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Joanna Barnum

@joannabarnum.com

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Illustrator & fine artist in watercolor: portraits, fantasy, horror, Halloween love. American Watercolor Society & National Watercolor Society Sig Artist. Harford County, Maryland. She/her. SHOP, PORTFOLIO, SOCIALS: http://joannabarnum.com/more

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · Jan 14

Hello #portfolioday, I’m an illustrator working in watercolor, interested in covers, posters, & games.

Particularly good w portraits, emotions, elegant horror.

Clients incl Wizards of the Coast (D&D- would still love to do some MtG work!) and Shout! Factory.

www.joannabarnum.com/portfolio

Watercolor illustration of a looming monstrous face with sharp teeth forming from clouds in a dark sky, threatening to devour a tiny ship on a stormy sea.

Watercolor illustration of an anguished person standing in an eerie barren landscape with a green starry sky. One scraggly tree is behind them, with a skeleton and a grave buried inside the trunk of the tree. There is an owl in the tree.

Watercolor illustration of a haunting woman wearing a lover's eye locket overlaid with a spooky house.

Watercolor illustration in a limited palette of red and greyscale of a wise woman with horns, an older tiefling wizard, looking at you over her glasses with a symbolic cloud of books and tools emerging from her head.

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 8h

“Man in the Moon,” watercolor- one of my first (and still a favorite) haunted house pieces.

www.joannabarnum.com/shop/maninth...

Watercolor illustration of a dark old house and tree silhouetted against an orange sky, with a giant moon above. A ghostly screaming skull appears in the moon.

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 1d

Shackling is LIVE!
🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓

Get a copy of my brand new book at:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bab...

Graphite drawing with white border and grey text at the top. The drawing is of a Baba Yaga hut chasing a toad through a garden. The text reads "Shackling, tales from Baba Yaga's garden"

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 1d

Here’s the handsome @sixam.net modeling the unisex version of the Bewitching Peddlers of Halloween t-shirt.

Get your own: www.joannabarnum.com/shop/bewitch...

A bearded man posing in a black tshirt with a screen printed orange pumpkin and purple cat on it. Script text reads “bewitching peddlers of Halloween.”

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 1d

I still have some sizes left of this year’s Bewitching Peddlers of Halloween t-shirts!

www.joannabarnum.com/shop/bewitch...

The artist modeling a black screen printed tshirt with an orange jack o lantern and a purple cat. Script text reads “bewitching peddlers of Halloween.”

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 3d

Another new pair of prints available only during October- some sweet little watercolor candy corns and candy pumpkins.

www.joannabarnum.com/shop/candy-c...

A hand holding a pair of 8.5” x 11” art prints. The art is an oval vignette in the center of a white background, with candy corn and candy pumpkins life size in watercolor.

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 2d

If you have not yet experienced one of my Halloween art countdowns- I have a few copies left of “Lanterns Burn Bright” and “Revelry of Ravens” that can be enjoyed ANY year starting on October 18 to count down two weeks to Halloween with art, story, and stickers!
www.joannabarnum.com/shop?categor...

Photo of a fancy bundle of envelopes with a wax seal, and a cover sheet that says “lanterns burn bright a Halloween art countdown”

A hand holding small Halloween stickers next to matching small art prints

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 2d

What happened that’s making everyone say they’re doing to leave Bsky? I’m seeing the comments about leaving or not leaving but not info about what everyone is reacting to…

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 3d

Another new pair of prints available only during October- some sweet little watercolor candy corns and candy pumpkins.

www.joannabarnum.com/shop/candy-c...

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 4d

“Electric Owl,” the companion to yesterday’s bat! You can get em as a pair of prints during October.

www.joannabarnum.com/shop/bat-owl...

Watercolor of an owl on a dark background with a big bright yellow moon, painted in orange, green, and yellow.

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 3d

I was wearing a hat!

Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 4d

Visited the local sunflower field

Photo of a sunflower field, with the shadow of a person in a witch hat in the foreground

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 4d

“Electric Owl,” the companion to yesterday’s bat! You can get em as a pair of prints during October.

www.joannabarnum.com/shop/bat-owl...

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 6d

Trick or treat! All October shop orders will include a FREE surprise jumbo holographic Halloween sticker!

www.joannabarnum.com/shop

*(BFF shirt preorders not included)

A hand holding a fan of large 5” x 7” size holographic vinyl stickers of various illustrated Jack-o-lanterns

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 5d

Thank you! 🦇

Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 5d

Here’s a peek at the prints, and the presentation for the original painting in an antique frame that got scooped up by a collector at the Bewitching Peddlers of Halloween event.

Two signed prints on paper, one of the above art, and the other of a matching owl painting

The above art in an ornate antique oval frame

Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 5d

“Brash Bat,” watercolor inspired by the color palettes of vintage Halloween paper cutouts.

I have time limited prints available just for October! (And don’t forget- I’m also sending a free sticker with October shop orders as my Halloween gift to you 🎃)

www.joannabarnum.com/shop/bat-owl...

Watercolor of a flying bat and stars against a black background, in an unnatural color palette of orange, bright green, and yellow.

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 6d

And if you haven't yet gotten your tickets to attend Baltimore Faerie Faire, what are you waiting for? It's gonna be a blast!
www.bigwhimsy.com/bff.html

Baltimore Faerie Faire

Entertainments, vendors, magic... The Baltimore Faerie Faire celebrates the wonders of the natural world, and all the beings that inhabit it, real and imaginary. We seek to to heal, inspire, nurture,....

www.bigwhimsy.com

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 6d

I'm honored to be the featured guest artist at Baltimore Faerie Faire Nov 14-16 & I'm also producing the official event t-shirt! Preorder open now for pickup from my booth at the show. Preorders will close Oct 19. Screen printed shirts with metallic silver ink!
www.joannabarnum.com/shop/bff-shi...

Mockup of a black t-shirt with a graphic of a raven flying against a moon, it says "10 years of magic Baltimore Faerie Faire"

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 6d

Trick or treat! All October shop orders will include a FREE surprise jumbo holographic Halloween sticker!

www.joannabarnum.com/shop

*(BFF shirt preorders not included)

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 7d

It's finally time for Skinktober!

What's that? No, I'm pretty sure it was never called anything else.
#art 🦢

a digital painting of a juvenile five-lined skink sitting on a decorative pumpkin. it is surrounded by vine and leaves. the lizard is striped lengthwise down its body in white and black, transitioning to a bright blue tail about halfway down. the colors have been very saturated, and the shapes are abstracted to be rigid angles.

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 7d

Thank you so much! 🍂

Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 7d

October blowing in! “Autumn Arrival” from a few years ago, in the collection of an awesome Halloween appreciating family. I’m going to see if I can do a best of survey of past spooky art all month- let’s see if I can keep up.

Watercolor illustration of an old house in the distance with a corn field in the foreground. The sky is filled with a mass of ghostly distorted skeletons. The color palette is orange, blue, and pink.

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 8d

Open ended on build and age!

I may have a lead but not totally sure yet.

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 9d

I need to photograph (in Baltimore) or commission reference photographs of a model for an illustration project. I’m looking for a man of Pacific Islander ethnicity, older teen through middle age. Mundane clothing, action poses. Paid! Is that anyone following me?

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 9d

I’m still able to take some portrait commissions for delivery in early December for the holidays, but not sooner.

www.joannabarnum.com/portrait-com...

Commission a Portrait Painting in Watercolor — Joanna Barnum

Watercolor portrait painting commissions of weddings, families, pets, homes from an experienced portrait painter. Create a family heirloom.

www.joannabarnum.com

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