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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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David Chastain @10000things.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Building a website shouldn’t be stressful, it should be an exciting collaboration. I have a new starter website package for artists and very small businesses - or as a turnkey solution for your client‘s sites. What do you need? I’d love to talk about it 😊 10000things.net/opensign/ #smallbusiness

On a red and black background, the head of a cat curiously noses a laptop computer keyboard. The text reads “Websites for Everyone. Elegant and affordable websites made by a real human being. Artist and Small Business sites from $599. David Chastain

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 31/08/2026

We are dealing with a lot of ongoing and unexpected expenses helping one of our cats with a serious medical issue. If you'd like some fun t-shirts, art prints, or entertaining books, this would be a great time! Links in quoted. Cat tax photo... Mr. Chester appreciates you 💜

Close up of the face of a silver gray tabby cat with green eyes. He is looking off to the left with wide eyes.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 10/08/2026

Once again sending out this loving advice to artists: if you want your art to have the greatest possible reach on Bluesky in particular, adding some basic alt text to describe the subject & medium is the way to go. And once you've written some for an image, you can copy and paste for future posts!

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Avishek @avisghosh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Some of my new works Anyone interested can DM me

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 31/07/2026

Last day of #ArtRepostJuly! It has been a joy to see everyone's art. Hope anyone who felt shy about reposting older work will continue to do so! Today, I'm asking folks to post a #favorite piece... this is a much older one of mine but I still love the mood of it. Thanks for a fun month! 💜

Art piece of a drawing in mainly light beige to dark brown tones of three barn owls standing shoulder to shoulder and staring out at the viewer with dark soulful eyes. They are squeezed into the frame so that the one on the left and right are partially cut off. They have a slightly menacing air.

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Joanna🌱 @rainbowofcrazy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Day 31. Favourite. We did it, Bluesky!! Find the #art print @ rainbowofcrazy.myshopify.com/products/sec... #ArtChallenge #ArtRepostJuly #BSNM

A surrealist painting with a person's head opening up to crazy swirls of lines and rainbow colours taking over the entire image.

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A. J. Lee @byajlee.myatproto.social · 01/08/2026

#ArtRepostJuly #Art #AcrylicPaint Theme: Favorite This is one of my favorites because it no longer exists and was a complete accident when I painted it.

Painting of... Gold water lilies in a golden pond

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David Chastain @10000things.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#art #ArtChallenge #ink #digitalart #ArtRepostJuly Day 31, Favorite A Tentative Gesture Not sure about favorite, but it was one of the first things I did with Procreate, and it was a “hmm, okay yeah” moment, a new way to make my weird scribbles. More portable, less pressure & mess than real ink 😏

An inverted teardrop shape in black brush strokes on a stark white background. Intersecting the bottom portion, three simple rough white lines extend through and out of the bottom of the shape.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 30/07/2026

It is the penultimate day of #ArtRepostJuly! Today's theme is #BlackAndWhite I follow a lot of amazing artists who excel in this one! One of my best is probably this drawing of the 4 corvids in my book Roadkill who have the last word (laugh?) on humanity. #BirdArt #B&WArt

Black and white illustration of four birds receding into the distance. From front to back: raven, magpie, crow, rook.

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Wynn @oddlywynn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

#ArtRepostJuly Day 30 - black and white The first Lemon drawings...! This is the only thing I had with no other colour. 😅

Five drawings of a black bird in black and white on a gray background: he's holding a knife, walking, sitting in some flowers, looking over his shoulder with a vacant stare , and lying in a sweaty puddle desperately reaching for a bottle of water.

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Hravn @hravn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

#artrepostJuly Day 30 #black&White I’ve missed the last several ones (on vacation) but here’s a #fish! #eastcoastkin #procreate

A black and white drawing of a fish facing to the right. It is filled with different designs and patterns.

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David Chastain @10000things.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I’m workshopping a new starter website package designed for artists and super small businesses, using the same core I use on larger sites, so easy to upgrade later. I’d love to talk with anyone here who needs a new site, I am of course artist friendly 😊 www.10000things.net/opensign/

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Wynn @oddlywynn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

For #ArtRepostJuly Day 29 - environment Going with this one, since I love the world of Over the Garden Wall so so much. 😌🍂

Illustration of the characters of Over the Garden Wall, dancing in a field in Pottsfield, around Enoch (a tall character with a pumpkin like head and a body of streaming grass and straw). Wirt is dancing with the bird Beatrice, Greg and the frog Jason Funderburker are dancing with a black cat. And all around them dance the pumpkin headed people of Pottsfield, one with a skeleton body.

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David Chastain @10000things.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

#art #ArtChallenge #photography #ArtRepostJuly Day 28, Animal I guess I don’t have much with animals, probably in old sketchbooks and drawings in boxes. Anyways, here’s my cat’s butt and ears.

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Sharon Clabo #art @skylightjesse2.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Becoming - acrylic on stretched canvas. 24x30 inches in my Etsy shop. #art

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 25/07/2026

Today's #ArtRepostJuly theme is #surreal Here's one of the drawings I spent the most time on (in retrospect, I wish I'd kept track of exactly how many hours it took). It's titled "ai angel" and was an early commentary on the alarming rise of AI-generated art. Rare process video in comment!

Drawing in white and light gray ink against a dark gray background of an angel like figure with multiple wings covered in eyeballs. Its body is made up of computer parts, a smart phone, gears, and extension cords. Its head is split into two parts with one being an old-fashioned heavy microphone with sparking electrical wires and the other being an eye surrounded by a halo of electrified spheres. The overall effect is of an alien and alienating but beautiful being.

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Steven Strang @alchemicalrat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Today’s #ArtRepostJuly theme is “Surreal”

The Astronomer. Painting of a girl in a blue dress holding the full moon on a string. She is standing in front of a cedar hedge and a hare is sitting at her feet.

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• MarieBee Banville • @mariebee10.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It’s Day 25 of the #ArtRepostJuly challenge hosted by @whistberry.bsky.social The theme today is #surreal In 2023, I did a figure drawing class, and one of my drawings eventually morphed into this. Weird, but I’ve always enjoyed bird heads. It’s the beaks for me. #art #ArtChallenge #weird

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David Chastain @10000things.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

#art #ArtChallenge #ink #digitalart #ArtRepostJuly Day 25, Surreal Two Different Ways I always struggle between the urge to “finish” and polish drawings and the instinct to leave them be and let the human rough edges show.

A whimsical curving ladder is in the foreground, the bottom and top are both out of frame and there is no visible means of support. In the distance, slightly out of focus mountains or hills are visible. Everything is rendered in loose monochromatic brush strokes.

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Bru.ib⭐ @bruib.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Ten Ten Ten. #Art

an abstract 'cityscape' of striped cubes and blue line, presented in a distorting 360 degree panoramic view.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 23/07/2026

Happy 23rd day of #ArtRepostJuly! When I tell you this person is exactly 26 feet 3 inches or approximately 8 meters from antler to tentacle (if you could ever get close enough to measure), you will understand why I chose it for today's theme of #large

Digital drawing in white ink against a black background of a creature with tentacles for legs, luna moth wings and feelers, a bird skull-like head, antlers, hoofed hands, fur-covered body and glowing red eyes.

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rike @rikedraws.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

big 🐟 — #ArtRepostJuly

an ink drawing of a huge lanternfish who went up to the water surface. he is now an island, his lantern is a lighthouse and a ship runner ashore on him

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Bru.ib⭐ @bruib.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The Trained God. #Art #DarkArt

A dark cavernous space, lit by a glowing orb, chained at the center. Dim blue spheres surround the space.

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David Chastain @10000things.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I keep meaning to share this lovely substack. She isn't on bluesky (yet) but honestly this is her audience, so do yourselves a favor and have a peek. Catherine is among other things a full time RV Nomad with her dogs Bliss and Magic. Go go go, read read read: probablythisway.substack.com

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Probably This Way | Catherine Barden | Substack

Stories about life's twists becoming the scenic route. Click to read Probably This Way, by Catherine Barden, a Substack publication. Launched 2 months ago.

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David Chastain @10000things.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

#art #ArtChallenge #photography #ArtRepostJuly Day 22, Small I think this was a Dahlia bud, though honestly…anyway it’s some kind of buddy plant extrusion that fascinated me.

Dahlia bud photographed from extremely close up. The details of the bud appear scaled in many tones of glistening brown, gold, cream, ivory, and black. The composition is square, with the round bud taking up most of the frame. The background is out of focus.

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David Chastain @10000things.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

#art Gorgeous, and as always the best title too

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David Chastain @10000things.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

#art #ArtChallenge #photography #ArtRepostJuly Day 21, Blue Smoke Tree leaves. It turns out I weirdly don’t have a lot of blue art, but this has nice blues in the background.

Smoke Tree leaves with a few water droplets, arcing diagonally across a hazy unfocused blue background.

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Hravn @hravn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Once again, posting right before the day ends! Day 20 of #artrepostJuly is #whimsical. I do a lot of whimsy so it was hard to choose. Here’s a weird starry sky and #sheep picture. #EastCoastKin #Artchallenge #procreate

A strange striated landscape of colorful spheres with rows of sheep on top and below. Stars hang from the sky at the top.

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Bru.ib⭐ @bruib.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Photonic filings in a magnetized light field. #Art

abstract light forms, blurred with motion on a black background, rendered in a stippled style.

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Hravn @hravn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Squeezing this in just under the wire for day 19 of #artrepostJuly. I don’t have many eye-related artworks but here’s an #octopus using its #eye on a #sextant! #EastCoastKin #procreate #artchallenge

A shimmery blue pink
Octopus looks through a sextant while holding a stalk of something. Above in the night sky are stars and the full moon has a moth on it.

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David Chastain @10000things.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I don't usually post about my day job, but the small companies I work with aren't spending right now and new work is sparse, so: I make Wordpress websites for small businesses, artists, nonprofits, and am very good at finding creative ways to work in tight budgets. Talking is free: 10000things.net

Small images of three websites that I've designed and host, Polk County Master Gardeners, Rose's Pawn Shop band site, and Pam Serra-Wenz art site.

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Avishek @avisghosh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

One night with the ancestral stars Size 17 by 13 inch On paper Medium oil Original available

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The Alchemist 🇨🇦 @alchemistsstudio.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I saw that some of my fellow artists on here are participating in #artrepostjuly and since the theme is #whimsical I thought I'd share this piece 'Kit-tea Stargate'.

A close up of a white cat standin in a ring that makes up part of a weird teapot that is glazed to look like a starry sky.

A full shot of the same teapot. You can see a brown cat on the lid of the teapot.

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hand_to_eye @delightw2023.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

#ArtRepostJuly #whimsical #DigitalArt TITLE: IN THE NIGHT NURSERY

Vintage child riding a bicycle on top of a pink elephant. The background is white with black text.

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Marlene Jørgensen @vinkelmule.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Humfrey puffed his cheeks up to play the tuba and the effort nearly popped his eyes out 19. Eye #art #ArtChallenge #ArtRepostJuly #bskyart #sketch #sketchbook

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This might sound weird but my photography is changing again. I'm drawn to the unreal and the hidden just below the surface. Spectres is not really a good enough word but the hidden susserations of a world we can't quite see.

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David Chastain @10000things.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

#art #ArtChallenge #ink #digitalart #ArtRepostJuly Day 19, Eye Going back a ways again to find one for today, from my 1996 brush and ink tarot. davidchastain.art/davids-tarot/

A solitary figure is depicted sitting cross-legged, in loose ink brush strokes. They look down contemplatively into a cup, with a dark indistinct shape emerging from it. Above their head, a large eye is depicted with sparse brush strokes, the pupil could be a flame.

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David Chastain @10000things.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

#art Love this! www.etsy.com/shop/sharonc...

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