Cal
@calmakesart.bsky.social
Artist who likes birds. (they/them) I stream on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/calmakesart and have an online store at calmakesart.com
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Cal
@calmakesart.bsky.social
· May 7
I have an online art store! There's stickers, books, art prints, and even an original water color painting. calmakesart.com
#art #artprints #artstore #watercolor #stickers #traditionalart #digitalart
#art #artprints #artstore #watercolor #stickers #traditionalart #digitalart
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Finished my nitpicking redesign of one of my sons.
January 20, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Finished my nitpicking redesign of one of my sons.
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The creative process 🖌✨
August 22, 2024 at 3:18 PM
The creative process 🖌✨
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Messily colored Rina so I could make some postcard sized prints.
January 16, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Messily colored Rina so I could make some postcard sized prints.
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I’m sick of people in charge telling me that threats to my rights and my life are “bait”
January 16, 2026 at 6:33 AM
I’m sick of people in charge telling me that threats to my rights and my life are “bait”
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I love when bears do this :3
January 13, 2026 at 3:03 PM
I love when bears do this :3
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“draw what you want to be hired for” is sound advice so long as you accept into your heart a great many types of beautiful, heart-touching, arousing art styles and themes are unhireable. unmarketable. draw what you want to connect over. have tea and coffee over. draw a door to a digital salon.
January 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
“draw what you want to be hired for” is sound advice so long as you accept into your heart a great many types of beautiful, heart-touching, arousing art styles and themes are unhireable. unmarketable. draw what you want to connect over. have tea and coffee over. draw a door to a digital salon.
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“What makes something art?” It’s the human decisions, the fingerprint of their specific viewpoint appearing in the final work, that makes something art.
January 13, 2026 at 2:17 PM
“What makes something art?” It’s the human decisions, the fingerprint of their specific viewpoint appearing in the final work, that makes something art.
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-human tries to use art to perfectly communicate something they see or feel
-they fail
-in failing, their fingerprints get all over the art
-other humans see the fingerprints and find them beautiful, learn something unexpected about the human that created the art which is beautiful
-they fail
-in failing, their fingerprints get all over the art
-other humans see the fingerprints and find them beautiful, learn something unexpected about the human that created the art which is beautiful
January 13, 2026 at 2:13 PM
-human tries to use art to perfectly communicate something they see or feel
-they fail
-in failing, their fingerprints get all over the art
-other humans see the fingerprints and find them beautiful, learn something unexpected about the human that created the art which is beautiful
-they fail
-in failing, their fingerprints get all over the art
-other humans see the fingerprints and find them beautiful, learn something unexpected about the human that created the art which is beautiful
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the way things are right now will make you feel like you are foolish or naive or delusional for being a good person and doubt reality but you aren't alone and many other people can see and feel the injustice too
January 12, 2026 at 4:09 PM
the way things are right now will make you feel like you are foolish or naive or delusional for being a good person and doubt reality but you aren't alone and many other people can see and feel the injustice too
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New art prompt list for February, hosted by me and some friends! WAHOO!!
Participate by making anything and post it during the weeks listed below, and using #FebruaryFrost26!!
#art #illustration #promptlist
Participate by making anything and post it during the weeks listed below, and using #FebruaryFrost26!!
#art #illustration #promptlist
January 11, 2026 at 12:33 PM
New art prompt list for February, hosted by me and some friends! WAHOO!!
Participate by making anything and post it during the weeks listed below, and using #FebruaryFrost26!!
#art #illustration #promptlist
Participate by making anything and post it during the weeks listed below, and using #FebruaryFrost26!!
#art #illustration #promptlist
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First post of 2026! 🐴
January 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
First post of 2026! 🐴
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January 10, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.
January 10, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.
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BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
January 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
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Gouache on paper, June 2025
January 9, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Gouache on paper, June 2025
It's not a new or surprising observation, but it is really something who is allowed to be grieved and how they are portrayed after tragedy by those in power and in the media.
January 8, 2026 at 6:46 PM
It's not a new or surprising observation, but it is really something who is allowed to be grieved and how they are portrayed after tragedy by those in power and in the media.