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Kathleen Rowan 🌱
@rowanauthor.bsky.social
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🔸️writing fantasy & sci-fantasy🔸️living real life adventures🔸️marveling at the mundane & the majestic🔸️breathing courage into your embers

🔸️GentlyRowan on AO3 & Tumblr (HZD)
🔸️photography by me & my husband
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📷 me on a Horizon-inspired adventure to Arches NP
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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · Apr 10
#PublicLands
A quote from the #NPS Visitor Center at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming (just S of Yellowstone):

"You must search for the loveliness in America; it is not obvious; it is scattered; but when you find it, it touches you and binds you to it like a great secret oath taken in silence."
In a blue ombre dress spangled with tiny white stars, Kathleen Rowan sits on a low, irregular stone wall, gazing past pines and across Jenny Lake to the hazy blue Grand Teton mountains that rise majestically to the left and right with a sharp V between them. Photo by Mr. Rowan
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ryan.blacksky.app
Audre told us.
"Despair is a tool of your enemies" - Audre Lorde quote in a political poster by me, laid over a red-winged blackbird singing in front of a blurry moon
September 18, 2025 at 12:57 AM
rowanauthor.bsky.social
One thing KPDH has done for me is add RISK & DRAMA to car ride sing-alongs.

Rapping along (Me! Rapping!) to How It's Done is a ride in itself every time.

Will I stay on this race horse, or will I fall off and be ignominiously trampled by the subsequent bars?

Each replay is a rematch, a CHALLENGE.
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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leslielevings.bsky.social
One of the smaller pieces that's still available is "Safely Furled."

www.circusposterus.com/product-cate...
Semi-surrealist sculpture of a curled crocodile-like creature surrounded by flowing water Semi-surrealist sculpture of a curled crocodile-like creature surrounded by flowing water
November 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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kiwipon.bsky.social
AH painting purple skin is so enjoyable :D
Continuing the render of this commissioned piece *_* I am having a blast
close up detail of a purple skinned dark elf with white hair portrait illustration I am working on at the moment
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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joshuadoetsch.bsky.social
During tonight’s Trick-or-Treating, our 3-year-old got more and more excited.

“More houses! More candy!”

Until he suddenly looked to the sky and shouted (verbatim):

“Can I eat the moon!?”

Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t, little one. Be the cosmic horror you want to see in the world.
November 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Young grizzled mantis derped around for me this afternoon as I was about to leave after my walk. Perky grabby flail-y child 🤎
Small brown mantis at the top of a wooden fence post, peering majestically to right of frame, against a backdrop of pine savannah and blue sky The creature on the fence peering up at you The creature running across the fence, big grabby hands at the ready Horizontally stripy grey and black face of the creature up close, cryptic coloring and pattern.
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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artbyemilytull.bsky.social
"Wren on lilac and white"
Thread painting - hand embroidered artwork

#birds #Wrensday #WildlifeArt #embroidery
A figurative lilac pattern on a white wallpaper background. On top is a hand embroidered Wren in profile facing to the left.
November 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
rowanauthor.bsky.social
Y'ALL!
Look how cool this is!
(Also, this whole thread is gorgeous.)

#art #artists #humanart
olyfrogg.bsky.social Olyfrogg🐸🌻 @olyfrogg.bsky.social · Nov 29
If you see this, post your bird art 🐦

#art #digitalart #fantasyart
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
rowanauthor.bsky.social
*opens To Do list*

Yup. Yuuuuuup.

*closes To Do list*

Sorry, I have dissolved into mist and am no long available for any To Do-ing whatsoever. 🌫
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.

Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!

2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
The image shows detail from a floor mosaic of a brown mouse on a pale background facing left with its nose close to half a walnut in its shell. The mouse has a long thin tail stretched out behind. The mosaicist has used a mix of lighter and darker brown tiles for the mouse’s body to hint at fur. The walnut is created with warmer light and dark brown tiles. Slightly darker background tiles have been used beneath the mouse and walnut to create subtle shadows
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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mortiscausa.bsky.social
determined to finish this wip soon, it's been languising for too long
an unfinished drawing of morgause embracing gawain and agravaine
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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pikaole.bsky.social
Smol baby shrimp
In the center of the blue background is a tiny, transparent baby shrimp. Freshwater baby shrimp are quite small and difficult to find.
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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mahoukarp.com
Coelacanth dragon 🐟
#art
Illustration of a coelacanth dragon with little coelacanths next to them. Colors used are mainly shades of blue
November 8, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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jenthetracy.bsky.social
Two five minute drawings of Connie #art #figurefriday
Purple crayon drawing of a woman with her hands on her hip held in front of a posing model in a large room. Light blue and dark blue crayon drawing of a woman standing in a dress with her hands on her head held in front of the posing model.
October 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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kaidachu.bsky.social
For the people who think they are bothering the artist by commissioning them again and again

YOU ARE NOT!! WE LOVE YOU!! 😳💗
Biggest form of flattery in my mind!
October 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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babeandoak.bsky.social
All the beautiful fall leaves got covered up ❄️
Photo of grey indigo night November sky with blurry branching trees in the background. In front is a large hedge bush covered in snow and a green leaf tree bending over from the weight of the snow and water drops on its leaves
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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lwartskisculpture.bsky.social
Mama? - Needle felted and mixed media hanging hoop sculpture.

#art #sculpture #anthropomorphic #owl #fiberart #mobilesculpture #hangingdsculpture #ArtYear #EasyCoastKin
Mama? - needle felted and mixed media hanging hoop sculpture by Lynn Wartski. Natural colored wool tree, owls and shelf mushrooms. grey stones, green moss, red capped mushrooms and glue sealed natural twigs. Ireidecent glass bead eyes
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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mahoukarp.com
dragon fruits 🐲🍑🍎🍐🍌
#art #dragons
Illustration of some dragons based on some fruits. Featured are peach, apple, pear, and banana.
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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littleevil0ne.bsky.social
Early 2020 vs mid 2025 😎
Art at the beginning of covid Incomplete blue tiefling Vs now An elf girl in a ball gown turns towards a starburst of light, hair trailing behind her
September 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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everettpoetry.bsky.social
Shadows dapple the path on a November afternoon at the magical little cottage. ✨️
Afternoon shadows dapple the faded red brick walk to a charming cottage painted green with blue trim. A pumpkin sits at the front door, a exclamation of orange in the sun. A lovely scene.
November 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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jaxwolffwrites.bsky.social
All Mick wanted was to keep his best friend Eleanor safe on their first adventure. But when fate binds him to a dead god and transforms him into a dragon, Mick's forced to rise from sidekick to king before a divine war wipes out the people he's been chosen to protect.
#Hopepit #hopepunk #WIP #NA #F
Three-panel moodboard consisting of three pieces by Alphonse Mucha. Left: Emerald. A serpent snarls at the viewer from amidst green lilies. Center: The Moon. A woman wearing nothing but a navy blanket covered in stars stands against a backdrop consisting of the night sky and a crescent moon. She covers her smile with one hand. This image is noticeably lower in quality than its neighboring panels. Right: Salon des Cent. A woman conceals her mouth with a hand, her index finger curled down. She's glaring intensely at the viewer. A golden filigree lines the bottom and frames the sides, partially covering the left and right panels.
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
rowanauthor.bsky.social
I survived 🙌
rowanauthor.bsky.social Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 3d
Looking at all I'm supposed to do today, I seem to have enough DAY in today, but I fear I don't have enough ME.

I'm tired.
November 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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kellyknowles.art
i'll repost this forever i'm so proud of it
digital drawing of a psychedelic house interior in a fisheye perspective. it has a vibrant but somehow musty color scheme. rooms intersect at impossible angles and some walls are missing, opening up to a huge black void. endless rooms and hallways fade into the distance.
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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emilyhare.co.uk
The big sale ends TOMORROW! Most will be archived and or recycled after the sale, never to be seen again in my shop. buff.ly/QZIAKGN 30% off this beautiful wood dragon.
#artforsale #artsale #painting #watercolour #creatureart #cutecreature #fantasyart #supportsmallbusiness
a green dragon with deep black shining eyes, a pink nose and a head covered in green horns, almost tree-like. The dragon has a benign and kind face.
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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mucie.bsky.social
+ d'exemples ♥
couple with a dog and a cat family of a mother, her baby and her sister (the aunt) a couple and their two cats a cute black cat with yellow eyes and a constellation of star in reference to her name
November 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM