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Kaitlin Beckett
@acuriousbestiary.bsky.social
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Painted and sculpted beasts.
@curiousbestiary on instagram.
a-curious-bestiary.com/beasts
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New mechanical sea creature! ‘Horseshoe Theory’, mixed media assemblage...up on the wall at Beinart Gallery in Small Works, opening this Saturday 5-8pm! 🦀⚙️

#crab #horseshoecrab #livingfossil #biomechanicalart #blueblood #mechanicalcrab #art #sculpture #assemblage #assemblageart
A horseshoe crab underside with a dark silver metallic machine body made of pipes and cogs. Blue drops hang from chains. A horseshoe crab underside with a dark silver metallic machine body made of pipes and cogs. Blue drops hang from chains. A horseshoe crab underside with a dark silver metallic machine body made of pipes and cogs. Blue drops hang from chains. A horseshoe crab underside with a dark silver metallic machine body made of pipes and cogs. Blue drops hang from chains.
August 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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A new neon heart is going to be up on the wall tonight at the @gallerynucleus.bsky.social Power In Numbers show!
This one runs from the 28th of June to July 6th 🫀

#neonheart #sacredheart #art #painting #bsnm #originalart #fluorescent
An anatomical heart on a peach background painted with gouache and watercolour. Fluorescent neon like flames come out of the veins at the top like a sacred heart.
June 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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I’m so pleased to be part of the @archenemyarts.bsky.social brand new show ‘WAIT FOR THE MOON III’ featuring works inspired by classic Grimm’s fairy tales!

My piece is inspired by 'The Rooster Beam' 🍀🍀🐓🍀🍀

#grimmsfairytales #waitforthemoon #rooster #painting #art #bsnm #mixedmedia
A black rooster with a bright red comb hold straws in his beak. He's standing in a field of green clover looking at a 4 leaf clover.
May 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Had a wee play with Golden's fluorescent acrylic through my airbrush. It's incredibly bright 💡
I chucked this in into my shop....50% of the proceeds go to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund 🍉

#sacredheart #fluorescentpaint #art #painting #bsnm #mixedmedia
April 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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A feathered dinosaur piece from a while back. Pretty sure this is how they would have looked 🦕🪶
#dinosaur #dinosaurart #mixedmedia #art #feathereddinosaur #triceratops #bsnm #paleoart #painting
A triceratops skull with an eye inside and a human-ish ribcage, holding two feathers
March 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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"Heard Immunity" 🐺🦈
#art #mixedmedia #bsnm #painting #gouache #airbrush
A dog with string wrapped around against a green background. Sharks are swimming out of its ear.
March 23, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Machines Skulls & Flags ⚙️💀🚩🖤
#art #mixedmedia #biomechanical #bsnm
A skull lying on its side on a peach background with metal tubes spilling out and two flags draping over the bones.
March 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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One of my diving birds from a few years back.
#art #mixedmedia #kiwi #deepseadiver #bsnm
A kiwi bird in an antique deep sea diving costume, floating and holding the vein from an external heart
March 13, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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A mechanical fishbeast for ya. This one had a little translucent fin/wing 🐟⚙️
#art #sculpture #assemblage #bsnm #mechanicalfish
A mixed media assemblage sculpture of a mechanical fish
March 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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🦈🚨 A zoom in of Bruce's mechanical guts. My piece ‘Show Me the Way To Go Home’ is currently in the @archenemyarts.bsky.social show ‘With Love, Your Biggest Fan’ until March the 16th. To buy him click the link in my profile! #art #mixedmedia #shark #jaws #jawsmovie #youregonnaneedabiggerboat #bsnm
A zoom in on the mechanical shark body of Bruce from Jaws.
March 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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If you see this, post your 🖤🤍 art!
#art #deepseadiving #morayeel
A mixed media painting of a skeleton in a vintage deep sea diving suit, holding the leash of a moray eel and a flag. It's standing in knee deep water. The painting is monochrome.
March 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Last few days to see the Memento Mori show at @brassworksgallery.bsky.social!
Curated by Chris Breshears ☠️

#art #mixedmedia #mementomori
A skeleton in a blue robe with mechanical innards. Holding up one hand in a 'dual nature' gesture.
February 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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A wall piece I did a few years back with an augmented reality animation.
Would love to paint more large scale stuff!

#wallart #streetart #augmentedrealityart #art
February 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Every time I get to my studio I start by drawing a bug and a mask. The wall is getting really covered now 🪲🪖
Alt: An angled photo of the wall of my studio covered in pieces of paper with insect and mask illustrations
February 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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🦈🚨 Here's my piece for the @archenemyarts.bsky.social 'With Love, Your Biggest Fan' show, opening Feb 22nd!
This is Bruce the mechanical shark from Jaws. He's done with showbiz and breaking free to live his best life out in the deep blue sea.

#jaws #jawsmovie #youregonnaneedabiggerboat
Bruce the mechanical shark from the Jaws movie is swimming through an aqua sea, with pieces of broken machinery and tubing trailing away and 3 yellow barrels attached to him.
February 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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GERLANDA DI FRANCIA + WITH LOVE YOUR BIGGEST FAN V preview today at 2pm EST! If you want to check out the links, email us at [email protected] with 'FEBRUARY SHOWS' in the subject line + we got you!

www.archenemyarts.com

#fineart #popsurrealism #popart #artcollector #artist #exhibition #art
February 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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A wee mechanical fish study in my current fav palette ⚙️🐟🎨
A blue fish with mechanical tubes streaming out of it
February 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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A zoom in on the skull in my piece "Dead Reckoning”, currently part of the Memento Mori show at @brassworksgallery.bsky.social in Portland, curated by Chris Breshears ☠️
Watercolour, some gouache, pencil, pan pastel, some airbrushed acrylics. All the things 🖍️🖊️🖌️
A skull wearing a blue robe with a floral pattern.
February 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Shark fren. This handsome guy is ready for his close up 🦈📸
A zoom in on the head of a great white shark, painted with watercolour & gouache.
February 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Some orange cat for your feed. This is the Crapweasel sleeping with his skull pillow 😼💀
A ginger crapweasel cat sleeps on a blanket and a skull
February 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Another machine in progress ⚙️🔩🐟
A work in progress pic of a mechanical fish assemblage sculpture made of metal, plastic, clay and other random pieces
February 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Reposted by Kaitlin Beckett
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Really enjoyed drawing these iridescent Wahoo for @texasmonthly.bsky.social

www.texasmonthly.com/travel/wahoo...
Welcome to Wahoo Winter!
From now until mid-March, one of the fastest—and tastiest—fish in the Gulf will be easier to catch.
www.texasmonthly.com
February 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Flugwesen Nr.1

- polymer clay & wire

#art #polymerclay #sculpture #noai #arttoys #sculptureart
February 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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A new big one: "Dead Reckoning", for Memento Mori at @brassworksgallery in Portland, opening this weekend Feb the 8th!

Curated by Chris Breshears.

I put some of the meaning (including the banner translation) into the alt text.

#mementomori #painting #mixedmedia
A skeleton in a blue robe holds a heart. Its body has mechanical tubes on the inside. A banner wraps around the figure. The banner across the figure reads “Omnes duae manent noctes” (Two nights await us all, in Latin) – this is a reference to Horace’s “Omnes una manet nox” (One night awaits us all), about the inevitability of death. Our physical bodies may die, but we have all left digital traces of ourselves in the form of social media profiles, forum posts, blogs, websites. When these platforms are abandoned, websites are deleted, servers are shut down and wiped, this is a kind of second death – the second night that awaits us 💀💀
February 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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One from a while back, when everything had antlers.
A goose with tied-on antlers holds up an orange koi fish chopped in half
February 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM