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Harkthorn
@harkthorn.bsky.social
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Does art, likes birds | Daily sketches | Parrots and Pigeons | NoGеnAߊ

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · Sep 1
✨Reintroduction post!

I'm Harkthorn, and I like to draw mostly fantasy and wildlife art-especially griffons, dragons, birds, and big cats. I also post a lot of bird photos-both of my three parrots, and of the pigeon flock that visits my window, especially Coopuccino (shown here with his mate)

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A realistic drawing of a Blue-throated conure griffon on a branch with leaves in the top right and bottom left of the image. The griffon has one forepaw raised and a pinned eye, looking at the viewer A green ballpoint pen sketch of a running wingless griffon, based on a grey heron, with a more dog-like back half A photo of two feral pigeons on a window sill, without the glass in the way. The front pigeon is a pied black male. The back pigeon is a spread/back female with feathered legs and feet A photo of a Blue-throated conure on a wooden desk perch stand thing. He is facing the viewer, but has put his head down, and turned it sideways a bit so his eye is viewable, and most of his beak. He is looking, with half-closed eye. He wants pets!
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celerydays.com
Fable will literally haul his little feathered butt all the way to the bathroom and wait by the tub to let me know when he wants a bath lol 🛁 #pigeon #pigeonsky
Pet pigeon, Fable, standing on the edge of a bathtub looking expectantly at me
November 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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bearofoses.bsky.social
i turned my back for 2 seconds.

#pigeonsky #pigeon
an open popcorn bag with the back end of a gray-white-black pigeon sticking out of it.
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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harkthorn.bsky.social
Media testers, of ancient pan watercolours, and two Ecoline pens, with pen/pencil on top

-3235 🎨🐡 #art
A sketchbook page, with five different media tester combinations. They are various mixes of different types of blue watercolours, black ballpoint pen, H pencil, and a Payne's Grey Polychromos. Each tester is a watercolour wash, with a pen/pencil drawing on top. From top left clockwise, the drawings are: a sleepy serval; a woman's head with closed eyes and a moon and flower hair ornament; a cassowary head, neck, and part of body; a panting coyote that looks more like some kind of shepherd dog. In the middle is a snarling dragon head
November 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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tsupi-wbsy.bsky.social
いいインコ
#BirdArt
November 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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xenianth.com
Free shipping on all art prints this weekend! Make your walls uncomfortable to look at!
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#art #BSNM #DarkArt #ArtShop
Digital black and white ink illustration, title at bottom: The Host of Anguish. The subject is a humanoid creature shown from the waist up, with at least 6 arms and a horse skull head on a long neck of stylized plant roots. More hands and arms are emerging from its expansive, twisting and tearing flesh to cover most of the lower half of the canvas. All of the hands are grabbing and reaching out as if in crisis. A large, deep hole is in its upper chest, torn flesh as its border. The piece is shaded using extensive, precise crosshatching. digital black and white ink illustration, title at bottom: Ungrounded. A humanoid facing the viewer has a black hole for a face/head. Multiple hands surround and reach into the hole, pulling back in a radius. the hands turn into wavy roots or vines that extend out past the edges of the canvas. two arms embedded with roots grab the bottom of the "face" in a pose like they are reaching up and pulling down on the face, and their shape creates an upside down V that fills the bottom of the canvas. Any empty space not filled with roots or hands or arms is a chaotic, scribbled black. More singular roots come out from behind the bottom hands and curve down to disappear beyond the bottom of the canvas. the entire piece is shaded with extremely fine, detailed hatching and stippling. Digital color illustration in saturated greens and yellows, title at bottom: Avolition's Gaze. A human figure sits looking up toward the sky, their neck turned up and to the right side. They have long masses of hair cascading down in front of their body to flow down off the bottom of the canvas. Their hands rest delicately in the flowing nest of hair, their right in their lap and their left on their chest. In place of their eyes are blooms of fingers unfurling from their fused centers. Beams of light pour from/to their finger-eyes. Twisting, gnarled roots and vines fill the space behind the figure, with the shapes of hands formed in the roots reaching upward. The piece is not shaded, using intricate line work and flat colors over a paper texture base. Digital color illustration of a long, furry Furby dragon in pastel colors. Title at bottom reads: Furagon. Its hair and mane go all the way down the top of its body, ending in a long tail with lots of long strands of hair. Its body is curled and twisting in loops and semicircles. Its mouth and eyes are wide open and it's staring intently past the canvas with small pupils.
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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wintersrune.com
I hear we're sharing bird art! Have some #Birds!
"Bearing Away Sins" "Cockatoo in Greens" "Coffin Eyes" and "Feathered Royalty"
painting of a vulture with a skull in their hands and a skull in their claws with red blood streaming from their feathers, the painting is surrounded by driftwood and a coyote skull watercolor painting of a cockatoo head and neck emerging from abstract of greens, yellows, and blues coffin shaped painting of a great horned owl face on a gold background oil painting of a harpy eagle head in blues and violets over an abstract of gold and teal
November 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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verdantsculpts.bsky.social
Arbori Micro Bonsais are now available. Order one today to get it in time for the holidays! These are ready-to-ship in limited quantities. 3in resin figures, $25 each.

✨Now shipping to the UK and EU!✨ Shares appreciated 💜

🛒 VerdantSculpts.com
A photo of four of my tree dragon figures planted in small pots. They are colored like the four seasons. They sit on a metal rail with green foliage in the background.
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
harkthorn.bsky.social
Media testers, of ancient pan watercolours, and two Ecoline pens, with pen/pencil on top

-3235 🎨🐡 #art
A sketchbook page, with five different media tester combinations. They are various mixes of different types of blue watercolours, black ballpoint pen, H pencil, and a Payne's Grey Polychromos. Each tester is a watercolour wash, with a pen/pencil drawing on top. From top left clockwise, the drawings are: a sleepy serval; a woman's head with closed eyes and a moon and flower hair ornament; a cassowary head, neck, and part of body; a panting coyote that looks more like some kind of shepherd dog. In the middle is a snarling dragon head
November 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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harkthorn.bsky.social
'Tori doing his Eagle trick, asking for something

#parrotSky 🪶
A photo of a Blue-throated conure stood on top of his cage, against a white wall background. He is facing to the right of the image, and has his wings lifted, though not spread
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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brennenfrencharts.bsky.social
The Purple-throated Carib females’ bills are longer and more curved than males. This sexual dimorphism has produced a coevolutionary relationship with bihai and caribbaea species of Heliconia plant, with each flower evolving color morphs that best attract their primary pollinator.

#huevember #birds
A painting of a Purple-throated Carib perched on a plant over a magenta/grey gradient
November 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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babeandoak.bsky.social
ALT Text benefits everyone

Alt text helps with accessibility, identifying/explaining elements you might not get to in your posts and makes your posts/work more discoverable - Make sure to toggle it on to “require alt text” in your settings
Writing alt text infographic “WRITING ALT TEXT - IDENTIFY WHO - EXPRESSION - DESCRIPTION - COLOUR INTERESTING FEATURES “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head”
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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samthielman.com
Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
A panel from Watchmen no. 4 drawn by Dave Gibbons. Script by Alan Moore.
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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dting.bsky.social
Peek-a-boo.
#parrotsky #parrots
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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morrismummer.bsky.social
Wellington Somerset. Post box cover. (Not my photo, taken by a friend.) Possibly the famous Winkie herself! #PigeonSky
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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olgadiemart.bsky.social
Grape glider.

#illustration #fantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #creatureart #dragon #dragonart #fall #autumn #procreate #digitalart
A digital painting of a little purple dragon with yellow and pink spots on its wings and crest, iridescent like a butterfly, sitting on a grape branch and eating grapes. Rich fall colors of yellows, oranges and reds on a leaves around it.
October 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?

Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:

-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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arcaneboheme.bsky.social
Jumping in on #dinovember2025 ! With Dilophosaurus. What can I say, I'm a sucker for the classics XD
I've affectionately nicknamed this piece - "Scary Turkey"
#paleoart #watercolor #dinosaur #dinovember
A dilophosaurus dinosaur close up portrait, with color blocking contrasts of the skull and alive dinosaur.
November 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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skwinnicki.bsky.social
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"

guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
Basic light pollution diagram showing four different streetlight set ups ranging from more light pollution on the left to less light pollution on the right. The most pollution option, labelled "very bad" is a street lamp with a round uncovered bulb on top, making a sphere of light in the air. The next option, labelled "bad" has a tiny cap on top, that limits the upward pollution a bit. The "better" option is mostly uncovered on top, limiting pollution above the streetlight. The final option, labelled "best" has a full shroud overtop, limiting the light to only below the streetlight, where it is needed for pedestrians and vehicles.
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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star-gato66.bsky.social
another colour study, in which I challenged myself to use a horizontal, no-opacity brush. It was hard not being able to use the colour picker, but I think I'm happy with it.
#art #waves #sea #colourstudy #digitalart
a colour study of an aquamarine wave about to crash onto a reddish brown rock, all illuminated by sunlight. the reference image, a photo taken by Joseph C. Filer. original link to image: https://www.josephfiler.com/photo/acadia-storm-waves-2/
October 31, 2025 at 8:16 AM
harkthorn.bsky.social
'Tori doing his Eagle trick, asking for something

#parrotSky 🪶
A photo of a Blue-throated conure stood on top of his cage, against a white wall background. He is facing to the right of the image, and has his wings lifted, though not spread
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
harkthorn.bsky.social
Applying mostly clear glow in the dark nail polish: this is easy. I am a genius

Applying coloured polish for the first time ever: I have never been so instantly and throughly humbled in my life
November 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
Every ad now
[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
harkthorn.bsky.social
Bare-throated tiger heron sketch. In ballpoint pen, as ever

-3234 🎨🐡🪶 #art
A black ballpoint pen sketch of a Bare-throated tiger heron from the top of the wing upwards, viewed from its left side
November 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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fogangler.bsky.social
Play as a pigeon as she travels the world at the rhythm of its cities in Travel On, Pigeon!
#indiedev #indiedevs #TrailerTuesday #CelebrateIndies #gamedev #indiegamedev #pigeons
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU33...
Travel On, Pigeon! Full Trailer HD
YouTube video by Fog Angler Interactive
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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pftompkins.bsky.social
I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.

All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.

Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM