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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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Check out my Linktree! Prints & such.
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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · Dec 25
Reintroduction post:

Hello! My name is Mike, and I create traditional art. I mostly use watercolor, but I like to experiment with other media now and then.
A portrait painted in coffee: a woman’s face in profile. Her hair is long and full of butterflies. A sleepy crescent moon below the branches of a leafless tree, which stands on a curling rocky ledge. A clockwork aquanaut with a glass sphere head full of mechanical components is greeted by sea creatures. Five odd little monsters hanging out in a wicker basket.
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fivehaikuspoken.bsky.social
5haikuSpoken:
issue 20

Poets
Martina Matijević
Melissa Dennison
Dr. Deepak Dev
John S. Green
@lafcadiobsky.bsky.social

Dr Deepak Dev’s haiku with signpost:

RING
— answered softly

I hear your call
between the words I don’t say—
silence picks up first.

#5haikuSpoken #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
February 2, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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hulkhoquinn.bsky.social
Today, February 1st, is National #Axolotl Day. I love those things! I don’t do much non fantasy art but did this last year because I’m a fan. #NationalAxolotlDay
Art study of Various aquatic salamanders in a water scene.
February 2, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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jordanwthatcher.bsky.social
This is my first time seeing real Oak Tree leaves. Beautiful!
A photo of Oak tree leaves hanging on a diffuse winter afternoon. The sky is overcast, but the soft light is perfect for revealing a range of sepia tones in the perfectly preserved fall leaves.
February 1, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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fallenlights.net
I haven't decided on a theme yet for sketches (still leaning towards figures, maybe masked), but at least for Feb's print in the mail, it'll be this fellow as he flies through the pink.

He heads out at The Earth tier :)
patreon.com/fallenlights
Sketch tiers are currently full.
watercolor painting of a crow flying through pink and brown roots. a pink ribbon floats like a path.
February 1, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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saskya.com
#watercolor
#lighhouse
#landscape
#seascape
#stormysky
A watercolor painting of a lighthouse with black stripes. It is night time after a storm and the light is on and shining through the sky.
February 1, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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custardline.bsky.social
Happy Black History month!
February 1, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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rendernev.bsky.social
We had some wild weather last night. Noodle enjoyed the snow show.❄️
February 1, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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petersealy.bsky.social
“Corona,” animated version, from the “Into The Deep” collection of my “Artibles” series.

Also available as a 24"x24" ready-to-hang, float-mounted ChromaLuxe print on aluminum.

#art #opart #digitalart #blueskyartshow #artprint #chromaluxe #artibles #intheround #animatedart
January 31, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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michaelwhelan.bsky.social
TRIPOD WALKER (2016)

Acrylic on Watercolor Paper - 19" x 13"



Painted on the back of a misprinted Dark Tower image I was using as a mixing palette of mostly white, yellow ocher, and raw umber. 1/4
A beaked horror treads through hazy clouds of a dusty apocalypse. Black legs, nothing more than bone and ligament, are thrown so far in front in defiance of gravity it may as well be sitting on the blocky slope it descends. It tip toes on a trio of bird-like feet. There's a notch in its beak where nostrils would be, and the remnants of flesh of its victims stretches between jagged serrations.
January 31, 2026 at 1:22 PM
mikez.bsky.social
A twisty tree ends in a single branch, from which grows a leaf and a feather. Payne’s grey watercolor.
January 31, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
It’s International Zebra Day! Zebras are such an obvious temptation to the printmaker, considering how to depict life in black and white. They are inherently so graphic in their very skin. Though they aren’t striped any which way.
This linocut is printed by hand, on lovely, delicate, white Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper and shows two varieties of zebras, Grévy’s and Burchell’s, back to back in black ink on white paper. The sheets are 14 inches wide and 9.25 inches high (35.6 cm by 23.5 cm).
January 31, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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danhawk333.bsky.social
Throne
11x17 pen and paper
#surreal #macabre #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #GrimDark
Pen drawing of a figure kneeling around and, pressing down with both hands on, a stone with various symbols inscribed in it. Their face is a single point of light with a series of gems down their torso and a head that rises up into something that is a hybrid of a halo, antlers and branches while something resembling branch like wings extend from their shoulders and joining together at a point above their head. This is happening on a throne like structure with faces pointing out to each side made up of twisted root and muscle like structures that flow out into alien vegetation and to the right are several being s with large eyes and extended teardrop bone like crested heads on the right side. In the visible sky are
January 31, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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davis.social
Thinking about this today for no reason in particular
January 30, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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petersealy.bsky.social
“Flounder,” animated version, from the “In The Deep” collection of my “Artibles” series.

Also available as a 36"x36" ready-to-hang, float-mounted ChromaLuxe print on aluminum.

#art #opart #digitalart #blueskyartshow #artprint #chromaluxe #artibles #intheround #animatedart
January 30, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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danhawk333.bsky.social
Another bit of progress on the in office day piece. Mostly filling in details and such.
9x12 pen and paper #wip
#TraditionalArt #alien
Work in progress pen drawing of a large, black eyed alien wearing a technological headdress sitting behind a console in a larger craft with a back to a window
January 30, 2026 at 8:43 PM
mikez.bsky.social
Blue goblin. #goblinweek
A portrait painting of a blue goblin with red eyes and a wide-brimmed hat.
January 30, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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gingertotty.bsky.social
I skink, therefore I am

I’m so excite
I cannot think.
How cool it is
To own a skink.
They’re scaly
With such awesome feet
I cannot even -
They’re so neat.
A tiny dragon
You would think…
Oh holy fuck
I want a SKINK!
fatnuggetsfanatic.bsky.social Fat Nuggets Fanatic @fatnuggetsfanatic.bsky.social · 4d
The amount of self discipline it takes me every time I go to the pet store to not buy this fire skink that’s been there for a year now is insane. I almost do it every single time.
January 29, 2026 at 9:51 AM
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hulkhoquinn.bsky.social
Show me how you draw armor. 🪖🛡️
Various mechanical prosthetic legs in a fantasy style Art of Various mechanical prosthetic arms in a fantasy style Illustration of a guy with a sword through his chest. Drawing of a heavily armored knight on a horse
January 29, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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hulkhoquinn.bsky.social
Double goblin + 🍄 guy for #Goblinweek
Art of a Goblin lady pointing at a little pissed off goblin dirtbag. The lady is saying “isn’t there someone like him but more beautiful?” Goblinweek2026
January 29, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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davis.social
“Noise” (2024)
“Noise”: a digitial drawing of a woman facing the viewer wide eyed with messy shoulder length hair. The top half of her head and one eye is missing, replace with chaotic lines and planets flying from inside her head.
January 29, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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inkybat.bsky.social
That time when the king was mind-controlled by that squid.
January 29, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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whistberry.bsky.social
Red junglefowl for today's #birbfest ! Can't believe I've made it this far TBH 😂

#BirbFest2026 #BirdArt
Digital painting of a red junglefowl in profile facing left. It is a rooster like bird with red coxcomb, bright orange feathers on neck, back, and wings. Has a black chest and extravagant black tail feathers that shimmer light blue and green in the sunlight. It is standing in a pile of brown leaf litter and the background is a blurry gray green.
January 29, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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tishamark.com
Just finished my piece for @paeartforacause.bsky.social!

If you'd like to participate and support those affected by Alzheimer's, check out postcardartexhibit.com for more info and to register!

Tisha Mark ©2026, Soft Peaceful Sunset No. 2605, oil, 7"x5"

#art #PostcardArtExhibit #ArtForACause
Photo of a hand holding an original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Soft Peaceful Sunset No. 2605" 7"x5" oil on Arches oil paper (2026). Seascape painting with an orange toned sky with some soft blue clouds over a dark blue sea with a rocky shore. Color from the sky reflects in the water below. A paint palette with puddles of oil paint, a paintbrush, and two palette knives are visible in the background.
January 29, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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tomsbrown.bsky.social
Good morning.
an ornate tower made of spikes and gothic ornament which look suspiciously like chicken bones soars away vanishing into the clouds. A Dragon circles like a moon in the sky. Pencil drawing with applied colour.
January 29, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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brucespringsteen.net
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM