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The best historical artefacts are the accidental ones that freeze a moment in time forever. I thought I’d try to find all the times pets have ruined their owner's day and recorded that instant for all of history.

I put all of my free references from this year in one pack. You can download it via Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/s/ac47b53b1c

pine dragon first drawing of 2025! #art

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec 20 Inktober 2023: Beast - traditional inks The last inktober pic I'm doing to post. Had lots of fun trying to fit in so many different fungi on one creature.

#ArtAdventCalendar day 20 iGora Bell box mural I painted at Isabella & Yonge in downtown #yyz . #canadianartists #streetart #torontostreetart #utilityboxmurals #torontoart #urbanart #CanadianArt #artsky

Earlier in the year I collected a feather a day whilst walking the dog. They became the basis for a drawing workshop @artistinresidence.co Day 20 #ArtAdventCalendar

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec 18 Dirk and Todd - digital painting, 2024 Fanart for the Netflix version of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Loved that show. I've also loved the book since I was a teen, so feel it's important to note that the show is almost, but not quite entirely unlike the book.

2 for 1 on day 18 of the #ArtAdventCalendar. Two scenes from #LordOfTheRings painted in acrylic ink. Ink washes are my new favourite thing. #art #lotr

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec 17 Grin - traditional inks, 2008? Maybe?? Going back to another super old one! Two characters from my first webcomic, Kaspall. I still really like the expressions.

Have you ever looked closely at a bird? In many cases, their plumages are exquisite works of natural art. The glossy, multi-hued body feathers of a Wild Turkey prove my point --- and serve as the next entry in my #BirdArt era of #ArtAdventCalendar. #birds #feathers #photography

An illustration from my #PictureBook Betty Builds It (2019 West Margin Press) about a robot girl who likes to build things #ArtAdventCalendar #Kidlit #KidlitArt

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec 15 Octopus & Dicebox - digital painting, 2023 A second still life. Is there anything better than putting the shines on a painting of a shiny thing?

Day 15 of #ArtAdventCalendar! In 2019 I embarked on a solo daily art adventure. The year-long project, titled Three Word Stories: The Year of Things On My Head, resulted in 365 multi-media self-portraits. The art was in the doing. Wreathed In Generosity 15 Dec 2019 (2nd pic in comments) #art 🧶

Cat tails and peppermint candy canes. Feeling rather Christmasish today #christmas #christmastime #ArtAdventCalendar #illo_advent2024 #CatsOnBluesky #cats #drawing #Christmas #illo_advent

Watching another trailer for an interesting horror movie I'll never see because I'm a big chicken, and struck by how in the 90s, horror was all endless sequels and / or ironic commentary on the genre, while mainstream made interesting standalone films... and now it's the exact other way round.

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec 14 Inktober 2023: Remove - traditional inks. Another inktober favourite. Zero explanation for this, because I have none.

Chicken. #procreate #ipadart #chicken #field #ginger #redhead #freckles #digitalart #ArtAdventCalendar

#ArtAdventCalendar #photography #portraiture #peoplepictures#NomadicCommunityGardens #BrickLane #E1 #happy #beauty Coco 🩶

Sketchbook goldfish #ArtAdventCalendar Day 14

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec 12 Roadside - Traditional inks, digital colour 2021 The main characters from my second webcomic. There are lots of things I'd do differently now after learning about digital painting (e.g. more textures) but I still like the atmosphere.

Spent way too many hours soldering today for a final project but here’s another #artadventcalendar

I love it when a painting strikes an unexpected chord with a group of people. Prints of this painting of Kenilworth Castle were sold by Kenilworth Runners for charity. It captured all those early mornings and weekends of training in all weathers #ArtAdventCalendar

These are my first ever dolls. They are imperfect but they come from somewhere in me that really wanted to create, make something after years of a non creative life. I sometimes want to fix that neck but I know I never will. They belong together, just like this🖤 #artadventcalendar day 11

The Destruction of the Death Star. #artadventcalendar

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec 11 Nate - traditional inks, digital colouring 2021 Another piece of fanart, this one is for @jammythebirb.bsky.social 's sweet and dark pirate webcomic 'Back 'o Beyond' - which incidentally finished this year.

“this is the game of love, and it was you, the one who would be breaking my heart when you decided to walk away, when I wanted you to stay.” - daft punk Image created in the office bathroom of an abandoned grain elevator in 2013. #ArtAdventCalendar day 10 #selfportrait #blackandwhite

#Day10Doodle for the #ArtAdventCalendar More blue.

The amazing colours of the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone. #ArtAdventCalendar #Photography #Landscape #Landscapes #Yellowstone

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec 10 Wine & Cherries - digital painting, 2023 I really wanted to get better at digital painting, so I did a bunch of still life studies in 2023. I don't think I'll go back to doing them regularly, but they were more fun to make than I expected.

Oops - I’ve obviously lost track with #ArtAdventCalendar and it is actually day 9. 😂 Anyway .. this is Barafundle Bay, Pembrokeshire, complete with crispy autumnal ferns and marram grass.

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec 9 Inktober 2023: Plump - traditional ink I did Inktober last year, after years of wanting to but not being able to fit it around making a webcomic. I was surprised at how much I was able to create in such a limited time. I had a few favourites and this is one of them.

Missed December 8 post for Art Advent Calendar, and am telling myself this is a relaxed event, so it absolutely does not matter at all - while the perfectionist in me has a little cry in the corner. It's fine, though. She really does need to chill out.

🍄🍂 Day 7 - ‘Fly Agaric Season’ #artadventcalendar #fungi #fungifriends #linocut #norfolk

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec 7 Toivo - traditional ink, digital colour 2020 Fan art I made for @prongles.bsky.social's excellent webcomic Ingress Adventuring Company.

For #artadventcalendar day 7: a newish piece! My favorite so far from my scifi jewelry series #scifi #jewelry

Day 7 of #ArtAdventCalendar: a little ringed plover a-walking! #birds #digitalart

It’s not very nice today. The wind is howling and it’s wet and grey. It’s the kind of day I want to hide under a blanket so here’s my first ever completed knitting project.. A rainbow hue shift Afghan blanket I knitted during lockdown for day 7 of #ArtAdventCalendar 😊🧶🌈❤️

Day 6 #ArtAdventCalendar Across the Valley 36×96″ 92x243cm Oil on Canvas 2022 Commission

And now for something completely different. Day 6 #ArtAdventCalendar During the pandemic I liked to paint Pokémon rocks and hide them near Pokémon gyms and pokestops. Trying to bring a little joy to a scary time. I still do rock painting workshops for kids and love hearing from kids who found them

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec 6 Magnolias, Westonbirt Arboretum, March 2024 I don't do a lot of a photography, but there are some times I just have to take a few shots - usually nature.

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec 5 Maggie Smith - pencil, 2023 From my pencil portrait phase - had repost this one, as Maggie Smith sadly passed away this year... not that she didn't have a good run, reaching 89 and still working all the while! R.I.P. Maggie, you improved every show or film I saw you in.

Happy Day 5 of the #ArtAdventCalendar! I'm loving seeing so much art in my feed. "Muriel" is one of 15 little characters I have in the Curio show at Beaverton's Reser Center, running through Dec 23. #art #artsky #artist #collage #artlover

#ArtAdventCalendar collage, mixed media on panel

Turns out @korenshadmi.bsky.social, creator of the Abaddon joined Bluesky recently! Give him a follow to find out about new projects, or check out this frankly astonishing number of books his already made, that somehow I never thought to go looking for before www.korenshadmi.com/books

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec 4 'Spare Keys for Strange Doors' book cover - ink, digital colour 2021. A more recent one, the cover for the print collection of my second webcomic. Doing a cover was scary - I knew I'd be kicking myself every time I looked at the book if I didn't make it the best I could 😆

#ArtAdventCalendar day 4 Jupiter study (Reference: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA2...) #jupiter #spaceart

A li'l drawing from last year's #naturejournal for #ArtAdventCalendar. #MarineLife #invertebrates