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ZestyDoesThings

@zestydoesthings.bsky.social

Finding some art of an animal/creature or a silly photo and sending it to a friend, saying "it you" is the best kind of love language

April 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM

.eva

@blackermine.bsky.social

finally back to my little trips around Bratislava and some #NatureJournaling

#watercolors #sketchbook

April 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM

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Jenn Woodall

@funeralbeat.bsky.social

Friend of the pigeons. Risograph print in fluorescent orange, mint, bright red and medium blue ink 🐦

Risograph print featuring a young woman at the top of the building, surrounded by pigeons. One is eating out of her hand.

April 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM

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Bernoid

@bernoid.bsky.social

Morning... Cudoniella tenuispora 🍄📷 #FungiFriends

April 13, 2025 at 6:37 AM

.eva

@blackermine.bsky.social

Little visual guide for myself to help me remember names of some flowers that I use to see a lot on my spring walks.
🪻
#wildlifeart #botanicalillustration #flowers #wildflowers

April 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM

.eva

@blackermine.bsky.social

So, many flowers outside! So, here is a little #wip for my tiny botanical guide😊

#spring #sketch #naturejournaling

April 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM

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Noll

@nollthere.bsky.social

Fossil cake I drew on a birthday a while back. It is not my birthday today, I just think the drawing's still neat. #Art

Illustration of a vanilla cake slice with pink icing and green buttercream leaves piped on top. Each layer is studded with white and milk chocolate fossils.

April 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM

.eva

@blackermine.bsky.social

Yesterday, I saw two of these little fellas!!!💛🖤

#urban #wildlife #flowers #spring #bumblebee

April 2, 2025 at 11:35 AM

.eva

@blackermine.bsky.social

Little #wip of my next little animation😄

#RoughAnimator #owl #wildlife #animation

March 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM

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Carolyn Kay Smith

@carolynkaysmith.bsky.social

It's my sketchbook and I can draw what I want to. ^___^ Coppersmith Barbet doodle from my India travel journal. This bird is named for its ringing call, which apparently sounds like a coppersmith's hammer.
#birds #birdart #sciart #watercolor #naturejournal

A cartoon of a Coppersmith Barbet bird standing on an anvil and striking a piece of copper with a handle. This is a small part of a sketchbook page. The note reads: "The Coppersmith Barbet was also hard to see but often heard. It has a higher and prettier call [than the Brown-headed Barbet]."

March 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM

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Talenshi✨🕊️Birds and magical books📚✨

@talenshi.bsky.social

I really want to just be a little guy and make silly drawings. But no, these asshats have to do a coup. #cuteart #sugarglider #impeach #politics
Take care of each other & don't give up.
Get our new sticker here: www.talenshistudios.com/products/imp...

A sugar glider climbing onto a peach. Surrounded by text that reads: "Eat Fruit, Impeach the Traitor"

February 20, 2025 at 5:00 AM

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Jen Cross

@jencross.bsky.social

Here are a few fancy moths to brighten your day.

These are all tiger moths - (Hyperthaema sp.), (Bernathonomus sp.), (Amaxia sp.) #Inverts #MothMonday
Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador

A bright red moth with four white spots on its wings. It is standing on weathered wood.

A brown moth with tan spots on its wings. It is standing on a piece of wood.

A bright yellow moth with orange patterns on its wings. It is standing on white fiberglass.

February 18, 2025 at 12:57 AM

.eva

@blackermine.bsky.social

new wolf animation on the way 🐺

February 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM

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BlindCoyote 🔜MFF

@blindcoyote.com

Crimson Bloom 🐲🪷

February 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM

.eva

@blackermine.bsky.social

Since our ministry has allowed wolf shooting, I've been wanting to draw as many wolves as possible.
Yesterday, I finally got some time😊🩶🐺

#wolf #natureconservation #howl #wildlifeart

February 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM

.eva

@blackermine.bsky.social

How is your Friday going?
😄🩶

February 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM

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Noll

@nollthere.bsky.social

A little valentine from me to you.
#Art

Symmetrical digital art on a pink gradient background of a venus fly trap plant in a vague heart shape. In the middle is a housefly with a body shaped like a heart and front legs extended.

February 14, 2025 at 12:06 AM

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Victoria Pfeiffer

@victoriapfeiffer.bsky.social

For #FebruArty we have another collaboration with #SensoryArt with the theme of #Sweet ! I’ve posted this before but it’s probably the only thing I’ve got relevant to today’s theme. 😂 Fruit #butterflies in #watercolor!

#art #ArtYear #painting #sciart

A watercolor painting of a set of butterflies inspired by different fruits

February 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM

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Ami B

@auilix.bsky.social

Since there was interest in these lovely and strange trunk-nosed antelope, I thought I'd share my short comic about them (+ colonialiam and exploitation) Saiga of the Steppes. Don't worry there's a good ending 💚

Cover of the short comic Saiga of the Steppes by Ami Bogin. A male saiga antelope walks towards the viewer on the steppes with Karakalpak embroidery behind him.

SAIGA OF THE STEPPES

PAGE 1

Panel 1
Qaraqalpaq embroidery threads show a steppelands scene with geometric patterns of rich colours on dark cotton cloth.
Main Character (Narration):
Recently, a messenger came to me in a dream.

Panel 2
Now in a realistic but painterly and dreamy style, a wizened old lady’s feet stand barefoot on a dessicated shore.
Main Character (Narration):
I stood on the banks of the once-sea and a saiga antelope approached me.

Panel 3
Back in the embroidery style, the radiant symbol for saiga antelope shines on dark cloth.
Main Character (Narration):
“Who are you?” I asked this beautiful elder.

Panel 4
Back to the realistic dream style, this time we see an ephemeral saiga elder himself. In a fluffy winter coat, he turns to watch the POV with a wise air, his horns translucent and tall. Behind him a glimpse of the steppes in the wintertime with fallen modernities represents the former industry around Aral Sea including fishing and weapons testing.
Main Character (Narration):
“You and I are the keeper of the steppes,” said he.

Panel 5
In this wide panel in the dream style, we see the main character, an old Qaraqalpaq lady, facing the saiga elder at the now dessicated shore of the Aral Sea. She is a fit senior and, like the intrepid saiga, is used to a life of work on the steppes. She wears a colourful headscarf and a mixture of traditional and western clothing. She kneels and stretches out hands grasping sand, pleading with the saiga.
Behind them, the shape of large rusted ships and other structures lie fallen in the mist. Though it is an ecological disaster, still the steppes and the dry lake bed are beautiful. It’s a flat expanse with a range of colours playing on the eyes showing the depth of the horizon.
Main Character:
I want to believe you! But people with power have wrecked our bodies and our lands. Look at what once was our sea…
Saiga:
And yet we are still here.

Saiga of the Steppes

PAGE 2

Panel 1
Continuing in the dream style, the main character is in anguish, her brows furrowed in pain at the thought of the destruction she has seen.
Main Character:
And now after the engineers plowed bare the steppes, we live among oil explorers who rend it with fences and pipeline. Though I am here, I am powerless...

Panel 2
Close up on the saiga in the dream style, wind pulling at his mane as he watches thoughtfully and silently.

Panel 3
He turns away.
Saiga:
I have walked these lands since the age of glaciers, and yet I remain.

Panel 4
The embroidery Qaraqalpaq symbology for saiga springs behind him in the air giving him a sort of holy look.
Saiga:
We have something they cannot take away.

Panel 5
He steps in the dream style but embroidery springs forth in hopeful patterns at his hoofs.
Saiga:
We have in us the power of rebirth.
Main Character:
But how?

Panel 6
Now we are in the real world, the style décor falls away to be a modern and clean style. Under the main character’s fingertips, we see that she has captured the likeness of the saiga footprint on an embroidered bit of cloth. Traditionally this symbol warded off evil and brought good luck.
Main Character:
“Spin our story on thread and cloth...”

Saiga of the Steppes
PAGE 3

Panel 1
In this wide panel, the main character is at a market stall showing embroidered bags and small crafts she has made on display at her table while other vendors nearby sell food and wares. Her daughter looks at a phone seemingly annoyed while her two young grandchildren look on with awe, leaning on her table with curiosity. Baina, the younger is energetic and eager, Elya, the older, is thoughtful. Äje means grandmother in Kazakh. The main character holds up one of her sashes to point out the symbol that means saiga as she explains the dream.
Main Character:
“As your mother did before you,” he said.
Baina:
Wow Äje, so that’s why you’ve been making all these bags and sashes!
Main Character (Narration):
We are at my new stall at Central Market in Nukus, Uzbekistan.

Panel 2
The kids look up at her in amazement. Around her, some traditional embroidery patterns make visual her inspiration and hope.
Elya:
A saiga antelope told you to!
Baina:
A dream saiga!
Main Character (Narration):
I’m lucky my grandchildren are open to the old ways.

Panel 3
The Main Character’s daughter looks annoyed.
Mom:
Mom you’re filling their heads with nonsense!
Main Character (Narration):
Because I raised my daughter with too much scepticism.

Panel 4
The mother scrunches up her nose at the craft table and makes air quotes while the grandmother looks up at her sadly.
Mom:
What does “the power of rebirth” even mean?
It’s all just fairy tales!
Main Character (Narration):
It’s true that as a child she saw our proud sea turn to desert then later in life she saw two-thirds of the saiga population die in a season.

Panel 5
Close up on the main character whose brow furrows with the pain of those years by when the hardship for human and animal alike were a central part of their existence. Her daughter holds a bit of embroidery unconvincingly in her free hand.
Main Character (Narration):
Their bodies littered the fallen lands back then and it broke her heart.

February 5, 2025 at 8:48 AM

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clovrdoesart

@clovrdoesart.bsky.social

bottom feeder - ghost skrimp

#fishyfeb #digitalart #art #artchallenge #sketch #shrimp #artsky

February 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM

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deepgreenravine

@deepgreenravine.bsky.social

Hi! I’m going to be teaching a class 4/15 - 6/3! This online course, hosted by Lyme Art Association, will be on Tuesdays from 530p-8p EST. It’s open to people of all skill levels & scientific backgrounds. I’d love to work with you! Read more and sign up here - lymeartassociation.org/class-online...

This is a visual graphic explaining a little information about the class, featuring a graphite drawing of an armadillo made by yours truly! #sciart

February 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM

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CahanTryfid

@cahantryfid.bsky.social

Ok, I did second prompt. So this is a maroon clownfish (Premnas biaculeatus). Only clownfish which doesn't belong to genus Amphiprion. They're big, nasty and cool.
#art #fish #coloredpencils #FishyFeb #FishyFeb2025 #FebArt #FebArt25 #ArtYear #Februarty