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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bad Kitty no.4 is complete, plus I did an abstract menorah. A few cleanup details, then off to the printer! #art #painting #holidaycards #watercolor

Watercolor on 300lb soft press. Abstract menorah in blues, yellows and oranges.

Watercolor on 300lb soft press. Art nouveau frame with holiday tree decorated in red and gold, with a tuxedo cat using the tree as a scratching post.

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Progress on Bad Kitty no. 4...nearing the home stretch. Watercolor on 300lb soft press #art #painting #badkitty #holidaycards #humanart #fuckai

Watercokor illustration of an art nouveau style frame around a holiday tree decorated in gold and (soon to be) red. Bad Kitty is using the tree as a scratching post. Watercolor on 300lb soft press, 5x7 inches.

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

How is this guy continually SO FUCKING AMAZING. This just made my wee artist heart so happy.

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

RedSox backed themselves into the post season. Unfortunately, they continue to back the truck up, ostensibly to load the equipment and go the fuck home. At least we have hockey season.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

244 circles. Drawn, then outlined, so that's really 488. Plus all the other outlining and painting. My hands are cramping up. Watercolor on 300lb soft press, 5x7 in. #art #artnouveau #watercolor #holidaycards #badkitty

Watercolor painting in progress of an art nouveau style frame with holiday tree. The Bad Kitty is using the tree as a scratching post. Watercolor on 300lb soft press, 5x7 in.

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well, that episode of Lanterns was a whole lotta meandering. Next episode is going to have to be like...3 hours long to wrap things up.

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For those of you interested in the whole process, this is the result of about 4 hours of assembly of a whole lot of little bits. Now I have to transfer it to watercolor paper, and redraw it again before starting to paint. #art #artnouveau #holidaycards #badkitty

Assemblage of all my various references, sketches and doodles onto tracing paper. Next i have to transfer it to the watercolor paper and redraw it all again before starting to paint. Image is of an art nouveau style frame with a holiday tree centered in it. There is a cat using the tree trunk as a scratching post.

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Okay, crowd source time for my Jewish contingent... what color candles on the menorah? So far I have a vote for white, and a vote for yellow/gold. Watercolor on 300lb soft press, approx 5x7in. #art #painting #hanukkah #menorah #watercolor #hilidaycards

Watercolor painting in progress for a Hanukkah card. Blue mottled background featuring a silver menorah with lit candles. Watercolor on 300lb soft press, approx 5x7 in.

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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 22/09/2026

Imagine being a farmer and not understanding the concept of reaping what you sow.

Farmers Are 'Pissed' Over Trump's Moves on Beef and Tariffs

The president has upset a reliably Republican rural voter base ahead of the midterms.

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bad kitty strikes again! Watercolor and ink on 300lb soft press #art #painting #watercolor #humanart #holidaycards

Watercolor painting in popart abstract style of a holiday tree made up of colored circles. Watercolor and ink on 300lb soft press, approx 4x6 in

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

On a tear today, 2nd tree nearly conplete. In fairness, this was more "color it in" than painting. Need to fill in a few holes with circles, a few areas need a 2nd layer of paint, and then I have to re-ink the circles. #art #painting #watercolor #humanart #holidaycards

Watercolor and ink on 300lb soft press. Pop-art abstract holiday tree

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One down, three to go... Watercolor and ink on 300lb soft press, approx 4x6in. #art #painting #watercolor #holidaycards #badkitty

MCM style holiday tree with MCM style ornaments and one bad tuxedo kitty. Watercolor and ink on 300lb soft press, approx 4x6 in.

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Inserting new work onto the already overloaded table. Starting on this year's Xmas card set... gotta get em done to go to the printer! #art #holidaycards #painting #watercolor #humanary #fuckai

Progress photo of a watercolor painting. Image is approx 4x6 inches and depicts a stylized MCM Xmas tree with various MCM ornaments. US penny coin for scale.

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They always look so damn weird when you begin the underpainting. Progress on "Porch Drinking", Oil on silk, over 3ply board, approx 76x57mm. @reasonabledoubt.bsky.social @anywhoodles.bsky.social

Progress on "Porch Drinking", Oil on silk, over 3ply board, approx 76x57mm. Picture is of a bottle of scotch and a rocks glass balanced on a porch railing decorated with colored fairy lights. Upper photo isbasic reference, bottom panel is painting in progress

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If only the US had put money into mass transit infrastructure between 1973 and now, huh?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I shrieked

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today I learned the English have their own whisky.

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not far off, as political predictions go?

Data and Picard discussing the Irish Unification of 2024. TV show aired in 1990.

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Well it was a literal tie between all online and offline opinions, so I went conservative in order to try to appeal to a broader gallery audience. 🤷‍♂️ 'New England Breakfast' 51x47mm Oil on silk over Sintra. #art #miniature #oilpainting #painting #humanart #fuckai

Upframed miniature painting. Miniature oil painting depicting a steaming cup of dunkin donuts coffee, along with a raised chocolate glazed donut, on a white napkin, all on a rustic wood table top. The miniature painting is mounted on a pale peach silk mat, inserted into a 5x5 antique silver and black frame.
Miniature painting measures 51x47mm, oil on silk over Sintra.

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Calling all art-opinion havers! I need assistance deciding on which mat order to use for 'New England Breakfast': an extremely pale peach silk, or a warm lavender silk. Both have pros and cons. Polling closes in two hours. #art #beanartist #opinion #painting #humanart #fuckai

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

New painting alert! Well, underpainting anyway. Gotta have new stuff for the next gallery exhibit, due on the 27th. Ack. #art #painting #underpainting #miniature #humanart #fuckai

1:12 miniature painting in progress. Painting is of 2 calla lily blossoms in a white ironware pitcher, with 2 granny Smith applesand a blue checked towel, all on a rustic wood tabletop. 36x48mm, acrylic on illustration board.

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Artistic research question: what kind of candy did your Gram always have out, particularly at Christmas/Winter Holiday time? For example: sugared spearmint gumdrop leaves, holiday mix ribbon candy mix, etc.? Looking into what to paint for this year's holiday cards. #art #painting

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Started watching Lanterns. AHAHAHAHA Hal Jordan is SUCH a dick. HAHAHAHA

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Post a picture of you from another era. (Hey, no one specified which era)

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Aaaaand...done. Still with time to varnish and frame it! Which do we like better, Chat, the walnut frame or the gold frame? #art #fineart #miniature #painting #humanart #fuckai

Miniature acrylic painting of a blue crock containing wooden spoons, next to a blue and white checked towel upon which sit a pear and a lemon. 34x46mm, acrylic on 350lb illustration board. Gold tone frame

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

New wee painting in progress. About 4 hours in, for those of you keeping track for some reason (I have to, but I sell them. I don't know why you are). Deadline is coming up faster than I prefer to move, so I gotta stomp on the gas, preference be damned. #art #miniature #painting #fuckai

Basic underdrawing for new miniature acrylic painting. Approx 34x46mm. Image is off a crock with two spoons, a pear, a lemon, and a blue and white towel on a woodtable top.

4 hours later, the painting now has basic layers. Dark brown background sets off a blue piece of crockery containing two wooden spoons, next to a yellow lemon and a green-yellow pear, both on a blue and white checkered towel. All items are set on a rustic wood table top. Acrylic on illustration board, approx 34x46mm

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Well this isn't a huge surprise, given where I spent my formative language years. But I call bullshit on LOTS of those questions; bitch those are DIFFERENT objects. My guess is that it would be fairly evenly split between SoCal and New England if the damn thing were written properly.

dialect map showing most closely related dialect as SoCal.

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Fuck this bullshit. I already don't let Microsoft store packets, what do I have to do now, build a gotdamn Faraday cage?

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So the willow trees were cut down last fall, and now the big blue art installation is being removed. What is the O/U on him having the Kennedy center knocked down in the middle of the night within the next week? #toddlertantrum

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

*snort* I deleted my LinkedIn account over 10 years ago because instead of finding appropriate business networking, all I got was hit on and PM'd dick pics. So I guess at least they're finally admitting it.

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

1/2 an hour to paint 2 tiny words. And I have to do cleanup around them once they're dry tomorrow. Meanwhile all the proliferation of AI slop is really starting to get to me and making me feel like what's even the fucking point anymore. #art #artbyahuman #fuckai #painting #oilpainting #miniature

1:12 scale miniature oil painting in progress. Painting depicts a chocolate frosted raised glazed donut next to a Styrofoam cup of dunkin donuts coffee, steam rising from the full cup. Both objects are on a white napkin, placed on a rustic wood tabletop. The strong angled light is coming from the right, out of frame. Painting is oil on Sintra, 47x51mm. US penny coin for scale

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 30/08/2026

what if Canada just declared this America's flag, and started using it on their literature and websites

the American flag except the stripes have been made to look like a circus tent

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Things are *exceptionally* stupid right now, even for this incredibly stupid timeline. Here, have a very tiny flower from 1625, I painted it just for you. (The tinier these things get, the longer they take, who knew?) #art #fineart #painting #oilpainting #miniature

1:12 scale miniature reproduction of van der Ast's 'Single Tulip in Vase', 1625. Oil on copper panel. 25mm square. Image depicts oil painting in progress of a white Tulip with red accents, in a bulbous glass vase, along with three Tulip leaves. There is a butterfly on one leaf, and a bottle fly on the table. Upper image is a black and white reference,, and the image on the right is a color reference.. painting is in the middle of the square easel.US penny coin for scale.

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

what i'm saying is Eeyore can also become a Freightliner FL86 if he so chooses and the Hundred Acre Wood needs it

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

UGH, Tim Curry, RIP. I've heard the Rule of Three explained as one sad, one silly, and one necessary. So that's Dolly (sad), Tim (he was silly), and the necessary TBD but we've all got one 80 y/o candidate in mind...

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This seems bad. Chat, is this bad? /Old enough to remember the 70s gas crisis

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just happened across the Target halloween costume and @infinitescream.bsky.social AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGUGH WHATTHEFUCK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGUGH

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Here, you all deserve a snack break. Paint is way too wet now, and I have to let it dry for a few days before I can correct the ellipse errors in the cup. But still, progress! Approx 47x51mm. Oil on silk over Sintra. #art #oilpainting #painting #miniature

Upper is reference print. Lower is miniature oil painting in progress, depicting a cup of Dunks and a chocolate iced raised glazed on a napkin, all sitting on a wooden table top. Oil on silk over Sintra. Approx 47x51mm. US penny coin for scale.

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Independent Teapot @butijustmether.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

IT'S NOT FINISHED YET, YOU EFFING GIT ROBOT. That's what "progress shot" means. *headdesk*

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