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@blackermine.bsky.social
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Wildlife illustrator and comics artist, living between science and fantasy 🦄

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ZestyDoesThings @zestydoesthings.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Finding some art of an animal/creature or a silly photo and sending it to a friend, saying "it you" is the best kind of love language
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.eva @blackermine.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
finally back to my little trips around Bratislava and some #NatureJournaling #watercolors #sketchbook
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Jenn Woodall @funeralbeat.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Friend of the pigeons. Risograph print in fluorescent orange, mint, bright red and medium blue ink 🐦
Risograph print featuring a young woman at the top of the building, surrounded by pigeons. One is eating out of her hand.
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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Morning... Cudoniella tenuispora 🍄📷 #FungiFriends
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.eva @blackermine.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Little visual guide for myself to help me remember names of some flowers that I use to see a lot on my spring walks. 🪻 #wildlifeart #botanicalillustration #flowers #wildflowers
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.eva @blackermine.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
So, many flowers outside! So, here is a little #wip for my tiny botanical guide😊 #spring #sketch #naturejournaling
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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Fossil cake I drew on a birthday a while back. It is not my birthday today, I just think the drawing's still neat. #Art
Illustration of a vanilla cake slice with pink icing and green buttercream leaves piped on top. Each layer is studded with white and milk chocolate fossils.
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.eva @blackermine.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Yesterday, I saw two of these little fellas!!!💛🖤 #urban #wildlife #flowers #spring #bumblebee
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.eva @blackermine.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Little #wip of my next little animation😄 #RoughAnimator #owl #wildlife #animation
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Carolyn Kay Smith @carolynkaysmith.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
It's my sketchbook and I can draw what I want to. ^___^ Coppersmith Barbet doodle from my India travel journal. This bird is named for its ringing call, which apparently sounds like a coppersmith's hammer. #birds #birdart #sciart #watercolor #naturejournal
A cartoon of a Coppersmith Barbet bird standing on an anvil and striking a piece of copper with a handle. This is a small part of a sketchbook page. The note reads: "The Coppersmith Barbet was also hard to see but often heard. It has a higher and prettier call [than the Brown-headed Barbet]."
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Talenshi - Birds & Magical Books @talenshi.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I really want to just be a little guy and make silly drawings. But no, these asshats have to do a coup. #cuteart #sugarglider #impeach #politics Take care of each other & don't give up. Get our new sticker here: www.talenshistudios.com/products/imp...
A sugar glider climbing onto a peach. Surrounded by text that reads: "Eat Fruit, Impeach the Traitor"
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Here are a few fancy moths to brighten your day. These are all tiger moths - (Hyperthaema sp.), (Bernathonomus sp.), (Amaxia sp.) #Inverts #MothMonday Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador
A bright red moth with four white spots on its wings. It is standing on weathered wood.A brown moth with tan spots on its wings. It is standing on a piece of wood.A bright yellow moth with orange patterns on its wings. It is standing on white fiberglass.
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.eva @blackermine.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
new wolf animation on the way 🐺
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BlindCoyote 🔜 IX @blindcoyote.com · 14/02/2025
Crimson Bloom 🐲🪷
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.eva @blackermine.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Since our ministry has allowed wolf shooting, I've been wanting to draw as many wolves as possible. Yesterday, I finally got some time😊🩶🐺 #wolf #natureconservation #howl #wildlifeart
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.eva @blackermine.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
How is your Friday going? 😄🩶
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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
A little valentine from me to you. #Art
Symmetrical digital art on a pink gradient background of a venus fly trap plant in a vague heart shape. In the middle is a housefly with a body shaped like a heart and front legs extended.
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Victoria Pfeiffer @victoriapfeiffer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
For #FebruArty we have another collaboration with #SensoryArt with the theme of #Sweet ! I’ve posted this before but it’s probably the only thing I’ve got relevant to today’s theme. 😂 Fruit #butterflies in #watercolor! #art #ArtYear #painting #sciart
A watercolor painting of a set of butterflies inspired by different fruitsA watercolor painting of a set of butterflies inspired by different fruits
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Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Since there was interest in these lovely and strange trunk-nosed antelope, I thought I'd share my short comic about them (+ colonialiam and exploitation) Saiga of the Steppes. Don't worry there's a good ending 💚
Cover of the short comic Saiga of the Steppes by Ami Bogin. A male saiga antelope walks towards the viewer on the steppes with Karakalpak embroidery behind him.SAIGA OF THE STEPPES

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Qaraqalpaq embroidery threads show a steppelands scene with geometric patterns of rich colours on dark cotton cloth. 
Main Character (Narration):
Recently, a messenger came to me in a dream. 

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Now in a realistic but painterly and dreamy style, a wizened old lady’s feet stand barefoot on a dessicated shore. 
Main Character (Narration):
I stood on the banks of the once-sea and a saiga antelope approached me.

Panel 3
Back in the embroidery style, the radiant symbol for saiga antelope shines on dark cloth.
Main Character (Narration):
“Who are you?” I asked this beautiful elder. 

Panel 4
Back to the realistic dream style, this time we see an ephemeral saiga elder himself. In a fluffy winter coat, he turns to watch the POV with a wise air, his horns translucent and tall. Behind him a glimpse of the steppes in the wintertime with fallen modernities represents the former industry around Aral Sea including fishing and weapons testing. 
Main Character (Narration):
“You and I are the keeper of the steppes,” said he.

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In this wide panel in the dream style, we see the main character, an old Qaraqalpaq lady, facing the saiga elder at the now dessicated shore of the Aral Sea. She is a fit senior and, like the intrepid saiga, is used to a life of work on the steppes. She wears a colourful headscarf and a mixture of traditional and western clothing. She kneels and stretches out hands grasping sand, pleading with the saiga. 
Behind them, the shape of large rusted ships and other structures lie fallen in the mist. Though it is an ecological disaster, still the steppes and the dry lake bed are beautiful. It’s a flat expanse with a range of colours playing on the eyes showing the depth of the horizon. 
Main Character:
I want to believe you! But people with power have wrecked our bodies and our lands. Look at what once was our sea…
Saiga:
And yet we are still here.
Saiga of the Steppes

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Continuing in the dream style, the main character is in anguish, her brows furrowed in pain at the thought of the destruction she has seen.
Main Character:
And now after the engineers plowed bare the steppes, we live among oil explorers who rend it with fences and pipeline. Though I am here, I am powerless...

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Close up on the saiga in the dream style, wind pulling at his mane as he watches thoughtfully and silently. 

Panel 3
He turns away.
Saiga:
I have walked these lands since the age of glaciers, and yet I remain.

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The embroidery Qaraqalpaq symbology for saiga springs behind him in the air giving him a sort of holy look. 
Saiga:
We have something they cannot take away.

Panel 5
He steps in the dream style but embroidery springs forth in hopeful patterns at his hoofs. 
Saiga:
We have in us the power of rebirth.
Main Character:
But how?

Panel 6
Now we are in the real world, the style décor falls away to be a modern and clean style.  Under the main character’s fingertips, we see that she has captured the likeness of the saiga footprint on an embroidered bit of cloth. Traditionally this symbol warded off evil and brought good luck. 
Main Character:
“Spin our story on thread and cloth...” Saiga of the Steppes
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In this wide panel, the main character is at a market stall showing embroidered bags and small crafts she has made on display at her table while other vendors nearby sell food and wares. Her daughter looks at a phone seemingly annoyed while her two young grandchildren look on with awe, leaning on her table with curiosity. Baina, the younger is energetic and eager, Elya, the older, is thoughtful. Äje means grandmother in Kazakh. The main character holds up one of her sashes to point out the symbol that means saiga as she explains the dream. 
Main Character:
“As your mother did before you,” he said. 
Baina:
Wow Äje, so that’s why you’ve been making all these bags and sashes!
Main Character (Narration):
We are at my new stall at Central Market in Nukus, Uzbekistan.

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The kids look up at her in amazement. Around her, some traditional embroidery patterns make visual her inspiration and hope. 
Elya:
A saiga antelope told you to!
Baina:
A dream saiga!
Main Character (Narration):
I’m lucky my grandchildren are open to the old ways.

Panel 3
The Main Character’s daughter looks annoyed. 
Mom:
Mom you’re filling their heads with nonsense!
Main Character (Narration):
Because I raised my daughter with too much scepticism. 

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The mother scrunches up her nose at the craft table and makes air quotes while the grandmother looks up at her sadly. 
Mom:
What does “the power of rebirth” even mean?
It’s all just fairy tales!
Main Character (Narration):
It’s true that as a child she saw our proud sea turn to desert then later in life she saw two-thirds of the saiga population die in a season.

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Close up on the main character whose brow furrows with the pain of those years by when the hardship for human and animal alike were a central part of their existence. Her daughter holds a bit of embroidery unconvincingly in her free hand. 
Main Character (Narration):
Their bodies littered the fallen lands back then and it broke her heart.
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clovrdoesart @clovrdoesart.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
bottom feeder - ghost skrimp #fishyfeb #digitalart #art #artchallenge #sketch #shrimp #artsky
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deepgreenravine @deepgreenravine.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Hi! I’m going to be teaching a class 4/15 - 6/3! This online course, hosted by Lyme Art Association, will be on Tuesdays from 530p-8p EST. It’s open to people of all skill levels & scientific backgrounds. I’d love to work with you! Read more and sign up here - lymeartassociation.org/class-online...
This is a visual graphic explaining a little information about the class, featuring a graphite drawing of an armadillo made by yours truly! #sciart
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CahanTryfid @cahantryfid.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Ok, I did second prompt. So this is a maroon clownfish (Premnas biaculeatus). Only clownfish which doesn't belong to genus Amphiprion. They're big, nasty and cool. #art #fish #coloredpencils #FishyFeb #FishyFeb2025 #FebArt #FebArt25 #ArtYear #Februarty
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Amanda Makepeace (ᏣᏁᎾ) ❤️‍🔥 @amandamakepeace.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I bought some shadowboxes to see how they might look. I’m in love! ✨ #art
Loon feather framed in a shadowbox
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.eva @blackermine.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
and the last one!!! 🎉🥳🍾✨️ Spotted Pardalote is the last one on #birbfest2025 list.
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.eva @blackermine.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
one of these was trying to steel me lunch a while ago, and I just can't forget about 🤣 #birbfest2025
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.eva @blackermine.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
there's nothing to see here. That's not an Eurasian bitterness. It's just some reeds... #birbfest2025
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Catrish 🗿 @catrish.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
It's my birthday today but no reason to stop posting Landscape challenge day 7, misty wood У меня сегодня день рождения, но это не повод прекращать поститься. Челлендж по фонам день 7, туманный лес #art #artwork #artist #digital #wood #birch #mist #fog #morning #autumn #landscape #rural #chilly
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stroObs : indy @strooooble.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Look at the stars, look how they shine for you .. ✨🥰 #art #artist #astronomy #irishart #smallbusiness #raven
An ink illustration arranged on a desk with pens, prushes and pots of the materials it was made with. The artwork features a raven perched on the ground behind a telescope, looking over it at the sky, while maps and carts are scattered on the ground behind him.
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.eva @blackermine.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I've just seen video of spoonbills balancing on mangrovetree roots and just couldn't resist 😁 #birbfest2025
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Anni @studiocikada.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Roseate Spoonbill for #birbfest2025 day 27!
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Thanda ✨ SDCCMálaga B03 @thandaart.com · 28/01/2025
King Fisher 🧡
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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Something for #SundayFishSketch. Everyone seems to enjoy it when I draw eels, so, here's a fire eel! If you want to color it yourself, let me know, I'll send you the lineart and I'd love to see what you do with it. These patterns were pretty relaxing to render. #SciArt #Art
Digital art of a fire eel, a long fish with a long nose and beautiful, bright orange stripes and dots along its dark blue body. It is surrounded by green underwater plants, on a blue-green background.
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Victoria Pfeiffer @victoriapfeiffer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
In February I’ll be following this prompt list I made for #FishyFeb So I can continue to share my fish art every day! Everyone is welcome to join - I tried to make the prompts as open as possible. All art and photography can be entered (no AI). Have fun! ❤️ #promptlist #FishyFeb2025
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.eva @blackermine.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Ornate hawk-eagle getting ready for the week. #birbfest2025
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ShyChickenn🐓🐈🐀 @shychickenn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Cassowary!!! Also known as "the world's most dangerous bird' :0 #birbfest2025 #artist #digitalart #stylised #cassowary
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inspectorbeans @inspectorbeans.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Day 23 - yellow-headed blackbird With 6 minutes to spare!!!!! WOOO!!! #birbfest2025 #birb #yellowheadedblackbird #birbfest #birds
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Sasha Stowe @sashastowe.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Going to try and get used to posting more sketchbook stuff and loose sketches. Neat, finished art can mainly be on my portfolio website ☺️ So here's a sketchbook page of pink-necked green pigeons as a bit of a warm-up today 🦜 #birbfest2025 #sketchbook #kidlitart #traditionart #illustration
A sketchbook page of three traditional art drawings of pink-necked green pigeons. The pigeons are sitting, flying and sleeping and they're brightly coloured in purple, blue, green and orange.
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.eva @blackermine.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I love those videos of Yellow-headed blackbirds in havy wind 😆 #birbfest2025
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.eva @blackermine.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Hop, Hop, hop, hop, hophopppp #birbfest2025
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Pauline @paulinedrawsbears.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
One fluffy little Red-Backed Shrike for #BirbFest2025. #birbfest #art #birds 🪶
A digital drawing of a red backed shrike  calmly sitting on a branch
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.eva @blackermine.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I still giggle at these three little fellas😁 #birbfest2025
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.eva @blackermine.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Barn owl landing for #birbfest2025 🦉
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Art by @lucidillusions.in @art.lucidillusions.in · 13/01/2025
Day 13 of #BirbFest2025 - Phainopeplas (A little more Borb vibes) #Birds #SciArt #birbfest #birdsofmastodon #art #ColourPencils #ColorPencils #BeginnerArtist #birding #TraditionalArt #SketchBook #DrawingOfTheDay #Nature #DrawingChallenge
A black round bird with red eyes.
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.eva @blackermine.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
omg, I got bit busy and completely forgot to update my #birbfest2025 progress here...🤦‍♀️
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.eva @blackermine.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
White-jumped falcon for day 12 of #birbfest2025
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Nic Squirrell @nicsquirrell.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
@birbfest.challenge Today’s bird for #Birbfest2025 Day 11: African Pygmy Duck Painted in Procreate on my iPad using brushes and stamps I made from real watercolour paint. #birbfest #bird #birdart #procreate #watercolor #nicsquirrell #duck #ducks #africanpygmyduck #africa #africanwildlife
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Juliana Motzko @julianamotzko.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Day 11 - African Pygmy Duck Design available in my stores. #africanpygmyduck #duck #goose #Birbfest2025 #bird #allcutebirds #birbfest #animal #birds #birdlovers #illustration #birdart #birdartist #illustrator #artist #art #nature #JulianaMotzko
illustration of african pygmy duck
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.eva @blackermine.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
African pygmy goose , well, actually duck, I guess 🤔 day 11 of #birbfest2025 is bit confusing 😂
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Nic Squirrell @nicsquirrell.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
@birbfest.challenge Today’s bird for #Birbfest2025 Day 10: Snowcap Hummingbird Painted in Procreate on my iPad using brushes and stamps I made from real watercolour paint. #birbfest #bird #birdart #procreate #watercolor #nicsquirrell #snowcaphummingbird #hummingbird
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