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David Picking

@davidpicking.bsky.social

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🇨🇦 Artist working primarily with ink. Frequent experiencer of pareidolia. Posting some of my work from the last ten years.

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David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · 13h

I Can See It All Now, 2018
(ink on paper, 6" x 8")

#art #artsky #BlueSkyArtShow #Vertical #drawing #ink #illustration #steampunk #stilts

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · 7d

Tiny Light, 2017
(ink on illustration board, 3.5" x 5")

#art #artsky #BlueSkyArtShow #Glow #ink #drawing #hope #light

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · 13d

Love this.

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · 14d

Lazybones
(ink on illustration board, 8" x 10")

#art #artsky #BlueSkyArtShow #Relax #ink #naiveart #surreal #skeleton #lazybones

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · 21d

This Can't Be Right
(ink and soft pastel on paper, 8.5" x 11")

#art #artsky #BlueSkyArtShow #TheRoad #drawing #ink #illustration #darkart #creepyart #blackandwhite #fairytale #lost #road #selfportrait

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · 25d

Owlish stump

#photography #pareidolia #thingswithfaces #owl

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · 27d

Nicely done.

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · 28d

Please, Come In
(ink on illustration board, 9" x 12")

#BlueSkyArtShow #Angles #art #artsky #darkart #gothicart #creepyart #crosshatching #gorey #ink #drawing #illustration #blackandwhite #gramophone

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · Sep 16

#photography #fall #autumn #halloween #pumpkin

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · Sep 8

#pareidolia #thingswithfaces #photography #waspnest #head

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · Sep 8

When my daughter was small, she generally assumed the title of a movie was also the name of its main character, so she referred to Mr. Moon as Sing.

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · Sep 7

#pareidolia #thingswithfaces #photography

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · Sep 3

Oh
(ink on board, 2.5" x 3.5")

#art #artsky #ink #drawing #illustration #blackandwhite #miniature #fairytale #storybook #oh

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · Sep 3

Pygmy Chameleon
(ink on board, 2.5" x 3.5")

#art #artsky #blackandwhite #animalart #creature #ink #drawing #illustration #chameleon #lizard #reptile #miniature

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · Aug 30

#pareidolia #thingswithfaces #ent #tree #photography

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · Aug 30

Unobserved
(ink on paper 9" x 12")

#art #artsky #BlueSkyArtShow #Shiny #abstractart #landscape #ink #painting #flower #ufo

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · Aug 28

Oscar
(ink and soft pastel on paper, 9" x 12")

#art #artsky #drawing #ink #illustration #pastel #portrait #surreal #oscar

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · Aug 23

Fitting, 2021
(graphite with tea on illustration board, 8" x 10")

#art #artsky #drawing #sketch #abstract #figures #pencil #tea #fitting

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · Aug 23

#photography #texture #multitudes

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · Aug 20

#photography #pareidolia #thingswithfaces

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · Aug 19

Lovely.

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · Aug 16

Magnified (ink on paper, 9" x 12")

#art #artsky #ink #drawing #abstract #magnified #BlueSkyArtShow #Pieces

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · Aug 4

#pareidolia #photography #thingswithfaces

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · Aug 2

Gustav, 2017
(ink on illustration board, 8"x 10")

#art #artsky #BlueSkyArtShow #Gratitude #gift #ink #drawing #illustration #fantasy #surreal

David Picking @davidpicking.bsky.social · Aug 1

Summertime Ents

#photography #pareidolia #thingswithfaces #ents #nature #trees