single color between white, black, blue, red, and yellow. The loot markers are painted a mixture of copper, silver, and gold. The chessboard has visible woodgrain and includes dark brown and blonde squares with a dark brown frame. The photo is framed overall with a dotted rectangular outline in the same minty teal color used thorough these promo pictures/posts and used primarily in the Sister Crane logo as a background color.There is a minty teal background with a dotted white rectangular outline. The word "Materials" is in the same typeface and style as the Dulle Griet logo in black and is at the top of the picture. Below it, the completion of the phrase "materials needed to play" in italics. There is a link to the one-pager rules at the bottom of the picture. The middle is a list of play materials needed to play Dulle Griet, each bullet-pointed by a dagger symbol. The play materials include: "8x8 grid: chess or checkers board works great!"; "4-5 raiding women: stones, beads, dice, miniatures, peg people, &c."; "about 16 demon guards: whatever you don't use for the women can easily become tokens for the demons"; and "39 loot markers: slips of paper, miniatures bases, coins &c." Below this list is the final item, without a dagger but set off with a large italic ampersand instead. This item reads, "and the Dulle Griet one-page rules."
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
My art is sometimes featured in galleries, which is pretty cool!
A large canvas on a canted angle displayed on a blank gallery wall. The painting features a sketchy hare leaping through an open canine skull. The background of the painting is black and has twisting thistles and butterflies.
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tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Dulle Griet one-pager up: ndcg.neocities.org/dullegriet-g... A quicker copy of the basic rules that fits entirely on an 11x8.5 & has screen-reader alt text included. I still recommend the full copy (ruadhnaomh.itch.io/dulle-griet) for example turns, but this should get you through a game too!
ndcg.neocities.org
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Y'all, this game is *good* even in test form. You can use your whole brain! OR you can put on a Bad Movie ™️ while you play casually & STILL have a ball! Like puzzle games? Filled with rage? Want to support a cool designer? If you said 'yes' to any of these, please check it out! 💕
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tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Working on the campaign rules today (while writing about high elven cavalry?), which will turn this game into A POTHOLDER DESIGN ENGINE. (I'm kidding. -Ish. Get your lil looms ready, though. Not kidding there.) If you want a taste of the gameplay, it's here for free: ruadhnaomh.itch.io/dulle-griet
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Dulle Griet by Brienne Reid-Swiech
Raiding Hell is women's work.
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tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Happy TDOV - here's some visible art from a visible trans lady.
A blue root-like structure in the middle of the painting, with bluish, yellowish, and orangish hues in the background. The paint was high flow acrylic, bordering on watercolor. The painting fairly abstract, although the root-like structure in the middle is joined by a vaguely tree- or pillar-like structure to its left. There are smaller white root-like structures that appear to come off the ends of the main structure in the middle.A reddish-pink sky with similarly colored figures or shapes coming downward and across it hovers over a blue sky and yellow wheat/grass field, which features figures or shapes ascending through each layer.A broken-down model car in a muddy field on a concrete-like box. The car is painted blue, pink, and white, with dazzle-ish geometric patterns covering the whole vehicle. The car has branches and greenery coming out of it. There is a white picket fence and the car's steering wheel behind it.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It's once again a grim, horrible day for news in the world. Still trying to make art. Here's a piece from a while ago -- we strive to bring the light in dark times.
A painting in vivid colors of three figures with long hair and flower crowns placing wreaths with candles into the water.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
It's a new year and I still paint sometimes. Best wishes to everyone!
An impressionistic painting of a purple path over a creek during the fall. The forest trail is in full fall colors with layers of green, yellow, and orange.A study of a Money painting of trees reflected in a river. It's full of soft and feathery brushstrokes in blues, greens, and purples.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Had pieces accepted to two juried shows. The world might be on fire, but making art continues to keep me (and so many of us) going.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
It might be 80 degrees out, but fall is on its way.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Feels like we are constantly finding new and innovative ways to be exhausted. Will we ever not be tired, friends? Who can say. But anyway, I'm painting a Pikachu and she's making me happy. Hope she might make you happy, too! Sending good wishes to everyone. Hang in there, friends!
an in-progress painting of a pikachu sitting in a forest. it's very sketchy and there has not been much progress made.the same painting of the pikachu -- a little more progress has been made and you can see a butterfree in the corner now.Even more progress on the painting and a caterpie is taking shape in the bottom right corner.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Last weekend was yellow and blue.
A colorful painting of sunflowers in a blue and white vase in a sunny window. One of the flowers is a Sunflora Pokemon and they are laughing.A colorful painting of 3 yellow-green-blush pears in a blue-and-white bowl with a folded cloth.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Another quick study! I try to make art when I'm not working my Normal Job (tm)! Please clap! Reference sculpture by Beth Cavener
A very sketchy drawing of a rabbitA very sketchy drawing of a rabbit, next to the photograph of the sculpture being used as reference
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Quick 45ish minute graphite study of a Beth Cavener sculpture to turn on my art brain in a different way.
A very rough sketch of a curved wolf reaching for a rabbitA close up of a wolf with its mouth open reaching for a curled up rabbit
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Hello, friends! I know that only, like, five people follow me on this platform. But I think about y'all! And I hope you're hanging in there as best you can.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Some slightly older paintings because I forgot to post on here for, like, years.
A still life painting of sunflowers in a blue glass vaseA still life painting of some Queen Anne's Lace in a glass bottle on an old windowsill.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Monet time (the remix)
An interpretation of a Monet painting of a lily pond at sunset with trees reflected in the water.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Painting lots of colorful things is my way of staying grounded in the midst of chaos and fascism. (Also, happy Pride.)
A painting of a deer skull in rainbow colorsA Monet inspired painting of waterlilies in pinks and greens
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Trying to find the myth and the magic that lives in our bones and memories-that-aren't-quite-memories.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Playing with firelight and movement.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
More paintings!
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
"Some of the Cool Birds We Did Not See August 2024" acrylic on canvas ...because sometimes you think you're going to see wildlife on a walk and you... don't. So you draw them in yourself.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Painting time!
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
It's only been a couple of years, but still here and still making things. So, hello to everyone! Sorry I've been gone for a minute!
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
"What a bountiful harvest!" Enoch in progress.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
New paintings! The red field is a study to work on paint handling, temperature, and composition; the other two are originals.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
"Gengar over the River Rhone" acrylic on canvas ...Pokemon x Van Gogh Museum collab absolutely has my number, so it's time to PAINT.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
More art? More art!
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
When you feel like you should do children's book illustration style paintings, sometimes your weekend becomes a weekend of kitties.
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
Another painting!
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
New painting!
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
New day, new painting!
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Sunshine Sionnach @sionnachadhar.bsky.social · 16/08/2023
Should probably post something sometime, so please enjoy a few projects.
a pink and white crocheted triceratops with a yellow bowa painting of a path in the woods. the trees are lavender and the plants are green and yellow
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