iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

thanks for finding me again after all this time! yeah i’m definitely focused on different aspects of my craft nowadays

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jesse narens @jessenarens.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

a needed renewal

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

thank you! yeah i really enjoyed discovering how the fireweed buds echoed the tree branches, like little ladders

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Echoes • 16” x 30” • gouache & watercolor on paper Based on my 2024 residency in the wilderness of Minong (Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior)

greyscale painting of a sandhill crane among burned trees with fireweed silhouettes as silhouettes in the foreground

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Expanding Density • gouache & watercolor on paper available from Nucleus Portland www.nucleusportland.com/products/tea...

painting of a douglas squirrel surrounded by tendrils of evergreen huckleberry witches’ broom

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Getting to bed by daybreak again. 😶

Pencil line drawing of a European robin partially framed within a circle of flowering wisteria. A work in progress.

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

AN AFFRONT TO GOD and i’m sick of reading news articles lightly discussing the practical benefits of affronting god

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

birds from a november wetland walk

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

i’ve only licensed cover art to smaller publishers or foreign ones with small territories, anywhere from $200-600 USD usually, but i’d think a major publisher should be able to offer at least $1-2k (if they want worldwide rights especially)

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

you Are though, that’s how noticing works

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Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Honestly next time you pack for a show, imagine your whole setup being in a landfill, that's where it will all likely be eventually. I'm not fearmongering or trying to upset anyone but I do need people to think of the entire lifecycle of the stuff they put out in the world

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

after i did my very first book cover, the AD wrote to me “my advice to you is to immediately raise your rates.” the joke is i still fight with nearly every client to get the budget he paid me for that cover :’)

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

you can’t build a career on that foundation! i want to emphasize that it wasn’t always like this — when i was younger & would ask a low fee, there were benevolent art directors who were honest about their budget and paid me more than i’d asked. there was so much more respect towards artists overall.

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

yes totally — this requires us to understand our clients as predatory in their behavior (whether they intend to be or not). if they aren’t willing to invest in our growth by paying fair rates & increasing pay along with experience, they’re treating us as an endless queue of disposable amateurs

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

over the past few years, i’ve watched initial offers drop so low that i often have to ask a 200-400% increase which is nuts and unlikely to happen… & since rates keep dropping, i can infer that most other artists are taking that initial offer without pushback, which brings rates down for everyone!

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

keep in mind clients ALWAYS have more budget than their initial offer. unless you’re over the moon about the project and their offer genuinely makes you feel well compensated, asking for a 25-50% increase is very reasonable & standard practice

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

so when i find myself only going from freelance job to freelance job to make ends meet with no time for personal work, i know i’m not being paid fairly & something needs to change. in that case you can either dial back the time & effort you’re putting in to align with the budget, or ask for more

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

the growth part shouldn’t be thought of as a luxury, but as essential to your ability to sustain yourself creatively long-term. for some people, an hour of sketchbook time a day might feel like enough; for me, freelance is not my main focus, but insulation from the irregularity of gallery income

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

personally i “feel it out” — i keep my main goals in mind (does this budget range allow me to feel secure about covering living expenses + allow time for personal work / growth?), then as i work, ask myself if it feels like this was “worth it” or if my time would have been better spent elsewhere

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

that’s a decent strategy, but yeah, artists do chronically undervalue their time. alot of people like to use equations to calculate an hourly rate using their desired annual income, expenses, etc. it’s also good to learn (by experience or asking around) what is industry standard & be realistic

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

They need the world to be as ugly and absent of possibility as their lives, their souls. They need everything to be a mirror, and the only truly trustworthy mirror for what is inside them is a pile of broken bodies, a mound of dust and sand, a rubble strewn field

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Beauty is not in and of itself resistance and there are fascistic and police modes of beauty, but any beauty that falls outside the profitable, the ordained, the dominant is an affront to them, a fearful sign of a world without them

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The goal of the US and Israel is to reduce all blooms to desert

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

this is so good i might cry about it

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

ignore all advice that doesn’t feel right for you. everyone thinks that what worked for them is what everyone else HAS to do; i never did half the things in this thread, and if you tried to do them all you’d be exhausted and confused. no rules is the best part about being an artist

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I wrote about my time in Minneapolis last week, about what is involved in creating bottom-up, decentralized networks of care. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-neighb...

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Easy link to contact your representatives: www.savetheboundarywaters.org/June25

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The Boundary Waters, one of the largest wilderness areas left in the US, is at risk! The House could vote to overturn a ban on polluting sulfide-ore mining at the headwaters TODAY, setting a precedent for extraction on other public lands. Contact your reps right now and ask them to vote NO on HJ140!

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

occupied cavities • 11” x 14” • gouache & watercolor on paper

grey and pale plue painting of a red-bellied sapsucker perched on a piece of dead ivy branch, filled with barkborer holes and lines, that wraps around the bird in a cage-like way.

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

this world isn’t big enough for two gall-focused artists, but we’re glad to have you regardless

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jesse narens @jessenarens.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

“slow down, look around, drag yourself across the ground” @teaganwhite.bsky.social and my collaborative show is up now through november 4th at RiverSea Gallery in Astoria, OR riverseagallery.com/slow-down-look-…

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

twig • branch • leaf three cyanotypes toned in black walnut, for my upcoming collaborative show with @jessenarens.bsky.social, opening October 11th at Riversea Gallery in Astoria OR

monochrome black & tan cyanotype of a watercolor painting, a dead wood pewee with an open chest and vacant eye, with bullet galls growing on it

monochrome black & tan cyanotype of a watercolor painting, a dead spotted towhee with a vacant eye, with large oak galls growing on it

monochrome black & tan cyanotype of a watercolor painting, a dead vireo with a vacant eye, with papery speckled galls growing on it

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teagan white @teaganwhite.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

the whole show is so beautiful vanessa!

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