Sending love to your holy-days, Hanukkah, Yule, Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and others as we turn towards the new year, 2026! 💖 "At Christmas, time deepens…the Celtic imagination knew that time is eternity in disguise. They embraced the day as a sacred space.” ~JOHN O'DONOHUE

lots of orcas 🌊 #art #orcas

Brief respite from my Violet/Cloak doodle dump— have some FRIEDRICH I am obsessed with him I want to wring him out like a towel #dnd #dndpc #changeling #art #doodles #oc

sakura branch 🌸✨ print & phone background available via 🌈 etsy. sign up before the end of dec on patreon 🐻 for a mini print of this piece alongside 2 zines & a sticker (hello bundle tier)! 💌 #art #artmail #blackartist #blackwomanowned

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 12: #MoonLanding trajectory necklace inspired by the path #Apollo11 took from Earth (left) to the Moon (right) 🚀🌕 🔭🧪🎨🐡

Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g

Wow! This man is a hero. Watch him wrestle the rifle from one of the Bondi Beach shooters.

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There’s time til the end of the month to snatch some happy mail for December :) patreon.com/thesunxix #illustration #snailmail #art #sticker

"Olivia Sitting," n.d. Oil on canvas Alex Russell Flint (British, b.1974) Private collection #art #painting #illustration

#ArtAdventCalendar #Day16 #Embroidery

🐙✨ Starry Night Octopus ❤️ Handsculpted from clay #ArtYear #Art #Octopus #ArtGallery #MarineLife #Invertebrates #Sculpture #ArtAdventCalendar 🦑🐡

"About Eden" #GoodOmensFanArt #ineffablehusbands #digitalart #artworks #procreate #fanart

Day 16 #artAdventCalendar the woman who figured out why lead is particularly stable & 2nd woman to win the Nobel Prize for #physics 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🎢 #histsci: German-American theoretical #physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-‘72). As the series of increasingly large atomic nuclei grows with additional nucleons🧵

🪸🎨🐙 Handcrafted Coral + Octopus sculpted from poly clay #ArtYear #Art #Coral #ArtGallery #MarineLife #Invertebrates #InverteFest #ArtAdventCalendar 🦑🐡

The Bonehorse of Hookland #BookmarkoftheDay @hookland.bsky.social

I could use some light in this darkness right now, so I thought I'd share a gorgeous image from JWST. This cosmic butterfly is a star being born. New planets are forming within the vertical dark line. Galaxies shine through the scene from the far distance. 🧪🔭 esawebb.org/images/potm2...

This is NGC 1871, a super interesting structure in the LMC. This is a 2 panel mosaic taken on our 24" Planewave scope and Moravian C5 camera. Data acquisition credit is the SWOS team of Forman, Mazlin, Parker, Magill, and Hanson. Processing by me. 🔭 Thanks for looking!

The Omicron Persei Star Cloud (IC 348) is a young star forming region located in constellation Perseus ~1000 light years from Earth. It contains ~ 400 stars and is ~2- 5 million years old. This is a 5 hour wide band, RGB, exposure taken on a moonless night. 11/19/25 #astronomy #astrophotography

My Infinite Neurodiversity glitter sticker is back in stock and bigger and more glittery than ever! 😁✨ abistevens.etsy.com/listing/1747... #ArtShop #neurodivergence #ADHD #neurodivergentArtist

#ArtAdventCalendar 2 - a bird dragon (2023) #art #dragon #space

Hunters Unlucky Hilton’s writing is very pleasing to read; the words flow easily & are chosen with care, depicting scenes with welcome precision. Plot points get foreshadowed & every scene builds upon the other in meaningful ways, making active reading a very rewarding experience. #traditionalart

Hello Bluesky! Today is my birthday! 24 years old! 🎈 The best gift you can give me is to share my work. A comment or a retweet costs you nothing and helps me make a living from illustration ♥️🥳 #art #furryart #paleoart

🌬️ Zephyr the Larger Pacific Striped Octopus 🐙 Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨 #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

2 brand new brilliant blue labradorite pendants, just listed and looking for homes: oishiny.etsy.com Free international shipping included. If you're in Canada or the US please get your orders in by Thursday night to go out Friday 12th. #Handmade #ShopIndie

A pink snail for day 8 of #ArtAdventCalendar A slightly disguised infinity is present in both #snail #digitalart #art #illustration #painting #artistsonbluesky #ArtYear

A story told in flowers #art

Decorating with dragons for the holidays is the best time ever 🎄 Grab the holiday sales in store and give the gift of dragons! 🎁 sixthleafcloverstore.com/collections/... #dragons #cuteart #christmas

❤️‍🔥 Evander the Starry Night Octopus 🐙 Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨 #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

The College of Winterhold [ #art #oc #skyrim #tes #dovahkiin ]

Came out of my slumber just long enough to paint a cozy little burrow for Mr Badger. Now if you'll excuse me 😴 #cottagecore #art #cozy #originalart

Thank you for all the love on Fritti! If you like his design a lot, this artwork is available as a postcard print in my shop! keymonstershop.etsy.com/listing/1537... [ #art #ttrpg #shopsmall #prints ]

New Christmas avi. #art #capybara

Day 8 #artAdventCalendar x-ray #crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994), Nobel laureate in #chemistry for her models of biomolecules like penicillin, vitamin B12 & insulin. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci She was “captured for life by chemistry and crystals,” in childhood, 1 of 2 girls allowed to 🧵

Fresh from yesterday's raku firing, meet Perseus' Cloud. Born from fire and smoke, this raku vessel is inspired by the Perseus Molecular Cloud. This little fragment of the cosmos, imprinted by fire, holds echoes of stars long gone. Like us all, it is stardust. #space #ArtAdventCalendar #pottery

Compelling account of some of the most important questions in science, both historical and contemporary, showing how understanding develops, how wrong ideas can halt progress, and how the wrong people sometimes get the credit. Sample reads @ doi.org/10.1142/q0394 🧪🔭⚛️

Mikaela Bartlett, UK #artist who works in needle felt and sculpts creatures out of natural/dyed sheep and alpaca wool #WomensArt

the wolf who hunted dragons #art

Memories from Morocco, 2024 by Sergiu Ciochina. Contemporary Moldova artist. Oil on canvas | 40 × 30 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Sharpless 236, also known Tadpole Nebula, is an emission nebula in Auriga, approximately 2185 light-years away and is best observed mid December. ▼ Baader Apo 95 CaF₂ | SkyEye62AM ’25 © Thomas Hanrath ’25 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 astrocamp.eu/en/sharpless... #astrophotography #astronomy #nature #deepsky

The Northern Trifid Nebula (NGC 1579) is an emission and reflection nebula in the constellation Perseus named after the Trifid Nebula (M20) in Sagittarius. In this photo reds are ionized emissions and blues represent bright starlight reflections. Exp: 7 hours 11/22/25 #astronomy #astrophotography

Very disappointing the Albanese Govt has refused to accept the full suite of recommendations from the Briggs Review designed to stop the jobs for mates culture in federal politics. No surprise there is such low trust in politicians! Communities constantly call for more integrity but are ignored.

Tokuhiro Kawai (Japanese, born 1971) Ode to Sleep, 2025 Oil tempera and gold leaf on wood panel 54.2 x 83 cm Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Happy birthday to self-taught trail-blazing Irish #marineBiologist Maude Delap (1866 – 1953), 1st to successfully breed jellyfish in captivity & document their full lifecycle. She is surrounded by blue #jellyfish (Cyanea lamarckii) life stages based on her diagrams. 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡 #histsci #artAdventCalendar 🧵