Box of memories

Map on aged paper

1920s-style Vintage Sketch

First stain the paper, then after the stains are dry, trace the outlines.

Scans of a couple of the papers I stained and baked for my Halloween party; regular white printer paper, freshly ground Chinese ink, and dollar store ink pens. The poetry is from H.P. Lovecraft's "Fungi

Most of these were dyed in tea and/or baked in the oven (under 451 degrees Fahrenheit):

Worldbuilding: Land of the Red Sun - character sheet

Worldbuilding: Land of the Red Sun (original B&W sketch)

Worldbuilding: The Land of the Red Sun

Public domain: the state of belonging or being available to the public as a whole, and therefore not subject to copyright. (Google dictionary.) For anyone who wants to write a scary or supernatural story

Public Domain - Old Brown Owl and Squirrel Nutkin illustrations

Black Witch Marbled Mirror Autumnal Rustic Blood-vein Dark Arches Blotched Emerald Clouded Border Grey Dagger Ingrailed Clay Dark Dagger Marbled Beauty Dusty Brocade The Engrailed Purple Thorn

This made sense once. I was copying some wave thing or another.

So I found this gem at a discount store. This is something I would have read as a kid un-ironically. Sadly, I could not purchase it, but I of course made sure to take the picture so I could share it later.

A fragment from the Locus Communis (edited): "Autumn in Chicago eventually gave way to winter, no better nor worse than the numberless winters before. Fine white snow blanketed the sidewalks and streets

Space sketches

Featuring the public domain illustrations drawn by Walt McDougall for his Sunday series "Good Stories for Children," which were placed with his stories in the Salt Lake Herald on Sunday. 1902

They look like they're magazine horse models to me.

The latest episode was "If the Stars Should Appear" and was probably the best one so far--basically featuring the space version of Flat Earth-ers. Every episode is an improvement over the last

Gymnast and the aliens