Wolfie

Happy Equinox you lovely, freaky critters Here are some snippets of the creations I’m offering to y’all in this shifting season. Some hide work, some (machine washable) painting on fabric experimentation, some adornments, some available handpoke designs…. Moooost everything is sliding scale. Check out these offerings in my link in bio, or: /

This morning I went for a very very sweet and very very wet walk in the woods with the sweetest seed-starting-genius-grandmother to look for the ginseng she had planted several years ago. We didn’t find it. But we did find all the trilliums and Dutchman’s britches and may flowers. I’ve had this song stuck in my ears all afternoon 💚 I have a couple sheepskins and leather crafts available for yall and will be accepting tattooing requests end of May. If you wanna check out hide work or be updated about tattoo requests, follow the bobolink (the bio link, the link in my bio). Ear!! Thank you endlessly for your trust, raucous pop songs, and bubbly, witty banter.

Time for tiptoeing to avoid stepping on ephemerals and for tending our many seeds (mine are primarily metaphorical seeds this year…but still). I’ll be taking requests for tattooing for June and July soooon (requests will be open May 22nd-29th) and if ya wanna be reminded of those dates directly, you should give me your email or something (website in bio).

Red winged blackbird (ft. the first colts foot I found this spring 💛💛 So so sweet to reconnect with old friends (both the human critter and the birds returning)

Smoking sheep hides… an oversimplified explanation of what’s happening here: Natural tanning relies on treating the hide with tannins and fats. Whereas commercial ‘chem’ or ‘veg’ tanning strips and replaces the natural oils and proteins in the hide and replaces them with aldehydes. There are many different methods for naturally treating hides with tannins and fats, one method is smoking them. Before smoking, these hides were frost scraped, dried, treated with egg and oil, and softened. The tannins from the smoke bind with the fats and proteins in the hide. If you had gotten these hides wet before smoking, they would have dried as stiff rawhide. Now that they have been smoked, they can be exposed to moisture and still be soft and supple when dried.

Birds humming their songs ones I promise I’ll never forget. Feeling pretty impossible to not be wrapped in the cycles of death and rebirth right now… A songbird and it’s skeleton for the sweetest critter. Design is from my non-repeating flash, if you wanna see future flash designs and such go join my email list. Love you 💜

THE PEEPERS ARE OUT!!! We made it to the other end of deep winter.

I got to design with the most lovely, creative soul. She’s an animator and creative director who more recently works for a small company who’s developing AI. I was nervous. Nervous that I would be treated like AI. Nervous that my slow, messy, human process wouldn’t be valued or trusted. I felt like I needed to be so so messy and chaotic with the first draft I sent, to show that I’m human. Even, perhaps, to scare her off if she wasn’t up for mucking around with the imperfection of human art. Thank you for fielding those first hideous sketches I sent and for seeing and trusting the vision all the way through. So so much love to you in your new chapter 🖤🖤

“ I saw you and the way you’re hunching over your work like a puzzle, and I think even if I fail at everything, I still want to point out the heron like I was taught, still want to slow the car down to see the thing that makes it all better, the invisible gift, what we see when we stare long enough into nothing. “ From “The Great Blue Heron of Dunbar Road” Ada Limón Great blue heron (mostlyyyy healed with a few little finishing touches). For the sweetest @redclover.gwendolyne , thanks for reading me ooey gooey snail lore as we worked 🤍 Mostlyyyy healed with some little finishing touches)

Creatures romping through the forests in search of their new home. What will it take for us to slow the fuck down? To listen deeply to our neighbors our communities our loved ones our lands our own bodies. May these serve as reminders to pause and to be enchanted. ::::::::::NOTES ON FLASH:::::::::: 🌞I’m now offering ‘flash’ designs as either ‘repeatable’ or ‘non-repeating’. These ‘non-repeating’ designs will only be tattooed on one person. 🌞If these critters are calling to you, fill out my design request form (linked in bio). My form will be open March 20-27th, and then I’ll be getting back to folks about accepted requests shortly after. 🌞These non-repeating designs will only be available during this coming request window (March 20-27). If you’re feeling kinda ‘fuck social media’ these days and would like direct updates on my handpoking and hide work offerings, go join my email list (website linked in bio). Thanks for being

For a while now I’ve been craving a more cyclical nature to my creative practices. Shifting with the seasons and allowing me to hold more focused time for deeper creativity. Here’s how I’m restructuring my tattooing to (hopefully) reflect this: 🪱Design request windows (first one on the Spring Equinox, March 20) I will have short windows where my design request form is open, and will schedule accepted requests for the following month or two. Design request windows will be for both flash and custom. Custom requests I accept will be scheduled after designing is done and we’re both ready. 🪱Non-repeating flash I will have a limited amount of repeatable flash and the rest will be non-repeating (only ever tattooed on one person). 🪱Non-repeating flash ONLY for the following request window For a long time I’ve wanted to offer non-repeating flash, but didn’t like that it felt first-come-first-served… Restructuring how I’m accepting request will make it so that I’m dosing the projects I’m most excited about rather than just whoever is scrolling enough to claim flash first. And it’ll push me to draw more of what I want to draw and get to tattoo that when I’m actively excited about it rather than than stuff from ages ago :) Thanks for being here and trying something new with me 🤍 If you wanna be updated directly when I’m accepting design requests, go join my email list (website link in bio).