Laurel Dundee 🍂

@kingmoths.bsky.social

Illustrator, comic artist, and barn owl enthusiast 🕯 she/her 🌾 no AI ❌ 💌 laureldundee@gmail.com www.laureldundee.com

I miss posting art somewhere and I thought I could make a comeback on instagram but that app is basically unusable at this point. remember when you could go on there and see content you actually wanted to see and not just an endless cycle of ads?? those were the days

not every day you get to watch two fledgling owls practice their flying for nearly an hour!!! 🥰🥰🥰 wow I love birds!!!! I love owls!!!! and I love the strangers who will quietly watch them with me and gasp and smile and look up at the trees 🫶🫶

every day the cat says okay I’m going to stand on your chest now, and I’m going to start kneading you and it will probably hurt, but also I’m going to purr a lot and look really cute while doing it, you’re going to let me :3 and every day I do let him do that

i dare you to fuckin pluck something vulnerable and small from your heart and draw or film or move about it. AND show it to people. i dare you to make something. i dare you i dare you i triple dog fucking dare you to Cook and not simply Eat

My new book CAROUSEL SUMMER is out today!! I can't wait for you to join Lucy and Anaïs on all the adventures they have this summer. (It's super rainy in Vancouver right now, so enjoy 304 pages of summer sunshine).

photo of kathleen holding up CAROUSEL SUMMER in front of a wood carving of a horse

One bright side to being forced to live in an AI slop tornado is now I see my artistic mistakes as incredibly endearing. The human machine of my body made that weird line. My worst day of drawing is completely untouchably better than anything AI will ever produce until the heat death of the universe