Janet Chui 🎨🧶🖋🪐📚

@janetchui.bsky.social

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Artist, writer, mom, full-time therapist (MCOUNS, CCTP), creator of the Self-Love Oracle and A Field Guide to Surreal Botany. I am vast, I contain ADHD, probably. Currently working out of Chiang Mai, Thailand. https://campsite.bio/janetchui

Picture of the moat wall of Chiang Mai (old city, northeast corner). The bricks appear to curve in layers
Tiny watercolor of a red fox hopping over a tea cup and open book. The watercolor is in a tiny square book held by a left hand. In the background is a table top with a small palette and paint brushes.
Watercolor sketch in progress of a young girl in an olive grove. Only half the overalls are painted in
Hand holding up a watercolor pad. It shows a half-painted sketch of a woman surrounded by olive greens and muted yellows
Foreground: Small sketchbook, watercolor palette, and coffee. Background: rice fields and Doi Chiang Dao
View over rice fields towards distant mountains lit by dramatic sun rays and clouds
View down a canal off Chang Moi Road, Chiang Mai.
Photo of a hardcover journal with a brown ink drawing of a girl pulling an arm reaching up from a hole in the ground from the centre of swirling concentric rings of mushrooms and mystery growth
Close up hyperlapse video of marker drawing on a kraft cover journal
Photo with text superimposed: One or multiple hyperfixations? Big stash of yarn/paints/beads? Several projects going at once? No judgement here. Just cheers, curiosity, and commiseration!
Horizontal sketch of a shop with motorcycles parked on the left
View of a sketch book showing pencil drawings of sea kelp and submerged women with swirling hair and swimming creatures
View of a colorful shop from across the street
View of a cafe table with a sketchbook in foreground and another artist on the other side of the table.
"Night Allies" shows a woman carrying a baby in a winter landscape, with forest animals on either side of her. It is a painting that incorporates marbling and watercolor details. #art #fantasy #illustration
Floating emaciated figure wrapped in bandages. She is against a fiery red background that deepens into blood red in parts. Sharp weapons and tools are suspended around her hands. Faint white human figures, as if they're cut out of paper, drift downwards. Title is "Goddess of Sharp Objects". Artist Janet Chui
View of a sundrenched outdoor dining space surrounded by plants and trees
Photos of small watercolor painting in a notebook. The painting is close to finish. It shows a small building hidden in foliage.
Small watercolor sketch in progress, small book held in left hand
Hyperlapse video of a watercolor sketch in progress
Screen capture of Redbubble Page with 3 of my fox designs.
View of a breakfast table. Two natural plant pods sit in the foreground, one closed, one open.
Photo of two sketches of a fox on different paper. One is being painted in watercolors
A photo of nine printed magnets that feature very colorful watercolor piggies that all have a fantasy feature, including: wings, horns, mermaid tail, and lion's mane.
"Earth Alchemy" shows a figure in prayerful pose with an angel behind her. Mixed media
Photo of a completed watercolor painting of a fox moving through a forest with mushrooms in the foreground.
Video of a fox's features painted with a detail brush.
Hyperlapse video of the fox after I found better reference photos and fixed its leg
First wash for light and shadow
Photo of the same picture sketched 3 tines. 1st one without references and slightly derpy. 3rd one in the postcard book to be painted.
Greyscale photo of the small fairy painting in progress
So not all the pigments are neglected. I use the violet and phthalo colors all the time. The dusk colors and interference green are new. I expect cobalt to be deployed last because memory tells me cobalts are opague pigments
Sketch in a small book of a fairy looking at the viewer, head tilted
Tiny 5 by 3 inch watercolor of a Thai shophouse
Shop cat being the centre of attention
In-progress painting of an angel in fiery evening hues
3 crystal bracelets against a wood background
Watercolor painting of a fairy playing with bubbles and entertaining a corgi
Waist-up watercolor of a mermaid posing with her coral headdress
Small ink and watercolor painting of a woman looking into the distance. Her hair is windswept and there is a butterfly over her shoulder.
Finch app screen grab of a friendly pink birb waving next to a small white fox.
Screen shot of Fight Club's last scene. Two figures in front of a window overlooking a cityscape
A painting of a fairy emerging from a chrysalis. Behind her, two more fairies celebrate
A mermaid shaped creature that is backlit. Painted in watercolors.
A mermaid shaped creature that is backlit and looking like they are pressed up against glass looking at the viewer.
The Sea Witch: Tinted pencil sketch of a man, upside down, caught in a fishing net. A mer creature (female) studies him.
Watercolor painting and illustration of The Morrigan surrounded by swirling labyrinths and with 2 ravens. She rests her arms on a sword and shield.
Book cover of Saturnalia by Stephanie Feldman.
Cover of "You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train" by Howard Zinn