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Amanita House
@amanitahouse.bsky.social
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Ahouse 方方 | Anchorage | she/they
Illustrator, nature enjoyer, wage NPC
Casually working on a book.
My work is handmade.
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Little mushroom hedgehog I made for a friend. Watercolor on matboard :)
watercolor artwork of a hedgehog with little brown mushrooms for spines holding up a brown mushroom umbrella. it is holding its other hand out to check the weather.
July 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Rise up!
#orca #orcinusorca #cetaceans #killerwhale #yachtclub #art #nokings #mixedmedia #illustrators #animalillustration #illustration
June 15, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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"Conversations," painted in acrylic and pastel. Inspired by quiet walks in the forest.

#art #squirrels #alaskanwildlife #alaskanartists #sciart #kidlitart #artsky
three american red squirrels sitting on separate mossy rocks in a blue spruce forest. they are having a great time. the rocks are covered in colorful lichens: reindeer moss, cladonia cristatella, green dog leafy lichen, and more.
February 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Greetings fellow artists and art enjoyers! It's been a while since I last logged in so I'm sending a very late hello to my new friends. Here is a thing I've been working on lately with traditional watercolors, scanned digitally. His name is Bear.
January 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Set up my oil paints over the week and re-started this years-long work in progress. Putting it back down to let the paint dry for a bit.

#art #sciart #paleoart #oilpainting
a square oil painting. in the miDdle are a flying pterosaur carrying a sauropod in its feet. below them is a row of assorted other dinosaurs: tyrannosaurus, triceratops, iguanodon, stegosaurus, and others all looking up at the two in the sky. the sky is yellow. surrounding them is a diagonal frame of underground layers, fossils, volcanoes, and sky.
December 6, 2024 at 10:47 AM
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#art #watercolor #hedgehogs #mushrooms
a watercolor painting of two hedgehogs whose needles are made of little brown mushrooms. one as standing up and watering the other one, who is laying down, with a little blue watering can. watercolor painting of two hedgehogs whose needles are made of little brown mushrooms. they are both standing up. one is examining the shrooms on the other hedgehog's back. they are having a great time.
November 30, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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Salmon Hat Party, watercolor on paper
a watercolor painting of a group of three orca whales all swimming underwater and facing each other. on each of their heads is a salmon hat in a array of different marine decorations: barnacles, starfish, seaweed, sea urchins. they are having a great time. based off the news story of killer whale pod k in puget sound being recently spotted wearing salmon fish hats after this trend was last spotted in 1987 closeup of the first picture, two orcas are seen with salmon hats. one decorated with barnacles and seaweed, the other decorated with clam, starfish, and sea urchin. a closeup of the first painting, this shows an orca wearing a salmon hat decorated with kelp and a large sea snail.
November 29, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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Keep liking my posts and we're gonna end up like this:
an ink line drawing of five bunnies sleeping. they are all laying in a circle with plates of eaten rabbit food: flowers, mushrooms, seeds, berries, and leaves. it is implied they just had a great feast. the picture is overlaid with pastel rainbow colors. art by amanita house.
November 26, 2024 at 5:52 AM
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Greetings!
Peek-a-Boo, watercolor on paper
#art #hedgehogs #watercolor #AmanitaMuscaria #mushroom #illustration
a watercolor painting of two hedgehogs over a white background. the top one is wearing a mushroom cap like a turtle shell. It is standing up and peeking out from under the large red amanita muscaria mushroom cap which covers its entire back. its tongue is sticking out. the bottom hedgehog also wears the mushroom cap like a turtle shell. it is shown from walking from the side. only its little feet and nose are visible under the mushroom.
November 25, 2024 at 5:38 AM
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A painting I made after my first visit to Denali and seeing caribou in the wild for the first time. I imagine these animals to have a profound sense of beauty and reverence for death, and this is my silly human attempt at portraying it 🍄

#art #RangiferTarandus #caribou #reindeer #artshare #painting
A painting depicting a ring of red amanita muscaria mushrooms surrounding a lone antlered caribou. it is sitting beside a pile of bones of a dead caribou. behind it are the trunks of five birch trees that grow up above the top edge of the painting. their area is surrounded by a blue river, with dark blue mountains in the background. inspired by denali and the alaska wilderness
November 23, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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Odd dreams in a little fantasy setting ❄️
#caribou #reindeer #painting #AnchorageArtists #art
A painting of two antlered caribou sleeping in a dark cave. All around them are enormous cladonia lichens in pink, green, and purple.
November 22, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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Hi, may I join? :)
painting of two caribou sleeping in a dark cave. Around them are enormous mosses and lichens in shades of pink, blue and purple.
November 22, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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QRP with your sketch Vs final artwork

"Velveteen," oil on canvas.
#art #VelveteenRabbit #OilPainting #bunnies
A black and white pencil sketch of five bunnies holding hands and dancing like the painting "La Danse" by Henri Matisse A work in progress picture of an oil painting showing five bunnies holding hands and dancing like the painting "La Danse" by Henri Matisse. The background is dark blue and the bunnies are painted brown with cream undersides, their eyes are not yet painted and the mushrooms all around them are not yet colored in. Detail of an oil painting showing five bunnies holding hands and dancing like the painting "La Danse" by Henri Matisse. The background is dark blue and the bunnies are brown with cream bellies, and all around them are red amanita mushrooms with white spots and white daisies.
November 22, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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stop glamorizing "the grind" and start glamorizing whatever this is
#art #squirrel #stopglamorizingthegrind
watercolor painting of an american red squirrel laying comfortably in a bed of plant seeds, dandelions, puffy flowers, mushrooms, fireweed, and milkweed.
November 22, 2024 at 2:42 AM
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If you see this share your favorite Pokémon!
Him 🧡
Charmander the pokemon doing a little dance
November 22, 2024 at 2:20 AM
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Thanks for bearing with me while I try to figure out how everything works on here ❤️

#artists #oilpainting #alaskanartists #amanitamuscaria #aapiartist #aapi #bunnies #fairyring #illustration #art #mushroom #fairytale #rabbit
Detail of an oil painting. Five brown rabbits dancing in a circle holding hands, similar to "Danse" by Henri Matisse. Around them is a ring of amanita mushrooms and daisies.
November 20, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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Tundra Berry Orchestra! From left to right: Huckle, Cloud, Bear, and June.
2023, watercolor overlaid on photo.
#art #squirrels #anchorageartists
Four watercolor illustrated squirrels playing different instruments. From left to right: harmonica, violin, triangle (played by a baby sized squirrel) and upright bass. the background is a photo of tundra grasses and the overall picture is different shades of warm yellows and oranges. It is monogram signed by the artist, Amanita House.
November 20, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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"Conversations," acrylic and pastel on canvas.
#squirrels #art #illustration #moss
artwork of a mossy spruce forest with a variety of colorful mosses and lichens. on three raised moss-covered logs/rocks are three red squirrels facing one another as if in conversation with each other.
November 19, 2024 at 5:48 AM
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Entering this month's #SCBWIDrawThis with my picture of the word "toad." Toad-ally magical moment painted with watercolor and watercolor pencils.

#scbwiillustrators
#scbwi
watercolor of a scene of a large toad with a circle of little toads dancing around it. the large toad has wings, a cape made of warty bubbles, and is brandishing a wand with a swirl of toad eggs in midair. around them are mushrooms of all different sizes. this picture is dark blue shadows, yellow light, and brown and pink midtones.
October 30, 2024 at 6:58 AM