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@carapacestudios.bsky.social
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Author, artist, art teacher, experimenter.
https://linktr.ee/rjmakes
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Katie Bernt
3 months ago
Have You Seen My Cats? (2025) is a comic chronicling my cats weird little habits. Available on my patreon right now, but slowly releasing to the public every week. Here's the cover. 🌻
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Tom Cox
1 day ago
I think medieval beekeeper outfits could be the strongest look in the entire history of fashion.
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
about 11 hours ago
support the arts, small businesses, local restaurants, bookstore, libraries, artists, writers, musicians... you want to see in the world I bought a pound of coffee today from a local coffeeshop instead of Starbucks. These things matter.
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Hammer & Hemlock
about 14 hours ago
A VERY Hammer&Hemlock Christmas this weekend at The Cove on Bainbridge Island! Come on out and treat your tree to some offbeat ornaments.
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Now until 9 pm at Mudlark Oddities!
7 days ago
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It wouldn't be a night before a market without going on a panicked zine folding binge. See you tomorrow at Mudlark Oddities?
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Did you know you can still sign up for this class ? 👀 tabling registrations through Nov 11. You haven't missed any of the good stuff yet.
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Some kind of invasive ape 🏳️⚧️
13 days ago
www.simpletix.com/e/fantasy-cr...
wanna learn how to look at nature and paint creatures like me? Well you can, at
@pushpullseattle.bsky.social
this December!
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Fantasy Creatures from Dinosaurs Tickets | Push/Pull
Want to learn how to draw more interesting monsters and fantasy animals? Start by reconstructing extinct animals by reading their bones!
https://www.simpletix.com/e/fantasy-creatures-from-dinosaurs-tickets-244310
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Push/Pull Seattle
11 days ago
A Better World is possible if we want to imagine it. There are so many things that can be improved upon. What are your ideas? What can we work towards? Give the possibilities shape and definition, and then maybe we can strive towards it... More info & submit:
www.pushpullseattle.com/news/call-fo...
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Push/Pull Seattle
12 days ago
NEW UPCOMING CLASS!!!
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BOOK ARTS starts tomorrow! In this bookmaking crash course, we will explore different bookmaking techniques, including zines, accordion books, coptic stitch, art books, and more. Prepare to get messy as we glue, fold, cut, and sew.
www.lynnwoodwa.gov/Community/Pl...
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No human being is illegal by existing.
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22 days ago
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Human artist- use one piece to convince other humans to follow you (plants & animals also welcome to follow) Tiger Trout, 2025. Ink and watercolor on paper.
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27 days ago
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Hammer & Hemlock
29 days ago
Come make mini leather journals with us :) Made by
@rosiepringle.com
and
@carapacestudios.bsky.social
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Hammer & Hemlock
30 days ago
POV: Looking for juuuust the right charms for our brand new mini leather journals.
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i amar prestar aen
30 days ago
#Tolkientober
day 17: parents “And at times, when Eärendil returning drew near again to Arda, [Elwing] would fly to meet him, even as she had flown long ago, when she was rescued from the sea, […] like a white bird, […] as she soared in joy to greet the coming of Vingilot to haven.”
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Push/Pull Seattle
about 1 month ago
Rad new variants of
Kaylyn
"New Cryptid" block print are in! Perfect for the season! 🎃🎃🎃
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Dino Pulerà
about 1 month ago
Happy [belated] National Fossil Day! Before CT scanning and photogrammetry, fossil were hand drawn like this series of traditional carbon dust illustrations. I miss those days. Photos of my illustrations alongside the actual fossils
#NationalFossilDay
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#SciArt
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#PaleoArt
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#paleontology
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#CarbonDust
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Push/Pull Seattle
about 1 month ago
Riff Raffers have finished their first group project zine! Swing by and grab a copy, or download the PDF to print your own! Some of the zines folks made at our F the Fourth event are also now available for download!
www.pushpullseattle.com/riffraff.html
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The G.
about 1 month ago
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🌟🌌Roomba🌌🌟
about 1 month ago
Went to a cat acrylic painting class tonight with my boyfriend
@pushpullseattle.bsky.social
! Host was amazing and kind and fun :) if you're in the seattle area and like cats and like painting go give it a whirl! Beginner friendly and good vibes ✌️
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Restock incoming
@pushpullseattle.bsky.social
!
about 1 month ago
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Please help me find supplies for my bookbinding classes!
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about 1 month ago
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Push/Pull Seattle
about 1 month ago
From an interview by
@austinkleon.bsky.social
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@katebingburt.bsky.social
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I had a blast last weekend at ReClaim Clay Collective teaching Riso Tarot Collage! Everyone was so creative, willing to experiment. Didn't their work come out great?
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about 1 month ago
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Hammer & Hemlock
about 1 month ago
Who wants the littlest mini leather journals? 👀
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Push/Pull Seattle
about 1 month ago
Fun shots from the one-off Draw Skulls! class we had last week! There are so many different ways to make art and so many different mediums to explore!
Browse our class schedule
and give yourself something to look forward to!
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Push/Pull Seattle
about 1 month ago
Intro to Colored Pencil Illustration
debuts this Sunday! We've gotten asked for colored pencil classes a few times, so here it is!
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Push/Pull Seattle
about 1 month ago
Also! There are just TWO SPOTS LEFT in
Botanical Printing
with
@carapacestudios.bsky.social
, also this Sunday! It's always a great time, but there's so much material to use in the fall, so it's EXTRA great!
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Push/Pull Seattle
about 1 month ago
Paint Bugs!! This
new 4pc watercolor set
debuted in the September mystery boxes and was made in collaboration with
@carapacestudios.bsky.social
, local bug enthusiast and Draw Bugs! instructor and zinester!! Come test this new set at the tester table! 🪲🦋🎨
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i amar prestar aen
about 1 month ago
#Tolkientober
day 4: hope The Phial of Galadriel, the light of Ëarendil Gil-Estel, the star of hope May it be a light to you in dark places
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Mx Morgan
about 1 month ago
packing orders to ship tomorrow - snag a pin and/or some artwork and they'll go in tomorrow's batch. i'm about $100 from meeting the goal c:
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Bone-ing up on skulls for today's class
@pushpullseattle.bsky.social
! Two spots left:
www.simpletix.com/e/draw-skull...
about 1 month ago
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Rosie Pringle
about 2 months ago
Check out this awesome zine by my biz partner
@carapacestudios.bsky.social
🥰 All block printed 😱
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Draw skulls with me THIS FRIDAY!
@pushpullseattle.bsky.social
www.simpletix.com/e/draw-skull...
about 2 months ago
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TurducKen Lowery
about 2 months ago
Walmart nostalgia is Blockbuster nostalgia, to me. The things you liked about it were pale imitations of concepts they stole from the places they ran out of business. You don't like Walmart, you like the shadows of the things they destroyed
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Keezy Young🌼
about 2 months ago
come visit me at haunted burrow books in cap hill in Seattle!!
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Clay Griffith
about 2 months ago
No wonder everybody in America is stress disordered when the federal govt's guiding principle is "Why do you make me hit you?"
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Kasey Gifford
about 2 months ago
Never forget that Norman Rockwell, debatably the most famous American artist to ever put brush to canvas, was not afraid to show the ugliness along with the good. Having his work/reputation sanitized and trimmed into marketable nostalgia is about American as it gets.
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Look at all the good lil guys in here
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about 2 months ago
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apricot
about 2 months ago
Happy
#HelloSunshine
day & congrats to
@keezyyoung.bsky.social
! Thank you for making this beautiful, emotional, haunting book. Hello Sunshine is the kind of story that changes you. I wholeheartedly recommend folks read it. I also want to point out the tasteful spot gloss on the cover. A+ design ❤️
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When I'm exhausted and need to go to bed, I am compelled to scroll the internet until I find the worst thing I've seen all day. Then may I rest.
about 2 months ago
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Bilbo Yaga
10 months ago
Want to read ethically by ditching Audible/Amazon, Spotify, &c? 💙📚 1. Your local library needs support & has free physical & audiobooks 2. Queer Liberation Library: free digital library for US LBGTQ folks 3.
Libro.fm
: Audible but pays indie bookshops 4.
Bookshop.org
: physical books from indies
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Queer Liberation Library
Queer Liberation Library (QLL) is fighting to build a vibrant, flourishing queer future by connecting LGBTQ+ people with literature, information, and resources that celebrate the unique and empowering...
https://www.queerliberationlibrary.org/
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Mx Morgan
about 2 months ago
salmon lifecycle - ink and watercolor, about 4"x4" each, 2025 commission.
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What movie do you consider perfect?
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about 2 months ago
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Gwyllm Llwydd
about 2 months ago
John Brosio - Dinosaurs Eating Disney CEO (2013) For Jimmy & the 1st Amendment:
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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza
about 2 months ago
Please for the love of all things beautiful, before you do a chargeback contact the seller to see why you did not receive your goods. 🥺 Because 9.5/10 times you just entered your email wrong. But the seller can't contact you about it because they do not have valid contact information.
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PNW Witches’ Market
about 2 months ago
🔮Witchy Vendor Spotlight🕯️ Carapace Illustration will be at our Samhain Celebration Sunday October 26 at Kirkland Marina Park, WA
@carapacestudios.bsky.social
Offers unique
#art
using all traditional media. Explores vibrant, saturated horror through an ecological lens.
#illustration
#artsky
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Crow's Nest Comics (formerly Outsider Comics)
about 2 months ago
Hey, um, we need help. Moving is costing us at least $10k more than we planned for and we may need to close down the shop for a short while so... we're running our first ever fundraiser.
outsidercomics.com/moving-updat...
You can also help by shopping our moving sale this weekend.
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Mx Morgan
about 2 months ago
today i got my comp copies of The Transition by Logan-Ashley Kisner, which I did the jacket art for, that was already exciting in itself. then i read the author's note and i am a mess. after reading all the news in the last week or so, i am simply just a mess.
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