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Aussie Joel 🦘🌏
@callig-n-craft.bsky.social
2.4K followers 5.9K following 760 posts
Brisbane artist: Calligraphy and
lettering, drawing, sculpture, wood carving, engraving...
Singer. Gamer. Nature, good people. Staying alive.
☕ko-fi.com/aussiejoel
⏰ TikTok - @aussieartcrew (Art process AND Singing LIVE!)
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#MakersmARTtch #draw it's an obvious one here. The mighty Xeno drawing I recently completed, drawn in TikTok live. Just the one pencil used, Palomino Blackwing soft. Original drawing left, final print (available now in my store!) right. #filmsky #alien #xenomorph #horror #scifi #movies #drawing
March 22, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Another happy customer! A mini order going out tomorrow. My shop link is in my bio and pinned post. Prices from $8.
March 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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#MakersmARTch #glass #engraving #art #wip
ALWAYS ENGRAVE SAFELY

This little hip flask is coming along great I think! Dremel Stylo and so far I've just used a green stone.

#glassengraving #rotarytool #dremel #craftsky #learning #aussie #tiktok
An engraved glass hip flask style bottle, the design so far looks floral or organic in nature. this is a work in progress.
March 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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#MakersmARTch #sculpt - three of my friends hanging out in the art space 😊 "Facehugger", "Blue Meanie" and "The Sad Cinnabon Snail With A Bloody Mouth On Its Tail And What Even Is That, etc" #polymerclay #creature #weird
A desk with a floral green cloth laid over it, and ink bottles and other art supplies in the background. Three small polymer clay sculptures are featured. A face hugger creature from the Alien movies, a weird blue and orange mushroom with eyes all over its cap, and a sad looking snail creature with boggly eyes.
March 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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#MakersmARTch - Being among other artsy things, a calligraphy FANATIC - #ink is the prompt where I could provide a thousand things. So here's one that's worth a thousand other works to me. The first calligraphy based commission I ever did. The unedited original description is in the alt. #special
So here we have my other custom piece, and my first commission in the calligraphy freestyle technique. There's a lot more to this one though. Titled "Freedom", it technically displays what my friend said he enjoyed about my work and in aspects of art in general, with a decorative pen border, geometric corners and elegant stroke making in the main body. As a metaphor, it represents Charles Calvin's passion for animal activism. The light spatter of red in the negative space to represent the slaughter and suffering, and hidden within the confusion of the path to greener pastures, the formed letters which spell "freedom" are scattered throughout the piece and highlighted with gold. The freedom is hard to find even within the strong cause itself, but it is there if you search, and work, and believe in it. I am so happy that he believed in me as an artist, and this piece elevated what I have learned so far to a new level I hope to improve on more in the future.
March 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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I do lots of arty things but surprisingly #paint isn't s big one. #MakersmARTch I give you this teeny tiny watercolor landscape. I wanted to paint the clouds more than anything and I enjoyed it a lot. I guess it has a vibe, it's my best selling small print right now. #cozy #art #pleasant
March 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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The last thing you saw #Carlos #catsky
I was going to take a picture of Carlos the black cat looking cute but he jumped and now it's hilarious.
March 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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#MakersmARTch #mkrsmARTch #woven Here's something to kick off this month of interesting prompts. Looking forward to connecting with new creative people and seeing cool people I already follow here. Party time! This was the best knot piece I managed after a very beginner lesson. #celticknot #artsky
A circular pattern of Celtic knots in black ink. The pattern contains several breaks and exit points have been improvised into different shapes.
March 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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#FebruARTy #Artyear is a free choice, so here's the latest from my illuminated lettering demonstrations - I always pick a fun word to accompany. Look at my shiny dingus everyone! 🐨😂 #gothic #manuscript #history #medieval #calligraphy #lettering #dingus
A Gothic style illuminated manuscript letter "D", finished in gold, red and blue with vine and leaf decorations - is then followed by black letter calligraphy to spell the word "dingus"
February 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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#FebruARTy #FishyFeb #Deepsea An appropriate repost of a favorite - traditional ink drawing 😃 This one's in my new online store too (link in my bio), my very first order included two prints of this 🐋 which made me very happy 😁 #drawing #smallcreator #sciart #ink #sketch #art #blackandwhite
A traditional style ink illustration of a whale, its fins and tail curving elegantly
February 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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#Februarty #Artyear free choice 😁 This one's been on the wall in my own home for some time now. Small drawing colored with lots of different things, inks and paint and metallics #Abstract #Surrealism #drawing #artsky
A psychedelic mixed media drawing, painted with various inks and watercolor paints. The background is a cloudy turquoise and there are many forms, some resembling fingers, eyes, teeth, butterfly, and a body with floating limbs in red, yellow, brown, silver, green and gold colors.
February 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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#Blueskyartshow #Februarty #Monochrome Here's an abstract I completed in a recent live demo. I like it a lot! Single white pencil used. Prints are available in my ko-fi store! (Link in my bio) #drawing #abstract #surrealism #artforsale #smallcreator
An abstract drawing made entirely with a white pencil on black paper. The forms can resemble smoke, organic forms, eyes, teeth, and holes among other things.
February 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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I had put Slim away for a bit so I didn't get klown fatigue 😁 Busted a 3.5 hour live sesh with good results. I can feel the finish line now. #killerklowns #cultmovies #horror #comedy #80s #filmsky #artsky #colorpencil #drawing #sketch #learning #beginner #tiktok
February 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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#FebruARTy gives us #pair - how about my wood spirit and his very little brother? I'm not an experienced wood worker so doing both of these was very fun and challenging. #art #craft #wood #carving
A carved wood spirit, made from a block of basswood sits on a desk with heavy shadow accentuating his features. Beneath the larger carving sits a tiny version of the same guy. He's very small! A carved wood spirit, made from a block of basswood sits on a desk with heavy shadow accentuating his features. Beneath the larger carving sits a tiny version of the same guy. He's very small! *THIS photo is a close up of the little carving. It's only just larger than my fingernail
February 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Had a fun live drawing stream tonight following a quick tutorial in a familiar style 😎 About 2 hours 🦘 #art #drawing #illustration #ink #sketch #livestream #tiktok
February 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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#FebruARTy requires zero overthinking. #orange #prismacolor #pencil #practice #artsky
February 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Started something new on an old bit of basswood I'd used one side of to practice basic cuts. Just going to let myself work with this with what very little I've learned, and make mistakes, and keep learning and adding to it #wood #carving #craft #whittling #artsky #abstract #free #smallcreator
February 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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#FebruARTy brings #puzzle - another of these older parallel pen pieces, putting together the puzzle of "who am I" 😄 #calligraphy #ink #handstyle
A calligraphic drawing in the form of a face in profile - this is composed in black ink from a tangle of strokes and dots, with the word "self" also shown, along with the pen
February 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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#FebruARTy brings us #eyes ... Ok I know, but I'm sure the other one is around here somewhere 🦘🌏🤠 #drawing #illustration #ink #pen #artsky #linework
A traditional ink drawing of an eye with brow. Done in an engraving style of curve lines and hatching
February 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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#FebruARTy x #artyear today 😀 Here's a parallel pen piece from the archives 😁 #calligraphy #artsky #ink #parallelpen #handstyle
The form of a hand drawn in freestyle calligraffiti forms.
February 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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#FebruARTy comes in with a prompt I can use, hooray! This contains #purple 😁 Sketchbook piece that felt great to do. I don't do a lot of "drawn" lettering mostly nib calligraphy so playing with a design in this way was satisfying. Early look into #coloredpencil for me too #artsky #lettering #s
Hand drawn letter S in an ornate calligraphy style with modern twists and a vibrant color palette of purple blue with gold and red highlights. The color pencils used are also shown.
February 4, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Hi, thanks so much for hosting! Maybe pin your post too? Your art is so varied and awesome. I'm Joel, trad artist and calligrapher from Brisbane. Recently pushed myself out more and am enjoying having a wider audience. Everything here besides the wood carving was done on livestream recently.
A detailed drawing of the alien Xenomorph WIP of killer klown from outer space Freestyle calligraffiti piece Wood spirit carving
February 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Late night scratchings
February 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Well it's been a blast #Januarty - this has some angles in it I guess. The piece has a message though, which is far more important than all that time spent shading. Joel is cool. Peace on earth and all too ❣️🦘😁 #artsky #lettering
An ornately composed capital letter "j" shaded in a bevel style popular in tattoo and graffiti lettering. The reminder is simply written in small capital letters. "Joel is cool!"
January 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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More progress on Slim #clown #killerklowns #80s #movies #horror #comedy #classic #filmsky #drawing #coloredpencil #sketch
January 31, 2025 at 6:22 AM