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Tanya Tate
@petuniatate.bsky.social
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Encaustic, watercolor and acrylic artist.
She/her
#art #dailypainting
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Hey if your last name is Graves and you discover a disease that’s not terminal maybe don’t name it after yourself
April 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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sciencesocks.bsky.social
I'm just a g̶i̶r̶l̶ "Space Artist" standing in front of a "Bluesky" asking them to love my JWST ornament.

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JWST ornament on top of woman's face (Julia Roberts from Pretty Woman) with Bluesky logo overlayed on guys back. From famous movie scene where she tells him she's just a girl standing in front of a guy asking him to love her
December 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM
petuniatate.bsky.social
Little stone gate sketch. #sketchbook #sketch #penandink
Pen sketch in horizontal sketchbook. Hatching in the background defines a tree shape. The foreground stone posts show their darker stone make up. The sketch is quick and unfinished.
August 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
petuniatate.bsky.social
Beach sunsets are something special. #sketchbook #sketching #normandy #beach #watercolor
A vertical watercolor sketch of the beach on the coast of Normandy. In the distance is the pink glow of the setting sun. The lower 3/4 of the painting shows the beach with a divide between wet and dry sand. Small rocks dot the divide.
August 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
petuniatate.bsky.social
Sketchbook back in action.
#sketching #normandy #granville
#sketchbook
A vertical pen sketch looking up a street in Granville, France. At the end of the street is a church spire. The street has cars parked on both sides with a motorcycle on the front left. The sketch has some red colored pencil showing flowering window boxes. A store front has blue on the right and a green store front is on the left.
August 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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samthielman.com
despicable ruling with no justification in the law at all, just hateful pandering to right-wing evangelicals by people who live far, far away from the consequences of their wickedness
lexmcmenamin.com Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · Jun 18
the Supreme Court has ruled to uphold Tennessee's ban on youth gender affirming care in the case U.S. v. Skrmetti.
June 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
Fight government censorship of learning in Ohio
www.nbc4i.com/news/politic...
Ohio professors organize to try to stop anti-DEI higher education law
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio educators submitted a petition to the state on Monday, the first step in a grassroots effort to overturn Senate Bill 1. The movement began at Youngstown State Uni…
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April 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
petuniatate.bsky.social
Maybe I just want to paint radishes forever? (8x8)
#acrylicpainting #stilllife #art #painting
Square acrylic painting of a bunch of radishes with their greens and three onions to the right side. All of the vegetables are on a round white plate and views from above. The painting is semi-abstract with teal and orange accents.
April 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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flyingtrilobite.com
And let me say again: the SciArt Feed 🐡 is a diverse space.

Trans rights are human rights.

Immigrant rights are human rights.

Prisoners rights are human rights.
April 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
petuniatate.bsky.social
Very pleased to have 4 pieces in the Gates Mills Ohio art show. #acrylicpainting #portraiture #art #painting
Me standing next to 3 paintings. 2 small and square, one medium sized. The larger shows a young woman’s face with beams of shadow falling across it. One smaller is a self portrait looking nervous and one shows two young girls wearing back packs and standing in strong back light.
April 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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"Alit (Just like honey)", oil on map, 5 1/4 x 7", 2025 - $60(Cdn) #art #sciart #invertebrates
A piece of a map of Saskatchewan, Canada with a painting of a Western Honey Bee on it.
April 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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eleonorpiteira.bsky.social
Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm Eleonor and I'm a freelance illustrator from Portugal - I make art for book covers and interiors, TTRPGs and TCGs, among other things!

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Storm from X-Men painted by Eleonor Piteira for the 2024 Upper Deck Fleer Ultra Matriarchs of Marvel set. A black woman with white eyes and white gray hair flying in the wind like clouds, manipulates lightning with her hands. Cover illustration of 'The Mercy Makers' by Tessa Gratton, painted by Eleonor Piteira. A cocky dark-haired woman in a red dress with a mask made of magic is smirking at the viewer as she manipulates golden geometric threads with her hands. The hand with the red silk glove is removing a thread, the other is holding a sort of stylus and drawing a new thread. Below, there is the silhouette of a city, and one moon. Cover illustration by Eleonor Piteira of the book 'To Clutch A Razor' by Veronica Roth. Two identical men stand in the same pose, one of them has a gold halo around his head and is holding a gold book with pages flying away from it. One of the pages has a drawing of a sword. On the background tile rooftops and a church are painted red. Cover illustration by Eleonor Piteira of 'The King Must Die' by Kemi Ashing-Giwa. A black slim woman with grey-ish hair stands against the sun, looking at the right side in profile and holding a quarterstaff. On the desert around her, several stylised figures stand raising their swords up. In the sky there's a faint planetary ring with two moons, one on each side of it.
April 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
petuniatate.bsky.social
Little acrylic 6x6 from the weekend. Feels good to be painting a little bit more lately.
#acrylic #painting #stilllife #art
Square painting of radishes and their greens lying on a striped tea towel. The painting is rendered in semi-abstract blocky strokes with bright areas of gold/green and warm and cool reds for the radishes. The background is a dark blue-brown
April 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
petuniatate.bsky.social
I liked this one from figure drawing last night. #charcoal #drawing #lifedrawing
Charcoal drawing of a man wearing sweatpants and a sweatshirt. He is seated sideways in a chair with his right leg extended and his arm resting on the chair back. The figure is lit from behind with a strong edge of light across his face.
April 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
Somebody just posted this "because Canada"

I'm posting this because it's the best example of the purity of music. A bunch of folks sitting in a kitchen, no instruments, just singing.

No corporate execs, no AI, no agenda. Just pure human spirit.
Stan Rogers sings "Barrett's Privateers" in One Warm Line documentary
YouTube video by Kensington TV
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March 31, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Let's go
March 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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#MarchIntoLandscapes

Day 27 | #Misty

Laguna Lake

#EastCoastKin #LandscapePhotography
Reeds growing around the edge of the lake are clear and sharp in the foreground, then become softer in the distance. Soft reflections are seen in the lake. There is also a white duck, but it doesn't show up well.
March 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
petuniatate.bsky.social
Playing with pastels again.
Portrait of a teenaged girl with chin length blonde hair and green eyes. The pink of her skin is accentuated. Her gaze is out toward the viewer.
March 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
petuniatate.bsky.social
Can’t decide if I like this or not. I was interested in the implied architecture of the lighting.
#acrylic #painting #portrait #art
Portrait of young woman’s face. The top crops just above her eyebrows. Lines of bright sunshine fall horizontally across her face and chest. Her eyes are looking to the left. The pink of her face and lips is accentuated.
March 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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aclu.org
BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

This is a critical victory for trans rights.
March 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
petuniatate.bsky.social
Hello there.
#watercolor #selfportrait #painting
Watercolor painting of women with her hands in front of her face. Her eye is peeking out between the forefingers. The skin tones are quite red and yellow with blue shadows.
March 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery
Hand embroidery of a tiger swimming amongst green weeds represented with French knots
February 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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mswest-art.bsky.social
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#8
#blueskyart #art #painting
Gustave Caillebot, The Floor Scrapers
March 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
Department of Education FAFSA changes are open for public comment. The changes include requiring trans students to misgender themselves and removes the nonbinary option on forms. Note: comment period is 60 days, and comments are publicly visible.

Form here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Education published the information collection for the 2026-27 Free Application for Federal Student Aid ( FAFSA®) form in the Federal Register, the first public step in the FAFSA development process. The Department is on track to launch the 2026-27 FAFSA by Oct. 1, 2025 as mandated by the FAFSA Deadline Act. The Department also announced that current and future FAFSA forms will rightfully reflect the biological reality that there are only two sexes: male and female. Department officials will remove “nonbinary” as a gender identification option from the current year’s FAFSA form. “The Trump Administration will correct the failures of the last Administration and ensure students and families can easily access the FAFSA form in a timely manner,” said Acting Under Secretary James Bergeron. “Resolving ongoing problems with the 2024-25 form, reflecting biological reality by referencing sex identifiers, and beginning the process for the 2026-27 form on-time will allow the Department to earn back the trust of the American people. Families and students depend on the FAFSA form to plan their futures, and any release delays or unnecessary politicization of the form is wholly unacceptable.” Screenshot showing open comment form on federal register site
February 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
petuniatate.bsky.social
Beginning a chalk pastel portrait for a change of pace.
#februarty
#portrait
Soft chalk portrait of a teen girl with green grey eyes. Only the face has color and that is just the beginning layers. She is looking to the left with a serene expression.
February 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM