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Rachel Quinlan

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Rachel Quinlan's avatar Rachel Quinlan @rachelquinlan.bsky.social
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I have a new piece available on Every Day Original - everydayoriginal.com/product/gild...

Part of a series of paintings that involve combine insects with my decorative pattern work.

#sciart #bee #bumblebee #traditionalart

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I don't think what they are doing is helping the cause. It makes the group of people who need to change their habits just think that climate activists are crazy.

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Folk Adventure - a new seamless repeat Available as fabric, wallpaper and decor on Spoonflower

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Looking to commission cover art from a real artist, no AI. Retro sci-fi space cowboy stuff, nice and pulpy! If that’s your jam or the jam of an artist in your Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, I’d love to see some of your work. Thanks!

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A Short Rest - This year's painting for the Detroit Festival of Books.

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It's #DinosaurDay, so here's an extant (Eurasian wren, _Troglodytes troglodytes_) and an extinct one (_Lambeosaurus lambei_). Both watercolours; the wren is painted on paper-backed silk, and the lambeosaur is painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks.

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Thrilled to take a crack at my first wraparound cover, done for @scumbelievable.bsky.social's "dark Dinotopia" novella WYRM. I digitally laid out a medieval tapestry of a battle of men but realized getting the right amount of detail vs my preferred level of "finish" would need an increase in scale

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The Empress - created for 78 Tarot's Medieval deck, which is currently in development.

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The aurora only pushed far enough south last night for about ten minutes, then was gone. Managed to snap a shot from my house. Was lower to the horizon this time.

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Do you have any weather trackers in your area reporting on them. I saw an alert and managed to see them for a few minutes from my house. It came and went within 15 minutes.

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Northern lights from SE Michigan. So cool!

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This fierce fellow has risen to the challenge! This is 7 of Wands from the upcoming 78 Tarot Masters Medieval deck (2025). I'm one of 10 artists creating 8 cards for this deck. I'm excited to start revealing them here! The painting is 6x10 inches, created with ink, watercolor, and acryla gouache.

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I'll be taking part in the next 78 Tarot project, Nautical the New Wave. They've selected an older, favorite painting of mine for the oracle deck. I'm pleased to contribute to another one of their decks!

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Dagger design completed for last night's class.

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Empress card in progress for 78 Tarot Medieval

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A few ways. I ran an artist collective on fb for a bit and acquired a few collectors from that. Some of them watch for my originals on social media when I post them. I also take part in a few exhibitions per year through some online galleries.

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Selling art is hard. I've been growing sales year after year (slowly). The income is a combination of online product sales (stickers, pins, patches), convention sales, original art sales and some freelance work for ttrpgs.

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"the witch", 16x20 cut paper, acrylic, oils. More old stuff because I feel like it and because my next tarot card is taking much longer than I first thought. This is for a South Korean movie "The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion", highly recommend.

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Just a gnome wizard making her way in the world.

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Frog Island - created for the Dolmenwood RPG

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Rachel Quinlan's avatar Rachel Quinlan @rachelquinlan.bsky.social
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I hear you. Scale is something that I'm constantly adjusting and wrangling. I know people who are really comfortable working smaller. I always feel like my work looks too blobby if I get it too small. Which is to say, you should work at whatever scale works best for you.

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Thanks! I have a hard time working small. I just start large and use larger brushes in the earlier stages. And since these are printed as smaller interior illustrations, I don’t go crazy with background detail.

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They are all on paper that is 12" x 16" or less. Since that's the largest I can fit through my printer. :)

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They all had their own ratios depending on where they were being placed within the book. I had a meeting ahead of time to get all of those details.

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Whew! All 14 paintings that I contribute to the Dolmenwood RPG. The most I've contributed to any one project.

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Read the OP. I agree with the post. I often see a lot of rhetoric in artist circles, though - pushing to only lean into the weird shit that feels authentic to yourself. And I think from a biz standpoint, that only works if the weird shit you like also has mass appeal.

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(Currently Untitled) Two Ravens - 11x14, watercolor on paper. The gold/bronze is from paint I had from my uncle, that he had from the '80s.

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As folklore reminds us, the border between any two things is a traditional place of enchantment: the bridge between two river banks, the wall between the woodlands and the hills, and those interstitial realms where cultures, landscapes, languages, art forms and genres meet.

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My dog has three sleeping forms - the egg, "paint me like your french girls", and three-day-old road kill.

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I've got bills to pay, so I try to manage a balance of work that I know has mass appeal and some that is pushing the boundaries a bit.

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Miyazaki can do what he does, because he's Miyazaki and already beloved. Work I've felt was really me had totally flopped on social media. While work that has fed into more mass appeal has done better.

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We are in the process of developing a community of artists and illustrators within the UK SF/F scene and hope this will be a good source of news, illustration opportunities, exhibitions seeking artists, support and more. If you are interested contact: art@britishfantasysociety.org.

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I have been super bad about posting work to social media lately. So, no surprise that it mostly got missed by people the first time. And thank you! Lovely to see you here. 😊

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I'll go back to twitter and just scream into the void. It seems more productive.

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Wild Tome was selected for inclusion into the Infected By Art annual. Always a nice surprise to be included.

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