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Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC)

@kitsteele.com

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Chaotic good watercolor artist with lawful neutral tendencies. Revels in the random. Owned by an elderly cat. Storefront: https://silvertales.storenvy.com Patreon: https://patreon.com/silvertales

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Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jan 6

Hi! I’m Kit, watercolor illustrator who paints tiny, cheerful dragons with tea & watercolor, dark animal oracles… & everything in between.

Shop:
silvertales.storenvy.com

Artbook of adorable dragons:
silvertales.storenvy.com/products/289...

Patreon:
patreon.com/c/silvertales

Cover and page spread sample of my Tea Dragons illustration and recipe book. 64 pages, full color, matte cover and gloss interior. Measures 7”x10”

Two VooDoo-inspired alligator mercreature people, available as prints in my store. Prints measure 6”x16” inches.

Original watercolor painting of a shy ghost and a collection of jack o’lanterns.

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Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jul 3

If you think the Dems don’t have the balls (or votes) to impeach, then they REALLY don’t have the balls to charge him with Sedition or Treason. (2/2)

Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jul 3

The only reason it “worked” with Nixon was because he resigned from office rather than face the scrutiny and resulting humiliation of impeachment. This jackass has no shame, so impeachment without charges to force removal means nothing to him. (1/2)

Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jun 14

Thank you! 💚 The creepy mermaid with the lilypads is definitely a favorite of my recent stuff.

Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jun 14

Thank you! It’s definitely a matter of “right aspect for the right piece,” at least with my stuff. It’s something I run out of patience (and grip strength) for very quickly, though. 😅

Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jun 13

Thanks, Aimee! The 3d paper cuts always seem like a great idea, until it’s time to start cutting them. 🤣

Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jun 13

Thank you! After years of drawing random-tailed mers it was brought to my attention that I’d never done a gator. Had to fix that! 😁

Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jun 13

Thank you! They were fun, once I figured out where all the limbs were going. 🤣

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Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jun 13

These are amazing! I’m in love with the mossy deer ones!

Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social · Nov 22

Im a sculptor living in St Louis. I use a lot of cardboard and other under appreciated materials to create taxidermy style art pieces. You can find my work at Houska Gallery here in STL or contact me directly for current available pieces or commissions.

#art #sculpture #mixedmedia

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Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jun 13

Big congratulations on 14K! 🎉

Thank you for the art share! (… take 2, because my brain is clearly somewhere else today. 😅)

Watercolor painting of a dark, murky green mermaid peering up from the depths through a scattering of 3 dimensional gilt-edged waterlilies, floated above the surface of the painting.

Matted ink portrait of a young man with visibly scarred golden eyes and long white dredlocks. He stares confidently out at the viewer. Floated over the painting and the mat, is the golden outline of a Jacob’s sheep skull.

2 long, slender ink and watercolor paintings, side by side, of a pair of alligator-based merpeople.

On the left is a character based on Baron Samedi, wearing the iconic skull face paint. He also wears a top hat, tuxedo tail coat, and white gloves. With one hand, he tips his hat to the viewer, wearing a knowing smile, with the other hand he holds a highball glass filled with a vibrant orange Sazerac cocktail.

On the right is an alligator mermaid loosely based on Marie Laveau, famed VooDoo Queen of New Orleans. She has long dredlocks held back by a white headscarf, and wears a necklace of bones. In one hand, she carries a staff topped with a human skull, with mermaid-shaped poppets stuck with pins hanging from the top.

Multilayered, handcut, 3 dimensional watercolor painting featuring a humpback whale and tiny mermaid companion breaching through cotton candy-colored clouds of vibrant pinks, sunset orangey yellows and sleepy violets. Beyond the clouds, the Milky Way ribbons it’s way across the sky.

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Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jun 13

Oops! Thanks, I’ll fix that! 😅

Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jun 13

These are fantastic! I love bookplates, and the fact that these are block prints? Even better!

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Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jun 13

I love all the taxidermy mounts made of cardboard!

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Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jun 13

I absolutely adore the flower-framed doorway painting! It’s so cozy and welcoming.

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Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jun 13

Congrats on 14K! I really do love the moody atmosphere of all these pieces, and I’m definitely gravitating toward to solo figures, there’s something so desolate about their isolation.

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Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jun 13

Congrats on 14K, Aimee! 🎉

Thanks for the art share! 💚

3 dimensional, hand cut, multi-layered watercolor painting featuring a humpback whale, with a tiny mermaid friend, breaching through puffy, cotton candy-colored clouds. Beyond the clouds, the Milky Way ribbons across the sky.

Watercolor painting of a large, curling, twisting viper made of tree roots and tree bark skin. Along the twists and turns of the snake body are patches of vibrant green moss, dotted with tiny pink flowers. The snakes eyes are a milky green, staring out at the viewer. This is the Year of the Wood Snake.

Watercolor painting of a long haired, young woman, outlined in ink. A golden arrow passes through her body, piercing her heart on its way out. Behind her, where the arrow pierces her back, is a large blooming pool of deep red watercolor.

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Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jun 13

I’m so sorry. 🫂
Moogles obviously had a beautiful life with you.

Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jun 13

Every. Single. Time.

Or the variation: “Will you make prints of this, because I’ll definitely buy one!” 🙄

Jeff Busch @jbuschgallery.bsky.social · Jun 12

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Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jun 12

I feel bad for neglecting my daily animal sketchbook for so long, but I had to go back to it for International Lynx Day.

#lynx #traditionalart #internationallynxday

Greenish tinted pencil sketch of a Canadian lynx.

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Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jun 3

Happy Birthday, Dad. I still miss you, every day.

Red, Right, Returning.

Watercolor painting of a small, white sailboat heading into a sunset above the clouds.

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Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jun 1

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jun 1

Boundaries are important. You should never have tolerate being made to feel uncomfortable.

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Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · Jun 1

Thank you very much! I’m pretty happy with how this came out, given how little time I had to work.

Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · May 31

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DONE! (And on time, too!) Today’s a 12”x18”, 6 layer, handcut watercolor piece…. I’m going to spend tomorrow dead, kthanks.

#watercolor #mermay #clouscape

Large watercolor layered painting of a night sky background, the Milky Way ribboning across the sky, topped with individual layers of cotton candy-colored clouds. From within the cloud layers, a humpback whale breaches uptowards the night.

Angled photo of the painting to see the multiple hand cut layers of painted paper.

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Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · May 31

Have a great show!! 🖤🖤

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Kit Steele (🔜 SDCC) @kitsteele.com · May 31

I am no advocate of genAI, but they couldn’t even ChatGPT that shit?

If I eyeroll any harder at all the ways they’ve colosally screwed up this year, I’m going to hurt myself.

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