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Brian
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Artist, college drawing instructor, union organizer, amateur Sasquatchologist. 🏳️‍🌈

www.brianrwilliams.com

Creator of the independent webcomic “Orick & Argyle."

www.orickandargyle.com
patreon.com/greygraphite
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I got a job creating coal-powered wildlife for the regime.

#traditionalart #drawing #worksonpaper
“Anthracite Deer,” graphite and charcoal powder on paper. A drawing of a deer in an Appalachian forest landscape with a smokestack where its neck and head should be. The smokestack is belching out clouds of thick, black smoke.
February 5, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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I got a job creating coal-powered wildlife for the regime.

#traditionalart #drawing #worksonpaper
“Anthracite Deer,” graphite and charcoal powder on paper. A drawing of a deer in an Appalachian forest landscape with a smokestack where its neck and head should be. The smokestack is belching out clouds of thick, black smoke.
February 5, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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Ohioans —

Bernie Moreno

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Columbus 614-369-4925
Toledo 567-304-3777
Middletown 513-318-1100
Cleveland 216-539-7877

Find your rep. Call them too.
January 25, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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PRINTS! www.inprnt.com/gallery/brucemackay/the-tower-of-cirith-ungol
brucemackay.bsky.social Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · Nov 5
THE TOWER OF CIRITH UNGOL
Illustrated poster of the tower of Cirith Ungol in the land of Mordor. In the foreground are a bunch of orcs and goblins with acid green rim-light holding swords and axes and pole-arms. In the middle ground is a narrow bridge leading between two grotesque statues into the multi tiered tower that is lit with sickly green lights. Below it leading into the plateau of Gorgoroth are the hills of the Ethel Duath. In the distance is Orodruin and Ered Lithui. The text at the top is white flame like black metal lettering with the words CIRITH UNGOL. Nine green stars float above them. Plumes of smoke and ash fill the sky. A tiny shadow is grossing the bridge. Lord of the Rings. Tolkien. Prints coming soon.
January 22, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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Top row, pic of me wearing glasses & squinting at a blurry sign. Bottom row, pic of me removing my glasses and now the sign, which reads “You’re 46 today (and you need bifocals)” is no longer blurry
January 20, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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It's another #portfolioday ? Hi, I'm Brian. I have 2 portfolios, in fact -- a digital one and a traditional one. Here's a sampling of my traditional work.

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A graphite and colored pencil drawing on paper of a yellow and green seahorse perched on the couch from the painting, "Portrait of Madame Récamier," bt Jacques-Louis David. A drawing of a woodpecker peeking out from a hole in a tree, which is emerging from the torso of a woman wearing an elaborately-decorated dress and ruff from the Renaissance. A graphite drawing of a woman from a Neoclassical painting, wearing a wig and draped in a shawl, sitting beside a rural landscape showing a river valley. Above the river floats a Mothman-like spirit with glowing eyes. A drawing of Krampus, dragging chains shackled to his wrists and carrying a satchel of twigs on his back, entering the foyer of a fancy house. He looks down the hallway at the viewer, letting his long tongue hang from his open mouth.
January 13, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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Hi, I'm Brian, and here's my digital portfolio for #portfolioday, which comprises mostly of my webcomic "Orick & Argyle," about a Sasquatch and an extraterrestrial who team up to commit acts of civil disobedience in defense of nature.

orickandargyle.com

www.patreon.com/greygraphite
A digital drawing of comic book characters Orick, a Sasquatch; Leona, a mountain lion; and Argyle, an extraterrestrial, rowing across a pond at dusk toward an island with an old church on it. A black and white digital drawing of comic characters Ursula, a human person; Orick, a Sasquatch; Argyle, an extraterrestrial; and Leona, a mountain lion, walking down a set of underground stairs in a cave-like environment. Ursula leads the group with a flashlight. A digital painting of Orick, a Sasquatch wearing an orange scarf and carrying a hot drink of some kind, walking between some trees and saying "boo" to classic movie monsters Nosferatu, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and a werewolf, who cower in fear and run away. A digital illustration showing a Sasquatch reading a book in his cave with his friends, a mountain lion asleep next to the fireplace, and an extraterrestrial laying on a rug watching The X-Files on an iPad. The cave is illuminated by the fire in the fireplace, candles, lamps and glowing crystals. Above the fireplace is a framed portrait of a Sasquatch ancestor. In the background is a bookshelf and a staircase.
January 13, 2026 at 1:39 PM
greygraphite.bsky.social
It's another #portfolioday ? Hi, I'm Brian. I have 2 portfolios, in fact -- a digital one and a traditional one. Here's a sampling of my traditional work.

brianrwilliams.com
A graphite and colored pencil drawing on paper of a yellow and green seahorse perched on the couch from the painting, "Portrait of Madame Récamier," bt Jacques-Louis David. A drawing of a woodpecker peeking out from a hole in a tree, which is emerging from the torso of a woman wearing an elaborately-decorated dress and ruff from the Renaissance. A graphite drawing of a woman from a Neoclassical painting, wearing a wig and draped in a shawl, sitting beside a rural landscape showing a river valley. Above the river floats a Mothman-like spirit with glowing eyes. A drawing of Krampus, dragging chains shackled to his wrists and carrying a satchel of twigs on his back, entering the foyer of a fancy house. He looks down the hallway at the viewer, letting his long tongue hang from his open mouth.
January 13, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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working on some new ideas for moon phases
four dumb drawings with labels of the moon with areas blacked out. 1. 'The Black Belt' there's a black band going horizontally across the white moon 2. 'Reverse Donut' has a just a white spot in the middle 3. 'Formal' Moon looks like it has a bow tie 4. 'Jimmy Cool' Moon looks like it has sunglasses on
January 9, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 7: Squatchtober.
A digital painting of Orick, a Sasquatch wearing an orange scarf and carrying a hot drink of some kind, walking between some trees and saying "boo" to classic movie monsters Nosferatu, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and a werewolf, who cower in fear and run away.
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Happy birthday to self-taught trail-blazing Irish #marineBiologist Maude Delap (1866 – 1953), 1st to successfully breed jellyfish in captivity & document their full lifecycle. She is surrounded by blue #jellyfish (Cyanea lamarckii) life stages based on her diagrams. 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡 #histsci #artAdventCalendar 🧵
My linocut portrait of Maude Delap printed in a gradient of dark green to dark blue ink. She is an Edwardian Irish woman in a dress with her hair pulled back seen in profile, surrounded by diagrams of the life stages of a blue jellyfish (Cyanea lamarkii): polyp, ephyrae and medusa. Polyp is tinted light blue and medusa has air transparent violet and blue.
December 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 6. It's cold this morning!

#digitalart #artandpoetry
I Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. Stanza I from the poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," by Wallace Stevens. Artwork: a digital drawing of a blackbird perched on a blue lantern that is placed on the edge of a cliff, overlooking a valley between two snowy mountain ranges at sunset.
December 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 5: Gruss vom Krampus!

Krampus celebrations were banned in the 1930s by the Nazis in Germany and the fascist Christian government in Austria. Therefore, it's canon that Krampus is an anti-fascist symbol.

Graphite and charcoal powder on paper.
Krampus, a furry anthropomorphic creature with a goat's head, long tongue, one cloven hoof, with a satchel of birch branches on his back and iron chains hanging from his arms, stares at the viewer from a hallway. The hallway is elegant, with an arched colonnade and paintings on the wall in the background, implying that Krampus is visiting the home of a wealthy family.
December 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 4 morning

Breakup
30x36 76x91
Oil on Canvas
2021

#art #painting
Abstract Landscape: orange sky with swirling dark blue clouds over a lake with ice, melt ponds and beach
December 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Good morning and happy #artadventcalendar day 4! A throwback to my earliest attempts at collage, when I was using very little color.
Paper collage. A woman opens a robot with wings and removes a small bird from inside. A larger bird sits on the head of the robot. Behind them, mountains, trees. Only the birds are in color.
December 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day4. It's a snowy morning here.

Thank you, @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca for organizing this event -- it's been a pleasure to see so much artwork in my feed!
XIII It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs. Stanza XIII of the poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," by Wallace Stevens. A digital illustration of a grackle perched in an eastern red cedar tree in a winter landscape. The iridescence and textures of the bird's feathers is emphasized. On the tree limb beside the bird are pebbles, a quartz crystal and a shell, all with iridescent surfaces.
December 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 3: Orick Mending Bees
Orick, a sasquatch, sits hunched over at a wooden table, holding a magnifying glass and an eye dropper filled with honey. On the table in front of him is a pair of tweezers, a spool of thread and a needle, a jar of honey, and 5 bees resting on tiny pillows. Other bees are flying around him. In the background, against the wall, is a wooden bee hive. The foreground is filled with white flowers.
December 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt

Proxima is the nearest star to the Sun. It is a red dwarf, 1/5 the size of our Sun and 20,000 times dimmer. Here we see it seen from the surface of one of its planets. To the left one can also make out Alpha Centauri, which is a binary star with two Sun-like components.
Illustration of the star Proxima Centauri seen from one of its planets. The landscape is rocky and barren aside from a lake. Proxima is a flare star with a powerful magnetic field, leading to the formation of aurorae in the sky. Artwork created in Blender by Mark A Garlick.
December 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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My artwork of a Sunset on Mars. Dust and small particles suspended in the Martian atmosphere scatter light in the direction of the Sun forward. This creates a blue halo around the setting Sun, rendering a Martian landscape quite different from its terrestrial equivalent.

#ArtAdventCalendar
#SciArt
Digital illustration of a barren, rocky Martian landscape. The sun is about to set (or just risen). Unlike on Earth, sunsets and sunrises on Mars can often appear blue, as here. Art copyright Mark A Garlick
December 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Day 2 of #ArtAdventCalendar
#Collage
Created for a challenge by
@specialagentcollagecollective.com
Collage Multicolor strips of paper glued to a black background A woman holds a piece of paper
December 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Day 1 #ArtAdventCalendar. A stoneware duck. #pottery #sculpture
Right view of a stylized sitting, eyes closed off-white duck with a yellow matte glazed beak Left view of a stylized sitting, eyes closed off-white duck with a yellow matte glazed beak
December 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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One time I did a Game of Thrones fanart (before the final season)

#Art #ArtAdventCalendar #GameOfThrones #Fanart
A three eyed raven sitting atop a cut log, a pennant hanging from it with the Stark house sigil on it. Arrows are hanging out of the log. A large moon looms bright behind the bird.
December 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 2. Still one of my favorite projects: illustrating "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," by Wallace Stevens.
V I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after. Stanza V from "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," written by Wallace Stevens. A digital illustration showing a red-winged blackbird perched on a twig next to a muddy pond at twilight. The blackbird is calling. Next to it is an old stone with a spiral pattern carved into it. The scene's reflection on the surface of the pond appears to show a moment in the near future: the stone is glowing and the blackbird is flying away.
December 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Gonna participate in #artadventcalendar this year -- thanks to @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca for the heads-up!

Day 1: Orick's Cave
A digital illustration showing a Sasquatch reading a book in his cave with his friends, a mountain lion asleep next to the fireplace, and an extraterrestrial laying on a rug watching The X-Files on an iPad. The cave is illuminated by the fire in the fireplace, candles, lamps and glowing crystals. Above the fireplace is a framed portrait of a Sasquatch ancestor. In the background is a bookshelf and a staircase.
December 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM