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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

A reminder this holiday season and always

Illustration of a wacky colourful bird creature surrounded by flowers with text that reads: don’t give your money to billionaires, support artists and goofballs and wild wonderful weirdos

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

A reminder this holiday season and always

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

If you ever forget your pasta shapes, I made you a helpful chart #illustration #drawing #pasta

A poster titled “know your pasta shapes” with fun loose illustrations of 16 types of pasta. The names are, well, wrong. The bow tie is Mr fancy boy. Rotini - wiggle winders. Large shells - madame’s secret. Small shells - mademoiselle’s smaller, daintier secret. Then we have long twirler, girthier long twirler, and then orzo as “you’re telling me that’s not rice?”. Next is yum yum wheels, potato fluff puffs. Then the tubes: tiny tubes, big honkin tube, twisty tube (macaroni, you get it) and gaping tube. Cavatelli - water slide, and finally ravioli is secret mystery fun surprise

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

The last thing my sides need is to hustle

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Fell down a rabbit hole learning about gay birds. And let me tell you, the birds, they are so gay. Gayer than I ever imagined. Far beyond a few lesbian seagulls and gay penguin dads. So I made a bird-filled pride print! www.heatherbuchanan.ca/collections/...

A print of digital bird illustrations. They’re fairly realistic, though a little loosely stylized. Big text running down the middle in rainbow letters says “LGBTQ” and it turns out to be an acrostic standing for “gosh I love gay birds those total Q.T. Pies”. For a full list of the birds illustrated, follow the link.

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

As I approach the four year mark of my migraine, I’ve started sitting down with it every day and drawing it If it won’t go away, at least I can get to know it better, its colours, shapes, and moods It’s less about “capturing the pain,” more about being present and curious with sensations #drawing

A line drawing of a woman (me!) with a colourful representation of a migraine on the right side of her head

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Today’s odd fixation: antique board games shaped like birds

An old board game where a white goose is covered in various circles that are either pink, yellow, or have a little picture in them. The point of the game is unclear, though the goose appears to have laid some golden eggs

A game called the “Swan of Elegance” where the board features a swan with a red ribbon wrapped around it, and I presume you move along the spaces that are laid out along the ribbon completing some sort of objective as you go.

A German game, where circles follow along a path in the shape of a swan. The circles each have charming illustrations on them of people and other, smaller swans. There are instructions in tiny German print

The Majestic Game of the Asiatic Ostrich! An energetic ostrich mid-step takes up most of the board, and around it are 20 numbered figures of fancy men dressed as soldiers, clergymen, noblemen, and a king at the end. If they’re supposed to be specific people it’s way above my historical paygrade

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

We should all take a cue from David Lynch and sit by the road with lovely cow to tell the world how great one of our friends is

David Lynch in a chair on the side of the road with a Holstein cow (the black and white one) and a huge poster of Laura Dern that says “for your consideration, Laura Dern” in big white letters; his quite original way to promote her for a best actress Oscar to the academy

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Van Gogh’s Pawns and Mussels, which he likely ate for dinner after painting

A painting of bright cadmium red prawns and more subtle mussels and a brownish background, painted by Vincent Van Gogh

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

to be fair, there isnt a place that does

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Fixation of the day: this illustrated book of Czechoslovakian folk toys from 1951. The drawings by Emanuel Herick are beautiful, and the toys themselves are charming as heck

Drawings of painted wooden whistles shaped like birds, bunnies, and heads.

Drawings of toy cow things. Some are babies nursing at their mother. They are oddly arch shaped and charming as heck

Drawings of big-eyed birds and a uniform-pig thing?

Charming illustrations of painted wooden bird toys. They’re made up of different geometric shapes and really just simple and lovely.

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

My brackets have mostly been busted but I still feel good about picking march madness teams entirely based on names, mascots, and vibes and not arbitrary things like “seeds” or “good players” or “research”

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Trying to point out the Buchanan tartan on Traitors but I’ll take it

A screen cap of text messages. The first is a photo of Alan Cumming posing on the set of Traitors draped in Buchanan tartan. The second is me saying “it’s a part of my heritage” since my surname is Buchanan. The final text reads: “you come from a long line of flamboyant gays”

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Your day has been missing something and it’s these daytime tv screens

A tv still from Ricki Lake of a woman named Ann who, as the caption says, apparently doesn’t know how to make guacamole

A tv still from the 1990s daytime tv of a short haired woman in glasses with dark lipstick with the caption “Suzanne Levine, 20 says she is a real vampire”

A tv still from the 1990s of an older man sitting between two younger men. The younger men both have bleached platinum blonde hair gelled out to Mohawks or foot-long spikes. The older man has a slightly more demure blonde Mohawk. The caption reads: “Daddy not cool, stop stealing our style”

A screen cap from an episode of Maury, a close up of a woman’s face with a caption that reads: “Regina: says bob almost bit her finger off for giving away his bologna sandwiches”

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The scraps left over from helping make some album art, and now I just want to sit on the floor and make collages

Colourful abstract watercolour paintings on paper all cut up and mixed together, making a big scrappy collage pile

A pile of cut and ripped up colourful abstract watercolour paintings, with a couple torn photograph bits thrown in

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

“violets are blue” is gaslighting, they’re literally called violets

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Just connecting dots here 1. trump administration deports everyone in USA who works low wage jobs like growing food 2. Rfk jr was just confirmed. He has talked repeatedly about his “wellness farms” (forced labour camps) for addicts and also anyone taking adhd meds, antidepressants, making them…

A long snippet from a Yahoo article, all quoting RFK jr. A summary: the biggest industry in rural areas is for-profit prisons, but he wants to change that. He wants to make a place where people with drug problems can go and grow food, because many issues are food related. There will be no phones, no screens.

A long snippet from a Yahoo article about RFK jr’s plans, the screen cap is entirely a quote from him. A summary: the wellness farms will be for addicts of illegal drugs, but also ssri’s and adderal. They will spend three or four years there if they need it. They will get job training in the trades

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Saying “behind” when I pass my cat in the kitchen

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Emily Schwartzman @emilyschwartzman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Looking for a safe space to share and connect with creative community. Here’s a recent painting I did, inspired by my artist residency in Naples, Italy. At peace, gouache, 14” x 10”

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Doing my part to fight the tariffs by smoking my body weight in locally sourced, homegrown Canadian weed

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Bought groceries and managed to get only Canadian products, take that trump tariffs (ok I bought cookies and sparkling water, but they’re still both canadian, I’m still a patriot and awaiting my order of canada)

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

a little late but here’s a nice new year’s snake

A watercolour painting of a green snake winding around the page, with block lettered text throughout that reads: Danger is by business just kidding I’m an accountant

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Ok this is wild. My last few art posts on here all have roughly the same number of likes!? I haven’t been here long, so it’s not a massive number. But it’s all about… the same??? And here Zuck’s been gaslighting me for years telling me it deserves either 5 or 10000 likes depending how good it is

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Nick Taylor Photo + Video @pixelsphotons.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I opened my print shop. A collection of my favorite photos from a decade of shooting. I have limited shipping to Canada to start. www.pixelsphotons.com/store

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Store — Nick Taylor Photo + Video

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Jonathan Wolfe @jonathanwolfe.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Lost Dog, acrylic on wood panel

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Anna Podris @annapodris.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I will be up in my treehouse until further notice. #art #artist #painting www.annapodris.com/imagined-cit...

A painting of a multi level treehouse at sunset- lower level is a drawing and painting studio. Above that is a meditation room. Crossing a wooden and rope bridge you get to the bedroom, with a a bookcase and a large cozy bed. Upper levels are the library and the plant room.

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I thrifted this great book of Himalayan art history, and would love to know which animal you are today

A 3x3 grid of animals from a book of Himalayan frescos and drawings. They are numbered as follows:
1. Stress horse
2. Long neck rage bird
3. Derp horse
4. Tongue-out intense lion
5. Day dreamy cow
6. Smug stag
7. Insane neckless elephant
8. Giant goat devouring erect nude man
9. Weird black bird eating weird dangly thing? Eyeballs?

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Thoughts and prayers and cannabis edibles to everyone whose chronic conditions get flared up from stress. It’s been a hell of a week

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Michele Maule @michelemaule.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I love my city of Portland, Oregon. 💙

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

We should all take a cue from David Lynch and sit by the road with lovely cow to tell the world how great one of our friends is

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I was looking for inspiration for glasses frames, and having trouble finding inspo, so I accidentally made a project of finding every instance of a woman wearing glasses in any piece of pop culture ever I am no closer to deciding on glasses but have collected 300 photos

Princess Diana wearing an incredible pair of aviator glasses

Jodie Foster wearing black round glasses with a high nose bridge. Her grey blazer also screams 1990s

Donna summer in fur and a fabulous pair of oversized sunglasses

Meryl Streep in a classic pair of 1980s square frame oversized glasses

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Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Found this ad for “Bean-in-the-Box” animals and it goes to show how you can be a few years and a couple aesthetic/marketing decisions away from a huge fad idea, and there’s really no way of knowing Looks like this company started in 1969 and cancelled the trademark in 1982, a decade before Ty

A retro magazine ad for “bean-in-the-box” stuffed animals, showing several small stuffed animals including a mouse, panda, dog, and monkey, all sitting in their own illustrated boxes. Some of them look quite similar to the incredibly successful Ty Beanie Babies of the 1990s fad, especially the dog who is front and centre.

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