Autumn’s Waning 🍂

I will throw in my hat with a few of my favorite sightings, large and small: Bighorn sheep Great Blue Heron Sea otters Seagull chicks Walkingstick (the insect)

Remember to thank Rebecda Black today for inventing Fridays, we honor her today on Black Friday

🪸 Coral Garden 🪸 #Art #ArtYear #BSNM #BlueSkyArtShow #ArtGallery #CoralReef #Reef #Coral #Sculpture #MarineLife 🦑🐡

dear artists, if you're feeling down today for whatever reason, know that at least you're not being scolded by Le Guin

Have you ever heard of an allonautilus? The fuzzy sea peach at the top of my oil painting is the extremely rare allonautlius. Its only been documented in the wild a couple of times. *more in comments* #nautilus #allonautilus #marinelife #cephalopods #wildlifeart #oilpainting 🐡 🦑 #deepseamining

Modern Phoenix

I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists

We’ve been reading ‘My Street Remembers’ and creating abstract maps in Grade 2. Ss used sharpies & transparency sheets to trace sections of our Flemingdon Park map and then created abstract collages to go underneath #abstractart #EduSky

This article, from @chronicle.com, is from December 2024 but is still a thought provoking read and worth the time it takes to read it. 📚

All the leaves are now dead LIKE MY SOUL (Update: Soul is fine, actually, it just needs to, like, hydrate or something)

Guild Wars launched 20 years ago, starting a franchise that's helped shape the #MMORPG genre. On Dec 3, Guild Wars Reforged launches! ✅ Steam Deck verified 🎮 Controller support ✨ Visual updates and more! 🔗 www.guildwars2.com/news/announc... #GuildWarsReforged #GuildWars20

ARMENIA (1990) Oil on Canvas - 22” x 35” Ar-me-ni-a, city in the sky, a Who song, not the country. This painting is part of a series dealing with what Barbara Tuchman describes as the disillusionments of twentieth-century man. 1/5

One of these days I really got to put in some hours into learning how to actually ✨paint✨ #guildwars2 #charr #artsky

new book cover for Camille Chong's debut novel at Macmillan

Winter is here ❄️

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Art train time! Next stops if people want to do it :) @sandpaperoctopi.bsky.social @jajeumm.bsky.social @tinylongwing.bsky.social @greyauk.bsky.social

I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

Newest gw2 art piece :D I was given such a cool concept to work on. I love doing those if I have to be honest. #gw2 #guildwars2

Cover illustration for ‘La noche de los mundos’, by @inesgaliano.bsky.social and Loredana Volpe, published by Ediciones Mutis. Art direction by Loredana Volpe. Yep, all those lil drawings in the frame have a meaning in the story! Had lots of fun with them.

Baby pigeon mystery. My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...

The Getty Museum has made 88,000 artworks available for free under CC0 licenses! This is a huge win for open culture—for art lovers, creators, educators, learners, researchers, and all future generations. Huge congratulations to the Getty for this big step! getty.edu/art/collection 🖼️

[wip] returning to my thumbnail after finishing my lineart never fails to entertain me. like wow. A week ago this was just a concept

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Fields of Markinch, Scotland. Another small relaxed watercolour landscape (+ the reference). Listed now in my Gallery.

Verge (1) digital painting

everyone: it's clearly not the same guy, what with him not being played by the same actor and the stories being set over sixty years apart and all. the people in charge of james bond, somehow: oh god this fictional character is dead

that’s what I’ve been saaaayying maaan

Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵

Starting to think the media illiteracy crisis has gotten to the point where a significant portion of the population no longer understands what fiction is

@franzanth.bsky.social's Campanile giganteum also needs a shout out, as the reconstruction for "largest ever snail" These meter (3 ft) long contented filter feeders hung out in the warm seas of Eocene France. Real fossil of one on display in the case below is ~18 in long

Yesterday was Bram Stoker’s 178th birthday! 🎂 Author of THE LADY OF THE SHROUD, THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM, and, of course, the iconic DRACULA. 🧛 Read the 1899 public-domain edition here ⤵️ archive.org/details/drac...

Took me a while, but I found my endemic Hawaiian tree snail images. :) These lil' ones approx 5mm long, species unknown. 🐙📷🌿 #Invertebrates

Snails :) 🐌🐌🐌

Eve's Ribs in 4 parts Digital painting

The air smells of damp earth and fallen leaves, and the world turning to russet and gold... we just love autumn. 🍂 What have you noticed out in nature this weekend? 📷 James Gregory

"[U]niversities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically."

My second #embroidery project and my first time painting with thread 💜 I followed @crewelghoul.bsky.social’s tutorial and while I had to alter the colour scheme a little (don’t have that vibrant purple in my arsenal), I’m happy with my pansies!

So delighted with these posters that just arrived! Vampire Queen, Udon Guardian, and Side Quest Warriors are here~⚔️ The blues and reds pop well, and movement carries through 💕 Please enjoy! enerjax.storenvy.com

THIS I've had my self-perception fucked with badly by cameras. It cannot be overstated how much focal length can distort proportions.

“The current proliferation of AI that we see particularly in the library and education spaces would not be possible at the speed and scale that is happening without the precedent of book bans leading into it.” — @maggietokudahall.bsky.social www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

There’s gotta be a word for when you’re swept up in the aching need to do so many things—go places, see people, do projects, make arts—but then the realization that you won’t be able to do *all* of them makes you too sad or tired, so instead you just don’t do any of them (or maybe that’s just adhd)

What if we could work with our public libraries to create + sustain convivial infrastructures for local news, local 🎶, digital equity, and more? I wrote abt lots of communities that are doing this work, bldg networks of solidarity + resistance, modeling alternatives to extractive commercial systems.

to be fair, when i was a kid and saw great art I also didn't understand that a human had created it, even back then. As a kid i couldn't conceptualize having that level of skill in anything, even before ai's existence. but when i began to understand and believe it, a fire was lit in my heart

sometimes you die in a cave and lose all your treasures and objects and diamonds. life is fleeting

This little oil painting always gives me autumn vibes. I love the warm colours and that's why autumn is my favorite season. #birdart #birds #SciArt #wildlifeart