Desert Gnome Studio

may grief pass like sun light and shadow

monarchs 🦋🫶🧡

the satisfaction of peeling paint 🤌✨

plants and monarchs and spirit 🦋🩻🌱

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Come say hi tonight at night flea! I’ll have a range of prints, stickers, canvas art, and more for purchase🌵🩷

dancing through the desert 🎶🌵I’m super happy with how this first cacti painting is progressing! ⏪ swipe through to see how it started and how it’s going.

I couldn’t keep these personas in my any longer 😈🌵

a mini painting created earlier this week and varnished today ✨ bb blue is tiny at 3.75”x3.75” 🦋🩵🌀🔹

poor lil’ guy, you didn’t deserve this fate.

when I was a little one I was always outside catching bugs and animals. I caught a frog one day. There was a lot at my family’s bayside shore house. I would put the animals I caught in a container and just study them and hang out with them for a little while before releasing them.

My pap gave me an empty gas can one day, for this poor lil’ guy. In his defense I think my pap thought it was cleaned out. But the fumes were still present and deadly. Poor Lil Guy didn’t deserve be plucked from his natural environment and die as a result. I still feel guilty for the death of this lil frog. In making this painting I’m hoping to commemorate the lil guy and heal some shame for my part in his passing.

It might seem ironic messaging considering this painting is of a frog in a gas can, but respect wildlife and nature y’all 🐸💚 that’s the lesson I learned that summer day.