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Shannon Leo

@shannonleo.bsky.social

Watercolor, 2025

#painting #watercolor #affirmations #self-love #abstractart

Watercolor splatters and blobs in blue, gold, pink, and purple around text that says "your weirdness is your magic"

September 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM

Shannon Leo

@shannonleo.bsky.social

“Cells and stars,” watercolor and gouache on paper, 10”x10,” 2024.

#watercolor #art #abstract #abstractart #gouache #painting #artist

abstract painting in a rainbow of pastel colors. Circular shapes are reminiscent of cells and cell structures

June 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM

Shannon Leo

@shannonleo.bsky.social

The sensation of creation

#watercolor #abstractart #abstraction #painting #art #colors #artist

An abstract watercolor painting of swirling lines and droplets of blue, gold, pink, and purple bursting from a small fold and orange circle

May 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM

Shannon Leo

@shannonleo.bsky.social

Some linocuts I’ll be bringing to a market this Sunday 💖

#art #linocut #printmaking #artist #natureart #possum #flowers

Several linocut prints on paper sitting on a hardwood floor. There are prints of a violet, a possum, a salamander and flowers, and a mass of wings, all in blue, gold, and/or black

May 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM

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RSPB

@rspb.bsky.social

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉

Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.

You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

This photograph captures Sir David Attenborough seated outdoors on the rugged terrain of Skomer Island. Behind him, the ocean and coastal cliffs form a scenic backdrop under a clear sky. Sir David, dressed in a khaki jacket and light trousers, looks towards the camera with a gentle expression, exuding a sense of warmth, calm, and wisdom. Around him, puffins can be seen flying and perched on the rocky ground, illuminated in rays of golden sunlight as the sun sets behind the cliffs.

May 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM

Shannon Leo

@shannonleo.bsky.social

Tsuga canadensis, the eastern hemlock. Not the same thing as poison hemlock, which isn’t even in the same family!
Watercolor and ink in my sketchbook 🖌️

#art #watercolor #botanicalillustration #plants #drawing #ink

Watercolor and ink drawing of a small evergreen twig with two brown cones, a green cone, and bright green tips. There are a fountain pen and a live hemlock twig sitting on top of the page

May 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM

Shannon Leo

@shannonleo.bsky.social

My husband and I have been moving this week and it is ✨kicking my ass✨ but here’s a little work-in-progress of a fantasy scene I can’t wait to get back to painting soon 🦄

#art #painting #fantasyart #gouache #unicorns

A partially-finished gouache painting of unicorn grazing in a male surrounded by lush forest and tall purple mountains under a blue sky

March 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM

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Movement Generation

@movementgeneration.bsky.social

We’re new here, and it seems like a good time to share radical independent media. Read our latest Murmurations column in @yesmedia.bsky.social : Climate Solutions Require Black Ecology

Thanks @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social !

www.yesmagazine.org/environment/...

Murmurations: Climate Solutions Require Black Ecology

Slavery and genocide fueled climate destruction. Black liberation will fuel regeneration.

www.yesmagazine.org

February 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM

Shannon Leo

@shannonleo.bsky.social

When you investigate your dad’s painting a little too hard (the paint is nontoxic). Vincent loves to watch paint brushes move! She really lives up to her namesake
🐱 🎨

#cat #art #wip #painting #gouache #cats #workinprogress #sciart

A photo of an orange cat’s face with a smudge of blue paint on her nose

A work in progress painting of a frog underneath a snowy landscape, with the painting supplies laid out next to the paining on a yellow patterned blanket

February 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM

Shannon Leo

@shannonleo.bsky.social

I'm so excited to share with y'all that I've got original merch! Get some wearable art and support my work at shannon-leo-designs.printify.me

This has been a long time in the works, and I'm really proud of all the designs I get to share with you now. There will be more to come soon too!

February 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM

Shannon Leo

@shannonleo.bsky.social

Aw ok I love this! This is Remy, who started out as a joke dungeons and dragons character but wound up helping me realize I was trans, and he still has a special place in my heart

#drawing #art #oc #trans #illustration #originalcharacter

A digital drawing of a young man with tan skin and short wavy black hair. He is wearing overalls, a black tank top with cut-off sleeves, and black high-top sneakers. He is sitting in grass under a dark sky with one hand on his chin. Sparkling flecks swirl around his body and his eyes are solid white

February 22, 2025 at 5:11 AM

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Helen Whistberry

@whistberry.bsky.social

Artists, I love and support you, but if you want more reposts and sharing of your art, please try adding some descriptive alt text 💜💜💜

February 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM

Shannon Leo

@shannonleo.bsky.social

You know that water is the best kind of frigid
Gouache in my sketchbook, 2024

#painting #gouache #art #fantasyart #illustration

A gouache painting of a waterfall cascading among large rocks. Sunny trees are visible above the waterfall, and a large tree clings to the side of one of the big stones. Three humanoid figures are visible: one in the tree, one sitting on a boulder, and one with a tail in the pool below the waterfall

February 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM

Shannon Leo

@shannonleo.bsky.social

Another old character design! Zeph, some kind of astral traveler

#art #drawing #illustration #characterdesign #originalcharacter #fantasyart

A digital drawing of a person against a starry dark blue backdrop. He has tan skin, long blue hair partially pulled back in a bun, freckles, top surgery scars, pointed ears, pointy teeth, and a long tail ending in a tuft of blue fur. He is wearing blue wrap-style pants and no shirt, with gold earrings and cuffs around his tail. He has a sun symbol tattooed on one foot and a moon symbol, a large glowing sunburst symbol on his chest. He also has a fang tattooed lower on his chest.

February 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM

Shannon Leo

@shannonleo.bsky.social

This morning I unearthed character sketches from a few years ago. I’ve kind of ignored them for a while since they’re from a D&D game with folks I don’t fw anymore, but I really do love the loose ink and watercolor vibe I had going here

#art #watercolor #characterdesign #drawing #originalcharacter

A watercolor and ink portrait of a person with pale skin, dark grey eyes, drop earrings, and shaggy wavy brown hair

A watercolor portrait of a pale bald person with abstract geometric symbols tattooed on her head, neck, shoulders, and clavicle

A watercolor and ink portrait of a dark skinned person with close-cropped curly hair. She is wearing gold armor with blue stones set into its chest plate

February 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM

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Chuck Wendig

@chuckwendig.bsky.social

It may feel weird or somehow improper to talk about your art or your writing, but we need it. It can’t be wall-to-wall nightmare all the time. Art is both counterweight and context. It’s escape and enlightenment and a mirror of our own exasperation. We need it. We NEED it. Keep showing us.

February 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM

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Mir

@wanderlingworld.bsky.social

New VIDEO feeds added to the Art Feed Collection! Watch each other make stuff - get inspired! Check the thread for links to each new feed, and to the rest of the collection! Don't forget to pin, like and share to help other artists find them! 🧵1/10 #artfeedupdates #art

Cheat sheet with the name of each feed in this thread and their associated hashtags.

February 9, 2025 at 5:59 AM

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John Scalzi

@scalzi.com

Seriously, creative folks: Don't be afraid to let people know your stuff is out there for them, or worry that "now is not the time for that." People are stressed and freaked out and looking for the things that will give them a moment of rest and joy. It is EXACTLY the time for what we do. Tell them.

February 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM

Shannon Leo

@shannonleo.bsky.social

another view of the stormy sea from fall 2024, watercolor

#painting #watercolor #seascape #art #artist #natureart

a gestural watercolor seascape--a stormy sky and grey sea, with a dark blue horizon line cutting across the middle of the page. a thin strip of beach is visible below, with hints of seaweed scattered along it

February 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM

Shannon Leo

@shannonleo.bsky.social

the clouds parting over the sea, fall 2024, watercolor

#painting #art #artist #landscape #seascape #watercolor #sketchbook

a gestural watercolor seascape in blues and greys. the horizon line sits about a third of the way down the page, and above it dark clouds part to reveal a pop of lemon yellow sunlight

February 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM

Shannon Leo

@shannonleo.bsky.social

A poem for the morning

#poetry #poet #words #naturepoetry #nature

A poem on a light green background:

For the sparrows
2/6/2025
By Shannon Leo

I do not want to write a poem
for fascism
I would rather write one
for the small birds
who feel the warm February sunrise
and sing
knowing that this day too
is worth greeting
with beauty

February 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM

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earth wind and spiders

@yuzupool.bsky.social

your 30s are just your 20s but you finally have names for all the shit that's wrong with you both physically and mentally. also the silly freak shit you like will still be there. hitting 30 does not turn your interests into mist

Maybe: Bunny Bunsz 🤭 @copaceticbunsz.com · Feb 2

If you’re over 30, quote this with some life advice 🤌🏼

February 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM

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It's Going Down

@igd.bsky.social

"We don’t need any more irony-poisoned hot takes or cathartic, irreverent snark. We need to collectively decide what kind of world we actually do want, and what we’re willing to do to achieve it." www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...