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Katy Chalmers
@katypillar.bsky.social
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Art. Science. Neurodivergent. Queer. They/them. Naarm(Melbourne), Australia. I like to plant stuff and paint stuff. 🌱🎨 Dinosaurs and space will always have my heart.

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She’s a snuggle bug. #DogsOfBlueSky #Dogs
A large, white dog lays snuggled up with her head and paw on my lap.
January 17, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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It’s now Triceratops’ turn to feel the tie dye groove! My latest Embroidery project. #Triceratops #SciArt #Embroidery #Dinosaur #Art
A triceratops embroidery stitched into pale pink background fabric. The tie dye swirl fades from pink to purple to blue!
January 17, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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A little work in progress! Even works for todays #Januarty prompt: tool! Lately a needle has been my tool of choice. #Embroidery #Art #SciArt #TieDye
A work in progress picture of a tie dye triceratops in an embroidery hoop! The tie dye fades in a swirl from pink to purple to blue, small threads used to create the color pattern.
January 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Despite what they say about everything trying to kill you in Australia, it was a fantastic time.
The sunset on a mild summer evening. The sun has just fallen below the horizon of the ocean, the sky fading from orange to yellow to pale green and then various shades of blue.
January 11, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Working on some lichen/fungus/moss inspired embroidery as a bit of a palate cleanser before jumping back into to tie dye stuff again! Please excuse the dog hair. #Embroidery #SciArt #Lichen
Various shades of green have been stitched into black fabric in an embroidery hoop. The colors and shapes mimic those of lichens and fungus often found on tree bark.
January 7, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Goth succulents. I discovered these today and am obsessed. #Plants #Succulents #Goth
A large cluster of succulents with leaves that fade from bright red in the center to a deep dark burgundy and finally to black. Shiny, clear, raindrops are scattered across the plants, looking like jewels on a bed of dark velvet.
January 6, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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I can finally share this now that it’s finished! My embroidered Tie Dye Stegosaurus! #Embroidery #Dinosaur #Art #SciArt
Silhouette of a stegosaurus filled with pastel rainbow tie dye in a swirl pattern.
January 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Happy #InverteFest! Trying my hand at some embroidery by stitching up one of my beetles! #SciArt #Insects #Embroidery #Art
An beetle embroidered on pale pink fabric. The beetle is the color of a blue sky with little fluffy clouds floating on its carapace.
December 28, 2024 at 9:11 AM
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Happy #Invertefest! I love to draw creatures with fantastical elements and one of my favorites to draw is beetles! #SciArt #Beetles #Art
Three rows of three beetles each. Each row is painted and decorated differently. The top is tie dye, the middle is fluffy white clouds on a blue sky colored beetles and the bottom row is deep indigo beetles spotted with white stars to look like a space beetle. #InverteFest #Invertfest
December 26, 2024 at 1:16 AM
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Dressed up my stegosaurus for Christmas. Merry #Dinomas from my dino to yours. #Dinosaur #Tattoo #SciArt
A fine line tattoo of a stegosaurus skeleton with a Santa hat and Christmas lights drawn on in ballpoint pen.
December 25, 2024 at 3:38 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 20. A rainbow-y, watercolor-y jellyfish! #SciArt #Watercolor #Art #Invertebrates
A watery jellyfish with many tendrils of different colors. Blue is the dominant color, but there is green, red, purple and orange.
December 24, 2024 at 12:33 AM
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Out in the Australian bush for the week so posting may be slow. Brought paints and books though, so don’t worry about me at all.
View from the top of a mountain overlooking the distant lakes and coast. The view is framed on the left and right by gum trees.
December 24, 2024 at 12:27 AM
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Light refracts into rainbows for free all across the world… I don’t know where I was going with that but it sometimes makes me feel less hopeless. #SciArt #Rainbow #Optics
A jumble of rainbow flashes on a dark wall.
December 21, 2024 at 4:21 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 19. Sometimes I paint silly little worlds. #Paint #Art #Planets
A planetoid shaped world with green grass and moss and tall pine trees. Clouds float off the surface of the world and curve with the shape of the horizon. There is a rainbow that stretches across nearly the whole top hemisphere.
December 20, 2024 at 5:43 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18. Not quite finished, but I had to share this little painting of a Blue Glaucus for #nudicember. As tiny as it is, this painting is still many times larger than the actual creature! #Nudibranch #SciArt #Art
A blue and white sea slug painted on a sandy purple background. The animal has many feathery flowing appendages connected to its body. They fade from white at the connection to the body to a dark blue at their tips.
December 18, 2024 at 10:35 AM
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Choose your fighters: #Dice #Gaming #TTRPG
15 pairs of d10s lined up in rainbow order on a wooden table.
December 18, 2024 at 10:16 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 17. A crater study from many years ago. Crater covered objects in our Solar System. #SciArt #AstroArt #Drawing
A collection of seven little drawings of cratered bodies in our solar system ranging from moons to small asteroids.
December 17, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 16. Wibbly wobbly and all that. Another older one from about 10 years ago. #TARDIS #DoctorWho #Art #Painting #Watercolor
A blue watercolor TARDIS floats among a background of space and stars and pale aqua and yellow nebulae.
December 16, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 15. Bobtail squid. It feels like I painted this little guy a lifetime ago. Still enamoured with them though. #SciArt #Invertebrates #Art
A blue and purple watercolor bobtail squid with patches of dark purple and blue dots all over its body. Dark eyespots gaze back at the viewer.
December 15, 2024 at 3:14 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14. Last of the beetle series (for now) are these sparkly space beetles! #SciArt #Entomology #Beetles #Space
Three detailed beetle drawings in a row. Each beetle is dotted with starry sparkles on a deep purple indigo base color.
December 14, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 13. These groovy tie dye beetles make me think of summertime! #SciArt #Inverts #Art #TieDye #Entomology
Three details drawings of beetles with rainbow tie dye on their elytra. The beetles have purple heads and the tie dye is reminiscent of pastel sherbet swirls.
December 13, 2024 at 2:28 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 12. Cloudy with a Chance of Beetles. Some fantastical #SciArt for your day. #Paint #Entomology #Beetles
Three beetles of varrying shapes with detailed legs and antennae. They are painted sky blue with a puffy white cloud pattern. Probably from a fantastical alternate universe.
December 12, 2024 at 6:30 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 11. Curiosity roved straight into our hearts, and never left. #Mars #SciArt #AstroArt #Space #CuriosityRover
A black and white pen and marker sketch of the Curiosity rover on Mars. Its camera is facing toward the viewer, and with a little imagination, could appear to be posing for the photo.
December 11, 2024 at 3:19 AM
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Many years ago I was blessed by this piece of sloth toast. Now I pass those blessings on to you. #Sloths #Pareidolia
A piece of toasted raising bread that has swirls and raisins in a perfect sloth face pattern.
December 10, 2024 at 3:22 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 10. The Sun! I think this is one one of my earliest attempts at #AstroArt. #SciArt #Watercolor #Paint
A watercolor painting of the sun on white paper. Sunspots are depicted using white space and blooming watercolor pigments make up the halo of corona.
December 10, 2024 at 2:32 AM