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@terridrawsstuff.bsky.social
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Illustrator/cartoonist, Helioscope member, National Science Foundation grantee, Antarctica, blessing/curse, she/her Portfolio at www.terrinelson.com Youtube channel: tinyurl.com/terridrawsstuff Email is terridrawsstuff at gmail dot com

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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
This is the poster above my head in the blood draw room at the hospital
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Happy New Year’s Eve to everyone. #lemonpig
A pig made of a lemon and some toothpicks
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
It was pretty amazing. The sheathbills were frequently absolutely filthy though.
Snowy Sheathbill, bathing in meltwaterCrabeater Seal on an ice floe. Members of USAP in a zodiac in the distance.Adelie Penguin colony
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I kind of wondered what Spotify would say about my listening history. Who else was too weird for Spotify to figure out? (I listened to Spotify while I was traveling, I listen to albums I’ve bought mostly directly from the artist if possible at home.) (Also I’m 58 but apparently incredibly immature)
Apparently I listened to 289 genres.  That sounds right.Also apparently I am 26 years old from my listening history.  I was apparently nostalgic for the 2010s.  Actually I AM nostalgic for the 2010s, those were good times.My number one genre was: French Rap, and I don’t speak a word of French.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
BUT! This homunculus has a peen! A teeny peen! What if you don't have a peen? Well, science has finally thought about that, and there's a paper that I can't access because MIT hates me. I assume the butt-side is the same regardless of gender assigned at birth.   direct.mit.edu/leon/article...
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
For instance, the nerves for your hands are dispersed over a large area of your brain and the nerves for your arms are dispersed over a much small area, so that's why the little guy has giant hands and string bean arms.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I just learned about the motor cortex homunculi so now you have to TOO. It's the ratio of motor and sensory innervation of the various body parts. And if it was a little guy, it would look like this.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Found some time-lapse video of me painting an ungodly number of little blue flowers at @helioscopepdx.bsky.social - the only way I get through tedious things like this is because I love my friends there and they are infinitely entertaining while I work.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I walked past this mural recently and I wonder if anyone pointed out that it looks like this guy is farting butterflies BEFORE they started painting it on the building.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Because crows have eyes on the side of their heads, they see different things at the same time. Generally they use the same eye to see things close up, like food, and the other eye to scan for predators. So I am still getting the “possible threat” eye from them, even though they seem to trust me.
Crow using its dominant eye to examine some food
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
He ate so fast he puked. But it’s ok, he ate it again.
Crow yakking up the food he ate too fast Crow eating his pre-eaten food
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
SOMEONE was happy I’m home
Crow scarfing down dog food Crow scarfing down dog foodCrow scarfing down dog food
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Is there anything on the planet cuter than a baby duck?
DUCKLINGS! two little yellow ones, a little striped mallard, and a yellow Muscovy with a brown headThree little yellow ducklings under their big white momma’s wing Two little mallard ducklings floating on a pond
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I was homesick while I was gone, and kept looking at old photos of familiar places like this intersection near my studio. I love how much of the past Portland hung on to. I can walk outside my workplace at lunch and almost see back through time in little ways.
Portland Oregon in the 30s and the same intersection now.  Notice that the streetcar tracks got paved over and the theater sign is similar but different now.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I’m back from traveling. What did I miss?
Page from an old sketchbook.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
It’s a fraught morning around here.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I’m at the dog park right now and as you can see, everything is on fire and there’s insurrectionists everywhere.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Pumpkin time in war-torn Portland
Pumpkins! It’s nearly Halloween here in my shithole of a city.Decorative Gourd Time here in the smoking crater that is PDX
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
My corner of war-ravaged Portland
Peninsula ParkA crow eating some dog food I left out for him.My dog waking up in his little bed and smilingThe rose garden in Peninsula Park in the evening.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Oh thank god it’s raining. I hope we get another one of these sooner rather than later.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Morning dawns. At last I can poke my head above the foxhole of my living room whilst drinking coffee and letting the dog out to go potty. I present to you a few more photoss from #war-ravagedPortland. When shall this horror END.
An art nouveau face in the tin paneling inside the ladies room at Aurora Mills Architectural Salvage.A big old pile of rental roller skates at Aurora Mills Architectural Salvage.  Mmm, antique foot sweat.An alligator soap box derby car at Aurora Mills Architectural SalvageA bed of nails!  A real bed of nails!  Built by a high school physics teacher and also for sale at Aurora Mills Architectural Salvage.  I couldn’t afford it.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
More dispatches from war-torn Portland. My elderly father called and said “the tv news says you’re setting fire to an ice rink?” (I told him nothing is actually happening and to get off Fox)
A sleepy whippet sunning his buttPeninsula Park rose garden at dusk last night in Portland My cross-eyed cat with a tiny bit of his tongue sticking out
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Dispatch from war-torn Portland this morning.
Sleepy whippet asleep on my husband’s lap in the morning sunshine.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
You’re welcome to come hang out on my porch with The Mafia anytime you want. They like hotdogs, they want me to tell you.
One of The Mafia, looking rough. Molting looks itchy.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I keep looking at the cover of my Lands End catalog and… does it look like this woman is possessed to you guys?
Lands End catalog cover that has been photoshopped until the attractive woman on the cover looks like her soul has left her body
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
I just found a zucchini in the garden that I must have missed. Whippet for scale.
A brindle whippet that I balanced a zucchini on top of. Like you do.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I went on Pinterest for the first time in a long time today and I was served this ad, which apparently is real?
Sponsored ad from Expedia showing a neatly made bed with a towel made into a dicknballs
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I have stifled responding to things with this SO MANY TIMES YOU HAVE NO IDEA
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
EVERYONE SUCKS except for this fucking awesome cat
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I am finally getting targeted advertising that is ALMOST working on me. Goddamnit.
Absolutely hideous screaming goat on a cheap ass pillow from Temu.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
This one embodies him.
My Siamese cat, having a moment where you can actually see the demon that lives inside him
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I feel like everyone needs to see humiliating photos of my demon cat.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Mr. Twist Whippet and his chopstick legs.
A whippet and/or Dobby the House ElfBrown Steel. A whippet, gazing pensively into the distance, looking like he’s capable of thoughtA yawning whippet with his legs stuck straight out as per usual
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Today’s best The Mafia portrait. This is this year’s baby, the only one with pink “lips” still around his mouth corners. (Also the only one I can tell apart from the others and only until he gets all feathers grown in.)
A baby crow in mid-gulp with a piece of dog food suspended inside his beak.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I was just given a camera for my birthday and so I made The Mafia pose for portraits.
The Mafia, which is my collective name for the three crows who made friends with me and who monitor my every movement around here.They are also known as “The Qwoks” because they have a particular noise they make when they see me that sounds like that.Goodbye, The Mafia, I will see you tomorrow I guess.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
My dog melted.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The mafia has made their morning visit over here.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The view under my desk goes from cute to unsettling
My whippet, asleep on a blanket under my desk with his ball and his… wait, what IS that?…it looks like a…severed head? It IS! It’s Elon Musk! WHAT A GOOD DOG.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I am very nearly done with this painting, finally. There’s just a few more things to fix. If you aren’t familiar with my work, there’s a bunch of videos of me working here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Got my hair cut today. I stopped dyeing it during lockdown and haven’t started again because it’s interesting watching the grey hairs show up.
Me at 58, in my wildly overgrown front yard
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Smoove criminal. Twist stole a corn husk and hid it in his bed.
A weird looking dog and a stolen corn husk and also a stolen USB cable, now that I look at it, in his fuzzy bed.  The weird looking dog is a juvenile delinquent. Any day now I am going to find him vaping and wearing a backwards baseball hat.A whippet, gloating quietly to himself about his Crime.  He is smirking and using a stolen corn husk as a pillow in his fuzzy bed.  Do not under any circumstances tell him that I don’t care if he steals corn husks.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Please don’t fall completely apart before I can get there and meet you in person finally sometime. If we’re still being allowed out of the country, I am half- assed planning a UK trip maybe next year. Slowly working on paintings- this is the current WIP.
WIP “Fathers”
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I woke up to a pleasant crime scene.
A whippet asleep in the sun with his lamb toy. But wait: COMPUTER, ENHANCEA whippet, smiling to himself in the sun with his stuffed lamb toy. Something seems amiss about that lamb toy though A stuffed lamb toy with its throat ripped open, lying in a pool of its own stuffing
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Since I’m looking at Radio Dismuke, I will also post pictures of my grandmother, Jewel Nicholls (she’s the dark haired beauty with the ukulele and the one with the sailor kerchief) from that time period. She lived to be 106.
My grandmother with dark hair playing Ukulele somewhere in San Simeon in about 1924 or so.My grandmother on the left, Jewel Nicholls, in a middy dress at Ocean Beach in San Francisco in about 1920
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The dog is cuddling me so aggressively that he bruised my knee with his skull. Cuddling whippets is not for the weak.
A sleepy whippet sticking his corn chip smelling feet straight up into the air while yawning.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
If you have the time, can I get Twist in the Flash’s costume?
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Erika Moen has had just about enough of me here. Taken on a children's camera that prints on thermal receipt paper.
Erika Moen being long-suffering.  It kind of looks like I was hiding in a bush taking paparazzi photos.  I was not.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Jeff Parker, looking professional except it kind of looks like he was building houses out of playing cards. I'm actually totally unsure what he was doing here. Taken on a child's camera (well, my camera, but it's for children).
Jeff Parker and his desk that's older than he is.
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Steve Lieber, portraits taken on a $20 children's camera that prints on thermal receipt paper.
Steve, being patient with my shenanigansSteve, wearing a stolen valor construction hat
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terridrawsstuff @terridrawsstuff.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Studio shots on the kid camera time! Here's Matthew Bogart - www.matthewbogart.net
Matthew Bogart, humoring me while I fuck around with a children's camera.
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