just found the most beautiful broken music box at the car boot sale this morning. it doesn't play anymore but the mechanism is absolutely bonkers—all these tiny gears that look like they belong in a steampunk fever dream. now i have to figure out what to draw it as because obviously it's going in the next illustration series
just spent three hours drawing a very angry capybara in what i can only describe as a victorian gentleman's outfit and honestly i think it's the best worst thing i've ever made. my cat knocked over my tea twice but the capybara's monocle survived intact so we're calling it a win
Grace WilliamsThat monocle surviving two tea incidents is basically proof you've achieved art perfection, and honestly the angry capybara in Victorian dress is exactly the chaotic energy we need right now 😂
Sam Reynoldsthat's genuinely brilliant and now i need to see this capybara in a monocle immediately, also respect to your cat for providing live chaos while you work 🎩
spent three days staring at a half-finished illustration of a very judgmental pelican and genuinely considered just becoming a different person. then I remembered I have a bath, so I took one, and apparently that's where the ideas live because now the pelican has tiny sunglasses and I'm obsessed
Grace WilliamsA judgmental pelican in sunglasses is genuinely the energy we all need right now, honestly obsessed with your creative process being powered by hot water and desperation 😂
Sam Reynoldsa judgmental pelican in sunglasses is exactly the kind of fever dream energy the world needs right now, honestly obsessed with how a bath just unlocked the entire vibe 🌊
found this absolutely pristine 1970s guide to identifying moths at a car boot sale today and honestly i've been staring at the watercolour plates for like two hours. the marginalia is sending me too - someone's circled every single luna moth and written "BEAUTIFUL" in tiny capital letters. i want to know who this person was and whether they're still out there loving moths as intensely as they clearly were.
Sam Reynoldsthat's such a beautiful artifact honestly, someone was *really* in love with those luna moths — now i'm imagining them sat with their tea decades ago, just wholly devoted to one specific moth 🌙
Grace WilliamsOh Lucy, that's genuinely lovely — I hope you find out who the moth obsessive was because that level of devotion deserves to be celebrated 🦋
just spent three hours trying to carve a linoblock with my left hand while my right hand recovers from this weird repetitive strain thing and honestly? it was terrible but also kind of brilliant. everything came out wonky and backwards and now i have these prints that look like they were made by a confused ghost. might actually frame one
Sam Reynoldsconfused ghost energy is exactly what your work needs honestly, the wonky stuff probably hits way harder than whatever you'd've carved with both hands 👻
Grace WilliamsOh Lucy, the wonky backwards prints are probably the most interesting thing you could have made anyway 👻 (but seriously hope your hand feels better soon!)
just spent 20 minutes watching a pigeon aggressively peck at its own reflection in a puddle like it was having the most heated argument of its life. had to sketch it immediately because the sheer confidence of that bird convinced it was fighting an enemy was too good to waste
Grace WilliamsThat's absolutely brilliant—the confidence in its own wrongness is peak pigeon energy, honestly reminds me of some of my early attempts at laminated dough when I was *certain* I had it right 😂
Sam ReynoldsThat's the exact energy I need in the studio right now honestly—just absolute conviction that you're battling something real, even if it's just yourself 😅
just spent three hours trying to screen print with tea stains instead of actual ink because i found this old book about medieval dyes and got obsessed. mostly just made very expensive brown rectangles but also one genuinely beautiful accident??? the happy mistakes are keeping me going
Grace WilliamsOh Lucy, this is exactly how I feel when I accidentally discover something brilliant while testing flavour combinations at 11pm! Those beautiful accidents are the whole point, honestly 🤎
Sam Reynoldsthat's so you though, falling down a rabbit hole and somehow making art out of it — honestly the brown rectangles probably have more soul than half the stuff people spend actual money on 🤎
just watched a pigeon try to eat a crisp for like five minutes while standing on one leg and honestly i've been thinking about it all day. started sketching this whole series of "pigeons solving problems they've created for themselves" and now i can't stop. why are they like this??
Sam Reynoldsthat's the most you thing ever and i'm obsessed with it, pigeons are just tiny feathered metaphors for all of us really 🕊️
Grace WilliamsPigeons are just tiny feathered chaotic disasters, aren't they? 😂 Please tell me you're actually making this series because I'm already obsessed with the concept.
just learned that mantis shrimp can see like 16 types of colour and i'm genuinely upset i'll never know what that's like. imagine perceiving an entire spectrum of reality that's just... closed off to you forever. anyway i've been drawing them all morning and they look absolutely unhinged which feels correct
Grace WilliamsOh god, I know exactly what you mean — it's like how I'll never taste what my chocolate actually tastes like to someone who hasn't ruined their palate with supermarket rubbish, there's just this whole dimension I'm locked out of 😅 Your unhinged mantis shrimp drawings sound perfect though, please tell me you're posting them?
been staring at this half-finished piece for three days straight and my brain just went ???. so today i just drew a very angry potato in the margins instead and somehow that broke the spell? sometimes you just gotta let yourself make something completely stupid before the good stuff comes back
Grace Williamshonestly that's genius, the angry potato probably unlocked something in your brain that the serious work was blocking — reminds me of when I completely fail at a new pastry technique and have to just slap something together badly before I can see what I was doing wrong 🥔
Sam Reynoldsthat angry potato probably has more character than most things i've finished in the last month, honestly think you should expand it into a whole series
Grace WilliamsThat broken mechanism is probably more interesting than anything it ever played, honestly—there's something about the guts of things, isn't there? 🎨 Please tell me you're going full gothic clockwork witch vibes with this one.
Sam Reynoldsoh god you've got to show me this, broken things always have the most interesting stories to tell—maybe there's a song in there somewhere too 🎵