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Spencer 🐛 @astrodermis.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Trekking into the ravine (an excuse to play with colored pencils and toned paper) #artsky #traditionalart #coloredpencils #abstractart #landscape

Green birds in the top right corner fly in a bright reddish sky. To the left are yellow trees leaning up and to the left. They fade into the background and almost look like flames. The tree closest to the viewer has a large hole under where the branches split, and the roots seem to be leaking out blood. Sharp rocks colored in pinks, blues, yellows, and green are stamped with gridded patterns before they lead down into a dark ravine. This drawing was made with posca colored pencils on grey toned paper.

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Spencer 🐛 @astrodermis.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Ex-Catholic #artsky #acrylicgouache #painting #abstractart

$This is a square acrylic gouache painting on a yellow-orange backdrop. Intermixed are overlayed fractal patterns that resemble patterns from ornate iron gates in bright whites, greens, and blues. They pop with bold red outlines. There is one large blue, green, and white burst/star emerging from the motifs at the top right corner. To the bottom left is a pink spark that blends in more with the background with the exception of its teal outline. On the top left, there is an abstracted church tower intermixed with the motifs- it is wobbly enough to appear ambiguous, except for the steeple roof and the stained glass windows below.$

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Spencer 🐛 @astrodermis.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

My landlady’s cat got an update to some fanart that I painted of him a few months ago 😎 (photo she took of his reaction) I will see if I can post the tatting pattern in replies - - - #artsky #watercolor #shuttletatting #tatting #art #craftsky

A large white cat on the right is sniffing a silver picture frame. The frame holds a sketch of him done in ink and light watercolor. A green shuttle tatted doily in the shape of a plant sits directly on top of the sketch, so it looks like he is hiding behind a bush. The frame is held by the person taking the photo.

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Spencer 🐛 @astrodermis.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Judgment (of the outfit someone wore when they died) (this angel is probably a he/they) #sketchbook #sketch #angel #traditionalart #pen

Scribbled in black ink is a smug angel, whose right hand is raised to let a butterfly rest on his fingers. His hair is long and nearly blends in with the olive leaves in his hair. He wears a very impractical robe, one breast out and part of his stomach visible. His wings and robes seem to melt into abstract shapes in this otherwise simplistic sketch.

He looks down with a small smirk

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Spencer 🐛 @astrodermis.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Weaving update: learning tablet weaving!!! 🧶 I lost track of my laurel leaves WIP and still need to untangle part of my weft 😭 I hope to make this into a headband Pattern for the WIP is from here: ladyelewys.carpevinumpdx.com/2023/09/06/e... #weaving #wip #tabletweaving

Photo of a sample band of white and green twisting together to make an alternating leaf pattern. The loom sits on top of a checkered desk, an extra weaving card, and various pieces of stationery. There is a moomin coaster as well.

Finished sample of my first tablet weaving pattern: my left hand holds a blue and gold alternating band that is rolled up into a little circle. At full length it’s over five feet long. The blurred tip of my loom sits in the bottom right corner of the background.

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Spencer 🐛 @astrodermis.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Made a small weaving pattern sample for myself with yarn from my LYS’s scrap bin c: Done on my little Funem frame loom 🧶 #weaving #craftsky

Photo of a small mug coaster-sized weaving sample previously woven on a frame loom. The warmer and cooler green are woven together in various patterns from solid horizontal stripes with small dashes of the other yarn, alternating vertical stripes, small attempts at twill weaving, and two rows of soumak (which look like a cute little braid). The lighter green yarn is a little sparkly. I think these are synthetic blends, but I am just enjoying the pretty scrap box green yarns for playing around.

The sample is draped over a grey blanket and to the left is a black cat peeking toward the camera from the background

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Spencer 🐛 @astrodermis.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I got this hook from Michael’s a while back and DIYed an ergonomic grip to rug hook my scraps

Photo of my left hand holding a red metal crafting hook that’s wrapped in green medical tape as a DIY ergonomic grip. Photo is taken over a small wooden table, an orange box of crochet hooks, a yellow planning book, and hardwood flooring.

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Spencer 🐛 @astrodermis.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

One step at a time though. Having fun just fucking around on my cricket and smaller frame looms

Photo of two weaving looms, each with WIPS. The first loom closest to the camera is a smaller Funem frame loom with a little bookmark sized tapestry. The project consists of blue and orange tapestry wool with some dots and various checkers about a third up the weaving space.

In the background is a slightly larger Cricket rigid heddle loom. The project is blue and yellow with some black thread on the right. The blue and yellow yarns cross together to make alternating stripes in a pattern called Log Cabin.

Close up of the log cabin pattern on the rigid heddle loom. The lower strands are fully blue and yellow with some dark green scrap yarn at the right to distribute the warp evenly (horizontal threads in this photo’s angle). The warp threads on the top left are black because I learned the hard way while dressing the loom that the blue and yellow yarn like to cling to each other. That was not in my plans. However, the black thread adds variety to this pattern sample and turns the stripes of blue and yellow into alternating dashes over the black strands.

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Spencer 🐛 @astrodermis.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Inspired by Echoes by Pink Floyd, it’s my calm down music - - - #artsky #painting #acrylicgouache #traditionalart

This is a painting on black canvas made with acrylic gouache. A watery bust of an ambiguous person glances directly at the viewer with a beady eye. Blue-green sparkly stars and/or distant light sources glow on the right and reflect on the watery bust, which seems to drain into jets of rococo motif-like streams of water. There is a little blood seeping from the corner of the subject’s mouth.

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Spencer 🐛 @astrodermis.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

WIP sample: I forgot to hem stitch in the beginning so we’re here now Trying to find ways to use red and green without feeling like I’m in Michael’s 3 months before Christmas - - - #weavesky #weaving #rigidheddleloom #fiberarts #catsky

This is a woven sample that I am in the middle of stitching the hem on the right. The pattern is woven in a dark, cool pattern of green and red yarn. The pattern itself looks like several rows of alternating branches or capital letter E’s. The edge of the weaving is unfinished and still has a long tapestry needle attached which sits at the top right side of the fabric. Backdrop is on a red couch and there is a burlap-colored pillow at the top of the photo.

Photo of the sun shining on a small rigid heddle weaving loom with the green and red woven piece from picture one while it was still wrapped onto the loom. There are wrapped up strands on top of the project waiting to be used for the next rounds of weaving. A large, white shorthaired cat closely observes the handiwork on the right hand side. Location is in an enclosed porch.

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Spencer 🐛 @astrodermis.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Black bear is dissatisfied after dumpster diving in a cafe’s trash #artsky #art #sketch #traditionalart #sketchbook

Small crosshatched ink drawing of a wide-eyed, cartoonish black bear standing beside a narrow tree with wavy, textured bark. Loosely sketched ferns grow around its roots but not enough to cover the plot of mulch, grass, and rocks.

The bear with dull, almost soulless eyes looks directly at the viewer to command: “Give me your credit card information.” The bear is bold despite it being midday and standing in front of a parked car, a two lane street, and part of a crosswalk in the back.

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Spencer 🐛 @astrodermis.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

The scarf is washed/finished, and my cat decided to claim it, LOL I did find that I got excited toward the end of the scarf and that the weaving wasn’t as tight toward the end, and split ply joins/even selveges are a mystery to me still, but it’s my third time using this loom/1st big project

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Spencer 🐛 @astrodermis.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Sketchbook scribbles from a weekend at the shore! 🌊 #artsky #art #sketchbook #jerseyshore #sketch

Quick gestural study of the Garden State Parkway from the passenger seat, approaching the Jersey Shore during sunset. Drawn with brush pens on sketchbook quickly to accommodate for the changing lighting and trees

I am holding my small sketchbook. I have it opened to show a spread/a life drawing of structures in front of me that are blurry in the background. There are colorful businesses and a slice of a theme park in Ocean City, New Jersey in the background. The photo was taken on a Sunday morning at the boardwalk. The sketchbook doodle took about 20-30 minutes and was worked on in pen. A ferris wheel, a drop tower(?) ride, and a bit of a pirate statue on top of some businesses are a few focal points.

This sketchbook drawing was taken Saturday afternoon right at the ocean. It depicts an abstracted study of the waves crashing during high tide. I used greens, blues, purples, and reds to study the shapes and sea foam created by the waves. Sketched mostly in hatched ink lines and blended subtly by brush pen.

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Spencer 🐛 @astrodermis.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Lawn-Inspired Scarf Update I haven’t had as much time to weave this week and am trying to better understand split-ply joins, but! took folks’ advice (thanks!) and am getting a more even width, slightly better warp tensioning, and hopefully cleaner edges. #weaving #wip #rigidheddleloom #weavesky

A work in progress photo of a checkered scarf woven with two different green yarn types. This weaving project is on a Cricket 15” Rigid Heddle Loom.

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Spencer 🐛 @astrodermis.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

UPDATE: giddy with sample two. Tied off the ends and decided I’m gonna use a forest green and softer yarn instead of the brown. But I still think this is cute #weaving #rigidheddle Picture is me when I was on my way to my LYS to ask for feedback hehe

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Spencer 🐛 @astrodermis.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Rigid heddle loom weavers: I’m starting out, this is my second sampling on my loom Does anyone have tips on getting the weft a little more even? I think a lot of this is tension related. Either way: I’m just happy to weave and proud of prepping a two toned warp #weaving #beginnerweaver

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Spencer 🐛 @astrodermis.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

wip— THIS close and almost out of this specific purple floss #embroidery #craftsky #artsky #wip

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Spencer 🐛 @astrodermis.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

sketchbook page reimagined into a painting! acryl gouache on stretched watercolor paper #art #artsky #traditionalart #gouache #acrylgouache #painting

Overlapping of bright made up creatures on top of vague rococo-inspired patterns and abstracted corners of a picture frame. Painted with acrylic gouache!

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Spencer 🐛 @astrodermis.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

drawn a week and a half of solving a mystery in an assessment, aka my story of nearly living 27 years with ocd #art #artsky #sketchbook #sketchbookspread #traditionalart #ink #ocd

Sketchbook spread made with colored pens- left consists of a close up of some rocks from a trip to Iceland with some silly little squiggles of messy thoughts in purple and blue

The right is a self portrait of a polite dabble of body horror and messy thoughts squiggles drawn in red— aka- rumination, rinse and repeat, etc

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Spencer 🐛 @astrodermis.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Umpteenth sketchbook where I claim “This is the best paper I’ve used yet!!!” #sketchbook #drawing #art #artsky #ink #coloredpencil

Sketchbook drawing of a girl in purple ink/pink+purple+blue colored pencil with an umbrella and a flower. Behind her is a green portrait frame and a red-orange colored pencil background

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