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Carye VanDerPol Mahoney • Artist & Illustrator
@caryevdpm.bsky.social
600 followers 880 following 150 posts
🖌️Artist working in coloured pencil, watercolour, & ink

🌙 Currently creating a tarot deck

You can find more of my art here:
www.caryevdpm.art

#Illustrator #Artist #ColouredPencil #Watercolour #Ink #Art #Tarot
🚫NO AI art 🚫NO NFTs
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Carye VanDerPol Mahoney • Artist & Illustrator @caryevdpm.bsky.social · Nov 20
Hello! I'm still getting by bearings over here (never had much luck over there.) So far I'm really liking what I see! Here's some of my artwork, lots of new stuff will be coming soon...
"World Weaver" - Woman working at a loom, surrounded by lush plant life, weaving the pastoral scene in front of her. "Dangerous Beauty" - Woman with fierce cat like eyes, vines twining through her hair, and moths flying around her.
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Some mood music for you to enjoy during the blood moon lunar eclipse tonight. It’s beautiful up there!

#pinkmoon #nickdrake
#lunareclipse #bloodmoon
Nick Drake - Pink Moon (2023 Remaster)
YouTube video by Stereo Classics
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March 14, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Happiness is rows and rows of used art and art history books. You never know what you’ll find!
March 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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“If you didn’t want your art stolen/scraped by ai, you shouldn’t have posted it on the internet”

Oh my gosh you’re right, from now on I’ll hang my art on the bulletin board in the town square, and hope I get patronage from the local wealthy art-loving benefactor, my bad 😔
August 4, 2023 at 1:11 PM
caryevdpm.bsky.social
If you see this QRP with your animal painting 🐾🎨

I draw cats far & away the most frequently. But I've been sharing a lot of cats recently so I thought I’d share some other animal art that I haven't posted here on Bluesky yet

#art #artsky #animals #pig #78tarot #orangutan #lifeofpi #dog #bird
Page of Pentacles for the 78 Tarot Animal deck - Red-orange pig rooting with her nose in the dirt, at the base of an oak tree. It is very early Spring with snowdrop flowers emerging from patches of melting snow. An acorn with a pentacle on it is laying nearby. Life of Pi - My entry for an illustration contest to work on an illustrated copy of the book. Scared and sad looking orangutan (named Orange Juice) floating on a net bag full of bunches of bananas in the middle of the ocean. Some spiders have also taken refuge on the makeshift raft. Goldie in the Snow - Smiling Yellow Lab dog rolling around on his back in the snow Bluebird of Happiness - A bright bluebird perched on a mustard plant, singing. There are yellow rays of light shining out around his head.
March 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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“The Usual Suspects”

Available as a giclée fine art print in my Etsy shop

What are these characters up to? Are they just innocently gathered at their favourite night spot to gossip, or are they hatching a scheme?

Find it here:
theartofrobhusberg.etsy.com/listing/7828...
March 7, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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THURSDAY ART SHOW! If you are a working artist (i.e. you depend on income from your art) just respond to this post with your non-pornographic, non-violent, non-AI generated ✨CAT-RELATED✨ art/crafts and I will repost! From now until 8 pm EST. Include any relevant links like your website or etsy!
Photo of a fluffy white cat meowing at the camera. Sloppy digital crayon letters spell out Art Show.
March 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Some sunflowers today for Ukraine 🇺🇦
Two sunflowers surrounded by blue skies
March 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
caryevdpm.bsky.social
Here are some of my ✨ #starry #skies ✨

#art #night #stars #caturday #artsky
"Luna" - Face of a black cat in a galaxy of stars with crescent moons and stars in her eyes "Midnight Iris" - Purple Iris framed by an arched window, inside the window is a bright blue daylight sky and outside the window frame is a starry purple night sky “Moonlight Masquerade" - A woman with dark hair wearing a mask made up of the starry night sky around her looks up at a full moon "Last Leaf" - Stained Glass styled ink and watercolour artwork - An almost bare tree with one orange leaf falling, in front of large full moon and a distant, slightly creepy Victorian House
March 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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I'm Elen and I love drawing illustrations with animals :D
Panther following spirit birds at starry night in mountain lake Wolves howling at night starry sky Racoon bending air at night with stars Otter jumping off water with starry night sky
March 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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TY for the artshare! Just recently finished this one so it's a perfect time for a starry sky ⭐
A woman with long dark hair floats weightlessly over a glowing blue ripple of water suspended in a starry night sky. A strip of cloth swirls about her somewhat in homage to Bouguereau's "Evening Mood".
March 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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⭐✨🌟
March 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Hi, thanks for the Artshare!
I’m Athene and I create art for my tarot and oracle decks.
Here is the ‘Star’ card from one I’m currently working on.
#witchsky
A witch in a soft blue outfit stands in a pond, pouring water from two tea pots. The star tarot card.
March 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Here are some stars and night ones 💫
March 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
caryevdpm.bsky.social
20 days. 20 pieces of art. Post a work of art that has influenced or impacted you in some way. No explanations. Just art.

#artsky #artskychallenge
#art #artmatters

#Hope - #GeorgeFredericWatts

20 of 20:
Painting that shows a lone blindfolded female figure sitting on a globe, playing a lyre that has only a single string remaining. The background is almost blank, its only visible feature a single star.
February 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.
February 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
caryevdpm.bsky.social
20 days. 20 pieces of art. Post a work of art that has influenced or impacted you in some way. No explanations. Just art.

#artsky #artskychallenge
#art #artmatters

#FlamingJune - #SirFredericLeighton

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Sleeping woman wearing a peach chiffon dress, curled up in a large chair
February 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
caryevdpm.bsky.social
QRP with something silly and whimsical. ✨🥳✨

#art #artsky #pigs
Five colourful and playful pig faces, jostling and smooshed close together
February 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
caryevdpm.bsky.social
Share one of your favourite animated series from the 90s.
February 26, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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20 days. 20 pieces of art. Post a work of art that has influenced or impacted you in some way. No explanations. Just art.

#artsky #artskychallenge
#art #artmatters

"The Execution of #LadyJaneGrey” - Paul #Delaroche

18 of 20:
Painting depicts Lady Jane Grey in white, blindfolded and kneeling, feeling out in front of her for the spot to place her head. An older man guides her hand while two mourning women collapse and look away and the executioner looks on, axe in hand.
February 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
caryevdpm.bsky.social
QRP with powerful women 🔥

[ #art ]
"Phoenix" - Coloured pencil, watercolour, and ink artwork of a strong redheaded woman with a fire and golden phoenix tattoo coming to life and flying up and away
February 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
caryevdpm.bsky.social
20 days. 20 pieces of art. Post a work of art that has influenced or impacted you in some way. No explanations. Just art.

#artsky #artskychallenge
#art #artmatters

"The #Astronomer" - Johannes #Vermeer

17 of 20:
The painting shows an astronomer looking at a globe in the light from a nearby window. The room is in yellow brown colours and his robes are deep blue.
February 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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hopelesshermit.bsky.social
A rainbow selection from my ever expanding collection of banned books.😁 What's your favourite banned book? Put your favourites in the comments!

#ReadBannedBooks #BannedBooks #booksky 💙📚
Rainbow of banned books: "A Wrinkle in Time" - Madeleine L'Engle, "The Inferno" - Dante, "King Lear" - Shakespeare, "Atonement"- Ian McEwan, "The Handmaid's Tale" - Margaret Atwood, "Parable of the Sower" - Octavia Butler, "The Devil in the White City" - Erik Larson, "A Clockwork Orange" - Anthony Burgess, "Interview with the Vampire" - Anne Rice, "The Lord of the Rings" - J. R. R. Tolkien, "Carrie" - Stephen King, "The Neverending Story" - Michael Ende, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" - George Orwell, "The Trial" - Franz Kafka, "Sophie's World" - Jostein Gaarder, "The Scarlet Letter" - Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Giving Tree" - Shel Silverstein, "The Wizard of Oz" - L. Frank Baum, "Frankenstein" - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, "Jane Eyre" - Charlotte Bronte, "Alice in Wonderland" - Lewis Carroll, "A Prayer for Owen Meany" - John Irving, "A Game of Thrones" - George R. R. Martin, "Beloved" - Toni Morrison, "The Golden Compass" - Philip Pullman, "Dracula" - Bram Stoker, "Outlander" - Diana Gabaldon, "The Lovely Bones" - Alice Sebold, "The Exorcist" - William Peter Blatty, "Angela's Ashes" - Frank McCourt, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" - Robert M. Pursig, "The Left Hand of Darkness" - Ursula K. LeGuin
February 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
caryevdpm.bsky.social
20 days. 20 pieces of art. Post a work of art that has influenced or impacted you in some way. No explanations. Just art.

#artsky #artskychallenge
#art #artmatters

“View of Toledo” - #ElGreco

16 of 20:
Mannerist landscape of a city up on a hill, surrounded by lush green trees and plants with a very dramatic partly cloudy sky overhead. The painting/brushstrokes have a very velvety quality
February 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM