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In my Art Cocoon🦋
@magrathean.bsky.social
♾️ Artist reconnecting with my creative process to find joy & healing amidst chronic illness, burnout & trying times.

🐌nature 🎨art📚reading🧬sciences🤟🏻languages🕊️progressive politics 💓kindness

May actually post one day!
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On day seven of #ArtAdventCalendar
Risk Calibration Point, from my Universal Anxiety Protection Suit series.
December 7, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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Some silly Saturday art for #ArtAdventCalendar --- a literal Snowy Owl!

Snowy Owls are having a bit of an irruption in the eastern USA, with recent sightings as far down as Maryland, Virginia, and south Indiana. Keep an eye out for them if you are in the upper Midwest or Northeast!

#birds #snow
December 7, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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Some real world work. Here's a badge I made for Scouts Canada a little while go that I'm still pretty proud of.
December 6, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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Because it arrived at its new home today...

Day 6 Evening #ArtAdventCalendar
Cosmic Cliffs
36x48in 91x122 cm
Oil on Canvas 2024

Based on the JWST image of NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula #Art #Painting #SciArt
December 7, 2024 at 3:46 AM
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It’s almost the end of the day, but here’s my entry for day 6 of the #ArtAdventCalendar. A Luna moth done in coloured pencil as part of a class I taught a few years ago.
December 7, 2024 at 4:57 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 5. Another older piece, here's a black and white digital ink drawing of a Belted Kingfisher emerging from her burrow in a streambank. 🎨🪶🐡
December 5, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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Day 4 of #ArtAdventCalendar

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth, we are all crew 🌎

#sciart #art #spaceart
December 4, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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The next #InverteFest is coming at the end of this month and that means, we're making another community ART BOOK!

It doesn't matter your skill level, or what type of art you make, if it's an invertebrate, we want to feature it. Let's see your invert OC, comics, or goth slugs. (SFW, no AI)
We're trying to show even more diverse species, media, and ideas in the December art book.

So far we've seen mosquito pixel art, brine shrimp photo, insect fakemon design, and digital paintings in the submission folder. If you do something else, submit your work now! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 4, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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HEADED FOR BLUE SKY 🎵 🦋
December 2, 2024 at 8:52 PM
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The male mountain bluebird sings a song. #ArtAdventCalendar #bird #birds #nature #wildlife #Photography
December 3, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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Day 3 of #ArtAdventCalendar is a photo of a Humpback Whale taken a couple of months ago along the BC Coast in Canada. The light was absolutely magical this day and I just loved the way it illuminated the water rolling off of the whale's tail.
December 3, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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Happy Small Business Saturday!

Let’s support science artists and communicators today.

I’m going to add some (including mine) in the replies. Please boost yourself and friends too!

🐡🧪
November 30, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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Someone joked that if the English had encountered the Nahua (Aztecs) first, we might have kept the "right spelling" of Nahuatl words like "coyotl" (instead of Spanish-filtered "coyote"), but the last syllable would be pronounced like the end of "bottle."

Coyottle. 😬

So let's talk about -tl-

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November 30, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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Hey #art ists. We're just a little bit more than a week out. Are you ready? (And by ready I mean have your alt text sorted out)

#ArtAdventCalendar is a no stress, unthemed, post old or new event with NO gatekeeping for skill level.

Join in and have fun.
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 10th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifi…
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November 21, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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Compelling visuals here, from @reuters.com
Drowning in plastic
Visualising the world’s addiction to plastic bottles. Around the world, almost 1 million plastic bottles are purchased every minute.
www.reuters.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:24 AM
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Seems like a good time to thread all my
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November 16, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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I’ve created a starter pack of nature and wildlife photographers. Please let me know who else should be included. 💙💛💙

go.bsky.app/NXqTEq9
November 15, 2024 at 3:13 AM
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Alright, friends. I've got my eyeballs on, & my limbs somewhat coordinated.

We've got a full jar of Clearwell purple ochre, half a jar of binder, my tray is tacked down, & my mask has rainbows.

Hit it.
November 17, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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OK folks, it's time to start thinking about #ArtAdventCalendar. This year will be huge with the number of folks on Bluesky now. Between December 1 and December 24, post a photo daily of an original piece of your own work with the hashtag. Doesn't have to be new or themed. Just post. For details 👇
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 10th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifi…
earthskyart.ca
November 2, 2024 at 6:23 PM