Oh a new person liking a bunch of my posts! How nice! Oh wait ...their bio is all about AI and Midjourney

Now how cute is this?!? 🥰

How cute are these decorations for our booth?!? 😍 Aren't gonna hold up super well since they're paper glued to cardboard but they'll do for our event this weekend! Wanted to use study materials & paint them but didn't have the time. At least this way we can participate in the decorating contest!

Not sure how it's already day 10 of #ArtAdventCalendar, but here we are! Here's one of my little polymer clay crows. Each feather is cut and textured, and the crows are always brushed with chameleon powder for a little extra magic.

Day 10 of #ArtAdventCalendar! 💚 A mossy green humpback whale, sculpted from coarse paper mache and painted with acrylics.

It's been 10-12 hour days since the Sun. after Thanksgiving but finally finished everything for our event this weekend. Well as much as we can. Lower on some animals than like to be but can only do so much in 2 weeks & also work full time. Gonna be so lazy Thurs. & Fri to charge up for the weekend!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 9 “No Decisions. Only Sploot” Painted by a human. 💚 Tried to push myself out of my comfort zone for this one. I like to try to be a style chameleon. Sometimes it works! :) #digitalpainting #procreate #moss #cute #sploot

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 9 Nice cult, might join later~ 🐐🕯️ #CultoftheLamb #fanart #traditionalart

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 9: frosty feathers over fuchsia Hand knit lace brioche stitch in wool 🧶

Day 10 of #ArtAdventCalendar: "Fancy Rococo Pigeon Man", done for Artfight. He can't stand looking at all those pheasants! 😔 2024, digital #art #birds

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 9 Cranky

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 9 is a post-thunderstorm snapshot in the old-growth forest where I work. This black-throated green warbler gave me a rare moment of stillness to admire him. 🪶

I haven't painted many stones. I think about 3, and they've all been little. This one still needs to make her way across the ocean but I've been afraid to drill a hole all the way through 😅 #artAdventCalendar #crystals #witchy #painting

Felt portrait of a cassowary for #ArtAdventCalendar I've been so busy prepping for our art fair this weekend that I've missed so many Art Advent Calendar days this year ☹️

Update: I've been using my fancy new hair dryer for a few weeks and it makes so much of a difference! Glad I finally caved and got one.

We did it! Not bad for a weeks worth of worth! Especially considering this was all weekend work and after the day job. Now on to sewing and packaging!

Whelp I succumbed to the siren call of the afternoon couch nap so I didn't get much reading or knitting done on my afternoon break. But I did have a lovely nap and Finn snuggled and napped with me the whole time so it was still good

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 6, a gouache painting of a pair of bunnies I made for my brother @gridgway.bsky.social this year for his birthday

#ArtAdventCalendar. Day 6 "ORCA" Bead Embroidery 6" round. Size 11/0 & 13/0 seed beads.

A tribute to Claude, my favorite celebrity alligator. 😭 #Art #SciArt

Movie you've watched more than six time with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

Making good time on the 100+ bags of felt that needs assembly before our event next weekend. Got about 20-30 more to go in the next 7 days. That feels doable so I'm taking a little knitting & reading break as a treat before I get back to it. I've missed my yarn 🧶

#ArtAdventCalendar day 6 friends of the forest floor🌲🐌🍂🍄🕸️🪵🪱🪹🌱 each knot done by hand!

Elysa the Coconut Octopus 🐙 Sculpted from Clay 🎨 #ArtAdventCalendar 🐡🦑

Back for day 6 of #ArtAdventCalendar with Sherlock and Watson Another piece from our calendar way back when of felt illustration of classic literature pieces featuring our hippo and rhino characters

After struggling, and almost chucking this piece in the recycling, I think these two otters are finished. I started a while ago and picked it up again this week, and it came together very slowly. Take care and have a good day. #OriginalArt #Otters #MHHSBD

In Celtic folklore, the goddess Brigantia has the badger as her sacred animal totem. This connection highlights new life, wisdom, and the emergence of spring. The badger is an earth-dwelling creature that symbolises new life emerging from beneath the earth. Art my own #ArtAdventCalendar

A dragon for #ArtAdventCalendar day 6! This little dragon pendant was handmade with polymer clay. It has a Prestige crystal in its tail and rhinestone eyes, and has been brushed with chameleon powder so it shimmers from aqua to purple depending on the light. 🧶🐉

For today's #ArtAdventCalendar, a look back at one of the pet portraits I did in June for Pride Month. I loved them all but this one always makes me laugh because the pose is so great. Cat & original ref photo belong to @luckymud.myatproto.social! You can browse the other cute pets at #PridePetArt

Day 6 of #ArtAdventCalendar and we're back to my friends the birds! The Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, another fab @birdwhisperers.bsky.social prompt. I really like the shadows on the wings for this one! #BirdArt #SciArt #Procreate #Illustration

And Spotify has officially been cancelled. Handy of the. To give you a giant text box for why your leaving. Had been meaning to do so for a bit but finally had chance to research, try and choose an alternative this past week.

For the #ArtAdventCalendar – a grouchy great horned owl trying to simultaneously sleep and soak sun. I quickly left it be. #birds

When you realize you used up the back up shipping supplies in the garage and never restocked them 😬 At least I hoard all the nice mailers I get when I order things.

Day 3: Kentrosaurus Gave nighttime coloring a stab for this big critter — otherwise I am going to end up with a lot of green jungle-dwellers in this set #ArtAdventCalendar #art #digitalart #paleoart #dinosaur #SciArt #paleontology #stegosaurus

A Pileated Woodpecker for day 3 #ArtAdventCalendar

#ArtAdventCalendar day 3🐾 honey, i turned the dog into glass!!🐕 i made this piece based off an old picture of my dog booker. now it hangs by my water dispenser so i get to look at it all the time🥰

Oh hey it's Princess Luna. #ArtAdventCalendar To see more of my work visit www.mvandiver-art.com

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 3: icy dragon scales Knitted capelet in 100% wool The pattern is by @lavishcraft.bsky.social!

Today is the last day to order my #puzzles, so I'm sharing this monstrocity again 🤣 Yip yipp yippp! Pillars of Googly Eyes available as 1000-piece puzzle 🧩 🔗 sciencesocks.co/pages/puzzle... 🔭🐡🧪🎨 #ArtAdventCalendar

Anyone Missing a Skull? Another of our classical literature felt illustrations for #ArtAdventCalendar day 3 this time featuring Reginald the Rhino as Hamlet

Day 3 of #artadventcalendar! Featuring the ever so complex Griffon Vulture - these birds are super social, I suppose it’s because you can’t dine on decaying carcass without your buddies. Mixed media on paper. #birding #birdart

Day 2 of #ArtAdventCalendar: Came across this impressive Bighorn Sheep while out one afternoon on the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada. #wildlife

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 1 🩶 my first piece made this year! a cute little opossum <3 #art #SciArt #opossum #jewelry

Day three of #ArtAdventCalendar. Many moons ago, I used to paint stones. I’d sketch out an idea and then slowly transfer it onto a selected pebble. Here’s an example of one of my concept sketches and the finished stone.

Continuing from yesterday's #ArtAdventCalendar post (bsky.app/profile/mvan...), I'll post Lulu's sister, Cricket, all decked out for Mardi Gras. To see more of my work, visit www.mvandiver-art.com

Ol' Salty, Pirate Saltasaurus. A bit of silliness which became a personal favourite. Sepia ink over blue pencil on Strathmore grey toned paper, 110 × 143 mm, from 2013. #ArtAdventCalendar

Day 2 of #ArtAdventCalendar - a tiny tortoise friend, presumably getting ready to hibernate! Made from paper mache & glass eyes, painted with matte acrylics.

Work in progress! Can we finish our massive restock for @jackalopeartfair in Burbank in time for Dec. 13th & 14th ?!? Got a 100 individual bags to assemble. Each has the pieces for the front or the back of a felt animal Spent all of Sun. cutting pieces & hours last night sorting. Now we assemble!

For day 2 of #ArtAdventCalendar we have 'Organ? How Hard Can It Be?' We aven't done a lot of new pieces this year so I thought I dig back for some oldies but goodies. Like all our classics literature inspired pieces with Beauregard the Hippo and Reginald the Rhino

Day 2 of #ArtAdventCalendar & I'm going with a piece that still makes me go 'blimey did I actually do that', created as part of BirbFest this year in Jan. It's one of those ones where you loose time while making and then surprise yourself when it's finished! #BirdArt #SciArt #Cassowary #Procreate