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parakeet paintbox | nicole
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parakeet paintbox | nicole @parakeetpaintbox.bsky.social · May 12
i'd been thinking to grab a lemon from the fridge for a still life study in watercolor, maybe also acrylic. why a lemon? no idea.

today i found an old box of cray-pas in a drawer while cleaning up and scrawled away at a small piece of sanded paper until the lemon was liberated.

5/11/2025
an oil pastel drawing of a lemon on an abstracted colorful background
parakeetpaintbox.bsky.social
i'd been thinking to grab a lemon from the fridge for a still life study in watercolor, maybe also acrylic. why a lemon? no idea.

today i found an old box of cray-pas in a drawer while cleaning up and scrawled away at a small piece of sanded paper until the lemon was liberated.

5/11/2025
an oil pastel drawing of a lemon on an abstracted colorful background
May 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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grateful to call this beautiful coastal landscape "home."
green leafy plant with purple flowers in the foreground, set in a landscape with rocks and trees all around
April 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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neat ones today on our walk. i think this is orange witches' butter.

mendocino coast, ca
december 2024
a log with a scattering of yellow-orange jelly like fungi sprouting from it
December 24, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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amanita from today's walk
northern california coast
december 2024
a red and white mushroom on the forest floor
December 22, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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Black wolf looking straight at the camera. Pine forest behind. Yellow eyes.
December 20, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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from today's walk in the forest, northern california coast 🍄

december 2024
a small red and white amanita muscaria mushroom, growing on the forest floor
December 17, 2024 at 3:18 AM
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one of today's many lovely #amanita sightings

mendocino coast, december 2024
a red-capped mushroom (amanita muscaria) on the forest floor
December 15, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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by Sergio Di Iorioa
a trippy painting by Sergio Di Iorio that looks alien and insecty
December 10, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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omg 🤩😍🐦
rosemarymosco.com Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · Dec 10
Another thing I made this year. Pigeon history!
A comic called "What City Pigeons Talk About". Two city pigeons are standing on the sidewalk. One says "Hey, do you ever think about the past?" The other says "The past?" A closeup of the first pigeon. They say "Yeah - do you ever think about where we came from? Sometimes I forget that city pigeons are domestic animals." A hand reaches out to three wild pigeons. The narrator pigeon says "Humans domesticated us many millennia ago in the Middle East. We provided meat, feces used for fertilizer, and much more." There are two very fancy pigeon breeds. "Over time, people split us into hundreds of pure breeds - some quite elaborate! Kings and queens proudly kept pigeons, and colonists spread us worldwide." A closeup again of the first pigeon, who says, "But we fell out of fashion. Now we peck at the dusty concrete, our past glory all but forgotten. Do you ever think about that?"
December 10, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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WOW 🤩
jayispainting.earthskyart.ca JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · Dec 9
Day 9 #ArtAdventCalendar

30x20in 50x76cm
Oil on Canvas
2015
Abstract landscape: wavy dark blue, yellow & orange clouds with a late sunset over a green field, Full moon in upper left
December 10, 2024 at 2:17 AM
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a beautiful heckin' chonk of an amanita spotted on today's walk through the woods.

coastal mendocino county 🍄❤️🌲december 2024
a bright red mushroom (amanita) on the forest floor
December 7, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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"Reset"

a small #watercolor and pen sketch, february 2024
watercolor painting: a view from behind an orange-robed monk, with clouds and a stone building atop a green hillside in the distance
December 7, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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Johfra Bosschart (1919-1998) - Displaced Persons
A painting by Johfra Bosschart (1919-1998) called Displaced Persons
December 6, 2024 at 6:58 PM
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What to Do When Someone Has a Panic Attack Ask if they've considered that in season 6, episode 4 of the Sopranos, an episode of Gilmore Girls is playing on TV In S07E17 of Gilmore Girls, Richard is wearing a tracksuit. Lorelai makes a joke about it by implicating a lunch date with Tony Soprano, Ask if they realize this means that both the Sopranos and Gilmore Girls exist as television shows in the other's universe. When the Gilmore Girls watch the Sopranos, they will se themselves When Tony Soprano watches Gilmore Girls, he sees himself and his family • Like two facing mirrors; Gilmore Girls and Sopranos, a recursion, fractal, etc.
December 3, 2024 at 10:58 PM
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'C' is for Chough

This delightful illustration is by #Cornwall artist, Matt Johnson. Just one of the 12 birds he's chosen for his beautiful 2025 calendar, which you may like to check out, here: mattillustration.bigcartel.com/product/2025...

#AlphabetBirds #birdart #birds #art 🪶
Choughs flying, and resting on rocks above Cornish cove. Blue and mustard coloured landscape with seed heads
December 2, 2024 at 9:19 AM
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an older #puffin sketch. they're such marvelous, chonky little birds!

inspired to share after viewing this palette knife technique video - if you see this, share your puffin art 🖤
a pen sketch of a puffin looking to the left, standing on a grassy cliff
December 2, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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untitled

lunchbreak sketch based on a photo snapped yesterday. coastal landscape views and shorebirds are my happy place.

soft #pastel on sanded paper
december 2024
a colorful pastel drawing of a bird standing at the edge of a rock formation overlooking the ocean
December 2, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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a few #amanita seen on today's walkabout. northern california coast.
#mushrooms #shrooms #fungi
November 30, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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first attempt at a self-portrait. what a wild experience it is to peer at oneself in a mirror and attempt to transcribe what is seen - subjective opinions about "beauty" fall away, leaving only light, shadow, contours, color choices, the relational geometry of a face

acrylic on canvas
october 2024
semi-fauvist self-portrait. primarily in shades of pinks, reds, and yellows, with some blue, purple, and black marks for depth on an abstract tonal background
November 29, 2024 at 11:38 PM
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two more shots from a mushroom walk. northern california coast, november 2024
a large pale brown-yellowish mushroom woth ivory stem on forest floor among sticks and twigs two mushrooms growing out of the forest floor: one cap is bright red with white spots, the other burgundy-red, both with ivory-to-yellow stems
November 28, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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some beauties from a mushroom walk. northern california coast, november 2024.
showing the underside of a mushroom on forest floor in a spotlight of sunshine a small mushroom with tan-brown top and ivory stem two large golden-brown mushrooms growing from the base of a tree
November 28, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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little "thanksgiving cactus," so close to blooming 🩷
November 28, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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Paintings of the same spot in Baltimore in different lighting conditions. I referenced photos I've taken, rather than attempting to paint live. This type of lighting only sticks around for like half an hour.

#art
November 13, 2024 at 2:36 AM
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Good morning ✨
100x75cm 🎨
Abstract painting of a village on a hillside, in green and white. Acrylic paint on stretched canvas. 100x75cm.
November 27, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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untitled #sketch.
soft #pastel on sanded paper
november 2024
landscape pastel sketch: bright green grassy foreground hills with tall pink thistle and small white flowers, looking across a body of water to a forested shoreline landscape in the background under a partly cloudy sky
November 27, 2024 at 5:24 AM