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Oonagh Foran
@oonaghforan.bsky.social
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Artist, NeuroGraphica Instructor and Neurographic Coach.
Native gardener, animist.
She/her.
www.artioprints.com or DM me about purchasing art, or for coaching/instruction. I post all new work here before it gets to the website.
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A bit of Neuro-Art, redrawing some elements of my life.

#drawing #neuroart #neurographica #fineliner #artsky
A semi-abstract drawing in fine line markers, with a large mandala, a radiating heart, and a suggested fish.
July 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Omari, my darling

#sketch #dog #penandink
A rough pen and ink sketch of a rat terrier curled up in an Eames-style easy chair, asleep.
July 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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I have another frog to share with you.
Pencil drawing of a frog, swimming through water, half-submerged.
July 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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If you see this, post your blue art. 🔵
July 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Marsh frog with open mouth.

#frog #pencildrawing #sketch #art
Pencil drawing of a marsh frog, facing viewer, with its mouth opening wide.
July 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Another frog.

#frog #drawing #sketch #pencil
A marsh frog crouches in a pond, his lower body submerged. Pencil sketch.
July 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Frog gesture drawings.

#frog #sketch #gesture
Quick pencil sketches of two frogs, one sitting , one swimming.
July 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Sketching frogs = falling in love with frogs.

#sketch #frogs #pencil #drawing
A rough pencil sketch of two frogs, sitting together.
July 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Heart-healing neuro-art. My becoming.

#Neurographica #art #drawing #coloredpencil #penandink
A semi-abstract drawing in pen and ink and colored pencil, using randomly moving (wavy) lines and circles, featuring a large open eye within a purple heart, within a golden sun.
July 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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I’ve been meaning to share this for while but life has been upside down. Foal with Angelica, my first go at a reduction print. I can’t wait to do more.
#art #linocut #printartist #foal #angelica #reductionprint
a linocut print of a white foal lying in a patch of oversized Angelica. Feeling serene and also vivified.
June 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Work in progress. Pre-heart surgery self-portrait.
I’ve been a little away from Bluesky. It’s wild time. Wanted to connect. Hi.

#oilpastel #drawing #art #portrait #badass #wip
Self-portrait in oil pastel, 60 year old woman with silver hair, wearing a green hoodie, head tilted back.
May 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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By one of my favorite artists @skrulls.bsky.social (I’m his mom).
#printpromptmonday #text #art #linocut #printartist #cockroach #LGBTQ+art #LGBTQ+
A linocut print in hot pink ink, featuring a stylized cockroach, with pink triangle “eye”, surmounted by text: “UNKILLABLE”.
May 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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My art today.
#oilpastel #drawing #art #neurographic #abstract
Abstract drawing in oil pastels, with vivid magenta, marigold on teal paper, featuring circles and triangles within a large square. Wavy Organic lines extend from the square to the edge of the paper.
May 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Neurographic timeline for heart surgery: preparing, operation, and healing.
#oilpastel #neurographicart #art #drawing #abstract #organic #timeline
Abstract drawing in oil pastels on brown paper using bright, vivid colors. Three organically shaped spheres, each merging into the next, each with their own intent and focus.
May 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Heart Sketch

#art #drawing #oilpastel #heart #abstract #Neurographica #neurographicart
Vivid oil pastel drawing in fuschia, blue, yellow and green, using organic lines and circular shapes.
May 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Two years ago, I sought out a local orchard so I could photograph #pearblossoms for this print, early one dewy morning.
#printpromptmonday #spring #linocut
#printartist #art #artsky #magenta #pear #bee #celticborder
Lino print in white ink on magenta paper: a branch with open pear blossoms, framed by an insular (Celtic)-style decorative border, featuring a different pear variety in each corner. A mason bee visits the blossoms - she will fertilize them.
May 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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My son!

#finelinepen #ink #drawing #portrait #art #smiling
Portrait of a smiling young man in pen and ink, with glasses, lip piercing and a curly mane.
May 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Hanging out at a cafe when our power was out.
#penandink #drawing #portrait #art
Pen and ink drawing of a middle aged man gazing down at a screen in concentration (screen not visible).
May 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Heart Surgery #1: Annunciation
I’m going to be having open heart surgery in June or July. I’m processing this through art. This series will include different media and extend through my recovery.
#oilpastel #art #drawing #abstract #healing
Abstract drawing in oil pastels on black paper.
May 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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My dear friend and colleague, Ruta Va, led a Neurographic drawing session in celebration of Easter, sharing stories of her childhood Easter traditions in Lithuania. Within the egg we drew our intentions for the new season of growth.
#Neurographica #neuroart #drawing #art #ink #coloredpencil #egg
A neurographic drawing, in pen and colored pencils, of a large egg, filled with geometric shapes representing goals and dreams.
May 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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The power is out randomly all over my city, including cell phone towers - can’t use data at home. Posting from a cafe. Send some juice!
Here’s a quick sketch testing out some old cray-pas I had. Verdict: fun on black paper, I don’t mind that they’re a little translucent.
Abstract, energetic, colorful sketch in oil pastels on black paper.
April 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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To celebrate my 100th post, here is a neurographic #portrait of my grandfather as a young man, @1935. Drawn over a lightened photocopy of a photograph.
#neurographica #fineliner #ancestors #neuroportrait #drawing
Portrait fineliner and colored pencil, using irregular wavy lines (neurographic lines), drawn over a photo of a young man, circa 1930. Text incorporated into the wavy line matrix includes his name and names of familiy members.
April 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Dip pen and watercolor. Small sketch with neurographic lines.

#art #dippen #penandink #watercolor #neurographica #neuroart #drawing
Abstract pen and ink & watercolor drawing with wavy lines, some ending in curlicues. At top, a red circle. Across the middle, curved like a hammock, an ochre-yellow swath.
April 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Purple anemones at Phipps on a rainy day.
#gouache #painting #art #anemones #Phipps #Pittsburgh #flowers #purple
April 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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A neurographic sketch: my heart and the real world.
#penandink and #coloredpencil. Title ref: The Minutemen song title.
I'm curious about how other artists feel about Neurographica. I'm trained as an instructor, thinking about how it fits into my life as an artist. Please chime in!
Colorful sketch built of delicate neurographic (randomly meandering) lines. A large round figure on the upper right represents the world; connecting to it in the lower center is a red heart. On the upper left, a star-like radiating shape. Pen and ink with colored pencil.
April 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM