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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 7h

I know the popular Book Birds are often owls and corvids, and I love owls and corvids, but I thought it would be nice to give another, lesser known bird, its own bookplate. I see coal tits flitting around the trees in my neighbourhood, and they make me so happy. ko-fi.com/samikelsh/shop #cuteart

Watercolour bookplate illustration of a coal tit perched atop a stack of three pocket hardcover books. Beneath this art the words “ex libris” and a line for the book owner to write in their name.

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My month of ‘Tober Art Prompt List No Pressure Roulette returns to #badtober2026 and today’s prompt is an animal :3 OwO XD and I hope this goldcrest (scientific name Regulus regulus) captures that energy. They are the smallest bird in the UK at 8 centimetres long and weigh around 6g! #cuteart #birb

Watercolour illustration of a golrcrest perched on a pine branch in the woods. It is a small bird with mostly greyish beige plumage, with darker brown wings and tail, and a vibrant yellow streak of plumage on top of their head.

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

oh my goodness, thank you! 🥺🥰🥺

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the compliments are going to be SO backhanded, the passive SO aggressive. go off, queen 💅

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

he sees this man's vaguely threatening and offputting aura and just sees the loveliest person he's ever known

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My month of ‘Tober Art Prompt List No Pressure Roulette continues with an entry from Trektober, because the prompt was Meet The Family. Obviously I know Garak is like five ten. It’s his cultivated air of vaguely threatening and offputting energy that makes him seem so imposing. #garashir #ds9

Watercolour illustration of Julian Bashir introducing his new husband Garak to his parents, Richard and Amsha. Garak is towering over everyone else on the page, eyes wise with a concerningly threatening smile. Richard and Amsha look on uncomfortably while Julian holds Garak’s arm with a serene smile.

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For sure! I’m an experienced hand-sewist, but the only embroidery I’ve done was some really basic blackwork when I was 19 😳 I have some nice linen thread that’s been gathering dust in my studio for… five years now? Oh no

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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!

A digital illustration of a giant moth fae with glowing yellow eyes clinging to a lighthouse. At it's base, a lighthouse keeper emerges from his house to investigate.

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

something something post-canon garashir reunion

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i've been working up my courage to take up embroidery for SO LONG and i think this is my sign that it's time

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My month of ‘Tober Art Prompt List No Pressure Roulette sees the weather get a little grey with the Calmtober Day 5 prompt, Drizzle. These two little loves are sheltering in a recessed doorway to see whether the rain will give way to drier skies soon so they can continue their walkies. #cuteart

Watercolour illustration of a Scandinavian city street on a blustery, drizzly rainy day. Two little guys are hiding in a doorway waiting for the rain to pass. They are holding hands because they are in love.

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this sounds like a magical dream and i love that you got to do it 🥹

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🥺 how has it been three whole years, what is tiiiiiiiiiiime

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My month of ‘Tober Art Prompt List No Pressure Roulette continues with day 4 of #badtober2026 whose prompt was NO PEOPLE, so I painted the time I ran out of the car park near the tropical gardens because I absolutely HAD to photograph this field with the cows on the hill. #cuteart #watercolour #cow

Watercolour painting of some cows grazing on a hill surrounded by hedges and autumn trees.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Then Frog and Toad ate a big breakfast. And after that, they spent a fine, long day together.

Frog and Toad romp through the woods together, having the time of their lives

From "The Dream"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Terry the forg mage likes a good book so much that he asked me to make him a little Ex Libris bookplate. I also made a few extra in case you, too, like putting your name in the front of your lil book library. 📚 ko-fi.com/samikelsh/shop #cuteart #books

Bookplate design of a frog mage reading a book, leaning against the words Ex Libris. Beneath is a hand drawn line on which the reader can write their name.

The bookplate situated in the front of a short story collection from PG Wodehouse.

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ahh, thank you so much! glad you approve 🥰

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

yeah, julie seems really persistent. she's followed me like three times! thanks for the follows i guess 🤣

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

good to know. shame it declined later on, but maybe i’ll give just the first season a go at some point.

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i never watched this show, but it feels like now i have

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

special thanks to kevin, the youtube user who i've just been notified has replied with the statement "no one asked" to a comment i left on a video six years ago. methinks kevin doth protest too much, all things considered. i think it might be time to move on, kevin

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy birthday! 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Frog and Toad sat on the porch, feeling sad together.

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s day 1 of my month of ‘Tober Art Prompt List No Pressure Roulette, and today I chose to paint the prompt Oak for Peachtober! The gnome ghusbands have climbed the old oak to watch the sunset over the meadow on their way home. #peachtober26 #peachtober26oak #cuteart

Watercolour illustration of two gnomes sitting on a branch of an old oak tree, watching the sunset. The red gnome has a pointed red hat and tan skin with a big grey beard, and his blue partner has a pale pink complexion and blonde moustache and a blue hat.

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

❤️ (LOWER DECKS! LOWER DECKS! LOWER DECKS!)

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, so remember how I posted last week about my September shop update? Here’s a separate post for fanart! I did a little batch of super limited edition Hollow Knight and Silksong prints, and this time, by (one person’s) request also a couple of stickers! ko-fi.com/samikelsh/shop #hollowknightart

Graphic announcing the artist’s shop update with the text “Hello, new art!” overlaid over a collage of prints of Hollow Knight and Silksong art, clockwise from top left: Hornet and Sherma going for a swim in the Citadel spa, Hornet sparring with Second Sentinel, Hornet cuddling Huge Flea, Mister Mushroom flying through space, and Hornet chilling in a meadow of purple Shellwood flowers

Graphic announcing the artist’s shop update with the text “Limited Edition Blue Raspberry Fight Milk Stickers” overlaid over a pair of Hollow Knight stickers: a sticker sheet of various iterations of Zote, and the Knight sipping a carton of Blue Raspberry fight milk

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