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Kisota

@kisota.bsky.social

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Landfill conflagration / coyote | art and shitposts, maybe more? | Digital commissions open! (silver-sundog.deviantart, kisota @FA )

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Kisota @kisota.bsky.social · Mar 15

Updated my own ref a bit; the old pelt view was very muddled, haha! Nothing’s really changed, same old mutt.

A reference sheet for a lanky grey coyote named Kisota, with gold eyes, goldish tan legs, dark markings and a dark tipped tail. The left ear has a triangular notch.

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Kisota @kisota.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah. 💚

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Athanaca @athanaca.bsky.social · 6d

Iridescent black🖤

#bird #raven #birdart #animalart #digitalart #illustration #birdwatching #crow #original #colorful #avian
#feather

A raven with colorful reflections on its feathers

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outsidewolves @outsidewolves.bsky.social · 7d

outside wolf

A scanned image of a sketchpage. The early life cycle of a wolf is depicted in drawings and text: "Take a wolf." [a quadrupedal wolf.] "Make him bipedal." [He is standing on two plantigrade legs.] "Dress him in clothes from the department store." [He wears pants and a rugby shirt, one leg propped up on a small box.] "Give him a 20 year long interdisciplinary education." [He is seen as a high school math student, looking at a wall clock while using a graphing calculator. As a college student, timing the movement of a film development can. As a graduate student, looking at mortarboards being tossed in the air.] "He is now ready to go outside!" [He is once again on all fours, albeit still in bidepal form, wearing kneepads and a harness which reads "MASTER'S DEGREE- OK TO PET."

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Jennifer Campbell-Smith, PhD 𓄿𓃥 @jcampbellsmith.bsky.social · 14d

"I Contain Multitudes"

This digitally painted piece honors coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our cities and the wilderness today.

The thread gives descriptions of all the extinct organisms shown in this piece (not to scale)

This digitally painted piece honors the survivor spirit of the coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our landscapes today. Below the horizon, carefully chosen ancestors mark pivotal moments in adaptation, each contributing to the form and survivor we see today. Above the horizon, Coyote stands alert at the center, framed by both Denver’s skyline and a mountain backdrop, symbols of their ability to thrive in cities as well as wilderness. Embedded in the ground are the skulls and bones of carnivores whose lineages ended long ago, emphasizing Coyote’s persistence in contrast.

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 12d

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Kisota @kisota.bsky.social · 17d

Highly sympathize, perhaps empathize. It’s so impossible to talk about this stuff, especially out loud, because it sounds so damn ridiculous.

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walking mirage @wolf.observer · 18d

william stafford

Coyote
My left hind-
foot
steps
in the track of my right
fore-
foot
and my hind-right
foot
steps
in the track of my
fore-left
foot
and so on, for miles—
Me paying no attention, while
my nose rides along letting
the full report, the
whole blast of the countryside
come along toward me
on rollers of scent, and—
I come home with a chicken or
a rabbit and sit up
singing all night with my friends.
It’s baroque, my life, and
I tell it on the mountain.
I wouldn’t trade it for yours.

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Zé Burnay @zeburnay.bsky.social · 18d

Had the pleasure of drawing this for @jacobgeller.com's new book "You’re Not Overthinking It", published by @lostincult.co.uk

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Jennifer Campbell-Smith, PhD 𓄿𓃥 @jcampbellsmith.bsky.social · 26d

“Prairie Life”

An older piece with even older origins. My undergraduate years included significant research and exploration time in short-grass prairie ecosystems. These are the organisms and places I still love and cherish from a formative time in my scientific journey. Sacred. (Check alt text)

A black-billed magpie, common raven, American kestrel, coyote, pronghorn, prairie rattlesnake, Ord’s kangaroo rat, sharp-tailed grouse, and short-horned lizard intertwine and encircle a scene showing the Pawnee Buttes. A golden eagle flies in the sky above the buttes. A red-tailed hawk tail feather and a sprig of sagebrush trail into smoke swirls that wind between the upper animal portraits.

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Kisota @kisota.bsky.social · 26d

It’s paper mache, either built up directly on paperboard, foil, and tape armatures, or built over a form I’d already made!

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Kisota @kisota.bsky.social · 29d

Stalking the fields at dusk

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Kisota @kisota.bsky.social · 29d

Thank you!! ^^

Kisota @kisota.bsky.social · Sep 17

We threw a tie-dye party last weekend :}}}

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mintt 🏜️ drawin' my pictures and images @keymintt.bsky.social · Sep 13

you were born in phoenix after all
#comics

traditional black and white one-page comic.
first panel: three consecutive speech bubbles say "hey, let me know if you need anything, okay?" while covering up the worst of a roadkill coyote's viscera. there is still a pool of blood and tire skid marks. the blood drips down the entire comic
second and third panels: close up of the coyote's eyes as they look "at" someone/thing, then look away. it's unclear if it's dead or not.
fourth panel: the sun shines in the sky on a hot afternoon
fifth-seventh panels: sequence of the coyote, still in silhouette, laying on the asphalt, getting, up, and walking away with viscera still trailing behind it.

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Kisota @kisota.bsky.social · Sep 14

Heck yeah!! That was super fun! Thanks for stopping me, that totally made my night! ^^

Kisota @kisota.bsky.social · Sep 1

That means so much! I really hope to offer more commissions someday. It’s just so hard to find time! :’<

Kisota @kisota.bsky.social · Sep 1

Naaah thank youuuu!!

Kisota @kisota.bsky.social · Sep 1

Aaa thank you! This is how I do my Telegram stickers ^^ Realized recently I really needed a wag emotion, then decided these two poses have specific, different wag emotions and I needed both! :p

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Kisota @kisota.bsky.social · Sep 1

Excitement in two modes

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B A R S U K @barssuk.bsky.social · Aug 20

The instinct🩸

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Kisota @kisota.bsky.social · Aug 14

So beautiful!! I love how you shaped the heron; it’s so graceful!

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Hazard @datgreenmonstah.bsky.social · Jul 27

TW: blood

The great migration in Africa is happening where the herds chase the rain and traverse across the land and over the rivers to find greener land. These migrations are important to not only the carnivores and scavengers that feed on them but the land that is nourished by their corpses

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hibbary.bsky.social @hibbary.bsky.social · Aug 9

A small painting, acrylic on 5" by 7" illustration board.

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Kisota @kisota.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thank you so much!! A lot of time went into this one (… so much for trying to get faster at this, haha)

Kisota @kisota.bsky.social · Aug 5

AAAAA I LOVE THIS.
Such great lighting in that first pic, too! Love seeing the masks “in the wild.” ;3

dangle test initiate ☉∇ ☣ 🏜️ 🔜 BLFC @coyote.tel · Aug 2

AHHHHHH WOLVES MASK WOLVES MASK REH!!!!

(made by @kisota.bsky.social (TYSFM AGAIN!!!))

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