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Mari Stauffer Howard
@maridara.bsky.social
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Visual artist & illustrator…cat mom…happy wife…progressive to the core✊🏽Iban/Swiss/American #decolonize ✨Art✨Cats✨Music✨ Foraging✨ Nature✨ Cosmos✨Gardening✨🛸✨ 🎨: https://www.maristaufferart.com
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · 13h
INKTOBER DAY 18: Deal

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Black and white drawing of a black cat’s paw, shaking the hand of a gray alien with a collective speech bubble for both of them that expresses the “No Kings”sentiment in an image of a crown with a line drawn through it.
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · 1d
INKTOBER DAY 17: Ornate

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Black and white drawing of a flying saucer, piloted by a gray alien and a black cat, making an intricate sacred geometry design with its contrail.
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · 1d
Catching up...

INKTOBER Day 16: Blunder

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Black and white drawing of a piece of cherry pie that has been smashed by a cat, and there are paw prints of cherry pie, leading away from the piece.
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · 2d
Catching up still...

INKTOBER Day 15: Ragged

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Black and white drying of a big ragged hole in the clear sunny sky, showing a black space escape with a Saturn like planet inside the hole. Zooming out of the hole is a flying saucer, piloted by a gray alien and a black cat, leaving a black speckled contrail in its wake.
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · 3d
Catching up...

INKTOBER DAY 14: Trunk

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Black and white drawing of a flying saucer hovering above the ocean at night with a beam coming down that is lifting a trunk that’s closed and covered in seaweed and dripping. Inside the flying saucer are the two pilots, a gray alien and a black cat.
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · 5d
Catching up...

INKTOBER DAY 12:
Shredded

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Black and white drawing of a clear daytime landscape with rolling hills and some clouds. Ripping four tears in the sky are four black cat claws, and the tears reveal a black night sky with stars behind.
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · 5d
INKTOBER DAY 13: Drink

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Black and white drawing of a grey alien and black cat. Shown from behind, they are sitting with a small table between them, looking out the window of their spaceship to the view of a spiral galaxy in space, and each raising a glass of wine to salute the view.
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · 7d
INKTOBER DAY 11: Sting

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Black and white drawing of a grey alien and its buddy, a black cat, studying a book-field guide to the bees of earth-behind a large beehive sitting on the grass, with many bees buzzing around.
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · 7d
Still catching up…

INKTOBER DAY 10: Sweep

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Black and white drawing of a gray alien in a room, holding a broom about to sweep up, spilled catnip, while a black cat lies on the ground, obviously high on the catnip. On the wall behind them is a framed photograph/selfie of the alien and cat.
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · 8d
Catching up…
INKTOBER DAY 9: Heavy

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Black and white drawing of a flying saucer, piloted by a black cat and a grey alien, lifting a huge pumpkin in a net, which bears a ribbon that says “Biggest in the Milky Way”. The background is rolling hills and a black/night sky with stars and a crescent moon, in a circular frame, with some pumpkin vines creeping out of the frame.
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · 10d
Thank you! Oh I’m not familiar with him or that quote…but will look it/him up now!
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · 10d
INKTOBER DAY 8: Reckless

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Black and white drawing of a ufo piloted by a grey alien, flying in an upward spiral towing a black cat outside, who is having lots of fun being flung around. There are clouds in the background, in an otherwise clear daytime sky.
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · 10d
Catching up...
INKTOBER Day 7: Starfish

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Black and white drawing centered within a drawn circular frame, of a grey alien and black cat in diving in dark/black waters in scuba gear and full clear helmets. The cat is peeking over a rock to observe three starfish.
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · 12d
Thank you so much!😊
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · 12d
INKTOBER DAY 6: Pierce

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Black and white drawing of a flying saucer with a grey alien and black cat as occupants, beaming light beams through the clouds below. The background is an inverted black triangle.
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · 13d
INKTOBER Day 5: Deer

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Black and white ink drawing of a grey alien, seated on a tree stump, feeding a deer an apple. At the alien’s feet is its friend, a black cat.
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · 13d
Catching up…
INKTOBER Day 4: Murky

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Black and white drawing of a flying saucer landed in a misty swamp. The occupants of the saucer, a grey alien and its black cat friend, look out from inside the clear dome on top.
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · 15d
INKTOBER DAY 3: Crown

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Black and white drawing of a grey alien and a black cat, each wearing a crown and the alien wearing a cape, standing at a window in their spaceship, looking out at a floating castle in space.
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · 16d
INKTOBER 2025
Day 2: Weave

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A black ink drawing of two disc shaped UFOs weaving their contrails together. One UFO is piloted by a black cat, raising its paw in a peace sign, and the other is piloted by a grey alien, also giving a peace sign with its’ hand.
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · 16d
INKTOBER 2025
Day 1: Mustache
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A black ink drawing of an gray alien dressed in a hat, mustache, tie, pants, and shoes, putting a hat on a black cat friend of theirs, who is seated on a stool next to the alien.
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · Jul 5
✨So excited to be showing and selling framed prints of some of my drawings (from Inktober 2024) & Twin Peaks fan art prints, at this year’s @baycon.org ! The theme: “A Convenient Parallel Dimension”, which fits perfectly with the world I created where grey aliens and cats are the best of friends.✨🖤✨
Selfie photo of a woman standing in front of her artwork on display, hanging on a pegboard. There are framed black and white prints of drawings of grey aliens and cats, as well as framed color prints of Twin Peaks fan art. Photo of a pegboard displaying framed black and white prints of drawings of grey aliens and cats, as well as framed color prints of Twin Peaks fan art.
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · May 19
Awww thank you my love!🥰
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John Howard @joho1564.bsky.social · May 17
My mariii @maridara.bsky.social #mushroom #foraging #nature #art #photgraphy #mycology #fungi #fungigram 🍄🍄‍🟫
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · May 11
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#photography #naturephotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #sierranevada #mountainhiking
A younger dead tree lies on the ground in a black and white photograph. A black and white photograph depicting branches, both small and large, laid on the ground. A close up black and white photograph of a pine cone end with fractal patterns, and a man walking in the background. A close up black and white photograph of a piece of wood with winding lines that are part of the pattern of the wood.
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Mari Stauffer Howard @maridara.bsky.social · May 11
Morel foraging in the Sierra Mountains….🤎
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#morel #morelmushrooms #mushroomforaging #springforaging #sierranevada #fungi #fungiforaging #forager
A brown morel mushroom grows out of the ground that is full of stick and evergreen duff litter. A bright red cluster of snow plant flowers popping up from a dusty brown ground of pine and fir needles, dirt, and sticks. In the background is a green body of water lined with green evergreen trees on the far shore. A woman holding two large, fist sized, morel mushrooms, with a man(her husband) peeking out from behind in awe of the mushrooms’ size. A handsome man holds a hand sized mushroom up to his face.
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