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In my Art Cocoon🦋
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♾️ 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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alchemicalrat.bsky.social
On day seven of #ArtAdventCalendar
Risk Calibration Point, from my Universal Anxiety Protection Suit series.
Painting of a person wearing a yellow protective coat and a copper coloured helmet. They have a small dial in one hand. They are leaning on the base of a tall lightning rod which has a larger dial built into it.
December 7, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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allthatwildlife.bsky.social
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
Photo of a thin layer of snow that has been artfully arranged in the shape of a Snowy Owl on the ground, with holes poked into the snow to represent the eyes, beak, and dark spotting. The snow is a pretty white, and the ground beneath is dark pavement, giving the photo a black-and-white appearance.
December 7, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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asmeesh.bsky.social
Some real world work. Here's a badge I made for Scouts Canada a little while go that I'm still pretty proud of.
A stitched patch lying on a wooden background. The badge is a hexagon with a thick black border that reads 'The great canadian adventure. La grande aventure canadienne'. A scouts Canada logo sits at the bottom in a triangle shape, the logo composed of a wooden shelter, canadian leaf, and fleur de lis. The illustration in the badge is composed of four quadrants illustrated in blues, yellows and greens. The illustration style is very clean with simple shapes. Clockwise it depicts a yellow stag looking over its shoulder with a yellow sun between the antlers. A green log cabin. A yellow fish jumping from wavy blue water. Two green mountains with trees and a snowy peaks.
December 6, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
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
Abstract painting of a nebula with swirling yellow and orange clouds with blue black field above and lots of stars
December 7, 2024 at 3:46 AM
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secondnaturemb.bsky.social
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.
A bright fluorescent green moth drawn on a piece of paper and coloured pencil. It has long tails on its back wings and eyespots. Some of the pencils used to colour the moth lie on the page to the left
December 7, 2024 at 4:57 AM
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tinylongwing.bsky.social
#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. 🎨🪶🐡
Black and white digital lineart drawing of a Belted Kingfisher popping out of an earthen burrow which has been dug sideways into a vertical (but not really pictured here) streambank. Only her upper half is visible, beak pointing left, tiny little claws gripping the soil below her belly.
December 5, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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morgandenman.bsky.social
Day 4 of #ArtAdventCalendar

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

#sciart #art #spaceart
Original poster design by me. At the center is an illustration of Earth. Surrounding it are the words “There are no passengers on spaceship Earth. We are all crew.”
December 4, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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saimihanma.bsky.social
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)
franzanth.bsky.social franz @franzanth.bsky.social · Nov 12
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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brittlestar.com
HEADED FOR BLUE SKY 🎵 🦋
December 2, 2024 at 8:52 PM
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abandonedalberta.bsky.social
The male mountain bluebird sings a song. #ArtAdventCalendar #bird #birds #nature #wildlife #Photography
The male mountain blue bird signs a song sitting on a wire. The bluebird is brilliant dark and light blue.
December 3, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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timosborne.ca
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.
A black and white photo of water running off of a whale's tail.
December 3, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social
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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davidbowles.us
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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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
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…
earthskyart.ca
November 21, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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paulawhyman.bsky.social
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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devinellekurtz.bsky.social
Seems like a good time to thread all my
🖌️FREE DIGITAL ART BRUSHES 🖌️

Free / "pay what you want" & fully royalty-free

Foliage and Grass Set: tamberella.gumroad.com/l/UrGvW
Grass and Fields Expansion: tamberella.gumroad.com/l/grass2
The cover image for the Grass and Fields brush pack featuring a field with a mountain in the background. You can see examples of the various brushes on the left, the label "Free" and the amount of brushes (144) An example image of a field with some trees in the distance
November 16, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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wildatheartphoto.bsky.social
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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lycomorpha.bsky.social
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.
My hand wearing black nitrile gloves and holding a glass jar full of plum coloured powder. A label on the lid reads 'clearwell caves natural ochre'. Beneath it is a white catering tray with a glass plate blue tacked to it. The plate is covered in paint-making equipment, specifically; a jar of binder, a metal scraper, a palette knife, a glass muller, a small tin tray of watercolour pans, a digital scales, plastic weighing pots, measuring spoons, pipettes, a pencil, and an FFP2 facemask with clouds and rainbows printed on it. You can see a notebook resting on a corner of the tray labelled paint making notes.
November 17, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
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