'An early 1920s evening dress by Boué Soeurs, as delicate & insubstantial as though it were pieced together in the night by Parisian magpies & little brown sparrows from scraps of Chantilly lace and faded roses stolen from sleeping seamstresses in high ateliers.' x.com/AnneLouiseAv...

The @changelingart.bsky.social auctions are returning, starting with 'Deck the Halls' later this month. Would there be interest if I were to auction this sketch from a few years ago? Inspired by a post on XTwitter by Anne Louise Avery, a flash fiction, one might call it (see below).

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The @changelingart.bsky.social auctions are returning, starting with 'Deck the Halls' later this month. Would there be interest if I were to auction this sketch from a few years ago? Inspired by a post on XTwitter by Anne Louise Avery, a flash fiction, one might call it (see below).

The big dino has such a happy expression on their face!

THANK YOU for reminding me to say that I finally got your gorgeous drawing framed...

I love Sibelius as much as anyone else, but I seem to be unreasonably annoyed by the endless brasses in both Finlandia and the Karelia Suite. 😅🙈

A welcome spring in an absolute drought of good news.

Aww <3

Oh, it was #GodzillaDay yesterday, apparently.

'You're adopted' ---------- (For the non-palaeo folks, this is in light of a newly published paper re-establishing that #Nanotyrannus, previously understood to be a juvenile #T.rex, is indeed its own genus after all.)

Oh, it was #GodzillaDay yesterday, apparently.

'You're adopted' ---------- (For the non-palaeo folks, this is in light of a newly published paper re-establishing that #Nanotyrannus, previously understood to be a juvenile #T.rex, is indeed its own genus after all.)

Marsh Labrador Tea 🌿 #art #illustration

ACEO painting of a sprite. I think I forgot to post here? 2.5"x3.5" watercolor/multimedia #art #fantasy #painting

little #SundayFishSketch of a redtoothed triggerfish The fish theme was spooooky 🧛‍♂️🐡

No celebration in my entire existence, not even of personal success, will be greater or more sweetly cherished than when this creature pops its clogs.

It's All Souls Day, so cue obligatory listening to Schubert's sublime Litanei Auf Das Fest Allerseelen, performed here by Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake. youtu.be/fngyZ6HiaSk?...

'Henny Halloween, Too' Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 95 × 64 mm.

Edward Gorey, 1972

Got @himmapaan.bsky.social's jumper on again, partly as a statement, partly for comfort bsky.app/profile/bees...

Cooking with the window open, jumping out of my skin, and going into Mrs Bennet mode as the neighbours set off a thunderous volley of fireworks, so close that a few stray casings land in our front area: 'ARE WE TO BE MURDERED IN OUR OWN BEDS?'

Harry Clarke, 1920

Masquerade 1. Ink on Saunders Waterford hot pressed watercolour paper, 90 × 169 mm, 2019. Inspired by the works of Walter Draesner.

Familiar. Ink on Saunders Waterford hot pressed, 100 × 150 mm. From 2019.

Merry Samhain from your resident Halloween grinch. Witch. Ink on Saunders Waterford hot pressed, from 2019.

'Henny Halloween, Too' Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 95 × 64 mm.

Katrina Van Tassel. From 2018. 'She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen; plump as a partridge, ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her father's peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but for her vast expectations...' ~ Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'.

This will be rather eclipsed by other palaeo news today, I fear. 😅 But for Ep. 44, we discuss the work of the much under-celebrated Brian Franczak, who sadly left us too soon. Plus Marc interviews @tetzoo.bsky.social & Steve White on their jointly edited new palaeoart compilation, Mesozoic Art 2.

Podcast Episode 44! We get knocked down, but we get up again. You're never gonna keep the podcast down! Discussing the work of Brian Franczak and featuring a double interview with @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social and @tetzoo.bsky.social!

If you haven’t watched “Tears of the Mountain” yet, you absolutely should! It’s a gorgeous bit of traditional animation that just happens to feature a Yutyrannus. 📺🦖 dinodadreviews.com/2025/10/18/t...

Here’s my review of “Atlas of Prehistoric Animals”. The chief draw of this book is the artwork of Petr Modlitba, who is basically the reincarnation of Zdeněk Burian; his gorgeous paintings are worth the price of admission on their own. dinodadreviews.com/2025/10/19/a...

My latest review covers @rachelignotofsky.bsky.social newest book! While “Dinosaurs” get the title role, it’s really an exploration of the history of life in general, from the Hadean to the Quaternary. I highly recommend it! 🦕🦖🦣 dinodadreviews.com/2025/10/29/d...

In over 17 years of living with psoriasis, my scalp was mercifully the least afflicted part until recently. It has clearly decided to make up for the error, though, and has been worsening since about last year. Right now, it's flared up with a terrible vengeance.

Thanatotheristes is a late Cretaceous tyrannosaur whose name means 'Reaper of death.' I couldn't help this image of it in Grim Reaper guise popping into my head. Brown pencil on plain notebook paper, 125 × 190 mm, 2020. #Halloween #Samhain

Blast, I forgot the olives emoji. 🫒 Also: it may not ordinarily occur to one, but freshly ground coarse salt and black pepper will enliven your humble bread and butter surprisingly well.

There's something about wolfing it down in one's pyjamas at 2am that makes bread and butter with some olives, a bit of smoked cheese, and a handful of grapes a veritable feast. 🍞🧈🧀🍇

That is a happy looking jack o'lantern. And the hen looks like they are having a conversation with them. Lots of humor in this one.

If anyone has good photographs of European goldfinches that they're happy for me to use as painting references, I'd be so grateful. Thank you. 💛 Please share among birders, if you would! 🙏🪶

Really like how the curves are echoed all over the drawing, the peacock's neck, the tail, the branches & limbs. It makes it very harmonious & creates a pleasing way for the eye to travel across the picture. Birds!🦉

I adore good ink work.

My friend Jen White just had her first self-written+self-illustrated book published! If you have a young reader (ages 4-8), consider picking up "The #Chemistry Between #Art and #Science" #STEM #STEAM www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/787395...

So much to love here but the little cat!!!! Is perfect!!!!

Ah, yes. We've returned to 'deep midnight at five o' clock' time of the year again.

Blue peafowl. Ink on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 85 × 133 mm. Not so happy with this as I'd hoped to be. A combination of tiredness and my not managing the ink consistency well enough, resulting in quite a few areas of unsightly patchiness.

It's #BlackCatAppreciationDay. Granted, this one is a silhouette and it could theoretically be a cat of any colour, but... Ink on watercolour paper, 64 × 89 mm, 2019.

Standard look of my acrylic Sta-wet palette by the time I end up finishing a handful of paint sessions. Also no limited palette here - I'm aiming for high chroma with lots of subtle colour variations, which is tricky with acrylic. So using more colours speeds up mixing time #sciart #crabpainting

People who see somebody's artwork then has the utter audacity to feed it into a genAI machine and then post the result under the original creator should be publicly flogged. And not in a metaphorical sense.

A pizza oven fashioned from a traditional earthenware water jar in Thailand. I think you might appreciate this, @rubencomitini.bsky.social. 😁 www.instagram.com/reel/DP7jfau...