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bluemaskart.bsky.social @bluemaskart.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

My largest rainforest mural, about 315 square feet, painted in 2024 for the Saint Louis Zoo Herpetarium’s African Rock Python exhibit.

Close up of Patrick’s African Rock Python exhibit rainforest mural showing lush greenery, vines, ferns, moss, etc.

Image from outside the glass of the Rock Python exhibit. The small rock pool, logs, and live plants are visible with the rainforest mural in the background reaching up to the skylight.

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bluemaskart.bsky.social @bluemaskart.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

My mural of the McCord’s box turtle habitat in Guangxi China, for the Saint Louis Zoo Herpetarium, painted about 6 years ago I think.

Wide panoramic image of Patrick’s mural of rural and partly forested Guangxi China, with a stream running through the bamboo forest and rice fields and small town in the distance.

Close up of Patrick’s mural of rural Guangxi China, focusing on the rice fields and small town in the distance.

Patrick’s mural of Guangxi China, focusing on a stream running through the lush bamboo forest. Mountains in the distance are partly obscured by low clouds or mist.

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bluemaskart.bsky.social @bluemaskart.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Arizona Superstition Mountains mural for the Saint Louis Zoo Herpetarium. I painted it back in 2013. Still one of my favorites.

Saint Louis Zoo exhibit for Arizona desert lizards inside the Herpetarium, framed by 1920’s ornate columns topped with frog statues. Mural inside exhibit shows a clear blue sky and the orange-brown ridges of the Superstition Mountains.

Closeup of a chuckwalla lizard sitting on a rock in front of the mural of the orange-brown Superstition Mountains.

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bluemaskart.bsky.social @bluemaskart.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Will even niche sub genres like paleo cartooning face extinction in the AI onslaught? Not if we don’t give up✊ I’m giving a presentation on paleo cartooning tonight for the Eastern Missouri Society for Paleontology.

A mutant ichthyosaur with spines on its back, extra eyes, extra fins, and the words “generative AI” written on it is emerging from the ocean waves and chomping down on the neck of a plesiosaur with “traditional paleo cartooning“ written on it.

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bluemaskart.bsky.social @bluemaskart.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I made these during my last year at Hampshire College for my Division III project: Teletravel, a Metaphysical Fable.” There is no other school out there with the same kind of radical approach to education that Hampshire has.

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bluemaskart.bsky.social @bluemaskart.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

We went to Woodstock IL this past weekend for Groundhog Day and I got Stephen Tobolowsky (who played Ned Ryerson in the film) to sign our poster from Deadly Prey Gallery! Art by C.A. Wisely.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/01/2026

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis. #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

Just before Christmas, I got a puppy.
Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie.

I'm still learning how to understand her.

Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo?
Do you need to do a widdle piddle?

Minnie: Arf!

*I just call her "little baby" most of the time.

I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now.
Nobody tells you about that.

I got so lucky with my first puppy.
Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now.

Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport.

I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers.

I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless.
The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective.

I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition.
ICE will pick up anybody.

I know that.

So I tucked my passport away.

And I largely avoid leaving my house.

I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too.
And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized.
We'll do our best to get through this.

Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?

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bluemaskart.bsky.social @bluemaskart.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Trilobite cheer and happy New Year! Ink, watercolor, and digital. My favorite project I worked on in 2025 was the Urban Fossil Hunter’s Guide to the Mississippian, a sub period of the Carboniferous. I will post that later.

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bluemaskart.bsky.social @bluemaskart.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Insects and Arachnids of Rodinia (more older work) Ink and graphite on toned paper.

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bluemaskart.bsky.social @bluemaskart.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Hydrohallucination Cannon (more older work).

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bluemaskart.bsky.social @bluemaskart.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

More older work: The Mobius Ink and watercolor on paper

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bluemaskart.bsky.social @bluemaskart.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Older comic I made with a couple of friends. Perhaps we may finish the rest of it someday.

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bluemaskart.bsky.social @bluemaskart.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

More older work: Therion, Captain if the Mobius From my steampunk megafauna series. Ink and watercolor on toned paper.

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bluemaskart.bsky.social @bluemaskart.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

More older work: Glypto the Bounty Hunter From my steampunk megafauna series. Ink and watercolor on toned paper.

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bluemaskart.bsky.social @bluemaskart.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

More older work: The Illusionist’s Decapod Digital image that I drew in procreate using subtractive mark making, printed out on watercolor paper and add the color by hand.

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bluemaskart.bsky.social @bluemaskart.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings Watercolor and ink on paper

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bluemaskart.bsky.social @bluemaskart.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Division of the Air Linoleum block print using oil based ink with watercolors added afterwards.

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bluemaskart.bsky.social @bluemaskart.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Black Coffee Or “Caw-fee” Ink, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and Pitt pens on toned paper.

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bluemaskart.bsky.social @bluemaskart.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Kappa Tea. Watercolor and ink on aqua board. I like to imagine a kappa might drink tea by pouring it into the hole in it’s head.

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bluemaskart.bsky.social @bluemaskart.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Hellbender salamander. Ink and watercolor on paper. I made this back in 2012 and it got me an exhibit mural gig with the St. Louis Zoo that I stuck with for 13 years.