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Andi Stern
@andistern.bsky.social
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Multi media artist and mother of dragons (cats, dragons are cats) She/they 🇺🇦
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The pink is visible to the naked eye tonight.
The view of a magenta aurora that shifts to green toward the right. A bare tree is in the foreground
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Can you tell which side of the hill didn’t get sun today?
A hillside of trees in autumn oranges and reds. The right half of the hill is white with snow.
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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I started this painting earlier this year but had only painted the cat and bird. I found it while sorting my works on paper and have been working on it off and on for about a week. It is gouache on hot press watercolor paper.
A gouache painting of an orange cat talking to a light blue bird that has a large orange pompadour. It is a night scene and the sky is two tones of blue with a light yellow moon. The foreground is a red under painting with a dark moss green on top.
October 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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I’m trying to find the balance between “make progress on this embroidery” and “don’t hyperfocus so hard I end up with claw hands” and boy is it hard. #handembroidery #originalartwork (I am also salty that both JoAnn and my favorite small needlework shop have closed so I’m playing thread chicken )
A hand embroidered figure of a garden goddess. Her face is like the sun and the bottom of her figure is ocean waves. There are layers of earth surrounding her, and a sleeping beet is to her right. There is a layer of rocks between the two layers of dirt. The stitching on the dirt is in progress.
September 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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My preorder of A Misfortune of Lake Monsters paperback arrived at my local indie yesterday and I picked it up today. I’m excited to read it! @nicolemwolverton.bsky.social
A copy of the paperback book “A Misfortune of Lake Monsters” by Nicole M Wolverton. The view is looking up from the bottom of the dark lake, with plant life silhouettes, the sun is shining at the top of the cover, with reflections in the water.
August 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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My order from Vanness arrived today and this ink from Van Dieman is absolutely amazing. It’s Shooting Star from their Night set, and the label does say it is fountain pen ink, but I like how it lays down using my Kakimori nib #fountainpen
A row of horizontal thick lines showing the different colors in this shimmer ink. The colors range from a medium aqua to a dark royal blue. There is also gold and a little purple also visible.
August 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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I don’t usually buy Brew Week merch (except for kegs for kitties fundraiser) but this year had a dragon and I have been all about the dragons since I was a little kid. And look, Ma, no braces!
A white woman with light brown pigtails. She is wearing sunglasses and a black t shirt with a green dragon done in the style of a woodcut on it The text reads 20th Ohio at the top of the dragon picture.
July 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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If I had a million dollars. I was working on this drawing when the idea for Wander Bread popped into my head
A watercolor of a red bird with a dark blue comb. Its wing is blue and the words “Kraft Dinner” are spelled out in yellow on the wing. The bird is surrounded by several pieces of macaroni and cheese. There is a pink triangle banner in the top of the image, with gold stars at the point of each triangle. A copper green urn is in the right front of the image. It has rust red stripes.
July 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Not all who wander are loafs. I was working on a different drawing when the idea for this dropped into my head.
A blue pencil drawing of a loaf of sliced bread with a face and three legs. It is wearing Mary Janes shoes. It’s walking on a path and there is an arrow sign pointing in the direction it is walking. The words above the scene say “Wander Bread”
July 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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I drew this bird and fish vase on Thursday and colored it in yesterday. I love how these markers look like gouache.
A marker drawing of a fish vase and a bird. The fish vase is on the left. It is shades of mint green and has a pale coral belly. Its eye is golden yellow. It is full of flowers in shades of pink. The bird is on the right and facing toward the vase. It is teal with dark red dots, orange eyes and a pink beak. A gray rowboat fills its body. Above the bird, “Thursday” is written in rounded letters in shades of pink and orange. The date under the bird is June 19 2025
June 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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“Thanks! It has pockets” I’ve been playing with paint markers in this incredible little sketchbook from www.pikarar.com/collections/... (they take almost everything without bleeding through and are very popular so they sell out within a few days every time she lists them)
My marker drawing of two birds. The bird on the left is pink with a pink ice cream wing and an ice cream cone body. It is looking at the bird on the right. The bird on the right is brown with a beige head and its wing is a pinstriped blue pocket with lacy loops on top. It is telling the other bird “Thanks! It has pockets”
June 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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I don’t have a plan for him, I thought he was someone’s indoor/outdoor cat (he’s very fluffy and other than an injury on his face he is clean and was friendly) and this heel turn has me flipping out because we need to get mama and the babies in sooner than I was expecting to now
A large orange fluffy cat is in the foreground with his back turned to the camera because he is keeping the very small tabby cat in the background away from “his” food bowl
June 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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I played with my pastel pencils today. Bruynzeel and Caran D’Ache are soft, Stabilo and Faber Castel are harder. I took notes so next time I start with the harder pencils before bringing in the softer pencils.
A pastel drawing of a red cartoon style bird with a blue beak. It shows the bird from the top of their head to their shoulders. They have blue eyes. The date (June 5, 2025) and my signature are along the bottom of the birds shoulders.
June 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Tales from my happy childhood
The spine of a book, the title is “Report from Iron Mountain” by Lewin. I couldn’t get the frame to crop so the background is a collage of a cat in a French striped pullover, with a red fish flying behind them. The foreground is a black Moleskine with a pink pen and a pair of scissors laying on top.
May 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Exhibit A
A picture of a sign that says Ohio Welcomes You. Below the picture, the text reads “Ohio again ranks among worst states in country in list by U.S. News and World Report”. The NBC4 logo is beneath the text
May 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Out
For
A
Walk

B*tch
People magazine article with image of the late Queen. Text reads: Queen Elizabeth's Final Diary Contained Only Five Words
May 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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The rain has really brought all the leaves out on the tree covered hillsides. They are part of the Wayne National Forest in my corner of Ohio. I really hope this isn’t the last year I see them.
A tree covered hillside. The trees are full and green with spring leaves. A divided highway runs between the hills.
May 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Documenting the Wayne National Forest while it’s all still here. This is the welcome center. Back in 2018 I was commissioned to make small quilt wall hangings for awards given to people who had done good works for the forest.
The Wayne National Forest welcome center near Nelsonville Ohio. It is a brown building with a red roof and solar panels on part of the roof. It’s surrounded by trees.
April 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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I needed to take a detour and pick up hand stitching again for a while. I had started this owl cat earlier this year but got tired of doing outline stitches on the wings. A friend had posted a mosaic stitched bear she was working on and that looked really fun so I decided to try that on my owl.
An owl cat stitched in patchwork colors woven with perle cotton and sashiko threads. The colors are autumn golds, rusts, and greens. The wings of the owl are graduated cream to light cocoa brown.
April 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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We had the plague to close out March, and my spouse is an accountant and was busy with both quarter end and tax season. Today we finally got to visit Cora’s Curiosities in Columbus, where I found this wonderful cow pitcher. I’m excited to make a painting of her.
A ceramic pitcher in the shape of a cow’s head. The cow has a white patch over her eyes and down her nose. The rest of her is a warm brown. She is smiling and her tongue is pink. A ring of yellow flowers with brown centers circle her neck, which is the base of the pitcher.
April 20, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Taking pictures and documenting what the National forest looks like near my home this spring. I don’t know that the trees will be here for next spring.
A highway in southeast Ohio. The brown sign to the right reads “Entering Wayne National Forest”. There are tree covered hills surrounding the highway
April 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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@redloribrighteyes.bsky.social sent me some of her wonderful paints in exchange for posting art I have made using them. The cheek and the hearts are where I used them on this painting. You can see the sparkle from different angles and in the closeup. They’re so much fun!
A watercolor of a crescent moon face looking to the left at a bluebonnet. Red hearts float around it. The hearts and the cheek of the moon are painted with glitter paint. A watercolor of a crescent moon face looking to the left at a bluebonnet. Red hearts float around it. The hearts and the cheek of the moon are painted with glitter paint. A closeup of the cheek and one heart showing the detail of the glitter paint
April 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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This is my Gizmo when he was a wee bebeh three years ago. He’s much larger and even more fluffy now.
A tiny white and black kitten is holding a fuzzy blue worm toy in their front paws.
March 31, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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share one of your comfort WESTERN movies

(without saying Blazing Saddles)
A movie poster for the film Cat Ballou. A drawing of a blonde woman dressed in cowboy boots is bent over and looking between her legs at the viewer. She has a pistol in each hand. The title is surrounded by paintings of stills from the movie. The text reads “Cat Ballou is all ball! It’s that way out whopper of a funny western…a she-bang to end all she-bangs!”
March 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Fergus is enjoying his couch time with mom and dad.
An orange tabby naps on a beige sofa. He has one paw extended onto a yellow sketchbook that is in front of him, and he is resting his head on the paw.
March 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM