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Cecilia Di Miceli
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#Pastel and fiber artist inspired by #nature, #crochet addict, piano torturer, #BoardGames nerd, ex-linguist, sourdough alchemist, #MarineBiology cheer leader, #Audhd, twice cancer survivor and much more! 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇦🇪🏳️‍🌈♾️
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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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Orwell was a profit.
February 12, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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A #LoopStitch bedside mat in the making. Too bad chenille yarn feels heavenly but it's actually made in hell (100% polyester=plastic & shedding a lot of fibers=micro plastics). I had some skeins in my possession. Once used up, I'll try to resist the temptation of buying any more
#crochet #WIP #yarn
Crocheted orange and yellow bedside mat in the making. The stitches are dense and fluffy and the carpet is round.
February 12, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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Hochmoor im Harz
Pastel on Pastelmat
50x70 cm

I loved this wet and misty moorland, in the mountainous heart of #Germany.

#pastelpainting #pastelart #pastelartist #softpastel #pasteldrawing #pastelartwork
#pastelpainter #lifedrawing #originalart #landscape #moorland #Harz #painting #art
Colourful pastel painting, depicting a close up of a patch of grass within a moorland with wet ground.
February 10, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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Winter joy
Soft Pastel on Sennelier pastel paper
30x40 cm

My son, my dog, snow: a cocktail for moments of pure joy❄️

#pastelart #softpastel #pastel #landscape #winterlandscape #ice #snow #holland #TheNetherlands #painting #pastelartist #softpastels #family
Pastel painting of a snowy winter landscape in the Twiske national park (North Holland, The Netherlands). My son and dog are running towards eachother on a broad snowy plain. Dry vegetation on the background.
February 8, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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I can't believe there aren't more signatures here. If you have a moment can you please sign this to help them with a total ban on bottom trawling in Gullmarsfjorden? I've seen the impacts of bottom trawling & it is not good.
www.mittskifte.org/petitions/to...
Totalförbud på bottentrålning i Gullmarsfjorden!
Gullmarsfjorden är ca 10 000 år och som mest 125 m djup. Vid mynningen finns en grundare tröskel som påverkar vattenflödet in i fjorden. Detta har gett möjlighet för en unik miljö med arter som på vis...
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February 6, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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Flamenco dancer
Pastel on Pastelmat
30x40 cm

Flamenco dancer sketched at a life model drawing session.

#pastelpainting #pastelart #pastelartist #softpastel #pasteldrawing #pastelartwork
#pastelpainter #lifedrawing #originalart #portrait #artoftheday #pastelportrait #flamenco #redwine #dancer
Pastel sketch, depicting a flamenco dancer in a red long dress and black shawl over her shoulders, sitting next to a table. Holding a glass of red wine.
February 7, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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Les batteurs de pavé
Gouache and Pastel on Pastelmat
40x30 cm

3rd panting of a Paris-themed series. #Gouache underpainting.

#pastelpainting #pastelart #pastelartist #softpastel #pasteldrawing #pastelartwork #originalart #Paris #artoftheday #cityscape #dailyart
Pastel painting with light soft colours depicting two stylish young men seen from the back, who are walking in the middle of an empty street. Surrounding: typical Parisian building, trees on the sidewalk and work in progress in the background.
February 6, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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#Ophidiaster Ophidianus
Pastel on pastelboard
50x40 cm

Underwater seascape featuring a O. Ophidianus (purple #starfish)

#sciart #marinebiology #marineillustration #underwater #seascape #pastelpainting #pastelart #pastelartist #softpastel #pastelartwork
#pastelpainter 🦑 #ocean #seastar #echinoderm
Underwater seascape. Fairly realistic depiction of rocky substrate eith sea star dominating the foreground. 3 fish swimming towards the water surface. Sparse seaweed. Rays of sunlight penetrating the water. Perspective from the sea bottom looking up to the water surface.
February 5, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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Beatriz
Pastel on Pastelmat
30x40 cm

Beautiful, exhausted model who fell asleep while posing during a live model drawing session :)

#pastelpainting #pastelart #pastelartist #softpastel #pasteldrawing #pastelartwork
#pastelpainter #lifedrawing #originalart #portrait #artoftheday #pastelportrait
Nude pastel drawing of a young model resting on a yellow cloth.
February 4, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Chevron flight
Soft Pastel on Sennelier pastel paper
30x40 cm

A peaceful sunny winter afternoon at Twiske nature reseve.

#pastelart #softpastel #pastel #landscape #winterlandscape #ice #snow #holland #waterscape #wetland #naturereserve #TheNetherlands #painting
Pastel painting winter landscape in the Twiske national park (North Holland, The Netherlands). Lake in the foreground, ocre/yellow reed in the middle ground and trees in the distance. Pale blue and purple sky. Geese in Chevron flight.
February 3, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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Snow trail
Soft Pastel on Sennelier pastel paper
24x16 cm

Little sketch of a local snowy landscape. Contrary to general belief, ice and snow are rare events in the Dutch winters nowadays.

#pastelart #softpastel #pastel #landscape #winterlandscape #ice #snow #holland #art #TheNetherlands #painting
Pastel painting of a snowy landscape in the Twiske national park (North Holland, The Netherlands). High contrast picture of a countryside's path with visible wheel tracking in the snow, surrounded by dark trees casting a blueish shadow onto the path in the upper half of the picture. Greyish sky.
February 2, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Frozen pond
Soft Pastel on Sennelier pastel paper
30x40 cm

Ice-cold air and the crunch of footsteps in the snow

#pastelart #softpastel #pastel #landscape #winterlandscape #ice #snow #holland #TheNetherlands #painting
Pastel painting of a snowy winter landscape in the Twiske national park (North Holland, The Netherlands). A frozen pond surrounded by snow and dry reds emerging from it. In the background, reddish dead bushes and leafless trees to the left, snowy plain too the right. Dark undefined trees in the distance. White, light petrol, brown, maroon, dark purple are the dominant colours.
February 1, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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Finally some sense and clarity, some courage, some leadership and a challenging but clear path forward. Thank you Donald, we couldn't have done this without you 🌟
#europe #eu #davos #wef #greenland #vonderleyen #slavaukraini #ukraine #eu-inc
#mercosur #canada #urgencymindset
FULL SPEECH: Von der Leyen Explosive Remarks at Economic Forum, Fires Back at Trump Over Greenland
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January 21, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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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
Reposted by Cecilia Di Miceli
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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