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Dion
@diondouglasdesigns.bsky.social
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Creating functional sculptures, painting tiny landscapes and drawing Australian flora and fauna
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Leaf carved from Marri timber
July 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Hello sun
Bright illustration of a smiling sun peeking out from behind clouds over a green, hilly landscape with a house, trees, sheep and a car towing a caravan on a winding road.
April 30, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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A flower with bugs and stuff made in illustrator
#illustration #botanical
Stylised Illustration of a white flower against a purple background. On one of the green leaves sits a lady beetle and coming out of the ground is a smiling earthworm
March 29, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Cat in conversation with chicken
Black cat on brown mat looks out sliding door to a brown chicken in the other side
March 16, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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I cut out the blanks for these 3 or 4 years ago they then traveled 1700km and two house moves before I finally carved them at the beginning of the year. They came very close to ending up in a fire pit several time
#woodcarving #spooncarving #woodworking
Five wooden measuring spoons arranged in a circular pattern on a white background.
March 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Spoons and a vase waiting to be sanded.
#Woodcarving #woodworking
4 round coffee scoops surround a 3 legged bud vase on a wooden table with a piece of blue sandpaper
February 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Bud vase 17. Carved from kurrajong. Tried adding some legs and it became a dinosaur vase.
#budvase #woodworking #woodcarving
A blue bud vase against a white background. The photo is cropped so it is just the bottom half. The vase is three legged with a tall off centre neck Wooden bud vase painted blue against a white background with dead pods sticking out the top. The vase has three legs with a tall off centre neck
January 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Thankyou, it’s an Australian native tree with leaves like pine needles.
January 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Bud vase 16. Carved from sheoak.
#woodworking #woodcarving #budvase
A wooden bud vase against a white background. The vase has two necks coming off a round squat body one neck is shorter than the other.
January 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Bud vase 15. Carved from sheoak wood.
#budvase #woodcarving #woodworking
Tall vase with reddish hue timber against white background
January 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Bud vase 14. Carved from Sheoak wood.
#budvase #woodworking #woodcarving
A small vase with a spray of grass seeds. Made from wood with a squat base and a tall offset neck it looks like a golf putter. On a white background
January 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Bud vase 13. carved from Carob.
#budvase #woooworking #woodcarving
A small wooden vase made from carob with red streaks of grain it sits against a white background
January 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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I carved a spoon for the first time in maybe 3 years. I used to make a lot of spoons, I think if I was to go back to making them with any regularity I would probably make them weirder and funkier. This is an old blank I had kicking around.
Wooden spoon next to a spokeshave and gouge on old dark wooden workbench
January 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Scribbly cafe sketch.
As with every year the goal for 2025 is to draw more. Maybe Bluesky can hold me accountable but don’t not too accountable.
Photo of a sketchbook and blue pen on a wooden table. In the sketchbook is a drawing of a fallen tree trunk in the forest in a Scribbled messy style
December 29, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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Mural I painted in 2022 the design was based on the concept from a community design competition. I vow never to paint bird/angel/butterfly wings ever again.
#mural #botanical #birds
Photo of a mural at dusk. The mural has large pink and grey Gallah wing in the center that people can stand in front of for photos like the popular angel wings. The wings are so rounded by native flowers from the Pilbara region of WA the background is blue with organic shapes in the corners. Above the wings is written in a arch shape “Top town in WA”
December 20, 2024 at 1:29 AM
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These ones are mostly finished shaping and waiting on final sanding, I might do a little refinement of the transitions. With these ones I was playing with exaggerated necks and legs. The also tiled nicely on the board.
#woodworking #budvase #woodcarving #wip
Three bud wooden bud vases on a wood workshop bench. The one at the front has two necks one short and one long, the middle one has long triangular legs with a hole through the body and a tall neck and the back one has a offset tall neck on a squat round body.
December 5, 2024 at 5:39 AM
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Bud vase 12. Carved from sheoak
#budvase #woodworking #woodcarving
A wooden vase with a circular cutout holds a single purple flower against a dark background.
December 4, 2024 at 4:59 AM
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A couple of other angles of the same bud vase
December 3, 2024 at 11:56 AM
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Bud vase 11. Carved from sheoak.
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#budvase #woodworking #woodcarving
An almost circular wooden bud vase on a black background with sprigs of thyme sticking out. The vase has a hole through the middle
December 3, 2024 at 3:53 AM
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Bud vases 09 and 10. Both carved from Kurrajong wood.
#budvase #woodworking #carving
Two wooden vases made from a light cream coloured wood sit side by side on a black background. The vase on the left is slender with a asymmetrical neck(it sort of looks like a cat with no head sitting ) the vase on the right is bulbous shaped with a central back and an off centre hole through the middle
December 1, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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Bud vase 08. Carved from carob wood.
#budvase #woodcarving
wooden bud vase with a sleek, teardrop-shaped design, featuring a vibrant mix of red and natural wood grain patterns. The vase has an open, sculpted cutout in the center, creating an artistic and modern aesthetic. It holds a small arrangement of light-colored, delicate grass-like stems, displayed against a dark background
November 29, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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4 bud vases al carved from banksia timber
#budvase #wood #carving
A wooden bud vase with a rich, warm reddish-brown coloured banksia timber against a black background. Its sculptural design features a rounded body with a hollow center A wooden bud vase with a rich, warm reddish-brown coloured banksia timber against a black background. It has an angled, tapered neck and an oval body and an offset hole A wooden bud vase with a rich, warm reddish-brown coloured banksia timber against a black background. It has an arched base and a central rounded hollow and a small neck
November 27, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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Dandelion
#vector #botanical
A graphic illustration of a dandelion plant against a purple background. The image features three stages of the dandelion: a fully bloomed yellow flower, a flower transitioning to seed, and a white puffball of seeds. The green serrated leaves extend outward from the base of the plant
November 25, 2024 at 1:28 AM
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This mural is from I think 4 years ago and uses the Banjima language from Tom Price for the label. It was part of a new nature playground and was tough to paint. It is my largest and was painted on corrugated iron between 40c+ sun and afternoon storms.
#mural #birds
Colourful mural featuring vibrant illustrations of Australian wildlife, including a goanna (Gurrumanthu), cockatoo (Birrirra), finch (Nyimari), native rodent (Gurdi), gecko (Thawu), kangaroo (Jardun), and turtle (Binki), surrounded by native flowers. Painted on the wall of a school building"
November 21, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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I have painted a few murals in the past and would love to do some more. This one was for a local school last year, the labels are the Wadandi Noongar names for the plants and animals.
#mural #birds
Bright mural on a corrugated wall surrounded by trees, featuring native Australian animals like a magpie, frog, bee, and black cockatoo. The mural includes Nyoongar language phrases, 'Djennayen gunya gulyarra yerunga boodja' (Walking gently together on Country) and 'Kaya' (Hello)
November 20, 2024 at 11:30 PM