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Caitlin Fowler

@caitlinxfowler.bsky.social

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(she/her) #Artist + #illustrator based in Northern California, finding magic in the redwoods🌲🌲 [email protected] http://www.caitlinfowler.com https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/cafowler91/

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Caitlin Fowler @caitlinxfowler.bsky.social · Jul 9

Hello #PortfolioDay! 👋
My name is Caitlin, I am a mixed-media illustrator who creates emotive fantasy images with inspiration from mythology, symbolism, and the natural world. I have done tarot cards, wine labels, and have a special interest in book covers and game art!

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Alex Jade @castlehavven.bsky.social · 16d

Rapture this, rapture that

Check out this big Daddy I painted :)

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Caitlin Fowler @caitlinxfowler.bsky.social · 18d

Human artists!

Use one piece to convince people to follow you!

Painting of Orpheus holding on to a ghostly Euridyce, who is turning into smoke and butterflies. Setting is nighttime in a dark and grassy field.

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · Aug 29

An attempt to keep moving forward.

Personal work- 2025

Digital art, my work. A women is impaled on the antlers of a stag

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Caitlin Fowler @caitlinxfowler.bsky.social · Aug 24

Hi Kat 👋 id love to be considered for projects! I do a lot of dark fantasy work, inspired by folklore and mythology. My portfolio can be viewed at www.caitlinfowler.com

Caitlin Fowler @caitlinxfowler.bsky.social · Aug 24

Hi Meg! id love to be considered, if my work is a good fit for your project. Here's some of my samples, more of my work can be found at www.caitlinfowler.com

Caitlin Fowler @caitlinxfowler.bsky.social · Aug 21

I did a study from the Dark Fae reference pack offered by @howardlyonart.bsky.social. I wanted to focus on the overall mood, lighting, and use of color. Ive been a little burnt out, so this was a fun and low pressure piece to do, and I really like the overall result!

Shows woman with horns holding up her dress to the side with one hand. It is catching the light and has a red undertone. Her veil also catches the light and is a bright red. The background is fading into night with a setting sun behind some trees and bats flying far in the distance.

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V @visceralhit.bsky.social · Aug 6

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

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Caitlin Fowler @caitlinxfowler.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thanks! Yeah, this is done on watercolor paper with thin washes of acrylic, and a little bit of colored pencil

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Caitlin Fowler @caitlinxfowler.bsky.social · Aug 1

Close-up, detail shot of my painting for the upcoming Artistry of Tarot exhibition @poetictigergallery.bsky.social opening 8/16! Im very excited for this piece and how its been coming together ✨️

Shows closeup of a painting of woman with long white hair and half her face decaying. There is a purple ringed crescent moon behind her on a starry background, and a white butterfly flying near her.

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Caitlin Fowler @caitlinxfowler.bsky.social · Jul 25

✨️Available 7/25✨️ my painting Fortuitous will be available on @everydayoriginal! This painting is inspired by summertime, magic of the outdoors, and finding luck in unexpected places.

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#everydayoriginal #frogart #acylicart

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Caitlin Fowler @caitlinxfowler.bsky.social · Jul 19

See the Grimm Allegory exhibition, online now at @poetictigergallery.bsky.social! My painting Temptation is available, and is inspired by one of my favorite fairytales as a kid, Snow White 🍏

See the show: poetictiger.com/collections/...

Caitlin Fowler @caitlinxfowler.bsky.social · Jul 17

If you see this post a vampire 🦇

Painting of a portrait of a glam vampire woman with dracula parrots by Caitlin Fowler. The vampire is holding a wine glass of blood on a couch with green drapes and candles behind her.

Caitlin Fowler @caitlinxfowler.bsky.social · Jul 16

Grimm Allegory at @poetictigergallery will open on July 19, where my painting Temptation will be available ✨️

I picked Snow White as my story. I find themes of forbidden fruit interesting - going against natural desires of accepting what we want & having to face consequences that may follow.

Shows the painting Temptation by Caitlin Fowler with the text Grimm Allegory, followed by the names of participating artists for the show at Poetic Tiger Gallery, and the dates of the show July 19 through August 2, 2025

Caitlin Fowler @caitlinxfowler.bsky.social · Jul 2

New painting I've been working on inspired in part by motherhood (some spiders carry their hatchlings on their backs!) and contrasts of strength and fragility 🕷
#acrylicart #acrylicpainting

Painting of woman in webbed veil, carrying red spiders on the veil and her hands. Shows blue and red forest background.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Jun 11

A few things
1. "genAi is a transformative work" - this lawsuit proves repeatedly how that's not the case, Midjourney makes exact copies
2. "they're going to settle!" for what? Disney and Universal want blood, not dollars
3. There's no way to unring this bell, you can't untrain these models

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Jun 11

This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets

Universal did not permit, authorize, or license Midjourney to copy or use any of Universal's copyrighted works in connection with any version of its Image Service or to otherwise exploit Universal's works at any time. You acknowledged as much in a September 16, 2022 Forbes interview in which you confirmed that Midjourney never sought any copyright holders' consent to use or exploit their works:
Did you seek consent from living artists or work still under copyright?
No. There isn't really a way to get a hundred million images and know where they're coming from. It would be cool if images had metadata embedded in them about the copyright owner or something. But that's not a thing; there's not a registry. There's no way to find a picture on the Internet, and then automatically trace it to an owner and then have any way of doing anything to authenticate it.
See Rob Salkowitz. Midiourney Founder David Holz

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Natalie @nataliehall.bsky.social · Jun 5

Tired a lot lately.

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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · Jun 1

Happy pride ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Dawn and dusk in perpetual embrace. Dawn is comprised of the colours of the pan pride flag, and dusk is in the colours of the bi pride flag. A personal piece.

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · May 23

The Tower.

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Caitlin Fowler @caitlinxfowler.bsky.social · May 13

If you see this, post your green art 💚

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Mateus Roberts (comms open) @mateusroberts.bsky.social · May 8

A couple of cosy merms for #mermay (this is actually pretty old, from 2019)

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Alex Jade @castlehavven.bsky.social · May 7

Oil painted candle on a bronze pendant and chain :)

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Caitlin Fowler @caitlinxfowler.bsky.social · May 2

Hello, Nate! 👋 I'd love to be considered for projects. Here's some samples, full portfolio at www.caitlinfowler.com

Bluebeard illustration. Bluebeards wife looking through red door with glowing red light flowing out. Wood carved heads in door.

Painting of hand on golden gingko leaves welcoming green and purple snake.

Illustration of queen of wands tarot. Shows stained glass window behind with sunflowers and large sun.

Cover illustration done for Fusion Fragment #23, for the story The Very Long Death of Katherine Ainsley by Marlan K. Smith.

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Caitlin Fowler @caitlinxfowler.bsky.social · Apr 25

✨️My painting Nereid is now available for @everydayorig! I wanted to create a painting that combined my love of mythology, the beauty of the ocean, the feeling of tranquility and reminder to go with the flow of every day life.

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Serene nereid gazing at three goldfish. Painting is blue with orange goldfish.

Close-up of Nereid painting with shells styled around painting

Picture showing Nereid painting framed and on the wall.

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Caitlin Fowler @caitlinxfowler.bsky.social · Apr 21

If you see this, post a flower 🌼 🌸

How narcissus(daffodil) came to be
#art #mythology

Painting of interpretation of Narcissus and Echo myth. Dying Narcissus is staring at an idealized reflection while Echo clings to him as she begins to fade away. Daffodils (Narcissus) surround them

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Caitlin Fowler @caitlinxfowler.bsky.social · Apr 14

If you see this, post your painting/drawing of a dragon 🐲

Mixed-media painting i did in 2024 of my tortie snuggling with a dragon, titled "Cozy"

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