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Jesse Cushing

@jessecushing.bsky.social

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Any/All pronouns | Interdisciplinary artist | My work revolves around social engagement, sustainability, and silly little guys Lots of reposts, so check media tab for my art only DM for custom work https://linktr.ee/jessecushing

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Jesse Cushing @jessecushing.bsky.social · 19d

Apparently it's #PortfolioDay

I am interdisciplinary artist from Ohio! I make a lot of different kinds of art in different mediums. my work revolves around sustainability, social engagement, and silly little guys :)

full portfolio: jessecushing.straw.page
video works: spectra.video/a/jessecushi...

Wesley the Worm: a giant grey worm-like creature with big eyes, stubby arms, and a nervous smile. He sits up at the head of a dining table, where a large painted mug is sitting on saucer in front of him.

A collage made of cardboard arranged in a round, spiky shape. The surface is covered with blue painters tape and torn pages of text, some of it blocked out with black scribbles. On top is a collage of magazine letters spelling the phrase "THE PESTS CAN POISON YOU BACK." Next to the words is a pen and markers drawing of a possum-insect hybrid (possum body and face, with six legs, green mandibles, and green claws and tail) wrapping its body around a bottle of purple poison. At the bottom, very small text written in pen reads "and they should" with a smiley face analog emote.

A pale-skinned person with short, curly hair sits in a high-backed arm chair. They are wearing a soft red collared shirt, glasses, a silver necklace and a black undershirt. They are holding a mug and staring pensively off to the side. The walls come to a corner behind the chair, one yellow and one deep red. The scene is bathed in soft, golden light. Deep shadows are cast in different directions by the different light sources.

A white person with long, wavy brown hair standing in front of a concrete wall. They are wearing a long-sleeved collared shirt, long plant pants, and a purple open vest. The are also wearing a thick belt, a ragged, patchwork skirt, black high heels, and multiple necklaces. They are holding up a snake-headed tail. Their face has dramatic contour on their cheeks, bold blue eye shadow and black eyeliner. Red streaks are coming down from their eyes, and there is a large pair of antlers made of yarn on their head.

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kaylee rowena the birthday ghost 🫀 @kayleerowena.com · 5d

🎃 trick or treat! 🎃

it's my birthday week + halloween (+ i'm currently quite short on this month's rent), so to celebrate i'm opening up my shop! i have tons of spooky new stickers and buttons and prints and more for y'all!

(🫀 RTs appreciated to spread the word!)

kayleerowena.bigcartel.com

a promo graphic with pictures of various stickers, buttons, sticker sheets, and tarot cards scattered around the words "halloween (+ birthday!) shop open!".

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Hampus 🎃 @hampus.bsky.social · 1d

Art vs Artist

A digitally painted comic book cover, depicting... well, it's kind of hard to describe.

There are two giant flower-shaped creatures, with green faces encircled by pink petals. Their necks are like ribbed, green stalks, twisting into a pinkish-orange void. Two green hands, on similar stalks, reach into the face of one of the creatures, tugging at its lips and eyelids. The other creature, which has a dandelion in place of one eye, has its mouth open, extending a long, yellow, dripping tongue. A white little point sits at the tongue, and pink smoke is emitting from it.

The two creatures appear to be superimposed in the sky above a dark suburban residence, flanked by leafy trees. Tentacle-like limbs slither around the building.

A photo of a white floofy cat smiling with content. A man is sitting behind the cat and smiling also

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Old Paul @manticore-aw.bsky.social · 23h

Traditional Halloween painting for my lovely wife. Still getting used to painting on canvas but I'm well happy with this.
Acrylics on 8x10" canvas
#halloween #darkart #raven #crow

A screaming raven, or possibly a crow I forget, stands facing East on yop of an old skull with it's left eye still intact.
In the background, square windows where vivid green light shows through.

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Fidaa Umar🎙🇵🇸 Inside Gaza 🎧 VERIFIED 📌 Voice Over 🔵 @fidaaumar.bsky.social · 23h

Nov 1 Fidaa update:

❌💌 but I’m 😢 to say that nobody has matched my $5 💸 to help supply Fidaa, who is in an acute health crisis, the bottles of 💧 her doc told her to drink

💸 $5 is such a small thing you can do to show solidarity & provide concrete help

- Nicola

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveFidaa

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 1d

Mad Monster Mansion

Digital illustration with heavy hatching in purple and ochre colors. A reimagined design of Banjo from Banjo-Kazooie looks toward a haunted mansion that is boarded up. Kazooie, a bird, sits perched at the top of the mansion.

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Jesse Cushing @jessecushing.bsky.social · 23h

www.gofundme.com/f/help-hind-...

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Jesse Cushing @jessecushing.bsky.social · 1d

these are so beautiful

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Lich Juliorra @lichjuliorra.bsky.social · 1d

Hello , I'm Lich and I like to draw my characters in a slightly disturbing atmosphere 💞✨

#artshare #drawing #украрт

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Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for sharing!
I doubt AI can do needlepoint either (made these long ago, freehand):

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Jesse Cushing @jessecushing.bsky.social · 1d

thanks!

Jesse Cushing @jessecushing.bsky.social · 1d

i know right? i feel like october always evaporates despite my best efforts 😭

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Cobey | Commissions open! @kingcobey8.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for hosting! Spooky season is almost over😭

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Jesse Cushing @jessecushing.bsky.social · 1d

this is lovely! what delightful fellows

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Lorraine Turner calicohorses @lorraineturnerart.bsky.social · 2d

#artshare
Ribbons, lace, wool, tussah silk, satin, organza and dyed silk embroidery floss

Textile illustration of two ravens created with scraps of purple, black, green, blue and magenta fabrics

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Jesse Cushing @jessecushing.bsky.social · 1d

J A W B O N E

lol this are awesome!

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Krøtagion 👁🪽 @krotagion.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Ween Eve!! 🎃

I'm Kro, an artist and writer. Theology, the occult and the biblical weigh into the symbolism of tarot, astrology and esoteric lore you'll find across my verse— I work with expression, OCs, retro tech, dreamscapes, delirium and butchery~

krotagion.carrd.co

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Rocky Road; portrait colorist, not an illustrator @rockyroad.bsky.social · 2d

I color portraits for leisure, practice, or for clients,
🎨+💡+🕶️
but I do not draw them.
✏️/✒️❌
I am interested in coloring comics too, so I would be open to hearing pitches.

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𝚍𝚘𝚗 𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚎 @donrice.art · 2d

Nice! Tricks and treats, thanks for the artshare!

Hello all. I am a sketcher, trying to capture the strength, love, madness and chaos of the 'reality' I see around me.
Some recent sketchy work.