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S Leckemby Art
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Studio Artist 🐛 I love working with oils and pastels 🪱 Sometimes I do comics too 🐌 VCU'22 🪰 NORVA 🚫NFT/AI🚫
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S Leckemby Art @sleckembyart.bsky.social · Apr 18
Hi #artistsofbluesky, I'm an artist based in Virginia - I like working with oils and pastels! I went to school for illustration but lately have gone back to my roots of drawing from life. My favorite artists are Cézanne, Helen Frankenthaler, and Jon Klassen 👋
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Apartment window, acrylic in Soho sketchbook :)
January 10, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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I want to work on this a little bit more and tighten it up but the paper tore a little bit and that's a road block for me
A colorful painting of a man on a computer. The shadows consist of deep muted greens and purples. The lights are bright and warm yellows. The man sits in shadow. His hair, beard, and shirt are dark.
January 3, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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Photo dump from recent days :) Haven't posted in a while. Busy with a lot of things and the holidays of course! Happy New Year :)
January 2, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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Watched Angel's Egg today and it was a generally delightful experience!
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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It only took me three years but I finally finished Bram Stoker's Dracula. I started it the summer after I graduated from college and now it's done!! And I really enjoyed it!
September 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Oh yeah I do comics too. I'm working on one slowly and saw these - my dad can be a pretty silly guy when it comes to his grand puppy Hamburger lol
September 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Rhyno in the Sun, RIP. Gouache on watercolor paper, 9x12 inches
September 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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30th Anniversary Portrait for my parents, in oil :)
An oil portrait painting of a wife and husband stand side by side. The wife is wearing large circular glasses, a blue floral dress, a simple diamond necklace, and small silver hoop earrings. She smiles delicately as her brown hair cascades over her shoulder. Her husband is taller, with short white hair and a long white beard. He's wearing a suit with a pin on the lapel and a dotted purple tie against a lavender shirt.
July 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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A scene from my neighborhood, gouache in sketchbook. Complete and first pass. :)
A gouache painting in a sketchbook. In the center of the spread, a tree silhouette can be seen. In the foreground, a lamp post and a speed limit sign. In the background, a bridge. A very rough first pass of the same painting.
July 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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This week's sketchbook pages! Gouache. Both of these were a challenge but I'm happy with the outcome.
A gouache painting, with loose brush strokes. The subject is a black and white cow-patterned dog with cropped ears. He is looking to the left, wearing a blue color with a leash attached. A gouache painting of a ragdoll cat sitting up high on a cat tower, looking down. The cat is white so her fur reflects the colors of the light. She has hues of peach, orange, and green-grey to define her fluffs. She looks down like she owns the place (and she does)
July 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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axolotl at the disco in a mini composition notebook gifted to me by my nieces. I'll be drawing whatever they request... and the sketchbook spread to go with it.
An ink cartoon illustration of axolotls at a disco. A male presenting axolotl is wearing a classic disco suit dancing next to a female presenting axolotl in a dark dress. One axolotl says "Yeah, baby yeah!" They are in a disco club, surrounded by silhouettes of other dancing axolotl while a disco ball shines overhead. A sketchbook spread of facial expressions, cartoon sketches of axolotls dancing and in various disco outfits. Sketches of compositions.
July 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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I've been focusing on life, so just some more recent sketchbook pages :) ink and gouache. Ive also been eeking up on a deadline so that's been my main focus.
A sketchbook page featuring a few sketches of character designs. The character appears to be an older gentleman wearing various T-shirt and jeans combos; he has a beard and square glasses. A gouache painting of a red travel mug
July 13, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Hi, it's been a long time. I've been slowly picking away at a portrait that's kept my focus but I've been trying to keep up with a daily sketchbook practice. I'm not very consistent with that... But here's some recent pages :)
June 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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A father's day gift :) gouache and colored pencils 9x12in
A gouache and watercolor painting of a collage design of older colored pencils boxes.
June 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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preach it
June 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Doodle spread, week of June 1st
June 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Baby Turt I found today and I just can't stop thinking about him. Dad says he's about 3 years old! Woodland box turtle I think!
May 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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5/14 comic
A black and white comic titled "Coworker Lore" Panel 1: A girl is working at her computer when her coworker says "Ha! Oh yeah!" from her own desk Panel 2: close up of the coworker exclaiming "I just remembered my ex-husband tried to kill me!!" The main girl character looks aghast in the background. Panel 3: the main girl character returns to her computer with a looming dread expression as her coworker cheerfully states "I guess I've blocked it out!"
May 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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saving da world one small guy at a time #comics
A six-panel, black and white comic titled Wet Bug 5/12. Panel 1: It's raining lightly. A girl stands next to her car wearing a lanyard and baseball cap. She's rummaging through her bag looking for her car keys as she says "Oh God, I'm so late! Where are my keys?!" On the roof of the car, very tiny, is a small bug saying "Oh shit!" Panel 2: A close up of the bug - it's upside down on the car, stuck to it with wet wings. Its legs are wiggling around in the air - it's clearly struggling. Off the panel, the girl says "Ah! Found them!" Panel 3: The bug continues to struggle. The girl, off panel, says "Oh! Poor guy!" Panel 4: another close up, the girl's finger lowers down to the bug, who appears to be trying to resist, panicking and cursing. The girl says "I got you, little one!" Panel 5: The girl extends her finger to a droopy willow tree. It continues to rain. She says "There you go!" Panel 6: a close up of the bug standing right side up on a leaf. He plainly says "what the fuck" in disbelief
May 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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A solid choice at 8 am
A four panel comic sketched in ink, on paper, with a sticky note used to redraw a panel. Panel One: woman sitting in an office pushes herself away from her desk. She's exasperated: "UGH. I need a drink! Hm, Dr. Pepper or Sprite?" A voice says "Hm." Panel Two: another woman points and says "Are you... Sleepy?" Panel Three: back to the original woman, she's now picking at dust on her desk. She says "no... Just bored." The other woman replies "Sprite." Panel Four: the original woman is seen getting up from her desk chair, walking off panel, saying "Yeah I just need a little fizzle in my life"
May 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Today's sketchbook page, a drawing of my shelf. Colored pencils.
A sketchbook, colored pencil drawing of a raggedy pilia plant and a Japanese porcelain piggy bank. The colors are muted making the drawing appear very gray with hints of orange and blue.
May 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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And in other news, cartooning myself and my boyfriend is fun
May 6, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Sun, Jan 5th. Pastel on gessoed Bristol paper. 19"x 24"

This was a fun experiment. Really getting the handle of pastels and enjoying them. I purchased some proper pastel paper the other day and am looking forward to the next painting!!
A photo of a large pastel painting featuring a snow night scene in a suburban neighborhood. Two houses are in the scene with a hauntingly tall silhouetted tree line in the background. The houses are characterized by many cars in the driveway. There is a warm blanket of snow covering the landscape, a driveway basketball hoop, several mailboxes and shrubs that strike the foreground against the midground of the painting. The colors of the painting are warm, peachy whites contrasted by deep red and purple earth tones that make up the shadows of the scene.
May 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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US Impressionist artist Mary Cassatt’s actual pastels photographed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and an example of her work in pastel #WomensArt
(via Hidden Talents)
May 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Waking up to this and immediately feeling intimidated
May 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM