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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hello #PortfolioDay! I am a self-taught, disabled digital artist who loves folklore and all green and growing things.

Find me here:
🪷 danielletaphanel.com
🌴 linktr.ee/treelet
📥 [email protected]

a simple line drawing of a cityscape, punctuated by the violent impact of a human figure with a large abstract wing emerging from it.

A digital color illustration of tall, thin, old growth trees in a forest which appear to lit up from within. At the center bottom of the image, a female figure drinks from a sake cup as a bloom of smoke emerges from her head. Around her are robed figures seated as if they were rock formations. Large fruit hang as abstract motifs within the trees. A panel of transparent hands, palms raised together, nests in the center of the image.

A digital ink drawing of a human figure viewed from behind as they stand next to a pine tree while looking at the silhouette of a city in the distance. Their clothing drapes on the ground similarly to a pool and then forms a rivulet of water that "leaks" out of the panel into the frame.

A digital watercolor painting of an altar for Guanyin with lit incense and a small basket of citrus fruit laid before her. The altar is in a lush courtyard garden, guarded by a solitary black cat. Succulents, bonsai, ferns, vines, flowering and fruiting trees, and plants of all kinds surround the altar, as incense smoke wafts into a pale blue sky.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · Aug 6

Ancestors 🍵🪴

A watercolor and ink drawing depicting a brown-skinned and tattooed figure performing a ritual with teaware and four different spirits attending. The room is filled with plants, medicine chests, and the windows show it's raining outside.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · Aug 4

A first encounter with mortality. 🥀🕊️

A color line drawing of a child with a shaved head who is wearing plain work clothes and crying before a dead bird. Behind them appear four red spider lilies.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · Aug 3

River Snake's Bride 🐉🌺

A watercolor and ink drawing of a pale green serpent growing leaves and flowers off its body. It encircles two figures, the first is wearing long feminine robes and jewelry while the second is wearing tradition pre-colonial Filipino garb and holds a sword. Each of them is accented by a white bird and a moon and sun symbol, respectively.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · Aug 2

The Frog Women 🐸🌴

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · Jul 31

Bakunawa 🐈🧘

A painted line drawing of a black cat lying on its side while it toys with a long ribbon that surrounds its body. The cat is attended to by tiny spirits in large robes. The background is a series of stylized paintings of flowers and a large dragon that encircles the frame of the piece.

A digital watercolor ink drawing of a gray cat lying in repose or sleep while surrounded by tiny attendants wielding tools similar to those used in a zen garden. The cat is framed on either side by weedy-looking white wildflowers. The drawing is done over in white ink showing misty clouds, cranes, butterflies, seeds, etc.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · Jul 29

Year of the Cow 🌾🌙

A digital watercolor and ink drawing of a procession of oxen going up a hill and over a bridge that sits atop a waterfall. A horned statue surrounded by candles and offerings stands to the left, while a fruit stand, giant stone cow statue, and paper lanterns appear on the right.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 9d

Album single cover for Andrew Boylan's "Heaven": open.spotify.com/album/3BvEly...

A digital album cover featuring two figures in repose inside transparent houses depicted in space. Representing the sun and moon, they are connected by a cosmic phone line that travels through the remains of an obliterated planet, their thoughts displayed as memories of the planet's primary wonders. The title "heaven" is written in the corner in ribbon script.

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despelote ⚽ OUT NOW! @despelote.game · Feb 24

⚽ despelote is coming May 1st to Switch, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 & 5, and PC - launching alongside the start of #LudoNarraCon! 🙂

Get ready to be immersed in the streets and parks of Quito.

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ACLU @aclu.org · Feb 22

The House could vote next week on drastic cuts to Medicaid that would gut critical programs that protect the civil rights and dignity of millions of Americans — including people with disabilities.

Contact your member of Congress: No cuts to Medicaid.

Congress: Save Medicaid Now

Politicians are attempting to pass devastating cuts to Medicaid right now and we must act fast. Send a message telling your member of Congress to fight back now.

action.aclu.org

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Goss Sheridan @katesheridanart.bsky.social · Feb 22

got around to scanning THE LONG DARK, a riso mini about a knight navigating the perils of the mega dungeon he’s taken refuge in. will share a couple pages

Cover of THE LONG DARK by Kate Sheridan, a dark fantasy mini comic printed in blue riso ink. A knight in a hounskull helmet that conceals his face holds aloft a lantern. Its glow illuminates him, the spiked flail in his other hand, and several stalagmites on the ground nearby while the rest of the image is a sea of dark blue.

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Panel 1
The knight from the cover walks through a doorway in the dungeon into a cryptlike space with many arches, his lamp lighting the path before him.

Panel 2
He then walks down a winding tower-like stone stair, the lamp illuminating part of the stairwell while the rest is dark.

Panel 3
A closeup of the knight’s helm: something has given him pause.

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· 𝕸𝖚𝖈𝖈𝖊𝖌𝖆𝖎 · COMMS OPEN @muccegai.bsky.social · Feb 24

Heed ye...

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つる太 tsuruta @uuutss.bsky.social · Feb 23

#illustration #drawing

人物の全身イラスト　モノクロで背景は赤一色　半分ずつ違う色に染められてツインテールにした髪、濃い化粧、長い爪、ファーコート、ミニスカート、穴の空いているデザインの網タイツ、ハイヒール

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Lur Noise @lurnoise.bsky.social · Jan 8

Kenosis, the sun-powered sailboat.

#TheStaticTraveler

Color illustration of a sailboat with solar sails. The hull is painted white and red, and technical data about it can be seen on the top left corner.

Color illustration of a sailboat with solar sails. The hull is painted white and red, and there's a cutaway section that shows the interior of the boat. The furniture is made of wood and red and green plaid covers the berths and settees.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · Feb 24

Alive, but with burning chronic migraine/muscle pain spasms/insomnia/fatigue, so in constant pain during my waking hours. Hard to look at screens. 🥲

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Olivia Stephens @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social · Feb 16

Please help my lovely & wonderful friends retrieve their belongings! Boosts very very appreciated 💖

Donate to Bring Ty and Ant's Cherished Items Home, organized by Tynesha Foreman

My Husband Ant and I really need your help. All of our appliances, furniture, … Tynesha Foreman needs your support for Bring Ty and Ant's Cherished Items Home

www.gofundme.com

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Lur Noise @lurnoise.bsky.social · Oct 18

Ruins of your Hometown ~*

Illustration of road and sidewalk under a bridge. The road is flooded and fishes swim on it. The illustration is colored with pastel tones.

Color illustration showing the cables and part of the roof of a train station against a sunrise sky. Ivy is growing on part of the structure.

Color illustration. It shows the ruins of two bridge pillars, with red and white stripes, standing on a yellow field. The field has puddles which reflect the blue cloudy sky.

Color illustration showing a snowed corner of a city at sunrise. Several electrical boxes can be seen,with two groups of brown pigeons sleeping atop some of them.

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adam @kumerish.bsky.social · Feb 16

www.brambles.ink

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joe dáire @saint-vagrant.bsky.social · Feb 15

i've got 2 new BIRTH OF THE SUN pages ✌🏻 oh it's after valentine's day, are they romantic? uh, well...

birthofthesun.mov/bots/

a sci-fi story about life shaped by power, a missing father, a mysterious accident, transness, blood, and choice. for mature readers 🔞

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · Feb 16

Light ☀️

Cropped version of "Little Light". A digital illustration of a humanoid creature wearing a pale, yellow dress. She holds her hand out to a speck of light.

Cropped version of "Illuminate". A digital illustration depicting a humanoid woman with a creature resting on her shoulders. The creature has a long body with a glassy, eye-like orb in place of its head. From this orb emits a light that illuminates their surroundings.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · Feb 15

I love this painting and interpretation! So warm and alive!

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Odera Igbokwe @odera.bsky.social · Feb 14

The Lovers are the avatars of embrace, communal care, and pleasure as resistance. Sculpted from the land and rising from the waters, The Lovers ask us when is it time to offer support and when is it time to surrender to care.

↑ Devotion, Reciprocation
❂ Oshun, Ala, Idemmili
↓ Individualism, Neglect

Two brown-skinnned figures emerge from a river of gold, surrounded by sunflowers and mossy gateways. Surrounding them are couples bathed in light with silhouettes suggesting embrace and physical pleasure.
Above them is the all seeing mythpoeic urethra-vulva-celestial blessing.
The two figures embrace is each with their pelves pushed away from each other. Golden light and patterns unite their pelves and legs anyway. The figures merge and unite and grow away and towards each other simultaneously.

The Lovers are the avatars of embrace, communal care, and pleasure as resistance. Sculpted from the land and rising from the waters, The Lovers embrace and create reciprocal foundations.  The Lovers remind us to hold onto each other through the chaos, and to surround ourselves with embodied pleasures. The Lovers ask us when is it time to offer support and when is it time to surrender to care.

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