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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This is great, I add shredded rotisserie chicken. It’s from Isa Chandra Moskowitz’ 29 Minute Vegan

Text reads “Edamame Slaw with Shittakes and Toasted Almonds”. There is a photo of the salad

A list of ingredients to make the edamame slaw and directions on how to put them together.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Is there an option for alt text on our profile and banner?

A square collage on an orange background. Two women in early 1900 circus wear flank a platter with a red jello mold. A half moon rises from the bottom of the image, below the platter. A bowl of red fruits rises in front of the half moon. A pair of red and yellow starfish are at the top of the image. (Cropped image is the banner for my account, it shows the top of the women and the starfish)

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I picked up some Zig Clean Color brush pens and some Zig Mangaka fineliners from JetPens and made this drawing. I really like how the brush pens blend and cover the line work without smearing and it is very satisfying to make the cross hatch and dot details with the fineliners.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

New Steve Madden ad just dropped

A picture of Marco Rubio standing in a ballroom. wearing ridiculously oversized shoes

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The pink is visible to the naked eye tonight.

The view of a magenta aurora that shifts to green toward the right. A bare tree is in the foreground

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Can you tell which side of the hill didn’t get sun today?

A hillside of trees in autumn oranges and reds. The right half of the hill is white with snow.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I started this painting earlier this year but had only painted the cat and bird. I found it while sorting my works on paper and have been working on it off and on for about a week. It is gouache on hot press watercolor paper.

A gouache painting of an orange cat talking to a light blue bird that has a large orange pompadour. It is a night scene and the sky is two tones of blue with a light yellow moon. The foreground is a red under painting with a dark moss green on top.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I’m trying to find the balance between “make progress on this embroidery” and “don’t hyperfocus so hard I end up with claw hands” and boy is it hard. #handembroidery #originalartwork (I am also salty that both JoAnn and my favorite small needlework shop have closed so I’m playing thread chicken )

A hand embroidered figure of a garden goddess. Her face is like the sun and the bottom of her figure is ocean waves. There are layers of earth surrounding her, and a sleeping beet is to her right. There is a layer of rocks between the two layers of dirt. The stitching on the dirt is in progress.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

My preorder of A Misfortune of Lake Monsters paperback arrived at my local indie yesterday and I picked it up today. I’m excited to read it! @nicolemwolverton.bsky.social

A copy of the paperback book “A Misfortune of Lake Monsters” by Nicole M Wolverton. The view is looking up from the bottom of the dark lake, with plant life silhouettes, the sun is shining at the top of the cover, with reflections in the water.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

My order from Vanness arrived today and this ink from Van Dieman is absolutely amazing. It’s Shooting Star from their Night set, and the label does say it is fountain pen ink, but I like how it lays down using my Kakimori nib #fountainpen

A row of horizontal thick lines showing the different colors in this shimmer ink. The colors range from a medium aqua to a dark royal blue. There is also gold and a little purple also visible.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I don’t usually buy Brew Week merch (except for kegs for kitties fundraiser) but this year had a dragon and I have been all about the dragons since I was a little kid. And look, Ma, no braces!

A white woman with light brown pigtails. She is wearing sunglasses and a black t shirt with a green dragon done in the style of a woodcut on it
The text reads 20th Ohio at the top of the dragon picture.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

If I had a million dollars. I was working on this drawing when the idea for Wander Bread popped into my head

A watercolor of a red bird with a dark blue comb. Its wing is blue and the words “Kraft Dinner” are spelled out in yellow on the wing. The bird is surrounded by several pieces of macaroni and cheese. There is a pink triangle banner in the top of the image, with gold stars at the point of each triangle. A copper green urn is in the right front of the image. It has rust red stripes.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Not all who wander are loafs. I was working on a different drawing when the idea for this dropped into my head.

A blue pencil drawing of a loaf of sliced bread with a face and three legs. It is wearing Mary Janes shoes. It’s walking on a path and there is an arrow sign pointing in the direction it is walking. The words above the scene say “Wander Bread”

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I drew this bird and fish vase on Thursday and colored it in yesterday. I love how these markers look like gouache.

A marker drawing of a fish vase and a bird. The fish vase is on the left. It is shades of mint green and has a pale coral belly. Its eye is golden yellow. It is full of flowers in shades of pink. The bird is on the right and facing toward the vase. It is teal with dark red dots, orange eyes and a pink beak. A gray rowboat fills its body. Above the bird, “Thursday” is written in rounded letters in shades of pink and orange. The date under the bird is June 19 2025

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

“Thanks! It has pockets” I’ve been playing with paint markers in this incredible little sketchbook from www.pikarar.com/collections/... (they take almost everything without bleeding through and are very popular so they sell out within a few days every time she lists them)

My marker drawing of two birds. The bird on the left is pink with a pink ice cream wing and an ice cream cone body. It is looking at the bird on the right. The bird on the right is brown with a beige head and its wing is a pinstriped blue pocket with lacy loops on top. It is telling the other bird “Thanks! It has pockets”

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I don’t have a plan for him, I thought he was someone’s indoor/outdoor cat (he’s very fluffy and other than an injury on his face he is clean and was friendly) and this heel turn has me flipping out because we need to get mama and the babies in sooner than I was expecting to now

A large orange fluffy cat is in the foreground with his back turned to the camera because he is keeping the very small tabby cat in the background away from “his” food bowl

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I played with my pastel pencils today. Bruynzeel and Caran D’Ache are soft, Stabilo and Faber Castel are harder. I took notes so next time I start with the harder pencils before bringing in the softer pencils.

A pastel drawing of a red cartoon style bird with a blue beak. It shows the bird from the top of their head to their shoulders. They have blue eyes. The date (June 5, 2025) and my signature are along the bottom of the birds shoulders.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

The rain has really brought all the leaves out on the tree covered hillsides. They are part of the Wayne National Forest in my corner of Ohio. I really hope this isn’t the last year I see them.

A tree covered hillside. The trees are full and green with spring leaves. A divided highway runs between the hills.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Documenting the Wayne National Forest while it’s all still here. This is the welcome center. Back in 2018 I was commissioned to make small quilt wall hangings for awards given to people who had done good works for the forest.

The Wayne National Forest welcome center near Nelsonville Ohio. It is a brown building with a red roof and solar panels on part of the roof. It’s surrounded by trees.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I needed to take a detour and pick up hand stitching again for a while. I had started this owl cat earlier this year but got tired of doing outline stitches on the wings. A friend had posted a mosaic stitched bear she was working on and that looked really fun so I decided to try that on my owl.

An owl cat stitched in patchwork colors woven with perle cotton and sashiko threads. The colors are autumn golds, rusts, and greens. The wings of the owl are graduated cream to light cocoa brown.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

We had the plague to close out March, and my spouse is an accountant and was busy with both quarter end and tax season. Today we finally got to visit Cora’s Curiosities in Columbus, where I found this wonderful cow pitcher. I’m excited to make a painting of her.

A ceramic pitcher in the shape of a cow’s head. The cow has a white patch over her eyes and down her nose. The rest of her is a warm brown. She is smiling and her tongue is pink. A ring of yellow flowers with brown centers circle her neck, which is the base of the pitcher.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Taking pictures and documenting what the National forest looks like near my home this spring. I don’t know that the trees will be here for next spring.

A highway in southeast Ohio. The brown sign to the right reads “Entering Wayne National Forest”. There are tree covered hills surrounding the highway

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

@redloribrighteyes.bsky.social sent me some of her wonderful paints in exchange for posting art I have made using them. The cheek and the hearts are where I used them on this painting. You can see the sparkle from different angles and in the closeup. They’re so much fun!

A watercolor of a crescent moon face looking to the left at a bluebonnet. Red hearts float around it. The hearts and the cheek of the moon are painted with glitter paint.

A closeup of the cheek and one heart showing the detail of the glitter paint

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

This is my Gizmo when he was a wee bebeh three years ago. He’s much larger and even more fluffy now.

A tiny white and black kitten is holding a fuzzy blue worm toy in their front paws.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

share one of your comfort WESTERN movies (without saying Blazing Saddles)

A movie poster for the film Cat Ballou. A drawing of a blonde woman dressed in cowboy boots is bent over and looking between her legs at the viewer. She has a pistol in each hand. The title is surrounded by paintings of stills from the movie. The text reads “Cat Ballou is all ball! It’s that way out whopper of a funny western…a she-bang to end all she-bangs!”

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Fergus is enjoying his couch time with mom and dad.

An orange tabby naps on a beige sofa. He has one paw extended onto a yellow sketchbook that is in front of him, and he is resting his head on the paw.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social I am pretty sure I’m the neighbors bitch eating crackers and I was sketching today and thinking “I just want to eat my crackers” and so this is my homage to you

A watercolor painting. A pink bird with teeth in its beak is extending a hand to a pudgy green figure who is grimacing and holding a large cracker. The text above them reads “I just want to eat crackers”. It was inspired by Michael Hobbes’ phrase “bitch eating crackers” that he says a lot in his podcasts.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The crocus finally started popping up! I think maybe they were hidden under the leaves we don’t rake because it’s supposed to be good for the bees. I’m hoping I hear peepers today, tomorrow for sure. Temperatures are in the mid to upper 60s to low 70s all week (southeast Ohio)

A purple crocus bud peeking out from between the brown and green grass and a few dried up leaves.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

We all pitched in to send my youngest spawn to the Stadium Series NHL game in Columbus. They turn 26 next week and also just got engaged, so it’s quite an exciting day for them. Us too. Their reaction when they received the tickets was priceless :)

A picture of the hockey rink built at the Ohio State University horseshoe football stadium for the NHL stadium series. The Columbus Blue Jackets are playing the Detroit Red Wings. The stands are full and three people are visible wearing number 13 jerseys in memory of Jonny Gaudreau, who was killed while bicycling with his brother last year.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

We visited the World of Coca Cola and this set of pins with a maple leaf caught my eye.

A set of Olympic game themed enamel pins designed to become an outline of a Coca Cola bottle. There are a lot of the Coca Cola polar bears on the individual pins and there is a pin in the shape of a maple leaf above the “bottle”

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I’m playing with the glitter paints from @redloribrighteyes.bsky.social shop www.etsy.com/shop/Scarlet.... They look really nice against a layer of dark watercolor in this sketch

A watercolor and pencil sketch of flowers. The background is dark blue with green glittery paint on top of that

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The cardigan when I tried it on at Marshall’s.

Me, a white woman, wearing a cardigan that has pink, white and red diamonds on one side, and solid pink with a picture of Snoopy the beagle on the other. The arms of the cardigan have the pattern of the opposite side (diamonds on pink side, pink on diamonds side)

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

My selection of glittery paint from @redloribrighteyes.bsky.social arrived today! Her shop is ScarletNymph.etsy.com

A silver tin with an assortment of 24 quarter pans of glittery watercolor paints. There is a variety of yellows, oranges, pinks, blues, and neutrals.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Today #OnlyBeautifulThings this picture of a model boat my dad built to race on the Detroit River when he was a kid, flanked by a charcoal drawing of a ceiling fan he made in high school, and a wooden figure of a squirrel he made after he retired. There are two retro radios, a chipmunk sculpture,and

A picture of a model boat, two sculptures, two 1950’s era radios, a charcoal drawing, and a small collage painting.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Today in hahahahaha of course this happens, we were on the way to the periodontist for my regularly scheduled appointment and we’re on the bypass when we get stuck in traffic because a car is on fire on the shoulder and all the first responders need to use the lanes to help.

A big plume of dark gray smoke about six cars ahead of us. We are behind a car and a semi truck is in the right lane

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I had breakfast and light therapy first, then I painted this boat and beachballs.

A gouache painting of a brown and turquoise boat surrounded by three giant multicolored beach balls. Three giant rocks are in the foreground.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I’m declaring this finished rather than overworking it. The background is two different shades of Paper Artsy brand paint.

A gouache and matte acrylic painting of a blue bird with a burnt orange comb sitting behind two oranges, a banana, and a slice of orange.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

6:06am was when I woke up today and I painted on this for a while before breakfast and light therapy time

A painting of a blue bird with a burnt orange comb sitting behind a banana, two oranges, and a wedge of orange. A sketchbook with paintings of a toothed rabbit bird and leaves done with excess colors from the main painting is behind it

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I picked up a set of rainbow rolling drawers at Michael’s and the cats are enjoying the empty box. It’s been too cold and snowy to recycle it yet.

A long cardboard box with a lengthwise seam hides a dark tabby with white paws. She is poking one paw out to tag her sister, a tan tabby who is standing on part of the box. A different dark tabby looks on.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I did a small painting using gouache in a Fabriano EcoQua sketchbook.

A gouache painting of an orange tiger wearing a blue dress with green dots. She is wearing green Mary Jane shoes with eyes painted on. She is surrounded by linework leaves. “Tiger girl” is written in blue to the bottom right, and the date is written in burnt umber to the left.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The snow depth on the porch was four inches/ twenty centimeters. I wasn’t wearing boots so maybe it’s deeper away from the house. The town plow has gone by twice in the past twenty minutes.

A snow covered driveway and two snow covered cars

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

The winds yesterday blew a bunch of branches off our tree. This one was lying in the driveway and I saw all the moss on it when I went to pick it up.

A gray branch covered with ruffles of pale green and pink moss

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

#ArtAdventCalendar day 10 Moon pie and a Coca Cola. Riffing on the idea of pies being made of different fillings and my southern heritage.

A marker drawing of a slice of pie. The filling is moons in various phases. A drawn bottle of Coca Cola is behind it.

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Andi Stern @andistern.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I made this little art quilt as a commission for our local National forest region, to honor one of their employees. #ArtAdventCalendar day 8

A small art quilt of a wooded forest path lined with lots of green plants. A sign to the left of the path reads “Wayne National Forest” and has a bicyclist symbol under it.

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