Relic on the Lethe

I slipped one last Halloween-adjacent pack into the shop this week! This is predominantly a simple line art pack, with many images pulled from an image scavenger hunt page for children circa 1919.  A divider bar from the pack, featuring three black cats and mice. This pack also includes of my favorite full page magazine covers I had seen from The Pacific Printer, a trade magazine for printers, publishers, and editors. Their November 1916 edition featured very organic, almost psychedelic pumpkins. I have removed the text, so now the page is more adaptable - it would be a fun greeting card cover or one-page invitation form, especially when paired with an Art Nouveau or 1960s style sinuous font. A completed teaser image for this pack, featuring a frog, rat, two spiderwebs, and a gnome tickling the leaves off a tree.   You can snag your pack at Ko-fi starting at $2!

Long time no post! I've been busy on the art side of things this summer, and after getting burned out on researching the Little family, I decided to revive one of the things I love doing this fall: harvesting art that's fallen into the public domain and sharing it. Like my previous clip art post , I'm happy to share a new batch of images sourced from several magazines around 1919 to 1921. This set primarily features "grotesques" designed by Louise D. Tessin for use on "Hallowe'en programs and invitations." While there was a high focus on black cats and owls, it also contains witches, a dog, a moon, jack-o'-lanterns, and a grumpy person shooing away bats. A sample of the basic art in the pack with some minor edits to repair a malformed face. Her ink and watercolor art was printed in grayscale with some heavy paper textures, an inconsistently-lit scan, and a few original images show errors we'd likely think of as "AI problems" - six ...

Update September 28, 2025: I further cleaned up this asset pack and released it (with a few more images) as a 20-piece set on Ko-fi. Snag the remastered set here!  I'd love to see where these end up and what you do with them.  As a fun Halloween bonus, here are some clip art images from the Richmond Times Dispatch, Oct. 28, 1921 . These images should all be in the public domain due to their age, so feel free to use and adapt them. Larger versions should be available if you click on them. I did not completely "pretty them up," as I often like the old stamp look in my vintage clip art. If you enjoy them or use them, please drop a little something in my Ko-fi jar to compensate the time it took me to find, crop, and clean them up! "Halloween" text Black cat and pumpkin with text "Halloween fancies!" Sitting black cat, head-on Black cat, bat, and pumpkin, with text "05 - OCT - 21" Cat with arched back and raised tail Owl on a branch with bats in...