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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This spectacular fresco depicts Bacchus, covered in glistening grapes and accompanied by a panther, a snake and birds in front off a conical mountain (maybe Vesuvius?). I have slightly enhanced the colours for clarity. 📍 House of the Centenarian, Pompeii 🏛️📷 MANN

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Anine Bösenberg @anineillustration.com · 08/10/2026

Some more items - I really like arranging these, feels very soothing when it comes together

A drawing of some items arranged neatly: A tortoiseshell comb, a blue ribbon, a notebook with paper scraps, two keys, a sealed letter, a knife or letter opener (ornate), a majolica bottle with a blue bird design, a pencil with a pencil extender, some sweets, and a string with coins threaded onto it.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Elizabeth, Duchess of Gelders, 1519 (British Museum)

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Micah Ulrich @micahulrich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Every girl needs a hobby. Work in progress on a pen and ink sketch on paper.

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SaraHopkinsArt @sarahopkinsart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I hated this when I finished it, but now she is sort of growing on me. Drawn on a recycled library catalog card. Ballpoint pen. #inktober #b&wart

Drawing of female character covered in leaves with an exposed heart

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Antique and Vintage Book Art @antiquebookart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Illustration from Extinct Monsters by Rev. H.N. Hutchinson, London, 1897. #booksky #artsky #naturesky #sciencesky

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Tiffany Baxter - MCM London F-19 @tiffbaxter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Done with these inks 😈

Two demonic ladies doing the polka in a hellscape - ink drawing.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

“Frights” 🎨 Xuh

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Suzanne ✈️ @anatomoth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Work in progress of new tattoo wannados. Bird scissors. bissors? Having a handful more in my head, then a couple more skull scissor ones too, fingers crossed they will be well received.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

“And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, 'Man,' And its hero the Conqueror Worm.” Edgar Allan Poe died #otd 1849 🎨 Harry Clarke

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

'The Boundary Of Life And Death By Edgar Allan Poe' as presented by Alberto Martini. #WyrdWednesday #EdgarAllanPoe #Poe #31DaysOfHalloween

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Abi Stevens MCM Ldn R-12 @abistevensart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

New progress update on my Pintober project: Interred: pins inspired by the headstones and statuettes in my local cemetery! Here are the first two finished pins: elidritch and celestial cherub! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a... #ArtShop #DarkArt #PastelGoth #Pintober

Two pin designs with rought symmetrical designs. On the left: a red-outlined pin in shades of pink depicting a cherub head and wing design like those in cemetery and church carvings, but with red goo running down the forehead and dripping from the wing, with small white eyes in three places, and a small red bat-like wing on the right side. On the right is the same cherub flipped so the wing is on the right, in shades of blue, with a halo section in place of the bat wing, and a row of three large white sparkles with eyes inside lined up over and above the left eye.

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Kathleen Neeley @kathleenneeley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sleep, linocut on kitakata paper

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katie wood 🌞 @maybe-katie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

f i s h 🐟 y’all have been loving the fishes lately so I painted some more on a bigger scale 👀 fish art print coming your way soon! (ideas for a name for the print would be welcomed) #natureart #illustration #gouache

Gouache sketchbook painting of 4 different fish

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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Bear rider. Les Grandes Heures du duc de Berry, Paris 1409. BnF, Latin 919, fol. 75r. #medieval #MedievalArt

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm just off to the Refectory for a few hours because a friend has kindly and unexpectedly invited me out for lunch. But I look forward to seeing all your ghostly posts when I get back! #SpookySunday #31DaysOfHalloween

An illustration of skeletal monks processing through a crypt, from Arthur Waite's 'Belle And The Dragon', 19th Century.

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Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

drawin' stuff

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This woodblock print, published in 1881 (Meiji 14), is a celebrated masterpiece of animal caricature (chōjū giga) from the landmark illustrated book "Kyōsai’s Manga" (Kyōsai Manga) by the legendary iconoclast and virtuoso artist Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–1889).

Sprawling across the page with wild, theatrical energy, a boisterous assembly of anthropomorphic frogs (kawazu) capers, spars, and parades in a chaotic celebration of animal caricature. Kyōsai’s fluid, expressive inkwork captures each creature in mid-action: near the top, a swaggering frog wears a broad, torn lotus leaf (hasu no ha) as a sunhat while gripping a reed like a drawn sword between its jaws; nearby, companions leap with splayed webbed feet, brandish lotus seedpods (renshō) as ceremonial staffs, or strut in leaf loincloths with inflated, boastful chests. Along the bottom, a procession unfolds as frogs carry heavy loads on shoulder poles and lean on walking sticks, their spotted skin accented by subtle washes of warm ochre against a cloud-mottled paper ground. The print radiates an exuberant sensory atmosphere: a chorus of resonant croaks reverberating through a damp riverbank, the wet slap of webbed feet on muddy earth, the crisp rustle of withered leaves, and the irreverent clamor of a secret amphibian festival unfolding in the marshland. Published in 1881 (Meiji 14) within the landmark illustrated book Kyōsai’s Manga (Kyōsai Manga), this woodblock print stands as a tour de force of chōjū-giga (frolicking animal caricatures) and kyōga ("crazy pictures") by the iconoclastic virtuoso Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–1889). Trained in both the classical Kanō school and the dynamic ukiyo-e tradition under Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Kyōsai possessed unmatched draftsmanship and satirical wit. Inheriting a long lineage traced back to the famous 12th-century Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga scrolls, Kyōsai deployed anthropomorphic frogs as comic surrogates to lampoon human vanity, samurai bravado, government bureaucracy, and the rapid social shifts of Meiji-era Japan.

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SaraHopkinsArt @sarahopkinsart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And we always greet October with the Pumpkin King 🎃🌿 #Halloween #inktober

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SaraHopkinsArt @sarahopkinsart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sunday sketch in my pocket book. 🍂✨️🖊 #ballpointpen #ink #sketchbook #b&wart

Female fantasy tiefling character with horns surrounded by quatrefoils, leaves, and a small fish

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𓃡 @doginyard.ca · 26/09/2026

what if we were both cute puppy dogs and we kissed

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𓃡 @doginyard.ca · 26/09/2026

bizarre blind contour of jake and self portrait of the artist drawing it feat. ambient shania twain

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Micah Ulrich @micahulrich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Conjuring a good time. Twenty new limited edition prints of this fellow are now available in the shop, each one hand printed, signed, and numbered by yours truly. As always, once they’re gone, they’re gone, so it’s only while supplies last. 🤘

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SaraHopkinsArt @sarahopkinsart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Goodbye, September. 🍂✨️ ko-fi.com/sarahopkinsart Art & photos are mine. 💛 #moodboard #illustration #drawing #b&wart #artsky #blueskyart #artist

Photo collage of ballpoint pen ink drawings with female fantasy characters. Two of the girls have mushroom bodies, one has a flower head. Two remaining girls are surrounded by flowers or leaves. Photos include mushroom, flowers, and carved pillar.

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SaraHopkinsArt @sarahopkinsart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some miniature drawings up for adoption in my #ko-fi 🌿✨️ ko-fi.com/sarahopkinsart #ballpointpen #ink #drawing #originalart #traditionalart #artsky #blueskyart

Ballpoint pen portraits of female fantasy characters and a swan

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renata 🎷🐅 MELB CAT LOVERS FESTIVAL OCT 17-18 ✨ @gremren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

print party SET for this weekend 🖼️✨

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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Love wins. Christine de Pisan, ‘L'Epistre Othea la deesse…’, Paris ca. 1406. BnF, Français 606, fol. 6r. #medieval #MedievalArt

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#Spring, by #AgnesMillerParker (British, 1895–1980). Published in Eiluned Lewis’ Honey Pots and Brandy Bottles, 1954; source, nelabligh.com/2013/11/06/w... #FirstDayofSpring (S. Hemisphere) #SpringEquinox #vernalequinox #womenartists #artherstory

A black-and-white woodcut engraving of a landscape; up close, on the ground, are a bowl and an oil lamp. A plant at the right extends its leafy branches in an arch at the top of the artwork. There are fruits on the plant, and on the ground.

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Deth P. Sun @dethpsun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here’s what I drew and colored today.

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My Imaginary Brooklyn @myimaginarybrklyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Charles Francis Annesley Voysey, 1923. “The Garden of Eden” #textiledesign #watercolor #pencil #wallhanging #1920s #ArtsAndCrafts #CharlesFrancisAnnesleyVoysey #V&AMuseum

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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

finally finished!! #ceramics #werewolves (sold)!

A ceramic wall tile with a yellow background and raw, brown clay borders. A werewolf is curled in on itself and has long hair falling over its body. It has a massive head weighed down by gravity, large teeth visible in a snarl. It tries to covers its face with its hands, fingers spread to reveal an eye staring at the viewer. Its body is naked, scarred and hairy, and still very human; an unchanged ear with a little earring present, and its digits end in blunt human nails. It is framed on all sides with a floral border.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Feasts of the month of September, Nicolas Picart, c. 1640-1660 (British Museum)

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The next category for #sciArtSeptember is category, starting with kaolin, a mineral which appears in several papers of US geologist & prof Florence Bascom (1862-1945). 👩🏼‍🔬⚒️🧪 #histsci She championed women’s education, & used polarizing microscopes for detailed petrographic analysis to show that rocks

My linocut portrait of geologist Florence Bascom as a young woman from neck up, in blue, looking at the viewer with her curly hair pulled back wearing a blouse with large lace collar on green vinyl. Behind her are two geological cross-sections with layers carved with different patterns to indicate different rock materials in black. Below on either side are two circular diagrams: these are thin sections of rhyolite printed in pale beige, brown, and black.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today is the feast day of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), here surrounded by plants & a mineral she touted as medical treatments, her invented alphabet & model of the universe. One of my most popular prints! 🐡👩🏼‍🔬🧪 #histsci Her writings preserve not only her own knowledge & theories but the nature

This is my hand-printed 11" x 14" lino block print of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), surrounded by plants and a mineral she touted as medical treatments, her invented alphabet and model of the universe, on lovely ivory Japanese washi paper. She is printed in dark blue on cream coloured washi paper. She is dressed in a habit holding a scroll with one of her Gregorian chants in Medieval musical notation. Her model of the universe is depicted on her habit. Clockwise from the top, she is surrounded: by tansy; common comfrey (Symphytum officinale) is sometimes used on the skin to treat wounds and reduce inflammation from sprains and broken bones, it roots and leaves contain allantoin, a substance that helps new skin cells grow, along with other substances that reduce inflammation and keep skin healthy; mandrake (species in the genus Mandragora, either Mandragora officinarum or Mandragora autumnalis) which contain deliriant hallucinogenic tropane alkaloids which are poisonous; sulfur for skin ailments does indeed act as a fungicide; lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) which has been shown to have some calming effects, some antibacterial properties and positive effects on indigestion; and quince (Cydonia oblonga), which while understudied, there is some early evidence that it may help prevent stomach ulcers. Above and below Hildegard is the alphabet along with her own alternate alphabet Litterae ignotae which she used for her own Lingua ignota (Unknown Language).

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Johanna Forster @johannaforster.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

more memories of the lake near the Baltic Sea in my sketchbook :) #natureart #sketchbook #fishart #drawing

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🌜Almanac Moons✨

Illustration of a tired but watchful full moon.

Illustration of a smiling full moon half-hidden through a birch tree

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SaraHopkinsArt @sarahopkinsart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Are you dreaming or awake? Miniature drawings available on my #ko-fi 🌿✨️ ko-fi.com/sarahopkinsart #art #drawing #portrait #ink

Miniature illustrations of gothic female characters

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Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A centaur and Pan (or a satyr) with his pipes. Detail of the Orpheus Mosaic (3rd-4th century CE), found near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. #MosaicMonday

Centaur, Pan and some kind of animal in detail of mosaic.

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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

made some stickers of my latest little ceramic horses! also restocked a bunch of stickers in general :) miholics-shop.ca/collections/...

A sticker of a little ceramic sculpture featuring a brown appaloosa horse with various shades of cream and black making up its spots. It's held up against a background consisting of yellow and orange flowers and grass.

A sticker of a little ceramic blue toned appaloosa unicorn held against a blue sky and pine tree backdrop.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

14th September is the feast of the True Cross which is depicted here being found by St Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine. Cod. Bodmer 127; Passionary of Weissenau; 12th century; Premonstratensian monastery of Weissenau, Germany; f.53v (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

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Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Roses 🌹🥀 from ‘Fragmenta botanica, figuris coloratis illustrata’ by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin. Viennae, Austriae: Typis Mathiae Andreae Schmidt, typogr. Universit., 1809. UW-Madison Special Collections. #naturalhistory #botanicalart #flowerillustration #roseart

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