Jay H. Holloway @Bonesnail@mastodon.art

Hi! My name is Jay Holloway, and I am a freelance illustrator with a love for landscapes and monsters. Just as a heads up, some of my illustrations may contain horror/surreal elements, and body horror.

Portfolio: bonesnail.com
Twitter/Tumblr/IG: bonesnail
Support Me: https://ko-fi.com/bonesnail

https://mastodon.art/media/SwoE1FM4-rruXQEyjRM

Was experimenting with fire/glowing and it kinda ended up a bust. I definitely want to do a big piece of this in the future! #art #Mastoart #watercolor #dragon #traditional

Holiday gift art for a neighbor of their dragon OC!

#art #mastoart #mastodonart #watercolor #traditional #dragon #blue

Fox watercolor studies from Google. #watercolor #art #fox #animal

I’ve been starting all my most recent watercolors with a super wet wash. I feel like it lays a great foundation!
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#art #WIP #watercolor

Here’s something I learned about painting plants: it’s extremely uncommon for plants to have no warm undertones, so adding little bits of reds, browns, or purples makes them look much more realistic!

Verdant
#Mastodonart #art #creativetoots #watercolor #traditional #plant #monster

Watercolor noodling. Cascade Green is a really fun color since it separates on wet surfaces!

Decorated the living room table for the holidays! Skulls and spiders are festive, right?

#holidays #Christmas

Red King watercolor doodle. #art #mastodonart #creativetoots #watercolor #traditional #monster #gouache

Lil’ turkey ink on a thank you card I wrote!

#art #mastodonart #mastoart #creativetoots #ink #traditional #thanksgiving #turkey

HEY MASTOART FOLKS!

I have some Copic markers that I haven’t really used and are in excellent condition; would anyone be interested in a trade/sell? I’ll especially be interested if you have a couple tubes of Daniel Smith watercolors.

A little Baphomet ink! I challenged myself to do this in 3 layers, and I felt like it wasn’t overworked as a result! I learned a lot.

CW’d for Baphomet tiddy.

#mastoart #mastodonart #art #ink #traditional #occult #baphomet #anthro

Vampire King - October 2017

#mastodonart #mastoart #halloween #horror #vampire #bat #art

Machine Glamour

#mastoart #mastoart #art #creativetoots #traditional #watercolor #dog

From @Fortunamedias@Twitter.com

What if there was an alien world, "singing" strange hymns as petals danced across the clouds, while vicious hunters dove with angelic grace? Contributors @Bonesnail & @canisdemachina@Twitter.com take us to a world that echoes the heavens in more ways than one.

#alien #scifi #specbio #speculativebiology #anthology

I’m still around! Learning to paint again. #WIP #art

Looking for resources for understanding how light and color work? Color and Light by James Gurney is one of the most thorough and informative books I find myself coming back to. Absolutely worth checking out!

http://jamesgurney.com/site/213/color-and-light-a-guide-for-the-realist-painter

#art #reference #resources #realism

Monarch butterfly study in watercolor and gouache. Reference photo taken by Kim Smith, 2017.

#art #mastoart #mastodonart #creativetoots #insect #butterfly #monarch #traditional #watercolor #nature

WOAH!!! I've hit 500 Followers?!?

Thank you so much, everyone! Your support of my art has inspired me to keep creating and improving my craft! And you've made Mastodon and its related instances worth it! Let's keep creating a wonderful community!