Do people realize that this is also happening with case law? Like Do You Understand What That Fucking Means???

I try to focus on posting about art and comics and not my complaints about the state of everything but GOOD GRIEF

If this time can be hard for you, you may benefit from reviewing my Holding Space for the Holidays Bingo Card, which was made while preparing presentation slides for recent arts programming, as it offers some ideas for coping if your life does not resemble a Hallmark movie! 🫂 bit.ly/HolidaysBing...

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18: The smollest #JWST design I ever made 🥺 14K yellow gold stud earring #art #science #SciArt #astronomy

'We are no longer just documenting warming — we are witnessing an entire marine ecosystem transform within a single generation.' NOAA and partners, including @ucdavis, release 2025 Arctic Report Card. www.ucdavis.edu/climate/blog...

Hey y'all. The coldest time can be one of the biggest risks of fire. If you know us you know we wouldn't have gotten to Iditarod without Sam. If you can, help her and Tucker rebuild and stay warm. gofund.me/0d014c986

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Day 14 #ArtAdventCalendar A scroll from my improvised, invented psychedelia era in which I legit feel like I oracled LLMs, emotionally. Bullshit: Energy Source of the Future!

Many times the size of their poppy cousins from yesterday… Day 14 of #ArtAdventCalendar brings a whole field of poppies.

It’s my next-to-last event of the year! Come down to the Carlson Center for the Tanana Valley Farmers Market holiday bazaar! I’ll be here selling art and cards and stickers until 5:00. 🧑🏻‍🎨 #ChristmasShopping #HolidayMarket #ArtMarket #AlaskaSky

Another good thread on the how & why If you'd like possibly the best example of people doing alt text on Bluesky check out #ArtAdventCalendar Over 5000 images posted by 600 participants & over 95% AltText usage.

"My Grandfather's Cat" is a cross-Canada organization that helps dying seniors find homes for their beloved animals. They also offer a senior's pet food pantry, to help support low income seniors. Please consider donating as a gift for the pet lover in your life. www.mygrandfatherscat.ca

Lucky day 13 of #ArtAdventCalendar brings these little poppy ornaments. Three 2.5" square original watercolors framed in silver. Gone as quick as they appeared!

Day two at the Solstice Festival opening weekend bazaar, at Morris Thompson Center in downtown Fairbanks! Come down and get amazing gifts while supporting local artists!

This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.

If you’re in town today, Fairbanks folks, come by the Morris Thompson Cultural & Visitors Center! There’s a bunch of ridiculously talented vendors here, so even if you aren’t jazzed about greeting cards and art prints, there’s definitely something you (or a loved one) will adore. #AlaskaSky

We’re already at the halfway point of #ArtAdventCalendar for 2025… today I give you Birch Bun! A fun shadow study of wintry birch trees, with a smol fuzzy surprise sitting front & center.

What you can see here is my hands meticulously putting price stickers on our calendar. Just 79€+postage for 12 original prints that all contain manual printing techniques to some degree. All made in Bremen. What prints you ask?

🎄 Small Business Support🎄 The world is trying to shoot us down but we wont let them. Buy from small businesses this holiday ♡ ⭐ Post your Shop Links or Commissions! ⭐ Support others ⭐Optional -share! Remember to take care of yourself and get plenty of rest♡ 📛No N/F/Ts, No AI 'Art'📛

More birch trees for #ArtAdventCalendar Day 11! But this time with fun, funky palette-knife trunks. I love the organic, spontaneous feel that technique gives to a painting.

Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar “Keepies 1-9” 6x6” each 9 painted wood block canvases that can be play with… modular art, stack, hang, display. Mounted on a Velcro panel.

Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.

The handmade, human qualities of your work are more valuable than they've ever been. Don't doubt that for a second.

It’s #ArtAdventCalendar Day 10, and here’s a bit of protest art. We all saw the AI-generated version of this idea, yeah? Well fuck that soulless nonsense, here’s a real human-drawn frog.

My hot comic take is all wfh comic shit should be paid a salary, every other week, like everyone else at the publishing company. I’m tired of hearing about our colleagues crowdfunding funerals and healthcare.

Day 9 of #ArtAdventCalendar brings these five chickadees sitting on a birch tree branch, staring at you. Likely real world scenario: They’re impatiently watching you refill the bird feeder. Actual scenario: I think chickadees are funny angry-looking lil borbs when they’re facing straight at you.

pals you gotta quit spotify

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 8, some concept art… as of now, I have no idea if I’ll revisit this or not, but it was kind of cathartic to make it either way.

This is fantastic

✨ New Porcelain Ornament Sets are live on the website! ✨ I’m in love with how the glazes blend and flow into each other. There’s something magical about those in-between moments where the colors transition. The way they melt together feels like a little piece of winter magic. ❄️🎄 #Art #Pottery

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 7, I present one of my favorite things I’ve ever drawn, let alone drawn during this “damn near impossible to draw anything” marathon-of-depression year. Sled dogs are some of the happiest dogs on earth. Always good for a pick me up. 😊

Welp, posting two days at once is evidently going to be the way things go for this year’s #ArtAdventCalendar… here’s days 5 and 6!

For #ArtAdventCalendar day 4, yes I am back on my sparkly Aurora ornaments for the season. (I have never gotten around to adding an “originals” section to my website, but if you want a color shifting aurora ornament, feel free to hit my DMs!)

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 3: Why yes, I’m still obsessed with birch trees. Here we have a 5x7 watercolor of birch trees with bright new spring leaves.

hi everyone! i’m going through some financial hurdles so it’d really help me if you shared this post promoting my brushes, maybe consider gifting them? it is the season 🫶 you can find them here: 🫶 www.patreon.com/MerlinGG ✨ ko-fi.com/everydaymerlin ✨ merlin2g.gumroad.com

This is my Denali's littermate sister as well as Willow and Atlas's mom. Absolutely crushed that she's lost.

Is it bad form to say every artist should be allowed to post their donation links for Giving Tuesday? Oh well, whatever - every artist should be allowed to post their donation links on Giving Tuesday.

If anyone would like to be a mini-patron… I have been pretty mentally crushed by the world and having a hard time making art this year. 🥲 Venmo: @knezek_art PayPal tip jar QR in comments Or you can always buy some artsy shit from my website: knezek.art

Starting off #ArtAdventCalendar with a bang, by… … forgetting to post on Day 1. 🤣 Anyhoo let’s get this thing going! Here’s two recent mini watercolors…

Painfully relatable like seriously where did this year go 🥲🥲🥲

Reminder in these holiday shopping times to support artists and small businesses! ARTISTS DROP YOUR SHOP LINK BELOW! Let's make a list of small shops for people to poke through and discover new folks! 🥳🥳🥳

Today! Now until 5pm! Come see a spectacular selection of local Alaskan artists & craftspeople! We’ll be here at #Alaskaland (aka Pioneer Park) all day! I don’t know if I used enough exclamation points yet!!!! #HolidayShopping #ShopLocal #SmallBusinessSaturday#Alaska#Alaska

Hellooo lovely people! Have you been putting off buying holiday cards? If so, may I suggest one of these fine designs? Printed in my studio, and packed by my very own hands (get a $1 per card discount for buying in packs of 5!). 👉 knezek.art/go/cards 👈 #Holidays #ShopSmall #SupportArtists

Today! Now until 5pm! Come see a spectacular selection of local Alaskan artists & craftspeople! We’ll be here at #Alaskaland (aka Pioneer Park) all day! I don’t know if I used enough exclamation points yet!!!! #HolidayShopping #ShopLocal #SmallBusinessSaturday#Alaska#Alaska

Hellooo lovely people! Have you been putting off buying holiday cards? If so, may I suggest one of these fine designs? Printed in my studio, and packed by my very own hands (get a $1 per card discount for buying in packs of 5!). 👉 knezek.art/go/cards 👈 #Holidays #ShopSmall #SupportArtists

#blueskyartshow #evening #eastcoastkin Enthusiastic Chat While Lighting Cigarettes #feetonthefurniture #zippo #stillwildlyenthusiasticaboutlittlethings

From the Depths — William Balfour-Ker, 1906

Bex is good people. Please help if you can 💜

Shirts in the wild! 🥳🙌 I’ve been working on a new shirt printing setup, and if I’m not very much mistaken, I should be back to printing shirts this weekend! knezek.art/go/shirts

The America Arts are FUCKED right now. AI propagation, constant layoffs, hiring freezes, projects not being greenlit, conservative censorship, massive tariff hikes, mega-mergers, foreign buyouts, studios relocating overseas and lack of public funding is killing us. Please support small creators.