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dandythistle
@dandythistle.bsky.social
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sometimes posting art, fond of nature and horror

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She's 10 this year and I had a lot of feelings so I made a painting about it.
#dandythistleart
Painting of a cat with tuxedo markings, on her back so you can see her fluffy belly and stretching out one paw towards the viewer. The background is a variety of foliage.
October 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Street lights you can hear

#dandythistleart
A painting of a night time scene, a person is sat under a brick bus shelter, their upper body is shaded from the glare of a street light right beside the bust shelter. In the background is a chain link fence, trees fading into darkness, structures of an overhead power line for trains and a purple night sky.
October 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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incredibly fond of dredge, having fun see @fir.gay play it for the first time
Drawing of a stylised fishing boat on open water, with an anthropomorphic fox in a blue sweater fishing out the back. There is white smoke coming from a chimney on the boat and a bright blue sky in the background.
September 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Amazing news I got it scanned and adjusted, propper post eventually.

cursor is pointing to the exact spot I colour picked..
Photo taken of a laptop screen, showing an art program. a menu on the left shows brush settings and a colour picker wheel. On the right a zoom in of a painting: impressionist foliage which appears to be dark, muted green and purple. The cursor points to a pale yellow-olive green: the colour picker shows a very dark, desaturated red-brown.
September 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Went to the museum today and was enamored by the taxidermy birds. I want to go back and draw more, each sketch was maybe 2 mins?
Photo of part of a sketch page, showing loose pen sketches of five birds and a turtle
July 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Women in the Picture is the one I have so far! Some others are: The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel, The Other Side by Jennifer Higgie, and The Militant Muse by Whitney Chadwick.
I'm fairly sure most focus on Western art which is a shame, hope I can find more.
Photo of the book "Women in the Picture" by Catherine McCormack. The subtitle is "women, art and the power of looking"
July 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Got one that feels decent enough but man I really need to try and keep up my figure studies between terms.
Charcoal sketch of a figure laying down, one arm is across their stomach, one down by their side.
July 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Hey artists, post your woman art 🌸
Charcoal sketch of a woman sitting from behind, the arm closest to the viewer is extended behind her, and her face is obscured by shoulder length hair.
July 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Okay I finally got a photo, the ds burnt umber and titanium buff are the new additions and I think they'll do great for skin tones
Photo of a painted sketchbook page in warm lighting. The page has four busts of varying skin tones and hairstyles, all with stern expressions. There is also a hand reaching up, relaxed, with a dark skin tone. Paint swatches are along the top edge of the page and the bottom left, the paper has buckled from the water in the paint.
May 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Little @fir.gay fanart
Drawing of an anthropomorphic arctic fox, wearing a blue sweater. He is crouched, looking back over his shoulder and making a shushing motion while smiling. Red sketch lines can be seen throughout the drawing.
May 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Been enamoured by this one path it's sooo pretty 🙂‍↕️🌟🍄
Painting of a dirt path, overgrown with grass. There are trees on either side creating a darkening tunnel towards the centre of the piece, where there's a bright light and a rundown wooden gate.
May 4, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Hung out with @strandedziggy.bsky.social for some drawing tonight 🔥
Figure on a white background, dancing with their hands in the air, eyes closed and smiling. They're wearing a poncho, long baggy pants and dark boots.
March 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Practicing cats today with some photos of my cat (tuxedo) and the family cat (tabby)
A page of various colour pencil sketches of two cats: one tuxedo, one tabby.
March 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Free time sketchy painting for @danisho.bsky.social :3c
Bust painting of a person at a 3/4 angle, smiling softly and looking at the viewer. They have golden eyes with horizontal pupils, golden rams horns and long black hair with bangs. They're wearing a dark grey tshirt and their hands are visible with golden nails.
February 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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It was funny trying to get as much glare as I could so I could best see how effective the filter is.

1- no filter
2- polarized filter
3- polarized filter, diffused lighting, slight tone correction
An angled photo of a graphite sketch, a masculine profile facing left, almost entirely washed out by glare. Another angled photo of the same sketch, the overall photo is a little bit darker and the sketch is easier to make out, however it is still quite low contrast. Front on photo of the same sketch, it is much clearer.
January 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Little painting of @fir.bsky.social bc I'm always charmed by a little guy with a big hat and cloak

#dandyart
Painting of a white anthropomorphic fox, wearing a navy cloak and wizard hat, and a blue scarf. The background is abstract cool-toned brush strokes.
January 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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From mid 2024 that I took forever to scan in. Want to do stuff like this more as like, focused studies on features I feel need work 🌟

#dandyart
Page full of boxes at a roughly 2:1 ratio, white borders between them, 4x10 for 40 total. Each box has a close up on a painted pair of eyes, with varying angles, expressions, skin tones etc.
January 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Bulborb I made my sister for Christmas in 2023, still very fond of this guy!

#dandyart #nintendo #pikmin
Photo of a felted bulborb from Pikmin, mouth open, standing on some dirt in a patch of grass. There are three pikmin drawn onto the photo to interact with the bulborb. Photo of the felted bulborb from behind, mouth closed and sitting in some grass. Olimar and some Pikmin have been digitally drawn in, walking along a piece of bark past the bulborb.
December 31, 2024 at 8:33 PM
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Nora shinies :) @nora.zone

One is a Christmas gift, one is a me gift bc I've been wanting a piece from them for a while
Two glass pendant necklaces in small jewellery boxes. one is a sparkly orange with a black chord, the other is a mottled green and clear with a delicate silver chain. The background is a rainbow mailing envelope.
December 13, 2024 at 3:28 AM
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Made a Wirt costume at the start of October for a party before I knew it was the 10th anniversary for over the garden wall, really fond of the results 🍂

#otgw #cosplay #dandyart
Front on photo of a person dressed as Wirt from Over the Garden Wall, in a forest walking up some stone steps. 3/4 photo of the same Wirt cosplay, bracing on a rock to climb past it while looking to the upper left of the frame.
December 2, 2024 at 5:59 AM
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The way my most recent one is this guy who wanted my dinner
Photo of a seagull, from the left as it walks. The background is a large outdoors drain and paver tiles.
November 19, 2024 at 11:11 AM
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Someone is happy I finally cleared the chair of clean laundry I'd been meaning to put away
High angle photo of a tuxedo cat in my lap, her eyes are yellow
November 15, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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Okay first these are incredibly pretty!

Second, bskys auto labelling is being a bit excessive, damn
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September 3, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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Genuinely losing my mind finding a physical copy of @dirtcupart.bsky.social 's comic in a book store in SYDNEY Australia!!
Very excited to read it again 🥺
Photo of the cover of "Chromatic Fantasy" a comic by H.A there's some golden details and the style appears inspired by medieval manuscripts
May 16, 2024 at 5:39 AM
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Some relaxing trans guy sketches from tonight 💕 I need to do more, they were so fun to draw
Photo of a sketchbook page, showing four coloured sketches of nude trans men, a red undersketch and graphite refined sketch is visible on all four. 1. Top left, a full body sketch of a man sitting front-on, grinning and blushing. One hand is in the front of his hair, the other is over his chest which has double mastectomy scars. He has dark brown hair and pale peachy skin 2. Top right. A standing man from behind, one hand by his side and one running through the top of his hair. He has very pale skin and dark, cool toned hair. 3. Bottom left. A man sat at a 3/4 angle facing the middle of the page, his arms are relaxed and he has a relaxed downward gaze. He has warm-toned pale skin and black hair. He has not had top surgery. 4. Bottom right. A man standing from the thighs up, facing forward with one hand on his hip and the other relaxed and resting on the top of his leg. He is looking down and away with a neutral expression with long, light brown hair and double mastectomy pedicle scars
April 28, 2024 at 1:07 PM