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Mervi Eskelinen
@mervi.art
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Artist, illustrator, sorcerer, poet from Finland. Raised by cats. Very leftist. Art, meditation, journaling, comics, poems, movies, tv, politics, life stuffs. No ai/nft. 🏳️‍⚧️ they/them

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This guy checked out our balcony. Couldn’t catch a photo so I painted him in my daily sketchbook instead. #art #artist #artists #animalart #natureart #sketchbook #sketchbookart #drawing #watercolour #artjournal #birdart #dailyart
Photo of an open sketchbook with a watercolour painting of a great tit (bird) standing inquisitively on a green railing before a grey background. The spread is dated 21.11.2025 and the sketchbook is on a wooden table.
November 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Tested the new easel with this small stormy acrylic painting. #art #acrylics #painting #artwork #artist #artists #natureart #acrylicpainting #arts
Photo of an artwork on an easel. The canvas is square and the artwork features stormy yet fluffy clouds and a bunch of bird silhouettes flying on the bottom left area. The artwork is signed ME 2025.
November 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Thank you @tonij.bsky.social for my new table easel! ❤️
Photo of a white table filled with art and art supplies. In the middle there’s a wooden table easel with a wip painting of pink and yellow and red colours on a smallish square canvas on it and a messy palette on the bottom. Behind the easel there’s a bear painting as well as other paintings which are only partially visible.
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Cave paintings, art journaling of their time, brought to an art journal of this time.

#art #sketchbook #watercolour #watercolor #artist #artists #sketchbookart #artstyles #animalart #artideas #drawings #artjournal #dailyart
Photo of an open sketchbook on a wooden table. The sketchbook spread is filled with brownish watercolour, with some cave painting style elements: a sun, rain looking pattern, a duck maybe and a big bulbous horse with small legs. The spread is dated 9.11.2025.
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Mun syötteen runotaidetta:
Kuvakaappaus Blueskysta, jossa ylempänä ABBA Lyric Bot postaus: ”no taste for humble pie” Ja sen alla Normipäivän postauksesta: ”Ei ole röyhkeydellä mitään rajaa.”
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Sometimes simple and quick is very effective. #art #sketchbook #watercolour #watercolor #drawing #sketchbookart #artist #artists
Photo of an open sketchbook with the spread filled with watercolour painting of a gray stormy sky with a flock of black silhouettes of flying birds. The sketchbook is on a wooden table. Spread is dated 4.11.2025.
November 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Study of orchids, for a change.

#art #sketchbook #drawings #artists #artist #sketchbookart #mixedmedia #flowerart #natureart
Photo of an open sketchbook on a wooden table. The spread is filled with a mixed media (watercolour, pencil, marker) drawing of some soft pink orchid flowers and soft greenish yellow bulbs on a green background. They look a bit suggestive as orchid flowers do. The drawing is dated 3.11.2025.
November 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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You should be grateful

#art #comic #doodle #artist #artists
A doodle with a person standing in front of a pile of money looking upset and pointing at three other people who look confused. The person with money says: “You should be grateful for this money you make for me!” On the bottom left there’s text: “mervi.art” On bottom right there’s copyright sign and text: “2025 Mervi Eskelinen”
October 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Today’s sketchbook drawing

#art #animalart #sketchbook #sketchbookart #drawing #artist #artists #dailydrawings #mixedmedia
Photo of an open sketchbook with a mixed media (watercolour, marker and white gel pen) drawing of an American mink standing in a green surrounding. The sketchbook is on a wooden table and the spread is dated 27.10.2025.
October 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Working on the next Catlike zine. Here’s the cover.

#art #zine #artzine #animalart #wip #catart
Zine cover with an illustration of a cat dressed as a ghost, with its grey ears, grey striped paws, green eyes, pink nose and mouth area, and whiskers visible under the sheet on beige background. On top left it says “CATLIKE ZINE #9 OCTOBER 2025”, between cats head and lifted up tail is written “FEAR-LESS” (or fearless, with a line break and hyphen) and bottom centre “©️2025 MERVI ESKELINEN MERVI.ART”
October 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Painting WIP #art #acrylic #painting #animalart #wip #catart
Photo of an art canvas with an acrylic painting of a black cat on a green background in progress. The cat is only a simple silhouette and its eyes are just holes, showing the colourful backpaint in pink, yellow and black. The lower part of the cat’s body is out of frame. The canvas is on some brown cardboard which is a bit messy with paint.
October 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Young wolf

#art #sketchbook #animalart #drawing #artist #artists #sketchbookart #mixedmedia #animaldrawing
Photo of an open sketchbook on a wooden table. The sketchbook spread is filled with a mixed media, watercolour and marker, drawing of a beige brown wolf on a green background. The wolf looks straight at you with a very wolfy look on its face. The spread is dated 22.10.2025 and the sketchbook is on a wooden table.
October 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Seagullible

#art #drawings #animalart #animaldrawings #sketchbook #sketchbookart #mixedmedia #watercolour #markerart
Photo of an open sketchbook with the spread filled with a mixed media drawing of a white and gray seagull standing on a rock looking backwards over its back. The drawing is dated 21.10.2025. The sketchbook is on a wooden table.
October 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Unicorn!

#art #sketchbook #mixedmedia #drawing #artist #watercolour
Photo of an open sketchbook with a mixed media (watercolour, marker, pens) drawing of a head of a galloping white unicorn with mane wildly floating in the air. The drawing is dated 20.10.2025 and the sketchbook is on a wooden table.
October 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Something a bit less illustrative #art #sketchbook #artist #drawing
Photo of an open sketchbook with the spread filled with a watercolour painting of yellow and light brown hay and grey blue sky, dated 16.10.2025. The sketchbook is on a wooden table.
October 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Today’s drawing is fishy #art #sketchbook #drawing #mixedmedia #artist #artists
Photo of an open sketchbook on a wooden table. The sketchbook spread is filled with a mixed media, watercolour and marker drawing of a brown trout swimming in a bit muddy water. The drawing is dated 15.9.2025.
October 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Now add then I might attempt to draw a dog. #art #drawings #sketchbook #artists #mixedmedia
Photo of an open sketchbook on a wooden table with the spread filled with a mixed media, watercolour and markers, drawing of a light brown dog with floppy ears, benevolently looking at you. The background is smudgy blue and purple watercolour. The spread is dated 29.9.2025.
October 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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And foxes #art #sketchbook #sketchbookart #drawing #artist #mixedmedia
Photo of an open sketchbook on a wooden table. The sketchbook spread is filled with a mixed media, watercolour and markers, drawing of a simplified fox looking dreamily up left. Background is smudgy blue watercolour. The drawing is dated 1.10.2025.
October 2, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Cats too, of course. #art #sketchbook #sketchbookarts #artist #mixedmedia #catart
Photo of a open sketchbook on a wooden table. The sketchbook spread is filled with a watercolour, marker and white gel pen drawing of a brownish gray cat looking at you in very smug catlike way. There’s also a fish skeleton style toy hanging on a thread by (or maybe behind) the cat on the left. Background is pinkish smudged watercolour.
September 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Another one from my daily sketchbook #art #sketchbook #drawing #artist #mixedmedia
Photo of an open sketchbook on a wooden table. The sketchbook spread is filled with a drawing of a beaver swimming in blue water, created with watercolour, marker and white gel pen. It’s dated 9.9.2025.
September 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Sometimes I draw silly fluffy wolves. #art #sketchbook #mixedmedia #drawings #artist
A photo of an open sketchbook on a wooden table. The sketchbook spread is filled with a watercolour and marker drawing of a kind looking fluffy wolf (head and a bit of back and chest) looking straight at you. Background is splashy orange. The drawing is dated 24.9.2025.
September 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Art is messy.
Photo of an open watercolour palette on a wooden table. The watercolour buttons are round and the palette has a lid with matching round holes which can be used to mix the colours (as it’s been used apparently). There are 12 colours ranging from base colours to browns, greens and black + white. The palette is well used, with colours sprayed and splashed all over, and the buttons are messy with different colours too.
September 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Brgr. #art #sketchbook
Photo of an open sketchbook on a wooden table. The sketchbook spread is filled with watercolour and fine line illustration of a burger with something green and red besides the beef. On the left, partially behind the burger there are some handmade looking fries and one of them is on the front of the burger. The elements are surrounded by dabbed and smeared pink watercolour.
September 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Appease the few
A comic type doodle of two people standing with the other saying: “LOOK, WE CANNOT MAKE THINGS NICE AND COMFORTABLE FOR EVERYONE CAUSE WE MUST APPEASE THE FEW WHO FEEL THE NEED FOR POWER.” (C) 2025 Mervi Eskelinen
September 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Yesterday I almost forgot to draw in my daily sketchbook. While journaling before bed I did this quick watercolour and brush pen doodle. #art #sketchbook #drawing #artist
A photo of an open sketchbook, with two simplified foxes sitting back to back drawn with red watercolour and some black ink detailing, on a wooden desk. The fox on the left is looking somewhere behind you and the other sniffs the air with eyes closed.
August 30, 2025 at 8:12 AM