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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 19h

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 9: Frankenstein Say hello to this gorgeous (but sorta dead) 19th century gentleman...Mary Shelley's "the creature"...aka Frankenstein's Monster. #mabsdrawlloweenclub2026 #frankenstein #portraitpainting #illustration #watercolor

Portrait of Frankenstein's monster by Debra Styer. Watercolor portrait illustration.

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I know the world is going crazy but can I just stay in my haunted little October world for a few more days? #watercolor #skull #illustration

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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 · 14/09/2026

The ridiculous way this whole thing was handled just proves it's time for him to resign/retire.

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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 · 27/05/2026

Just imagine how awful/sad that person's life must be if they feel the need to be cruel to you.

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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Thank you! I like to keep things a bit loose, otherwise I might squeeze the life out of it.

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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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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I'm glad they are publicly saying something, but is there anything they could actually do to stop the way things are going?

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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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Debra Styer Illustration @debrastyer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Congratulations! It's going to be gorgeous!

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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 · 12/12/2025

I wish I could be there. Have a great open studio!

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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

Meanwhile...Echo's friends pray to Nemesis to curse the awful Narcissus with a love equally not reciprocated. The curse caused him to fall in love with his own reflection. Narcissus became so obsessed with himself he died because he couldn't look away from his own perceived greatness...

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

(cont.)Sometime after Echo loses her "voice", she notices the handsome Narcissus, and like many others, she falls deeply in love with him. Of course, when they actually meet, Narcissus cruelly rejects her, (maybe because of the weird repeating his words thing), and she runs away.

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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

✨ Join us! Share your work each day, interpreting the daily prompt in any way and with any medium. Illustrators, artists, storytellers, wordsmiths - come one, come all! No matter where you are in your art-making or storytelling practice, there is a place for you. 🖤

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

(continued) Why is this happening? Who is this Headless Horseman, and why is he after our hero? Could it be that the "Headless Horseman" may also be in love with Ichabod's girlfriend? Does Ichabod need to disappear? One will never know...only a hat and smashed Jack o' lantern are ever found.

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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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