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Canto Djauricco
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visual artist and scifi/fantasy writer from the desert
🏳️‍🌈 gay even on the difficult days
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Canto Djauricco @cantodjauricco.bsky.social · 23h
I sold a scifi contact story late last year that's very gay and very political. it came out a couple weeks back and I forgot to post, but now here it is!

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Journey Through Dreams: Discovering Kajjax's Befrilsk Culture
Explore the journey of Biju Winx Utua in the Land of Seas, where dreams and reality intertwine with the mysterious Befrilsk people.
afterthestormmagazine.com
cantodjauricco.bsky.social
I sold a scifi contact story late last year that's very gay and very political. it came out a couple weeks back and I forgot to post, but now here it is!

afterthestormmagazine.com/2026/01/18/e...
Journey Through Dreams: Discovering Kajjax's Befrilsk Culture
Explore the journey of Biju Winx Utua in the Land of Seas, where dreams and reality intertwine with the mysterious Befrilsk people.
afterthestormmagazine.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:24 PM
cantodjauricco.bsky.social
come hither! actually, part of a larger series I'm actively and retroactively calling "looking (object)/looking (subject)
tried some new things. always a work in progress!

#gay #queer #art #gayart #queerart #painting #watercolor #gayartist #queerartist #gayartwork
watercolor of two men, one in yellow in the foreground gazing at the second, nude in magenta, stepping out of a shower
February 14, 2026 at 12:04 AM
cantodjauricco.bsky.social
I am doing more art but I thought this was a more appropriate reatmo for #fcf

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cantodjauricco.bsky.social Canto Djauricco @cantodjauricco.bsky.social · Sep 23
I like everything about how this one turned out *except* the dick color, which is, like, alligator? if you're generous. it was gonna be charcoal instead but it didn't work, so this was the cover-up.

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February 6, 2026 at 10:38 PM
cantodjauricco.bsky.social
strolling through the empty desert

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watercolor of nude man (dark indigo) walking across desert with heavy red clouds overhead.
January 16, 2026 at 11:21 PM
cantodjauricco.bsky.social
finished this one in december! reference was a photo by #briankaminski and I wanted to use the whole rainbow on this one. can you find the yellow? it's there, I promise
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watercolor of a man from the back wearing only chaps and boots
January 6, 2026 at 11:40 PM
cantodjauricco.bsky.social
been doing some painting, though not as much as I'd like. here's a simple thing from earlier in the fall. reference was a great @walterzakphoto.bsky.social photo

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simple watercolor of a nude man in purple holding a flower behind his back on a yellow background
December 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
cantodjauricco.bsky.social
haven't been painting as much as I'd like so here's Churro registering his annoyance that I'd be using some time that I could use to pet him on something else instead
November 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
cantodjauricco.bsky.social
dunno why this grabbed me, but a sweet moment from this lil' video @kingwade.bsky.social posted (bsky.app/profile/king...) seemed like it'd be a good reference. and ... was!

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October 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
cantodjauricco.bsky.social
I like everything about how this one turned out *except* the dick color, which is, like, alligator? if you're generous. it was gonna be charcoal instead but it didn't work, so this was the cover-up.

#gay #queer #art #gayart #queerart #painting #watercolor #gayartist #queerartist #gayartwork
September 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
cantodjauricco.bsky.social
reatmo-ing this one because I like it more than I did originally. a few things I'd do differently now but hey that's how it goes
cantodjauricco.bsky.social Canto Djauricco @cantodjauricco.bsky.social · Mar 16
Watercolor from a couple weeks ago, based on a photo of Cam I took back in 2018.

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Watercolor nude of a man in oranges/browns against a blue background
September 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
cantodjauricco.bsky.social
this one's based on a photo I took and I really like how it came out. that's all!

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September 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
cantodjauricco.bsky.social
this was the first painting I got in the erotic art show and my first post here! I also like it a lot even though it's a simple little thing, and I need to do light values as colors again bc rainbow bc gay

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cantodjauricco.bsky.social Canto Djauricco @cantodjauricco.bsky.social · Feb 8
One of my paintings that’s gonna be in the Tucson Erotic Art Show starting in March. Watercolor based on a photo of Tim I took back in 2018, 2019, somewhere in there
September 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
cantodjauricco.bsky.social
an experiment I tried with cutouts and splatter. not totally thrilled with the result, but it's a good place to start

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August 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
cantodjauricco.bsky.social
wanted to do a very reduced painting of a naked guy playing pool 🤷‍♂️

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August 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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reskying this one. for some reason tumblr guys went absolutely wild for this one specifically, at least in the brief period while my tumblr was unblocked. relatedly, tumblr still exists.

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cantodjauricco.bsky.social Canto Djauricco @cantodjauricco.bsky.social · Feb 19
Another watercolor painting that’s gonna be in the Tucson Erotic Art Show. Took a while but really fun to do all those blind lines.
Watercolor painting of a man in green
August 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
cantodjauricco.bsky.social
I sold this original and a bunch of prints at the art show, and I forgot to post it here! I still have a bunch of prints on my etsy, though, and lots of others: www.etsy.com/shop/CantoDj...

#gayart #queerart #watercolor #gaypainting #queerpainting #desertart #malenude
August 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
cantodjauricco.bsky.social
I completely forgot to post when this happened, but I actually sold this original! I made a bunch of prints beforehand (in case anyone else wants one...) but it's still wild to me that someone wanted an art that I created. Wild, but exciting!

#gayart #watercolor #queerart #gayartwork
August 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
cantodjauricco.bsky.social
I kinda forgot I already posted a version of this, but ... here it is again! A simple desert scene with block color and a naked guy, what's not to like?

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August 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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another reference from a photo of @petarious.bsky.social, bsky.app/profile/peta..., and I had a couple of different ideas here, not all of which I realized as I wanted. *however* I really like how both he and the sky turned out.

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August 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
cantodjauricco.bsky.social
I really like how this one turned out, so I'm reposting it 🤷‍♂️ ...or whatever the "re"-thing is here

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cantodjauricco.bsky.social Canto Djauricco @cantodjauricco.bsky.social · Apr 8
One of my favorite things to do is play around with light, which this photo of @petarious.bsky.social (bsky.app/profile/peta...) allowed me to do -- so I knew I had to do a painting based on it.

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August 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
cantodjauricco.bsky.social
originally I painted this to be a simple lil' thing I could turn into stickers -- which I did! -- but now I'm thinking about doing more of these just 'cause I like the reduced detail thing. would you like to see more of this style, dear reader?

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August 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
cantodjauricco.bsky.social
I really like to paint interactions of light, shadow, and body!Original photo by Stef Lohstroh over on instagram (www.instagram.com/hedoesphotog...), where he has lots of other gorgeous images.

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August 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Really really wanted to use this as a reference when I saw it, so ... I did. Thanks @therealjacobdillon.bsky.social for the inspiration, which you can see here: bsky.app/profile/ther...

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August 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Kind of a coquettish ideal going on here, and I was looking to do something with more environmental storytelling than I usually go for.
This and all my art's now available as prints on Etsy! www.etsy.com/shop/CantoDj...
#gayart #queerart #painting #watercolor #gayartist #queerartist #gayartwork
Watercolor of two men, one dressed (in red-orange) and one undressed (in blue-green). The undressed man is lounging on a door.
June 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
cantodjauricco.bsky.social
I'm on etsy now, check it out! I have all my current painting prints, some photo prints (the ones Etsy will allow, and believe me, I tried all of 'em), stickers, and shirts. www.etsy.com/shop/cantoDj...

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June 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM