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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

For #ArtAdventCalendar day 16, here’s a face I sketched last weekend. I really love drawing faces, they’re so interesting. Not overly happy with this one but meh, it was fun. Drawn with #Polychromos #pencil 191 Pompeian Red in a mixed media sketchbook. #drawing #face #art #sketch

A monochromatic, rusty red pencil drawing of a girl’s face, scrunched up, caught in a big laugh. She has a mass of wild curls framing her face, her eyes squeezed shut in mirth, and her teeth all visible behind her wide grin.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

For #ArtAdventCalendar today, here’s a gouache painting I did in Feb ‘22, one of my faves. #painting #art #gouache

A gouache painting in a sketchbook. The landscape orientated painting is an abstract progression of loose, textured, vertical coloured stripes blended into each other, moving from left through deep red, scarlet, orange, golden yellow, light brown, a thin band of dark brown, dark to lighter green, lemon yellow, golden yellow again then finishing with another thin band of orange on the right edge.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Happy #ArtAdventCalendar everyone! Here is an artichoke from August. Been playing with oils a bit this year and I have a lot to learn 😅 #painting #oils #artichoke

An oil sketch in a sketchbook of an artichoke, with the reference photo showing on an iPad sitting next to it.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Currently in Savona, Italy! Here are some tomatoes from a local grower 🤤 They’re called Datterini aka “little dates”. Happy Easter everyone! Hope you are all doing ok ❤️

Some local Italian farmer-grown tomatoes called Datterini aka “little dates”! 🍅

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Love Kent St! We have this beauty on our fridge: (Note also the awesome cat stickers from @kayjaypayyy.bsky.social 🧢❤️)

Photo from 2023 of a sticker that is still on our fridge that reads “Fuck this, I’m going to Kent St!”

Stuck there with some very yellowed old White Pages magnets, which also pin some wonderful @kayjaypayyy cat stickers and a council notice about a street party.

Being a rainy Melbourne Sunday morning, I am still in bed & too lazy to go take a fresh pic.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Face drawing from last week 💙 Drawn with Faber-Castell Polychromos coloured pencil in shade 110 Phthalo Blue, in a mixed media sketchbook. #drawing #face #portrait #polychromos #art #artyear #FebruArty #monochrome #OnlyBeautifulThings

Faber-Castell Polychromos coloured pencil drawing of an interesting face I found on the internet. I love doing monochrome pencil drawings and value studies, particularly of faces.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Progress pics, showing the transition from pencil sketch, through Copic base layer, then starting to add some pencil 🐸

Initial pencil sketch. I forgot to take a photo before I started lightening the lines with a kneadable eraser unfortunately. But you can still see the little guy :)

Starting to lay down the Copic marker base layer. Never done this before. Had to really force myself not to get into detail, as I can’t seem to help doing most of the time.

This is where I stopped with the Copics. Had no idea if it was enough, or too much, haha.

Starting to add pencil. I’m so obsessed with my Polychromos pencils, they’re such wonderful quality and perfect for finely detailed work.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Little froggy I drew a couple of weeks ago 🐸 A wee Northern Dwarf Tree Frog Litoria bicolour 💚 How good is art for stopping doom scrolling? Progress pics in comments. More info in alt text. #drawing #polychromos #copic #pencil #art #artshare 🐡 🐍

Multimedia drawing of a Northern Dwarf Tree Frog Litoria bicolour, from a photo by David Clode in Northern Queensland, Australia.

The frog is mostly green, sitting vertically on a stalk. The drawing was made with Polychromos coloured pencils, over Copics.

My first time using Copics as a base layer under the pencil, and as you’ll see in the progress pics, the Copic layer was kinda messy, but saved me a bunch of time!

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Look at what just arrived from the UK! 🤩 “Bad Garden Party Stare”, original artwork by @kazland.bsky.social, the 2nd of two I’ve purchased recently. The other is still in its postal tube as I want to get it framed too. Sooo happy 🥰 #art #artyear #kazland #fineart #OnlyBeautifulThings

Photo of an abstract art piece by Kazland titled “Bad Garden Party Stare”. It is predominantly red, black & white, plus a touch of yellow & pink, in a black wooden box frame, also made by the artist.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

See a duck, post a duck. Doesn't have to be the same duck. 🪶 (it is tho) #birds

Colour pencil drawing of a Mandarin Duck.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Today has not started well 😣 #coffee

Photo of a large green coffee canister that has fallen on the floor, opened, & spilled its ground coffee contents everywhere. Damn.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Drop something black & white

Charcoal drawing of a metal gravy boat in a sketchbook.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

No to Nuclear, obviously. But you need to stop offsetting your renewables brownie points with new coal mines. australiainstitute.org.au/initiative/c...

Screenshot of the start of the article at https://australiainstitute.org.au/coal-mine-tracker/update/taking-out-the-trash-2024-three-big-coal-approvals/

Text reads:

“Taking out the trash 2024: three big coal approvals

On 19 December 2024, three big coal mines gained federal approval – Caval Ridge, Boggabri and Lake Vermont. These projects could produce 350 million tonnes of coal and 936 million tonnes of emissions. Bad stuff.”

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

For #ArtAdventCalendar day 19, here’s an abstract composition in gouache I painted in Dec ‘22. #art #gouache #abstract

An abstract gouache painting composed of many large, blobby shapes that twist and overlap in multiple places. The shapes are various shades of dark blue and green.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I missed this the other day, but if not too late, here’s the main thing I’m working on at the moment! Thanks @paperslayers.bsky.social for the tag :) love your line work there, beautiful!

Abstract colourful oil painting with some jungle motifs hidden within

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

WIP on some current work for #ArtAdventCalendar day 17. “Through the jungle” oils on primed paper.

Abstract WIP painting of a jungle scene, with birds, sunlight, trees and water combining in a cacophony of colour.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Good morning Bskies on this hot windy Monday in Melbourne, with an expected top of 41C (106F) eek 🥵 For #ArtAdventCalendar day 16 though, here are some apples I drew in April ‘22. Continuous contour line drawing with left hand, coloured in with my right. #art #drawing #polychromos #prismacolor

Continuous contour line drawing of 3 red apples, then coloured in with coloured pencils.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Striped catfish, in a never-ending cycle of feeding and protection. A beautiful example of a community working together for the benefit of all. 🫶 #unitedhealthcare Footage from @freshfinsdiving www.tiktok.com/@freshfinsdi...

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The moon was pretty spectacular last night 🤩 Zoom in & you can clearly see the face of the moon! For some reason I’ve always thought the face is only visible to those of us in the southern hemisphere. Is that correct, people up north? #ArtAdventCalendar #moon #iphone #sciart #astrosky

Photo of the moon at dusk. Most of the photo is sky, which has no clouds, with some dark foreground shapes of trees and the Alexander Parade Shot Tower in the distance, one of Melbourne’s few remaining shot towers, unused since 1947.

In the photo, the moon is high in the sky and quite large, relatively. The sky is still light although gradually turning a deeper blue, with hints of pink and orange along the horizon.

The moon is quite clearly showing its easily recognisable face, which is apparently actually painted by shadows from craters on the moon’s surface.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Some watercolour blobs for #ArtAdventCalendar day 11. Little individual worlds of colour and connection, from May ‘22. I love making these. I have a bunch more and am working on larger versions on canvas at the moment. #watercolor #painting #art #abstract #color

Photo of some watercolour blobs painted in a sketchbook, 2 rows of 2. Each blob is a combination of a few different colours, which move and swirl and connect in different ways within the amorphous shapes.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Somewhere, right now, this is happening, and I really wish I was there! Sunset on a tropical island, artist’s gouache in a Moleskin watercolour journal, April ‘22 #ArtAdventCalendar #gouache #artsky #sunset #island

A gouache painting of a sunset on a tropical island. The scene shows a shoreline, with the viewer standing on the sand, looking to the right. The sun has almost set in the distance, but the sky still has bright yellows, oranges & reds dancing across the horizon, also reflected on the sea. In the foreground on the left is a big sunshade made of palm leaves, and to the right, further along the beach, a single palm tree. Even further in the distance there is a pier extending out over the water. Apart from the bright oranges & reds of the sunset, everything has a deep blue cast from the encroaching night.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Here’s a watercolour & colour pencil doodle I did sometime in 2021, for #ArtAdventCalendar day 9. I quite like this one, even tho it’s a bit of a mess. #art #doodle #mixedmedia #watercolor #prismacolor

Photo of a spiral-bound sketchbook page of colourful watercolour & pencil doodled shapes and lines. There are 3 big russet-coloured triangles in the middle pointing left, with many smaller objects and marks in predominantly royal blue, turquoise, lime green, yellow and orange around and over the big arrows.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

For #ArtAdventCalendar day 8, a Mandarin Duck I drew April ‘22 in Polychromos pencils on some cheap paper that was totally unfit for purpose. It ripped in a few places, particularly in the duck’s beautiful neck feathers/mane/collar/um what do you call that bit?

A coloured pencil drawing of a Mandarin duck, minus its tail (poorly planned, ran out of space!) on a spiral bound notebook, spiral on the left.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Good morning, Blueskies! And a happy #caturday to you all! Here’s Leroy refusing to look at the camera for me. (Not shy, just cat.)

Photo of a long-haired black cat looking to his side. He’s sitting on a cork placemat on a little side table. In the background are two of his many, many beds in the apartment that he could choose to use instead of the placemat, but doesn’t.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Some strawflowers I painted in Nov ‘22 for #ArtAdventCalendar day 6 #watercolour #art #sciart #wip

Photo of a page in a spiral-bound sketchbook, with 3 rows of individual watercolour strawflower heads across the page, 4 per row. The flowers are a mix of orange, deep red and gold, often with multiple colours in one flower. Not all the flowers are complete yet, the last row in particular lagging, and the last two flowers only a single, pale layer of colour so far.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I love doodling with watercolour. #ArtAdventCalendar day 5, from Dec ‘22

A watercolour doodle made up of connected circular shapes of different sizes and colours, including blue, green, yellow, orange & magenta, whose colours run together and create a rainbow across the sketchbook page. Additional, much smaller marks like dots and small lines in random patterns appear within the circles, in colours similar to the colour of the shape at that point.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Good morning all! Today for #ArtAdventCalendar day 4, here’s a profile face sketch from Feb this year. Can’t remember whether this was with Polychromos or Prismacolor pencil, one or t’other! #sketch #drawing #art #artist

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Sunset, gouache on watercolour paper, Sept ‘21 #ArtAdventCalendar day 3 #abstract #gouache

A colourful gouache painting of a sunset in an abstract, colour-block style

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

For #ArtAdventCalendar day 2, some cherries I painted in Nov 2021. I was planning to add a background but couldn’t decide what, so it’s unfinished, but still a favourite of mine. Artist’s gouache on watercolour paper, 21 x 15 cm #art #traditionalart #gouache #pointillism #sciart

Gouache pointillism painting of a cluster of cherries on a white background, some still joined by their stems to couple of leaves, plus a few loose ones, one of which is cut in half. The whole cherries are a deep red colour, while the cut cherry shows its more orangey-red centre and has no pit.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

For #ArtAdventCalendar day 1, here’s a pup I painted in Dec ‘22. Watercolour on watercolour paper, 15cm x 10cm.

Watercolour painting of a young brown pup with big floppy ears, looking with puppy eyes to a spot just above the painter.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Good morning Blooskies! And Happy #Caturday! I’ve bought 3 new beds for Leroy recently, and this sun lounge & palm tree scratcher is a favourite 🖤 #cats #catsofbluesky #caturday #blackcat

A black cat lying twisted on a cat-sized sun lounge, staring at the camera. The sun lounge has a wooden frame, blue and white striped fabric, and a sisal scratcher on the top part. It is next to a palm tree made of sisal/rope for the trunk and green felt for the leaves. Both the lounge and the tree have white pom poms hanging off them, and the cat is playing with the sun lounge’s pom pom.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I’m probably not professional enough for your list yet, actually. But here’s a tail-less Mandarin Duck I did with Polychromos pencils:

Photo of a coloured pencil drawing of a Mandarin duck, minus its tail as I didn’t plan well and ran out of space.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Bottle & pears, gouache on watercolour paper, April 2023 One day I will finish this... #gouache #stilllife #unfinished #painting #art #artist

An unfinished gouache painting of 2 pears, one standing up, the other on its side, in front of a tall, rectangularish, green, glass bottle with some ivy coming out of it.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I use a couple of feeds that may help with that: Mutuals, and OnlyPosts, both by @skyfeed.xyz. bsky.app/profile/did:... bsky.app/profile/did:... Also check this setting in Thread settings:

screenshot of Settings > Thread Prefs > Prioritize your follows

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Image Alt texts for #weratedogs posts are just as good as the post tbh 🥹

Screenshot of a WeRateDogs post’s image with its alt text. The image is of a brown dachshund loafing on a couch, while the image’s alt text describes how he’s possibly misplaced his legs.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Seems there was a glitch in the last hour or so, apparently good again now!

Screenshot of Paul Frazee’s posts about today’s now-resolved BlueSky server issues.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Beautiful work! This is one of my favourite things I’ve drawn, and I drew her upside down 🙃 Marlene Dietrich, March 2022 #artshare #drawing #pencil #art

Grey lead pencil drawing of Marlene Dietrich

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Yessss!! One can never have too much cats content! Ps that’s my pillow & I have to fight for it every night 🙃

A long-haired black cat stretched out contentedly on a white human pillow on a bed, with a brown wooden bed frame, grey sheet and an orange and white doona cover.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Warm up for #ArtAdventCalendar, here’s a face I drew with grey lead pencil Sep 2023. I’ve been exploring other mediums this year, acrylics and oils, so now I have a bunch of unfinished paintings lying around 😆 #art #artist #pencildrawing #drawing

A grey lead pencil drawing of a man’s face

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Some face drawings from the weekend. Green guy is tiny, pencil for scale. #art #drawing #polychromos

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

Reskeet something yellow from your artwork! Here’s a banananana 💛

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

My little shadow and rock, Magnus, passed away 5 years ago at the age of almost-18. Here he is at age 15 with his cheese face on 🧀 (he was sitting in the crook of my leg while I ate cheese) (I miss him so much ♥️) #dogsofbluesky #dogs #saycheese

An older Jack Russell X Mini Foxie staring at the camera, waiting for cheese.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Bit of digital art for #ArtAdventCalendar Day 20. Getting into digital art is what prompted me to buy real art supplies in 2021. This is my partner’s foot 😆 wearing sheepskin Uggs. Forgot to write UGG on the label. The proportions are a bit off too. Ah well. June 2020. #art #digitalart

Digital painting of a foot in Ugg slippers.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

These pumpkins were the first proper thing I painted after getting into art during covid. I was so proud of them. Now, 2 years on, I can also look back on them and see how much I’ve improved! #ArtAdventCalendar Day 18 #art #watercolour #pumpkins

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Snake 🐍 and frog 🐸, a comparison I did in July ‘22 of Prismacolor (top) and Faber-Castell Polychromos (bottom) coloured pencils. Bottom is wip but not sure I’ll finish it. Ref pic for the top snake was quite blurry, so my drawing is blurry too 🙃 #ArtAdventCalendar day 17 #art #drawing #pencils

Coloured pencils drawings of a green tree snake and a frog.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Watercolour sketch of some Scarlet Macaws for #ArtAdventCalendar Day 14 #art #watercolour #macaw

Watercolour sketch of two scarlet macaws sitting on a branch.

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miinx @miinx.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Progress pics in order:

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