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Azure Chi Art
@azurechi.bsky.social
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Artist and History of Art Enthusiast studying at the University of Oxford.
My life consists of art, photography, video and tabletop games, D&D, EDM, cats and good food.
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azurechi.bsky.social
Behold! I drew this as a gift for a friend. They always get this fellow in their starting hand - a dragon named Deathfang (based on Flamecraft by Cardboard Alchemy, art by Sandara Tang).

Media: Winsor&Newton pastel watercolours, drawing inks, watercolour paper.

#art #tabletopgames #dragon #fantasy
A photo of a framed drawing. It depicts a cartoonish 2D depiction of a dragon resting regally over a ladder of illuminated letters that spell their name: Deathfang. They have a bluish white body with silver-grey swirly patterns on the head and the back. The dragon is standing facing sideways, and we see their profile: they look rather sassy. They have two sets of horns adorned with jewellery, and we can see one of their wings. Their long tail coils around a golden chalice with a fiery crystal floating above it, surrounded in light-blue flames. The background features a red-and-blue diamond pattern. The illuminated letters are gold in black boxes. The edges of the drawing are adorned by two bands: one with a gold-on-black sun pattern, and the outer band with a red-and-blue pattern over the golden band.
August 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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ottomanhistory.bsky.social
✏️ Ottomans’ Visual Poems; "The Art of Drawing Poems". Examples of how, in the Ottoman era, quatrains were written in various geometric shapes and presented with an aesthetic appearance: #Art #Poem #Poetry
August 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
azurechi.bsky.social
Fun fact: despite a popular opinion that his deteriorating mental health had a visible linear impact on his drawings, Louis Wain easily switched between his typical drawing manner and the psychedelic experimental style.
artukdotorg.bsky.social Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · Aug 5
Happy birthday to the master of psychedelic cats, Louis Wain 🐾

Read more about the painter 👉 buff.ly/BiQ9Nn6

📷 @wellcomecollection.bsky.social
Three anthropomorphic cats dressed in colorful suits and top hats, dancing joyfully in a garden with blue and white flowers behind them. Intricate abstract artwork featuring a symmetrical design with swirling yellow, blue, and red patterns on a green background with red motifs. Three expressive cats, two blue and one brown tabby, singing while holding red books against a floral background. Intricate blue cat portrait with large yellow eyes, decorated with white and red ornamental patterns on a dark blue background.
August 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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aljwhite.bsky.social
New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March
August 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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weisanboo.bsky.social
do people post comics here... anywho! a really old one!

Dragon Whiskers (2019)
August 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
azurechi.bsky.social
It's been a while! Life is hectic, but here is an update on the latest piece: it became a painting on a suitcase.

Materials: Posca acrylic markers

#art #decoration
A small square black suitcase with a colourful painting of a bunch of grapes. The grapes are magenta-coloured with fluorescent blue shadows and white highlights. The plate is bright yellow with a red rim.
July 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
azurechi.bsky.social
A little something I am working on. It will become an acrylic marker decoration on a suitcase.

Materials for the grape plates: Caran d'Ache Neocolour II crayons

Marker swatches (top right and bottom left): Posca markers

#art #food #graphicdesign
A sketch image of two near-identical plates with a bundle of grapes. The top left sketch features a yellow plate with red grapes that have blue shadows and red outlines. There are two grapes laid separately on the right side of the plate. The bottom right plate has a similar composition. The plate is yellow, the grapes are pink-magenta coloured, with blue shadows and outlines. There are marker and crayon swatches in the top right corner of the sheet, and a marker test of grapes in the bottom right corner.
July 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
Artists’ “purpose may lie in being that counterpower—demonstrating alternatives + standing up to gov’ts, institutions, corporations + so on—to societal bullies. Artists shld also be a counterbalance to trends + conformity. Existing outside the norm is a very precious + important position in society”
What Is Art Good For?
Responses from Camille Henrot, Rose B. Simpson, Stephen Shore, Freida Toranzo Jaeger, Walid Raad, Christine Sun Kim, and Andrew Norman Wilson.
www.artnews.com
July 11, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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oxmedstud.bsky.social
POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY!

@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social are advertising a full-time 6-month postdoc position to work with Andrew Dunning on redeveloping the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project as a sustainable, open-access digital resource for manuscript studies.

🖊️ Apply by 14 July
Home page of the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project beta website.
July 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
azurechi.bsky.social
A little work in progress: a sketch for a future lino. A great blue heron, if I am not mistaken.

Blue pencil on tracing paper.

#SciArt #sketch #art
A photo of a table with several art supplies scattered upon it. There is a chunky red-and-blue pencil, a tracing paper pad with a sketch of a bird, and a notebook with several smaller stylised bird thumbnails. The big bird sketch is a pencil lineart of a big blue heron. It spreads its wings and twists its neck in a stylised manner.
June 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
Here is a little story about the #earlymodern emoticon "<3" and the complex symbolic meaning of this typographical entity that I posted yesterday. Follow me, for catholic symbolism and some #bookhistory, dear #skystorians of the blue skies. Here we go...
A detail from a page of a 1702 German publication with the title "Reimb Dich, Oder Ich Liß Dich, Das ist: Allerley Materien, Discurs, Concept, und Predigen, welche bißhero in underschiedlichen Tractätlein gedruckt worden" (vd18 10307974). The author explains on this page, and on pages before and after the Holy Trinity. Part of the detailed explanation if a human heart, made of a V (in German printing a "U") and a three as a cap. In the text, the "V" stands for the Latin "unum" (meaning: one, as in: together as one) and the number 3 is of course the Holy Trinity. This heart symbol, explained in the text, looks like a contemporary emoticon: <3 . The typographical entity highlighted consists of a the letter "i", the number "3", the word "HOMO" (in which all letters are crossed out except for the "M"), a small "z" as part of the M, and the mentioned emoticon: a "V" with a "3" on top.
June 28, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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linneansociety.bsky.social
June's Treasure of the Month is our new digitised collections - Linnean Online.

The platform makes images of our herbaria, specimen and manuscript collections available for researchers around the world. It will also allow us to grow this important resource in the future.

Read more: buff.ly/8E3OiOT
The Linnean Online entry 'Cassia glauca' part of the Buchanan-Hamilton Drawings collection. It shows a drawing of yellow flowers on a stem with small, light green leaves and a single pea pod, with metadata on the left-hand side. The Linnean Online entry 'Papilio menelaus' part of the Insect specimen collection. It shows a blue butterfly, with metadata on the left-hand side. The Linnean Online entry 'Artocarpus incisus' part of the Anderson Manuscripts collection. It shows a Triangular shaped tree with a man in blue shorts sitting in a relaxed posture underneath, with metadata on the left-hand side.
June 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
azurechi.bsky.social
I have just submitted the last essay of this academic year! Freedom!
June 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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museumsassociation.org
News | Bristol Museum launches urgent fundraiser to acquire Turner artwork – organisation has just one week to raise £100,000 to buy the painting, which is to be auctioned at Sotheby's on 2 July
Bristol Museum launches urgent fundraiser to acquire Turner artwork - Museums Association
Organisation has just one week to raise £100,000 to buy the painting, which is to be auctioned at Sotheby's on 2 July
www.museumsassociation.org
June 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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dihuh.bsky.social
hypernormalisation
drawing of the artist full body walking in profile holding a bag and bouquet of flowers, her head and hand is in a neon color fire, her head/hand reduced to skeletal form
June 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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nolnir.com
I've slapped together approximately 173 pages of material that aims to teach programming a personal website with HTML and CSS to artists, animators, writers, music producers, etc.

F*ck It, Let's Make a Website Part 1 is now live ✨
Go here to read: bit.ly/filmawPartOne
More info below 👇
a digital drawing of a young character with a turquoise bow on her head. She possesses canine-like features and wears a white outfit with yellow gloves. To the right of her is text that reads "Fuck it, let's make a website!"
June 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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designreviewed.com
The latest resource available for members. Download the 100-slide presentation I created for a lecture on the Data and Design - Ticket to Destination. designreviewed.com/member-resou...
June 22, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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antiquaries.bsky.social
We're excited to be looking for our first ever Maker in Residence this summer! We're seeking a MiR who can inspire our audiences through their creative response to our exhibition #MagnaCarta1225. All the details are on our website, closing date 14 July.

www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
Vacancies & Volunteering - Society of Antiquaries of London
Current roles available: Assistant Librarian (full time)
www.sal.org.uk
June 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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radiodeadair.com
Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.

ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600
And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.
www.extremetech.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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artherstory.bsky.social
Our Lady of the Cow Parsley, 1923, by #ElisabethSonrel (French, 1874-1953). Private collection; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:So... #artherstory #womenartists #WorldArtNouveauDay
A watercolor painting of the bust of a young pale-skinned, brown-haired woman standing outdoors, gazing at the viewer from behind stalks of cow parsley. In her hair she wears a wreath of flowers with yellow petals and orange centers, with their leaves. The square collar of her rust-colored blouse is decorated with the same flowers.
June 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
I just discovered Megan's fun video responding to those annoying ai animated tiktok videos about medieval hygiene.
A sister in arms at the fake history frontline!
Watch, subscribe, etc.
youtu.be/Fs5EUe_p6Zo?...
Medievalist Reacts to Bad YouTube History
YouTube video by Megan Maldonado
youtu.be
June 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
azurechi.bsky.social
Let's remedy the fact that I have not posted my art for a while. This piece is for an upcoming #TTRPG campaign (Dishonored 2d20 system). It will be a disaster expedition inspired by At the Mountains of Madness, Dishonored franchise, and The Terror.

#watercolour #art
A watercolour painting of a cliff view from a lower ground point. The cliff is taking up the majority of the drawing. The drawing is done in grey and blue colours, leaning towards cool colours. The ambience is dark and foreboding, cold and menacing. The cliff is comprised of tall basalt pillars. There is a tunnel entrance in the middle of the cliff, a rock lip drawing a narrow path to it across the painting. The entrance is dark, nothing can be seen inside. Over the cliff, a few threads of blue smoke cut through the white clouds in the sky. There are two small silhouettes at the left of the clifftop. Their features are barely defined.
June 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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ideasroadshow.bsky.social
For #Caturday Botero’s wonderfully oversized bronze cat, Gato (1987), is a symbol of Barcelona.

Botero’s work is easy to recognize by the comical way he represented anatomy in a disproportional yet visually pleasing way.

#Spain 🗃️ #arthistory #art #cat #cats #catsofbluesky
Botero’s wonderfully oversized bronze cat, Gato (1987) - he is a symbol of Barcelona.
June 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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mgbayerlmd.bsky.social
Wow! This ewe has such striking markings which are accentuated by her horns #IcelandivSheep
Black-badgerface Icelandic ewe with black horns
June 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
Born #onthisday in 1868, the legendary Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Read about the remarkable photographs of his ill-fated final expedition and how this iconic visual record has helped to keep his legend alive: publicdomainreview.org/essay/r... #otd
June 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM