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Lisko
@whatliskoloves.bsky.social
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Dutch artist, she/her, 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
I make art, look at art, and read about art. I keep snakes and have too many books.
Find my art on Etsy
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I’m thinking of doing a July challenge for myself (but feel free to join) much like I did all June but more like a daily journal thing. Draw something I want to remember from that day. Maybe a page per week, and spread out over four pages in one theme.
#drawingchalllenge
June 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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June is nearing its end, and I enjoyed doing a small drawing every evening in bed. I’m planning on continuing in July, but am considering a theme of some description. Does anyone have a suggestion? #thirtydaysofjune
June 29, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Did you also pretend these were earrings? The best was if you found two twin cherries and had one for each ear! #cherries
A pair of twin cherries, drawn in coloured pencil, lots of shades of red and purple.
June 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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I’ve been drawing a small thing every evening in bed for the month of June, I post them daily on my Cara account. But today Noodle joined me. Isn’t she sweet? #petsandartdupplies
My Royal Python Noodle, taking a nap on an open biscuit tin filled with art supplies.
June 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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The world is a scary place atm, and I don’t know how to fix any of it. So, I’ll plant an edible garden, and grow food. And in the evenings, I crochet for charity.
A green plastic glass house, with two beds for plants, a pile of stones that still need to be moved, a pot of strawberry plants, and an assortment of garden accoutrements.
February 19, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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I’m ready for the garden, but, is the garden ready for me? #gardening #butacupofteafirst #1940s #vintagestylenotvintagevalues
A selfie, in my gardening clothes. A full apron, a head scarf, and a woollen jumper because it’s cold. I’m holding a tea mug, and I have chipmunk cheeks because I just stuffed a chocolate biscuit in my mouth. I dress a bit 1940s style.
February 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Before and after. Due to chronic pain the last year and a half nothing got done in the garden. Today was a good day, and I shifted some of it. Hopefully again tomorrow. #beforeandafter #garden #mess #junkyard
An extremely messy garden, full of junk, hardly room to walk, dead plants. The “before” A slightly less messy garden. Room to walk past the green house, and you can see the stones again. The “after”
February 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Dice bag and ipad bag set for my d&d playing husband @haka77.bsky.social #crochetfordnd
Two dice bags and a matching ipad bag in purple and variegated yarn. The largest dice bag had a red keychain in the shape of a 20 sided die.
February 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Beautiful painting! I love mums, and would have them year round.
rozendaalarts.bsky.social Thom Rozendaal @rozendaalarts.bsky.social · Jan 15
Chrysanthemum #5 in gouache.
This Indicum variety is not as interesting as the typical Chrysanthemums but I like that you can still see hints of its ancestry in the center petals subtly spiraling inward.
Gouache painting of a blonde orange Chrysanthemum indicum flower
February 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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This handsome lad is Ormr, our adult boa. I cleaned his enclosure and added another large branch, faux flowers, and two real plants. And I told him he is stunning and sweet. #boa #petsnake #tongueflicking #snakeloversofbluesky #enrichmentforsnakes #boaconstrictor #beauty #love #blelele
February 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The blue dishcloth I referenced in the post about the red and white dishcloth. #weaving
A fairly wonky blue and white woven dishcloth. A fairly wonky blue and white woven dishcloth.
February 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Second cotton dishcloth. I quite like this one, but the blue one is definitely softer. #weaving #dishcloth #stuckinbed #yarncraft
Red and white woven dishcloth, shown next to a pair of snips (small bladed scissors) and a ball of red cotton thread. All on a light pink blanket as background, because I’m mostly stuck in bed and weaving and other yarn crafting is an easy and productive way to keep myself from going mad. Closeup of a red and white woven dishcloth, shown next to a pair of snips (small bladed scissors) and a ball of red cotton thread. All on a light pink blanket as background, because I’m mostly stuck in bed and weaving and other yarn crafting is an easy and productive way to keep myself from going mad.
February 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Spring!
Closeup of crochet, in white, green, and yellow. Spring colours.
February 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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My pick up point for packages is also a small charity shop. And when I went to fetch my packages today, I found this lovely lovely spring coloured yarn. I immediately cast on a top, because even though spring still feels eons away, I’m a slow crocheter. #yarn #crochet #charityshop #secondhandyarn
A closeup of a ball of yarn, in white, green, and yellow. Soft colours. It looks like spring.
February 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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This is as close as I get to night, twilight. I love painting cypresses. This painting doesn’t exist anymore, it got damaged beyond repair and this is the only picture I have. #gouache #painting #damagedbeyondrepair #twilight #cypresses #whatliskoloves
A painting in gouache. It depicts three cypress trees in a field, against a dark sky. Lots of greens and blues, with the smallest hints of yellow.
February 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Sunday evening, and I’m in bed, warm and comfy, weaving a dishcloth. Today was cold but also very sunny, I could see the laundry steam. Tidied up the kitchen and livingroom, and now it’s time to relax. #weaving #crafting #handmade #madebyhand #homemade
A weaving loom, warped with red and white thread, and the yarns used for weaving are also red and white. I’m in bed, my loom leans on a pillow.
February 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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My husband @haka77.bsky.social plays D&D and I recently offered to crochet him two dice bags for all his shiny dice. The first is quite hefty, the second is a lot smaller (not pictured). I still had yarn left, and decided to cast on a matching bag to carry his other bits&bobs (and snacks 😁).
A large dice bag, crocheted with purple yarn and a variegated yarn which has purple but also white, yellow, turqoise, blue, and more. It’s almost sock shaped but more bulbous, and it closes with a pull string. It sits on my husband’s hand. #dungeonsanddragons #dicebag #crochet #madewithlove #dnd A close up from the matching bag in progress. Alternating bands of purple and variegated yarn, in an open work pattern called ‘Filet Crochet’.
January 31, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Snoozy Miss Moneypenny with her pink flowers.
Miss Moneypenny, a hognose snake (Heterodon nasicus), snoozing in her hide, surrounded by moss, and pink faux flowers. Her face is poking out of the hide, and you can see her lovely upturned nose for which her species is named. They use their nose to dig tunnels, because they are a largely terrestrial species.
January 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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If you see this, post something pink! 🌸

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January 31, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Finally removed the xmas tree, and tidied up a bit, tidying up my studio often feels like a Sisyphean task. It’s nice and sunny today, that helps to make it feel extra light and airy. Now back to bed because I did a bit too much. #fuckchronicpain
My studio, which flows into our kitchen, with a high breakfast bar/dinner table. It is sunny, and pretty messy. Up until today the christmas tree sat here too, because I have chronic pain and couldn’t find the energy to move it. There are half finished paintings and drawings everywhere, two carts full of paint accoutrements, and a shelving unit full of books, boxes, and bits&bobs. #chronicpain #lowenergy #artstudio #art #artist #studioathome #messyartstudio
January 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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My new Etsy shop is now open! Okay, okay, it has one whole item, but it’s a start, right?

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Hellebores ink drawing, now available on Etsy. This post is not really about this drawing, but about my new Etsy shop. #art #availableonetsy #artist #botanicalart
January 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Sewing the Hansie top and watching a video by @theglambassador.bsky.social. #hansie #handsewing #sewingmyownclothes
A hand sewing project, with sewing accoutrements, like a pair of specialty scissors, seeing thread, a pin cushion, and a seam ruler. The sewing project is a top in light fabric, the inside is showing. And a tablet showing a youtube video, paused, about 1920 clothes.
January 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The wee lady in more detail.
My husband’s hands, holding a tarantula.
January 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
The image was taken, at Sagan's suggestion, by Voyager 1 on 14 February 1990. As the spacecraft was departing our planetary neighbourhood for the fringes of the solar system, it turned it around for one last look at its home planet.
#CarlSagan #PaleBlueDot
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves... ...It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
January 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Today was a good day. We went to a small zoo, with lots of spiders, snakes, lizards, birds, and small mammals like monkeys and meerkats. My husband even dared to hold a tarantula, even though he is terrified of spiders. #dierenparkdeoliemeulen #happyselfie #love
‘Selfie’ of Lisko and her husband. Lisko is wearing a beige knitted dress of which you can only see the topmost part. Her hair is plaited, and she is wearing a blue beret. Her husband in wearing a black t-shirt, and has a beard and moustache. Both are smiling. Both also wear glasses.
January 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM