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Sami Mark
@samimarkart.bsky.social
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AUDHD art guy drawing fish + bugs for everyone!
📍chicagoland 🏳️‍⚧️he/him
shop below!
https://www.microbiomearts.com
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samimarkart.bsky.social
Last call for whale fall stickers! I love using this matte holographic material so much it makes things look awesome LOL. For Remora and Whale Shark tiers on Patreon
#bsnm 🐡🐙🦑

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a hand holding a sticker against a background with dirt and fallen yellow leaves. The sticker is of a whale fall, with the bones made in a matte holographic material. Colorful deep sea creatures surround it, including sea stars, a giant isopod, a crab and an octopus.
October 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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whale fall stickers are here for October Patreon subscribers! They get mailed out the first week of November if you join my Remora tier before October is over 🦴 🐡

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Sticker of a whale fall skeleton, with an octopus, giant isopod, crab and various sea stars around the bones.
October 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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i’m drawing microscopic things again the earth is healing 🐡🐙
A cartoony drawing of a tardigrade and a water flea, surrounded by various shapes of diatoms. they are drawn in bright colors with a wobbly lineart style against a light grey background
October 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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I have a handful of leftover candy raven stickers up in the shop just in time for Halloween!

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#bsnm #birdsky
Sticker of a raven on a mustard colored background, standing in a pile of candy with a strawberry candy held in his beak! The candy wrappers are colored with a cracked holographic material, mimicking the appearance of crinkly candy wrappers!
October 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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shop update is live! so pleased with the new stuff this go around - check it out if you’re able!
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#bsnm 🐡🦑 #bugsky
arched sticker with a black background. text reads “NATURE IS QUEER” in a rainbow gradient and various marine animals swim above the text hand holding a transparent maple leaf shaped red pin. a rosy maple moth illustration sits in the center of the pin. hand holding a sticker of a mom and three baby opossums. Their eyes are holographic and look like they’re shining. hand holding a heart shaped white sticker that says “I ❤️ kelp” and kelp fills out the negative space in the heart shape.
October 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Super stoked about these new beetle jelly charms that will be live on Friday! Was trying to thinking of something buggy and timely for Halloween but not strictly Halloweeny... and this is what I came up with! This is kind of like candy for bugs if you think about it 🍭
#bugsky
2 matching keychains with different beetles on beetle jelly. They are made of translucent frosted acrylic and one is green jelly with a blue death feigning beetle, and the other is pink jelly with a rainbow stag beetle.
October 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Acrylic painting of a photo I took in my backyard of one of the maple trees 🍂
Had fun with a walnut ink stain on this instead of my normal bright pink underpainting I tend to do. This would be a fun little series of paintings if I have the time.
a 12x24 inch painting of the view looking up at the sky through maple tree branches. Most of the leaves are semi obscured and abstracted, with a central branch and a single clear full leaf in the center.
September 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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the shop is closing for a few weeks starting September 29th so that I can move! If you’ve had your eye on something, now’s a good chance to snag it :) #bsnm 🐡

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A sticker design with a garibaldi fish swimming in front of kelp against a gradient purple and blue water background
September 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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This country is making me sad and scared but that’s a good excuse to try to do some more good. I’m raising money with this sticker to help support Brave Space Alliance, a black and trans run organization. Community spaces are so important in uncertain times. 100% of profits donated!
#bsnm #bugsky
Hand holding a sticker with a pink, blue and white butterfly with circular text reading “protect trans lives”
September 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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restocked my protect local pollinators stickers and forgot to announce it! #bugsky 🐡

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hand holding a sticker with text that says “PROTECT LOCAL POLLINATORS” with an illustration of native plants and pollinators including monarch butterflies, bumble bee, paper wasps and beetles.
September 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Deep sea inspired postcard for Patreon this month! Always a joy to draw these funky guys

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postcard shaped illustration of many deep sea species against a black background, including a vampire squid, dumbo octopus, barreleye fish, sea angels, gulper eel and sea stars.
September 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Garden eels lost the sticker design poll for my club BUT I had the urge to finish that sketch anyways... love these guys! They're so fun to watch in person 🦑🐡
a drawing of a bunch of garden eels in blue and orange, all poking their heads into a circle composition. Their heads all meet towards the middle and stare at you with big round eyes.
September 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Hi friends! I just signed a lease for a move in October, and I’m holding a moving sale for the next three weeks to help fund the move and get some furniture and basic necessities. I’m moving out of my childhood house and I am so excited for this new adventure #bsnm

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Moving sale graphic, showing an illustrated cardboard box overflowing with illustrated items I sell in my shop, with marine biology and nature themes.
August 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Guess who’s moving in October? Me! This would be a cool time to support me on Patreon as I prepare (and I gotta say, the stickers for this month are looking great!) I’ve been really into shorebirds lately, and I drew three of these awesome piping plovers! 🪶 #bsnm

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August 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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getting my wisdom teeth out tomorrow morning, but I’ll be packing orders all day today to get things out before I need to rest! I made these cute little monarch butterfly stickers for my last shop update, and I still have a handful left!
#bsnm #bugsky 🐡 🐙

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A clear vinyl sticker of one monarch butterfly hanging from its freshly emerged chrysalis, next to another monarch that will soon emerge. It is stuck on a blue water bottle!
August 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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happy to say my Man I Love Fish bumper stickers are back! These stickers are really so crazy cool in person (and funny too!) a repost to get this to any fellow fish lovers means a lot to me!
#bsnm

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Large black and holographic bumper sticker in the shape of a school of fish. central white text reads “MAN I LOVE FISH” in all caps.
August 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Shop update is live, and first I’m sharing these two handmade isopod trinket trays! Only one of each but I think they’re so cute. I’ll pop in here later to share more goodies from today!

#bsnm 🐡 🐙

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Hand holding a small trinket tray made of polymer clay. It’s in the shape of a rubber ducky isopod, and painted to match. A small trinket tray made of polymer clay, placed on the ground. It’s in the shape of a magic potion isopod, and painted to match.
August 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Shop update happening tomorrow morning at 11am cst. Going to be running a sale on postcards too, come and see what’s new! #bsnm #bugsky 🐡

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Shop graphic showing new nature and pride themed stickers, a greeting card, and two handmade clay isopod trinket trays.
August 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Surprise! My Big Fish* bandanas are live in the shop. All preorders were packed yesterday and mailing out this week. All bandanas will now be packed and shipped on my regular order schedule since I have them on hand. These are beautiful in person!
#bsnm 🦑🐡

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Two hands holding up a blue and white bandana. The design shows many marine mammals like dolphins and whales, a seal, oarfish, sailfish, mola mola, ray and shark species.
August 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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My ode to the Chicago piping plovers! 🪶
Illustration of a Great Lakes piping plover in a running stance. It is perfectly fit inside the silhouette of the Chicago Bean sculpture, with the city skyline reflected in it.
July 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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sparkly piranha stickers for Patreon this month! just a few more days to grab one (and maybe stick around for a fun new sticker every month 😉)
#bsnm

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hand holding a sticker design with three identical piranhas, with slightly different colors. they have some scales on their sides that show off a sparkly holographic material. same sticker from previous image, from a different angle better showing off the entire sticker
July 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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birds at home 🪶
Illustration of a bluebird, screech owl, and purple martin, all paired with simplified versions of their matching birdhouses. text above the art reads “home sweet home”
July 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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little monarch butterfly eclosing 🌱
#bugsky
illustration of a monarch butterfly hanging from his freshly emerged chrysalis. it’s hanging from a simple green plant with two leaves, and next to the adult butterfly is another chrysalis, with the butterfly still hidden inside. You can see the details of the wings inside.
July 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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I have this bandana design up for preorder in order to figure out how many I’ll need to order! It’s going to be a two tone screenprint on white cotton - super jazzed about these and am hoping to place the order next weekend 🐟

#bsnm 🐡🦑

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dark and light blue mock up of a bandana of many marine species including whales, sharks, and other large fish species
July 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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revisited this illustration from last year, super happy with how it turned out! hoping to get this made as a 2 color screenprinted bandana sometime soon!
🦑🐡
3 tone illustration in royal blue, teal and white of various large marine life species, including whales, dolphins, sharks and more. The lineart is smooth, uniform and graphic with the same line weight, with a slightly wave square border.
July 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM