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currently birdposting but sometimes other things

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rubylith @rubylith-art.bsky.social · Sep 1
#Avianaugust2025 wrap up of all 31 birds 🦉🦜🪿

I learned so much about so many species I didn't know about, especially all the honeycreepers! Thanks to @cookiedoves.bsky.social for the list <3

If you are interested in prints you can find them here:
tinyurl.com/y2deb3ax

#avianaugust #birdart 🪶
Compilation of all the birds I drew for Avian August 2025.
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I did a bunch of the marginalia for the stories in this wonderful zine! If you played Pentiment (or didn't but just want to see a bunch of beautiful art) check it out!!
palimpsestzine.bsky.social Palimpsest Zine @palimpsestzine.bsky.social · 7d
The Palimpsest: Labors of November zine is available and free to download now!

Explore the labors, harvests, and celebrations of Tassing through our digital fanzine full of art and writing by Pentiment fans.

Download on: palimpsestzine.itch.io/palimpsest-l...
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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kimillustration.bsky.social
WIP
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Drawing of a blue rabbit with a yellow circle behind it.
November 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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garf

#garweek
garfield
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Really handsome male chalcidid from SoCal. Tentatively IDed as Conura sanguiniventris
November 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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It’s #garweek ‼️
Drawing of a very long gar trying his best to fit into a square aspect ratio
November 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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moa810.bsky.social
🐓Weird Ancient Birds Art Challenge
Draw mythical birds with your imagination! An ancient mythic geographic compilation, Shanhai jing is full of weird birds. Its illustrations were lost long ago. Why don’t we imagine them from the descriptions in the text? Here is the prompt list
#30WeirdAncientBirds
October 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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fossilforager.bsky.social
North American Hoverflies! 🪰
An illustrated poster with numbers and an identification key, highlighting the diversity of Hoverfly species found in North America. 18 flies are drawn on the poster. These flies are generally striped/have patterns that make them resemble bees. They are illustrated on a light earthy yellow-green background.
October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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cyaneus.bsky.social
Finished my #fish #painting for a show this Saturday
Painting of spawning sockeye salmon crammed together and looking distressed
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Hooded Crow

#birdart 🪶
Digital watercolor-style drawing of a Hooded Crow
October 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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rovinacai.bsky.social
Let me post some art since I haven't done that in a while. 🫠 It's spooky season so how about an illustration of some cranky old lady ghosts?

Read the short story here; reactormag.com/also-the-cat...
October 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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If you see this, post your #yellow #art! 🍋🍋🍋

#lemonshark
Digital art of a lemon shark with smaller sharks swimming around her. The background is patterned with lemons and hearts.
October 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social
Happy #InternationalSlothDay 🦥
The #Sloth, 1968
from _A Paper Zoo: A Collection of Animal Poems by Modern American Poets_ selected by Renee Karol Weiss, illustrations by Ellen Raskin.
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#WomenArtists
illustration from a children’s book of animal poems, sloth hanging from flowery foliage, brown-red/lime green/black on white background, vintage mid century modern style Accompanying poem by Theodore Roethke: The Sloth In moving-slow he has no Peer, You ask him something in his Ear; He thinks about it for a Year; And, then, before he says a Word There, upside down (unlike a Bird), He will assume that you have Heard -- A most Ex-as-per-at-ing Lug. But should you call his manner Smug, He'll sign and give his Branch a Hug; Then off again to Sleep he goes, Still swaying gently by his Toes, And you just know he knows he knows.
October 20, 2024 at 5:21 PM
rubylith-art.bsky.social
Best cure for art block is to just draw whatever the most recent bird uploaded to inaturalist is, in this case it’s a roadside hawk

#birdart 🪶
Digital drawing of a Roadside Hawk. Along the bottom it is captioned with “Rupornis magnitostris”, the bird’s Latin name.
October 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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cookiedoves.bsky.social
lammergeier 🦴🔥
September 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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vreni.bsky.social
laws don’t apply to pigs

🐷 #art #ghibli
bold hand-drawn text reading “BETTER A PIG THAN A FASCIST” over a drawing of porco rosso giving a thumbs up in his red plane
January 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Kansas
Sketchbook drawing of sunflowers Sketchbook doodles of trees, trucks, landscapes, and birds
September 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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ginkgogoes.bsky.social
Day 23 of #ArtAdventCalendar: White-headed Vulture!

#birds #digitalart
A stylised illustration of a White-headed Vulture against a blue sky.
December 23, 2024 at 12:25 AM
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Happy international vulture awareness day everybody 🪶
rubylith-art.bsky.social rubylith @rubylith-art.bsky.social · Jun 18
Turkey vulture study + oak tree from last weekend
Open sketchbook showing two watercolor paintings - one of a turkey vulture holding a crescent moon in its mouth, the other a pencil sketch of an oak tree with the leaves painted in green.
September 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Portrait of the champion Chinese geese I saw at the state fair

#birdart 🪶
Two Chinese geese on a purple background with some stars around them
September 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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bootyfulugly.bsky.social
Look at all those chickens

#AvianAugust #AvianAugust2025 #birds
September 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
rubylith-art.bsky.social
#Avianaugust2025 wrap up of all 31 birds 🦉🦜🪿

I learned so much about so many species I didn't know about, especially all the honeycreepers! Thanks to @cookiedoves.bsky.social for the list <3

If you are interested in prints you can find them here:
tinyurl.com/y2deb3ax

#avianaugust #birdart 🪶
Compilation of all the birds I drew for Avian August 2025.
September 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Hawaiian Rail, last seen in 1884. This bird had two types, one with dark and one with light feathers (this drawing shows the light form).

Today is the final day of #avianaugust - I will be doing a wrap up post tomorrow, as well as some info about buying prints for anyone interested!

#birdart 🪶
Drawing of a light Hawaiian rail holding a leafy vine. The vine has 1884 written on it, referring to the year the bird was last seen. The rail is brown with a yellow and grey beak, pink feet, and a red eye.
August 31, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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charzea.bsky.social
Last bird for avian august is the Moloka'i creeper and with it All of the birds are done! Only background left
#avianaugust #birdart #birds #art #watercolorart
August 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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moa810.bsky.social
🪶 I’ve completed Avian August 2025! I hope all the conservation programs will go well and they live long and prosper.
🌺 鳥類月間2025〜ハワイ編〜　完走しました！　今夏も毎日TLで大勢の鳥を観測できて楽しかったです。また来年！
#AvianAugust #Birds
August 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM