Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012), “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik [A Little Night Music]” (1943), oil on canvas, 61 x 40.8 cm.

Day 21 - Greater Rhea Water color and color pencil 20 years ago a pair of Rheas escaped a private zoo in Germany. There's now a population of nearly 600 feral Rheas. #beansbirdtober2025 #birdtober #watercolorandcolorpencil #wildlifeartist #PNWartist #humanart #greaterrhea #rhea #birdart #sciart

South Korea and London are also out for #NOKINGS

2025 feels like that late-stage game of monopoly where you just go round and round paying rent and utilities forever and nobody knows what the rules are anymore and everyone’s just waiting for it all to end except the one player who cheated and has all the money

Day 14 -- Roseate Spoonbill Wasn't in studio today so this is part sketch and partially digital color added in Adobe Fresco. Seen together they are A BOWL OF SPOONBILLS! #beansbirdtober2025 #birdtober #roseatespoonbill #adobefrescoillustration #PNWartist #seattleillustrator

Day 11 — Oriental Dotterel Experimenting again with watercolor and colored pencils. Straying from the comfort zone. #beansbirdtober2025 #birdtober #coloredpencil #sciart #dotterel #plover #PNWartist

Day 12– Hummingbird or as I say humming friend It may be due to doing this everyday, I find this getting much easier to click into the zone. #beansbirdtober2025 #birdtober #hummingbird #anashummingbird #graphite #graphitesketch #pnwartist #wildlifeartist #sciart

Day 11 — Budgies I love these birds. They are so pro-social it made sense to put two in the sketch. Another really fun one to do. #beansbirdtober2025 #birdtober #graphitesketch #budgies #sciart #PNWartist

We have a downy woodpecker opening the aperture of our wren box!!!

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Day 10 — Turkey Vulture Graphite drawing. Actually have a social life today. I mostly got done, you can see incomplete feathering. #beansbirdtober2025 #birdtober #graphitedrawing #sciart #vulture #turkeyvulture #PNWartist #wildlifeart

I FUCKEN FINISHED!!! As always, it took me 2 months, but I got there in the end.

Day 9 — Bat Falcon Graphite form study. Not much time today so I just did a sketch of the form that I can come back to and create finished work later. #beansbirdtober2025 #birdtober #graphitesketch #sciart #batfalcon #falcon #formstudy #PNWartist #wildlifeart

Day 8 -- burrowing owl Graphite study. Another fun one. The white spots aren’t quite sharp enough but the eraser couldn’t get too fine. #beansbirdtober2025 #birdtober #graphitedrawing #sciart #burrowingowl #owldrawing #PNWartist #wildlifeart

The pro AI argument is that AI greatness will raise everyone's life to a better standard. Looking at capitalist society in the US. What philanthropy from the hyper-rich is giving homes to the houseless, addiction recovery to addicts, and health services to the sick right now? Would it change? How?

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Day 7 -- Anhinga This cormorant type bird is new to me. It had a lot going on and I ran out of time. Someday I will throw more energy into finishing the details and a dark backdrop behind the head to let it stand out. #beansbirdtober2025 #birdtober #graphitestudy #anhinga

Day one million or 6 -- Muscovy duck Actually enjoyed this one. Ducks are so sweet. #beansbirdtober2025 #birdtober #muscovyduck #graphitedrawing #graphitestudy

Wish I'd had better light for this pic, this custom gryphon turned out really neat! He's based on a male house sparrow. #art #artdoll #gryphon #furryart #handmade

Birdtober is the perfect time for little experiments 🎨… I’m going to loosen up my style a bit, let’s see how it turns out… What do you think of my first entry? With a bold use of Indian ink 🖤! Day 3 : Boreal Chichadee #sciart #bird #Birdtober #BirdArt #InkDrawing #BirdIllustration #WildlifeArt

#Birdtober 3 is the Boreal Chickadee. Who doesn’t need a cute fluff in their timeline tonight? I left the sketchy lines because my brain likes them and also I’m tired. 🥱 Digital ink and gouache in Procreate, about an hour. #birds #birdArt #SciArt #Art #ArtChallenge #DailyChallenge #painting

Javan Green Magpie for #Birdtober. I liked this guy, looks like he’s wearing falsies. I’m starting to enjoy digital gouache! About an hour in #Procreate. #digitalArt #SciArt #birds #BirdArt #illustration #ArtChallenge #DailyChallenge

#Birdtober Day 6: Pink-necked Green Pigeon The prompt was just "Green Pigeon" so I picked my favorite one. He looks like an ice cream 🍦 They also have a very neat bicolored iris! #Birdtober2025 is hosted by Andrea Holmes #BirdArt #SciArt #Copic #dailyartchallenge #ArtYear #FineArt #AnimalArt

Its the first of #fatbatweek 2025! Kicking it off with the bat that inspired this years theme "fried things": the Japanese house bat: #油蝙蝠 or "oil bat". Kitsune udon comes w a slab of fried tofu. Shout out to @batconservation.bsky.social pacbat.org & globalsouthbats.org #diversitymatters

Day 5 -- I 'iwi Pen on paper, annotated drawing Needed a reset after yesterday 😕 #beansbirdtober2025 #iiwi #pendrawing #birdtober

Day 4 Murkrow on a murky shore #pokétober #murky #poketober2025 #inktober2025 #pokemon #murkrow

Day 3 -- Curl-crested aracari Giving watercolor and colored pencil a go because this guy's colors are so fun. Haven't quite figured out how to get them to pop. #beansbirdtober2025 #aracari #watercolorpencilsketch #birdart #aracari #birdtober

Day 2 Northern hawk-owl #beansbirdtober2025 #northernhawkowl #digitalsketch #birdart #owl #birdtober #tonalsketches

Day 1 — California Quail Here’s a my digital render for bird of my childhood! #beansbirdtober2025 #adobefrescodrawing #birdtober2025

And some of us live here

Sketch of an Owl Graphite on paper #art #birds #nature

Detox Doodles! This is a habit of drawing every time I feel the urge to scroll mindlessly. New good habit replacing a bad habit! This page is all about egrets, and they deserved a double spread! #art #bird #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #InkArt #bird

There are two types of bathing:

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

Please come see my animal paintings up close tonight at the Ballard Art Walk! Would love to see you there! 🎨 #humanmadeart #acrylics #painter #wildlifepainter #cradleboard #ballardartwalk #pnwpainter #seattlelife #inscapearts

Seattle people, my show of 2024-25 paintings and a few drawings are up at Market Street Shoes in Ballard. I will be in person during the Ballard Art Walk on Saturday September 13 from 6-8pm. Come say hi or take a look when the store is open. Love to see and or hear from you.

I try to stay light on the political. Today they are having hearings to potentially impeach RFK. Whatever your beliefs, if you believe in peer-reviewed science please CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE to impeach RFK. #impeachRFK

#InverteFest 🎉 Makana the Day Octopus 🐙 Sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨 #Art #ArtYear #ArtGallery #BSNM #CoralReef #ReefSpecies #Sculpture #PolymerClay 🦑🐡

Lady crab spider, ruler of the flower patch. I spotted her eating a skipper on my way down the trail today. On the way back, I checked and she had repositioned herself to wait for another snack. An absolute unit, she looked like a very successful spider. (Misumenoides sp.) PA #InverteFest

why yes i did forget about this unhinged drawing of @llewellynrose.bsky.social 's dog i did as an example for my "pay what you want art" events until i pulled out my event supplies just now

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

NO ONE beats the medieval bees and boob shaped beehives 🍯🐝 #InverteFest #WeirdMedievalGuys source: Aberdeen University Library, Univ. Lib. MS 24 (Aberdeen Bestiary), folio 63r

Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

"Only when the last tree has been cut, the last river has been poisoned & the last fish been caught will they realize that they can't eat money" old Cree proverb

I will give you blue 💙 #Taaniko #MySignatureOmbre Less than 60 seconds of 60 hours of my life

My Neighbor Demon-Tiger

Graphite on paper is still my favorite medium after decades working digitally. #analogart