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Amanita House
@amanitahouse.bsky.social
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Ahouse 方方 | Anchorage | she/they
Illustrator, nature enjoyer, wage NPC
Casually working on a book.
My work is handmade.
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Amanita House @amanitahouse.bsky.social · Feb 6
"Conversations," painted in acrylic and pastel. Inspired by quiet walks in the forest.

#art #squirrels #alaskanwildlife #alaskanartists #sciart #kidlitart #artsky
three american red squirrels sitting on separate mossy rocks in a blue spruce forest. they are having a great time. the rocks are covered in colorful lichens: reindeer moss, cladonia cristatella, green dog leafy lichen, and more.
amanitahouse.bsky.social
Little mushroom hedgehog I made for a friend. Watercolor on matboard :)
watercolor artwork of a hedgehog with little brown mushrooms for spines holding up a brown mushroom umbrella. it is holding its other hand out to check the weather.
July 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
amanitahouse.bsky.social
Rise up!
#orca #orcinusorca #cetaceans #killerwhale #yachtclub #art #nokings #mixedmedia #illustrators #animalillustration #illustration
June 15, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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tylerfromtheinternet.com
Can't believe I have been hanging out with you bozos for two years
this is a modification of a Quiznos add from the 90s, with the orca whales being the weird crazy guys with the funny voices. "We love the subs!" "They got a people bar!" It's in reference to OceanGate
June 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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staycurious.bsky.social
I usually am Team Cephalopod, but you have to give props to this sea otter that took on a very large Giant Pacific Octopus for its lunch (Kachemak Bay, AK). Note the octopus eye in bottom right of second photo. 🦑 🧪
Sea otter in ocean eating octopus. Suckers showing above the water. Sea otter floating on back, eating arm of octopus as the body rests on its stomach. Bottom left shows octopus eye
February 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
amanitahouse.bsky.social
"Conversations," painted in acrylic and pastel. Inspired by quiet walks in the forest.

#art #squirrels #alaskanwildlife #alaskanartists #sciart #kidlitart #artsky
three american red squirrels sitting on separate mossy rocks in a blue spruce forest. they are having a great time. the rocks are covered in colorful lichens: reindeer moss, cladonia cristatella, green dog leafy lichen, and more.
February 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
amanitahouse.bsky.social
Yay! A starter pack of Alaskan artists! It's still small, but will get more colorful with some time. Please help spread the word :)

#alaskasky #alaskanartists #alaskanart #alaska #alaskans #alaskan #artinalaska
February 6, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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lumling.bsky.social
Finally getting around to digitising my paintings. Title: "A Grandmother's Jacket", oil paint on canvas, 26 x 34 inches
jacket
February 4, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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fieldguideembroid.bsky.social
Speaking of #booksky, I have my very own book coming out this April! It has 52 #embroidery patterns inspired by wildlife and wildflowers. From beginner to advanced I think any nature lover will find something in this book! Available for preorder anywhere books are sold, or request at your library!
January 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
amanitahouse.bsky.social
Greetings fellow artists and art enjoyers! It's been a while since I last logged in so I'm sending a very late hello to my new friends. Here is a thing I've been working on lately with traditional watercolors, scanned digitally. His name is Bear.
January 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM
amanitahouse.bsky.social
frankly this makes me never want to post here again
zubaplants.bsky.social Brian Borncamp @zubaplants.bsky.social · Dec 14
I'm surprised by the amount of hostile sentiment on Blue Sky toward AI/Computer Vision

By design BlueSky is a *free* data mining platform bankrolled by VC firms vested in 205 AI companies. They expect a ROI.

What did folks think their BlueSky data was being used for?
littlesis.org/oligrapher/1...
December 15, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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lazaroillustration.bsky.social
Some dolphin sketches. Part of a commission for @emilam.bsky.social and Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social
#SciArt #mammals #art #dolphins
Sketches of dolphins in different positions
December 13, 2024 at 4:47 PM
amanitahouse.bsky.social
Set up my oil paints over the week and re-started this years-long work in progress. Putting it back down to let the paint dry for a bit.

#art #sciart #paleoart #oilpainting
a square oil painting. in the miDdle are a flying pterosaur carrying a sauropod in its feet. below them is a row of assorted other dinosaurs: tyrannosaurus, triceratops, iguanodon, stegosaurus, and others all looking up at the two in the sky. the sky is yellow. surrounding them is a diagonal frame of underground layers, fossils, volcanoes, and sky.
December 6, 2024 at 10:47 AM
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graphicsfix.bsky.social
Artists of Bluesky. Lets help promote eachother! Repost these packs and comment below with a piece of your art.
Art / Illustration Starter Pack 1 (NO AI)
go.bsky.app/PLvhrhT
Art / Illustration Starter Pack 2 (NO AI)
go.bsky.app/EhAroo6
December 2, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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phoebechapman.bsky.social
December 1 is Antarctica Day! A day to mark the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959, ensuring this amazing place is preserved for science and peaceful activities. To celebrate, here’s a pic of a Chinstrap penguin I took on my trip in 2012. #Antarcticaday #birds #wildlifephotography #Antarctica
A full body portrait of a chinstrap penguin standing in the snow, staring back at the camera.
December 1, 2024 at 9:00 AM
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esthervanhulsen.bsky.social
Alright, #ArtAdventCalendar day 1. Here is a wintery picture of a polar bear in the snow
Acrylics on canvas
31.5″ x 39.4″ (80 x 100 cm)
December 1, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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lotuscat.bsky.social
Forest of Cladonia ramulosa with foliose thallus. These can be seen in a semi-abandoned park in the area where the lichens grow free. Mimakihara Plateau, Nagano #Lichen #FungiFriends #LichenFriends
ヒメレンゲゴケ。長野県御牧原台地 #地衣類
Close-up of the small apothecia cup of Cladonia lichen. The cup has brown-dotted rim and grainy esterior. The stalk is long. Colony of Cladonia lichen. They have long stalk, small cups with brown-dot rim, and leafy structure at their feet.
November 28, 2024 at 9:10 AM
amanitahouse.bsky.social
#art #watercolor #hedgehogs #mushrooms
a watercolor painting of two hedgehogs whose needles are made of little brown mushrooms. one as standing up and watering the other one, who is laying down, with a little blue watering can. watercolor painting of two hedgehogs whose needles are made of little brown mushrooms. they are both standing up. one is examining the shrooms on the other hedgehog's back. they are having a great time.
November 30, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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graphicsfix.bsky.social
Art illustration starter pack (no AI)
go.bsky.app/PLvhrhT
November 29, 2024 at 2:16 AM
amanitahouse.bsky.social
Salmon Hat Party, watercolor on paper
a watercolor painting of a group of three orca whales all swimming underwater and facing each other. on each of their heads is a salmon hat in a array of different marine decorations: barnacles, starfish, seaweed, sea urchins. they are having a great time. based off the news story of killer whale pod k in puget sound being recently spotted wearing salmon fish hats after this trend was last spotted in 1987 closeup of the first picture, two orcas are seen with salmon hats. one decorated with barnacles and seaweed, the other decorated with clam, starfish, and sea urchin. a closeup of the first painting, this shows an orca wearing a salmon hat decorated with kelp and a large sea snail.
November 29, 2024 at 2:48 PM
amanitahouse.bsky.social
I need to make a picture of this...
biotay.bsky.social Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · Nov 27
The 80's fad is back

North Pacific killer whales have again been seen in Puget Sound wearing salmon on their heads, as they did in 1987 and 1988.
It is not known whether this is simply a fad or has some function (such as saving food for eating later).

(blog) https://buff.ly/4g4sTW5
November 28, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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dawowowow.bsky.social
#ねずみ #イラスト #illustration #絵 #色鉛筆とペン #mouse #部屋 #こたつ 🐀🍊
November 28, 2024 at 2:58 AM
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nhisoto.bsky.social
Bluesky needs more bush planes! Let me start. #Alaska #Bushplane #Aviation
Bush plan on a beach during sunset
November 18, 2024 at 5:38 AM
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sylessae.bsky.social
Try not to forget:

We begin drawing because of our childlike curiosity to replicate - to understand, to dissect - what interests us. The desire to be "good" was never why you picked up the pencil in the first place.

Experiment. Be a kid again.
November 25, 2024 at 12:58 PM
amanitahouse.bsky.social
Keep liking my posts and we're gonna end up like this:
an ink line drawing of five bunnies sleeping. they are all laying in a circle with plates of eaten rabbit food: flowers, mushrooms, seeds, berries, and leaves. it is implied they just had a great feast. the picture is overlaid with pastel rainbow colors. art by amanita house.
November 26, 2024 at 5:52 AM
amanitahouse.bsky.social
Greetings!
Peek-a-Boo, watercolor on paper
#art #hedgehogs #watercolor #AmanitaMuscaria #mushroom #illustration
a watercolor painting of two hedgehogs over a white background. the top one is wearing a mushroom cap like a turtle shell. It is standing up and peeking out from under the large red amanita muscaria mushroom cap which covers its entire back. its tongue is sticking out. the bottom hedgehog also wears the mushroom cap like a turtle shell. it is shown from walking from the side. only its little feet and nose are visible under the mushroom.
November 25, 2024 at 5:38 AM