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Progress!

#snow white #colored pencil #fairy tale #faery tale #snowdrop #the brothers grimm #Illustration

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: colored pencil on, gasp!, Strathmore Illustration Board.  Not my favorite, but nice just the same.

#wizard of oz #oz #Illustration #l. frank baum #DOROTHY GAle #the wonderful wizard of oz #the tin-man #the scarecrow #the cowardly lion #the wicked witch of the west #glinda #the good witch of the north #silver slippers #flying monkeys #emerald city #munchkins #colored pencil

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Snow White drawing phase done-time for color!!!!!!!!!

#drawing #process #snow white #the brothers grimm #evil queen #brothers grimm #fairy tale #folk tale #poisoned apple #glass coffin

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Silly fan girl drawing of my favorite comic book villain.  I’m gonna make it into a real finished piece. I like her cause’ she’s a completely unhinged environmental radical who is also possessed by plants.  How fun!

#poison ivy #poison #batman #dc comics #villain #environmentalist #environmentalism #comic book characters #crazy plant lady #pamela lillian isley

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The Great Pontificator-colored pencil on Stonehenge

#colored pencil #ghost #moths #hollow #heartless #dead #phantom #illustration #spirit #phototaxis

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Once upon a time, in the middle of winter, when the snowflakes were falling like feathers from the sky, a queen sat sewing at her window, and the window frame was made of ebony wood. And as she was sewing, and looking down at the snow, she pricked her finger, and three drops of blood fell into the snow. And the queen thought the red looked so pretty against the white that she wished to have a child who was as red as blood, as white as snow, and as black as ebony wood.  Soon after, the queen gave birth to a child who was as red as blood, white as snow, and as black as ebony wood, and she named the child Snow White.  And when the child was born, the queen died...

I’m truly obsessed with this fairy tale.  I search to find the means to do it justice.

#snow white #Little Snow Drop #the brothers grimm #dark fairy tale #fairy tale #folk tale #classic stories #illustration #snow white and the seven dwarves #owl #raven #dove #crescent moon #three drops of blood

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Helped set up the Conversation Booth at the Rochester Public Market yesterday in conjunction with the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence.  Yes, this place exists in real life. Yes, this place is as awesome as the namesake suggests.  Please check them out: www.gandhiinstitute.org, and better yet, come visit, you will be warmly welcomed.  Just another reason why Rochester, NY is one of the most fabulous places to be in. 

#empathy #conversation booth #rochester #ny #gandhi #m.k. gandhi #mahatma gandhi #nonviolent communication #conversation #free cookies #strangers become friends #pink chairs #i love rochester

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Process for “Semone”  The original is for sale.  Please message me if you are interested in purchasing it.

#original art #colored pencil #process #growth

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More sketches for a new piece

#the brothers grimm #snow white #little snowdrop #glass coffin #sketch #illustration #fairy tale #faery tale #folk tale #classics

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Pretty disgusted with the Tampa Tribune right now

Yesterday, a Black trans woman was found murdered, and the article in the Trib had the headline “MAN DRESSED AS A WOMAN FOUND DEAD.”

The article made several mentions of the fact that the person found was in fact a dude in a dress, one who had a prior arrest for pot possession.

Black trans women face more violence and are murdered more often than any other group in the US.

Her name was India Clarke.  She was a woman. Her life matters.

I’m honestly pretty speechless.  

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Developmental phases of of our “Earth Mama” puppet for the Rochester, NY pride parade.  It’s already great to be human, being queer is the sweet, sweet icing on a brilliant cake. Last photo property of Rocco Hagen. Don’t go usin’ it all willy-nilly.

#pride #pride 2015 #queer #gender queer #it's great to be alive #giant puppet #outer pride queer contingency #barbarella #rochester #ny #earth goddess #gaia #swinging tits #rainbow #taste the rainbow #gay #lesbian #sexuality #gender fluid

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I’ve had a weird obsession with mermaids since birth.  This is my ode to them.

#mermaid #mermaids #mythological creatures #water #elemental #ondine #undine #monsters #lyre #pisces #cancer #giant clam #scorpio #calypso #mermaid's lagoon #moon #mirror #aloof #mysterious creatures of the eternal deep #intuition #flow #mean girls

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Semone

Colored Pencil on Stonehenge

#floating island #burning house #rust #surrealism #pop surrealism #roots #beautiful woman #farm house

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The Wood Wife

Colored Pencil on Stonehenge

#decay #death #beauty #fairy tale #faery tales #demon #demon lover #nurture #innocence

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“The Engine “ colored pencil on my favorite buttery, cottony paper: Stonehenge.  

Stonehenge

I wish I could bathe 

In a sea of creamy, dreamy, Stonehenge

paper

Alas I cannot

My pain is endless

a poem by M. Rork Maiellano

#seraphim #heavenly bodies #owl #raven #dove #egg #life cycle #life #demon #hollow eyes #gears #birth #fire in the head

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My favorite by Willy Shakes

#william shakespeare #ass #fairy #faery #fairies #fairie #midsummer's night dream #moss #queen #rork maiellano #beastiality #magic mushrooms #illustration #daliance #naughty forest sex