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sianeez.bsky.social
@sianeez.bsky.social
250 followers 120 following 280 posts
Carer and beginner artist trying to find time for art.
Draw and paint mostly flora and fauna - into birds at the moment - and occasionally portraits and landscapes.
Cloud ☁️ lover
City living sucks!
PS No NFTs
https://ko-fi.com/sianeez
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sianeez.bsky.social @sianeez.bsky.social · Sep 15
Carrion Crow
A5 pad
This was probably my most challenging bird to paint especially the eye … 😝
#beginnerartist #watercolour #painting #bird #crow #birdart #nature #animalart #blueskyart
A black carrion crow perched on a lichen covered branch. The background is blue with suggestions of dark branches and green-golden leaves.
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bakerart.bsky.social
Watercolour and Indian ink street sketch of #PembrokeCollege, Cambridge. I seem to have done a lot of paintings and drawings of this beautiful college. Many are sold. I've put a collection of them in a Flickr album here: www.flickr.com/photos/baker...
Watercolour and Indian ink drawing of Pembroke College, Cambridge. You can see it was done in situ because the people dashed in as they walk by are transparent. I always consider it a challenge when drawing this chapel to fit the weather vane in without cutting it off at the top.
February 3, 2026 at 3:42 PM
sianeez.bsky.social
Bank vole drawn and painted in my palm sized pad tonight. I used watercolour pencils except for the background as they are easier to take with me for my child’s after school disability sports session.
#art #watercolourpencils #sketch #drawing #latenightart #nature #rodents #ukwildlife
A watercolour painting of a bank vole that I did tonight found in woodlands and native to the UK. It has chestnut coloured fur with paler areas on its underside. The vole is looking up and stands next to some small stones on its left. Its long tail is not visable. Background is a golden colour.
February 4, 2026 at 12:23 AM
sianeez.bsky.social
Day 30
#birbfest
#birbfest2026
I’ve taken a video of this painting as the colours came out all dark and purple in the photo I took while it’s bluer in the original. Photo is in the comments
#oystercatcher
#birdsofuk
#art #watercolour #painting #birds
February 3, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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sarahlovellart.bsky.social
I’ve just finished the #birbfest2026 drawing challenge. 31 days, 31 birds. Loved drawing every one.

#birdart #birdillustration #illustrator
February 2, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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luceelente.bsky.social
#Ladder-backedWoodpecker
#RedrockStatePark, #Sedona, #AZ

#birds
#photography
#birdphotography
#BirdWatching
#birdsofbluesky
#nature
#wildlife
#wildlifephotography
February 2, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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birdwhisperers.bsky.social
Calling all bird-loving artists! This month’s bird, is the Black-cheeked Lovebird! A PAIR! 💚 Draw! Paint! Sculpt! We hope you'll join us. Posting day is Feb 25th.

Rules and Full Size Ref. Photo here: birdwhispererproject.com/participate/

#birds #art #BirdWhisperer
Black-cheeked Lovebirds are a small endangered parrot from Zambia. It is mainly green and has a brown head, red beak, and white eyerings. Our pair sitting on a branch together. The bird on the right has their beak open “kissing” their partner.
February 2, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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joaquincastrotx.bsky.social
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
sianeez.bsky.social
Bullfinch
A5
Watercolour & watercolour pencils
Another no-sketch painting I did over the weekend. The watercolour pencils were great for adding some 🪶 details at the end.
#art #tobrightenupyourMonday #nosketch #birds #bullfinch #birbs #watercolourpencils #watercolour #عسفور #birbs
A watercolour painting done over the weekend without a pre-sketch of a male bullfinch found in the UK. I have only seen one once outside my home. The background is a maze of thin tree branches and what looks like seeds or yet to emerge tree blossoms that bullfinches feast on.
February 2, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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deeporter29.bsky.social
Mountain Cabin
Painting by DMP

Acrylic, 12x16 canvas

#paintingsbydmp #selftaught
#acrylic #ArtistOfBlueSky
#handpainting #womanpainter
#paintingsonbluesky #ArtYear
#mountains #cabin
February 1, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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goldengallery.bsky.social
Touch of Night, acrylic on canvas, 24x24in.
Contemporary painting by Denys Golden. www.goldengallery.ca
February 1, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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thewaterbirds.bsky.social
It took about 14 scans, but I got these guys onto the computer finally. #watercolor
Watercolor painting of 3 ducks standing at the edge of a river.
January 31, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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georginadoodles.bsky.social
I’ve had many people ask the last couple days if I sell my art, and where. I do sell it, I’ve been a professional artist for the last 5+ years. I sell on Etsy, and on my own Website.

The woodpecker I posted on Friday isn’t for sale as it’s for an exhibition, but there will be prints available :)
A watercolour painting of a great spotted woodpecker holding onto a tree
February 1, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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nadiavandessel.bsky.social
Kingfisher.🐟 #kingfisher #bird #birdart #artsky #drawing #artist
February 1, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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paulsgundlach.bsky.social
Happy Saturday! It's the weekend! The best part of this morning's 7° sunrise was the pre-show looking to the north. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!
January 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Mini art quilt by textile artist Nancy Messier #WomensArt
Quilt with image of the head and shoulders of a hare looking outwards with startled expression against a green background
January 31, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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scotsquirrels.bsky.social
Here’s what our sightings map looks like so far for 2026! We’d love to cover as much of Scotland as possible, so keep an eye out for both red and grey squirrels if you live in or visit one of the gaps.

Submit your squirrel sightings here: buff.ly/k6ANjgX
A map of Scotland with red and grey dots representing squirrel sightings.
January 30, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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whistberry.bsky.social
Today's #birbfest bird is oystercatcher with no further instructions so I picked a Magellanic Oystercatcher because it had a lot of black which I thought would be easier to draw (when will I learn that black is never really black? 😂)

#BirbFest2026
ref photo by user paulomascaretti on inaturalist
Digital painting of a magellanic oystercatcher, a medium-size shore bird, in profile facing right, standing on smooth gray rocks on a beach with a gray sea to sky indicated in the background. The bird has a long, pointed bright orange beak with yellow at the tip, a yellow eye, and light pink legs and feet. It is mostly black, shining with iridescence, except for a white belly and a small group of white feathers on its wing.
January 30, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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liquoricelino.bsky.social
Birds in disguise anyone?

#birds #art #linocut #linoprint #printmaking #birdsindisguise

Liquoricelino.etsy.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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bleppindrago.bsky.social
The Gryfalcon for this month's #BirdWhisperer
Mine on the left (digital charcoal) and my mom's on the right (traditional watercolor). I will talk her into making a Bsky page one of these days.
#Art #Birds #BirdArt
Digital charcoal. Gryfalcon seen from behind, with their head turned to our right. They are looking over their shoulder. Standing on the knobby remains of a still upright tree, branches coming off it are stumps. The background is a blurry green suggestion a forest. Watercolor. Gryfalcon seen from behind, with their head turned to our right. They are looking over their shoulder. Standing on the knobby remains of a still upright tree, branches coming off it are stumps. The background is a blurry green suggestion a forest.
January 28, 2026 at 6:27 PM
sianeez.bsky.social
Happy 10th Anniversary to the #BirdWhisperer art challenge. This is my late entry for January of a gyrfalcon found in the Arctic coasts, North America and Siberia. It took me forever drawing the wings - I hope I accounted for them all 🤪
#art #digitaldrawing #birdart #falcon #nature #birds
A digital drawing of a gyrfalcon perched on a dead branch covered in pale green lichen.The wings of the gyrfalcon are pale with brown markings. It has long brown tail feathers with pale stripes and blotches. The background is mostly greens.
January 30, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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hemlocksgrove.bsky.social
The humble western tanager #illustration #bird
November 16, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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bellandpixel.bsky.social
May I offer you a pantless thundergoose? #pantlessthundergoose
A black and white sketch of an ostrich. The ostrich is standing and looking back over its right shoulder. Sketch by Charlotte Belland
January 16, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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yvesbroeckx.bsky.social
I C L O S E D , Y E T L I S T E N I N G I

A face reduced to shadow, pressure, residue.
Charcoal doesn’t describe him—it remembers him.
An inward gaze heavy enough to leave marks.

— The Asylum Art -
Art and words by Yves
#CharcoalDrawing #MaleFigure #blueskyart #ContemporaryArt #cptsd
Closed, Yet Listening is a charcoal study of interior gravity. The male figure is rendered not as portrait but as surface—skin becoming paper, breath becoming smudge. The closed eye resists spectacle, turning the image inward, while dense lashes and compressed shadows suggest weight, fatigue, and unspoken vigilance. Charcoal is allowed to remain imperfect: rubbed, scarred, and grainy. Light does not illuminate so much as hesitate. The face feels paused between thought and withdrawal, presence and erasure. Rather than capturing likeness, the work records pressure—of time, of feeling, of consciousness folding in on itself. It is a quiet image, but not a calm one. Art copyright ©Yves Broeckx This is digitally created art concept and execution by Yves
January 28, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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antongerashchenko.bsky.social
An investigation by Hunterbrook Media has found that the American technology company Ubiquiti is supplying Russia with equipment used by the Russian military in its war against Ukraine, including for drone operations, circumventing sanctions⤵️
January 28, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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rmh111.bsky.social
Bridge to the South. Oil. 30”x36”

#contemporaryart #traditionalart #art #artsky. #landscape #drawing #fineart #art #traditionalart #figure #river

www.rmhershberger.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:59 AM