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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Been painting these ornaments lately. I kinda love them.

Five have painted ornaments, including three mari lwyd skeletal horses, a variable flying fox fruit bat and a Peacock feather

Six photos of have painted ornaments. A Discworld death of rats that glows in the dark, two different luna moths, a peacock father and a bat

Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Just finished this wee fox kit who's been sitting sketched on the panel for over a week #Miniature #painting #Acrylic on birch 4 in. Square Title: TBD #fox #foxy #foxen #art #paint #Artyear #miniatures #minipainting #ArtofBlueSky #dollhouse #forest #wildlife #nature #animalart #animals #wallart

A light skinned hand holds a small miniature painting in front of a lot of art supplies
The painting is about four inches square and shows a young red fox kit peeking out of its den. The den is under a swath of moss, and the whole scene is surrounded by melting snow.

A miniature painting on wood. The painting is about four inches square and shows a young red fox kit peeking out of its den. The den is under a swath of moss, and the whole scene is surrounded by melting snow.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Rough commute. #rainbow #sketch on gray paper Not very refined but I enjoyed the vibes

A very rough multicolored sketch of a horned humanoid clutching a disposable hot-drinks cup and looking tired

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Playing a homebrew D&D game, and I've been illustrating some of the loot and artifacts. I'm not a very skilled digital artist, so this is a good excuse to practice! This cube is based on 19th cent. reliquary jewelry boxes. #DnD #GIMP #DungeonsAndDragons #DigitalArt #ArtYear #crystal #Art

A digitally painted faceted crystal box, assembled with some kind of metallic framing The outline is octagonal, but the overall impression is of a beveled cube

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

How Do They Rise Up It's not the Glorious 25th of May, but my lilacs are blooming. And sometimes you have to wear the lilac. Because of reasons. #TerryPratchett #Discworld #Nightwatch #Lilac #ArtYear #PolymerClay #GNUSTP #Handmade #Resist #Vimes

A lilac brooch made from polymer clay. The flower and leaves are the only color in an otherwise black and white image. The background is a black shirt with lace
The brooch is being stabilized by a thumb and forefinger.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

RFK Jr. #autism #rant was just a big mixup- He was extrapolating from a study by Barnes & Barnes, which concluded: *They can't play baseball *They don't wear sweaters *They're not good dancers *They don't play drums Unfortunately, the original subjects were *not* Autistic, so his data was skewed

A really rather horrible picture of a fish head wearing lipstick, false eyelashes and a party hat. A Screenshot from the original video for "Fish Heads" a song from 1980 by Barnes & Barnes, made popular in the Dr. Demento show.
The lyrics are as follows:

Fish heads, fish heads
Roly-poly fish heads
Fish heads, fish heads
Eat them up, yum

Fish heads, fish heads
Roly-poly fish heads
Fish heads, fish heads
Eat them up, yum

In the morning, laughing, happy fish heads
In the evening, floating in the soup

Ask a fish head anything you want to
They won't answer, they can't talk

I took a fish head out to see a movie
Didn't have to pay to get it in

They can't play baseball, they don't wear sweaters
They're not good dancers, they don't play drums

Roly-poly fish heads are never seen drinking cappuccino
In Italian restaurants with Oriental women

Yeah

Ask a fish head anything you want to
They won't answer, they can't talk

Ask a fish head anything you want to
They won't answer, they can't talk

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Work in progress for "The Art of the Miniature XXXiii" I might title it "Below the Light" original photo from Horton Point, NY #miniature #seascape #landscape #artyear #WIP #Beach #LongIsland #ArtistsofBluesky #painting #acrylic #vacation #mini #sea #tinyart #dollhouse #seagull

A tiny painting is held between thumb and middle finger of a light skinned hand. The painting showed a beach scene or seascape with a large rock in the foreground and a barely visible tiny seagull. The image is about 3 inches wide by 1½ inches tall (the whole piece of paper is about 4 inches by 2 inches)
The original photo is of the beach below the Horton Point Lighthouse

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

My completely hand sculpted handpainted Hand animated stop-motion short film . "Esperanto" has been selected for the Jim Thorpe Film Festival I'm excited to share with a public audience It's only 6 minutes - I'll attach the link below! #shortfilm #Stopmotion #Filmfestival #ArtYear #Film #animation

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This 33mm² miniature painting of the "Punk in Drublic" album cover. Part of a series I did of 30 mini covers and counting! #NOFX #Hardcore #Punkrock

The thumb and index finger of a light skinned hand holding a miniature acrylic painting is the NOFX Punk in Drublic album cover. Surrounding the cover image is blue painters tape which had many dabs or black, white, and vermilion paint on it.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

A very rough and ready study as a warmup for some upcoming miniatures

A light skinned hand holds a very rough miniature painting of a nightscape. There are two bridges with their lights reflecting on the water below.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

April Fool (This most treasured of April Fool's jokes)

Image shows a tumblr post.
Text reads "what a good morning!! im gonna draw a dog!!
apRIL FOOLS I DREW TWO DOGS THEY'RE BEST FRIENDS"
Another commenter adds
"the only good april fool's joke"
with a cartoon of two minimalist lineart dogs.
One of whom is wagging is tail.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Little gratuitous fish doodle. India ink, & watercolor. Did you know that India ink is waterproof once it's dry? Now you do! #ArtTips #watercolor #ArtYear #Fish #Art #Sketch #Doodle #IndiaInk

A painting of a stylized jumping fish. The fish is a radiance of red to golden yellow. It's fins and tail are blue and it has a large, dark eye that seems to look at the viewer.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Long time no post - Been scrambling But I *had* to come out of the woodwork for #Stab Vampire Hunters' Chatelaine 🦇🧛‍♂️🦇 Polymer clay, vintage glass, reclaimed chain & asst findings #makersmARTch #mkrsmARTch #ArtYear #ArtShow #Vampires #Buffy #Stake #Polymerclay #Art #Chatelaine #Steampunk #Buffy #BtVS

A polymer clay chatelaine - vampire-hunting kit. A large oak faux hewel brooch with carrots vampire hunting tools hanging on short chains. At the yop of each chain is a red faceted bead- these are reclaimed vintage glass and/or crystal. The tools, left to right, are a wooden mallet, a small clay bottle with a potato pet label saying 'aqua benedicta' a long handled mirror in antique silver, a bulb of garlic and a wooden stake wrapped with copper wire.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Been waiting way too long to ask this: Hey, @eve6.bsky.social, do you like my Heart in a Blender miniature album cover painting? 🖤 #miniature #altrock #painting #ArtYear #ProjectEsperanto #Artshow #Bugs #Handpainted #90s Acrylic on hot press paper 33mm² From a series of 27 mini album cover paintings

A light skinned hand holds a framed miniature painting.
The painting is a one and a half inch square version of the 1998 self-titled album from artist Eve 6. The image has a white or off-white background, and shows some red and black abstract shapes in the left side. (These are stylistically obscured text)
The right side of the image is taken up by the black and white image of a fly- possibly it a house fly or similar species. The fly is somehwhat stylized. It seems to be investigating or consuming smudge or smear along the bottom of the image.

A square framed miniature painting.
The frame is white on the outer edge and has an inner outline of greyish wood
The painting is a one and a half inch square version of the 1998 self-titled album from artist Eve 6. The image has a white or off-white background, and shows some red and black abstract shapes in the left side. (These are stylistically obscured text)
The right side of the image is taken up by the black and white image of a fly- possibly it a house fly or similar species. The fly is somehwhat stylized. It seems to be investigating or consuming smudge or smear along the bottom of the image.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Bring on the "OMG I WANT TO EAT IT" comments! 🍫 🐇 🌸 🥚 🍫 This happens with things that are not even pretend food They're not wrong; I do make forbidden snacks. Wish I was a better photographer, though 😅 #Easter #Earrings #miniature #chocolate #polymerclay #miniatures #humanmade #handmade #artshow

A nine-square photo grid of miniature polymer clay Easter-themed Earrings. Mostly being held in light skinned hand, some set against a light backdrop. Most are little inch tall baskets with colored eggs and chocolate.
Top Left- Natural/ straw- colored basket with green grass pastel eggs and tiny chocolate bunnies
Top Center- white basket with pastel eggs and white chain instead of a curved handle
Top Right- Natural colored basket with pink Easter grass blue flowers and chocolate bunnies with little bow ties
Middle Left - Wow basket, green grass, eggs are soft primary colors chocolate bunnies with bowties
Middle Center - no baskets- two asinine decorated chocolate eggs with white chocolate flower motif
Middle Right - larger conical white basket with yellow Easter grass, pastel eggs and decorated chocolate egg
Bottom Left- small white basket with green grass pastel eggs and decorated chocolate egg
Bottom Center - natural colored basket with green grass, pastel eggs, and decorated chocolate egg
Bottom Right - white basket with green grass, pastel eggs and chocolate bunny

A miniature polymer clay Easter basket Earring against a kraft paper background.
A conical white basket with yellow Easter grass, five pastel eggs and a larger decorated chocolate egg

A miniature polymer clay Easter basket Earring accented with tiny flowers.
A rounded white basket with green Easter grass, pastel eggs and a larger decorated chocolate egg

A miniature polymer clay Easter basket Earring, accented with a green glass bead.
A rounded white basket with green Easter grass, eggsin soft primary colors eggs and a chocolate bunny with a green bowtie. Basket is about an inch tall.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Soup. For my Family. I avoid lettering, but these needed text Years back I bought a full set of antique type- Garamond. It was time I sifted through a LOT of lead to find upper & lower-case & assembled dedicated words with clay handles #Pendants & #Earrings #letterpress #Soup #SoupForMyFamily #memes

A light skinned hand holds two polymer clay pendants hanging from a yellow or gold cord. The pendants resemble soup cans, these are blue on top and white on the bottom, with a metallic gold colored star at the center like a seal. There are strips of c text appliquéd onto the cans which read SOUP - for * my - FAMILY. The cans are around an inch tall.

A light skinned hand holds a polymer clay pendant with a red jump ring hanging from a black cord. The pendant resembles a soup cans, it is ombre red on top and very pale pastel rainbow on the bottom, with a metallic gold colored dot at the center like a seal. There are strips of text appliquéd onto the cans which read soup - for * my - family. The can is just under an inch tall.

A 9-Square photo collage grid. In each square, a light skinned hand holds one or two polymer clay soup can charms. Some are pendants and some are earrings. All but two images have text which read "soup - for * my - family"
.
Top Left it is a pair of earrings with a rainbow accent bead. These are ombre red on top and very pale pastel rainbow on the bottom, with a metallic gold colored dot at the center like a seal. The text is inlaid and inked in black.
Top Center is two pendants hanging from a gold or yellow cord. One is in nonbinary flag colors, this one has a rhinestone as its center seal and the other is on Bisexual flag colors and white.
There are strips of text appliquéd onto the cans which read SOUP - for * my - FAMILY
Top Right - a pair of earrings with no text, ombre red and pastel rainbow with a red faceted accent bead
Middle Left - two pendants hanging from a gold or yellow cord. These are blue and white with metallic gold stars in the middle. Text is appliqué
Middle Center - is the only solo pendant. If it's ombre red and pastel with applique text- all lower case "soup - for * my - family"
Middle right- Two pendants. Ombre red and pastel. Appliqué text.
Bottom Left - a pair of earrings with no text, ombre red and pastel rainbow with a faceted amber glass accent bead
Bottom Center - Two pendants These are blue and white with Rainbow bands around the middle. Text is appliqué
Bottom Right- is a pair of earrings with a Yellow swirled glass accent bead . These are ombre red on top and very pale pastel rainbow on the bottom, with a metallic gold colored dot at the center like a seal. The text is inlaid and inked in black.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I'm running a giveaway on Instagram for 1 of these handpainted mini album covers (Framed) 🎨🖼💿 If you wanna play "I Spy" or you know a fan of these artists- Come over to IG & Enter! I'll be posting about these all week- stay tuned🩶 #miniature #minipainting #Punkrock #AltRock #Emo #SkaPunk #Giveaway

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Somebody asked me for the #BearPride flag, probably years back. Took me a while, but I got there! #Pride #TheFirstPrideWasARiot

A small brick pendant (made from polymer clay) resting in a light- skinned palm. At the top of the brooch is a band/strap/ribbon, which has the colors of the 7-stripe Bear Pride Flag. It is accented with an inset black paw print.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I use this meme a lot, but that doesn't make it less true

Text post, which says:
"Me: *sees beautiful art* I should
compliment the artist!
Me: *knows nothing of art
terms*
It's shiny! The lines go whoosh
whoosh and that makes me happy
The colors give me feelings. So
clean, so vibrant. I would lick
it."

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The #GenderFluid flag honestly should have come up sooner, but it's here now, and that's what matters! #Pride #PolymerClqy

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

(I'm sorry for the spammish flood of Pride Riot Bricks but look I've just made a BUNCH of new designs and I love them, okay?) I've been meaning to do the Queer Pride flag for AGES and a request came at the perfect moment. I also love Queer as a descriptor. #Queer #Pride #LGBTQIA #PolymerClay

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I confess, I was gonna say "no" when somebody asked for an Ally brick, but I had leftover Beetlejuice Stripes... so okay #Pride

A small brick pendant (made from polymer clay) resting in a light- skinned palm. At the top of the brooch is a band/strap/ribbon, which has a representation of the "Straight Ally" Flag- black and white stripes accented with a rainbow triangle emblem

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I got a request for the 8- Stripe Rainbow Gilbert Baker Pride flag. This makes me happy. #Rainbow #Pride #LGBTQIA #PrideRiot (As with all of my Pride Bricks, these are in my shop)

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I painted a 2" by 3" landscape inspired by the work of #AndrewWyeth (for reasons) When I expressed distaste for his often muddy, bleached palette, a friend who enjoys his works said "I suppose they are kind of Sad Beige Paintings for Sad Beige Children" So I made this #ProjectEsperanto #ArtHistory

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I just finished a batch of 30 Pride Brick Necklaces Flags & colors include #Rainbow, Dark Rainbow, Trans, Lesbian, Nonbinary, Bisexual, Agender (new!) Pansexual, Ace/Demisexual, & Lavender I love them so much. I'll resist the urge to wax poetic FOR NOW More on these later The first #Pride was a riot

A cluster of miniature polymer clay brick pendants held by a light-skinned hand. Each brick has a strap, band, or ribbon at the top. These ribbons are made in the colors of various Pride flags. Visible in this bundle are:
the standard rainbow, Agender (black, grey , white, and light green), Bisexual (pink, purple and blue) Pansexual (bright pink yellow, blue) Trans, (pale blue, pink, and white) and the asexual/demisexual flag (black, gray, white, purple)
There are two Bricks with ribbons in lavender, since that color also has a long history among the LGBTQIA community.
While not discernible, there's also a nonbinary flag (black, purple, white, yellow)

A close up of some Pride brick pendants. The left is one with a rainbow ribbon. To the right is one with a lavender ribbon, accented with a tiny butterfly sporting the Trans Flag colors.
There are additional bricks in the background showing Rainbow, Agender, and Trans Flag ribbons.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

For #!BlueSkyArtShow It took me all day but I found someone for #abandoned "Into Ploughshares" Polymer clay, steel & aluminum wire, mica powder 2017 about 6-8" tall Her name is Ada She has /Lore/ *She just "came to" *Can't access all her firmware *doing her best #ArtYear #Robot #polymerclay

A sculpture of a somewhat humanoid jointed robot sitting on a round wooden base. Approximately 8 inches tall by six wide by six deep. It smiles. The robot is mostly silver in color with bronze and copper accents. It is made up of cylindrical shapes and disc- shaped or spherical joints, and has a very industrial look, maybe late 19th century?
Chest, head, upper & lower arm and leg pieces are all cylinders with visible rivets. It looks beat up and damaged.
It sits on the ground, its left knee is bent and sits parallel with the ground, foot pointing inward. Its left hand rests on the ground behind that leg, helping to support it.
The robot's right knee is bent upright in front of the robot, and it's right hand isresting on that knee. A small white bird sits on the upper of the robot's to fingers and the bird is looking towards the robot's very primitive face.
There is a door or panel in the center of the robot's chest which is partly ajar. Inside is a nest containing blue eggs, presumably belonging to the bird.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

This barn owl necklace was the side effect of a commission. It's about 4 or 5 inches wide. And it is not painted. 100% of the color is in the clay itself, using millefiori cane techniques. #ArtYear #Owl #PolymerClay #birds

A polymer clay barn owl necklace. The owl, caught mid- flight with splayed wings is set on a blue base. The necklace itself sits on a black background.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Someone big Art, sometimes small art. These bats aren't painted, all the color and shading is in the clay. Even if they're not cleared as fancy srt, I really love the bat earrings I make. For #Februarty #Turquoise #ArtYear

A light skinned hand holds a pair of white fruit bat earrings. They hang from their feet, with their heads at the bottom.
Each bat has one wing open and one closed. Their wings, ears, and heart-shaped noses are turqoise or aqua and their eyes are pearly.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Dealers choice for #Februarty day 19 with #ArtYear This is a tiny hand drawn mini map. Micron pens, watercolor, colored pencil. Text and labels deliberately avoided, but probably immediately recognizable to #nerds and #geeks of a certain age or sentiment (I always wanted the poster, myself)

A tiny hand-copied paper map held between a light-skinned thumb and forefinger. Set on a purple backdrop. Probably a little smaller than a business card. There's a great sea to the west, an extensive forest towards the center, and a rather square ring of mountains to the right (East) with a tall and rather forbidding mountain inside.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

For #Februarty, the prompt is #glasses and Doctor Schnabel here is well equipped. The lenses glow in the dark! #ArtYear In an embarrassing, but consistent display of misspent prescience, I was inspired to make a bunch of these in October of 2019 #Art #PolymerClay #Spooky

A light skinned hand holding a sculpture or figurine made from polymer clay. It resembles a plague doctor- carrying a staff, wearing a large coat or robe, a long beaked mask, and a flat broad-brimmed hat. All of these are dark brown. There are spectacles or goggles across the front of the mask, with gold colored frames and agnostic opaque lenses. It has wings or feathered hands coming from the sleeves- the feathers resemble those of a barn owl.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Ye gods l love the internet sometimes. Text at the top reads: . "If we have to have an unqualified South African elbow deep in the government, why can't it be this guy?" . (I mean, "unqualified" is debatable- by comparison, he's qualified af)

A screenshot with text at the top reading "If we have to have an unqualified South African elbow deep in the government, why can't it be this guy?" And then a picture of comedian Trevor a Noah on a blue background

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I cannot, l think, shine very bright today But I can share this tiny painting I did of a soap bubble. (Just to see if I could) The squares on the grid are 1 inch Acrylic on hot press paper #bubbles #whimsy #painting #miniature

A painting of a soap bubble in a dark brown mat or frame. It's sitting on a green grid with yellow lines. The picture and frame are less than three grid squares across. Brushstrokes are fairly visible. The soap bubble has pronounced highlights of pink and blue and yellow, and shows the plants and leaves around it and the shadows of tree branches above.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

One of my favorite discoveries about the FRED puppets- just picking them up, they would fall into beautiful, natural-looking poses They always seemed to be dancing. For #Big&Small, enjoy the #miniature sets and #puppets making my hands look enormous! #dollhouse #ProjectEsperanto #Februarty #ArtYear

A five- block photo collage grid. Each one features a light- skinned human hand holding a 6-inch tall flat puppet or doll figure on carrots poses. Clockwise from top left, the puppets are orange, magenta, purple, blue, and teal-green.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Friendly PSA from your local fat artist: There are plenty of damning things to say about Cantaloupe Caligula without focusing on his weight *I'm* fat. I'm also smart, kind, funny, active, cute, & most importantly NOT a deliberately- ignorant rancid **** hellbent on harming as many people as possible

A hand drawn paper doll of a light- skinned person with messy long brown hair and glasses. To the right is the word "Me" in red. With an arrow pointing towards the figure.
They are heavyset,with a round face and a dimpled chin. They have thick arms, and and are holding a handful of pens or paintbrushes. They're wearing a pain-splattered brown T-Shirt and blue jeans and they're standing in front of a deep red curtain and smiling slightly.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I wrote this scene Animated it Edited it (for HOURS) & *Still* I feel it so strongly Every time As both subject & spectator I want to reach in To an abstracted puppet barely longer than my small hand And tell them it's gonna be okay #Februarty #Artyear #Monochrome #BlueSkyArtShow #ProjectEsperanto

A still taken from a scene from "Esperanto x Keep Flying-198 Broadway"
The image is entirely In shades of grey and black. (Even the lighter shade is fairly dark ) A human figure is curled up in a defensive or fetal position implying pain, despair, fear, etc.
The figure is a jointed doll puppet made from simple shapes- ovals, oblongs, etc. While it is 3d, the shadows themselves are flat.
They have their hands covering their head and face. The figure has pitch black wounds or scars on its foream, lower leg, and (covered) face. These wounds have lines like lightning or tree roots stretching away from the edges.
They are lying on a stony cliff edge. At the edges of the image are blurry but jagged shadows encroaching, add though the figure was being swallowed by darkness.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Another poem for today "The Lady in the Lake" Maybe a tad cheeky, depending on how you read it #LoveOfPoetry #Poem #Poetry

Apoem titled "The Lady in the Lake"
Dark blue text on a white background
Text reads:
The Lady in the Lake
...
What draws the walking wounded
to the water?
Some seek, they say,
A sylph
to sooth the ragged breast.
For so I go.
She lifts her eyes to mine;
I catch my breath
How coarse it seems to speak
of parted lips -
of deep and softened curve
from hips
to turning shoulder
as she sways.
Her gaze
Forever meeting mine
A smile-
Curls a covetous mouth
as it slips through
incantations
carving secret certainties
among her rising skirts
scant invitation
and barest revelation
but enough.
Back I rise
From hems
To eyes
The spell complete
And I, replete,
(for now)
With wound unscarred,
Retreat
Those still, restraining waters once again.
I will return.
Repeat it all.
And never wonder
At the water
On the wall.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

This is traditionally a day for poetry, especially #poems of love, lust, limerence, and longing. 💌 🖋 I think I'll share some, and I hope you will, too! How about #LoveOfPoetry for the hashtag? I'll be playing with the themes above, put #Poetry is all about interpretation #poem #poetrychallenge

Text on a glowing yellow and dim red ombre background. A poem titled "I Want"
Text reads
...I Want
...
The salt and woodsmoke
Lingering in my mouth
For at least as long
As the wind
Bridled by these modest trees
Reminds you just
Where it was tasted

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I documented so much of the process of creating #ProjectEsperanto that my image files are filled with weird (but cool) pictures. I had to attach magnets to the hands is all 6 colirful FRED puppets, and captured this moment while the glue dried. #artyear #colorful #hands

Twenty five colorful polymer clay hands sit on an ivory colored rectangle. They are magenta, violet, blue, chartreuse, orange, and aqua. They are all mitten or spoon shaped (meaning that some have thumbs and some do not, but none have defined fingers) they have magnets glued onto the wrists.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Random mix of palette- focused images that came to mind!

A 6-block collage grid of different photos. Lop left- pink and white hydrangeas, top centre- a polymer clay bunny figurine with a flower pattern and pink ears, top right, polymer clay owl figurine in sky blue with white and scarlet flowers, bottom left a ruffled and folded parrot tulip, bottom center a blon of polymer clay with a pattern of leaves and flowers in greens abs pinks, bottom right, polymer clay cherry blossom earrings

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

On #orange for #Februarty In 2020 I was commissioned to make an art-piece #SederPlate #PolymerClay isn't food safe, so I made "nesting rings" that would encircle clear glass bowls, which could easily be removed & washed In addtn. to the trad. 6 seder plate sections, 🧵1/2 #Passover #Pesach #seder

A polymer clay relief sculpture on a black background. It is an open ring of naturally colored orange-tree branches, flowers and fruit, including oranges in various stages of ripeness. The overall outline of the shape is roughly square, the inner opening is more circular.
Scale is not obvious from the photo, But the piece is about 4 inches square.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Borage for Courage We draw strength from support & encouragement & solidarity. And joy. And beauty. Sometimes you have to get brave from the outside in. So I made these borage flower pins to wear Maybe as an amulet A charm A signal A badge Or for joy alone Borage for Courage #herbs #Courage #brave

A polymer clay Borage flower pin. A star shaped blue and white flower with five petals and a deep purple or black center sits on the back of a light skinned hand.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

There was.... an incident... But I fixed it! Pro tip: Do not attempt to mix nuanced colors in dim light Instead of lavender you get... How to describe the result? What if a sunset was horribly nauseous? It was *yucky* So I had to paint these, but I am not displeased! #Discworld #lilac #forsale

A light skinned hand holds a somewhat realistic polymer clay lilac. Though not visible, the piece is a pin or brooch.

A light skinned hand holds a somewhat realistic polymer clay lilac with green leaves below. Though not visible, the piece is a pin or brooch.

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I'm still very much learning as a painter And/but I am *Fascinated* by how much illusion is conveyed with very simple lines and brushstrokes. This is"Midnight Oil" the album cover for "The Orchard Record" & the song playing is "Nighthawks" @braveeye.bsky.social #BlueskyAtShow #Reflections #Artyear

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Mad Dash Studio @maddashstudio.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

These came out better than I'd hoped.

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