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Amber ✨️
@amberartist.bsky.social
🎀 Hi! I'm artist and post-secondary educator (art, art history, video games) on Vancouver Island

🎀 I post about art, books, journaling, anime, video games

🎀 I make watercolour paintings

🎀 and sadgirlreview.com and youtube.com/@2ArtistsEXPlain
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Hi! I'd like to introduce myself. I'm 38 years old, a university prof, and this is my collection of anime keychains ☆
A big CRUNCH in four acts.
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
From the article: "[Dr. Forrest] suggested efforts exist to work against improved advanced care in Nanaimo, saying some Island Health representatives had said 'you chose to live in Nanaimo, you get the care you deserve.'"

#nanaimo
October 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Went to a coptic bookmaking workshop. Mine's a little sloppy but it's got spirit
October 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM
The Exhibition Catalogue for MY CRINGE ACADEMIA | 我のイタいアカデミア is now available as a free download~

Find it here: www.ambervisualartist.com

#contemporaryart #artist #fanart #fineart #artistduo #visualnovel
October 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
install day went well but I am oh so tired

please come to my art show

it's called MY CRINGE ACADEMIA

arc.hive artist run centre
opens sep 5 @ 7pm
runs until sep 21
September 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Reposted by Amber ✨️
Hi! Please come to my art exhibition

MY CRINGE ACADEMIA / 我のイタいアカデミア embraces what you’re not supposed to love or be. It’s art about openly being a terminally online fan (embarrassing), a tourist (ugh), and a gig-worker (sad).

Visitors are invited to contribute to a public fanart collection. (1/2)
August 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Please visit if you can. it'll be lots of fun and we can draw fanart together~ ☆

#artist #exhibition #contemporaryart #mycringeacademia
August 30, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Hi! Please come to my art exhibition

MY CRINGE ACADEMIA / 我のイタいアカデミア embraces what you’re not supposed to love or be. It’s art about openly being a terminally online fan (embarrassing), a tourist (ugh), and a gig-worker (sad).

Visitors are invited to contribute to a public fanart collection. (1/2)
August 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
he has a goblin personality but looks like this
June 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Happy Death Stranding 2 launch to those that celebrate
June 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Someone on @postcrossing.com sent me a postcard from my favourite arthouse film and I'm simply over the moon. 💌
June 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Wet paint, spotted in #Nanaimo harbour
June 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Reposted by Amber ✨️
pro-Palestine demonstration in front of the GQuuuuuux billboard may be one of the most Gundam things to ever happen
April 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Did you have an art teacher that told you not to draw anime or cartoons? Were you told that there's nothing to learn, and it's even to your detriment, if you continued to draw like that? What if... what if we did it anyway?

Here's some #fanart I've been working on for my exhibition in September. 🎨
June 22, 2025 at 7:41 AM
This artwork is up for auction to support Ash ( @bedbugpicnic.bsky.social ) in getting the surgery he needs. Let's help him out! Event details at the link below (June 18th, 6PM).

Gofundme:
gofund.me/1d01b196

#nanaimo
June 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
pickles

[ #art details: watercolour on paper, 2.5x3.5" 🎨 ]
June 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
more experiments, made yesterday

[ #art details: watercolour on paper, 2.5x3.5" ]

#watercolor #artwork #artist #abstract #painting 🎨
June 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Me, sternly lecturing myself in the mirror: no more higher education (unless you're the teacher)
June 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
playing a particularly challenging version of 'don't drink the paint water' tonight
June 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Sometimes, in our time of AI and constant and ongoing enshittification etc etc etc, I wonder why I bother making and sharing things at all. Then I remind myself I'm human and that it's reflex kinda like sneezing, and it just happens I guess

achoo

[ #art details: watercolour on paper, 2.5x3.5" ]
June 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
advice from one human to another: sometimes it's ok to take up space... even if you're not doing anything

[ #art details: watercolour / watercolor on paper, 4x3", 2024 🎨 ]
June 4, 2025 at 1:39 AM
style icon~ ☆
Extreme pollen legwear for @amberartist.bsky.social

Green metallic sweat bee/Agapostemon lady in my neighbour’s calendula.

June 2.25
Snuneymuxw Territory
South End, Nanaimo
#bcnativebees #dailybee #agapostemon
June 3, 2025 at 4:06 AM
my body is an aquarium of microplastics

[ # art details: watercolour / watercolor on paper, 2.5x4" ]
June 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
just granting myself permission to waste paper

(spoiler: this is a successful method to trick myself into making things)
June 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Updated my #digitalgarden! Now the front page is much prettier (and, as a bonus, also more functional)
May 31, 2025 at 12:59 AM