A bit more catlike than I meant, originally\u2014but would you believe I started with a mushroom? I did, but it didn\u2019t work that way, so I made it fuzzy, in a hat instead of a mushroom cap, and with two mushrooms in its bouquet, instead.<\/p>\n
I did have Lillian Hoban\u2019s art work style in mind, yes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I think this needs to be printed on watercolor paper and painted sometime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A bit more catlike than I meant, originally\u2014but would you believe I started with a mushroom? I did, but it didn\u2019t work that way, so I made it fuzzy, in a hat instead of a mushroom cap, and with two mushrooms in its bouquet, instead. I did have Lillian Hoban\u2019s… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-lk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1529,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/coloring-goodness-beastie-in-hat-with-bouquet\/","url_meta":{"origin":1322,"position":0},"title":"Coloring Goodness \/\/ Beastie in hat with bouquet","author":"Kir","date":"1 September 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Coloring page posted for patrons: beastie & bouquet","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/5723ff349900f31955b08691a00eb5e8.jpg?fit=840%2C470&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/5723ff349900f31955b08691a00eb5e8.jpg?fit=840%2C470&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/5723ff349900f31955b08691a00eb5e8.jpg?fit=840%2C470&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/5723ff349900f31955b08691a00eb5e8.jpg?fit=840%2C470&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":90,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/mouse-with-flowers\/","url_meta":{"origin":1322,"position":1},"title":"“Mouse with Flowers”","author":"Kir","date":"19 March 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Mom had some scraps of mat board she was getting rid of, so I thought I'd try my hand at a technique I've seen Jessica Douglas [link] do some time ago. (Go see her very fabulous art, even though there's nothing quite like this in her gallery right now.) So.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Drawing of a mouse holding a bouquet of flowers. Colored pencil on matboard. 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What is this kind of weapon called, do you know? I don't! I know there's a story here but I don't know what it is... \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Having fun still working out darks and lights with HB and 4B pencils, mostly. This one\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2f0621f133eb665b3a85d41a5ab6a34d.jpg?fit=500%2C711&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1938,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-spindleshroom\/","url_meta":{"origin":1322,"position":4},"title":"Sketchbook \/\/ Spindleshroom","author":"Kir","date":"7 March 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Mushrooms aren't that heavy, but I'd imagine if you're a mushroom fae that you might need to run about now and then in order to escape things. Like turtles. Turtles eat mushrooms. 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