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Brittney @craftycorvid.bsky.social · 3d

Enjoying some Spooky Season festivities by baking sugar cookies!

Sugar cookies cut out in the shapes of pumpkins, bats, cats, bones, spiders, and zombies with brightly colored sprinkles sitting atop wire cooling racks on a wooden table.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 3d

Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.

A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??"
In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!".
In panel 3, a screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!".
In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".

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Holly @pterosaur.bsky.social · 5d

tea kettle guys

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Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · 6d

Treating myself to some colors todayyy

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 9d

I've been seeing my favorite fuzzy friends around! 🍂🐛

Illustration of a wooly (sometimes spelled woolly) bear caterpillar. It's fuzzy and cute and has a happy little smile. There's lines radiating around it and above it says "it's wooly time!" in lowercase hand lettering. The background is a light orange checkered pattern.

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Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 10d

Also NEW to my online shoppe is pumpkin cottage mini print!!! 🎃✨🍂

Print featuring a orange cottage surrounded by pumpkins

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 11d

Flat illustration of a Wood Pigeon, Magpie, and Robin in a parade-line stride holding autumn leaves up high with their beaks! (UK birds as I am there right now on vacation!)

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Brittney @craftycorvid.bsky.social · 11d

My copy of T. Kingfisher’s latest horror novella arrived today, and I remembered to start reading it while the sun‘s out! (My awesome leaf litter critter mug comes from the talented artist @jbbartram.bsky.social and felt like the right choice for today’s coffee.)

A copy of T. kingfisher’s novella What Stalks the Deep sits on a wooden tabletop next to a cup of coffee in a ceramic mug that features neat leaf litter critter designs all around it.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 14d

Frog was in his garden. Toad came walking by. “What a fine garden you have, Frog,” he said.

“Yes,” said Frog. “It is very nice, but it was hard work.”

Toad leans across the fence talking to Frog, who is working in his garden.

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

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Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 18d

Every year I design stuff for the @waywardretreats.bsky.social welcome kit, it's one of the top things I look forward to every year. This time around I got to design a bandana, a funeral kit, and a mug. The retreaters are now outside of cell range so I get to post them. 2025 theme: Exquisite Corpse

illustrated bandana design of the lifecycle of the sockeye salmon

Examples of Illustrated funeral cards and stationary for a kit to properly mourn the projects that never made it

Examples of illustrations, top for a mug design that features ravens carrying poisonous plants. bottom, a close up of a turkey vulture funeral card design

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Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 23d

🐚 Coastal Sandshroom House 🐚

Acryla gouache painting on watercolor paper

Size: 4.5 x 5.5 inches
$160 (US shipping included)
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Painting of a coastal themed thatched roof home with mushrooms.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 25d

Tried to water the baby asparagus but the spout was blocked so I tried to shove the blockage down into the can but the thing inside shoved back.

Computer…enhance.

#garden #gardening #oopsfrog

A green watering can with its spout blocked by something beige.

It’s blocked by a frog! A frog’s face is glaring at me from inside the green watering can.

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 24d

Some visdev stuff for a friend of mine!

A small brick and stone cottage nestled among small birch trees and larger pine trees on a bright summery day. The ocean and some seaside cliffs visible in the distance.

A small brick and stone cottage, slightly worn down with dark windows and leaves on the roof, among mostly leafless birch trees and larger pine trees on a cloudy late fall day. The ocean and some seaside cliffs visible in the distance.

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Meg Hunt @meghunt.bsky.social · 25d

Was at @gallerynucleus.bsky.social this weekend for RAZ Fest-- so much fun! I debuted a mini gacha print series called Creature Feature! I wanted to show all 16 of the print designs in this thread, so here are Dryad, Unicorn, Barometz, and Metal Dragon (1/4)

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 25d

Found the most adorable tiny crimped gill mushrooms. Each one is only about a centimetre in diametre. We've had a ton of rain this fall, so the fungi are thriving right now. 🌿

A collection of tiny, frilly shelf mushrooms growing on an old branch in a forest.

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 25d

Fungus Researchers

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Beatrijs Brouwer @beastlyworlds.bsky.social · 25d

Happy autumn equinox! ✨🍁🦇🍄‍🟫🍃🦔 Here’s a little autumn critter parade to wish you an invigorating and beautiful fresh season ahead 🧡🦝🍂🎃

I painted this a little while back using gouache paints, which I don’t use very often, hoping to experiment with them more soon! 🎨

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Brittney @craftycorvid.bsky.social · 26d

My newly installed craft corner! It’s nice to be able to see all my current sewing and knitting plans in one place, and have some of my most used tools in easy reach.

A wall corner nook with crafting supplies. On the left is a cork push pin board holding sewing and knitting plans, with an ironing board and a variety of measuring rulers underneath. On the right is a pair of thread bobbin racks with a rainbow of thread colors.

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J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · Sep 11

Made some more flower toadfrogs* today! The fourth one (2nd photo) is definitely a special little garden wizard!!!!

*these ones are modelled after crucifix frogs, but will probably be glazed in toadlike colours so: toadfrogs

Three unfired, not yet dry clay toadfrogs with flower hats on their heads. They’re made from brown clay.

Another toadfrog, this one is wearing a flower that’s sort of the shape of a wizard hat!

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Joe Sparrow @torpordust.bsky.social · Sep 10

a comic about fishing (1/7)

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Taylor Price @taylornprice.bsky.social · Sep 7

oysters 🦪

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Laura Bifano @bifanoland.bsky.social · Sep 4

I’ve got a small spot in this month’s issue of Fine Art Connoiseur magazine!

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Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · Sep 4

New flash painting!
🌿Thistle-Top Cafe🌿

Acryla gouache painting on watercolor paper

Size: 4.75 x 6 inches
$165 (US shipping included)
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Artist holding painting of purple cafe surrounded by thistle plants

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Julie Benbassat @juliebenbassat.bsky.social · Sep 4

Another fancy crow Thursday

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Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · Sep 2

🎃Pumpkin Patch Cottage🎃

Acryla gouache painting on watercolor paper

Size: 4.5 x 5.5 inches
$150 (US shipping included)
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Artist holding painting of orange cottage house nestled among pumpkins and leaves.

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