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Mike Burns 🔜 SCGcon Wash D.C.
@mikeburns.bsky.social
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Visual Artist & Designer
🔥 BG Design - Late Night Cartoons
🔥 Card Art - Magic the Gathering
🔥 Emmy Honors Recipient
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Mike Burns 🔜 SCGcon Wash D.C. @mikeburns.bsky.social · Jan 7
*Revised SCGcon Washington D.C. dates

Happy New Year! I'm doing more shows in 2026...

Taking my first trip to Texas for day visits to Northstar Games (Waco) and Fantasy Fortress (Killeen) at the end of this month...
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I've been waitlisted for the upcoming MagicCon Las Vegas. We'll see what happens! 🤷‍♂️
February 9, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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patsux.bsky.social
dancing dragons
Digital painting of a Mega Dragonite, dueling with a Mega Altaria. The shiny mega Dragonite is wielding a spear with a curved blade, clashing against a white sword wielded by the mega Altaria. They are dueling in the sky, surrounded by seven other Altarias aiming to attack the Dragonite, and there thunderclouds brewing in the backdrop.
February 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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February 8, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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If you want some Old School and New School goodness from Mark Poole in playmat or print form, now is your chance! Affiliate link below

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LAUNCHED: Mark Poole Playmat Collection
We’re only one month into 2026, and Josh Krause of Original Magic Art has announced their next artist collaboration, launching today!
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February 3, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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aaronbmiller.com
ALSO! Sarah Finnigan has a fantastic post on Muddy Colors about the exhibit, with a great interview with curator Donny Caltrider.
Check it out here:
www.muddycolors.com/2026/01/mini...
Tiny Treasures
Most of the time an artist chooses their canvas substrate based on durability, absorption, and surface texture. I recently finished three tiny paintings for a group show at Gallery Nucleus, but…
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February 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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aaronbmiller.com
Have you checked out the Gallery Nucleus show:
Magic the Gathering: In Miniature III
Hundreds of miniature paintings are on display now. It's a lot of fun to see them all together!

My Vinelasher AP is available here:
Gallerynucleus.com/detail/43517/
Small painting of a lizard in fantasy garb with a leaf cape, standing on a rocky ledge. The lizard is cracking a whip over his head.
February 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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Finished the personal commission
a cute mouse with flowers. drawn with mechanical pencils
January 21, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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Last night was the opening for the show, and everything I've seen looks fantastic! Thanks @donnycaltrider.bsky.social for putting this together. I'm honored to be included!

Check out the full gallery online here:
www.gallerynucleus.com/events/1113
February 1, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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🎉THIS WEEKEND 🎉
I will have three very small paintings in the Magic: The Gathering in Miniature III show at Gallery Nucleus.
111 artists, and 333 pieces of art for Magic's 33rd year.
Show Dates: January 31 - February 15, 2026
Opening Reception: January 31, 5pm - 8pm
gallerynucleus.com/events/1113
January 29, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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burninginquiry.bsky.social
The upcoming exhibition Magic in Miniature III seeks to curate some of the coolest artist proofs by 111 #MagicTheGathering artists!

#Magic #MTG #MagicInMiniature #artistproof #interview #EDHREC @edhrec.com @donnycaltrider.bsky.social

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An Interview With Donny Caltrider, Ahead of Magic in Miniature III | EDHREC
The upcoming exhibition, Magic in Miniature III, seeks to curate some of the coolest artist proofs by 111 Magic: The Gathering artists!
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January 30, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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Tonight is the opening of Magic: The Gathering in Miniature III at Gallery Nucleus, organized by the amazing @donnycaltrider.bsky.social !

I just learned that all three of my contributions found a home during the early access and the fuzzies couldn't be warmer 💖
An itty bitty painting of Elspeth, the planeswalker from Magic: The Gathering, as a white mouse clad in silver armor with golden decorations. She's wearing a white cape and holding a spear that took more than one try to get to look right. Behind her, white sweet peas are arranged in the shape of wings (because Elspeth is an angel) and she's making friends with an orange butterfly. This is on the back of my Swords to Plowshares artist proof, which also involves sweet peas. Pencil for scale! An acrylic painting on the back of a Magic: The Gathering artist proof of "Enduring Innocence", 6.3x8.8cm in size. The "droplets" are raised a bit above the surface - though not too much - and they're made by using teensy tiny glass beads as 'seeds' for volume, and built upon with heavy gel and many, many layers of a shiny medium. There's also symbolism to it that calls for some lore. Tamiyo - like most planeswalkers - has a long and interesting life, but it comes to a tragic end soon after she's compleated by the Phyrexians, when she purposefully allows her friend the Wanderer to kill her in battle. However, her story doesn't end there, as a part of her spirit (a shade) is captured in a memory scroll which eventually ends up on the Duskmourn plane - which is the set that the "Enduring Innocence" belongs to. While Tamiyo's adoptive son Nashi goes to Duskmourn to find her, the shade is continuously drained of her memories by the plane's ruling demon's cultists. When she is found all that's left and the only thing that's allowed her to persist is her love for him. In the end, she asks to be released into the Blind Eternities, and Nashi honors the request. So with that context, I wanted to show Tamiyo with a loving and peaceful expression as her memory fades away into little droplets - maybe Nashi's tears. The flowers are spider lilies since their symbolism is tied to death, remembrance and transformation. They're yellow to go with the "Enduring Innocence" (well and also because yellow and blue together are nice to look at.) An itty bitty (8.8x6.3cm) painting of Nissa (planeswalker from Magic: The Gathering) holding a magical starflower spell. Some of the spellery is dripping down by her feet and sprouting behind her, gently lifting her into the air. Painted in acrylics (the shading on her eyelids just about did me in) with pencil for scale. Logo of the "Magic: The Gathering in Miniature" show with event info: January 31, 2026 - February 15, 2026 Reception / Jan 31, 5:00PM - 8:00PM gallerynucleus.com/events/1113
January 31, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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my painted Artist Proofs will be showing at Gallery Nucleus tonight, in "Magic: The Gathering in Miniature III"
January 31, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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jasonkpargin.bsky.social
"How can I stop overthinking everything? I'm constantly imagining what might go wrong in every situation and making endless contingency plans for disasters that never happen!"

Good question. Unfortunately, the answer is that we need people like you to keep society from falling apart.
January 30, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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My first store update for 2026 is now live! Please check the link in my bio for new posters, playmats, and stickers!

Also restocks on multiple items!

New charms and charm restocks will be coming in late February due to a delay in shipment.
January 24, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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January 23, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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Command Tower commission!

Working on commissions today and packing for Saskatoon, if you're going to be at the Face to Face Games event this weekend come say hi!
January 21, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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jasonkpargin.bsky.social
The next book in the John Dies at the End series is UP FOR PREORDER NOW, in all formats, at all retailers, including SIGNED EDITIONS. There Are No Giant Crabs in this Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs:

Signed hardcovers: parnassusbooks.net/giantcrabs

All other formats: bit.ly/crabscrabscr...
January 20, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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jasonkpargin.bsky.social
If you only know me for my little videos, you can try my latest novel for three bucks in any ebook format. Search 'I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom' on your ebook device.

Go check the reviews, read a preview - this is the thing I actually do for a living!
January 19, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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My first illustration from Cynthia Sheppard’s course in Smarter Artschool
I have two more still cooking :3 The course was a blast! Cynthia is a fantastic teacher and a very empathetic person. I loved everything: the info, the approach, the feedback sessions. So yeah, highly recommended!
January 16, 2026 at 6:54 AM
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See you in Reading, PA this October!

This will be my first @ixarts.bsky.social table in like a decade (I think since before I started working on Magic 🤷‍♂️) I used to be a regular so I'm really looking forward to going back ❤️
January 16, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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See you in Reading, PA this October!

This will be my first @ixarts.bsky.social table in like a decade (I think since before I started working on Magic 🤷‍♂️) I used to be a regular so I'm really looking forward to going back ❤️
January 16, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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#PortfolioDay ✨fanart ver.
January 15, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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Next store update will be on Friday, Jan 23, 2026!

New prints, charms, stickers, and restocks of popular pieces will be available!
January 15, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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Later this month is the opening for the @gallerynucleus.bsky.social Magic: the Gathering in Miniature III show!

I'm excited to be one of the featured artists this year. There's a BIG list of contributing artists, and I'm among some very good company ❤️

Details: www.gallerynucleus.com/events/1113
January 13, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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eeliskyttanen.bsky.social
Hey #portfolioday, I paint Finno-Ugric Mysticism inspired art for myself and neat fantasy stuff for Magic: The Gathering!
January 14, 2026 at 12:26 AM