Musings Emollescence

“Mill Avenue Vexations” by Kassandra Leigh Purcell, became the back cover of Mill Avenue Vexations Volume 11: The Shattered Violin. The depiction here has Vex depicted with a bit more skin, summoning up some magickal glowing runes into the air. Kassandra is amazing in that she’s not just an artist, but also a gothic model. I always find it serendipitous when artists have the same aesthetic calling as the story.

Read Mill Avenue Vexations Volume 11: The Shattered Violin.

“Vex” by Nicole Cardiff, a beautiful image that became the cover for Mill Avenue Vexations Volume 5: Drum Circle. In the fifth installment of Kyt Dotson’s occult magick detective series, this represents the first full-color cover commissioned. Cardiff paints Vex laying across her taxi cab in front of the Coffee Plantation on Mill Ave (a location now gone.) Making it one of the few remaining renderings of Mill Ave as it appeared before 2009.

“Vex Harrow” by Sanjana Baijnath, which happens to be part of the Seasons series (Mill Avenue Vexations, fiction by Kyt Dotson and paintings by Sanjana.) In this portrait, Vex Harrow is seen painting an alchemical glyph in the air with her fingertip. Sanajana says that she spent time holding her finger near a lit lightbulb to observe how the patterns of light would cast on her hand and arm.

“At Matsuri” by Del Borovic, which became the cover for the Mill Avenue Vexations Animé/Manga tribute Something Funny Happened at Matsuri. On the cover, acute viewers might notice that Vex is wearing her kimono backwards—part of this reason is because the image is mirrored due to lettering ease; the canon explanation is that she’s just a gaijin anyway and also being a Goth might wear it backwards (which is done only on dead people.)

“Oh Ho Magic” by Rebecca Gunter which became the cover for Mill Avenue Vexations Volume 8 The Rule of Lwa.

A portrait of Vex Harrow by Katie De Sousa (yumedust) from Mill Avenue Vexations. It became the back cover of Volume 10: The Girl in the Mirror. This beautiful piece presents one of the few portrait-only pieces of Vex Harrow commissioned simply to get an image from an artist. Also, she has an interesting take on Vex’s around-the-eye makeup. As this portrait has received much laud in t he past, it’s the first in this series to get put into the queue.