✦ LAVENDER COWBOY ART ✦

Vintage Christmas card style illustration of two male cardinals sharing food on a branch with a snowy winter woods scene in the background

Some gay cardinals for your timeline <3

I know this is a hard season for many of us, but I genuinely hope that you can rest and fill your space with comfort. May you find time to be merry and gay!

There was a time when Reunion giant tortoise (Cylindraspis indica) herds dominated an island in the Indian ocean. The curious and friendly behavior of these gentle giants made them easily hunted, introduced invasive species decimated any future generation, and they were met with extinction in the 1800s. A large relative to the pigeon, the Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was a turkey-sized flightless bird endemic to a small island east of Madagascar. The Dodo's fearlessness towards humans allowed for easy and heavy hunting. The first record of the Dodo was penned in 1598 and not even 65 years later - by 1662 - the species was believed to be lost. Curious, gentle, and nearly 3x the size of a manatee, Steller's sea cows (Hydrodamalis gigas) were never recorded to have caused damage to the ships ruthlessly hunting them. Though populations were already in decline, the Steller's sea cow went extinct within 27 years of European discovery. The Falkland Islands wolf (Dusicyon australis), like the others, was similarly curious and fearless of humans. This trusting behavior was easily exploited and used to lure the small canids to an accelerated extinction. It is a shame how the most gentle are often the most easily exploited. The loss is unquantifiable.

Be it by accident, carelessness, or intention, humans have driven an uncountable number of species to extinction.

Watercolor-inspired digital illustration of the Tennessee Aquarium’s electric eel, Miguel Wattson, wrapped in brightly glowing Christmas lights. Text over the illustration reads “I hope your winter is r-eel-y bright” and is signed by the artist, “Lavender Cowboy Art” at the bottom.

Best fishes 🫶

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Illustration of a hissing opossum (head only, wearing a red bandana). The opossum is made to look like it's yelling/hissing text that reads, in large lettering "Protect TRANS" (and in smaller, stacked lettering "FOLKS. KIDS. RIGHTS. FUTURES." The text is whispy and is on an even whispier teal gradient background. The opossum ('possum') head and text bubble is outlined in black and placed in front of a bright yellow circle (creating a crescent-moon-esque appearance) and set of a dark blue-black background with small speckling light beams. The illustration is 'signed' with the artist's handle, @lavendercowboyart, under the possum's bandana.

PROTECT TRANS FOLKS. PROTECT TRANS KIDS. PROTECT TRANS RIGHTS. PROTECT TRANS FUTURES. 🗣️🏳️‍⚧️

Colorful illustration of an orca over a rainbow with a cloud-esque area of text that reads “eat the rich” and “@lavendercowboyart”. There are some accenting MCM inspired starbursts

A poorly drawn circle with “just make it exist first” followed by a perfect circle with “you can make it good later” on the left side of the image. On the right, the first sketch version of the “eat the rich” orca design, followed by the finished version

eat the rich 🍽️

I’ve been itching to draw a really bright and colorful piece and I’ve had this idea rattling around in my head for a while, so here we have it!

This will be included on my online shop with my next update (coming soon!)

Photo of a vinyl sticker of an illustration of a Texas eyed click beetle on a branch covered in mushrooms. Background is a blurry brick wall. Text over the photo reads "september sticker club" and "lavender cowboy art"

Photo of a vinyl sticker of an illustration of a Texas eyed click beetle on a branch covered in mushrooms. The sticker is resting against a deer jawbone and surrounded by moss and vine leaves. Background is slightly blurry with glowing spots from fairy lights. Text over the photo reads "lavender cowboy art".

👁️ Texas eyed click beetle (Alaus lusciosus) 👁️

This is the September sticker club design! Can y'all believe it's already September? This year has gone by so fast.

Sticker club spaces are almost full, so check out the link in my bio before the end of the month if you're interested in this fella :)

Thanks! Ugh yeah it’s dystopian as hell

Vintage movie poster styled illustration for "attack of the radioactive shrimp". Top text reads "from store to stomach... an unexpected hazard!". Illustration in the center of the image as a glowing green shrimp with a radioactive symbol beside it. Text beneath reads "starring Wal-Mart of AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MO, OH, OK, PA, TX, and WV", followed by "a lavender cowboy art production"

This is a photo of the physical poster (the same as the other described image)

I felt like this whole radioactive shrimp situation required a movie poster design so I drew one 🦐☢️

Illustration of a monarch butterfly on a periwinkle background where the black in the wings spells out "fuck ice!" In all caps. Text above the butterfly reads "migration is natural"

Every year millions of Monarch butterflies travel thousands of miles south to overwinter in Mexico.

But this post isn’t about butterflies.

Took some pictures of the firefly sticker for this month’s sticker club! Click through to see the hand-painted portion glowing in the dark :)

Illustration of a seagull carrying a trans flag in its beak with text to the left that reads “I support trans rights AND trans wrongs” by lavender cowboy art

Screenshot of a video posted by @citizen.reid to instagram of a seagull picking up a trans flag out of a body of water

Illustration of a seagull carrying a trans flag in its beak by lavender cowboy art

trans rights (and wrongs) seagull illustrations— inspired by @citizen.reid’s video (on TikTok and insta) of a seagull with a trans flag!!

I may add this to my shop if there’s enough interest :)

Sadly… we knew this was coming. 🥺

July sticker club design! This is an illustration of a firefly on a leaf stem, where the leaf curls back over the firefly like an umbrella. A couple water droplets are on the leaf.

It’s firefly summer 🔥

This is my July sticker club design & this fella will be hand-painted to actually glow!

Limited sign up spots are open - you can snag one of these firefly stickers (and a bonus design to be revealed later) by joining my sticker club before the end of July!

🔗 Link in bio!

‼️ June 29th is the last day to join to receive these June stickers - mailing out on July 1st!
I can mail globally! 💌

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Photo of the two June-exclusive sticker designs resting on a planted terrarium! The main sticker (and subject of the photo) is an illustration of a maroon June bug with outstretched wings. There is a gold foiled star with radiant gold lines above the beetle. The second sticker is a another, though much smaller - almost chibi-style, June bug illustration with a wing peeking out from under the elytra.

📣 June sticker club last call! 🪲🔆

I still have some spots left- support a disabled queer artist & don’t miss out on exclusive stickers, WIPs, & monthly shop discounts that come with it! 🫶 Join for a month and cancel or stick around to have collectible handmade stickers mailed to your door monthly!

I'm so glad!!

everything hurts and I’m mad at the government! 🤠🦐

Collage of LGBTQ+ pride stickers designed and produced by lavender cowboy art @lavendercowboyart. Featuring the fruit fly “a little fruity” sticker, pride bat, pride-sopod (pride isopod), united we stand divided we fall (with trans and progress pride flags), and multiple “Gay as SHIT” stickers in different flag colors

Who else is so ready to celebrate pride month? 😌🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨

Photo of a holographic deer fawn sticker on green vegetation with a bee sticker blurry in the background. The fawn sticker in the foreground is an illustration of a curled up white-tailed deer fawn with virginia spring beauty flowers and bluebells in surrounding it.

A second photo with the same subject matter as the previous, but now the deer sticker is in the background and the holographic bee is focused and in front. The bee sticker is an stylized illustration of a bumble bee flying towards the viewer, holding a purple tulip with one set of legs and a wicker picnic basket with another set.

✨🦌 spring’s fawn (& the bee's picnic!) 🌸

These two stickers are exclusively available for May monthly sticker club members & will retire for good at the end of the month.

It's not too late to join and have these mailed to you! Club link in bio and May signups close on 5/29. Mailing on 5/31 💌✨

You do not have to keep getting sick, and you definitely cannot keep being a vector that sickens, disables, and kills others. It is anti-progressive, anti-humanist behavior to keep ignoring a disease that, as you all say, isn’t going anywhere. It’s time to adapt. Or…well, you know the rest.

So ok, here’s the deal. We’ve been skating on the fact that we had a massive summer wave last year, one of the biggest we’ve *ever* had. Since then, no new strain really took over, so people who got sick last year have been coasting on limited immunity to that strain.

That’s about to change.

Colorful linocut style illustration of an orange cicada against a stained-glass-reminiscent sun with leafy plants and cicada nymphs in the foreground

Finished my sunny cicada piece to complement the moonflower design! 🔆

The two will both be available as prints with my next shop update (TBA soon!) :)

#artistonbluesky #bugart #cicada #bsnm

Digital illustration of a curled up fawn surrounded by spring flowers

✨🦌🌸 spring’s fawn 🌸🦌✨

This is the sticker design for my May sticker club! Signups for this design open on May 1st and close on May 31st— after which this design will retire for good! I hand make each sticker and mail them out on the last day of the month. Check out the link in my bio to sign up! :)

Digital illustration of a curled up fawn surrounded by spring flowers

✨🦌🌸 spring’s fawn 🌸🦌✨

This is the sticker design for my May sticker club! Signups for this design open on May 1st and close on May 31st— after which this design will retire for good! I hand make each sticker and mail them out on the last day of the month. Check out the link in my bio to sign up! :)

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Illustration of a small red weevil (rose curculio) with cartoonishly large eyes. Text around it reads “April bonus!”

April sticker club design. Prairie rose illustration with a small red weevil (a rose curculio) at the center.

April sticker club bonus sticker!

This is another Rose Curculio - here to chomp down on the prairie rose featured in the April sticker club design. This teeny fella will be a bonus for every April sticker club member!

Mailing these out on May 1st, after which the designs will retire for good :]

Lino style illustration of a freshly molted cicada on a night sky background illuminated by a fool moon with moonflowers bordering it

Looking forward to those cicada nights 🌕