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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

bsky.app/profile/peri... @thetavernknight.bsky.social I think we may want something.....

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

My most recent post about an art retreat. artsnataliia5.wordpress.com/2026/05/27/t...

View of lake, shoreline and sky, all in a variety of blue colors.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Well, I self published a book with a very narrow band of interest! Hooray! Whelp, I received my first AI offer for a Live Q&A for 4300 plus readers. Ha! It is clear that it scraped off my description and wants to explore the mechanics of my writing. Um, no.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I made some super t-shirts and accessories with the help of Camille. Go get some joy!

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

"Men liked to put me down as the best woman painter... I'm one of the best painters" - Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) US artist #InternationalWomensDay

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

(SCA) Newest piece of art for friend, Richard Crowe.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Updated my art blog with some good information on materials for beginners and advanced beginners to make medieval and renaissance artwork. Hope it is helpful, and ask questions if you have them, I love questions. artsnataliia5.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/s...

Paint palette with a variety of paints, gold, blue, red, purples and browns.

Paint tubes of Burnt Siena, Burnt Umber, Raw Siena, Ultramarine blue, gold, permanent white, cadmium red purple, and Dark Green.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Looks like an interesting seminar.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Thank you @scalzi.com. Took a vacation and in five days time read three of your novels and one novel from a humble bundle I picked up some time back. Love your writing.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Still doing art and have put a piece of new photography in my Redbubble store. Fairy Path is now available in a couple of lovely little ways. I know there are some of you out there reveling in this snow globe we have right now. Indulge yourself! www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1783...

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Fairy Path for Winter by ArtsNataliia | Redbubble

There are many that enjoy the beauty of winter and the snow. This special fairy path in the snow may lead to another realm.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

'Murmuration' by contemporary UK printmaker Hester Cox #WomensArt

Print with three trees on a hill to the left and a large flock of flying birds above right in a tight formation in a blue sky

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

(SCA)(Art) Pushing into art because it is important. I have updated my blog with my latest creation. This might be helpful to other artists as I discuss the process. Comments, likes, shares, people following it, and feedback are encouraged. artsnataliia5.wordpress.com/2026/01/11/l...

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Ludovic of Carolingia, Chivalry scroll

I know you are not going to believe this, but this was my first Chivalry scroll (to the best of my recollection). I had some suggestions on what the recipient would like and the big one was that he…

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

(SCA) Chivalry scroll for Ludovic went out yesterday at Twelfth Night. The person is really into medieval architecture so I went for it. Black ink for calligraphy, gouache paint for painting of the illumination. Words by good friend Matthias Grunewald.

Artwork with large illuminated K, and calligraphed words, based on the Morgan Bible. Red and Blue with gold decoration, two houses facing each other made of brick and wood. Gathering of the unbelted team led by Ludovic, with King and Queen looking on.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

A beautiful photographer who delights.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Updating my art block with some insights into artistically replicating (SCA) manuscripts in the form of black hour scrolls. artsnataliia5.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/n...

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Latest (SCA) art that was presented this last weekend. Gouache watercolor and white ink on black paper.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I have a lot of artists on my field. You should contact them because they are looking for more people to interview for their A View From the Easel.

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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

It's unfortunately difficult to find places to donate used good in many localities. But, please don't support Salvation Army by donating stuff for them to sell in their stores, either.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Today is Small Business Saturday, please consider small businesses, local artists, and creatives for your gifting needs. I'm one of those. #Smallbusinesssaturday www.redbubble.com/people/ArtsN... drifasleap.com/shop/ArtsNat... A place where you can custom order!

Hand crafted art with purple, gold and white on black paper, including Wonder Woman shield and white lettering.

Two men in white blousy shirts suitable for SCA, larping, renaissance fairs.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

If you are shopping this weekend and in the next couple of weeks, please consider small businesses, local artists, and creatives for your gifting needs. I’m one of those artists. www.redbubble.com/people/ArtsN... drifasleap.com/shop/ArtsNat... A place where you can custom order!

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Latest piece of art presented this last weekend. (SCA) AoA scroll as part of auction prize to a friend in Trimaris. Gold, Purple and white goauche on black paper. One of my favorite pieces.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

“They were careless people,” Fitzgerald wrote, “they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” The Great Gatsby.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

You've seen my artwork here, now you can get some of your own original artwork. I'm offering custom artwork for scrolls (SCA) or other art on my shop on Drifas Leap. www.drifasleap.com/shop/ArtsNat...

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

(SCA) Scroll for friend Lilias at the Coronation event. White, red and gold goauche, and gold ink on black paper. I'm really happy with this one.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

(SCA) Golden Rapier scroll for Quintin

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

(SCA) Black hours scroll for Katerina on her Maunche.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

(SCA) Seems I am running behind posting some of my work. Here is the Laurel Scroll for Remy. Based on a renaissance portrait.

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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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Alys Mackyntoich @alysmac.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

A nice little thread about how to do the work to take pronouncing people's names seriously.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Ireland. We toured Doolin Cave and the amazing stalactite. Nothing grandiose but simple it its theatrical look. (This is my artwork, please do not take without permission.)

White variegated stalactite in Doolin Cave against blackness of the cave.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

More Ireland artistic photos. I call this one Solitary thought. I loved the juxtaposition of the horse in the foreground against the almost shadowy horses in the background. (This is my artwork, please do not take without permission.)

Single brown horse with white back fetlock and cannon on the rear legs, and light brown mane on a grown field with yellow flower in the foreground. Line of dark horses on the horizon line contrasting to the light horse in the foreground, and a grey sky beyond the horizon, with some small white striated clouds.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Still working on my reflections of my Ireland artists retreat. I captured the beauty of the land with my camera and pushed myself on artistic choices and color. Ocean dreams is what I call this one. (This is my artwork, please do not take without permission.)

Shoreline with green grass and pink and white flowers leading up to a brown cliff. There is water, waves and pools in several different shades of blue washing up on the rocks jutting out into the ocean of Ireland.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Painting in Ireland. The first is a photo I took on the Cliffs of Moher. We found butterflies and snails galore! The second photo was my painting of it. I call it Ireland wildlife.

Red and black butterfly on rocks on Cliff of Moher, Ireland.

Artistic rendering of black and white butterfly and brown and white snail on rocks on Cliff of Moher, Ireland.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Photography by Nataliia. Snail on leaves on the Cliffs of Moher, Ireland. Help me name this art photograph that I made!

Pale brownish red snail on green leaves with flecks of yellow and white. Small flowers and shoots in pale red lazily laying sideways on leaves.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

More Ireland photos, the formations were calling to me as an artist.

In Ireland, large rock on a field full of stone and grass and bushes, under a blue sky with clouds.

Poulnabrone Dolmen, archeological monument in Burren, County Claire, Ireland. It is two limestone walls, and a limestone roof open to the air, on green pasture below a blue sky.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

To follow up yesterday's post of Ireland artadventure, Writing the land with artists and writers, I was coached through using Photoshop by Martin Bridge to help pick a palette for my proposed painting of the tree. The collaboration of the artists and wonderful supportive environment was magnificent.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Just back from the artadventure in Ireland. A wonderful retreat to explore the land and make art.

dark tree against blue sky and green grass.

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

A lovely video about the SCA and how I spent last weekend. It is truly amazing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2GV...

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SCA - East Kingdom Rapier Crown Tourney 2025

YouTube video by Sage of the Sword

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Nataliia Hurd @nataliiah.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Now I realize my previous post could be thought of as pollyanna, or ignoring huge facts of yuck. I am simply putting it forth as one way I'm working on to get through.

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