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Dani 🦋
@paintingsoprano.bsky.social
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Artist | Musician| Dreamer

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Dani 🦋 @paintingsoprano.bsky.social · Jan 26
Hello! While I try to get myself situated in unfamiliar territory (😅), a few things about me:

🦋 I paint surreal and fantasy art!

🦋 I love to sing, and I'm also learning harp!

🦋 I'm a medievalist with interests in Celtic, Norse, and Anglo-Saxon culture/literature.

Welcome! More coming soon ❤️
paintingsoprano.bsky.social
Hi. I'm alive. 🫠 It's been a very rough month.

I have no art to post at the moment, BUT fun fact: I'm also a hobby baker and enjoy cake decorating. ❤️ SO in honor of the upcoming holidays, here are some tasty treats I've made in the past.

#baking #baker #cake #cakedecorating #dessert #yum
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
paintingsoprano.bsky.social
Undying Tales, October 6: Vicuña

This drawing challenge is...well, challenging. 😅 But I suppose that's the point?

#undyingtales #drawing #art #artist #ink #sketch #sketchbook #animals #wildlife #nature #endangered
October 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
paintingsoprano.bsky.social
Undying Tales, October 4: Sloth Bear

Confession: I hate how this turned out. ☠️ I really didn't like drawing this (so fluffy) and I had SO much trouble with the nose/snout. 🤦‍♀️ At least it's done?

#undyingtales #animals #bears #nature #wildlife #endangered #sketch #sketchbook #ink #drawing #art
October 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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ucddublin.bsky.social
💙💛 Our deepest sympathies to the family, friends, and colleagues of Manchán Magan, author, filmmaker and passionate advocate for the Irish language.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
October 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
paintingsoprano.bsky.social
Is anyone doing #UndyingTales this year? I decided to try something different. ☺️

October 2: Puerto Rican Rock Coquí

Fun fact: I've never in my life drawn a frog before, so this took a few tries. 🫠

#art #artist #artwork #frog #sketch #sketchbook #endangered #nature #animals #amphibians #ink
October 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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sagan.bsky.social
"Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic."

Carl Sagan, Cosmos
September 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
paintingsoprano.bsky.social
Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. Well done, Ireland.

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

#gaeilge #irish #irishlanguage #ireland
Thousands march in Dublin to demand greater Irish-language rights and help for Gaeltacht
Demonstrators want action on housing and education, look for help in next month’s budget
www.irishtimes.com
September 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
paintingsoprano.bsky.social
These are the most beautiful watercolors I've ever seen. 😍😭 So excited to work with these!

#lisilinka #watercolors #swatch #color #sparkle #sparkly #art
August 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
paintingsoprano.bsky.social
Does anyone else struggle with critters in their veggie garden? 🫠

#inktober2023 #bunny #rabbit #garden #ink #drawing #sketch #sketchbook #ballpoint #art #artist #doodle
August 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
paintingsoprano.bsky.social
Hey artists, quote with your woman art. ❤️

All I have at the moment, sadly. 😅 Because drawing people scares me (so complicated 🫠).

#art #artist #draw #drawing #ink #inktober #sketch #sketchbook #nature #night #nightscape #outdoors
July 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
paintingsoprano.bsky.social
Hope. 💠

Inspired by #Endwalker from #FFXIV. I don't think I've ever cried as many times in a game as I have with this one. 🥲

@en.finalfantasyxiv.com

#art #artist #ink #sketch #sketchbook #fanart #fantasy #fantasyart #finalfantasy #elpis #meteion #birds
June 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
paintingsoprano.bsky.social
First new drawing in a while. 😅

Moon Rabbit 🌕🐇 Inspiration struck after meeting the loporrits in FFXIV. ❤️

#ink #art #artist #draw #drawing #sketch #sketchbook #fantasy #surrealism #nightscape #folklore #myth #mythology #rabbit #bunny #ffxiv #endwalker #finalfantasy #finalfantasyxiv #loporrit
June 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
paintingsoprano.bsky.social
I wonder how a beholder would even use binoculars? 🤔

#ink #inktober #art #artist #draw #drawing #sketch #sketchbook #fantasy #fantasyart #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpg #beholder
June 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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sagan.bsky.social
We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.

We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction.

~ Carl Sagan
June 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
paintingsoprano.bsky.social
How far in would you go? 👀 One of my favorites from #inktober last year!

#art #artist #sketch #sketchbook #ink #drawing #cave #crystal #birds #explore #explorer #fantasy #fantasyart
A young explorer carrying a torch stands in a cave with a waterfall. A crow is perched on her shoulder. Large crystals grow from the cave walls and floor.
June 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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sagan.bsky.social
If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves... If we become even slightly more violent, shortsighted, ignorant, and selfish than we are now, almost certainly we will have no future.

- Carl Sagan
June 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
paintingsoprano.bsky.social
There's just something about nightscapes and mysterious places. 🥰 This is the 'castle' prompt from #inktober 2023! ❤️

#art #artist #ink #drawing #sketch #sketchbook #raven #castle #ruins #night #birds
June 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
paintingsoprano.bsky.social
Good morning! How about another #inktober prompt? This one was from 2023! 🥰

#ink #drawing #art #artist #sketch #sketchbook #birds #kingfisher #sciart
A kingfisher emerges from the water, wings outspread, under a starlit sky.
June 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
paintingsoprano.bsky.social
Anyone else looking forward to those firefly-lit nights? I can't wait. 🥰✨

(From last year's #inktober)

#art #artist #ink #drawing #sketch #sketchbook #night #moon #hike #fireflies
June 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
paintingsoprano.bsky.social
Haven't posted a painting in a little while. 😅 Here's one I did during lockdown!

#art #artist #painting #acrylic #space #planet #surrealism #standingstone #waterfall #fantasy #fantasyart #sciart
June 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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sagan.bsky.social
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
May 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
paintingsoprano.bsky.social
Meet Aedicus, my latest Pathfinder character. 🦉 Anyone else play?

Class: Fighter/Druid

Likes: magical weapons, books, small woodland animals, traveling, shiny objects.

Dislikes: dragons(!)

#drawing #ink #sketch #sketchbook #ttrpg #tabletop #owlin #owl #birds #pathfinder #fantasy #fantasyart
May 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
paintingsoprano.bsky.social
Sketch of the day! Future painting perhaps?

#art #artist #sketch #sketchbook #ink #drawing #nightscape #aurora #ocean #killerwhale #orca
May 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
paintingsoprano.bsky.social
Does this count? 🌱

#sketch #sketchbook #ink #drawing #art #artist #inktober #cute #monster #plant #fantasy
May 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
paintingsoprano.bsky.social
Hmmm? One of the prompts for last year's #inktober was "Rhinoceros."

So I drew a rhinoceros hornbill. ❤️ That counts, right? 😅

#art #artist #drawing #ink #sketch #skeychbook #birds #hornbill #sciart #nature
May 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM