We're getting so close! This thread and the link can help you decide if you want to participate (the answer is yes) It's an all skill levels, unthemed, relaxed, fun & easy to spend the dark days of winter.

Something that it’s important to note about disability; Even if you are not currently disabled, if you live for long enough, you will become so. It is inevitable. Fighting for the rights of disabled people is not only the right thing to do, it also benefits your future self

dang, it's not even 8:30pm and the aurora is DARK RED, even with the full lights of downtown! I've never seen it like this here before #yeg

I can't believe it's November 5th already. We've got up to 5cm of snow forecast for tonight so I guess it's time... #ArtAdventCalendar starts in 25 days. Artists get your posting fingers ready.

Hey Alberta...I'm looking to connect with folks who have recently received a COVID shot through a public health clinic, for a story. Please DM me! Thanks

Hey folks. I am blowing out all of my paper prints. 50% off all 53 different prints. There will be no more reorders on stock so once they're gone, they're gone. Shipping in Canada is $25 so buy 2+ Sorry no US orders. I can ship to Europe & Mexico. earthskyart.ca/product-cate...

It's my birthday today, I'd really love it if I could get some more eyes on my artwork 🌟

Celebrating 🎃Halloween tonight with Arkham Horror: the Card Game by playing this team of older investigators with husband Yes, for the first time since they disbanded in 1887, the League of Respectably Capable Gentlefolk reunite for once last mission: to solve the mystery of the Scarlet Keys!

happy halloween from samwise gamgee and frodo baggins! cloaks vests and shirts handmade by grandma, lembas bread by fig newtons corporation

Happy Halloween! 🐈‍⬛🧡 [ #cuteart #halloween ]

OH MY GOD youtu.be/7nODHyw3lgs #AnimalCrossing

Time is running out to use our free EXPLOREOURWORLD coupon code! Unlock a trove of free questing through November 3rd! Read more on LOTRO.com: https://www.lotro.com/news/lotro-free-questing-coupon-2025-en #LOTRO

STOP GETTING TOLKIEN WRONG

Every time you like an artist’s artwork, an angel grows their wings. Every time you repost an artist’s post, an angel grows artillery and heat-seaking missiles to fight the forces of evil.

I'm completely smitten with the maple trees in my neighborhood this week! All the colors are popping! Tisha Mark ©2025, Golden Lights Marsh, oil on gessobord, 5"x5" Original is available (ships when dry, approx 2 weeks): tishamark.com/product/gold... #scape #art #painting #bsnm #TraditionalArt

Adar for #inktober arctic and #tolkientober transformation. My drawings don‘t always turn out the way I want them to, but this one did 🤗 #adar #theringsofpower #pasteldrawing

My little girl cat is extremely sick with something (fever, sneezy nose, lethargy) and we're headed to the vet right now. She's only lived with me less than a year but she means everything to me and I am so stressed right now. Prayers and good thoughts appreciated

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Welcome, new folks joining Bluesky! Need a brief respite from super depressing news? I recommend following the folks in these starter packs, so you get the occasional photos and art of wildlife and nature (not AI or stolen stuff):

It is rational to fear what covid does to the body. And this ableist machismo, separating "fear" and rational thinking, isn't helpful here. They aren't dichotomous. It is rational to mask in order to avoid covid, long covid, spreading covid, and causing others to have long covid.

Hey hey #portfolioday I’m Amalas and I’m open for cover work. I love to draw urban scenes and human connections found between concrete and steel, sprinkled with some nostalgia [email protected] cara.app/amalasrosa azantianlitagency.com/our-artists/amalas-rosa

Y'all need to see this Bilbo and Gandalf from the Portuguese version of The Hobbit. Illustrated by António Quadros

#tolkientober #tolkienTrewsday Day 14: Colours
 After the defeat of Sauron and the destruction of Dol Guldur, the wood elves celebrate as colours begin to return to the once dark forest of Mirkwood, now renamed Eryn Lasgalen (Wood of Green Leaves) 7”x7”, gouache on 100% cotton coldpress

Fire department was doing testing in our building. Immediately after hearing “testing, testing” through the speaker I looked over and saw Stitch standing on the end table and making this face. He did not move AT ALL for at least a minute

Got our covid vaccines today! And despite all that's going on with Alberta politics rn, the nurse at AHS made sure to ask enough questions so both my husband and I qualified for the high risk category (which meant we didn't need to pay) She genuinely wanted as many people vaxxed as possible

1am delirious motivational comic from moi #comic

put box in calico mouth calco Mouth perfec t size for put box in to c\ronch! inside very Sharp and Perforate box crunch sound put box in Calico Mouth. Put Box In Calico Mouth. no problems ever in calicco mouth because good Teeth and Bite for box weak cardboard side and flaps. #caturday

Pyaari is so decent 🥺

It only took me 6 months but I finally finished this more detailed version of my previous study of Adar from The Rings of Power (S2). Watercolour on gessoed paper, 16”x16” #adar #glug #ringsofpower #watercolour #watercolor

today I helped my husband take a cat to the vet (he's ok, just has a cough), went to the paint store to get 2 new brushes and a tube of Prussian Blue, and also went to the Purolator depot to pick up my big order of cheap canadian t-shirts and my goodness that was A LOT OF DAY for me

It's finally time for Skinktober! What's that? No, I'm pretty sure it was never called anything else. #art 🦢

I almost missed the flareup, but the lights were back out for a while this evening. #aurora

finally kicked this guy's butt last night

well, the days of me being relieved that no one in my house works for an EA company anymore are certainly coming to a middle

i have an idea for a proof-of-concept generator project and i COULD find art assets for it but i wanted to ask first if anyone would like to digitally draw something (a sort of paper doll with some kind of weirdly specific layer requirements and variations) as an art trade for jewelry. (thread)

for the first time since I got Long Covid almost 3 yrs ago, I was able to finish a painting today! please be encouraging of my attempt😅 
I’m still very much a beginner when it comes to gouache & I’m also fairly weak when I have to sit upright for long periods (which doesn’t help my brush control)

this is an amazing and inspiring thread. I legitimately was tearing up reading it. it also makes me so, so angry, but I am going to put that aside for a moment and just be thankful there are people like Tyrus Wong in the world, driven to create, no matter what.

btw if you were hoping my therapist magically had a solution for this, she did not! her prescription was "put down your phone and hang out with your friends more so you are energized to do the things you CAN do about the state of the world and not so depressed you can't get out of bed about it"

It's that time of year where the autumn colours are coming in 🍂

Jay, you all owe an explanation of how it came to be that the exact list of users blamed by The Federalist were banned even if they did not break the ToS, and were not unsuspended until more than a day later.

hey canadians a reminder that this is SUPER FUCKING EASY to sign (like three fields and a confirmation email), and it’s an OFFICIAL GOVT PETITION that they legally have to bring to the table if it hits a certain threshold. sign it or ELSE.

Woodland Light - Gouache (2025) #art

in loving memory of Maru 💔😭 , here is Esme carrying on his proud tradition #sad #caturday

Summer's Not Over

it doesn't get mentioned all that much in books on drawing or comics, but i don't know any technique that's more useful than walking away for an hour

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

It's a paper from last year, but it still pains me to think that we could have achieved elimination without resorting to lockdown, simply by implementing universal respirator usage alone. Not masks, respirators. It's still not too late.

🧵 Dear Republican lawmakers, Canada has the largest intact boreal forest on the planet. An increasingly hotter world due to #ClimateChange makes longer dry seasons, far larger wildfires & yes, more smoke. No amount of "raking" fixes it. The scientists warned of exactly this for a very long time /1

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness.

What if we just end all wars and start working on solutions to climate change and stop wasting our electric grid on AI before we talk about turning off the fucking air conditioning