La ville derrière les volets #Pastel on #Pastelmat 40x30 cm The second #PastelPainting of my Parisian series. I've always been charmed by Parisian rooftops and chimneys. More versions of this #cityscape to come. #pastelart #sunset #paris #art #painting #feance #rooftops

Alice #PanPastel on #Sennelier #pastel paper 40x30 cm My daughter came to sit for a #portrait session at my local life model painting club. Lately I really like to #sketch or lay the base of a #PastelPainting with PanPastel (pigment powders pressed in a small pan that you apply with tiny sponges).

Pont du Port à l'Anglais #Pastel on coated pastel paper 30x40cm I'm finally getting back into a painting rhythm! This is the first #PastelPainting of a mini series about #Paris. The second is in the making. For this one I worked almost exclusively with #PanPastel. #pastelart #waterscape #France

I'm secretly happy my husband didn't sell this wonderful artwork yet, as it's now in our living room💚🏡

Can any #MarineBiologist review this diagram for accuracy? I made this in the context of an upcoming art exhibition where I will show sea star and marine life related artworks in different media. Thank🩵🙏🙏🙏🦑 #SciArt #inkdrawing #echinoderm #seastar #artproject @echinoblog.bsky.social

Asterina Gibbosa #Pastel and #gouache (underpainting) on #Pastelmat 24x30 cm Portrait of one of the 13 European sea stars I selected for my big sea star pastel painting project I've been brooding over for the last 2 months. More #SeaStars paintings and diagrams to come ⭐🦑 #pastelart #echinoderm

I'm not a biologist. I'm just an artist in love with #MarineLife and #SeaStars are my most recent obsession. Can anybody check my #diagram of a typical sea star's lifecycle for accuracy, before I proceed with colours and labels? Thanks⭐ 🦑 #echinoderm #sciart #larvae #audhd #plankton #inkdrawing

Here is the 3rd illustrated #chart for my big #pastel artwork, featuring 12 #SeaStar species. This is on the Ophidiaster Ophidianus 🦑 #MarineLife #artinprogress #art #MarineBiology #echinodermata #echinoderms #starfish #asteroidea #asterozoa #BabySteps #sketches #gouache

Planning new #paintings with some compositional studies. If you are (or know) a scientist specializing in #coralreefs and #aquaticlife in the #BismarckSea region, I’d love to connect. This upcoming series will be about #deepseamining near #PapauNewGuinea. #wildlifeart #fish #marinelife 🐡 🦑 🧪

Here is the 2nd #chart for my big #pastel artwork, featuring 12 #SeaStar species. I'm learning about them as I go. This is on the Marthasterias Glacialis. 🦑 #MarineLife #artinprogress #art #MarineBiology #echinodermata #echinoderms #starfish #asteroidea #asterozoa #BabySteps #sketches #gouache

Today I started laying the groundwork for a big #pastel artwork, featuring 12 #SeaStar species. I think I made one of these charts in primary school for the last time! So much fun 💫 #MarineLife #artinprogress #art #MarineBiology #echinodermata #echinoderm #starfish #asteroidea #chart #BabySteps

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We just witnessed the full Trump cycle. 1) Make horrible policy decision. 2) Create lot of pain. 3) Falsely claim problem is solved. 4) Reverse course. 5) Leave things worse than before. Rinse. Repeat.

America, you f**ked up! She warned us. She had a plan that would have benefited everyday Americans. But too many ignored her—because it was never really about the economy. Now folks are scared, struggling—and we’re cooked.

Outside painting weather is back, baby! I finished this #watercolor last year, starting in a garden in our village. I loved the sunlight seeping through the roof onto the grape vines. #ink #Amsterdam #Ampersand #art #アート #fineart #イラスト #gemälde #contemporyart #ペン画 #aquarell #mixedmedia #絵画 #芸術

Chimera above brine pools Pastels on #SennelierLaCarte paper 40x30 cm Done with my beloved chimera and done with my 2nd and hopefully last round of cancer treatment 🎉. #deapsea #DeapSeaFish #Pastelart #Pastel #softpastel #MarineBiology #MarineLife #Chimera #CancerAwareness #CancerSurvivor

My portrait, made by my wonderful husband @thomasschmall.bsky.social with his signature mixed media technique ❤️

School holidays = board games time with husband & son! If you have 20 hours or so to spare, I warmly recommend playing #SleepingGods ! Endless fun exploring a fantastic and adventurous world. The story book sets it really apart from anything I've played so far. #BoardGames #redraven #bgg #family

My #Chimera throw blanket brings a 15% net happiness increase in my life. Thank you @pikaole.bsky.social for creating this (and tonnes of other) incredibly cute design!!!🥹 🦑 #marinebiology #pikaole #SciArt #deepsea #ratfish #rabbitfish #ocean #cancertreatment #hyperfixation #specialinterest

Four #waves (2021-22) Soft pastels on coated pastel paper ( #Pastelmat #SennelierLacarte #Uart ) Back then I wanted to capture the water surface, while now my interest goes more to depicting water and #SeaLife in the depths. #pastelart #Seascape #ocean #pastel #SoftPastel #waterscape #art #wave

Hunt Pastels on #Pastelmat 24 x 18 cm Slowly but surely I'm resuming my #pastel sea creatures project🦑 Here a Sea angel chasing a sea butterfly. #SeaAngel #SeaButterfly #SciArt #gastropod #mollusc #pastelart #MarineLife #nature #ocean #MarineBiology #Invertebrate #nudibranch

The deep ocean is one of the world’s largest, most fragile, and most important ecosystems. We need a global moratorium to stop the launch of this destructive new extractive industry greenpeace.org/internationa... 🦑

Another of my husband's stunning watercolour/ink portraits ✨

Living room 7 a.m. Panpastels and pastel pencils on #Pastelmat 50 x 70 cm Yesterday I had my cancer surgery and I am now still at the hospital, but not for long. Very soon I will return to my beloved home. #pastel #panpastel #pastelart #art #interior #pastelpencils #morninglight #garden #home

Valérie Pastels on #Pastelmat 24 x 16 cm A good friend of mine with red hair and a love for purple and a gentle soul. #portrait #pastel #art #softpastel #pastelart #purple #redhair

Emaille Soft pastels on #Pastelmat 40 x 30 cm Still life drawn during a life drawing session. Inanimate objects aren't my favourite subjects, but they're a good exercise and don't feel guilty for not allowing them to move for 2 hours ;) #art #pastel #pastelart #StillLife #lifedrawing

Fort to Fort Trail Pastels on Canson mi-teintes paper 28 x 38 cm A picture inspired by a long scenic trail I and my kids walked in Langley back in 2019 (near #Vancouver 🇨🇦). #landscape #pastel #art #pastelart #softpastel #canada #painting

Intertwined Pastels on #Pastelmat 30 x 24 cm During a painting holiday in Germany, my husband chose this subject. The more I contemplated it, the more I saw our relationship in it🌱 #sketch #pastel #pastelart #art #trees #NatureArt #treeart #softpastel #pleinair #lifedrawing #Sennelier #germany

Melnykova Evgeny Kirillovna（Мельникова Евгения Кирилловна Russian, b.1988）Kasimov Color paper, dry pastel, graphite pencil.

Kandergrund 2 Soft pastels on Uart 800 paper 15 x 21 cm Little painting of a misty swiss valley, captured during a holiday there. One of my best attempts at using a limited palette. #pastelart #art #pastel #softpastel #landscape #mountains #switzerland #LimitedPalette #FigurativeArt #painting

One of my favourite sweaters had moth holes, so I needle-felted black holes to mend it :) #SciArt #SciCraft #blackholes #astrophysics #astronomy #wool #woolart #fiberart #needlefelting #crafty

Evolutionary needle-felted timeline from sun to fish (2020) #wool and #silk fibers 165 x 26 cm A reminder of how long it took for life on earth to reach the astounding diversity that we are seeing decimated at an increasingly higher rate. ☀️🦠🪱🧽🪼🦐🦈 #biologyart #felting #woolart #fiberart #art 🦑

Creeping up the nettle Soft pastels and #Panpastel on Pastelmat 40 x 30 cm I drew this a few months into the war in #Ukraine, in an attempt to process and voice the absurdity of war and the surreal new world it propelled us into. #pastel #pastelart #pastel #art #warart #slavaukraini #spider #war

Blue bell approx 16x21 pastel on sennelier carte 2021

Tulips Soft pastels on Pastelmat 40 x 30 cm Still life from a life drawing session. #lifedrawing #pastel #softpastels #pastelart #drawing #painting #art #stilllife #tulips #holland #thenetherlands #flowers

I just discovered this YouTube channel and I absolutely love the documentaries on the deep sea ❄️🦑❄️ youtube.com/watch?v=dTKU...

Cumulonimbus Pastels on coated pastel paper 24x16 cm A painting in which I tried out my home-made pastels made out of broken #softpastels #pastelart #pastepainting #landscape #pastel #sennelierlacarte #Switzerland

Cocoon Ink and pastels on #Pastelmat 24x30 cm A parked sloop in autumn. This painting represents to me all of the people I had to shelf in my life. At times, I feel them peaking at my solitude from under the tarp. #pastelart #pastelpainting #boatpainting #art #pastel #softpastel #introvert

Red-Eyed Tree Frog recycled and new sheep wool and silk fibers (needle felting) 46x50 cm Up to 2020, before I switched to pastel as my main medium, I was making mainly felted pictures. This is one of them. #woolart #fiberart #feltart #felting #textileart #frog #amphibian #SciArt #biologyart #art

Bearded singer Caran d'Ache coloured pencils on black paper 21 x 30 cm Singer of the band The Irrational Library sketched during a concert in Amsterdam. #colouredpencils #art #sketch #portrait #carandache #amsterdam #holland #livemodel #drawing #lifedrawing

Holy Loch Pastels on paper 30 x 21 cm This is my very first #pastel painting I made back in 2020, with Panpastels and hard pastels on Fabbriano paper. From my own reference photo taken in Scotland. #pastelart #art #landscape #Scotland #natureart #panpastel #waterscape #clouds #lake #painting

go.bsky.app/K6FhJ7W I'm trying to make a starter pack of pastel artists on Bluesky. It isn't easy🫠. There are just a dozen of pastel artists I could find, but I'll work on it daily in order to expand it.

Fall on Fire Pastels and ink on coated pastel paper 24 x 30 cm For this piece I painted with soft pastels on top of a ink underpainting. #pastelart #Holland #landscape #art #pastel #autumnart #trees #natureart #pastel #nature

Great spotted woodpecker Coloured pencils and pastels on paper 21 x 30 cm I remember drawing this one while listening to the Jane Eyre audiobook. Now this drawing and the book are one thing to me. #woodpecker #birds #art #pencilart #ornitology #ornitologyart #biologyart #pastel #birdart #SciArt

Glow flow Pastels on coated pastel paper 40 x 30 cm This painting is inspired by a sunset on the IJ, the river that separates Amsterdam city centre from Amsterdam North. ✨A glowy 2025 to everyone.✨ #happy2025 #amsterdam #pastelpainting #pastel #art #waterlanscape #landscapepainting #Holland

🪼 For #MolluscMonday, a glimpse into the fantastic world of Alexander Semenov, who captures marine invertebrates like no one else 💙 🦑 📷 🌊

Hypselidoris Infucata Pastel on coated pastel paper 24 x 16 cm The presence of this nudibranch in the east Mediterranean sea is the result of 'Lessepsian migration' (i.e. migration of marine life along the Suez Canal since 1869). #art 🦑 #InverteFest #SciArt #pastelart #nudibranch #marinebiology

Costasiella Kuroshimae Pastels on coated pastel paper 16 x 24 cm (#InverteFest 4th post) C. Kuroshimae are unbelievably cute sea slugs that can perform photosynthesis underwater, thanks to a phenomenon called kleptoplasty. #SciArt #pastelart #art #MarineBiology 🦑 #pastel #seaslug #leafsheep #ocean

Nembrotha Kubaryana (variable neon slug) Pastels on coated pastel paper 30 x 40 cm (3rd #InverteFest post) Poisonous nudibranch, living in the tropical Western Indo-Pacific ocean. #art #nudibranch #pastelart #pastelpainting 🦑 #pastel #marinebiology #SciArt #seaslug