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Tara Bush
@tarabush.bsky.social
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Fine Art / Illustration
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Tara Bush @tarabush.bsky.social · Jul 8
Hello #portfolioday
I'm Tara, I'm a freelance artist, and I love dark, surreal, dreamy art. 👩‍🎨

You can get in touch here:
✉️ tara.bush@googlemail.com
linktr.ee/tarabushart
A charcoal drawing on toned paper I did of a photograph I took of my friend's daughter. The angle is from below, and the lighting is creating subtle eerie shadows. I wanted a macabre effect to this art, it is unclear if this is a floating head... and also her eyes are translucent, so she appears in a trance. There are mysterious marking down the side of her cheek. Close up pencil drawing of an eye looking to it's left/straight forward, with what looks like spiders legs crawling out from the bottom lid. There appears to be bits of spider web around the eye. I wanted to create the effect of a sinister symbiotic relationship. The 'host' looks strangely complicit. The artwork is entitled 'Home'. Pencil and charcoal portrait of agent cooper from twin peaks. The light source is from the viewers right, and casting strong shadows to the right of his face (viewer's left). Black and white. Graphite pencil drawing + watercolour on toned paper of a close up of a woman's face. She is in profile, only her nose and mouth is visible. She appears to have quite a sharp tooth. I have added colour tones in photoshop. Her nose and lips have a reddish tone, almost like blood. She has a scar/cut on her cheek. The art is called 'Drained'.
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tarabush.bsky.social
Just practice... colour pencil + little wash
#art #sketchbook #colourpencils #mixedmedia
Part of an image of a sketchbook page, very quick practice drawing of two women's faces, one above the other. The one above is in profile, and her long hair is obscuring her face, she has a head scarf on, the other looking to camera, she looks distressed. All in red colour pencil with a bit of stained wash.
August 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
Artists & Art lovers!

Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!

Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
earthskyart.ca
November 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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hayao.lol
it is, against all odds, still raining so time to curl up with a good book 📚
'Seashaken Houses: a lighthouse history from Eddystone to Fastnet' by Tom Nancollas
November 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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superactionfunboy.bsky.social
Day 16 of #xenovember I’ll post the #timelapse in the replies so we can all enjoy my meandering together 🤣 #darkart
A pinkish purple Alien interpretation. External arteries hang off its temples and rib cage.
November 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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flyingtrilobite.com
The SciArt Feed 🐡 is the best part of Bluesky.

📌 Pin & 🧡 Like here:
November 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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tishamark.com
Mood for a chilly autumn day.

Tisha Mark ©2025, Low Autumn Evening, oil on gessobord, 8"x6"

Original is available in a maple frame:
tishamark.com/product/low-...

#art #painting #bsnm #TraditionalArt #SciArt
Original oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Low Autumn Evening" 8"x6" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2025). Loosely painted abstract-leaning atmospheric seascape with earth tones on a dark shore. The sky has orange and gray tones with hints of blue.
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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mikez.bsky.social
The Snowman Wizard and his squirrel companion. #art
The Snowman Wizard, wearing a pointy hat and carrying a crooked staff. A pinecone hangs from the staff. A squirrel sits upon his shoulder. Painted with watercolor and white gouache on toned paper.
November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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tstld.bsky.social
Little sketch of an eye

Graphite pencils on paper
Very small

#art #sketch
Sketch of an eye made graphite pencils on paper.
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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lri.bsky.social
Almost done ✏️

#illustration #pencilart #process #wip #graphiteart #Predator #creatureart #monsters #drawing #behindthescenes
A close up of a current ‘Predator’ illustration on the drawing board. Eyes and mandibles in shot. Eyes looking directly at you. 2-4B graphite on 110gsm paper
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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michalputo.art
Somehow it happened and I have three WIP paintings in progress after a few months of break.

This one is still on the sketching stage, I absolutely love the grisaille with raw umber and titanium white. It has this sculptural quality I like so much.

#art #oilpainting
Monochrome underpainting, an oil portrait of a woman with braids. There is my hand with a brush on the photo
November 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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tarabush.bsky.social
I accidentally deleted my original file of Agent Cooper, but I've now re-scanned it, and made it available on InPrnt :) ☕ I think there is a sale 🍩
#twinpeaks #artprints #inprnt

www.inprnt.com/gallery/teeb...
B/W pencil, charcoal & ink portrait of Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks. The image is monochromatic. His face is in shadow on one side, and he is looking slightly haunted. Image is from shoulder up, and he is wearing a smart suit and tie.
May 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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davis.social
Looking forward to winter snow ❄️
Digital illustration (2023) of a little ghost in a winter jacket waiting at a bus stop in the snow. The bus will take them to pass on to the next plane of existence.
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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jimmymakepeace.bsky.social
Hello #Portfolioday

My name is Jimmy Makepeace and I am an illustrator and sometimes animator based in Bristol UK.
A woman rides on the back of a dragon with a bow and arrow over a blasted landscape. A barbarian stands surrounded by skeletons in a throneroom backlit in red A sleep paralysis demon sits atop a burned out tank against a crimson sky Elric of Melnibone is gently pushed forward into the future by an unseen breeze, he's stood atop a boat surrounded by candles
October 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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catgraffam.bsky.social
"James Through the Window" oil on board, 16x16in
painting of a man drinking from a glass bottle in front of a bar as seen through a window, reflected light distorting the shades of the bottom half of his torso. Behind the figure is an abstracted interior of an empty restaurant.
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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morrah.bsky.social
#OC_tober day 4. Aida
"The crown you bestowed upon me"
October 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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bettyjiang.bsky.social
I designed the inner and outer sleeves as well as the vinyl centers 😤
October 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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bettyjiang.bsky.social
I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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eleonorpiteira.bsky.social
Here's the endpaper illustration I painted for @adriennebooks.bsky.social 's 'Fallen City' ☀️
Photo of a hand holding a book opened, showing an horizontal illustration painted by Eleonor Piteira for the book 'Fallen City' by Adrienne Young. On the left side of the illustration, a man with shoulder-length dark hair is wearing Greco-roman inspired armour and a red cape, with a broken coin necklace. The background is made of broken mosaics framed by two columns and an archway, and on the foreground the silhouette of a city burns while birds fly away. On the right side of the illustration, a woman with long wavy dark hair wearing a pale off-shoulder Ancient Greek-inspired dress, with a coin necklace. The background is made of mosaics framed by two columns and an archway, and on the foreground the silhouette of a city burns.
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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crittercrafterally.bsky.social
"Red Lily Sentinel" - ballpoint pen and watercolors

#TraditionalArt #OriginalArt
Ballpoint pen and watercolor artwork of an armored androgynous figure holding two twisting polearms while perched on a cliff with red lilies
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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slimyswampghost.bsky.social
Hello! I'm Trevor, a horror illustrator / creature concept artist working in Toronto.🪳📻

📮 trevorhenderson86(at)gmail dot com
⭕ trevorhenderson.com
👁️ instagram.com/trevorhenderson
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☕ ko-fi.com/slimyswampgh...
🖼️ inprnt.com/gallery/slimyswampghost/
A snowy parking lot at night. An abstract, fleshy, meaty thing is draped over a rusty, bloody shopping cart. The shopping cart melts into the creature through long ribbons of flesh to the point where the cart might actually be an extension of the creature. Its head is an oval on a long neck, like a sperm. Its only feature is a hole, making its face appear like a sucker. a creature with a fake face that looks like a sleeping old man crawls on all fours in a dark, tiled room the rotten corpse of a woman stands and stares at the viewer with malformed empty eye sockets. the raw flesh of its face is dominating by many rows of teeth, twisting around a black void of a mouth. giant dog made of meat in a parking lot at night. it's snowing. the dog has no eyes and its skin is sloughing off.
December 12, 2024 at 1:55 AM
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fallenlights.net
My husband's book, the dark side of super, is now on backerkit so that he can get it made into an AUDIO BOOK!

Book's already done :) He even found a really great narrator!

You can check it out here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...
Cover art for the book the dark side of super. It is red, black, and white. Cityscape of abstract buildings. There's a red figure in the foreground, staring at the viewer. Far in the distance is a small super hero standing on top of a building.
November 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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raccuun.bsky.social
Gave Pluribus a try, it was gay
Sketch featuring Carol Sturka and Zosia from Pluribus. Zosia is lighting a cig for Carol, there’s a smiley face looming over them.
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Sorry wrong link. Here:

variety.com/2025/digital...
Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine Ink Deals for AI-Generated Versions of Their Voices With ElevenLabs
Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine have teamed with AI audio company ElevenLabs to produce virtual replications of their famous voices.
variety.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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mateusroberts.bsky.social
Another illustration based on an idea I had for a story. Just like the last one, this one is set in Victorian times. It's about an English aristocrat who becomes infected with an extraterrestrial parasite, which begins to gradually unravel reality around him.
Digital painting. A man stands before a giant coiled worm.
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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hummingbird-the.bsky.social
I think it's important not to overlook the common birds, so here's a beautiful little robin, from RSPB Pulborough Brooks last weekend, early in the morning 😍🌅🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM