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Cathy Hookey

Queer human being, illustrator, artist, mystic, immigrant & massively amateur philosopher.

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Autumn Equinox in Houston is different…

Ciao ciao beloveds, Happy Autumn Equinox, or Mabon, Harvest Home, whatever you like! I love Autumn Equinox, but it’s different in Houston. Different from how it is in England, I mean. That should be obvious, lots of things are different in Houston, but it’s one of the things that makes me feel very alienated from my community in… Read More Autumn Equinox in Houston is different…

October 3, 2018 cathyhookeyLeave a comment

Happy Autumn Equinox!

Here’s a thing I drew. And some detail shots so you don’t miss her cool nose ring. Wrap up warm! 🙂

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I’ve never been to a book signing cos I don’t understand celebrity & I struggle to read fiction, but this human writes stories I’ve loved since I got lent a copy of his debut novel like fifteen years ago & never gave it back ((I took that exact copy of ‘Every Dead Thing’ we read as teenagers for him to sign & everything!)) I even got 🥳REAL BRAVE👻 & gave him the drawing I did of one of his characters, which he asked me to sign for him while he signed books for me !!! because obv he is a very nice man. & yeah, I went gender non conforming & beardy, & yeah, I was nervous, & yeah, I guess no one had an issue with it, at least not Mr. C 😛👌🏻🥳🌈 thank you for a lovely feeling @johnconnollybooks & @murderbooks 💖🎉💀 . . . #bibliophile #queer #gnc #nonbinary #gendernonconforming #johnconnolly #charlieparker #books #reader #queerreading #johnconnollybooks #booksigning #authortalk #fanboi
My amazing friend @suzannedore took me to see my friends the Owls, & also took this picture of me showing my friend the Barn Owl a drawing I did of them. Scroll right to see some of my blind contour drawings from the day! Blind contour means I don’t look at the page while I’m drawing, which can result in some pretty squiffy drawings but can also result in some really powerful, energetic drawings AND a greater understanding of what I’m drawing through looking/seeing it so intently. I mean, Barn Owl seemed impressed, IDK. 🤣👌🏻 . . . . . #lifedrawing #blindcontourdrawing #blinddrawing #locationdrawing #reportage #sketchbook #sketching #artistsketchbook #artistsketch #sketch #drawing #owl #wildlife #animaldrawing #owldrawing #nonbinary #nonbinaryartist #translife #transartist #pleinair #portraitoftheartist #magicanimals #magician #witch #witchartist
Everything is art! part 1. Have we discussed how much I love clothes? I mean I know we have, but let’s go again, go on, let me elucidate. I love clothes. I don’t just love fancy clothes, I also love schleppy clothes. Clothes are art, curating an outfit is making a new piece of art from existing pieces of art (I’m a gallery!!). Just as it should be: everything is creativity, everything is art. Here’s me at @theinsomniagallery with my paintings & my Queer Superhero costume; red shirt, gold snakeskin pants, some fucking silly, fucking Hermes level boots, lazy-bun-for-a-masc-day hair, rainbow metal straw for my @eurekaheights beer so I don’t mess up my lip & homemade earrings 👌🏻🦑🥳 Remember ‘eccentric’ is more polite than ‘weirdo’ but tbh I’ll take either 🤣 & if y’all ever wanna donate to my ongoing & obsessive love of clothes (& lipstick) HMU ✨🙏 . . . . . . #ootd #nonbinaryfashion #enbyfashion #queerfashion #artistfashion #queersuperheroes #goldpants #lgbtfashion #weirdo
Passing it on. A thing I started last year at a certain time, & finished today as a gift to the sky. Now let’s nap 😴🥰🔮🦑 . . . . . #illustration #astrology #astrologyartwork #magic #dark #moon #moonmagic #eclipse #moonart #janus #juno #cancerzodiac #detail #nature #natureart #paganart #witchaesthetic #witchart #artwitch #gods #goddess #mythology #romangods #romangoddess #zodiac #zodiacart
Acrylic + pencil on canvas, called ‘Overactive Sixth.’ Up at @theinsomniagallery as part of their Pride show at the moment, if you want to see the little snailey bois close up 💖 🐌 I did this without thinking or planning & I’m always overjoyed at the kind of art that wiggles its way up out of the dark or swishes in from the ether when you loosen your control. It’s probably my overactive sixth, TBH. I’m working on it. ✌🏻👁✨ . . . . #painting #dark #gothart #witch #witchart #witchaesthetic #surrealart #chakra #thirdeye #crow #snail #pride #lgbtart #magic #dreams #enbyartist #enby #darkart #spider #mixedmedia #magicart
Oh! Lookit this one me andsum! @collectivebrew put out a tee with my little Drunken Space-Human on the back, &, most gleefully, my fucking name on! If you’ve never worn clothes with your fucking name on before I recommend it highly, does some shit for the ego, it does. So here I am modelling it at @craftbeercellar gettin some brews in whilst watching @astrosbaseball like a freaky boss 💖🎉🌈👌🏻🤘🏻 . . . . #craftbeer #beerlover #beernerd #artist #illustrator #beerpackaging #brewery #craftbrewery #merch #enby #enbyfashion #egoboost #artontees
I guess I don’t fit into a societal idea of pretty anymore, but I feel so joyful about how lush & how weird I look now, it’s a much better feeling than ‘just’ being pretty. I’ve never looked so much like *me* before. I love it! 🦋🌱🎉 I do not love being scared of how people will react, & I do not love being too scared to go to certain places because I’m worried about the reactions I might get. I love beer & find a trip to a new brewery scary now, but 😬 I’ve not had a bad experience yet!! 🥳 I visited Turning Point Beer in Bedford, TX, whilst I was super into my look at the same time as being super scared that someone was gonna give me abuse for it. Instead everyone was lovely, & talked to me like I was normal (imagine!) & I got a delicious entire rainbow of beer! 🤣👌🏻🌈 joy! . #ginger #gingerhair #gingerbeard #enby #gnc #gendernonconforming #nonbinarygender #nonbinary #nonbinaryfashion #afab #fluid #redhead #craftbeer #beernerd #beerlover #beerme
Just keep drawing, just keep making... We had ‘Creativity Night’ at co-councilling this week. I hadn’t realised how intense the transcendent JOY I get from seeing & hearing about things people make! It’s just lifeblood for me. I want to celebrate every little tiny creative act anyone has ever made ever! By the end of the three hours my face hurt from smiling so much 🤩💖🥰 Anyway this is a little talisman I created to remind me what’s important (making things!) & to stick with it no matter what! This was made during + empowered by Sun in Leo, (2018, after Mercury stationed direct) - now hows that for magic art? Leo rules the Sun, giving this a double-dose of creative, shining, regal energy, which TBH is something I really can’t always just pull out of my arse, so I appreciate the outside help 😜 I made it into a transparent sticker, lo-fi magic at its best, so I can have it on books/tools & in places I need it most. I’ve got a few stickers left if you’d like one to power up & inspire your making-writing-creating life! It’s at $2 a pop + postage, which is like $1-2 depending on internationalz or no. DM me ✨🌱♾♌️☀️ And share something you created recently! Everything counts, oil painting or meme. Cooking is creative, conversations are creative, thinking can be creative, all aspects of life can be creative! And sharing your creativity makes soppy fucks like me smile, so 🥰💖🤩🐡 . . . . . #creative #creativelife #talisman #creativeliving #artmagic #magicart #astrology #astrologyart #illustrator #makersgonnamake #writerscommunity #writing #drawing #artist #witchart #witchartist #stickers #modernwitch
Repost @collectiveham ・・・ New growlers just dropped in the taproom! Even more fun getting fills now! Art by: @cathy_hookey #artplusbrewing W.o.W my little Space Kid sharing a brew with an alien came out great on these growlers by @collectivebrew 🤩never thought someone could look so damn sassy carrying 3-4 pints of beer at once (depending on imperial/not imperial pints 😜) . . . . #growler #craftbeer #beerlabels #beerlabel #beerart #beer #beertogo #packaging #craftbeerart #craftbeerporn #astronaut #illustration #packagingillustration #spacebeer #beeralien #craftbeerinspace
Celebrating me, just as I am, a little less squished by the world, my super kawaii ginger beard, & Chrion’s ingress into Aries. Lots of luv from this super-cute edge-walking nearly-human💛💟💜🖤 “And Shakespeare said—and this is what I take to be the truth about everybody’s life all of the time—“Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.” Art is here to prove, and to help one bear, the fact that all safety is an illusion. In this sense, all artists are divorced from and even necessarily opposed to any system whatever.” —the inimitable James Baldwin in 1963 ✨ . . . . . #queer #enby #genderqueer #genderisover #beardedgirl #queerartist #queerlooks #androgynous #androgyny #androgyne #artist #illustrator #androgynousfashion #gingerbeard #bi #bisexual #genderfluid #fuckwithgender
Swipe to see the whole piece, y’all 👉🏻 this was really joyfully indulgent for me - I love this city, & I love drawing a million detail. I mean it took me ages but w/e💪🏻the first half-shot has the only WIP I took, so you can see the blobby colour sketch ✨💖Love yall 💖✨👌🏻come visit us soon 🧡💙 . . . . . #Houston #houstontexas #houtex #htx #texas #houstonartist #houstonart #cactus #cowboys #color #detail #illustration #art #billboard #advertising #design #htineholditdine #htown #clutchcity #crushcity #houstonstrong #aesthetic #crawfish #tacos #610 #bayoucity #spacecity #htineholditdine
Allo folx so I took a long social media break 🌱✨FOR HEALTH ✨🌱but I’m back!👌🏻Here’s to a 2019 done differently! Taking care of no.1, connecting deeper, avoiding energy vampires, being ruthlessly myself, dangerously self satisfied, obscenely ambitious, doing shit that scares me, drinking less (😑👌🏻), purging less (😑👌🏻), aggressively committed & balancing work/rest/play! This is a sticker I made for anxious creatives (hi) or creatives with anxiety (hi) who might like a reminder that slow & steady is what finishes your project, & that you can do it, just take it step by step, a little at a time ✨ Huzzah happy new year at the end of January 🤷🏻‍♀️😘🦑🍰 . . . . . #2019goals #creative #illustrator #mentalhealth #anxiety #anxietyhelp #artistic_support #artistanxiety #badge #patch #stepbystep #maker #makersgonnamake #slowlyslowlycatchymonkey #creativeanxiety #anxiouscreative #doneisbetterthanperfect #climbthatmountain
#inktober day uh...6! Because I’ve managed to do these out of order, whatever. This one is from the #drawloween prompt #ghost with additional randomly selected prompt from ‘The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols & Sacred Objects,’ which was #familiar🕷I was reading a while ago about keeping not just animal familiars but spirit familiars, so this fit together pretty easy! I’m not sure if this is a familiar you’d want or not want...I’m pretty happy with it, I think. I didn’t think too hard about the picture, so it’s up for interpretation, I have no idea :p I do tend to keep a lot of ghosts in my bathrooms. . . . . #mabsdrawlloweenclub #mabsdrawlloweenclub2018 #drawloween2018 #bath #spooky #spookyseason #water #creepy #ink #inkdrawing #gothart #spoopy #creepykid #spirit #witchesofinstagram #haunted #haunting
#inktober #day8 today I chose #saturn from the #reltober prompt list from @relseiy & my additional random prompt from ‘The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols & Sacred Objects’ was ‘water.’ I’m tired & playing catch-up (already!!), so just a teeny weeny drawing today, (a challenge - I love drawing BIG), of the legend of legends #sailorsaturn 🤩☠️♑️ Sailor Moon is still life blood to me & IDGAF what anyone thinks, it’s pure magic. Saturn is one of my favourites & TBH I think I’m long overdue doing some proper SM fan art. Lesson: do what makes you happy. Happy new moon chicklets 🌚💖 . . . . . . #sailormoon #sailormoonfanart #sailormoonfan #sailormoondrawing #sailormoonsupers #sailormoonlover #hotarutomoe #hotaru #ink #inkdrawing #inktober2018 #gothaesthetic #tinyart #manga #creepyart #fangirl #bishoujosenshisailormoon
#inktoberday5 which iiiisss better late than never! I chose from @raqueltraveillustration & her ‘witches and familiars’ prompt list, which today was #snake 🐍🐉 then, as per, my random added prompt from ‘The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects’ was ‘palladium.’ So now I’m confused, right? Does everyone know what a ‘palladium’ is, or am I just super uneducated? So, ignoring the metal, I found out that a palladium is a cult object, a statue or painting etc, specifically either carried into battle for blessings, protection etc, or, more often, as a protective object for a specific place. So I’m all over this with Ms. Snake yo, especially today, especially right now. The venom of Ms.Snake, like a witch who knows their herbs, can poison, heal and regenerate, or alter consciousness. So I designed a Snake for survivors today, all of us feeling, you know, just feeling a lot. ✨Snake, lend us any venom we need to protect our selves, our beloveds and our sisters from those who would hurt us. Lend us nurturing rest & comfort in your dark womb, regeneration as we shed old skins, & altered, wider sight, so we can see how to grow, come together, rest, grieve, build anew, everything we need to envision better✨ so mote it be, amen, aho. I’m giving away prints of this for whoever would like one. I’ll not get them out just yet as I’m a little buried by life, but as soon as I can, I do love you so, & if you would be kind enough to pay postage from Texas! 💖🐍🔥 much love, precious ones, do be gentle with yourselves today ✨ . . . . . #inktober #witch #witchcraft #witchart #witchaesthetic #magicart #feminist #sisterhood #survivor #metoo #believesurvivors #believewomen #inkdrawing #spell #witchbitch
#inktoberday4 woop woop! Today I chose my main prompt from #orientober by @nadiarausa which was ‘Sun and Moon,’ coupled with another random entry from ‘The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols & Sacred Objects’, which today was ‘knot’! I had to do a proper think today because I really wanted to avoid drawing anthropomorphic Sun/Moon characters! With ‘knot’ I was focusing on the balancing, merging or tying together of possible opposites or either side of a dichotomy. I love drawing hands sooo much, ‘handfasting’ is a thing obviously, fingers have planetary rulers, & it meant I could sneaky do a bit of planning for my next hand tattoos 👌🏻 Also I love knot magic. I think because I’m more a visual-maker-creature than an actor or a theatrical creature I prefer folk magic which includes making ‘things’ over ceremonial magic. Much more my style ☕️anyway is anyone else into hands? ((Is that a valid fetish even?!)) . . . . . #inktober2018 #inktober #hands #handtattoo #handtattoos #witch #witchart #witchaesthetic #ink #inkdrawing #knot #knotmagic #sun #moon #astrology #bodymagic #wand #cup #fire #water #balance #darkart #gothart #witchcraft
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