✨🎨Announcing Guest Artist!💌✨

Happy Friday, Blackbirds!

Today I’ve got a big announcement that I can finally share, and I hope you all will be as enthusiastic about it as I am.

For quite some time, I’ve been dreaming of getting a few MBPS illustrations under my belt ahead of time. This would ease the tension on my monthly deadline, enable me to consistently get your cards into the mail in the first week of the month, and all-in-all be a big stress relief for me. This month, I’m finally going to achieve that goal with the assistance of one fantastic Honorary Blackbird.

Introducing Guest Artist Isabel Burke!

Isabel is a good friend of mine whose work I have long been an enormous admirer of. She’s the total package: Stunningly intricate linework and composition, color palettes that vary from subtly arresting to bombastically beautiful, clever and imaginative concepts, and subjects that range all over my own adored wheelhouse — the historical, the fantastical, the literary, the folkloric and mythological — and far beyond it. 

I’ve had the enormous privilege of snagging Isabel to create March’s Postcard of the Month for the Merry Blackbird Postcard Society, while I work ahead on April. I’ll be posting WIPs of her postcard for you soon, but for now, a few keyword teasers: Gnarled oaks, water lilies, lady knights, and a riverscape that speaks Millais.

Jolly Jackdaws, Crow Collectors and Raven Dandies will all be receiving March’s Postcard of the Month — but as a special bonus, both Crow Collectors and Raven Dandies will get March’s Bonus Card, which will be an artwork pulled from my archives as usual (to be determined next week!)

As promised, the tier caps have been upped once more, for the second-to-last time. At present, these are the slots left open:

32 Jolly Jackdaws

31 Crow Collectors

31 Raven Dandies

A little more about Isabel:

Isabel Burke is an illustrator and comic artist hailing from Austin, Texas, currently finishing her illustration degree in Georgia! She’s a fan of pretty people, lineart, historical costuming/aesthetics, and visual storytelling in art. In the increasingly rare moments between drawing, she’s probably cooking, watching any historical drama she can find, taking a walk, or scrolling through Pinterest trying to decide what to draw next.

Find her all over the internet from her carrd! 

Leave our guest artist some love in the comments! And thank you very much in advance for embracing her contribution — in addition to being exciting for its own sake, it’s going to be a huge boon of relief to me to move onto a schedule track with more ease. Thank you Isabel!

Your Society President, Penpal-in-Chief, and Gushing Art Mutual, Marlowe Lune