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kurtankeny.bsky.social
Painter - Member of Kingston Gallery, Boston Indie Cartoonist - author of In Pieces & Pleading with Stars, letterer on November by Fraction/Charretier. Distro @radiatorcomics.bsky.social www.kurtankeny.com www.kingstongallery.com/kurt-ankeny 📍Salem, MA
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I think the daylong boycott is a cute, universal good, smart even. But what makes boycotts STICK is a continuous effort to support alternatives and not just for 24hrs. Its not a boycott if you shop at Target tomorrow.

REMINDER: In 2 days, THIS Friday, February 28. NOT 1 PENNY SPENT. We can DO this. I'm IN, are YOU?

The teensiest drop in a vast ocean, but it felt good to do SOMETHING.

A drawing from last fall.

Currently lightly snowing here in Salem. @efisherwx.bsky.social @growinwsdom.bsky.social

I need Americans to hate this administration the way Kendrick hates Drake so they can actually stand a chance of surviving

"What more do they want us to do? Handcuff ourselves to polls and get arrested?" No, we want you to be as least as obstructionist as Mitch McConnell was to Presidents Obama and Biden, and daily use your voices to call out Trump's and Musk's fascism and malfeasance.

Please share far and wide: ICE arrested and detained a family of natural born US citizens including a grandmother and 3 year old toddler in Milwaukee because they heard them speaking Spanish while out shopping. All three were Puerto Rican. www.latintimes.com/ice-says-sor...

Ink sketch from last week.

A recent sketch.

Advice to nerds forced to watch football, think of it like Magic: The Gathering. Its a turn-based strategy game, each team is a deck and each player has different stats and abilities, and the reason they constantly stop the clock is bc they have to tediously consult the rules manual after every play

Transferred and outlined in oil paint.

The Gap, oil on board, 11 x 15 inches, 2021.

Trying to figure out how to bring this painting to resolution.

Sailboats and Storm, acrylic on panel, 24 x 24 inches, 2022.

Safety Cone and Paper Flowers, oil, paint stick, oil stick, and grease pencil on aluminum panel, 24 x 30 inches, 2024.

Eleven Soldiers Field, oil, paint stick, oil stick, and grease pencil on aluminum panel, 48 x 48 inches, 2023.

Pencil sketch of a Rodin piece. From earlier in 2024.

Finally took a nice photo of this completed painting today. Ellis Pond, oil and paint stick on aluminum panel, 24 x 30 inches, 2024.

Sketch of a man deep in a Twixtmas chessmatch with a friend at Starbucks.

I know all y’all love BlueSky for its Twitter format minus the ragingly toxic billionaire boyo, but this format enables the worst firehose of all the sm firehoses. I ain’t got time to post every 30 minutes on here, therefore I am invisible.

New batch of mini landscapes up on my Instagram. Please message me there to claim one!

A little holiday miniature art sale going on over at my instagram acct. These are about 2.5x4 inches. $30 each, includes US shipping. DM me on Instagram to claim one!

Sketch of Jen on a day we had inexplicably to ourselves.

Abandoned sketch from October.

if you live in or near boston!! i am doing so many things there this weekend! talk at harvard countway library with @noethematt.bsky.social on thursday at noon, BU keynote speech with @joelchristiangill.bsky.social friday at 6pm, and a panel at @massmice.bsky.social saturday at 1pm! please come by

I’m @massmice this weekend! Tabling with @ohboycomics at the @radiator_comics table. Unfortunately I think I’ll only make it for the tail end (nudge nudge) of Saturday, but I will be there 12-5 on Sunday, except for when I’m leading the City Living, Living City panel at 2pm! Catch you there!

Composition sketch.

Recent sketch in Marblehead.

Ink drawing of the boat landings near Kernwood Bridge from 2021.

Sketch from Rodin, pencil on paper.

The Passerby.

Gonna be at MICE this weekend! TABLE 23B, 11-6 Sat, 11-5 Sun! Boston University’s Fuller Building.