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Helen Birch - drawdrawdraw
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Drawn to drawing.
Art lecturer turned author
and online art tutor

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hollyvardia.bsky.social
Traditional watercolor page of Grey Herons!

#birds #herons #traditional #watercolor
December 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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markchilcott.bsky.social
Micro Botts 1/3
#art #artwork #inkdrawing
December 31, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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canadianpaintings.bsky.social
Days on the Coast
Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk
1980
December 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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annalarssonstudio.bsky.social
What are your favorite pens? 🖊️
Here's an article with 10 contestants. My faves are:

-Uniball Vision Fine (black waterproof rollerball)
-Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pen
-Staedtler Pigment Liner

And for fun writing: Pilot FriXion Clicker 0.7 erasable gel pen (in pink)! 🌸

#art #pen #drawing #marker
September 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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sketchbookskool.bsky.social
How to think differently about #art and #sketchbook mistakes. And how to fix them.

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December 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
drawdrawdraw.bsky.social
A gentle return to online teaching @artistinresidence.co between holidays - demo' drawings of some of the delicious homemade Christmas goodies I was given.
#watercolour #pen #watersolublegraphite
#drawing #food #cake #sweets #treats #artclass #arttutor #artyear
Sweet treats and a handful of nuts. Top left a cream topped ginger cake on a blue saucer; centre top a marzipan, stem ginger topped petit four in dark brown, frilled paper case; to the right a chocolate rum truffle in pink paper case, bottom right corner - un-cracked brazil nuts and almonds. All are positioned near their watercolour, water soluble graphite, brown pen versions.
December 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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toulouselautrec.bsky.social
Portrait of Vincent van Gogh
This vibrant pastel portrait by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec captures his friend and fellow artist Vincent van Gogh in a relaxed café scene, characterized by expressive line work and dynamic color use. The artwork conveys a sense of intimacy and camaraderie, showcasing Toulouse-Lautrec’s admiration for van Gogh.
December 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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bakerart.bsky.social
Sketched in a riverside garden in Hemingford Abbots, Cambs, a collection of garden objects with a creative display of plants (see alt text for more description). Watercolour and Indian ink done on the spot with no later reworking.
#art #watercolour #Cambridgeshire #pleinair
Watercolour drawing of garden objects in a riverside garden in Hemingford Abbotts, a display of sempervivums, aeoniums, fuchsias and pelargoniums including a wire and straw horse alive with botanical colour. Also a wrought iron bike and a small angelic figure with flowers, and a head of Buddha.
December 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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doandraws.bsky.social
Vase with flowers. #draw #mentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters #ink #watercolor
December 28, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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saltpeterdraws.bsky.social
greylag goose, unexpected sighting in a local pond...

#birds #birding
digital profile portrait sketch of a large greylag goose in a rich range of greyscale, with a bright orange bill; below the suggestions of small ducks. the work is signed "sp."
December 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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bwean.bsky.social
i'm having so much fun with sennelier soft oil pastel right now 😭😭😭
the texture is everything
December 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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youaintnopunk.bsky.social
I know I said no more Facebook marketplace #collage this year..but I’ve been kicked out of the living room…daughter is recording audition tapes. Anyway #NoHunting
#Yetis or any kind of hunting…hope the inbred elite still don’t do that shit on Boxing Day in the uk
December 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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bakerart.bsky.social
Mixed media drawing of musicians playing at a wedding reception at Anstey Hall, Trumpington, near Cambridge UK. The bride is shown in yellow but the dress was more white than yellow. I hope she didn't mind but the picture is on their wall so probably not.
#Irishmusic #art #wedding #mixedmedia
Irish music session at a wedding at Anstey Hall, Trumpington, mixed media drawing. Composed by me from my hastily snapped photos as I was playing fiddle at the time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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spitewinter.bsky.social
#plants #botany #history #art 🌳

Ilex aquifolium - Common Holly

Another pagan new-year fertility symbol. I have one of these in my garden. I didn't intend to but I think it arrived with one of the Blackbirds that nest in the Laurel.

Woodland Trust page -
www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-...
December 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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spitewinter.bsky.social
#plants #history #botany #art

Viscum album - Mistletoe

A very turn-of-year plant. A tolerated parasite of apple trees and yes, I have often been Wassailing and woken with a fine hangover.

Oxford Herbaria
herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/plants40...

Wassail!
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/his...
December 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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paulwelsh89.bsky.social
Rolf Harder, Design Collaborative Montreal Ltd.. Quebec Association of Architects Christmas Card. c. 1969
📸MoMA
December 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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bryanminnich.bsky.social
Procreate digital collage a man’s head triangles in a radial pattern a big dollop of green paint lots of Faces it’s blue as well
December 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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corwijt48.bsky.social
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moment in the afternoon

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December 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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artistinresidence.co
Helen Birch is a multitalented #artist and author who teaches weekly LIVE classes at AIR. Give her a follow at @drawdrawdraw.bsky.social and come join AIR for Inspiration. Every week she explores a new topic - like these historical #portraits.
December 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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artistinresidence.co
Helen Birch is a multitalented #artist and author who teaches weekly LIVE classes at AIR. Give her a follow at @drawdrawdraw.bsky.social and come join AIR for Inspiration. Every week, she explores a different topic.
December 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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thresfold.bsky.social
wrp 151125
6-color plotter drawing
29 x 39 cm - 11.4 x 15.3 inches

#penplotter
December 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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cbellartstudio.bsky.social
Only 2 more sleeps 🥰 #sketch #draw #art #ArtYear #artonpaper #handmade #traditionalillustration #illustration #illustrator #Illustrationartist #collage #pencils #gouache #markers
Only 2 more sleeps 🥰 #sketch #draw #art #ArtYear #artonpaper #handmade #traditionalillustration #illustration #illustrator #Illustrationartist #collage #pencils #gouache #markers
December 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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sarahbodman.bsky.social
World Book Night 2026 – The Mountains Are Calling…
You're invited to respond to a poem, text or book about mountains for an exhibition and mail art swap.
Deadline 3rd March 2026. Some early submissions shown here. Find out more and download the full brief at:
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/news/#wbn2026
‘The Mountains are Calling’, 2026. Concertina book, handprinted on Fabriano Rosapina Bianca 220gsm and inkjet printed on Fabriano Tonal paper 120gsm. Varied edition of 5. 14 x 20 cm folded, 70 x 20 cm unfolded. Made in response to The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd. By @clarerogersartist.bsky.social A postcard artwork based on the novel ‘The Call of the Wild’ by Jack London (first published 1903). Read in Dutch translation: ‘De roep van de wildernis’. Recently I found a sketch that I made in 1986, representing a typical flat Dutch landscape. That same year I read ‘The Call of the Wild’, situated in Yukon, a wild part of western Canada. To me brought a direct longing for mountains (born and raised in the Netherlands I wasn’t used to higher levels). In 1989 I got the opportunity to go to Alaska, my first contact with similar areas. During the years some more were to follow. In my contribution I use the 2026 WBN motto: the mountains keep on calling. The vowels already left, they couldn’t wait. By Frans Baake
December 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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paulxhearn.bsky.social
Photomontage 2018
Left half: Road sign viewed from the back; blue-grey surface with attached transfer letter D & white sticker depicting an illustration of a sign-board. Right half: photograph of a jagged rock in a calm sea and light cloud above
December 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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paulxhearn.bsky.social
You will be haunted by three spirits
An illuminated traffic bollard on a suburban road junction at dusk. The circular top part of the bollard has been daubed with a crude face
December 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM