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Mike Z
@mikez.bsky.social
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Guild Eleven co-founder and artist. I mostly work with watercolor.

Guild Eleven = my creative friends!
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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 5d
Monster Rescue: prints looking for a forever home.
#art
A Basketful of Bespoke Beasties, an art print by Michael Zawacki
Gallery Quality Prints
www.inprnt.com
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davis.social
If you see this, post your bird art 🐦

#birds
A drawing of a cartoony grumpy bird. Ruffled feathers. Adorable.
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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tomsbrown.bsky.social
Playing with tones on this one as I draw the next.
Next one, is one that Sime also illustrated so trying to go very much in my own direction. Going head to head with Sime is..unthinkable.
Ruined temples under the moon. A vast, dire figure sweeps across the landscape above. Pencil, watercolour, chalk and White pen.
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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tishamark.com
Another new little one for you, embracing late autumn. These small framed pieces are nice for gifting if you happen to be looking for gift ideas.

Tisha Mark ©2025, Quiet Prelude, oil on gessobord, 5"x5"

Available:
tishamark.com/product/quie...

#art #painting #SciArt #TraditionalArt #bsnm
Original oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Quiet Prelude" 5"x5" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2025), shown in a maple frame. Loosely painted abstract-leaning atmospheric landscape with dark grays and earth tones and a body of water that reflects orange and light blue color from the sky. The sky is light blue with orange light of an early autumn evening.
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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johnlechner.bsky.social
We’re snailposting, post your snails!

I've never photographed one, sadly, but here's a drawing I made of an emerald snail. 🐌
Ink and watercolor drawing of a bright green emerald snail sitting happily on a branch amid blue-green foliage.
November 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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bookreadingguy.bsky.social
Good morning! It's chilly and damp in Ithaca today, and a little foggy! A good day to visit #IthacaFarmersMarket and buy leather! If sales today are not better than last week, this will be our last Sunday for the year, so come out today if you want to see us!
A wooden booth full of leather goods including belts and bags and critters. More photos are at Frostnembercreations.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Hoppy Christmas #greetingcard #BSNM
www.greetingcarduniverse.com/holiday-card...
Christmas Bunny Momentum card
Christmas Bunny Momentum card. Personalize any greeting card for no additional cost! Cards are shipped the Next Business Day. Product ID: 1549064
www.greetingcarduniverse.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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danhawk333.bsky.social
Slow and steady progress
11x17 pen and paper #wip
#surreal #macabre #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #GrimDark
Work in progress pen drawing of a vaguely humanoid being with large wings that flow into space like void in a twisted landscape
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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salvaterra.bsky.social
Some contrasting biomes of the Elos Continent map. 2022/23 hand-drawn commission. 🧭

🗺️ high-res full map: www.patreon.com/posts/elos-c...

#ttrpg #dnd #cartography
fantasy map fragment depicting a jagged coastline with frozen mountains. fantasy map fragment depicting many islands with volcanoes fantasy map fragment depicting a large delta, mountains and forests just south of it fantasy map fragment depicting a coastline with forests, islands and mountains. some hills and plains inland.
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Just had the most delightful birthday dinner at my brother’s house tonight. Loved every minute of it.
Short ribs, potato soufflé, and glazed carrots for dinner! A chocolate coffee birthday cake with two metallic candles. A glorious dinner table set with roses, a bowl of silver bells, and a divine plate of food.
November 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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gingertotty.bsky.social
Robins for sale. Getcha Robins here. Robins, going for a song…

All available here
Artofnote.sumupstore.com

#wildlife #wildlifeart #illustration #natureart #sciviz #sciart
#bsnm #birds #ukgiftam #mhhsbd #christmas #robins

All painted on pebbles with 24ct gold leaf
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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🌙🐇 #art
White gouache on black paper: a rabbit person in silhouette stands upon a rocky outcrop with a curling tree. The moon is full.
November 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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petersealy.bsky.social
My favorite part of my train set growing up was a construction unit - a mounted crane and associated cars. And these things are still my favorite sight on the rails!
Subway construction train unit. Subway construction train unit. Subway construction train unit. Subway construction train unit.
November 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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whistberry.bsky.social
Suddenly making big progress on the animal fantasy novel I started in 2021 and has been way backburnered so that's fun!

(I know most of you follow me for my art but I do write too! 😂)
Drawing in white ink against a black background of a small wren looking up at a canary in a cage.
November 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Soon I will lock in, and get back to wood burning! I have a piece drawn up, but I’ve been nervous to start burning it haha but very soon… just gotta finish a few others pieces first! So stay tuned!
Male brown basilisk wood burning Rhino iguana wood burning Bushmaster wood burning
November 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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bookreadingguy.bsky.social
1/2 Nerds and nerdlings, if you are within an easy drive of Ithaca, you should be at FlagCon*, because it's packed full of neat nerd things, like games, and gamers, and dice, and dice accessories, and leather (!) and all manner of neat and nifty things that you need to experience.
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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tishamark.com
Embracing the chill of late autumn as the days grow shorter and the light gets lower.

Tisha Mark ©2025, Quietly Darker, oil on gessobord, 8"x8"

Original is available:
tishamark.com/product/quie...

#Scape #art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm
Original oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Quietly Darker" 8"x8" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2025). Painting of a loosely painted abstract-leaning atmospheric seascape with earth tones on a dark shore. The sky has orange and gray tones with hints of blue.
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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mariastrutz.bsky.social
An autumnal fox wandering through a rosehip thicket.
Painted with black tea, rosehip ink and watercolours.
Also: Spot the micraster echinoid 🤍
#FoxFriday 🦊🐾🌖 #FossilFriday
a fox wandering from right to left slightly at a diagonal and looking back at the viewer, surrounded by rosehips, a fossilized heart shaped sea urchin, Micraster, in front of the fox on their left. Linedrawing, watercolours, rosehip ink, black and white, shades of buff and orange brown red. Maria Strutz
November 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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budanart.bsky.social
Rhythm and Hues wip2
18 x 24 - acrylic on wood

Moving well into the abstract with this painting!
Hope I don't get lost :)

#abstractrealism #coloristart #canadialandscape
Abstract colourist work in progress landscape forest painting. Interlocking shapes and colours come together to form the forest.
November 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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hulkhoquinn.bsky.social
One thing that I’ll never be able to forget, to show how evil Elon and every single one of his cronies are, is that they thought life saving nutritional paste that cost 30cents was too expensive. $40 could keep a child fully fed for over 2 months. He makes more than that per second, not even joking
escapedexplorer.bsky.social escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 4d
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 4d
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
November 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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newyorker.com
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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whistprword.bsky.social
A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for November 7, 2025: #LONG

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
Drawing in white ink against a black background of a marmoset clinging to a tree. It has a cute, small face, wild tufts of white hair emerging from either side of its head, and a very long striped tail.
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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johnlechner.bsky.social
Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day, I'm an author/illustrator who likes writing about animals and kids having adventures. I'm currently seeking an agent, see my website for more art: johnlechner.com 🍄🐸 #kidlitart
Ink and watercolor illustration in shades of orange and brown of a girl in the woods looking up at a crow flying overhead. A black cat is beside her, also looking up.
November 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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shiftypumpkin.com
Show me how you draw/paint snow ❄️
Oil painting of a snowy landscape, on 18-inch by 24-inch canvas. Snowy fields and a mountain range with frosty, snow-covered pines and bare branches. A dark sky threatens more winter weather to come.
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'The Mountain Keepers'
by contemporary printmaker
Sarah Morgan #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print featuring two large buildings in dark blte light among mountains, with some windows lit up with yellow light
November 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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And another stop on the ART TRAIN!!!
#arttrain #art

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A pen drawing of a caricature of a young woman with an oversized head, her hair gently moved by the wind stands in a small ship (based on a Little Tikes tugboat shaped sandbox) holds onto the cabin with her left hand. There is nobody at the wheel of the ship. In her right is a bird house that has a suitcase handle attached to the roof. Above her head is a blender, the electric cord curving around like a halo. And around the blender is a swirling cloud of razor blades. The sky is overcast, and there are gentle but pronounced swells in the water. At the bottom right, just below the waterline a circling shark can be seen. A side view of an Indian rhino from the left, based on Albrecht Durer’s 1515 engraving. This one is made of polymer clay and polychromed in shades of yellow, green and purple A digital pen drawing (iPad Pro, Affinity Designer 2) of a pair of people. Facing the viewer, a teen girl is looking off the page to the left and an older male with receding hairline and van dyke beard looks towards the viewer (yeah, it’s a self portrait with our daughter) A pen and color pencil drawing of a rhinoceros with a house-shaped burden on its back. The rhino is mostly grey. The house is purple, yellow and brown with the number 20 and letter “w” and a scissor headed bird on the front. There is a long brass pole that extends out horizontally from the structure that has a orange pumpkin dangling from it
November 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM