Pleased to tell you about the re-launch of my art website! I'll be posting work there for sale, plus new blog posts every Thursday or as close to that as I can manage. I'll still be posting sketches, paintings, and stuff here too, until the Careless People arrive at least. #art jasondunavin.com

If you see this post something monochromatic #traditionalart #drawing

The calendars launched yesterday :) If you zoom in, you can see that each of the pages are perforated so you can continue to use the prints once the year is over :)

they listen for hours to the preachers of hate and call it revival ... Cascade poem too long for bluesky. Catch the rest on xxyxxy.com #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #cascade #revival

Sharing a new piece in my Breathe series, painted in response to my personal experiences dealing with anxiety. New work will be released late October with early access for my email list. Tisha Mark ©2025, From One Moment to the Next, oil on linen tishamark.com/breathe #BlueSkyArtShow #Relax #art

With the bluesky team showing their tendency to behave just like any other VC funded org, I'll repost this:

curiously called hiding in plain sight: stood in silence, timorously motionless, lest we drive our dull neighbors to violence xxyxxy.com #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #endecha

he tries to find the hope as despair is a sin; but hope is an odd, ill-fitting costume xxyxxy.com #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #cinquain #hope

So, I've landed on offering small prints to fill in the gaps in paintings, and since I've been doing a lot more sketching lately. Anyway, they're up on xxyxxy.com/available/Pr... if you're interested in checking them out!

grab for it all you want until it's clear it was never meant to be held at all xxyxxy.com/blog/oPRYmTc5 #desert #sketch #poetry

Someone said my art is a break from politics and for the record: my art is political In a world where billionaires at the top aerospace companies see space as exclusive ground for white men to conquer and colonize, I offer a quiet contemplative alternative for anyone and *everyone*

they want the good old times, when they could lock you up, forget your ghastly existence, for good xxyxxy.com #sketch #poetry #cinquain #asylum

#SciArtSeptember Day 30: dream Dreaming takes place in our brain. Here's a detail from my #SciArt #embroidery the wandering ghost (2024) of the brain and facial nerves.

While you should totally check out Joel's books from the San Diego County Library, if you are in a different county or state, ask your library to have them too. Or buy yourself a copy and horde the poems like some sort of word dragon.

help in the most harmful way possible is prescribed by those who couldn't care less xxyxxy.com #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #tetractys

Hey! You can now check my books out from the San Diego County Library: sdcl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/79... sdcl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/79... #library #poetry

crashed out safely restrained blissfully sedated the staff outside on their smoke break laughing xxyxxy.com #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #cinquain

I did not know this! JSTOR is a fantastic resource, I used it all the time in college and it's great to have access to it again. www.jstor.org

If any of you fine folks are planetarians in (or want to be in) mid-Michigan, the Abrams Planetarium is hiring a full-time-staff position for the first time in 11 years!! Come work with the astro, scicomm, and informal ed folks at MSU!! 🔭 🧪 (reskeets welcome) careers.msu.edu/jobs/educati...

that gap in my resume is when I was part of an underground bug fighting ring and I had to dress up like a preying mantis to fight other people dressed as preying mantises, because the law didn't allow actual bugs to fight, but eventually the laws changed and here I am

A significant departure from my usual work, but very glad to have done this. “Of No Fixed Abode”, oil on linen, 100 x 100cm. #oilpainting #landscape #homelessness #displacement

Oh! That reminds me, a have several sets of postcards available at xxyxxy.com!

they plead look for the good that resides in their hearts while they bury their history ashamed xxyxxy.com #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #cinquain

Welcome new follower who’s following 300k+ others! I look forward to your never, ever seeing anything I share.

a few celebrating as we watch from afar wondering when the champagne flows for us xxyxxy.com #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #cinquain

Do NOT invite Brian Kilmeade to this event!

those delights were empty, you see that now; every age has its useless diversions xxyxxy.com #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #tetractys

Me, suggesting gas station pizza dinner, “…let’s do it now. Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen.”

Replace “rock” with “block” in song lyrics Block You Like A Hurricane

exudes a natural, confident leadership; completely at ease in total control xxyxxy.com #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #cinquain

Mud cracking and curling in the washes today. Coyote prints, and rain drop impacts. Desert shaggy mane coming through the cracks (Photos: Sicco Rood).

It's almost time

at the end of the world they celebrate inebriated on their own misdeeds xxyxxy.com #sketch #poetry #tetractys

start with abject enthusiasm an indefatigable youth which can carry you so far alas not far enough (never really could, per their wishes) and the end is soon here xxyxxy.com/blog/7tvBw1tJ #desert #sketch #poetry

#Lectart! 😍

suit behind a lectern with pleasing words about an abundance you'll never taste xxyxxy.com #sketch #poetry #tetractys

That was some rapture! I’ve never seen anything like it. Sure hope they have a nice time up there! 👼

we have a cool breeze and lazily drifting clouds, and yet, and yet, and... xxyxxy.com #sketch #poetry #zappai

rising out of the sand what was least expected an end to any of our old concerns xxyxxy.com/blog/JjqQ8yAQ #desert #sketch #poetry

Sweet Beejuz! I over did it on the last postcard order. If you're at all inclined to support my work, PLEASE pop by my shop and snag a couple sets. xxyxxy.com/available/Po... It seriously keeps going! #art #sketch #postcard #postcards

friends are the first to go followed by countrymen only perceiving betrayal throughout xxyxxy.com #sketch #poetry #cinquain

Yesterday was the opening of the Royal Society of Marine Artists at the Mall Galleries, London. My Sardines are behaving themselves on the small picture wall. The exhibition continues until September 27th and can be viewed online too - buyart.mallgalleries.org.uk/rsma-2025/?u... #embroidery #art

now 3am, up for the last hour listening to rain and watching lightning.

This is a good point. Folks can find me at mastodon.art/@joel

say goodbye to your friends to the old town your face has already started changing xxyxxy.com #sketch #poetry #tetractys

Common Chuckwalla near Church Spur Ridge this afternoon (Photo: Sicco Rood).

how dare you suggest that they should contribute more when their profiteering drives the market xxyxxy.com #tantrum #sketch #poetry

chatter chatter chatter chatter chatter chatter chatter chatter chatter chatter chatter xxyxxy.com the poem, while repetitive, is in the cinquain form #sketch #poetry #cinquain