makes pretty things on paper
Unlucky grasshoppers trapped in cages to bring good luck.
Hello friends! I have a whole bunch of prints of my work that are all fancy and matted in preparation for a show coming up in Seattle! Want any of them? They’re $10 total (that includes shipping within the US). Anything on this site is up for grabs, plus a bunch more photos I’ll be posting soon. Email me at racheladmasart@gmail.com if you’d like some.
An old VW found in Antigua, Guatemala.
Hello friends! I have a whole bunch of prints of my work that are all fancy and matted in preparation for a show coming up in Seattle! Want any of them? They’re $10 total (that includes shipping within the US). Anything on this site is up for grabs, plus a bunch more photos I’ll be posting soon. Email me at racheladmasart@gmail.com if you’d like some.
I lived on a boat (31 ft Island Packet named Dragonfly) for a while, and it was perfect and horrible and exciting and boring and mind-blowing and cold. This was a particularly good day.
Found while visiting a friend in Prague (I think? Or maybe Budapest?).
Pancakes for my best friend’s birthday. She makes such incredible pancakes that she earned the trail name Pancakes when she hiked the 2650 mile long Pacific Crest Trail. She’s an absolute badass mountaineer, baker, crocheter, artist, and human, and she has a fantastic hiking blog that everyone should read.
Bonus: the most perfect cat in the world scoping out my paint water (don’t worry, she didn’t drink any).
Hope you’re having a lovely day and creating and enjoying. Cheers, R.
Ruins of a church found while walking El Camino in Viana, Spain. It’s a spooky feeling, being inside of a massive cathedral that’s missing a roof, most walls, and stained glass.
Some nice windows in Spain for your Sunday afternoon. Cheers, friends.
Ok, one more pelican post because they just look like small dinosaurs and lovely and terrifying. Another from the living on a boat year in Destin. He was standing like this on the pier right off our boat and made me nervous enough that I just stayed put on the boat til he left. Because he’s almost my size and I’m not trying to fight a mini-dinosaur.
Cheers!
It’s another small round bird! The chickadee. I like these buddies a whole lot. 10/10, top notch bird. Keep on keeping on, funky hooded friend.
Hello, Friendly Friday! Here’s my Electrical submission.
A warning, straight lines, and straight grime found in a station in Xian, China (or maybe Beijing? I can’t remember…).
Hope you’re having a fantastic Tuesday, friends.
Another tiny round bird (to follow the golden-crown kinglet and junco)! Bushtits are very noisy and chattery small friends. They have a lot to talk about I guess. Like cracking jokes about their fantastic name. To protect their dignity, I guess I’ll mention that the “tit” part comes from the Old Icelandic “titr” meaning something small. They also weave fancy hanging nests.
10/10 top notch bird.
Shout out to my mom, who loves the bushtit and taught me to identify it (even if I can’t quite draw it right). Except I keep pretending that I don’t recognize what type of bird it is just to get a chuckle from my lovely, excitable mom saying “bushtit” over and over. Hi mom, I love you.
GOD IS LOVE
JESUS IS COMING SOON
REPENT
72 YRS
Last in my series from The Cross Garden in Alabama. A surreal and unnerving expanse of a place. Part 1 / Part 2
GOD SAID THE WORLD COMING TO A END
MOM IN HELL FROM SEX
IN HELL FIRE HOT
SEX USED WRONG WAY IN HELL
READ THE BIBLE
Photo from The Cross Garden in Alabama. A surreal and unnerving expanse of a place.
SEX PIT
HELP ME JESUS
HELL IS HOT HOT HOT
THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END
Photo from The Cross Garden in Alabama. A surreal and unnerving expanse of a place.
A pile of building in Guatemala
Get stickers/prints of the whole series here
Have you dreamed of having more space to roam? This infinitely spacious backyard overlooks the moons of Saturn as well as the glamorous endless abyss that is the void of space.
The Modern Celestial Realty Group is thrilled to announce our latest home for you to make yours, located in serene and trendy Deep Space. Call today to schedule a viewing of this property.
Full features include: a homey living room, modern full bath, two spacious bedrooms, cozy study, and endless backyard.
Bonus, since this is the last in this series:
This is what my space looked like when I was half finished with the first piece I was working on. Had to keep migrating around the room, because there were so many scraps of paper everywhere. Or maybe I have a Pretty Bits of Paper hoarding problem.
Hope you liked this series and are having a great week.
Cheers, R
With a cozy study gently warmed by the blazing surface of the sun, who needs a fire place? Large floor-to-ceiling windows allow plenty of constant sunlight to illuminate your reading.
The Modern Celestial Realty Group is thrilled to announce our latest home for you to make yours, located in serene and trendy Deep Space. Call today to schedule a viewing of this property.
Full features include: a homey living room, modern full bath, two spacious bedrooms, cozy study, and endless backyard.
Full bath with a stunning view of the great storm of Jupiter. With this view, you will be excited to excuse yourself from company!
The Modern Celestial Realty Group is thrilled to announce our latest home for you to make yours, located in serene and trendy Deep Space. Call today to schedule a viewing of this property.
Full features include: a homey living room, modern full bath, two spacious bedrooms, cozy study, and endless backyard.
A truly stellar bedroom, furnished with a bed frame, canopy, and wardrobe made of Wood (a product of Trees, indigenous to Earth).
The Modern Celestial Realty Group is thrilled to announce our latest home for you to make yours, located in serene and trendy Deep Space. Call today to schedule a viewing of this property.
Full features include: a homey living room, modern full bath, two spacious bedrooms, cozy study, and endless backyard.
A luxurious master bedroom fit for royalty, featuring an unbeatable view of Mars. Complete with rare antique Books (a primitive reading medium originating on Earth) and modern lighting.
The Modern Celestial Realty Group is thrilled to announce our latest home for you to make your own, located in serene and trendy Deep Space. Call today to schedule a viewing of this property.
Full features include: a homey living room, modern full bath, two spacious bedrooms, cozy study, and endless backyard.
A spacious living area fully furnished with plush chairs, modern lighting fixtures, fine art, and more.
The Modern Celestial Realty Group is thrilled to announce our latest home for you to make yours, located in serene and trendy Deep Space. Call today to schedule a viewing of this property.
Full features include: a homey living room, modern full bath, two spacious bedrooms, cozy study, and endless backyard.
Juncos are all over here up in Seattle and have plenty of personality. Top notch bird.
Juncos are flocking birds with a distinct social hierarchy. They forage on the ground in these groups, scratching with their feet to find food. The flash of white tail feathers serve as a signal that alerts members of the flock when one is alarmed.
This fellow is the Golden-crowned Kinglet, and he is quite small and tough. I have yet to see one in person, but I hope to some day since they live around here near Seattle.
One of our tiniest birds, the Golden-crowned Kinglet is remarkable in its ability to survive in cold climates. Nesting in northern forest, wintering throughout much of the continent, it is usually in dense conifers which undoubtedly help provide shelter from the cold.
Audubon.org
Tell me about your favorite birds?
The Devil’s Hole Pupfish is a uniquely spectacular specimen. Considered the rarest fish on Earth, the entire species lives in a 2m x 4m pool in the middle of the desert near Death Valley National Park in California. It’s a one-inch endangered fish that lives in the middle of the desert. In a pool called The Devil’s Hole. In Death Valley. What a bold little species. You’re truly noble beasts, small friends. We wish you the best.
Nothing too wild and exciting today, just some practice in vine charcoal and some of my bird friends.
Want to do a big, pretty piece of one of these guys soon, because I think they’re just fantastic tiny, round beasts, but something about their shape is just so hard for me draw. Anyone have suggestions on resources for learning to them?
Shoutout to a couple of my bird friends that pop by my window for peanuts.
Tell me about your favorite birds? Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend and enjoying creating/capturing beautiful things.
I have $3 stickers for sale now! (There’s also some prints and cards, too.)
Ran across these two roaming around in the Pyrenees mountains while walking El Camino. I think it’d be nice to be reincarnated as one of them.
Black and white charcoal. Always trying to improve at portraits and appreciate any advice or suggestions you might have.
Stickers for $4 / Prints for $22
I think big, alien emptinesses are nice, so I really enjoyed spending a couple of days in Death Valley recently. Sleeping in my car. With another human. When the temperature was 109 F. Ok maybe the park itself was more of a highlight than the sleeping arrangement. The salt flats at sunset are surreal, and the ground makes creaky noises at some times due to the salt crystals expanding or contracting.
$4 Stickers! / Prints from $22
I think it’s uniquely beautiful when nature becomes monochrome. It feels still and quiet, bleak but also cozy at the same time. Found this tree while hiking. It’s a full color photo with no edits.
When I lived in Minnesota and winter settled in, the only color to really be found was a incredibly blue sky now and then. The ground was white. The trees were black. The plowed roads were a grey mush. Walking along the sidewalk, the piles of snow that surrounded you on both sides had a striations of white and grey.
Here in Seattle, it’s similar minus the snow. The streets are black, the sky is eternally grey for several months of the year. The clouds hang so low that they feel like being buried under a warm blanket. The morning fog sometimes obscures sight completely, making everything white.
Ok, one non-artsy-fartsy photo just for fun, because this is making me fondly remember walking ten block to class on sidewalks like this.
There are a lot of images of the solar eclipse of 2017. Images of massive celestial bodies roaring through the vacuum of space and happening to align briefly in such a immensely spectacular way that our ancestors fell to their knees and knew the gods were coming to destroy all they controlled. Images that one could describe as: jaw-dropping or awe-inspiring or breath-taking or otherworldly.
I present to you my own image of that eclipse.
I think one could describe it as: adorable.
This was the view when I watched it through some supremely fashionable eclipse glasses. Put the glasses on my camera to see what would happen, and wound up with this shot of the just the sweetest, most unassuming lil eclipse.
COMPUTER, ENHANCE.
Being able to see a (partial) solar eclipse was absolutely incredible. Nature knocked it out of the park when it came up with that idea. Thanks, nature.
