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Kathryn Garner

@kathryngarner.co.uk
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If I've gone quiet it means I'm grant-writing. Frantically swimming against the current to return to academia. Science communicator. Illustrator. Hoping to be a cardiovascular scientist again. kathryngarner.co.uk

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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just 48hrs left to back my insect themed campaign and £63 until we unlock the final stretch goal of a fancy holo effect sticker sheet! #SciArt #BugSky #Insects #ArtistSupport #BSNM #Nature #Illustration #ArtSky www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...
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Mini-bee-sts - Insect Inspired Merch
A collection of merch inspired by the buzzing and fluttering minibeasts that live in our gardens.
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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Marketing notice approved for bananas gene-edited so they don't go brown, to reduce food waste. The Precision Breeding Act 2022 allows crops to be edited, but no genes can be inserted from different species, which is genetic modification and illegal. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...
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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 27/09/2026
I just did my annual thing of wanting to find something on Twi/X, scrolling for ages and ending up feeling sad for how things once were (not in a good way). The thing I was looking turned out to be not that exciting after all.
Screenshot of a social media post from July 3 2019. Text: My research in #kidney #systemsbio as told using laser-cut wooden #podocytes.

Photograph of 20 wooden podocytes (kidney cells) painted different shades of yellow-orange-red
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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🌊🦢✨The finished skateboard ✨🦢🌊
Odette illustration printed on skateboard lying on asphalt for DROP IN: Skate Deck Art Show in Minneapolis Minnesota
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The strawberry overkill @tsoverkill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Can't believe I never posted this one before 😱 it's a full moon tonight, harvest moon, apparently 🤔 so I'm posting a sh*tload of moon art today 😁🌛 #moon #harvestMoon #FullMoon #moonArt #sketch #artSky #art
Calendar turned sketchbook.

Inkpen sketch of a portrait of a female figure with a giant moon for a head. 

Her face, on the other hand, is the appropriate size for the rest of her body, thus looking very small on the big moon surface. She is looking at a melting ice-cream scoop, with a pattern resembling planet earth, in a cone that she is holding in her hand.

She is wearing some kind of futuristic looking space suit.

In the background a dark starry sky.
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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 26/09/2026
Power Lines Drawing #144 (Ferndale, MI) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...
Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Author Simulator 

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto  a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

Along the bottom are controls for:
 Left right jump crouch read write nap coffee
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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 21/07/2026
We're into the final 24 hours of Making With Biology Summer CELL-out, my Ready-to-Ship Shop! I just added my Jelly Picks - Sea Wasp guitar picks - six colours, each a different thickness :) One even glows in the dark!! Check them out - www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k... 🐡🦑
Six guitar picks with similar Sea Wasp jellyfish design. Arranged on a black card with scribbly writing that says 'Deadly Tangle'. The guitar picks are blue, purple, pink, white, glow-in-the-dark, and black. Graph paper sits at the back.
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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
'Green' for today's #ArtRepostJuly prompt! 😃 🐡
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3D View: 5VKQ
5VKQ: Structure of a mechanotransduction ion channel Drosophila NOMPC in nanodisc
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
ladies gentlemen and enbies the #SciArt stupidness is now stickered
A yellow sticker with a fuzzy confused beefly saying "I DO NOT THINK THEREFORE I DO NOT AM" and a pink sticker of a cool mosquito with the text "i'm not like other girls i'm worse"
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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
In a week I’m having a bit of summer party over on @backerkit.com . Lots of lovely new bird and flowers pins, some snazzy tea towels and a bunch of other stuff will have special discounts… #SciArt #BirdArt #bsnm #illustration www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...
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Pin and Sticker Summer Party Launch Party
Get excited about Pin and Sticker Summer Party on BackerKit - come join!
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Chop Shop Studio 🇺🇸+🇺🇦 @chopshopstore.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Calling all #sciArt creators! Apply to the Support League of Science on @backerkit.com | deadline extended to September 1. Goes live on the 7th. www.backerkit.com/c/admin/proj...
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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🦀 see a crab, post a crab 🦀 I had to join in, so here's my slightly out of season offering. This hermit brings the party with them!
A digital illustration by Loadofolbobbins of a hermit crab standing on a sandy beach under vibrant blue sky. Wrapped round their shell is a string of glowing fairy lights that they hold in their right claw. On top of their shell is a glittery gold star, like a Christmas tree.
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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The one small spark of joy in this heat has been these new arrivals..... #SciArt #Illustration #Birds #Wildflowers #bsnm
A selection of 20 wooden mini pins created from original illustrations by Loadofolbobbins. They're 25 mm each at their widest points and show different birth flowers and amazing birds. The species are violet, aster, snowdrop, chrysanthemum, poppy, delphinium, marigold, holly, short-eared owl, Magellanic penguin, bluethroat, pink necked green pigeon, white-browed tit warbler, blue jay, barn owl, female sparrow, wyandotte chicken, andean-cock-of-the-rock, snowy owl and a cassowary.
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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 28/06/2026
I've been staring at ribbon structures for years and only just started drawing them. This is the beginning of a drawing of haemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying molecule in your blood. I wish I hadn't started on lined paper but already I think it's beautiful. #heart #bioart #sciart
Sketch of the ribbon structure of haemoglobin (hemoglobin). Coils and star-like spaces are emerging. Red biro on lined paper.
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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 27/06/2026
My favourite biro ran out during this drawing so I had to raid my son's pencil case, which turns out is full of pens he's found on the floor, and broken ones at that. Funny that teenage boys experience a higher than average incidence of exploding pens. #heart #sciart #bioart
Drawing of a human heart in blue and red biro, and watercolour. The walls of the right atrium and ventricle have been removed so that the openings can be seen inside.
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Annie Shao Art @annieshaoart.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Native Wildflower Greeting Cards launches on Monday! Be sure to follow so you don't miss the launch. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... So excited to see my watercolor sketches become cards! Which is your favorite flower of these? #BotanicalArt #SciArt #BSNM #greetingcards #wildflowers
Mockups of greeting cards with my native wildflower watercolor paintings on them. 6 white folded cards are shown in 2 overlapping rows. The artwork features White Trillium, Wild Ginger, Ohio Spiderwort, Dutchman's Breeches, Showy Lady's Slipper, and Lanceleaf Coreopsis.
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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 26/06/2026
After my ready-to-ship campaign it's straight into Super League of Science! I'm thinking #heart cells, molecules, tissues... 🫀🐡❤️
Teaching model of the human heart on a stand
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Chop Shop Studio 🇺🇸+🇺🇦 @chopshopstore.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Calling for all Sci-minded Creators! Add your next #crowdfund to our collab SUPER LEAGUE OF SCIENCE 2026. We go live in August. www.backerkit.com/c/collection... #sciArt #spaceArt #bioArt #dinoArt
Brand logotype for the Super League of Science 2026 campaign floats atop a wallpaper of linear-drawn icons of science, including dinosaurs, fruit flies, atoms, DNA strands, and more.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This shade of red? Yeah it is important in this comic and for more than just too much blood = death From EXPOSURES by Lily Williams #GraphicMedicine
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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 25/06/2026
New ready-to-ship campaign launching July 14th! #sciart www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...
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Making With Biology Summer CELL-out Launch Party
Get excited about Making With Biology Summer CELL-out on BackerKit - come join!
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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 02/06/2026
The rise (return?) of Zines! "Obara and his creative partner Akihico Mori are among the latest artists to use a printing press offered by the Kyoto Shimbun newspaper, which is aiming to find alternative uses for its machines as subscriptions fall." www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Word on the reef is, shrimp are SO in this season. A crab told me. And bonus? These shirts fund our fall Philly Bug mural series. 3 Murals, 3 Artists, 3 Neighborhoods, All bugs baby. Don't get caught without a crustacean. Tell your friends. Get a shrimp shirt. At SquidFacts.net (pls RT)
A cream colored shirt with a red and blue design featuring 9 crustaceans and a fly. A scuba diving Fly Says a”am I shrimp too?” A pistol shrimp wearing a cowboy hat says “bang bang” a mantis shrimp says KO, the title says a”shrimp city and friends” a hermit crab uses a skull as a shell, a jumbo shrimp is labeled himbo shrimp, and a yeti crab is labeled “snack bacteria cafe”. The fly has an asterisk next to him and underneath the whole design it says *the latest research shows that bugs is actually shrimp”
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Andy Farke @andyfarke.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Opportunity (paid, short-term) for paleobotanists, hosted at my museum (Claremont, California) - looking for folks to assist with ID of plant fossils in our collection. Details here: www.alfmuseum.org/plantfossilp...
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Project Opportunity: Visiting Plant Fossil Specialists – Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 21/05/2026
Arab Strap have shared details of their ninth studio album, Half-Told Tales. You can watch a video for lead track ‘You You You’ here: buff.ly/VG5E4X6
Colour photograph of Arab strap, with a mustard yellow background.
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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 20/05/2026
Building on the success of my crowdfunding so far, I've decided to crowdfund my first novel!!!! It's a middle grade adventure story about Violet and her pet colony of bacteria. Here's the link. There'll be a zine in the Summer too, a sort of 'Science behind' :) 🐡 www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
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Get Ready for Mimi Ate My Spellings
From Kathryn Garner - Get Ready for Mimi Ate My Spellings
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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 20/05/2026
Working on it :D
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan
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Chop Shop Studio 🇺🇸+🇺🇦 @chopshopstore.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
@amyrosegeden.bsky.social Planning another Super League of Science for August on @backerkit.com which is a crowdfunding platform. Hope you will join us for this one. The 1st had 7 projects; all were funded. HOPING to get at least 12-15 projects this year and would like you to be one of them!
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Jean-Michel Basquiat @basquiat.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Undiscovered Genius, 1983 botfrens.com/collections/27/content…
Undiscovered Genius
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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 17/05/2026
See, you can build a business from illustrating mushrooms :) 🐡 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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North East woman built business from illustrating mushrooms
Entrepreneurs in the North East say women need to have more confidence in their own business ideas.
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 15/05/2026
we're logging out early. you can too. we called your boss already. just bail
A stick figure made of overlapping punctuation marks from a typewriter labeled as Craig saying ladies and gentlemen the weekend
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
check out this thread full of nature-themed crowdfunded merch projects with only 1 day left. please support the creators you like if you can!
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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Next we have an array of colourful coasters. Birds or blooms, birds and blooms the choice is yours, get any combination or just a single one for your book nook brew. #SciArt #Birds #Flowers #bsnm #ArtistSupport www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...
A series of eight drinking coaster mock ups showing original bird and flower themed designs illustrated by Loadofolbobbins. Clockwise from left to right they show a close up head illustration of a Cassowary, a female kestrel hovering over some trees, some daffodils with silhouetted black foliage, some pink and red sweet peas with silhouetted black leaves and tendrils, a pink wild rose in bloom next to two just opening buds, some violets and primrose flowers, a barn owl swooping mid flight. They all have inky blue wash backgrounds.
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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
OK so there's just 24 hours left to back my latest campaign so now would be a good time to share all the things you can get! 1st up a triptych of bird tea towels, we have ourselves the ever impressive Cassowary, a kestrel and swooping barn owl. #SciArt #Birds #bsnm www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...
a series of three tea towel mock ups showing original bird themed designs illustrated by Loadofolbobbins. From left to right they show a close up head illustration of a Cassowary, a female kestrel hovering over some trees and a barn owl swooping mid flight. They all have inky blue wash backgrounds.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 13/05/2026
I've been doing a little painting 😅
Dozens of ink and watercolor paintings displayed on the floor of a hallway
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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 13/05/2026
The Mauve Stinger Fluorescent Keychain has been UNLOCKED!! Final 24 hours... 🐡 🦑 #illustration #artsky #biosky
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...
The Girl With The Cat Earring, featuring my mum and dad's cat Bridget.Bridget Hangs Out With The Hunters In The Snow
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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 11/05/2026
3 days left and not long until we unlock the third Fluorescent Keychain - the Mauve Stinger! This one will glow PINK under UV light! 🐡 🦑 Do you think we'll make it there? www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...
Mauve stinger (Pelagia noctiluca) circular illustration made with watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper. Dark blue bell. Long string-like tentacles from orange at the bell to pale pink. Bright pink oral arms that become vibrant red near the bell.
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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Ahh just one stretch goal left to unlock with just over 3 days left to do it?! Will the Andean Cock-of-the-rock and the Cassowary join the final mini pin line up?? Just £13 to go.... www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l... #SciArt #BirdArt #ArtistSupport #Illustration
A mock up of six mini 25mm wooden bird pins made from original illustrations by Loadofolbobbins. Four already unlocked ones show show a side view of a snowy owl looking out at the viewer, a mildly surprised looking short-eared owl face on, a dapper looking magellanic penguin and a black and white Wyandotte Chicken. Two yet to unlock designs show a male Andean cock-of-the-rock perching on a branch and a head illustration of a Cassowary.
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Annie Shao Art @annieshaoart.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
One more week until the end of the Birdtober 2025 Sticker campaign! These are all the stretch goal stickers that have been unlocked so far, voted on by backers. Want to stick some birds on things? Don't forget to pledge by May 14: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a... #BirdArt #SciArt #BSNM #stickers
10 bird sticker mockups made from my marker drawings of birds. The top of the image says "Birdtober 2025 Stickers"
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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Woot the sparrow & Bluethroat now unlocked! Our next target is the snowy owl and slightly shocked looking short-eared owl! So if you ever wanted a mini owl to hoot from your lapel you've got 1 week left to back! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l... #SciArt #Illustration #Birds #Owls #bsnm #BirdArt
A mock up of two mini 25mm wooden bird pins made from original illustrations by Loadofolbobbins. They show a side view of a snowy owl looking out at the viewer and a mildly surprised looking short-eared owl face on. The snowy owl is all white feathers with small brown markings and intense yellow eyes. The short eared owl has rich dark brown wings and pale chest feathers with brown streaks and also intense if not suprised looking yellow eyes.
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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 09/05/2026
First Crenelated Mutants pin out in the world!!! ❤️
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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 08/05/2026
I've added Giant Siphonophore Gym Leggings to Deadly Tangle! Find them alongside the Mauve Stinger Tangle Tee t-shirt and Crystal Jelly Fluorescent Keychain :) 🐡 🦑 Six days to go... www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...
Front, back and side views of a pair of Giant Siphonophore Gym Leggings. Turquoise or teal with water marks from watercolour and lines from coloured charcoal pencil colouring. Yellow blobs in chains down the backs of the thighs and running round the calfves are the zooids.
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Abi Stevens - comms open @abistevensart.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I've added wristlet length lanyards with my ✨️science✨️ designs on to my shop! 😁 All with matching keychains! abistevens.etsy.com?section_id=4... #artShop #SciArt #scienceIsCool
A photo of four wrist lanyard with matching keychains. From front to back: a blue lanyard with a pattern of stars, planets, an astronauts helmet, and satellitr etc with a blue planet keychain, an orange lanysrd with a pattern of skulls, bones, and artefacts with an orange ammonite keychain, a lilac lanyard with a patten of gemstones, rocks, scales etc with a crystal ore rock keychain, and a green lanyard with a pattern of lab beakers and other equipment surrounded by bubbles and a brown glass lab bottle with a yellow triangle danger label for the keychain.
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Abi Stevens - comms open @abistevensart.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
And here's a lab themed wrist lanyard! :D www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4... #ArtShop #SciArt
A photo of a green wrist lanyard with an illustrated pattern of lab-related items including; microscope, bunsenburner, beakers, bubbles, a glove, and a chemical bottle. There is a keychain with holographic sparkles featuring the brown chemical bottle with a red lid and a labe with a yellow warning triangle on it.
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Erika Rier @erikarier.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I’m releasing my newest handmade comic tonight at LA Art Fair. Here’s a little peek inside.
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Libby @libbystigaard.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Something whimsical for the last day of #RepostYourArt and #InverteFest: a #watercolor rhinoceros beetle that I painted to go with an absolutely charming story by @whistberry.bsky.social for the InverteFest Anthology.
An Art Nouveau style watercolor painting of an anthropomorphic rhinoceros beetle wearing a monocle, bow tie, and spats while holding a cane and tipping a stovepipe hat to a small frog.
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