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La Monstressa

@monstressa.bsky.social

🖤 writer/artist based in the Pacific Northwest 🖤 creatures & experiences inspired by nature 🖤 featured creature: Utahraptor ostrommaysorum 🦖💚

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La Monstressa @monstressa.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

THREAD: Soooo I have a World Snake Day confession. For the past two years, I’ve been putting snakes on the Seattle Gum Wall. #sciart

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La Monstressa @monstressa.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

How do you study volcanoes on other planets? First, you study them here on Earth. Which can get a little... hair-raising. www.rei.com/blog/hike/me... This feature about NASA planetary geologist Dr. Rosaly Lopes remains my favorite thing I've ever written #volcano #geology #naturewriting

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La Monstressa @monstressa.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

weird girl summer

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La Monstressa @monstressa.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

GLOW UP (dino edition): made this 4' tall fluorescent baby brachiosaurus last year for Burien, WA's annual Arts-A-Glow festival. Paint job insp by alebrijes. Wasn't satisfied so I resculpted the head, redid the paint job, and gave her some fake ferns to munch. #paleoart #sciart #dinosaur #sculpture

A smiling dark-haired woman lit with blacklight wearing a painter's jumpsuit holds a large brightly colored and patterned sculpture of a long-necked dinosaur

In a colorful bohemian living room stands a large sculpture of a long-necked dinosaur, its body painted in colorful patterned sections, its head an unfinished partially carved block of foam

Closeup of an unfinished foam sculpture of a long-necked dinosaur's head against a backdrop of a colorful bohemian-styled living room

Downward-facing view of a large semi-realistic baby brachiosaurus sculpture with friendly eyes and a mouthful of faux ferns, standing in a kitchen

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La Monstressa @monstressa.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Can't buy a pet dinosaur so had to make my own... Juvenile Utahraptor ostrommaysorum, just because. #dinosaur #velociraptor #paleoart #polymerclay #artdoll #jurassicworld #sciart

A realistic sculpture of a small feathered dinosaur stands on a rocky outcropping against a blurry backdrop of trees and sky

A smiling dark-haired woman holds a realistic sculpture of a small feathered dinosaur while sitting on a mossy boulder against a backdrop of ferns and trees

A partially completed wire-and-tape armature (internal structure) of a dinosaur sculpture is shown sitting on a sketch with tools and background clutter

Two realistic sculpted dinosaur feet with attachment wires sticking out, painted in black, white and gray tones

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La Monstressa @monstressa.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

This weekend I made a pugtato and nobody tried to stop me #pugs #potato #polymerclay #sculpture #sciart

Against a blurry background of a shelf of records, a hand holds a small realistic sculpture of a potato pug hybrid

Against a blurry background of a shelf of records, a hand holds a small realistic sculpture of a potato pug hybrid, showing the underside

Against a green background, a small realistic sculpture of a potato pug hybrid and a matching faux burlap sack that reads russet pugtato grown in Washington State product of U S A

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La Monstressa @monstressa.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Turtlemato or tomurtle? (If you squint, you can see which side I came down on.) #polymerclay #sciart #turtles

A small sculpture of a tomato turtle hybrid rests in a person's hand against a backdrop of a full bookcase and assorted wall art

A small sculpture of a tomato turtle hybrid against a solid background

Side view of a small sculpture of a tomato turtle hybrid against a solid background

Front view of a small sculpture of a tomato turtle hybrid against a solid background

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La Monstressa @monstressa.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Obsessed with making food animals. In honor of National Garlic Day, here's a garlictopus (Octopus allium) #polymerclay #garlic #octopus #sciart

Against a white background, a realistic sculpture of an octopus garlic hybrid looks up with large, cartoonishly cute eyes

Against a white background, a sideways view of a realistic sculpture of an octopus garlic hybrid with large, cartoonishly cute eyes

Against a white background, a rear view of a realistic sculpture of an octopus garlic hybrid

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La Monstressa @monstressa.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

some days you're the pigeon, other days you're the sad potato whale #sculpture #polymerclay #potato

Against a solid background, a hand holds a small sculpture of a potato whale hybrid with a cartoonish sad facial expression

Against a solid background, a hand holds a small sculpture of a potato whale hybrid

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La Monstressa @monstressa.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

It's still #BatAppreciationDay for a couple more hours so I made a video. Introducing POTATO BAT, a playful sculpture series inspired by an extinct Australian microbat (more on that in a future project) #SciArt

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La Monstressa @monstressa.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Might quit art today because I will never top Batato. Happy International #BatAppreciationDay everyone #polymerclay #makearteveryday #bats #whatifbatbutpotato

A small sculpture of a potato with a bat face, wings and feet rests in the palm of a hand

A small sculpture of a potato with a bat face rests in the palm of a hand

The underside of a small sculpture of a potato with a bat face, wings and feet rests in the palm of a hand

Two crinkled paper bags printed with the text russet potato bat grown in Washington State product of U S A rest on a flat surface with a sculpture of a potato bat partly visible in the background

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