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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Join me this FRIDAY (October 2nd) for the October group show at City Art Gallery (828 Valencia Street, San Francisco). I will be showing my spooky new watercolor paintings. The show opens on Friday at 7pm. Hope to see you there! #illustration #portraitpainting #watercolor

New gothic watercolor color paintings by Debra Styer at City Art Gallery in San Francisco. Show open October 2nd at 7pm (828 Valencia Street).

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here's one of my paintings for the October City Art Gallery (828 Valencia St, SF)show. My haunted portrait was inspired by a walk through butterfly covered Thistle bushes. What could be better than Butterflies and the spirits of the dead? The show opens Friday, October 2nd. #illustration #ghost

My haunted portrait of a ghost amongst the Thistle Blossoms. Watercolor portrait by Debra Styer. #halloween #watercolor

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here's a little sneak peek at one of my new pieces for the upcoming October show at City Art Gallery in SF. I call this one, "The Keepsake". I hope you like him. #illustration #watercolor #tuxedocat

Cute Tuxedo cat holding bird skull in tail. Watercolor portrait illustration by Debra Styer.

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Join me tomorrow night (June 5) for the June group show at City Art Gallery (828 Valencia Street, San Francisco). Here's a peek at my new paintings. Stop by and say hello if you can. The show starts at 7pm. #portraitpaint #illustration #watercolor #gothicportraits

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Here's a sneak peek at one of my new portraits for the upcoming June show at City Art Gallery (828 Valencia Street, SF). I call this one, "I'm Not Dead Yet". An ode to all the creatures out there that aren't ready to give up. Show opens June 5th at 7pm. #opossum #illustration #portraitpainting

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

New Print in the shop. This portrait was inspired by the Greek goddess, Miseria, a lovely but really sad lady, who is depressed by the state of the world and ready to rip out her stitches and have her voice heard. Who with her? bluehourstudio.etsy.com/listing/4488...

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Here's my portrait of Anti-fascist activist writer and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel. "There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest " Elie Wiesel Just a reminder to find our voices and not be silent. #eliewiesel

My Illustrated portrait of Anti-fascist writer and Activist Elie Wiesel. Portrait by Debra Styer.

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

In my attempt to understand the world today, I have been inspired by the voices of the past. Here's my portrait of French Philosopher, Mystic and Political Activist, Simone Weil (1909-1943). "Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling."

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

New Writers Portrait...activist and philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). "The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any." I've decided to create a series of portraits that may help me understand the insanity of the world today.

Portrait of philosopher and activist, Hannah Arendt.

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Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 19/02/2026

84 years ago today, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering the removal and incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, about two-thirds of whom were US citizens. The Day of Remembrance this year comes as we see DHS buying land and warehouses for more camps now.

February 19, 2026

INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSONS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY

As survivors and descendants of the mass removals, detention, deportation, and family separation targeting our community during WWII, we refuse to stand by idly while our friends and neighbors are violently disappeared, forcibly removed, mass incarcerated, and separated from family members.

We decry the murders of community members and at least 37 people in ICE custody and enforcement in 2025.

We reject false narratives that state violence is "unavoidable," a "justifiable military action," necessary for "national security"—the same arguments used as they forced our parents, grandparents, aunties, and uncles into U.S. concentration camps in 1942.

On this Day of Remembrance, we call on Japanese Americans and all people who believe in "Never Again" to demand justice for those we have lost—on the streets and hidden away in ICE detention centers. To break this cycle of state violence. To rise up and resist, together.

We bravely commit to being the allies our familes needed during WWII.

STOP REPEATING HISTORY.

#TsuruForSolidarity #FreeFamilies #FreeThemAll

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

genuinely stunning image

Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug - A BUSY, BUSY ICE ENFORCEMENT OPERATION with apologies to Richard Scarry - Brought to you by the rough and ready Inner Hive, including long-time member Brady Marsh and new member SquirrelSaver7. ( bit.ly/theInnerHive ) - READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12/12/2025

LINUS: Charlie Brown, you are the only person I know who can take a wonderful season like Christmas and turn it into a problem. Maybe Lucy is right. Maybe it is because of woke. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/bar...

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Bari Weiss’s A Charlie Brown Christmas

Sixty years ago, A Charlie Brown Christmas made its debut on CBS. Today, as part of CBS’s new initiative to modernize content, CBS Editor-in-Chief ...

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Check out Kerry's amazing experimental films...

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

For the morning crowd:

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

#folktaleweek2025 Day 5: Charm #folktaleweekcharm Today's illustration was inspired by the Brothers Grimm, The Children of Hamelin". (Aka "The Pied Piper").

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

#Folktaleweek2025 Day 4: Book #folktaleweekbook This was inspired by the dark Irish folktale, "The Crooked Back". It is a story about a gifted storyteller who enjoys scaring kids with the "true" story of how her back became crooked. The story may contain monsters ...

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

#folktaleweek2025 Day 3: Rain For today's illustration, I was inspired by the opening rainy scene in Hans Christian Andersen's folktale, The Princess and the Pea".

Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's, "The Princess and the Pea." Illustration by Debra Styer.

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tcandyart @tcandyart.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

#folktaleweek2025 #folktaleweeknight Here is an Icelandic tale of a housekeeper, who every Christmas Eve casts a spell on a farmhand to fly her home to her elfland castle. Thank you: @folktaleweek.bsky.social @debrastyer.bsky.social @matejalukezic.bsky.social @jellystation.bsky.social #kidlitart

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Elif Boyacioglu - liflein @liflein.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

#folktaleweek Night: Let the night be yours… #folktaleweek2025 #folktaleweeknight @folktaleweek.bsky.social A bit sporadic this year, so rushed and starting late! Thank you to the hosts: @debrastyer.bsky.social @louve.draws @matejalukezic.bsky.social #childrensillustration #kidlit #fairytales

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Day 2: Echo #folktaleweekecho This is inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses. Echo, a talkative young nymph known for her voice, starts talking a little bit too much to the goddess Juno's hubby, Jupiter. Juno curses Echo by taking away her voice and only letting her repeat the last few words she hears...

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

#FolktaleWeek2025 Day 1: Night Here is my ode to New England and the darkest of stories, Washington Irving's, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". Introducing our hero, Ichabod Crane, (the noble and dorktastic school teacher) as he is chased through the darkness of night by the evil Headless Horseman.

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 28/10/2025

It’s #SpookySeason! 👻🕸️ The Internet Archive is serving frights all week. Today’s treat: a 1928 Saturday Evening Post cover by Frederic Stanley of a woman carving a pumpkin 🎃 97 years later & still haunting! 🖤 More ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ste... 🧵

Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, dated October 27, 1928. An elderly woman with long white hair sits in a chair. She has a pumpkin in her lap that she is carving into a Jack-o'-lantern. A broom rests against the chair and a black cat sits at her feet. Bats fly in the background. Illustrated by Frederic Stanley (1892–1967).

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Floopy Buzzlesworth @floopy-b.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

#FolktaleWeek2025, you say? Sure, I'll play!

Digital illustration of a little half-timbered house with a red door and a straw roof. It's surrounded by bushes bearing red berries, and a crow sits on top of the roof.
At the bottom of the picture, it says 'Folktale Week 2025' in big red handdrawn letters, and www.carmenland.com below that in grey.

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Mari @mari-art.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

#folktaleweek2025 Coming soon!!! 😊 Really looking forward to this event!🧡 @folktaleweek.bsky.social

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Here's my little ode to childhood friendships and the spirit world. This haunted watercolor painting, "The Gift of the Spirits" is showing at City Art Gallery in San Francisco until November 2nd. Hope you can stop by and say hello. Here's to all the spooky things... #illustration #ghosts #halloween

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

The Official Folktale Week Prompts are here! Come join us on Instagram. www.instagram.com/folktaleweek/

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

It's Happening...Time for Folktale Week 2025!

I'm Joining...Folktale Week 2025 by Debra Styer

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Happy Spooky Month! Please join me this Friday, October 3rd for the opening of the October group show at City Art Gallery (828 Valencia Street, San Francisco). Here's a peek at my new paintings. I hope you like them...Stop by and say hello if you can.

New watercolor paintings by Debra Styer at City Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA. show opens October 3rd at 7pm.

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

New portrait for the October group show at City Art Gallery in SF. This is Miseria, Greek goddess of depression and anxiety, standing in forced silence. I have been pretty 'miserable" these days, but am still looking for signs of hope. What about you? Show opens Fri,Oct 3rd (828 Valencia St, SF).

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I hope Charlie Kirk recovers quickly then, like James Brady, uses his megaphone to help advocate for common sense limits on firearms.

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

My piece for the Banned Book show at Cottage Valley Library in New York. The opening is today. I decided to illustrate "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank back in April and couldn't imagine then just how far backwards our country would be heading in just a few months...it's so horrific.

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Playing around with #LillasStylePlay2025 Day 1: Nutella. Here's a shout out Nutella's Number 1 fan, Iggy! #illustration #watercolor #squirrel #makeartthatsells

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Just a little teeny painting while I look forward to upcoming forest adventures. #chipmunk #illustration

Cute Chipmunk watercolor portrait by Debra Styer illustration.

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

THIS FRIDAY (June 6th) Please join me for the opening of the June Group show at City Art Gallery (828 Valencia Street, San Francisco). Stop by and check out my new portraits as well as the work of over 20 incredible Bay Area artists. #illustration #watercolor #sanfrancisco

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Here's a sneak peek at one of the new pieces I'm working on for the upcoming June group show at City Art Gallery in San Francisco. I'll admit the last few months of worries are definitely hitting hard...#illustration

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Mr. Poe stuck in a sun beam...Happy Caturday to all that celebrate! #caturday #blackcat

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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Happy Liberation Day to all who celebrate newrepublic.com/article/1934...

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