Krista A. Leemhuis 🎨

@moss-demon.bsky.social

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🎨🖌️Digital & Traditional Artist, working on my graphic novel, Endai @endai-epic.bsky.social Practicing art every day, in many mediums. Regenerative agriculture enthusiast 🌱 UX & UI designer at Blizzard. 💛🤍💜🖤They/Them 🚫 A👀 My opinions are my own.

A painting depicting a western red cedar tree partially silhouetted, lit from behind by morning light which cause its branches to glow gold. Behind it, pink clouds float past a distant forested hill on the other side of a lake.
A painting of a white-bearded old man leaning in close to convey something important, brightly lit from the left
A painting of a cat napping on the back of a white fur-covered couch, backlit by sunshine, her ears luminous orange from the light shining through.
A painting looking up toward the top of a conifer, backlit by pale sunlight, strangely luminous branches hover overhead.
A painting of a hillside at sunset overlooking the water. Image is dominantly orange, but the water and background islands are pale purple-blue while the foreground is vibrant greens and yellows. A path seems to wind from the foreground to red-orange trees, luminous in the sunset but bare of their leaves in winter.
A sketchbook page showing four portraits painted in gouache, all from the movie Troy: Brad Pitt, Rose Byrne, Eric Bana, and Peter O'Toole.
A painting of Rose Byrne as Briseis from Troy--just a portrait on a white sketchbook page, in naturalistic color.
Painting in colorful gouache of a portrait of Brad Pitt as Achilles from the movie Troy.
A man stands in the shadows of a verdant garden, looking down at his phone, while the trees and flowers and lush leaves all seem to call for his attention.
A painting of a red sun umbrella over a man wearing a blue shirt, slouched in a chair in front of a table. A gold vase holding blue hydrangeas sits on the table, and a purplish red leafed maple tree is in the background.
A closer crop of the "Decisions" painting. A man with golden feather-hair, luminous in the bright sunlight, takes a moment to consider whether to continue as he stands in a field of golden grasses.
A handsome man with long golden blonde feathers for hair walks through a field of tall grass, looking pensive. His hands bend the grass forward as he walks, but he seems to be hesitating.
A painting from within a forest, looking out toward a pale blue sky. Leaning trees and branches thick with green leaves tell of a warm, sunny, humid place, as does the fog or mist obscuring the base of a further clump of trees.
Link (OoT) rides his horse Epona into a dead, ashen forest, away from the viewer. He turns to the right and sees a beam of hopeful sunlight illuminating a pink flower on an otherwise dead-looking tree and gapes that there is still hope for saving this desolate place.
A 4-panel comic... "Riding into battle on my majestic dawnsaber..." 1. A night elf rides a dawnsaber while holding a bow, looking fierce 2. The dawnsaber suddenly skids to a stop, sending the rider flying through the air in silhouette 3. The night elf looks miffed and bedraggled 4. The night elf facepalms while standing next to the dawnsaber who suddenly had to lick its butt.
A person lays in the shadows in the foreground, looking at a seed pod, seeming disaffected. In the background, a bald man in a black robe practices sword forms in bright sunlight on bright green moss.
A painting of a small waterfall around orange rocks with green moss.
A person sits beside a river, looking troubled, holding a rag to their cheek. Bright light illuminates them from behind. Squatting beside them, barely there, is a person made of green light who looks concerned.
A drawing of a golden or dun unicorn's head, rendered realistically in colored ballpoint pens. It has 3 ridged horns down its face (I know, I know) and the mane is drawn with flat black ink (no shading)
Drawings of five noses, rendered in color using ballpoint pens.
A painting of a dark blue forest background with bright green tree branches in the foreground creating a flame shape around the top of a dead tree reaching upward toward a butterfly.
Painting in blues and violets of Snoqualmie Falls under a clear blue sky. The sunlight catches the top of the falls and illuminates it at an angle, while blue mist rises and billows in the shadow of a cliff next to it
A painting in blues and purples of a brightly lit waterfall under a blue sky, with mist billowing into the shadows of the cliff face
A massive dragon made of ice rises from the depths of a cave, with icicles for horns and teeth. Chunks of ice or snow fall away as it rises. On a ledge before it, a summoner stands with a glowing orange ball of light--the same orange glow as the dragon's eye.
A photo of a drawing desk, where a sketchbook sits open, showing a vertical painting of a person sitting under a tree, the light brightly illuminating their red pants and the ground. A messy paint palette sits nearby, and the light in the photo seems to match the light in the painting.
A video showing 15 photos of the process of painting "when you must stop", from sketch to completed painting.
A person wearing a cloak and red pants sits under a tree in the shadows, his leg protruding into the dappled sunlight. The bright light of his pants casts pink light onto his shirt, and he looks down at one leg folded over the other. The protruding foot has blood soaking through she shoe, and blood spatters the ground nearby.
A drawing of a person with pointed ears, sitting on a bench, sulking, as they hold a damp rag to their cheek.
A painting of a person with pointy ears and a black fur cloak sitting on a branch of a tree looking contemplative as the river rapids below them throws up sprays of sunlit water in its turmoil.
A digital painting of a sunset in pale blues, yellows, oranges, and purples. The sun is still well above the horizon and blurred through a haze of clouds. Streaks of clouds stripe the sky, and below them, pale purple layers of mountains seem to float atop calm waters reflecting the sunlight.
A painting of Mt. Rainier at sunset, rendered in purples and bright yellows under a blue sky.
A vertical painting of a pale yellow and pink rose on a dark gray-blue background. The light on the rose is bright, and the petals seem to drip down the page as if running from the rain or tears.
A square painting depicting a view up toward the sky through a rhododendron bush in bloom. Dark leaves are silhouetted around the frame, with bright pink and purple blossoms in the sunlight behind.
A painting of a sapling in bright light, depicted in bright green, middle green, white highlights, and a dark blue background.
A horizontal gouache painting of Mt. Rainier at sunset. The mountain's exposed rock is rendered in gray-purples, the snow in shadow is pale gray-blue, and golden light glints on its peak. Purple fog caught in yellow sunlight skirts the bottom right corner, and pines frame the mountain in the foreground.
A sketchbook page showing 3 small horizontal paintings of Mt. Rainier. The first is a dusk painting in purples, blues, and grays with low clouds and silhouettes of trees in the foreground. The second is at sunset, with golden light illuminating the peak, with pink-purple shadows The third is from night time in blue and black
Photo of No-till urban garden with cover crop of daikon radish, field peas, vetch, oats, and ryegrass flowering in one bed
A painting of a tree trunk, wet from rain, shining wetly with overcast ambient light and dappled with moss.
A painting of a stone retaining wall under overcast lighting conditions. Snow dots a mossy basin, and ferns grow above and out of the rock wall. A waterfall spillway, though not pouring water, shines damply over the basin.
A painting of a plum tree in bloom beneath an overcast sky, rendered in wispy greens, browns, reds, pinks, and lavenders. The tree hangs over a street, and in the background some large pine trees loom.
A painting depicting a sunny morning view of a plum tree in bloom, rendered in sweeping brush strokes. Sunlight hits the top of the tree, illuminating some of the green buds on the branches.
A painting of a fern growing atop a retaining wall, next to a tree trunk, in moody overcast light.
A painting of a car parked along the street with shrubs and trees behind it, with a maple tree, bare of leaves in late winter, in the foreground.
A painting of Link from the Legend of Zelda. He rides Epona into a gray, ashen forest, where all the trees seem to be dead. But he turns as a ray of light shines through the gloom and illuminates a single pink flower on a tree--there is life here yet, and this forest can be saved.
Image is a vertical painting in blue and yellow depicting a large field of yellow grass in autumn, and a few very tall trees in the field, the trees cast lines of blue shadows across the field, and in the distance, much larger trees l--a dense forest of them--can just be seen amid the fog. In the field, two tiny people are just visible, lending a sense of scale.
A digital painting in cool desaturated gray-blues and golden yellows of a hillside in the morning. A few buildings peek out of the hill, one catching warm morning light. In the foreground, a tree glows yellow in the morning light, amid waves of dark gray-green pines and other winter-bare trees.
A man in a white robe sits huddled against the cold--or against his own anxiety--while bathed in blue moonlight. He faces right, and light catches through his pointed ear. His breath mists as he speaks. In the foreground, a person in red, in warmer light, seems to hesitate, stopped by the man's words. We see only their side and their hand.
A painting of a sandy desert with distant mountains, rendered in pale light blues and yellow-oranges. In the midground, at an angle, sits an iron cage, large enough to hold a human. A human seems to be in it too, seated on the ground, though it is unclear whether they are still alive. In the foreground, partially buried by sand, are a wooden bucket and an iron ladle leaning against it. Between the foreground and midground, the heat of the day creates a watery mirage that reflects the cage.
A portrait in 3/4 view of Shane Hollander (played by Hudson Williams), in warm light. He looks intensely past the viewer with a small, perhaps devious, smile.
A man in white robes with red stripes with its hood up sits at a table, a cup in one hand. The light is limited, and beams down from above, illuminating his arms and the table, but leaving his face partially in shadow as he tells the person across from him (not shown), "No."
A painting of a landscape at a high elevation that appears to be arid--sweeping orange rock angles down to the right, lit by the sunset. It is interrupted by angled rocks. The viewer appears to be standing on a white path (snow?) that runs along the ridge. In the distance, a mountain is bathed in the glow of sunset.
A painting in very pale yellows and blue-grays of the silhouettes of trees in late afternoon. One coniferous tree is nearer the foreground and has some saturated yellow highlights. The middle of the silhouette is paler and bluer than its edges. The sun hangs brightly on the top edge of the image.
A plein air painting of a row of trees along a small hill. The trees are in a deep reddish purple, highlights are in bright yellow, and the background is a foggy bluish purple. Bright winter sunlight streams between the trees, illuminating the ground between the shadows.
A painting of a humanoid figure, with an orangish-pinkish yellowish cuttlefish like head with empty eye sockets. It wears an orange-red coat with black diamond buttons and a black collar, and the coat seems to smear or run toward the bottom of the image. The figure appears to be held up by a black pole beneath the coat. It is...unsettling.
A painting study from a screenshot of the movie Troy (2004) in which Boagreas the Giant is called forth to face Achilles, looming above the army that stands behind him in the pale golden morning light.
A painting of a screenshot from the movie Troy wherein Priam asks Achilles to return the body of Hector.
A drawing of a waterfall created only using vertical ballpoint pen lines. As sheets of water pour over the edge, they seem to be caught by the wind and swirl and lift and take on a life of their own.
A painting of a high mountain cliff dusted with snow beneath a small orange full moon. The cliff is lit from below by orange light, while in the foreground, a dark pine stands gloomily, supporting an owl, who watches the viewer.
A square painting of a white cat with tan spots laying atop a flat gray square on his back. His striped tail hangs down over the square, and he stares blankly toward the camera, perplexed, his paws in the air.
A painting of a giant sequoia at night, lit from below by a tiny lamp, whose light suggests warmth beneath the protective canopy of branches. Cool light hits the tree from above, suggesting moonlight or perhaps snow.