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daenafae.bsky.social
Daena
@daenafae.bsky.social
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Illustrating fantasy and nature with whatever materials I can get my hands on. Usually watercolour, but a little digital every now and then. 🧚🏻‍♀️✨

Website: www.daenafae.com
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bifanoland.bsky.social
A little peel for your evening ❤️
November 12, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Breaking out my painting sketchbook for this one!

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#watercolor #landscape #painting
Tackling the limited palette & ugly stage blues #onlyTHREEpigments
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November 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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New blog post about a visit to Sheffield Botanical Gardens to help prep for a dryad illustration series 🌱

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#artist #creative #dryad
Absorbing Autumnal Inspiration — Daenafae
Being an artist involves so much more than time spent glued to the drawing board. Recently I went on a walk through Sheffield Botanical Gardens to help inspire my upcoming dryad illustration series.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Mixing paint and deciding if I can live in a world without granulation. Could you?

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#watercolor #pigments #paint #limitedpalette
Only 3 watercolour pigments forever?! A desert-island art challenge #onlyTHREEpigments
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October 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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“All in a Night’s Work”. Oils on canvas. 15 x 30. A sketch I did years ago finally sees completed work.
October 22, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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The art community tag video will be live tonight! I have a little challenge for us all, and you get to see me struggle with it myself first 🥲
October 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Museum sketching with the crystal exhibit. Of course I picked a hard one for myself and ended up frying my brain halfway through!

#sketchbook #amethyst
My sketchbook while I was at the museum gallery. You can see some of the crystals and stones displayed behind the glass in the background. On the page in my sketchbook is a pencil drawing of an amethyst crystal slice.
October 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Wandered around a botanical garden to fuel up on inspiration for a dryad illustration series. Came across this wonder of a tree.

#botanicalgarden #creativeinspiration #artist
A photograph of a beautiful tree in the Sheffield Botanical gardens.
October 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Filming for the next video. I think this is gonna be a favourite layout for colour mixing for me now.

#watercolor #painting
A close up of my watercolour sketchbook, showing two circles of paint mixes. Each circle contains two pigments in each to produce a secondary colour. The top circle features green mixes, and the bottom circle purple mixes.
October 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
🧐🔍✏️
Rough thumbnail sketch next to a work in progress: a light pencil sketch of a hen facing a small bird on a low, leafless shrub. Both pieces are very small; the linework of the work in progress is very fine and delicate.
October 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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vanessagillings.bsky.social
My twelfth piece for my solo show at @gallerynucleus.bsky.social!

#kidlitart #illustration #watercolor #watercolour #gouache #originalpainting #fantasyart #fantasyillustration
watercolor and gouache painting of a girl in a feather cloak floating midair above a standing stone as a crow and a storm come to greet her
October 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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melissasuestanley.bsky.social
"Rest a Spell"
🌙 🌿 ✨

Taking the night off to wind down ~ sitting with my knitting and chamomile tea and dorky monster movies on the tv.
There's so much to do, but don't forget to take wee breaks when you can.

💖
(also one of the mini prints available only through my kickstarter - link in bio!)
graphite drawing with a white border and small grey text underneath. The drawing is of a sleepy looking small chicken-legged Baba Yaga hut with an eyeball near the peak of its roof. It's standing in some grasses and looks a little bedraggled. The text underneath says "Melissa Sue Stanley" (me) and "Rest a Spell"
October 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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The hand sketching session is up! Using the pencil that people picked in the comments on the previous video ✏️

#sketchwithme #pencildrawing

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sketching hands
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October 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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The hand sketching session will be up tomorrow (alas, tech issues did occur today after all 🥲) but here's another peek at the spread!

#pencilsketch #handdrawing #sketchbook #artist
One sketchbook page in a spread of hand studies. The sketches were drawn with HB pencil. This page features a smaller hand closed in a loose fist (top-right) and a larger hand gently grasping a sword hilt.
October 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Close up of the tiger on the fallen tree. I really want to explore this way of painting trees more, and I have some dryad-filled plans to potentially do so 👀

#watercolour #traditionalart #illustration #artist
A close up crop of one of my traditional wildlife illustrations, featuring a tiger stood on top of a fallen tree. The illustration was drawn with graphite pencil line work and then painted with watercolours.
October 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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drxkth.bsky.social
A drawing of a warrior with a bronze helmet and sword
October 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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yayoiart.bsky.social
day 5. Deer
#inktober
October 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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zazb.bsky.social
The Sunset Vanguard
A guild made of veterans from the different armies of the City States who preferred to go adventuring than return to civilian life. Very prone to infighting.
#radiantviridia #thethiefoftales
Isometric ink drawing of four older adventurers equipped in different armors and uniforms.
October 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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#葬送のフリーレン 🌷
October 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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It's a good day to draw 🙂‍↕️

#sketchbook #drawing #pencil
An open sketchbook with two Mitsubishi 9850 HB pencils and an open container with a kneaded eraser inside.
October 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Studying hands 🖐️

#drawing #sketchbook #pencilsketch
A pencil drawing in my sketchbook of a hand holding a pen.
October 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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trangmn.bsky.social
voyage 🐟 #art
drawing of a cat sailing on a small leafy boat down a stream, admiring the view of various florals and greenery in the forest
October 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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I love the yew trees this time of year ❤️
A photograph of yew tree evergreen foliage peppered with green and red berries.
October 4, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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vanessagillings.bsky.social
Making Friends 📚🕊️

My third piece for my solo show @gallerynucleus.bsky.social ! Both the painting and sketch for this one are still available!

#kidlitart #illustration #watercolor #gouache #bookillustration
watercolor and gouache painting of a young wizard turning the pages of a book into a flock of birds while his trusty fox familiar looks apprehensively on
September 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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iceghost.bsky.social
Dont tempt me with a good time
September 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM