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Evening. 2024. Prismacolor pencil, pastel, oil and charcoal on Strathmore toned gray paper. 18"x24" I'd done a reference shoot for a separate piece about a decade prior and had some leftover shots I wanted to use, so this lady came to life. Track: The Horrors-Endless Blue

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Beneath the Frock of Willow Doom. 2022. Prismacolor Verithin pencil, charcoal and ink over watercolor wash on Canson paper. 11”x17”.

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Dawn. Study. 2022 Prismacolor pencil on paper. 8"x16" The process of laying thin skins of alternating colors down to flesh a figure out. Pun intended. It feels more like sculpting than drawing. I don't use this technique much anymore, but it's where I started, so I hold onto it for certain projects.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Evening. 2024. Prismacolor pencil, charcoal, pastel and oil on Strathmore paper. 18”x24”.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Disappearance of Roland Loch. 2022. Prismacolor Verithin pencil over charcoal sprayed with Turpenoid on paper. 11”x14”. SOLD.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Watch me ramble about my job.

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Beneath the Frock of Willow Doom. 2022. Prismacolor Verithin pencil, charcoal and ink over watercolor wash on Canson paper. 11”x17”.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

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I’m still around. Just getting caught up on work. The barn sends its atmospheric regards. I hope you mongrels are well. See you soonish.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Forest Banshee. Private commission. WIP. Oil and pencil on paper. 11”x17”.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Trick or Treat? 2014. Pencil on parchment. 11”x14”. Illustration for a Halloween card set.

Illustration of a child dressed as a ghost, trick-or-treating with a zombie.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

A set of Christmas cards I illustrated in 2014. Pencil on parchment. 11”x14” each. I modeled for Krampus and the elf and my friend Curtis modeled for Santa. All the names on Santa’s list have personal significance. My dad, grandma, sister, exes, other artists that’ve inspired me.

An illustration of Krampus as a more dapper figure. Wearing a jacket, bow tie and bowler hat with the arms of a troublesome child flailing in his basket.

An illustration of one of Santa’s elves carefully putting the finishing touches of paint on a toy train.

An illustration of a more casual and domesticated Santa looking over his naughty or nice.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Eldritch Medusa. 2025. Pencil over watercolor wash with oil border on paper. With details and progress. 11”x17”. SOLD. This is so many light layers of pencil layered the same way oil glazes are used. I’m not sure why I decided on the bronze/patina instead of stone, but I’m still happy with her.

$Illustration of Medusa were she from an Eldritch world with tentacles instead of snakes. She’s been turned to a fractured bronze decapitated head.$

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The Last Day of September. Private commission. 2010. Oil on canvas. 16”x20”.

Painting of an obscured woman draped in a gown of leaves, sitting with her back against a tree as the leaves fall around her.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Some shots at the barn from last year.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The only two finished illustrations I created for a children’s book I was writing in 2010. The Nightmare Tree: 2006. Oil, pencil and charcoal on paper. 16”x20”. Slithering Shadows: 2010. Prismacolor pencil and charcoal on toned paper. 9”x12”.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Lovecraft sideshow poster set. Private commission. 2013. Oil and pencil over watercolor on paper. 11”x17” each. I like the approach to Wilbur, but I wish I’d made him more goatish, more grotesque. He looks too ‘human’ and not off-putting enough here.

Carnival-style poster illustration of Nyarlathotep.

Carnival-style poster illustration of Wilbur Whateley. A goat-ish looking man with tentacles emerging from his coat.

Carnival-style poster illustration of an Innsmouth creature standing at the ocean floor looking upward from the depths.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Still not done… I’m nauseatingly slow. Have a good weekend, mongrels.

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The Thin Man. Study. 2024. Pencil on Strathmore toned paper. 11”x17”. This was a prelim drawing for a larger, oil painted poster commission that fell through. Still, I fucking adore this drawing and it’s probably one of the best things I’ve ever done. I really wanted to paint that poster though.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Major Tom. 2019. Pencil and oil on toned paper. 11”x17”. With details. The figure is all pencil. That 1/4 sliver of moon is oil.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The Moon and June. 2007. Pencil, oil and charcoal on Canson paper. 18”x24”. SOLD.

A vintage style French poster of a Louise Brooks styled woman in a diaphanous dress holding a parasol. She’s standing on a crescent moon with a sleepy face, leaning forward to kiss him.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The seafoam moon just felt like the way to go here. It's got a vintage feel to it that I like. I laid his base down in oil and tidied him up with indigo pencil. The paper is toned with a heavy wash of Payne’s gray and indigo blue watercolor. Once that dries, I can draw and paint on top of it.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Skeksis sketch. Detail. 2019. Watercolor and pencil on paper.

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GI Robot. 2024. Oil and pencil on paper. 18”x24”. SOLD.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

A smattering-of-work slideshow. Some old. Some new. All hand-drawn and painted in traditional mediums. Oil, pencil, pastel, watercolor, charcoal. Some good. Some, eh. Some very personal. Some just because. All deeply valuable to me on some level.

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Working on a private commission from 2022. I’m ridiculously near-sighted, so I take my glasses off when I work. It’s not this intense, artistic moment, I just have shitty eyesight for anything a foot away from my face.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

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Atropos. Private commission. 2024. Derwent lightfast pencil over watercolor wash on paper with an oil border. 11”x17”. Finished artwork, progress & details with a shot of the print sets once the triptych was completed.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Monsters on canvas. -The Creature. 2023. Oil on canvas. 18”x24”. SOLD. -The Vault-Keeper. 2024. Oil on canvas. 11”x14”. SOLD. -Tombs of the Blind Dead. 2019. Oil on canvas. 8”x10. SOLD. -Zombie Fosse. 2022. Private commission. Oil on canvas. 18”x24”.

Oil painting of Frankenstein’s monster. Painted in somber, arid greens and dusty blacks. The doctor’s castle stands in the background under a thread of lightning hanging from an awning of stony clouds.

Oil painting of EC Comic’s host, The Vault-Keeper. Wide, maniacal eyes with scarlet irises and slobbery grin, dramatically-lit in vibrant, otherworldly color. Peering out at the viewer from a tattered, green cloak.

Oil painting of a hooded zombie from the film, ‘Tombs of the Blind Dead’. Executed with loose, almost impressionistic brushwork. A dirty fresco of greys and greens against a void of black.

Oil painting of a Bob Fosse-inspired zombie with acidic green flesh shrink wrapped over the sinew and bones of what was once a vivacious human. He sassily tilts his bowler hat over one eye, leaving the other peering out at you. Its lids receding back over the cloudy orb the same way its gums pull away from his nicotine-yellow teeth.

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-The Astronomer. 2011. Oil and pencil on paper. 18”x24”. -The Seamstress. 2011. Oil and pencil on paper. 18”x24”. -The Painters. 2012. Oil and pencil on paper. 18”x24”.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Still not done… I’m nauseatingly slow. Have a good weekend, mongrels.

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The barn isn’t properly insulated, so it tends to get toasty in here.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Prismacolor Verithin pencil and charcoal over watercolor wash on Canson paper. 11”x17”. SOLD.

Sepia toned portrait drawing of the Creature from Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein.

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tomfishpaw.bsky.social @tomfishpaw.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

#JohnPhilipFalter I Wish I Were Like You, (1938)

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This is how far away my face is when I’m rendering. I want to see the grain of the part and how each color is laying down and mixing. Up close it looks a little messy, but when you pull back, it comes together and all those effects make sense.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Private commission. WIP. Derwent lightfast pencil on Canson toned paper. “That looks like a lot of work for such a small area of an illustration…” It is. “Are so many colors really necessary?” Yes. It’s not a particularly broad palette, but it’s the one that’s necessary to do what I want.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

My work week has consisted entirely of this nouveau line work in my client’s hair. But it’s turning out nicely. Private commission. Derwent lightfast pencil on sage green Canson paper.

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Ian The Comic Artist @ianthecomicartist.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Top floor of the house completed, moving forward in space. #art #illustration #winnipeg #canada #noAI #イラスト #pencils

A hand penciling a folk horror illustration

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-The Astronomer. 2011. Oil and pencil on paper. 18”x24”. -The Seamstress. 2011. Oil and pencil on paper. 18”x24”. -The Painters. 2012. Oil and pencil on paper. 18”x24”.

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