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Sandra Russell Art
@sandrarussellart.bsky.social
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Artist and painter. Storyboards. Wild In Art sculptures. Portraits. Golf illustrations. Kidlitart.
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Sandra Russell Art @sandrarussellart.bsky.social · Mar 7
Daffodils heralding spring.
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My watercolour illustration for the start of the weekend. 💛

#kidlitart #sandrarussellart #watercolour #illustration #CCLemonChiffon #colour_collective
Sandra Russell art - watercolour illustration where there is a young girl with a brown dress and flowers in her hair looking at a black labrador dog. There is a yellow field full of daffodil flowers in front of them.
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Junes the Florist, Southport
Mmm
September 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Oh my goodness…
bcmerchant.bsky.social Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Sep 17
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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I’ve pre-ordered my copy and can’t wait to read it! Another gem from Stephen Proctor to add to my bookshelf. 📚⛳️🏌🏻‍♀️
#golf #GolfHistory #GolfLit #WomensGolf
sproctorgolf.bsky.social Stephen Proctor @sproctorgolf.bsky.social · Jul 22
Breaking news: My third work of narrative golf history — Matchless — is now available for pre-order. It’s available everywhere on Amazon, but I prefer you order in the U.S. from Barnes and Noble online or in the U.K. from bookshop.org, as I am a big fan of bookstores.
August 20, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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"Reframing Women Printmakers" a NEW book from WA looks at historic, global, Indigenous and contemporary hugely talented printmakers!
Have you got your copy yet? 🧡💛🧡
Via www.waterstones.com/book/reframi...
Or any good online or local bookstore in your area or country!
June 29, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Happy August all!⛱️🌈🌞

Thank you for following 🧡 !
August 1, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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February 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Every day the world presents you with the wrong battles, designed to waste your energy so you don't fight the right ones.
July 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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I will never, ever get over this.
December 3, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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The Future of A.I. - www.patreon.com/posts/future...
Two chickens at a computer. The one in the suit says "Tired of reading A.I.-generated slop on the internet? Try our new A.I. reading tool that consumes content so you don't have to!" The other chicken says "Finally! Nobody has to read the content that nobody wrote!" In the distant future, a parent reads a book to their children, "And that, children, is how the internet died." "Cool!" says one of the kids.
July 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Best Life. www.patreon.com/posts/best-l...
Chicken lying on the couch: "I'm living my best life!" Chicken standing nearby: "No, you're living your life at everybody else's expense."
July 29, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Having fun drawing @studioteabreak.bsky.social ’s #PortraitChallenge.
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My black & white pencil on brown recycled paper version of “Strong smell” character study, sculpted by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt circa 1770-1781 cast in lead-tin alloy.
Victoria and Albert Museum

#sketch #sketchbook #art
July 31, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Thursday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️

‘Strong smell’ character study, sculpted by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt sometime between 1770-1781, cast in lead-tin alloy
Victoria & Albert Museum

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Sculpted bust of a man
July 31, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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The best tip (imo) for illustrated books: never repeat what's in the text in the image. Always add something to the narrative in the image. Think of the art and words as two widgets in a machine with slightly different jobs that work together to make the machine work.
July 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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‘The Royal Blimp’ for today’s #throwbackthursday

#flyingmachine #airship #art #artist #HumansOfBlueSky #BlueSkyArt #bskyart #illustration #fantasy #cartoon #fantasyart
A collectors card titled ‘The Grand Air Race 2019’, showing a blue airship with a gold crown on the side. A blue sky and hot air balloon are in the background.
July 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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My coloured pencil sketch version of @StudioTeaBreak.bsky.social #PortraitChallenge - ‘Retired Schoolmistress’, painted by Evelyn Dunbar in 1955, via @ahistoryinart.
#TheDailySketch #portrait #sketchbook
Sandra Russell art coloured pencil sketch on brown recycled paper of a woman’s portrait sitting and holding her hands together. On the right are two coloured pencils.
July 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Thursday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️

‘Retired Schoolmistress’, painted by Evelyn Dunbar in 1955

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via @ahistoryinart.bsky.social
Portrait
July 23, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Oops! 🐭 Little peek at an illustration for our seventh #Adventuremice book, launching this October ✍️
Ink and watercolour illustration of seven mice caught up in a net, looking abashed. From the upcoming book ‘Adventuremice: Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth’ by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre
July 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Thurday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️

Young Man Reading, painted by Octavian Smigelschi in 1892. Brukenthal National Museum

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via @wikivictorian.bsky.social
Painting as described
July 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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My Waddle-on-Sea penguin is out for all to see!
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It’s for a fab Wild in Art trail raising awareness and funds for @havenshospices.bsky.social in Southend-on-Sea. Tag me if you spot Captain P. Penguin in Leigh-on-Sea! Wilson James are my sponsors.
#WaddleOnSea #WildInArt #LeighOnSea #penguin
July 12, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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UK artist Laura Knight, Untrodden Sands, 1912 #WomensArt #Summer
Painting featuring two female figures on the sand of an empty beach by tbe sea, one figure is a small happy looking child with dress and sun hat and the other is an older girl or adult with flowing dark hair and white dress in tbe sea breeze
July 12, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Thursday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️

Portrait of Louise d'Épinay, drawn in pastels by Jean-Étienne Liotard around 1759

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Portrait
July 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Sketch I did whilst visiting the Brontë Parsonage Museum (the home of the Bronte family).

#Bronte #Haworth #Yorkshire #drawing #art #artist #traditionalart #blackandwhiteart #pendrawing #pensketch #HumansOfBlueSky #BlueSkyArt #bskyart #urbansketching #urbandrawing #sketching #sketch #doodle
An open sketchbook showing a black fineliner drawing of the corner of a large house, with its open doorway on the bottom left. There are lots of bushes in front, with tree branches on the right and a cloud behind.
June 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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#cartoon about freezing too obsolete for the modern world
I think I’m getting too old for this!
June 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Australian Robert Ingpen, now 88. Sampling exceptional draughtsmanship from his illustrated Alice. Posting for the 160th anniversary intermittent Alice illustrations by living artists from breathtaking work prompted by Carroll’s book. @thestorymuseum.bsky.social #Alice
July 1, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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*** PLR alert ***
Don't forget to register your books for Public Lending Right before 30 June folks! #kidlitUK
June 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM