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Peggy Wolven
@vexedmuddler.bsky.social
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Fashion for the Scientific Body. Nails, nerdy and not.

https://linktr.ee/vexedmuddler

🩷💛💙 She/her, artist, scientist, nail polish nerd, friend to underloved animals.
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I have a young friend who is almost 6, obsessed with sharks (and megalodon lol), and her grandfather keeps finding bad AI slip for her. Any suggestions for better places to look @whysharksmatter.bsky.social? Id have DMed but maybe some of my other followers will have good ideas too!
December 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Finished up this wave painting! Will be varnishing it to bring out the richness but want to let the paint fully dry overnight before applying.

This one is up for grabs.
Size: 6.5x11" Acryla gouache on paper
$600 (US shipping including)

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Wave painting with greens and blues with paint pallet in background
December 28, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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luxomancer.bsky.social
Giant Leopard #Moths, Hypercompe scribonia, were frequent visitors to the bug light this year. What looks like black markings from a distance, is revealed to be a rich iridescent blue upon closer look. Some have spots, and some have rings.

#MacroPhotography
#Mothmas
#Invertefest
A photo of a white arrowhead-shaped Giant Leopard Moth resting on a wood table. The moth has dark markings, some ring shaped, some spots, these marks look black from a distance but are a deep iridescent blue. A closeup of the head of a white Giant Leopard Moth taken low and from the front. The moth's slender antennae extend to the left and right of the frame, it's dome-like body rises above the head, the eyes tucked underneath are orange in this light. The body, is marked with dark iridescent blue spots and the legs and head also have some of these markings. A photo of an arrowhead-shaped giant leopard moth resting on a white sheet. Unlike the other moth in this post, the dark markings on this example are almost entirely ring shaped. A close up photo of the wing juncture of a Giant leopard moth. The wings themselves are marked with dark iridescent blue rings. The space between the wings is a long triangle filled with these blue scales. The area above the wing juncture is marked with irregular blue spots which shine intensely in this light.
December 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
vexedmuddler.bsky.social
Going to a (slightly belated) Boxing Day party this evening, so needed an appropriate* manicure for the occasion.

*Note for people from non-commonwealth countries: this is not actually what Boxing Day is all about.
A close-up shot of my thumb nail. It’s covered in a deep smoky slate blue polish, and in the middle of the nail I have painted a Little Tykes Turtle Sandbox. It’s filled with gleaming gold-tinged sand, out of which is emerging a yellow plastic shovel handle. There’s a red pail resting on the sand. A close up shot of my other 4 fingers, with the same background polish. Each nail has a different kind of box painted on it: Index - a red vintage style lunchbox with an Astroboy picture on the side Middle - a pink jewellery box, open to reveal a dancing ballerina in front of a gleaming silver mirror. Ring - a pizza box, partially open to reveal pizza inside. Pinkie - a crayon box with the top flap open showing the crayons inside.
December 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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artologica.net
How can you say Avatar has no cultural impact? I've been hearing that Na'vi Dad song nonstop for weeks
tomandlorenzo.bsky.social Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 4d
I think it's interesting that the Avatar films don't seem to have much of a life or cultural impact outside the theater but I also think it's extremely weird that such an observation is commonly met with the angriest sorts of responses
December 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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I haven't been taking many pictures the last couple of weeks, (and today it's pouring rain), but here's a photo I took on Christmas Eve three years ago, of a single green lacewing egg in my garden. Think of it as a wrapped present with a bug in it.
🎁🌿🐙📷 #bugsky
A macro photo of a single green lacewing egg on its thin stalk above a fuzzy, rumpled green leaf, and against an orange background. The egg looks like a tiny, oblong, lime-green balloon on a string.
December 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
vexedmuddler.bsky.social
Okay it’s officially Christmas. The Chelsea buns are done.
A bundle of Chelsea buns, arranged in a circle on a pan, surrounded by sugary goo. If you’ve never had Chelsea buns (aka sticky buns), they’re a bit like cinnamon rolls in structure, but have just a little cinnamon and a LOT of butter and brown sugar. They make their own sauce as they bake, and it caramelizes in the bottom of the pan. When you turn them out, the bottom becomes the top, and you have a glorious candy crunch atop pillowy yeast rolls.
December 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
vexedmuddler.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar is technically done, but I’ll leave with one last manicure - the one I’m wearing right now. Happy Santaween, y’all!
A close up of my thumb nail, painted in a green magnetic polish with silver holographic bar glitters. The effect is of silver & rainbow tinsel hanging on a Christmas tree. I painted strands in a shimmery indigo with white highlights, connecting coloured lights in red, orange, blue, and yellow. Each light bulb casts a coloured glow on the surrounding green background. A shot of my full hand with all 5 nails visible. My index and pinkie nails are painted to match my thumb nail, but my middle and ring finger nails have a pearlescent white background with minimalist coniferous trees - just green triangles in the distance, made with magnetic nail polish. A close up shot of my other 4 fingers. In this photo you can see that the pearlescent white on the two middle nails is swirled to give a frosty effect.
December 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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artologica.net
Our Squirrel of the Day for December 25, 2025 is a little Christmas angel #sqrlpix
albino squirrel in tree
December 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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dadrummond.art
Merry #Crustmas to all who celebrate! Hoping you are firmly attached to people you love, are able to scoop up large amounts of food, and can hide in an impervious shell when the social situation requires it ❤️
My sculpture of an acorn barnacle—a crustacean!—in steel, bronze, and sterling silver, sitting on a white background. My hand touches the steel barnacle shell and provides scale (barnacle is just a bit smaller than my hand). The barnacle’s filter feeding legs (cirri) are spread dramatically wide.
December 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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hanaayoob.co.uk
Day 16 - one very happy snake plant who started with some leftover watercolour ink and then just grew from there.

I really want to make prints of this in 2026

#ArtAdventCalendar
A green windy snake fills the entire page. It has a big yellow eye and is smiling. The snake is filled with floral mandalas and leaf patterns in green and thwre are leaves sprouting off the spake too. Everything is intricately pattered.
December 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar 22: a tumbling-blocks geometric #RugHooking work-in-progress. Started in February 2020, IIRC.
A hand-hooked running-loop-stitch work in progress, playing with the tumbling-blocks pattern (where 3 diamond shapes are placed together to form a cube, and shading of the cube’s sides give an illusion of movement). At its centre where 6 diamond points meet, is a colour wheel of bright saturated primary and secondary colours, shaded lightest at its centre and darkest at the edges of the star-shaped wheel. Diamonds in the tertiary colours turn the star into a hexagon, and diamonds in the quaternary colours are being started around the edges. Each stitch is a loop of hand-dyed wool fabric, with some silk, paper, and yarn added for textural effects. There are also embroidered and felted embellishments and buttons added. The edges are unfinished, with lots of the linen foundation fabric still left unhooked. “Colour Is Its Own Reward”, adapted from a traditional quilting/tiling pattern and hooked by Deb Merriam, started in a workshop with Gail Becker.
December 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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🌲🎄🌲

#artadventcalendar #artyear #artsky #artshow #art #illustration #illustrator #artist #drawing #cartoon #design #visdev #ink #childrensillustration #kidlitart #penandink #festive #whimsy #winter #mouse #christmas #christmaseve #christmastree #reindeer #rabbit #bird #tree #forest #woods #moon
A pen and ink illustration of animals gathered around a Christmas tree in the forest.
December 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar 2025, Day 24:

Icons for items in the cooking system of a cozy, story-driven game in development. I liked these and was pretty proud of them. :)

Medium: Pixaki for iPad.

#gameart #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart
Pixel art image of three pomegranates, one cut in half and facing the viewer. A pixel art image of a small cluster of vibrant Borlotti beans with red pods and bright white/green stripes. Pixel art depiction of two fennel bulbs attached to their stems and leaves. Pixel art depiction of two black currants with a green leaf behind them.
December 25, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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modernjourneyer.bsky.social
Victoria, B.C. Harbour Waterfront. Oil with Cold wax medium, pastel knives, archival paper, 12 x 12 inches. Day 24 #ArtAdventCalendar

#EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArt #WaterScenery
Colorful painting of yellow buildings or homes along the Victoria, BC Harbour waterfront. Reflection of colors of navy, yellow and orange. dark yellow house orange roof with side of house in shade at top of picture in the horizontal line. Sunny blue sky and puffy white clouds behind that.
December 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM
vexedmuddler.bsky.social
I managed to miss day 24 of #ArtAdventCalendar because I was busy spending my entire day in the kitchen 😂
Glad my mom passed on her baking skills and quite a few recipes. She also taught me to sew a bit, but I never got much into that one. For day 24, here’s a quilt she made me, in manicure form.
A close up of my thumb nail. I divided it up into varying sizes of squares and rectangles, each painted in shades of turquoise and teal with black and white accents. Each rectangle echoes a pattern from the batik fabrics mom used in the quilt that inspired this manicure. (Yes, I have a LOT of teal and turquoise nail polish - it’s my favourite colour, and I definitely have at least 50 polishes in this colour family.) A close up of my other 4 nails, with the same patterns as the thumb. Each nail is unique, but many of the rectangles use the same colours and patterns, since the quilt has many repeated blocks. A photo of the quilt that inspired the manicure.
December 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
vexedmuddler.bsky.social
Finished our LEGO Holiday Express Train kit! @brianwolven.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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blackandwhiteandcolours.de
Day 23
Türchen 23

#ArtAdventCalendar
#AnimalStreetart #Streetart

Montpellier, France 2021
Farbfoto. Schräge Draufsicht auf den unteren Teil einer Wand und auf einen Bordstein. Die Wand ist beige gestrichten, der Bordstein weißgrau, die Farbe blättert ab. An der Wand paste ups von Mäusen, die scheinbar auf der Kante des Bordsteins laufen. Die Mäuse sind schwarz weiß. Von links nach rechts: Hinterteil einer Maus. Eine sitzende Maus, die nach links oben schaut. Eine kauernde Maus. Eine auf zwei Beinen stehende Maus, diese lächelt.
December 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Day 23: #ArtAdventCalendar

Sharing a new small painting from my Lighting the Dark series today.

Tisha Mark ©2025, Light the Way No. 2502, oil on gessobord, 7"x5"

View the series here:
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#art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm
Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Light the Way No. 2502" 7"x5" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2025). A seascape with a brilliant blue, orange and yellow sunrise sky. The colors of the sky are reflected in the water below.
December 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
Time for a #painting. "Stone Walls, No Sheep III" was the 3rd in a series of 4 paintings that came out of loving landscapes especially those with stone walls and those with sheep but accepting that sometimes the sheep just aren't there. #art #Speirghorm #ArtAdventCalendar
Portrait format in bold acrylics on canvas. View up slope of hill in flat tangerine with a grey dry stone wall in foreground diagonally through it from bottom right corner to half way up left edge. Cottage peeps over lower part of top of hill right of centre, featureless with muted yellow front, dark orange roof and grey gable. Behind house a darker orange hill slopes in narrow diagonal band from right behind cottage up to left edge. Behind on left half are four or five conical mountains in lighter orange receding left to right. Sky is painterly canary yellow. All planes of colour have thick black outlines around them, not unlike stained glass albeit the sky and fields are very large shapes. Three isolated stones are scattered in the tangerine field between the stone wall and the cottage. Photo of painting was taken before I added my signature.
December 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Day 23 of #ArtAdventCalendar

Waiting for Christmas be like

#watercolor #watercolorsketchbook #skeletons #christmasart
Skeleton wearing a Christmas hat and holding up a peace sign
December 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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artologica.net
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 23
GIVE THE ALGORITHM WHAT IT WANTS
watercolor with pigment, 2023
watercolor in pattern pf overlapping stripes with text: Give the algorithm what it wants
December 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 23: gold filagree

Hand knit brioche cables in wool 🧶
A close up of a hand knit shawl featuring elaborate brioche cable work in a white to gold to brass gradient yarn over a base of rust red yarn.
December 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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luxomancer.bsky.social
If I suddenly stop posting, know I was possibly murdered in my sleep 😂

#MerryChristmas
#Catmas
#CatsOfBluesky
#Unamused
#Cats
A photo of a tabby cat, in a red and white Christmas sweater, laying on a white blanket. A sparkly blue wreath is on the wall behind him to his right, and some colorful stockings are on the wall to his left. He does not have an amused look on his face.
December 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Today I'm sharing one of my favorite drawings I did this year. It's ink on watercolor paper, and is inspired by kelp.

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#ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt #ink #drawing #art
Hand drawn generative/procedural art in ink on watercolor paper. The abstract pattern looks a bit like sea stars made from kelp.
December 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM