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Cecilia Di Miceli
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#Pastel and fiber artist inspired by #nature, night time scribbler, piano torturer, #BoardGames nerd, ex-linguist, #MarineBiology fan and much more! 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇦🇪🏳️‍🌈♾️
Recovering from cancer treatment.
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Cecilia Di Miceli @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social · Dec 28
Nembrotha Kubaryana (variable neon slug)
Pastels on coated pastel paper
30 x 40 cm

(3rd #InverteFest post) Poisonous nudibranch, living in the tropical Western Indo-Pacific ocean.

#art #nudibranch #pastelart #pastelpainting 🦑 #pastel #marinebiology #SciArt #seaslug
Nembrotha kubaryana (variable neon slug) Pastels on coated pastel paper 30 x 40 cm (3rd #InverteFest post) Poisonous nudibranch, living in the tropical Western Indo-Pacific ocean.
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La ville derrière les volets
#Pastel on #Pastelmat
40x30 cm

The second #PastelPainting of my Parisian series. I've always been charmed by Parisian rooftops and chimneys. More versions of this #cityscape to come.

#pastelart #sunset #paris #art #painting #feance #rooftops
Pastel painting of a view on the Montmartre district at sunset from the window of an apartment in Paris, where I've been staying this summer. Vivid sunset colours in the sky and a more dimmed palette for the buildings (Siena, blue/gray and creme tones).
October 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Alice
#PanPastel on #Sennelier #pastel paper
40x30 cm

My daughter came to sit for a #portrait session at my local life model painting club. Lately I really like to #sketch or lay the base of a #PastelPainting with PanPastel (pigment powders pressed in a small pan that you apply with tiny sponges).
Lightly sketched portrait of my 19 year old daughter. Light warm brown background, blue/grey outlines, soft colour accents here and there. bright eyes and earrings.
October 15, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Pont du Port à l'Anglais
#Pastel on coated pastel paper
30x40cm

I'm finally getting back into a painting rhythm! This is the first #PastelPainting of a mini series about #Paris. The second is in the making. For this one I worked almost exclusively with #PanPastel.

#pastelart #waterscape #France
Vaguely impressionist style painting, with dominant blue and green tones, of a Parisian bridge on the river (Seine). The water and bridge are in the foreground, the archs sustaining the bridge and a long boat passing by occupy the middle ground. In the background greenery and sparse houses. Warm light, serene atmosphere.
October 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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I'm secretly happy my husband didn't sell this wonderful artwork yet, as it's now in our living room💚🏡
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A watercolor artwork I painted in a forest in the German Eifel - and just did the finish touches to show at a painting festival.

#art #アート #illustration #イラスト #絵画 #芸術 #gemälde #Dreamy #FairyTale #GermanForest #Rursee #watercolor #artwork #pleinair #watercolors #ink #schilderij #Ampersand #Eifel
Dreamy painting of an old hut with a red roof in a forest. Watercolor and Ink with flowing colors.
July 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Can any #MarineBiologist review this diagram for accuracy? I made this in the context of an upcoming art exhibition where I will show sea star and marine life related artworks in different media. Thank🩵🙏🙏🙏🦑

#SciArt #inkdrawing #echinoderm #seastar #artproject
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Black and white diagram illustrating the life cycle and larval development of a typical sea star (with planktonic larval stages). Represented stages: fecundation, cleavage, blastulation, gastrulation, juvenile and adult sea stars. Hand drawn. Captions written with Photopea.
June 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Asterina Gibbosa
#Pastel and #gouache (underpainting) on #Pastelmat
24x30 cm

Portrait of one of the 13 European sea stars I selected for my big sea star pastel painting project I've been brooding over for the last 2 months.
More #SeaStars paintings and diagrams to come ⭐🦑

#pastelart #echinoderm
A single sea star with bright red spots on a blue turquoise skin, resting on a bright coloured abstract textured substrate.
June 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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I'm not a biologist. I'm just an artist in love with #MarineLife and #SeaStars are my most recent obsession. Can anybody check my #diagram of a typical sea star's lifecycle for accuracy, before I proceed with colours and labels? Thanks⭐ 🦑

#echinoderm #sciart #larvae #audhd #plankton #inkdrawing
Black and white, ink, hand-drawn diagram of a lifecycle of a typical sea star with planktotrphic larval stages. Including fecundation, cleavage, blastulation, gastrulation, bipinnaria and brachiolaria larval stages, juvenile and adult sea star.
May 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Here is the 3rd illustrated #chart for my big #pastel artwork, featuring 12 #SeaStar species. This is on the Ophidiaster Ophidianus 🦑

#MarineLife #artinprogress #art #MarineBiology #echinodermata #echinoderms #starfish #asteroidea #asterozoa #BabySteps #sketches #gouache
Illustrated chart on Ophidiaster Ophidianus, aka Purplesea star. Up left a gouache and water colour pencils illustration of a purple specimen. Up right a drawn map of its distribution. Middle right a rough taxonomic categorisation. Down left a short description of appearance, habitat, diet, movement, defensive behaviour, reproduction, larval stages.
May 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Planning new #paintings with some compositional studies. If you are (or know) a scientist specializing in #coralreefs and #aquaticlife in the #BismarckSea region, I’d love to connect. This upcoming series will be about #deepseamining near #PapauNewGuinea.

#wildlifeart #fish #marinelife 🐡 🦑 🧪
An open sketchbook shows four small sketches in ink on white paper. Each sketch has coral reef structures at the bottom and swirling schools of barracuda-like fish filling the top of the page.
May 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Here is the 2nd #chart for my big #pastel artwork, featuring 12 #SeaStar species. I'm learning about them as I go. This is on the Marthasterias Glacialis. 🦑

#MarineLife #artinprogress #art #MarineBiology #echinodermata #echinoderms #starfish #asteroidea #asterozoa #BabySteps #sketches #gouache
Illustrated chart on Marthasterias Glacialis, aka spiny sea star. Up left a gouache and acrylic paint illustration of a greenish specimen. Up right a drawn map of its distribution. Middle right a rough taxonomic categorisation, down left a short description of appearance, habitat, diet, movement, defensive behaviour, reproduction, larval stages.
May 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Today I started laying the groundwork for a big #pastel artwork, featuring 12 #SeaStar species. I think I made one of these charts in primary school for the last time! So much fun 💫

#MarineLife #artinprogress #art #MarineBiology #echinodermata #echinoderm #starfish #asteroidea #chart #BabySteps
A hand made illustrated chart about Asterias Rubens. Includes: taxonomy, distribution, body size, colour, habitat, diet, reproductive and defensive behaviour.
April 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Board game publishers lament the devastating impact of new US tariffs on the tabletop industry: 'There is no silver lining. It is a lose-lose-lose situation for everyone involved'
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Board game publishers lament the devastating impact of new US tariffs on the tabletop industry: 'There is no silver lining. It is a lose-lose-lose situation for everyone involved'
The tabletop boom just stopped dead in its tracks.
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April 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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We just witnessed the full Trump cycle.

1) Make horrible policy decision.
2) Create lot of pain.
3) Falsely claim problem is solved.
4) Reverse course.
5) Leave things worse than before.

Rinse. Repeat.
April 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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America, you f**ked up!

She warned us. She had a plan that would have benefited everyday Americans. But too many ignored her—because it was never really about the economy.

Now folks are scared, struggling—and we’re cooked.
April 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Outside painting weather is back, baby!

I finished this #watercolor last year, starting in a garden in our village. I loved the sunlight seeping through the roof onto the grape vines.

#ink #Amsterdam #Ampersand #art #アート #fineart #イラスト #gemälde #contemporyart #ペン画 #aquarell #mixedmedia #絵画 #芸術
Watercolor painting of a sun-lit roof with grape vines growing beneath. Detail of a watercolor painting, showing a rope holding bamboo wood. Detail of a watercolor painting, showing the sunny garden and some wooden blocks. Watercolor painting exhibited on a wall with other artworks.
March 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Chimera above brine pools
Pastels on #SennelierLaCarte paper
40x30 cm

Done with my beloved chimera and done with my 2nd and hopefully last round of cancer treatment 🎉.

#deapsea #DeapSeaFish #Pastelart #Pastel #softpastel #MarineBiology #MarineLife #Chimera #CancerAwareness #CancerSurvivor
March 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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My portrait, made by my wonderful husband @thomasschmall.bsky.social with his signature mixed media technique ❤️
March 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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School holidays = board games time with husband & son!

If you have 20 hours or so to spare, I warmly recommend playing #SleepingGods ! Endless fun exploring a fantastic and adventurous world. The story book sets it really apart from anything I've played so far.

#BoardGames #redraven #bgg #family
Our 2 meters long living room table is completely covered by board game parts.
February 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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My #Chimera throw blanket brings a 15% net happiness increase in my life.
Thank you @pikaole.bsky.social for creating this (and tonnes of other) incredibly cute design!!!🥹 🦑

#marinebiology #pikaole #SciArt #deepsea #ratfish #rabbitfish #ocean #cancertreatment #hyperfixation #specialinterest
Photo of my bed covered by a fluffy and colourful throw blanket with a busy pattern of 6 different sorts of Chimera (fish).
February 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Four #waves (2021-22)
Soft pastels on coated pastel paper ( #Pastelmat #SennelierLacarte #Uart )

Back then I wanted to capture the water surface, while now my interest goes more to depicting water and #SeaLife in the depths.

#pastelart #Seascape #ocean #pastel #SoftPastel #waterscape #art #wave
Foamy wave in cool colours. Overcast light. Translucent bright crushing wave. Dark water in the background. Translucent, foamy crushing wave in late afternoon light. Red-ish sand with residue foam from the previous wave at the water's edge. Bright crushing ocean wave near the water's edge. No sand nor sky visible. Only water.
February 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Hunt
Pastels on #Pastelmat
24 x 18 cm

Slowly but surely I'm resuming my #pastel sea creatures project🦑
Here a Sea angel chasing a sea butterfly.

#SeaAngel #SeaButterfly #SciArt #gastropod #mollusc #pastelart #MarineLife #nature #ocean #MarineBiology #Invertebrate #nudibranch
Colourful drawing a sea angel chasing a sea butterfly. The sea angel displays open tentacles reaching for its prey.
February 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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The deep ocean is one of the world’s largest, most fragile, and most important ecosystems. We need a global moratorium to stop the launch of this destructive new extractive industry greenpeace.org/internationa...
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Stop deep sea mining - Greenpeace International
The deep ocean is one of the world’s largest, most fragile, and most important ecosystems. We need a global moratorium to stop the launch of this destructive new extractive industry.
greenpeace.org
January 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Another of my husband's stunning watercolour/ink portraits ✨
January 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Living room 7 a.m.
Panpastels and pastel pencils on #Pastelmat
50 x 70 cm

Yesterday I had my cancer surgery and I am now still at the hospital, but not for long. Very soon I will return to my beloved home.

#pastel #panpastel #pastelart #art #interior #pastelpencils #morninglight
#garden #home
Interior of my living room. To the right my husband sitting at the bar, in the center a big 3 sections window, from which the garden is visible, to the left a vertical piano and a big glass cabinet. Reflection of morning light on the wooden floor. Detail of the window Detail of the kitchen bar and my husband sitting on a high chair, reading the news in front of a translucent water can. The painting surrounded by a soft yellow border.
January 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM