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Franclyn
@franclyn.bsky.social
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Married for 30+ years. Educator for ~20 (retired). Artist and musician. Author. Disabled and finding ways to live life.
Website: franclynart.square.site
Redbubble shop: https://www.redbubble.com/people/Franclynart/shop
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Yorick is suited up and enjoying his personal tree. Husband misplaced his nog mug. Soon, Yorick. Soon.
Cluttered dresser top with a replica human skull wearing a Santa hat this is basically the white fluffy rim, a flat red top, then a red velvety cone shaped spring leading up to a white pom pom. Next to it is a small Christmas tree made of aqua sea glass with a white starfish topper.
December 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Mona is always game for more twinkle lights in the house. What?
If any plant is going to be comfortable that close to my wood stove…
Mid sized white dog in red-chevron striped pajamas cuddled up on a Mexican falsa blanket in her bed, staring soulfully into your eyes. Mammilaria cactus wrapped in faerie lights, in a decorative black ceramic pot with floral and foliage designs. It’s sitting on a cluttered kitchen table. The top of a book shelf with, from left to right, a variegated pothos plant in a green ceramic pot, a nutcracker figure about twice as tall as that pot, an old china soup tureen in the back, and a Mammilaria cactus wrapped in faerie lights, in a decorative black ceramic pot with floral and foliage designs, sitting on a blue plate.
December 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Me: I was just rubbing your belly! That’s all! Warming my toes wasn’t the goal. Just a perk.
Mona:😒uh huh 🧊 🦶
Black and white American Bulldog, all over a jean-clad human leg resting on a rainbow and black crocheted blanket… and giving SERIOUS side eye.
December 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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It’s wood stove and pajamas season. Mona is pleased.
Mostly white dog with black blotches, wearing yellow and white chevron striped pajamas, fast asleep on a gray toned plaid comforter. There is a nondescript yellow and green stuffy in front of her. Whir kid-sized dog with black blotches, in a nest of falsa blankets, her arm over a rainbow tie-dyed stuffed animal, looking wistfully off camera- towards a wood stove you can’t see. Mostly white, American Bulldog, in pink gingham checked fleece pajamas on a brown, tight woven carpet. Black and white American Bulldog, wearing black pajamas covered in white duckies with gray cuffs and neckline. She is in a window seat, grabbing and gnawing on a big red Jolly ball.
December 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Working on getting my feeds to be as full of art/pets/kindness as possible again. The news-cycle-from-hell keeps taking over. I need balance. So I offer you Mona and a sea turtle.
Square acrylic painting depicting a semi-realistic sea turtle in muted browns, grays and golds on a textured blue-green background. Black and white, bovine patterned American Bulldog, comfortably curled up on an earth toned Mexican falsa blanket and a burgundy throw pillow. She’s wearing a green and white striped knit snood hat with a red pompom on top and looking at you like you forgot to share your eggnog.
November 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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My creek is talking to itself. 🐸🐸
My wood stove is woodstovin’. 🔥
My dog is sighing deep, woodstove-loving sighs.
Now.
NOW it is November.
Medium sized, black and white dog, half asleep, in a nest of multicolored blankets in a velvety memory foam bed.
November 21, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Just for the record, the couch was snoring. Not the floor.
They later switched to the house special: The Tandem Snore.
This is where both are snoring loudly but one is inhaling while the other exhales so it feels like one continuous snore to those still conscious.
Black and white dog sleeping in a pile of blankets on a couch. In front of the couch on a small mattress is a man in jeans and a plaid flannel, hands clasped across his belly, with his face covered.
November 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Ooo! Ooo! An art challenge! I loved the way the #water came out looking like surface ripples in this one. #sensoryart
Square watercolor depicting a sea turtle in greens and purples, swimming towards the viewer through a surface water effect.
November 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Artists: Quote your Yellow art!

If you know me, you know yellow is hard to come by in my stuff. I just don’t see the variations as clearly in yellow.
Acrylic on canvas depicting a close up, head on view of a male lion with full mane.
November 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Black and white American Bulldog wearing purple hoodie and looking lovingly at you.
November 12, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Best I can do in my current funk is for the #whistpr word of the day: #LAVENDER
So you get the toad who was sitting in my lavender this summer.
Vertically oriented small watercolor depicting a toad, comfortably sitting and dispassionately looking at you while surrounded by stalks of Spanish lavender.
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I want to be posting new art, not just listings, but I can’t create right now. Brain just won’t. My daughter, though, has her D&D tomorrow and is making flan to go with the carnitas someone else is making… while wearing an apron from my RedBubble shop (www.redbubble.com/i/apron/El-D...). ❤️my Mini-Me
Small purple circular Mr. Men character with blue shoes, a frown and folded arms. Text says “Little Miss How am I supposed to be creative with all this insane shit going on” Woman with short, curly brown hair, wearing a black tee shirt, black and gray checked leggings and an apron with big vibrant flowers. She is standing at an electric stovetop, stirring with a wooden spoon in a square white corning ware casserole. She is looking at the camera with a bemused smirk.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Mona working overtime to lower the world’s stress levels.
Black and white American Bulldog fast asleep in mustard yellow, chevron striped pajamas with a fold of loose skin pressed up against a cushion next to her. Black and white American Bulldog fast asleep in mustard yellow, chevron striped pajamas with a fold of loose skin pressed up against a cushion next to her.
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Feed cleanse!! My goofball, the Family Sanity Keeper, Mona.
Chubby black and white, bovine splotched American Bulldog, sprawled out on the floor like a side of pork, with a burgundy throw pillow, a nondescript toy carcass, closed eyes and a goofy grin. Black and white, bovine blotched American Bulldog, stretched out in her gray memory foam bed with a brown toned falsa blanket. She’s facing you with her ears up and eyes sleepily rolling back. Black and white, bovine spotted American Bulldog next to the arm of your chair, ears softly back, head resting on the chair arm, puppy dog eyes pleading for whatever that is you’re snacking on.
November 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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For those struggling harder than ever to keep in this mode, I see you, I get it, and I hope you keep fighting to keep going.
White background with a large black semi-colon
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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And a Dendrobates azureus for #BlueTue
Watercolor and stippled ink on watercolor paper depicting a realistic blue poison dart frog on a stippled log.
November 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Posting for an art challenge to keep my brain thinking about anything but how we’re supposed to stay alive and anywhere near sane in today’s political climate.
It’s #AnimalArtTuesday so I give you a judgy Frenchie (like there’s another kind) and a hot pink tiger.
Acrylic on a small, hexagonal canvas depicting a gray French Bulldog, giving you side eye on a blue carpet against a deep pink wall with a white baseboard. Acrylic on 2 inch square canvas depicting a close up of an angry tiger face in deep pinks and reds with green eyes.
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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I have always had a soft spot for the traditions of el Día de Los Muertos.

For those who celebrate, may your loved ones, current and past, present and passed, feel closer to you today. ❤️ 🌹 🥀
Vibrant watercolor in an organic patchwork style depicting a human skull with large petaled marigolds on a rainbow colored background. White ink stippled on black paper depicting a human skull with a marigold, a rose bud, and a hibiscus flower. The hibiscus and marigold have red and yellow stippled accent details. Rich acrylic on canvas depicting a sepia toned human skull surrounded by semi realistic roses, peony, gardenia, poppy, marigold, red and orange freesia, and prickly pear flower as well as a purple and gold butterfly and a fire colored moth with black detailing. Rich acrylic on canvas in a gold metallic frame. Depicts a bust of a female skeleton in shades of white, gray, and tan with a head of flowing hair pulled up in a half-up style. She is wearing a traditional Mexican blouse-white with embroidered red flowers and leaves, and a matching pendant on a gold chain. She is surrounded by marigolds, roses, primroses, gladiolus, a sunflower, and foliage. She wears a crown of lush red roses with gold metallic accents.
November 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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I lost track! Can’t do Halloween without Ed! One of my favorite stippling projects. Love me a good corvid.
Ol’ Ed probably started out Edgar but, well, he’s had kind of a ragged week. 😉
White ink stippled onto black drawing paper depicting a ruffled up raven perched on a smooth-barked limb.
November 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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For the last week before Halloween, I’m revisiting the more… seasonal favorites.
First up, Bela the Bat. One of my favorite stippling pieces.
White ink stippled on black paper depicting a close up of a hanging fruit bat, wings wrapped and looking right at you.
October 27, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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I don’t know if you needed some Mona today but I do.
Black and white dog wearing a many-colored, Mexican style striped woven coat and a knit snood with green and white stripes topped with a red pompom. She’s gnawing on a white and pink stuffy, resting on a pillow with her name on it in a window seat overlooking a rainsoaked muddy hillside. A sleeping dog’s face- white with black nose and black snout freckles- peeking out of a bundle of black and rainbow crocheted blanket and resting on a red and orange crocheted blanket. Black and white, bovine spotted American Bulldog, with a yellow collar complete with red fabric flower, on a human bed, rumpled face aimed at the viewer.
October 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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I’ve long contended, dogs are in a perpetual state of Saturday Afternoon.
Mostly white dog with black nose and mouth edging, lying half on her back in a blue fleece hoodie, on a grassy hill next to two denimed human legs wearing yard sandals.
October 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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The Chosen One.
A deeply rumpled green gray pumpkin with a green and tan stem sitting on a quilted flannel on a vehicle seat. A deeply rumpled green gray pumpkin with a green and tan stem sitting on a quilted flannel on a vehicle seat, neatly strapped in with the seatbelt.
October 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Fighting the isolation of living rural when I cannot drive.
Hubby took me to the pumpkin patch on the way back from yet another distant medical appointment. I felt so… normal. It was lovely.
A group of pumpkin shaped squash on straw-strewn ground. Orange in the back, a hint of an orange one with masses of green wort-like bumps off to the right. Centered is one of a seriously warty greenish and gray variety. Man in a trucker’s cap, light brown shirt, deep blue jeans held up with wide black suspenders, and yard sandals. He’s looking down and away from viewer at the wide variety of pumpkins and gourds scattered about. There are racks of pumpkins and people milling about behind him. Straw strewn ground with a smattering of varied pumpkins. Center is a small platform with a giant green and orange pumpkin resting on a layer of foam for a buffer. Woman with shoulder length brown, purple, and green hair in a black pullover hoodie and navy blue pants, smiling and holding one of a bunch of cream and orange striped gourds in front of racks filled with turban gourds and pumpkins.
October 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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In case you needed it. Mona says it’s PJs weather. They’re a little crumpled up right now but that wizard toy was getting sassy and things got a little rowdy.
Black and white American Bulldog wearing red and white chevron striped pajamas, holding a blue and white wizard toy and sitting in her window seat with her pillows and false blanket. She’s looking at you like you startled her out of her game. Black and white American Bulldog wearing red and white chevron striped pajamas, snuggling a blue and white wizard toy and sitting in her window seat with her pillows and false blanket. She’s looking at you out of the corner of her eye.
October 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM