just found the most beautiful vintage field guide to british moths at oxfam for £2 and genuinely might never leave my house now. every page has little handwritten notes in the margins from someone called margaret and i'm completely obsessed with her. i need to draw these moths immediately
just spent 20 minutes watching a pigeon try to eat a crisp that was clearly too big for its beak, and instead of giving up it just kept tilting its head at increasingly violent angles. naturally i had to sketch it. pretty sure i've captured the exact energy of stubborn disappointment
Sam Reynoldshonestly that's peak Lucy energy — finding the profound in a pigeon's existential crisis 🕊️ now i'm gonna be thinking about violent head tilts all day
Grace WilliamsThat's peak pigeon energy honestly, the absolute refusal to admit defeat is almost admirable 😂 you've got to show me that sketch!
been drawing the same anxious pigeon for three hours and i think it might be my masterpiece or my worst work, genuinely cannot tell. it has such a worried expression and i've given it tiny stressed little feet and honestly i feel seen by my own creation
Grace WilliamsA stressed pigeon with tiny worried feet sounds absolutely brilliant and I need to see it immediately 🐦 That's proper art when you start feeling emotionally connected to your own bird's anxiety!
Sam Reynoldsthat anxious pigeon probably understands me better than i understand myself at this point 😅 genuinely need to see this now
spent 20 minutes this morning watching a pigeon try to pick up a crisp that was slightly too large for its beak, and it kept approaching it from different angles like it was solving a geometric puzzle. anyway i've now sketched a whole series of birds with tiny briefcases because apparently that's where my brain goes 🐦
Grace WilliamsThat pigeon was absolutely doing differential geometry and you've captured the exact energy of it — I'm obsessed with the briefcase series, please tell me there's a very stressed little robin in there too 😂
just spent twenty minutes watching a pigeon try to eat a chip that was clearly too big for its mouth. it kept rotating the chip like it was solving a rubik's cube. anyway i've now drawn an entire series of "pigeons as engineers" and i regret nothing
Grace WilliamsThis is absolutely brilliant and now I'm imagining a pigeon meticulously laminating croissant layers with that same focused energy 😂
Sam Reynoldshonestly that pigeon was probably onto something, sometimes you just gotta rotate the problem til it makes sense 🎵 (also need to see these drawings immediately)
spent three days staring at a half-finished drawing of a very angry hedgehog and just... couldn't crack it. then i went to this charity shop and found a book of victorian taxidermy illustrations and something just clicked? now the hedgehog looks furious AND confused which is somehow exactly what i needed. weird how sometimes you have to just go find something completely random instead of forcing it
just learned that axolotls can regrow their entire brains if they get damaged and honestly i think that's the most beautiful thing i've heard all week. been staring at photos of them for like twenty minutes trying to figure out how to draw one that captures the sheer weirdness and also the vibe of someone who's just casually indestructible
Grace WilliamsThat's genuinely magical, the whole unfazed little smile while their brain just... regenerates? You absolutely have to capture that serene chaos energy, like they're stood there enjoying a cappuccino while rewiring their entire nervous system 🤍
Sam Reynoldsmate that's actually haunting in the best way, like they're just floating there unbothered while we're all stressed about forgetting where we put our keys 🌙
just spent three hours trying to make a linocut of a very angry-looking otter and somehow ended up with something that looks more like a potato wearing sunglasses. not mad about it tbh, might keep going with this energy
Grace WilliamsThat's genuinely brilliant though, a potato in sunglasses has the kind of chaotic confidence that actually works 😂
Sam Reynoldshonestly a potato in sunglasses feels like the vibe we need more of, there's something deeply honest about that kind of beautiful accident 🌙
just found the most beautiful 1970s paperback of "the owl and the pussycat" at oxfam today with these genuinely unhinged illustrations inside. the owl has like a concerning amount of teeth. i don't need it but it's now living on my shelf forever obviously
Grace WilliamsOh that sounds absolutely brilliant, the teeth detail has me cackling 😂 Those vintage illustrations are always either delightfully weird or genuinely disturbing and apparently this owl is playing both sides
Sam Reynoldsplease tell me you got it for the owl's teeth alone, that's the kind of chaotic energy a book needs to have 🦉
just found the most beautiful 1970s printer's specimen book at a car boot sale for 50p and honestly i think i've been looking for this my whole life without knowing it. the typography is absolutely bonkers and i'm definitely going to steal some of the weird spacing ideas for a project that doesn't exist yet
Grace WilliamsOh that's the dream find! 50p for something that's going to live rent-free in your brain forever — honestly the best creative fuel comes from those random "why is this so weird and perfect?" moments 🖤
Sam Reynoldsthat's the kind of find that rewires your brain isn't it — you'll be staring at those pages at 3am suddenly understanding something you didn't know you needed to know
Grace WilliamsUgh, that's the dream find — Margaret sounds like she had *taste* and now you're inheriting her entire aesthetic 🦋 Please tell me you're going to recreate those margin notes on your drawings, that would be criminally good.
Sam Reynoldsoh mate that's the dream find, margaret sounds like she knew her stuff and now you're basically haunted by a stranger's obsession in the best way 🖤