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Blue Appaloosa
@blueappaloosa.bsky.social
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3d printing for SciComm (and fun)
Animal Anatomy
Sometimes GameDev
Former adjunct
Too many pets

3d Prints (from USA): blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com
Merch: blueappaloosa.threadless.com
Patreon: patreon.com/BlueAppaloosa

Links: blueappaloosa.neocities.org
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Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · Oct 14
Hello #PortfolioDay! I make 3d printed animal skulls, keyrings, magnets, and #SciComm models. I design, print, and finish everything myself. Check out my Etsy or Patreon for more!

Etsy: blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com
Patreon: patreon.com/BlueAppaloosa

#PaleoArt #BSNM #ArtShop #Invertebrates
Side view of a tan, 3d printed horse skull. The mouth is propped open with a popsicle stick, and the hyoid (tongue bones) are visible. Watermark reads: Blue Appaloosa A 3d printed model for demonstrating the movement in a viper skull. Different part are printed in different colors. Mouth is closed. Two 3d printed captorhinus skulls. On the left, tan colored, frontish view, mouth closed. On the right, white, sideish view, mouth propped open with a US penny. Three 3d printed stylized blowflies surrounding a US penny. They all have white wings and red eyes, but different colored bodies. The left one is green, the bottom one is blue, and the right side is black.
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saimihanma.bsky.social
My Insert an Invert zine is now up on Itch as well!

saimi.itch.io/insert-an-in...
Insert an Invert by Saimi
An art zine featuring watercolor illustrations of an animal a week over one year
saimi.itch.io
December 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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annieshaoart.bsky.social
Happy #Flyday! Today's #ArtAdventCalendar is my Tree Swallow drawing for Birdtober. Way back before I was a birdwatcher and I first learned they're a common bird where I live, I couldn't believe we had a bird with such beautiful color!

#BirdArt #SciArt #ArtYear #Copic #FineArt #AnimalArt #Art
Detailed marker illustration of a Tree Swallow in flight.
December 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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whistberry.bsky.social
For today's #ArtAdventCalendar (and maybe #Crustmas too?), have a crab. Who doesn't want a crab? 🦀
Digital semi-photorealistic painting of a blue crab crawling up onto the beach out of ocean waves. The crab's shell is a dark olive green. Its legs are a lighter green with a blue gray highlighting them.
December 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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blacksmoke1033.bsky.social
If you want pretty much all my medical themed stuff in a single box, well, I made a listing for that. That was my attempt at advertising for the day, now I go back to snZzzzzz blacksmoke1033.etsy.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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tuonenkalla.bsky.social
Qrp with something with horns.
#art #traditionalart
Photograph of a traditional painting in vintage photo frames, depicting a white deer on a turquoise background, surrounded by roses. The roses have copper pearlescent paint in the same shade than the frames. Beside the photo there is a scan of the same artwork.
December 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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kathryngarner.co.uk
Day 5 of #artadventcalendar and it's my mycoplasma picture, painted with acrylic paint on paper 🐡

I wanted to add some texture to diagrams of this bacterium, so I copied in a map of the village I grew up in.

Making this gave me lots of ideas for what to do next.
Mycoplasma bacterial cell partly painted as a diagram, partly from a microscope image, and partly as a mash-up with a map of the village I grew up in. Blue, brown and yellow ocre acrylic on paper.
December 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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burntflowers.bsky.social
For day 4 of #ArtAdventCalendar, please enjoy these lovely jellyfish.

I painted them in a class from @caseformaking.bsky.social

#watercolour #jellyfish #watercolor
A watercolour painting of two orange jelly fish. One is swimming up towards the top left corner. The other is swimming towards the right edge of the paper.
December 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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sarahscrumbs.bsky.social
I'm a bit of a horse girl at heart. This is a little watercolor painting I did in 2018.

#ArtAdventCalendar
A sideview portrait of a grey and white horse wearing a bridle.
December 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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jacquinotmybag.bsky.social
Day 5 #ArtAdventCalendar my contribution today is a needlefelted portrait of my #bordercollie #dogs #Scottishartist #petportrait
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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okomotive.ch
Folks, our Makeship campaign for Calicorn plushies is SO CLOSE to being fully funded 🥹🙏💖
December 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
blueappaloosa.bsky.social
Replacing a part on my 3d printer, and discovered another part has concerning wear and probably needs replacing. But I don't have a spare of the second part.

Luckily I can 3d print one. On my other 3d printer.

(This is why I like having two printers...it's not the first time this has happened.)
December 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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ztobiart.bsky.social
The headless Lord of Teal plays 🎶

#oc #monster #creatureart #creaturedoodle #originalcharacter #harp #minotaur #folklore #folkloremonster
December 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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jackthevulture.bsky.social
🔴 Cinnabar 🔴
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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ellohcee.bsky.social
#Huevember days 13-15
#art #snake #space
Digital art of a snake coiled on a dark background, green with darker marbled patterns with lighter green markings and dots along the body. Its eye is glowing white with a star pattern around it. Parts of the body are transparent pink with glowing stars. Faint pink flowers show from behind the snake on the background of stars and a light grid pattern.
December 5, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
a bit late but here is a guy in the 15min style I used this August for #invertebrate #SciArt appreciation
silly doodle of a very leggy thin shieldbug with black and white patterns (normally should be orange) on a dark green backgorund
December 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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veronicaory.bsky.social
Magnolia pod for #ArtAdventCalendar today. Irresistible shapes!
Pen and watercolor illustration of a magnolia seed pod
December 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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snackpony.bsky.social
tired animal, feel your fur against the blooms ✿
October 25, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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ultrainfinite.bsky.social
Claude⭐
December 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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concealedcrawfish.bsky.social
New Zealand Mussels #invertober #bivalve #mollusc
December 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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cosimog.bsky.social
The path
December 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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thingsbydiana.bsky.social
💚🖤🤍 Aro Pride Dragon~
December 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
Prints are available. Everything currently 50% off on Redbubble, apparently.

You would also be helping to recompense the Temu theft since I can't do anything about it (I can't even get the relevant page to load, perhaps owing to some regional restrictions). 🥲

www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/5918...
Pudgy Horse Lascaux Tribute 1 by Himmapaan | Redbubble
A #PudgyHorse tribute to the Lascaux cave paintings, painted with the Strata Trio Natural Formation watercolours, handmade from Cretaceous rocks by Mary Sanche.
www.redbubble.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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cindervoidz.bsky.social
Back to making some more horror bugs for Bugatchi ~
How about a centipede reaper 👀 Doesn't have a name just yet. ( Not looking for name suggestions btw 😌)
Image shows a sketchy, coloured illustration of a ghostly, centipede like creature wearing a torn cloak over it and floating in the air.
December 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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theinnerobserver.bsky.social
New #gouache #sketchbook page featuring some of my favorite #fungi. ✨️🍄
Image features a sheet of colorful mushrooms with eyes in a ROY G BIV fashion.
December 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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kakapojay.bsky.social
And with the addition of the (super fragmentary, big surprise) Nicorhynchus, we are done with the Kem Kem pterosaurs! While there are potentially more genera here, they are so scrappy and taxonomically messy, that I'm happy with my final selection.

Size comparison below ⬇️

#sciart #paleoart
A brown and white Nicorhynchus pterosaur
December 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM