The Rival Queens

Work in progress.

He Cannot Get the Moon He Cries For.

He Cannot Get the Moon He Cries For. by Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler.
8" x 10" acrylic on heavy, acid-free paper. An anthropomorphized moth under the full moon. Inspired by the Victorian era illustrations depicting insects as anthropomorphized cherub-things. Lots of fairy tale charm.

Felix

Painting inspired by the story of Saint Felix in the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine. Saint Felix was a third century saint who evaded capture by Roman soldiers by hiding in a vacant house whilst spiders miraculously wove webs across the doorway, making it look like no one had passed through.

Felix here is an intrepid Victorian anthropologist, showing us spider specimens. Behind him is the chemical composition for spider venom written on the chalkboard. An entomologist's reverie.
8" x 10" acrylic on acid free paper by Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler.

Felix does not contain the black bars nor the "My Good Babushka" watermark included here for security and formatting purposes.

Embroidery

Started a new embroidery. Forgot to take a picture of the larger drawing. There is a bright, almost tropical, Jacobean fantasy floral arrangement, with bugs, there is a moth sketched in there. Then above that is a skeleton, but I didn't get it in the picture this time.