Melissa Sue Stanley

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Illustrator in Chicago creating a fantastical travel guide.
Looking for the circular tread back to Gormenghast.
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Chance the Snapper should spend six months of the year in Chicago, like our own crocodilian Persephone

Warm summer evening... go make some magic out there.

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Hey! YOU! YEAH! YOU! Stop doomscrolling and get the fuck offline. Here is a coloring book, now you have a stupid little activity to occupy your mind instead of just…spinnin your wheels. soengery.com/products/get...

Get the fuck offline.soengery.com Hey. You. Yeah. I see you there. I know you're losing your shit a little bit - I am too. Thing is, there's nothing you can do right now. You're at home, doomscrolling, and it's just messing you up wo...

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“Beautiful Dreamer” completed. A handsome white goat with poppy flowers in watercolor, in an antique frame with original domed bubble glass. I made prints too. www.joannabarnum.com/shop #art #darkart #watercolor #goat

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Chickadees for my buddy @chaoticute.bsky.social from a while back

Getting ready for Gen Con ✏️✏️✏️

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Make some noise for the Chicago Cicadas! Much like our other sports teams, I was told they would be much more dominant this year.

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If you missed a Baba Yaga Chicken Shack, there's a whole flock ready for ya now! www.melissasuestanley.com/shop AND 🎉 SALE 🎉 for a bit because I'm in vacation mode. Use code VACATIONBRAIN for 12% off this weekend.

I knew I liked this guy.

No headline could possibly top this for the rest of the week variety.com/2024/scene/c...

Ebon Moss-Bachrach Didn’t Read ‘Fantastic Four’ Comics, but ‘Some of My Earliest Sexual Visions Were ‘Elfquest’variety.com Ebon Moss-Bachrach talks about being cast in 'The Fantastic Four' reboot and what he remembers about reading 'Elfquest' comics when he was younger.

OHNO I'm out of Dungeon Meshi now what 😭

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Hop

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Every album from The Decemberists

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▪️ Black Posca Hare ▪️ posca marker and collage on 6" x 10" reclaimed wood panel This and a bunch of other new originals are part of my big annual sale at www.sasharjones.com/store 🐇

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Chicago is for plovers.

Havin' a real "Draw the rest of the owl" kinda day.

Here's my big hero: Ferdinand, painted for Enchanted Brush X at the University of Findlay's Mazza Museum. "He Is Very Happy" is done in watercolor + gouache, 11"x17". More fun details at: MelissaSueStanley.com/ferdinand_enchantedbrush2024

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Got a medical bill that’s either 1200 or 5k depending on how insurance shakes out and NGL, both those sums are too rich for my blood so if you were looking for a shirt or a book or an illustrator… Soengery.com

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Mugses in progresssss. #coffeebreak #ceramics #pottery #sillymonsters

Spoilers... 🌼🐝🌼🐝🌼 Enchanted Brush opens June 17th at the Mazza Museum of children's book art in Findlay OH. (I'll share the whole painting and my statement around then... ❤️)

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"There are two challenges: ~Creating a high-quality, narrative illustration about calmness... ~Painting a character usually associated with pacifism - in 2024. I don't want to convey a message of "this is fine" when things are overwhelmingly not fine." Patreon.com/posts/ferdinand-hero-104760013

The story of this book is so great - definitely worth a reading into.

“Banned in Spain and burnt by Hitler, The Story of Ferdinand remains, to this day, a fascinating example of the power of picture books.” illustrationchronicles.com/a-subversive...

Always a delight seeing things pop up with wild synchronicity in the timeline 😄 🐂 🐝 🌼 I just got home from delivering my Ferdinand painting to the Mazza Museum in Ohio, for Enchanted Brush 2024 🎉

As a child, the picture book I asked for on the heaviest rotation was Ferdinand. #kidlit

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Introducing The Voyager watercolor sketchbook 💙💛 after many months of development these are finally here! A tiny passport sized sketchbook containing 300gsm cold press watercolor paper - perfect for travel or plein air :)

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We’re only 1 week away from our 2024 Fantasy Art Workshop Illustration Intensive. I’m so excited for us all to get together and create art! We’ve got amazing guests and faculty. Guess what? We already have our dates for next year’s workshop. Mark your calendar. We’ll be returning June 16-20, 2025.

I miss life-drawing so much, but it's not easy in my neighborhood. I spent so many Wednesday and Friday nights of my early years at the DuPage Art League, drinking 50-cent diet cokes and watching Bill paint. Managing a portrait thing in Chicago seems... blerrrrrg.

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This is the class you want to take! www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...

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May Challenge Days 10-13:

Anyway, here's Gertrude again. #gormenghast

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Things On Bird Feet ✨🌿🐓🍓 (available at MelissaSueStanley.com/shop)