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Amber ✨️
@amberartist.bsky.social
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🎀 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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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · Jan 23
Hi! I'd like to introduce myself. I'm 38 years old, a university prof, and this is my collection of anime keychains ☆
A collection of assorted anime keychains hung up by a desk
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A big CRUNCH in four acts.
A cat, photographed from above, looking at the camera. A treat is held almost out of frame. The cat approaches the treat, which is freeze dried fish on a stick. The cat opens his mouth wide, with fangs about to piece the treat. The cat opens his mouth and the whole treat disappears from the image. After this photo, he bit down with full force, pulled backward, and ran away with the stick in his mouth. He was eventually captured and the stick removed.
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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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
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Went to a coptic bookmaking workshop. Mine's a little sloppy but it's got spirit
Amber's hand holding a small notebook with a watermelon cover
October 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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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
Cover of MY CRINGE ACADEMIA, featuring a stylized logo and watercolour background. Table of contents for the exhibition catalogue. Exterior and interior views of the installation. Screenshots of Amber's visual novel, titled Precious Trash: An Artist Talk.
October 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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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
An art gallery during the installation process with objects scattered everywhere: artworks, tools, etc
September 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Reposted by Amber ✨️
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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)
Poster for the art exhibition "MY CRINGE ACADEMIA / 我のイタいアカデミア" by Amber and Matthew. The poster features art of Sailor Moon saying the word "FANART." Two screenshots from the visual novel video game "Precious Trash." Text between the two images says, "New work by the two artists includes drawings, figures, found objects, an artist talk as a visual novel, and more. Visitors are invited to contribute to a public fanart collection."
August 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Please visit if you can. it'll be lots of fun and we can draw fanart together~ ☆

#artist #exhibition #contemporaryart #mycringeacademia
A hand holding up a postcard for an art exhibition called MY CRINGE ACADEMIA. In the background, there is a beach at sunset.
August 30, 2025 at 4:50 AM
amberartist.bsky.social
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)
Poster for the art exhibition "MY CRINGE ACADEMIA / 我のイタいアカデミア" by Amber and Matthew. The poster features art of Sailor Moon saying the word "FANART." Two screenshots from the visual novel video game "Precious Trash." Text between the two images says, "New work by the two artists includes drawings, figures, found objects, an artist talk as a visual novel, and more. Visitors are invited to contribute to a public fanart collection."
August 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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he has a goblin personality but looks like this
A short haired light coloured Siamese cat curled up on the couch. He gazes at the camera and holds his back leg
June 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Happy Death Stranding 2 launch to those that celebrate
Hand holding the Collectors Edition box for Death Stranding. The picture is blurry and poor quality A dark plastic figurine from the Collectors Edition of Death Stranding 2
June 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Someone on @postcrossing.com sent me a postcard from my favourite arthouse film and I'm simply over the moon. 💌
3 postcards: one is from the 1966 film Daisies, another is from Industrial Museum Chemnitz in Germany, and the other is a museum in Taiwan.
June 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Wet paint, spotted in #Nanaimo harbour
A piece of caution tape with the text "WET PAINT" on it floats in water. Reflections of boat masts ripple on the water's surface. Photograph of boats in a harbour. A piece of caution tape with the text "WET PAINT" on it floats in water. Reflections of boat masts ripple on the water's surface.
June 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Reposted by Amber ✨️
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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
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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. 🎨
Photo of a messy desk with several illustrations in small plastic bags: Nier Automata, Madoka, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tenchi Muyo
June 22, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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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
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pickles

[ #art details: watercolour on paper, 2.5x3.5" 🎨 ]
Photo of a small piece of paper, the same size and shape as a trading card. The artist has painted many tiny pickles and dots.
June 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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more experiments, made yesterday

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

#watercolor #artwork #artist #abstract #painting 🎨
Watercolour on paper. A cool coloured abstract composition with large blobby brush strokes. Watercolour on paper. A warm coloured abstract composition with large blobs of deep purple. Watercolour on paper. A minimal composition with watery pink. Watercolour on paper. A chaotic composition with warm colour dragged across it.
June 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Me, sternly lecturing myself in the mirror: no more higher education (unless you're the teacher)
Screen shot of an email with the subject line: "Your degree has been conferred!" The email continues: "congratulations! I am pleased to inform you that your degree has been conferred at our latest senate meeting."
June 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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playing a particularly challenging version of 'don't drink the paint water' tonight
Photo of an artist's desk with brushes, papers, and watercolour trays. A drink with ice cubes is beside a cup of paint water, both of which are very similar colours
June 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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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" ]
Closeup watercolor illustration of three watery eyes and an overexaggerated mouth
June 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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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 🎨 ]
watercolour illustration of a person in recline with their eyes closed. text on the image says, "sometimes it's ok to take up space... even if you're not doing anything." the paint is blobbed onto the paper, very freeform style
June 4, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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style icon~ ☆
msjessegray.bsky.social The South End Daily Bee @msjessegray.bsky.social · Jun 3
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
In the bottom of a bright orange flower, a metallic, glittery emerald green bee is collecting pollen to add to her already enormous bloomers.
June 3, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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my body is an aquarium of microplastics

[ # art details: watercolour / watercolor on paper, 2.5x4" ]
watercolour painting or illustration of little blobby characters floating around on a colourful background
June 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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just granting myself permission to waste paper

(spoiler: this is a successful method to trick myself into making things)
Photo of Amber's desk. Small pieces of paper, covered in watercolour paint, cover the surface. Paint palettes and a brush are near the back.
June 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Updated my #digitalgarden! Now the front page is much prettier (and, as a bonus, also more functional)
Screenshot of Amber's website. The background is an abstract painting, full of colour and movement. The body of the site features images for each main section: about, art, journals, publications, video games, watercolor paintings, and so on.
May 31, 2025 at 12:59 AM