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stellaluna-06.bsky.social
@stellaluna-06.bsky.social
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Do not go gentle into that good night.
Renaissance gal. Graphic artist. Watercolors for fun not profit, at least not yet.
Under the velvet paw of the WhiskerMafia. 🐈‍⬛
Deep obsession with iris gardening.
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I don’t want to win anything, but it sure was fun to make!
I had an absurd and delightful conversation explaining the chonky cat index to an elderly gentleman who was unfamiliar with the meme.
A good time was had by all.
#NoKings
The CatsDen Flag: A fat orange cat with a stupid hairdo and tiny paws treading on democracy.
October 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Talamanca Hummingbird
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#birdwhisperer #birds #birdart #watercolor 🪶 @birdwhisperers.bsky.social
A bright green and black iridescent hummingbird landing on a clump of moss, ferns and wood, framed by a green circle.
May 29, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Ahem. Two more cats. They are helping make the bed.
Two black cats on a bed with a William Morris print quilt and rumpled orange sheets
May 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Hermit Thrush
The most magical song in the woods.
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I have an old printers’ sorts that I have been slowly filling with ephemera. Painting some backyard birds to fill the larger spaces.
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#watercolor #birds #birdart 🪶 #artyear
A brown and white hermit thrush with its beak open, with a golden circle behind its head and a bright green background. Antique wooden printer's type sorts. Many tiny rectangles containing small objects including old keys, a 1950s tape measure, rocks, shells, pot shards, old pins, and matchboxes.
May 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Tiny spicy Cardinal
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#watercolor #birds #birdart 🪶 #artyear
A bright red male cardinal perched on a twig with his head tilted sideways.
May 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Oriole
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#watercolor #birds #birdart 🪶 #artyear
A black and orange oriole perches sideways on a wire, looking backward at the viewer, on a bright blue background
May 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Holy Eggs
I traded this painting of beautiful local eggs for…more beautiful local eggs
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#watercolor, metallic ink
#eggs #artyear #willPaintForFood
Blue, brown and one burnt sienna egg in a blue glass bowl
May 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Shadmoor State Park cliffs …aka “hoodoos”
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#watercolor #artyear #scape
Eroded bluffs at the edge of the ocean, with strong vertical fissures. Gray/green vegetation at the top of the bluffs, with a tree line at the horizon.
May 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Montauk lighthouse
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#watercolor #artyear
A dark red and white lighthouse and surrounding buildings at the edge of a cliff, with rocks and vegetation sloping down to the sand below.
May 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Giant Kingfisher
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#birdwhisperer #birds #birdart #watercolor 🪶 @birdwhisperers.bsky.social
A kingfisher with black and white specked feathers in profile, rust red/brown lower body. It is perched on a dead branch with a green background wash.
April 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Raven
A little bird told me it is #CorvidAppreciationDay
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#watercolor #corvid #artyear
Raven flying away with a gold skeleton key on a red ribbon on a cloudy violet sky.
April 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Parrot tulip (again!)
These bloomed in my garden this week and I can’t stop looking at them.
#watercolor #artyear
A open red and yellow tulip on a green background wash
April 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Parrot tulip
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#watercolor #artyear
A open red and yellow tulip on a green background wash
April 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Thinkin’ about inkin’ now that the pup has fallen asleep. The cat may have alternative plans.
Two birds sketched out on watercolor paper, with an ink wash applied. A hound puppy snoozin, half on his bed. A large fluffy black cat on a work surface.
April 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Great Egret
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Metallics, #watercolor #birds 🪶 #artyear
A white egret in profile. It has an orange bill and bright green surrounding its yellow eye. Variegated background of green and metallic gold.
April 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Cosmo the Catahooligan
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Ink and gouache #artyear
A gray, black and white hound puppy with a red collar, front paws outstretched.
April 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Same here. I went so far down the rabbit hole on metallics I started mixing mica powder with gum arabic...to prevent myself from buying those beautiful, expensive little quarter pans of impractical sparkle.
DIY water based Metallic pigment
April 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Green Heron
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Metallic ink, #watercolor #birds 🪶 #artyear
A small heron with reddish brown, green and bluish feathers, standing in profile on a mossy log with metallic green and gold background.
April 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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House Finch in the forsythia
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#watercolor #birds 🪶 #artyear
A finch with a red head and belly, with dark feathers spotting its lower body, perched on a bright yellow flowering forsythia twig.
April 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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spring happiness 💛
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#watercolor
Yellow daffodils with an orange center against a blue spring sky.
April 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Madagascar Bullseye moth
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#watercolor #sciart #artyear
A pink and yellow moth with a fuzzy reddish brown thorax.
March 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Brown Headed Cowbird
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#birdwhisperer #birds #birdart #watercolor 🪶 @birdwhisperers.bsky.social
A black and brown bird in profile, with its head tilted upward, on a very mossy branch.
March 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Madagascar Sunset moth
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#watercolor, metallic ink, India ink.
#sciart #artyear
A rainbow hued moth with a graphic black pattern and a white outline on the edges of its wings.
March 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Cecropia moth

#watercolor #sciart #artyear
A large gray, white and red/orange moth.
March 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Rabbit Moon
Happy Spring!
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#watercolor #equinox #artyear
Eastern cottontail rabbit in profile with a metallic gold moon in the background
March 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM