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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 1h

These are too good. If I ever run across them in the wild they are mine.

Hornsea frog mugs, designed by John Clappison. The mug is kind of a swampy yellow and the frog is decorated in circles of various sizes. There’s also some kind of a bug on a flower let’s maybe a B but there’s a label obscuring it.

A green mug that is decorated with a sinuous Lockness monster

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 2h

Love these little dudes.

Several animals in the style of John Clappison.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 2h

Day 5! 🐡 I wanted bright colors instead of earth pigments today. And I fell in love with the owl & cat saltshakers I saw the other day that were designed by John Chappison. But I also am still obsessed with cave art. So it was mashup time.

A black ink European bison that is a mashup of Cave Art and mid-century geometric design influenced by John Chapman on a tie-dye cave wall in pink, purple, and teal.

The artwork surrounded by the tools used to make it - a paintbrush, Qor watercolor paint palette, black zig mangaka ink pen, and polychromos color pencils.

The artwork sitting on top of my sketchbook with drawn versions of the bison, a cave bear in that style as well as drawings of the original designs that influenced this work. There are three owls, a cat, two chickens, a fish and a horse.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 05/10/2026

Another thing I was happy with today is I finally looked up what you do with paper stumps/tortillions once you use them - how to clean and re-point them. It felt like a “duh” moment once I did but now I might actually use them.

Two paper stumps next to sandpaper & a small folded square of leather.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 04/10/2026

Seriously I was so happy with this. I wanted to run around screaming “I drew this! I did it!” and then was immediately scared that I will never draw anything that good again. 😆 But I’m definitely going to draw it again. I have an idea for an artwork incorporating something similar.

A closer look at the sketch of the sleeping European bison

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 04/10/2026

Day 4! I kind of psyched myself out with my sketchbook work. I could not believe how well the sketch of the actual bison turned out and I kind of wanted to try to do that in the small pic but then I told myself there was no way I could shrink it down and make it look good at 3 1/2 inches.

Drawing of a European bison from cave art in Chauvet Cave, France.

The artwork surrounded by the tools used to make it - watercolor and colored pencils.

The artwork is sitting over the lower right corner of my sketchbook, which is open to a spread that has a few of the owls from yesterday, as well as another owl & the Makapansgat Pebble, color swatches and several sketches of bison cave art, as well as a color pencil drawing of an actual European bison laying down and sleeping.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 04/10/2026

It is neat to compare my picture from 11 years and almost a month ago!

Another photograph of Palo Duro Canyon looking from nearly the exact same spot. There is a ruined building down below that is much less gray than in Jason’s photo, and the sky has a haze but no defined clouds.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 04/10/2026

It is a rainy weekend & I wanted soup, but did not have the ingredients to make from scratch. But I dressed up a can of Chunky Pub Style Chicken Pot Pie soup with stuff I do have and it is really good.

A bowl of stew/soup in a blue and white bowl with a horn spoon sticking out of it. It is a creamy stew and bits of chicken, dumplings, and vegetables are visible.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 04/10/2026

Day 3! Love the owl from Chauvet, but it’s simple, so I needed to do something else, but did not find any other bird imagery that is not little blobs, & the birds I could find were tiny low detail pics. Combined Lascaux dots and birds & part of a motif from Cueva del Tajo de las Figuras in Spain.

3.5”x3.5” artwork of a cave art owl in sepia crayon with a line next to it. To the right of the line is some vaguely feather shaped black shapes and below those are 3 red bird shapes. Below all of them are yellow ochre blobs with black blobs on top of those.

The artwork surrounded by my watercolor palette, favorite brush, and a black color pencil & lead holder with sepia crayon in it.

The artwork lays on my open sketchbook where I sketched the owl in various colors and then doodled out the composition I wanted to use.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 03/10/2026

This is a pretty solid list, I could maybe replace Tori & Mezzanine, and possibly change out the Nanci & Indigo Girls albums with others from them.

3x3 grid of 9 albums covers, titled “My 9 Albums: the sound that made Skulleigh” on a walnut wood background. The albums are:
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
Joan Baez - self titled album
Emmylou Harris - Pieces of the Sky
Nanci Griffith - Late Night Grande Hotel
Indigo Girls - Nomads, Indians, Saints
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Kesha - Rainbow
Gorillaz - The Mountain

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 03/10/2026

Back to the cave for day two of my October art everyday challenge. This is made after the cave bear skull that is placed on a rock in the middle of the very last chamber of Chauvet Cave in France. The actual cave does not have the handprints on the wall behind it. That is something I added. 🐡

Today’s little 3 1/2 x 3 1/2“ artwork is a little study of the cave bear skull in the last chamber of Chauvet Cave. It is a large skull sitting on a white rock in the middle of a cave, intentionally placed there by the hands of early humans. The art is all in shades of yellow ocher, Venetian red, and black. The cave wall behind has red handprints on it, and there are deep shadows cast by the light the viewer has brought with them.

The artwork surrounded by the pencils and paints that I used to create it

My sketchbook open to a page where I practiced a bunch of cave bear skulls and made scribbles seeing how I liked various pencils and the artwork is sitting over top of the middle of the pages

And in progress shot of the first couple of layers of watercolor, surrounded by a mess of paint and pencils

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 03/10/2026

The world is on fire and everything sucks, but I have samosas.

A golden brown triangle of veggie samosa with a mostly eaten one & two cups of… chutney? not sure the word for these… in the background.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 02/10/2026

Let’s see if I can maintain a streak this month. Definitely want to explore cave art themes, as well as nature & extinct critters. 🐡

A small 3.5x3.5 inch artwork of a cave bear painting, inspired by a bear painted in Chauvet Cave in France. Unlike the original, a photo of which is above it, it is surrounded by other cave art motifs of hands and dots

A view of the painting and the tools I used to draw and paint it.

My sketchbook, where I drew a few attempts at the cave bear in graphite pencil and sanguine lead, next to the small artwork, and the photo of the original cave art.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 01/10/2026

BTW, my new favorite treat I got myself last month is this claw-type hair clip I found at Walgreens. It glows in the dark. Perfect for Spooky Season.

A hair claw/clip shaped like a traditional sheet ghost, white with round black eyes and mouth

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 01/10/2026

Messing with my self-assembled Miyazaki palette. Finally. I put away my default/usual palette and left out only the Miyazaki one and my Schmincke sets to encourage myself to try something different.

Watercolor sketch of a black cat with its back to the viewer, with a green ball next to it.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 29/09/2026

I can see the rabbit in the moon.

Photo of the waning moon just after full. The craters and mares are just visible. It is not a very clear photo, it is a phone photo.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 28/09/2026

Spent the evening making little guys.

Color pencil drawings of two Mesopotamian area idols. The one on the left is a parent-and-child eye idol, blueish stone with yellowish details. The one on the right is taller, terra-cotta-ish, hands clasped at its stomach, with a bird-like face and THICC legs.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 27/09/2026

Now she is one classy lady. I like her.

another stone eye idol. This one has a lot more detail and is a singular figure. It has the huge eyes at the top, but with little knobs at the side for either ears or maybe space buns. She also has a long triangular cone for a nose and pouty lips underneath it. below the mouth are two mounds to represent breasts surrounded by insized double lines arranged in diamond patterns. Below is a triangular prominence in size with a little line at the bottom and dots to represent the vulva.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 27/09/2026

Do not speak to me or my ancient Syrian son ever again

A screenshot of a auction site that sells historical artifacts. The page is for a “marble eye idol“ from Tell Brak, a city in ancient Syria. The idol is a flat piece that is composed of one figure with a head composed entirely of its eyes, so it ends up being sort of a figure 8 with eyes on it as the head, and then below it is another figure identical to it, but smaller as if it’s a child standing in front of a parent.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 27/09/2026

I have been using the red Kum “Automatic Long Point” and it has been working well for me on my Polychromos pencils. The other one works all right too, but I can’t remember the last time I used it because I lost it for a while.

Some of my Polychromos pencils sitting in a case upright, with 2 Kum sharpeners sitting in front of them - a red “Automatic Long Point” and a green 4-in-1

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 27/09/2026

I want to start a YouTube channel just so I can tell people to “strike the peg of yes”

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 24/09/2026

If anyone is curious why I found the bison patty disgusting but fascinating, here it is with a graphic label added. It is swirly and kind of scaled. Of *course* I photoed it, I am a naturalist! I have so many gross photos 😂

A photograph of a poo that is presumably from a bison. It is large and slightly flat and various shades of brown unsurprisingly. There are layers that are kind of like scales overlapping each other and three green bottle flies of some variety dining on it.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 24/09/2026

Just imagine when all of that stretched from Canada down to Mexico. A sea of grass taller than a human.

A patch of Big Bluestem Prairie Grass dressed in the red-gold of early fall, stretching up to the sky, taller than me.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 24/09/2026

I went to Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve yesterday, and it was gorgeous!

A gravel road stretches off to the horizon in the middle of the photograph. On either side, the prairie stretches away and the far distance there is a slight rise of a hill. The plants in the foreground are green with some yellow flowers, but as the photograph stretches away, you can see the russet seed heads of tall prairie grass as well as the green of plants. Above the sky is blue with fluffy white clouds scattered across.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 18/09/2026

I want to see these things in person so I can see the details to draw them.

Two pages in my square sketchbook of color pencil drawings of Assyrian bas relief details on the left and motifs from Göbekli Tepe on the right.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 11/09/2026

I saw a face so I had to doodle. Getting in some color pencil milage.

An anthropomorphic rendition of Derek’s tangerine tiger pepper.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 10/09/2026

Something switched my desire to art back on, and set it to “color pencils” so I have been experimenting with blending tonight.

A circle with 3 color pencil swatches blending imto each other in a color wheel; these are Prismacolor pencils in colors magenta, canary yellow, and true blue

Another color wheel, this one made with Polychromos pencils in fuschia, light chrome yellow, and phthalo blue

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 10/09/2026

This quote gets more and more depressing to me as time goes on.

We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements-transportation, communications, and all other industries; agriculture, medicine, education, entertainment, protecting the environment; and even the key democratic institution of voting—profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 09/09/2026

*looks directly at camera with a helpless laugh*

Original album art for Dream Theater’s “Live Scenes from New York” released on 9/11 and *immediately* pulled. It features a barbed wire wrapped flaming apple, in top of which is a flame wrapped NYC skyline, including the twin towers.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 09/09/2026

Having a sketchy birbs evening. All from photos taken by me. 🪶🐡

Drawing of a standing Rüppell's vulture in blue-green pencil

Drawing of a barred owl standing on a post in blue-green pencil

Drawing of an American Kestrel standing on a post in blue-green pencil.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 07/09/2026

Here is a profile I think artists might want to block.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 07/09/2026

I agree it might be a Mississippi kite. I see them pretty often up in the DFW area, but never in groups of more than 3-7. On the other hand, your photo looks brown instead of grey.

Photo of a Mississippi kite, a small raptor with long pointed wings.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 04/09/2026

I’m watching a video about the Cajun language in Louisiana. Truly, the word “communist” has lost all meaning in the United States, except for “person I think is bad”

Blurry screenshot of a video in a Louisiana restaurant with a ballcap-wearing, bearded old white guy gesturing and saying “ all the communists in this country…”

The same old guy, finishing the sentence: “ don’t want you to talk anything but what they talk.”

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 03/09/2026

There was something about this patch of woods behind my campsite at Cooper Lake that made the hair on the back of my head stand up a little, so I did not linger. Didn’t hear any calls though.

A large tree with large branches that are pointing in every direction in a weird star shape

Thick woody vines growing up out of the ground in a patch of woods that have no leaves on them and are growing in a wild tangle

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 03/09/2026

Post a 90s photo of yourself without comment or context.

Skulleigh, dressed in jeans, a dark green t-shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and a dark blue bucket hat, standing in front of a dark gray boulder in front of Mount Ranier, a smaller peak, and many pine trees.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 30/08/2026

I am in a bad mood and it was not made better by trying to look up reference images for eels and getting AI slop. Here is a shot of the page in my sketchbook that I am working on with my own two physical hands.

A small portion of a painting in my sketchbook with long skinny lines of critters circling in many different colors. The two I am focusing on here are eels, in brown and green.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 21/08/2026

Ya girl still loves & drives a hatchback. She is getting a little rough around the edges though. Both of us, really 😂

A lavender blue 2008 Scion tC hatchback on the side of the road in Palo Duro Canyon State Park. There are red hills behind, with green bushes & grasses between.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 20/08/2026

I was looking for something completely unrelated in my photo app and when this came up from the search, I yelled “Jesus fucking Christ that was THIS year?!?” I am *so* tired.

A screenshot of a notification with the text:
Breaking News
President Trump evacuated after security incident at White House correspondents dinner; no sign of injuries.

The top of the screenshot shows that it was made on April 25th.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 08/07/2026

Heads up, North Texas: The city of Crowley is under a boil water notice There’s a pop up on their site, but the read more goes to a 404 currently.

Screenshot of the ci.crowley.tx.us website showing pop up that says:
Boil Water Notice
Many areas of the city are currently without water. Please avoid things like watering your lawn, washing your car, or any other water use that isn't necessary. Please click "Read More" for instructions.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 05/07/2026

Just bead-weaving my way through the boom-boom sounds.

A two stitch peyote bracelet with picot edging and a silver magnetic clasp with terracotta, ocher, green, and turquoise beads, with the picot in silver beads. It is laying with the clasp connected.

The beginning of the weaving, with the beads laid out in piles and a short strip of the beading done.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 04/07/2026

Hurrah, finished!!! This is an odd count, peyote stitch, and I gave it a Mobius twist and sold it together so that it lays flat unlike the first one I did.

My peyote stitch beaded strip (in shades of green) laid out on my beating Matt to show the various sections, not yet zippered up and sewn together

The necklace after being stitched together

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 04/07/2026

RULES FOR MY BLUESKY ACCOUNT NUMBER ONE

An alarmingly large number of raccoons, with more glowing eyes in the dark background, and the text:

DEATH IS COMING
EAT TRASH
BE FREE

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 04/07/2026

Playing bead chicken. I started this necklace back in September, but today I realized it kind of matches my very American flag blue reflecting pool manicure, and since I am probably going to finish it this weekend I am adding a little reflecting pool to it.

A desk with a beading surface, a strip of peyote stitch beading, and various shades of greenish beads. The pile of cream colored beads is very small, and there is not much left in the tube of beads next to it.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 03/07/2026

Post a random picture or everything else will go bad in July.

My large Mollymauk Tealeaf figure, photographed from behind so that the moon motif on the back of his coat is visible, contemplates the contents of an open refrigerator.

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 01/07/2026

I feel like there are some people out there who would badly misinterpret this text.

The back of the black T-shirt. It has a box with the text:
I touch the future
I DM kids

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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 01/07/2026

Way, way, way back in the before times I used to run D&D games for kids at a local comic book shop. It was a ton of fun, I loved it. One of the kids & his mom gifted me this shirt. It was very nice of them. The back makes me snicker though…

Front of a black t-shirt with a kind-of vaporware-style dragon holding a D20, with a castle behind, and the words “Dungeon Master” below

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