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JIMMO

@oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca

Artist & writer. World-building across print, books, and objects. islandsofno.ca

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Jim Ritchie @jimritchieart.bsky.social · yesterday

When I started this all I knew was that I wanted a certain look, but I wasn't sure where to begin, so I just decided to trust myself and this was the outcome. #art #artist #bskyart #collage #collageart #digitalcollage #digitalart #narrativeart #compositeart #surrealism #darkart

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JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · 3d ago

calm water off The Birds, the hounds are circling

A black-and-white mixed-media piece. A grainy photo of a calm, dark bay at night fills most of the frame. Forested hills slope down to the water, and a single two-masted sailboat sits in silhouette. A pale beam of light or smoke cuts diagonally across the starry sky. On the left, a hand-drawn white rune-like monogram floats above the water. Across the bottom is a crowd of figures drawn in rough white chalk-like lines, crammed together and looking up. The central figure has wide eyes, a gaping mouth full of jagged teeth and a lolling tongue. The heads around it are lumpy, with smudged eyes and open mouths, and clawed hands reach up from the bottom edge.

JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · 2w ago

RIP Sir Patrick, you gave us so much youtube.com/watch?v=HSAy...

O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

YouTube video by SpokenVerse

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JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · 2w ago

Doing some experimenting with embroidery, playing with canvas and burlap, the bird/bat is leather in between the two. Nice effect with a warm bit of light behind it. #artsky

A round piece of loosely woven burlap on a wooden surface, lit from behind so warm light glows through the gaps in the weave. Stitched in dark green thread is a hand-sewn outline of an irregular, wing-like shape, like a bird in flight. The edges of the burlap are frayed, with strips of white fabric visible at the borders.

JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · 2w ago

omen. #artsky #darkfolklore

A greyscale illustration of a strange, folkloric landscape. A mottled sky holds a pale sun with a calm, mask-like face, a white comet streaking in from the upper left, seven black birds in flight, and long smoky clouds, one shaped like a bird. Below, patterned hills stretch across the ground: a crosshatched field with a glowing white-dotted tree and a round, furry dark creature peeking over the slope, a cluster of tall grey triangular peaks, and a hill covered in white stars and circles. Five tall, long-necked black bird figures stand on spindly legs among the hills, three of them huddled together on the right. A black cat lounges on the ground between them, and three small shells sit in the lower right corner. The artist's stylized signature, "JIMMO," appears on the right.

JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · 3w ago

Quote with your dark art #art #horror bsky.app/profile/mind...

Black-and-white digital ink illustration of a quiet night street. A giant dark figure with branching antlers looms over a row of tall black towers in the center, its face a pale outlined mask with hollow eyes and long dashed lines running from the eyes down into the road like tears or tracks. The sky is filled with swirling fingerprint-like contour lines and grey smudged haze, dotted with small black circles and an octagonal shape like a dark stop sign. Low houses with lit windows sit on the left, scribbled trees on the right, and a winding road with dashed white lines leads toward the figure. The artist's signature, JIMMO, runs vertically on the right.

Manuel Fallmann-Kerrutt@mindistortion.tv · 3w ago

Artist! Quote with your dark art! #art #horror

Reclusive Dug Rusin @captainpurple.bsky.social · 4w ago

#inktober #inktober2026 #art Day 18: flightless

An ink pen drawing of an ostrich.

JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · 4w ago

Birbs

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JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · 4w ago

Burlap 🖤

A tall cylinder of loosely woven burlap, lit from inside so the coarse weave glows warm against a dark room. Behind the fabric, a black silhouette of a round face presses through: two small tombstone-shaped eyes, a narrow nose, and a wide mouth of jagged, uneven teeth. Above the head, a faint horizontal shape of a bird casts a soft shadow. Stitched seams and slubs in the burlap cross the face like a grid.

JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · last mo.

Hiya #portfolioday I’m an artist & writer. World-building across print, books, and objects.

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JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · last mo.

beware

A dense web of white dashed and scratchy lines on a black background, radiating from a small central hub like spokes, stitches or a broken map grid. A large, grainy hot-pink arm zigzags down from the top right, its fingertip touching a small glowing circle at the web's centre. Faint grey spire or flame shapes rise in the dark behind the lines. A hand-drawn monogram signature sits in the lower left corner.

Kayl @kaylthesnail.bsky.social · last mo.

Congrats on the follows! Here's some of my spoooooky art!

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JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · last mo.

C’mon pretty baby

Black ink illustration of a scruffy rooster standing on a pale, mottled off-white background with faint pink-grey texture. Its head is turned toward the viewer with a round, staring ringed eye and a sharp beak. It stands on thin, long-toed legs. A monogram signature sits to the left in the lower part of the image.

JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · last mo.

Bee

Ink illustration of a black cat lying in a sphinx-like pose on a dark, grainy charcoal-grey background. The cat is almost entirely solid black, its tail curling up in an S-shape. Its head is tilted upward and to the right, with sparse white highlights picking out the whiskers, the inner ears, a closed or narrowed eye, the nose, and a tuft on the chest. Soft black shadows pool beneath it. A small monogram signature sits in the lower right corner.

JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · 2mo ago

Skullzz 💀💀💀💀 bsky.app/profile/oldj...

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JIMMO@oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · 2mo ago

WIP

Close-up of a relief sculpture covered in dozens of small skulls pressed into a glossy white surface. Thick, drippy white paint or resin pools and peels around them. Deep blue pigment shows in the eye sockets. Harsh sunlight casts sharp shadows across the textured surface.

JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · 2mo ago

WIP

Close-up of a relief sculpture covered in dozens of small skulls pressed into a glossy white surface. Thick, drippy white paint or resin pools and peels around them. Deep blue pigment shows in the eye sockets. Harsh sunlight casts sharp shadows across the textured surface.

JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · 2mo ago

Ridley

Folk art style illustration of a young, disheveled crow who is moulting.

JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · 2mo ago

Silhouettes of crows on a yellow background in various poses. Text at the bottom of the page reads "Scenes from a murder”.

JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · 2mo ago

A gift for my queen

A nighttime folk art scene of a crow with a pearl in its mouth against a blue sky. Rain cascades down. Above a yellowish moon shines.

JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · 3mo ago

BEEF

High-contrast black and white ink illustration of a bust portrait. The figure wears a bucket hat and white-framed sunglasses reflecting small figures in each lens. Their face is covered in scratchy hand-drawn symbols — an 8-ball, tally marks, X’s, and crosses — with a jagged, bared-teeth grimace and ‘NIX’ lettered near the chin. Dagger-like marks and scrawled symbols run down the neck. A runic ‘JIMMO’ mark appears in the upper left corner, and partial lettering reading ‘BEE’ is visible on the sleeve.

𝚍𝚘𝚗 𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚎 @donrice.art · 4mo ago

#humansofbluesky #urbangaze #eastcoastkin The Gathering of Friends #truefriendsleavefootprints #connectiontolife #listeningisasimportantastalking

Three casual young adults having an attentive, loving, chummy, face-to-face conversation. Sketch art by Don Rice.

☠️ Skulls and Sheets 👻@skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I also took myself to St. Mary's church, Kempley to see the medieval paintings. Some of which date from the 1100's Wheel of Life The weighing of the souls Chanel with Apostles and the Bishop of Hereford painting.

wheel of life wall painting

weighing of souls st micheal and mary

the view to the chancel

paintings from 1100 of Apostles and christ and the bishop of hereford

JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · 4mo ago

Blue and gold illustration. A spiral vortex dominates a night sky, ringed by concentric black line work with a glowing yellow center. A trail of yellow eyes, each marked with an “O,” grows in size along the upper left, watching the spiral. Bottom left shows an industrial skyline of smokestacks in silhouette. Bottom right, a yellow-lined figure with spiked hair, a jagged scar down one cheek, and a cloak bearing a bat emblem and the letter “S” looks on. Signed “Jimmo” in the lower left corner.

JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · 4mo ago

…and a piece for the *new* book. #wip #artsky #blackandwhite

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JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · 4mo ago

last piece for the book I’m working on

Black-and-white ink and photo collage. A large clawed hand, rendered in loose ink linework, reaches down over a rain-streaked dark background. Below it, a vintage family photograph shows a group standing near water beside an old car, alongside a separate image of a soldier holding a child. A small horned or antlered figure with hanging beads appears in the upper right. Faint handwritten text reading “the olde nor—” is visible near the bottom, partially obscured. A second clawed hand appears in the lower right corner. Torn paper edges frame the composition.

JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · 4mo ago

reference material. also just a nice flower. Have a nice day. #artsky #islandsofno #blackandwhite

Black and white close-up photograph of an allium seed head — a dense, spherical cluster of small star-shaped florets on a thin stem, set against a dark, heavily blurred background of tree foliage with scattered light spots.

𝚍𝚘𝚗 𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚎 @donrice.art · 4mo ago

#blueskyartshow #quiet #eastcoastkin Inside Each of Us, Sparkle and Sombre Stride Together #thereisalightwithineachofus #thatgrittyfrictionaldarksideishandytoo #humannatureisdivided

Skipping along happily with a somewhat mischievous grin on her face, Sparkle holds tightly to the strong hand of the older and wiser Sombre. Sketch art by Don Rice.

JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · 4mo ago

Illustrated portrait of a figure with wind-swept blue and green hair, round green goggle lenses, and an open, shouting mouth. Lit in split red and green tones against black, with a speech bubble reading “THIS SHIT IS FUCKED.” The letters “No” mark the upper left corner.

D.D.B.Torres @ddbtorres.bsky.social · 4mo ago

happy birthday! I'm Torres and I like fairy and folk tales with moody vibes 🍂 here's some work I'm proud of

illustration of a lady clad in armor and holding a richly ornamented shield. Her sword is lowed, her eyes are closed, her hair is flowing and she's surrounded by darkness

an elf knight, riding a stag and holding an ornate wooden shield in the middle of a dark forest

a dryad, her head blooming with twigs and branches in the middle of a dark forest.

a merry black rat , with earrings, an eye scar, black armor, standing on its hind legs and holding a double-handed axe, patrolling a greenish-black swamp

JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca · 4mo ago

big fella came around last night

Black and white ink illustration of a towering antlered, humanoid figure standing at the end of a quiet residential street at night. The figure’s face is dark with white outlined eyes and streaming tear-like lines running down its body. Swirling spiral cloud formations fill the sky above rooftops and bare trees, with a dark octagon shape (resembling a stop sign) floating among the clouds. Houses with lit windows sit at the edges of the road.