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SWEET PEAS

#drawing #illustration #artists on tumblr #art #print #gardening #poem #sweet peas #seedlings #spring #pencil crayon #snail mail

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BUTTERFLY & WILDFLOWERS

Silkscreen print, 11" x 9.25", 2021.

#drawing #illustration #art #printmaking #artists on tumblr #print #silkscreen #screenprinting #screen print #screen printing #butterfly #wildflowers #monarch butterfly

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SOUNDING SPELL

from my 2021 zine, Family Album.

(Thanks to ArtsNB and my patrons on Patreon for supporting that work!)

#zine #zines #poem #poetry #drawing #illustration #artists on tumblr #art #illustrated poem #illustrated poetry #visual poem #visual poetry #pencil #cat

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LINEAGE SPELL

A poem about my mom's teeth, from my 2021 zine, Family Album.

(Thanks to ArtsNB and my patrons on Patreon for supporting that work! First published in Contemporary Verse 2.)

#zine #zines #illustration #poetry #drawing #poem #art #artists on tumblr #writers on tumblr #visual poem #illustrated poem #illustrated poetry #poets on tumblr #writers and poets #family #mothers #teeth #manitoba

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Working on a new zine about my most space-consuming collecting habit.

#drawing #illustration #artists on tumblr #zine #zines #poetry #poem #art #chair #chairs #chair drawing #pencil crayon #coloured pencils #colored pencil

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SLOW MOVER

A little zine I made last fall about going slow.

(Made with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and my patrons on Patreon! Thank you!)

#zines #drawing #zine #illustration #artists on tumblr #poetry #poem #art #book #little books #books #print #sketchbook #sketch #pencil drawing #pencil #cat #cats #plants #slow #slow mornings #slow down #slow living #slow life #slow going #slow talker #slow walker

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DINK'S SONG

Here's an older zine from 2018, based on the traditional folk song.

#zine #zines #artists on tumblr #poetry #poem #art #folk music #folklore #folk songs #pressed flowers #wildflowers #book art #books #bees

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SAMPLER

Little embroideries of little things.

#embroidery #sampler #embroidered sampler #hand stitching #stitch #needlework #needle point #drawing #illustration #artists on tumblr #art #safety pins #needle and thread #buttons #aster #pressed flowers #wildflowers #asters #purple asters

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Just found your account and have fallen head over heels in love with your zines. There's such a delicacy and tenderness to your poetry and art, the vibrant yet slightly muted colors, rendering each seed on a strawberry, capturing the smallest of details of things to cherish their beauty. I especially adore "Small Consolations for Lazy Gardeners" and "Dear Old Friend" (that first stanza, "I've been pretending that death is a dream, / something for others, for an unlikely future, for fiction..." hit right in the heart.) I look forward to getting more acclimated with your work in the future!

This is really kind! Thank you for reading!

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SMALL CONSOLATIONS FOR THE CLIMATE ANXIETY THAT KEEPS YOU UP FOR HOURS IN THE NIGHT

From my zine, Small Consolations.

(Made with support from The Canada Council for the Arts. A big thank you to them!)

#drawing #illustration #artists on tumblr #zine #zines #poetry #poem #art #illustrated poem #illustrated poetry #climate anxiety #eco anxiety #anxiety #writers on tumblr #writing #cat #dishes

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DEAR CORRESPONDENT

Here's an older one from 2018. I still like this drawing of my clogged bathroom sink.

The bar is the bar. The parking lot, the parking lot.

#drawing #illustration #poetry #poem #artists on tumblr #illustrated poem #illustrated poetry #visual poem #visual poetry #zine #writers on tumblr #zines #writers and poets #writing

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SPELL FOR THE END OF THE WORLD

A little zine about the end of the world from 2020.

(Made with support from CAFKA- Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area, Canada Council for the Arts, and CBC/Radio-Canada.)

#zines #zine #drawing #illustration #poetry #poem #artists on tumblr #end of the world #apocalypse #art #book #books #visual poetry #visual poem #illustrated poem #illustrated poetry

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CAT.

#cat #artists on tumblr #drawing #illustration #pencil #pencil drawing #sketchbook

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Stickers!

http://www.laurakwatson.com/store

#stickers #sticker sheet #artists on tumblr #drawing #illustration #pencil crayon #coloured pencils #colored pencil

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IN BLOOM

Another little, screen-printed zine about feeling like you're living through the end of the world, from a couple years ago.

Made with the support of Atelier Imago and Linda Dornan/MarshWindsSmithy.

#zine #zines #drawing #illustration #artists on tumblr #poetry #poem #printmaking #silkscreen #print #screenprinting #book #books #book art #bookmaking #writing #diary comic #diary #apocalypse #end of the world #pandemic

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DREAMING SPELL

A little poem from my zine, "Family Album," about suburbia and inherited dreams and childhood witchcraft.

#drawing #illustration #artists on tumblr #zines #zine #illustrated poetry #visual poem #poem #poetry #visual poetry #poets on tumblr #suburbia #pencil #writing #suburbs #dreams #dreaming #spells

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THANK YOU CARDS

#drawing #illustration #artists on tumblr #pencil crayon #coloured pencils #colored pencil #cards #greeting cards #thank you #thank you cards #snail mail #botanical drawing #botanical illustration #plants #aster #oak leaf #anemones #flowers #pressed flowers