Only @drawfeeshow.com fans will understand this reference but I I had to give myself a Trans Rig mani for Trans Day of Visibility. Hand painted with nail polish as always - I did this one on a live stream so if you’re so inclined you can watch the VOD at www.youtube.com/live/ACQn3w0...

Happy St. Patrick’s Day y’all! I don’t really do saints (or indeed green drunken revelry) but I do paint a mean festive manicure! Hand painted using nail polish. If you want to see how, watch the live stream recording on my YouTube channel! Spoiler: it’s just 2 hours of careful painting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Happy π day y’all! I baked a blueberry pie and did a pie manicure to celebrate (sadly the manicure, which I did Thursday night, did not survive to see the actual day since I had swatching to do).

Rake-legged mite! Rake-legged mite! Rake-legged mite! Caeculidae

Along with hiring graphic designers and illustrators (it's fire sale prices) there are many tools to help you provide your own illustrations for scientific graphics. I'll drop a few here in 🧵 #ScienceSky 🧪 You can find illustrators via the many many amazing posts of #SciArt feed.

To add to the new native gardens we put in last summer, @brianwolven.bsky.social and i (okay mostly him) put in one of two new microponds last night. It looks pretty sad right now, but soon enough this should be a thriving little space for local small wildlife to hang out.

I. AM. SOMEBODY. ✊🏽 Rest in Power, Reverend Jesse Jackson. youtu.be/NTVwT3j_zqY?...

Happy lunar new year y’all!

With love ❤️‍🔥 #embroidery #art #artist #mixedmedia

Pulled out a Spider print to reference the foreground texture for my current piece. When carving it can be easy to lose sight of the tone you're aiming for in the finished art. Being able to glance over at my prior work helps keep my line spacing in check. #art #woodcut #wip

Happy obligatory romantic observance day! I did these fluid art nails during my Thursday night live stream this week. I created fluid art decals, let them dry, then used a heart-shaped hole punch to create negative and positive hearts that I applied to the nails. I then hand-painted the details.

SHE’S FINISHED! My 5-foot-long Enterprise D oil painting is complete after nearly 100 hours of work! I remember being 13 years old or so and trying to draw her and it was so hard, and all I wanted was to be able to do something like this. Truly a dream come true. 🥰🖖

woolly aphid my beloved 💜🌿🐡

Every Thursday night I live stream nail art. For my first stream of Black History Month I asked chat to choose between 4 Black scientists I’d pre-selected. Chat, in their usual fashion, said “all 4, please”. Hence: Margaret Collins, Kathrine Johnson, Sophie Lutterlough, and Charles Henry Turner.

@cindynorth1.bsky.social for some reason I can’t reply to this but I need you to know that Brian came over to the sink to show me your reply, and when he turned back to the table, the kitten was licking all of Brian’s goldfish crackers. Now he has wet goldfish that smell like cat breath.

"What exactly do you expect Carney to do / not do?" A thread of 50 specific items (with links, and not in any particular order), a large fraction of which are in line with warning signs we pointed out early on and were told to be quiet, wait and see, or trust his 4D chess acumen. 1/??

Trying to make happy art again... I added another family of stargazers off in the distance. I was at Crater Lake once and wondered if animals took time to enjoy the beauty of their surroundings and at that moment a pika climbed to the tip of a volcanic spire and just looked out at the valley.

Nail art is basically my only therapy these days so here are some recent therapy pieces.

I have a young friend who is almost 6, obsessed with sharks (and megalodon lol), and her grandfather keeps finding bad AI slip for her. Any suggestions for better places to look @whysharksmatter.bsky.social? Id have DMed but maybe some of my other followers will have good ideas too!

Finished up this wave painting! Will be varnishing it to bring out the richness but want to let the paint fully dry overnight before applying. This one is up for grabs. Size: 6.5x11" Acryla gouache on paper $600 (US shipping including) DM to claim

Giant Leopard #Moths, Hypercompe scribonia, were frequent visitors to the bug light this year. What looks like black markings from a distance, is revealed to be a rich iridescent blue upon closer look. Some have spots, and some have rings. #MacroPhotography #Mothmas #Invertefest

Going to a (slightly belated) Boxing Day party this evening, so needed an appropriate* manicure for the occasion. *Note for people from non-commonwealth countries: this is not actually what Boxing Day is all about.

How can you say Avatar has no cultural impact? I've been hearing that Na'vi Dad song nonstop for weeks

I haven't been taking many pictures the last couple of weeks, (and today it's pouring rain), but here's a photo I took on Christmas Eve three years ago, of a single green lacewing egg in my garden. Think of it as a wrapped present with a bug in it. 🎁🌿🐙📷 #bugsky

Okay it’s officially Christmas. The Chelsea buns are done.

#ArtAdventCalendar is technically done, but I’ll leave with one last manicure - the one I’m wearing right now. Happy Santaween, y’all!

Our Squirrel of the Day for December 25, 2025 is a little Christmas angel #sqrlpix

Merry #Crustmas to all who celebrate! Hoping you are firmly attached to people you love, are able to scoop up large amounts of food, and can hide in an impervious shell when the social situation requires it ❤️

Day 16 - one very happy snake plant who started with some leftover watercolour ink and then just grew from there. I really want to make prints of this in 2026 #ArtAdventCalendar

#ArtAdventCalendar 22: a tumbling-blocks geometric #RugHooking work-in-progress. Started in February 2020, IIRC.

🌲🎄🌲 #artadventcalendar #artyear #artsky #artshow #art #illustration #illustrator #artist #drawing #cartoon #design #visdev #ink #childrensillustration #kidlitart #penandink #festive #whimsy #winter #mouse #christmas #christmaseve #christmastree #reindeer #rabbit #bird #tree #forest #woods #moon

#ArtAdventCalendar 2025, Day 24: Icons for items in the cooking system of a cozy, story-driven game in development. I liked these and was pretty proud of them. :) Medium: Pixaki for iPad. #gameart #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

Victoria, B.C. Harbour Waterfront. Oil with Cold wax medium, pastel knives, archival paper, 12 x 12 inches. Day 24 #ArtAdventCalendar #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArt #WaterScenery

I managed to miss day 24 of #ArtAdventCalendar because I was busy spending my entire day in the kitchen 😂 Glad my mom passed on her baking skills and quite a few recipes. She also taught me to sew a bit, but I never got much into that one. For day 24, here’s a quilt she made me, in manicure form.

Finished our LEGO Holiday Express Train kit! @brianwolven.bsky.social

Day 23 Türchen 23 #ArtAdventCalendar #AnimalStreetart #Streetart Montpellier, France 2021

Day 23: #ArtAdventCalendar Sharing a new small painting from my Lighting the Dark series today. Tisha Mark ©2025, Light the Way No. 2502, oil on gessobord, 7"x5" View the series here: tishamark.com/lighting-the... #art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm

Time for a #painting. "Stone Walls, No Sheep III" was the 3rd in a series of 4 paintings that came out of loving landscapes especially those with stone walls and those with sheep but accepting that sometimes the sheep just aren't there. #art #Speirghorm #ArtAdventCalendar

Day 23 of #ArtAdventCalendar Waiting for Christmas be like #watercolor #watercolorsketchbook #skeletons #christmasart

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 23 GIVE THE ALGORITHM WHAT IT WANTS watercolor with pigment, 2023

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 23: gold filagree Hand knit brioche cables in wool 🧶

If I suddenly stop posting, know I was possibly murdered in my sleep 😂 #MerryChristmas #Catmas #CatsOfBluesky #Unamused #Cats

Today I'm sharing one of my favorite drawings I did this year. It's ink on watercolor paper, and is inspired by kelp. vis.social/@kristinHenr... #ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt #ink #drawing #art

#ArtAdventCalendar day 23 is a cloisonné cuetlaxōchitl (poinsettia) manicure. Mom always had these around to decorate the house during the holidays. Did you know the red “flowers” are actually leaves, and the true flowers are the teensy yellowish things in the middle? Hand painted in nail polish.

For #ArtAdventCalendar day 22, a deceptively simple manicure inspired by the JWST “Cosmic Cliffs” image of region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. I used a polish that was itself inspired by the same image to create the “cliffs” and cremes for the sky and stars.

For Day 21 #ArtAdventCalendar A Little Night Magic 32 x16 81x40cm Oil on Canvas 2021

#ArtAdventCalendar, Day 21! An all-time favorite of mine. In the new year I'd like to keep more of this looseness and ambiguity in my art. Yo-Yo mixed media on 18 x 24" canvas 2020, Sold #art #artist #ArtSky #ArtistSky #BskyArt #BskyArtists #PDXArt #ExpressiveArt #WeirdArt #ArtOnBlueSky #paintings

Astronomical winter begins today, which usually means it’s been winter for weeks already here in the Twin Cities. (first attempt at using salt in watercolor- shadows are wonky but I had fun) #solstice #artadventcalendar

Grandfather sun sends greetings ✨ (and so does Grandpa rabbit) #HappySolstice #seasons #nature #art #artist #life #joy #drawing #illustration #ArtAdventCalendar #HappyHolidays ✨