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Ian
@laughingcricket.bsky.social
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An old punk (53), lifelong pacifist, liberal, and traditional artist. I work in oils, acrylics, pastels, watercolors, stoneware, and porcelain.

Joyfully married

https://www.saatchiart.com/ianlangham
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For today's #ArtAdventCalendar

"Glow"

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A pastel painting of two aspens hanging over a latilla fence with a large mountain in the background and a little bit of sky in the upper right corner. There is a little path surrounded by yellowish grass in the foreground
December 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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No cheese at the moment, but we have many spoiled cats...
A smokey grey long haired cat laying on a multicolored rug
December 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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"Gusdorf midnight"

This is a painting of the side of a house that I rented in Taos.

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A pastel painting of a night scene. A porch light shining and obscured by the corner of the house lights up the underside of a large pinion tree and shines through the boards of a wooden fence running from left to right. The sky is deep blue fading slightly near the horizon.
December 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Family tradition.

I love our tree.

Yes those are screaming chickens...

Whatever you celebrate, make sure you have fun with it.

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A white Christmas tree covered in pink, green, blue, and yellow rubber chickens little balls of the same colors, lights and party favors with a big rainbow star on top.
December 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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An inquisitive raven.

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A pastel painting of an inquisitive looking raven against a bright orange background
December 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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"Black eyed susans"

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A pastel painting of six black eyed susans arranged dynamically in a turquoise vase painted with large brushwork
December 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Rested today. Sorry to add to the #ArtAdventCalendar a little late. Here is a watercolor from 2020

"Never alone"

Blessings
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December 20, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Artists, Quote with something silly

"Bird lips"

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A pencil drawing of a humanoid head with giant teeth shaped like a parrot beak protruding from its lips. A note on the side that reads "I was thinking about bird anatomy. Bird lips. 3/19/24"
December 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Thank you.
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helpers today ...
A selfie of me laying on a shaggy multicolored rug with a gray cat and a tuxedo cat laying next to me
December 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Still not great today but recovering. As my dad use to say, I'm upright and taking in nutrition.

For today's #ArtAdventCalendar a little sketch I did of the woodpeckers in our yard.

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A watercolor sketch of a Downy Woodpecker looking over its left shoulder
December 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Long and very unpleasant day of medical stuff, so here I am late again to the #ArtAdventCalendar

Ravens are one of my favorite subjects. They are delightful and engaging birds.

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An oil painting of an inquisitive raven against a deep red background
December 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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So much going on today I almost forgot today's #ArtAdventCalendar

This is a watercolor of our backyard when we lived in Las Vegas New Mexico

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A watercolor painting of a nightscape. The back corner of an adobe house with a pitched roof and a little bit of grass in the foreground. A wooden fence runs from left to right and there is a large tree in the other side of the fence. You can just see the top of a white roof behind the tree and a large pinion tree behind that. The sky is deep blue fading into pink near the horizon where the setting sun on the opposite horizon has lit some hazy clouds. The moon shines through on the left just above the top of the tree
December 17, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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A sagebrush study on earth sanded paper

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A pastel painting of a little sagebrush surrounded with light yellow green grass and pinkish sand with light blue sky in the background
December 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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"Evangelic"
2021

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A drawing in ink and colored pencils of a creepy looking guy with the lesters "WTF" around his head in a white suit with white hair holding a fire hose that is squirting one little drop while he uses his finger to stir the brain of a smaller male figure next to him. They are standing in front of a burning landscape that leads back to distant mountains. There is a gigantic thunderhead coming over the mountain shaped like a penis.
December 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Bodhi claimed this one right off the easel.

2020

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A watercolor of a cloud on the horizon lit by the sun setting on the opposite horizon.
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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This sunset I painted from a thumbnail I did in Taos.

2015

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Alt: some pinion trees on a hillside overlooking a little distant hill and the sun setting through a rain storm in shades of orange and peach
December 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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"Embudo fall"
2014

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A pastel painting of tall fall cottonwoods on the banks of a river surrounded by light green grass and sand. Behind is a line of pinion trees and a little hill under a clear blue sky
December 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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A loose pencil drawing of a winged male figure rising from the water with a big splash. Rising from the splash is a huge spider
December 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Teehee...

I was trying to find a Luigi bong but I was captivated by this silly little thing
A photo a water pipe shaped like a grumpy little cactus.
December 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Some sunflowers that I still need to varnish.

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An oil painting of Four sunflowers tangled together with two hanging down under them against a blue sky
December 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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"Lilacs" 2015

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A pastel painting of lilacs arranged dynamically in a turquoise vase against a white background painted with large abstract brushwork
December 10, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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For today's #ArtAdventCalendar I drew this for Bodhi on her birthday.

Did you know that ravens mate for life?

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An ink drawing of two ravens sitting on a barbwire fence framed by the moon. Drawn using jagged abstract shapes filled in with lines.
December 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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2018

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An ink drawing of a large face floating in a body of water with small baren hills behind and a cloud just over the left corner of the mountain. There is a faceless person standing on the forehead with a messenger bag full of snakes and a straw inserted into the right temple of the face.
December 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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For today's #ArtAdventCalendar an acrylic painting of a scene from our time in the high desert.

5×7

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A large pinion tree in the middle of a field of sagebrush and smaller trees receding off into a line of small trees and small hills in the background
December 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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"king of the Internets"

Unrelated: bluesky's mods are REALLY going through it lately...

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An ink drawing of a chinless, dorky looking guy wearing a watermelon on his head, 3-D glasses and an ermine cape holds ball with a screw in it.
December 8, 2025 at 2:12 AM