Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Today's prompt, like every day's prompt is "crow" Ink on paper 4"x5.5" #inktober #inktober2026 #inkcrowber 1547
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Here's a raggedy crow I once saw at Bryce Canyon. Or maybe a raven, I'm bad at telling them apart. Black and white ink on paper 4"x5.5" #inktober #inkcrowber #crow or maybe #raven 070
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Black and white ink on paper, 4"x5.5" #inktober #inkcrowber #crows 050
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 02/10/2026June 2. After Cuba, New Mexico, the CDT climbed 3000+ feet (1000m) in only a few miles. Out of the desert and into a lush green forest, and it was glorious! There's one more desert stretch, but this is where I started to feel Colorado approaching #cdt #green #watercolor 030
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Last week on my little PCT hike I saw a few crows, and I was inspired to do #inktober this year, but only with crows. #inkcrowber, instead. Nothin' but inky #crows. Here's the first one. It's a sketch, but I hope to do some finished pieces as well. 040
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 01/10/2026June 1, South of Cuba NM. One reason I don't like road walks is that there's always litter, and it can be kind of gross. There are prairie dog colonies right next to the highway, living among all the trash and litter and exhaust and speeding cars. 10x10cm #watercolor #prairieDog 050
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 30/09/2026May 31. One of the delights of a desert hike is that there are lizards absolutely everywhere. I believe this is an Eastern collared lizard. Spotted south of Cuba, NM. Watercolor on paper 10x10cm #lizard #watercolor #sketchbook #continentalDivideTrail 0142
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Another CDT hike watercolor sketch, somewhere between Grants and Cuba, NM, May 31. 4x5 watercolor in Stillman & Birn alpha sketchbook. #CDT #hikerArt #watercolor 0111
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Last week I did a PCT section that covered some fire closures from my 2021 thru. Now I have a connected footpath! I made one painting of this little bird that wasn't afraid of me at all! I just need to make time-lapse videos and I'll be a hiking art influencer! #CanadaJay #BirdArt #pleinAir #pct 080
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 18/09/2026May 30th on the CDT between Grants and Cuba, NM. #watercolor #newMexico #treeArt 090
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Burned terrain I hiked through on my CDT LASH this spring. #desert #deadtrees #wasteland 040
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Card for September. Linoblock print made out an old linocut crow I made, a new orange circle linocut, and some ancient Speedball ink I've had kicking around probably since college. Autumn is here. 4 by 6 inches #blockprint #crow #autumn 060
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A water source on the CDT. Would have been one of my favorites, except it was vile cow water. #waterSource #watercolor #thruhiking 030
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The CDT north of Grants climbs up Mt Taylor, and is in a green forest for a day or so. #watercolor #sketch #hikerart 080
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 13/09/2026May 26, walking in to Grants, NM #watercolor #sketchbook 081
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 12/09/2026May 25. Just a long rainy road walk south of Grants, NM. I think this was the day I got the plantar fasciitis in my left foot that stuck with me until I got off the trail. Boooooo. #sketchbook #watercolor #continentalDivideTrail 060
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I like a good wilderness shack. #thruhiking #newMexico #sketchbook 032
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 10/09/2026From Pie Town to Grants the CDT is almost all exposed road walk. Sun and prairie dogs and passing cars taking pity on me and offering water and candy sometimes. I hate this sketchbook, and there's only one more drawing in it. Huzzah! #watercolor #hiking 090
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 09/09/2026May 23, 2026, sketch of Zeus and Tristan resupplying in Pie Town, NM. The real hike is the friends you meet on the way. #watercolor #sketch #thruhiking 060
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Mangas Mountain fire lookout. #backpacking #thruhiking #watercolor 080
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026CDT trailhead on New Mexico 12. Watercolor, 5"x4" #cdt #watercolor #sketch 091
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I left the Gila at Aeroplane Mesa. After it comes out of the canyon, the trail goes through some fairly pleasant terrain of grass and scattered trees. #cdt #watercolor #sketch 0100
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Another sketch from my CDT hike. This is from the north end of the Gila canyon, at a place where it widens out into a giant meadow. 010
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 31/08/2026#longnosedleopardlizard I saw on the #CDT north of Lordsburg. #watercolor 070
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Someone at a dinner party asked me what I thought of AI, and told me how useful they found it, and I told them I'd rather chew tinfoil than use it, god damn! Anyway, sometimes on the trail, I'd get up before sunrise, and it was my favorite time to hike #cdt 040
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Water source on the CDT, about 40 miles in, I think. #cdt 040
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 29/08/2026May 4, a windy morning, day 2 CDT. #cdt #trailsketch 022
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 29/08/2026CDT, May 3, just northwest of the border #ocotillo #cdt #watercolor 010
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I think MacReady killed the Thing, and he and Childs were rescued the next morning. The incident was covered up with false identities all around. MacReady became an alcoholic truck driver, and Childs moved to Los Angeles and really really really didn't want to hear about aliens anymore. #thething 100
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Horn, map light, trunk light, windshield wipers, heater, heater fan, drivers side running lights, headlights, hazard lights, blinkers, cigarette lighter, reverse lights, clock, radio, windshield wiper fluid pump: Things that were iffy or broken on my car until last month, when I rewired it. #mgb 200
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Holy shit! That's a video I regret watching. That fucking ICE agent just fucking murdered that person! The statement the feds released on the Minneapolis shooting is entirely a goddamned lie! Yes, they shouldn't be throwing around the word "terrorist" so casually, but also that guy murdered her. 000
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 22/12/2025I noticed someone advertising a white Chrysler LeBaron for sale. I'll never trade. 000
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 04/12/2025It's weird that cruise and crews are homonyms, and I feel like there is potential there for punning, or at least difficult sentences like "The cruise crew crews cruises." I wonder if there's a way to extend it in the manner of n buffalo. 000
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 06/11/2025I've been looking at a lot of John Berkey and John Harris paintings lately. They are both so good, painterly, and wonderful! Space is almost never black in their paintings. Anyway. Another spaceship sketch. #drawSpaceships #watercolor 6" x 6" 050
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 05/11/20254.5 x 6 gouache sketch on black paper. #DrawSpaceships #gouache #sketch 040
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Spaceship sketch. Watercolor on paper 5"x7" #watercolor #spaceShip #drawspaceships 070
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 01/11/2025This painting just got to the point where it's starting to look cool, but I could easily fuck it up. It's a dog portrait, but instead of picking one photo of the dog rolling joyfully in the grass, I decided I needed to show them all. Comics! A work in progress, watercolor on paper 10"x10" 020
Ben Bittner @surlyben.bsky.social · 18/10/2025This Silksong cosplay is getting out of hand! #nokings #handmaidstale #releasetheepsteinfiles J/k. Photo of a moment of impressive coordination at Coupeville No Kings protest. 051
