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Reclusive Dug Rusin
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Reclusive Dug Rusin @captainpurple.bsky.social · Sep 4
I’m Dug. Living in Metro Detroit I put in 25 years as a page-builder (graphic designer) until the small paper I worked for closed. Now (mostly) retired I’m returning to my surrealist roots, usually working with traditional pen and pencil drawing & polymer clay sculpture

Here is a sampling of my art
A pen and color pencil drawing of a young woman with an oversized head, her red hair gently moved by the wind stands in a black-hulled small ship (based on a Little Tikes tugboat shaped sandbox), holds onto the white cabin with her left hand. There is nobody at the wheel of the ship. In her right is a white bird house that has a brown leather suitcase handle attached to the green roof. Above her head is a blender, the black electric cord curving around like a halo. And around the blender is a swirling cloud of razor blades. The grey sky is overcast, and there are gentle but pronounced swells in the vibrant blue green water. At the bottom right, just below the green blue waterline a circling shark can be seen. A fairy house made of polymer clay. It appears to be a taller, upside down terra cotta pot with green door trimmed in blue. There is a flat, terracotta awning supported by twigs over the entrance. The 2nd story features half-round green windows, also trimmed in blue. Also visible is a more conventional square green window. Yup! Trimmed in blue! A pen drawing of a rhinoceros with a house-shaped burden on its back. The rhino is mostly grey. The house has the number 20 and letter “w” and a scissor headed bird on the front. There is a long brass pole that extends out horizontally from the structure that has a pumpkin dangling from it A side view of an Indian rhino from the left, based on Albrecht Durer’s 1515 engraving. This one is made of polymer clay and polychromed in shades of yellow, green and purple
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tomgauld.bsky.social
Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!
Title: The street tom waits grew up on. Image: a shabby, broken down old timey American street. Caption: Buildings (left to right): vern's all-nite pizza 'n' tattoo, accordion players' graveyard, abandoned clown-shoe factory, divorced salesmen's polka club, tomb of the unknown cabbie, bootleg ice-cream warehouse, saint frank's hobo orphanage, illegal umbrella incinerator.
December 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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theuglymachine.bsky.social
I started to love my art when I realized I never had to make anything perfectly, I only had to embrace my imperfections and make them beautiful
A traditionally Japanese kitchen knife with a wa made with white oak, walnut and brass. It's hamon is a little harder to see in this light but it's there. It's sitting on an anvil
December 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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obviouslycloe.bsky.social
Train doodle
Charcoal drawing of a Jumping spider holding a balloon and wearing a party hat
December 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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chorilate.bsky.social
🍄Faeveil Fungisage🍄
Leading many of the mushroom armies, the tall druidic fungus use their arcane arts to divine the best strategies for their malicious mycotic minions!
Drawing of an evil druidic shroomy creature!
#ChorilateCreatures
#DarkFantasyArt
#DarkFantasy
#FantasyArt
#Mushroom
#Druid
#Art
Markers and ink drawing of a tall evil mushroom druid sage with a long sword and a faery fire staff and a fungal veil over it's long body. Dark fantasy creature art of a shroomy monster wizard.
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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ishiko.bsky.social
1日1枚(ｨｲヤッホー!!!)
December 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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dtdelosh.bsky.social
Here's Wacom doodle of a Snowy Owl flying through the pine forest at night for #Colour_Collective #CCZaffre #owl #colour_collective #kidlitart
A Wacom doodle of a snowy owl flying through a pine forest at night using a limited pallets of Zaffre blue, white, black and a bit of gold. © Diana Ting Delosh diana delosh.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
It's the weekend, baby
Star Trek Voyager scene. Seven of Nine (tertiary adjunct of unimatrix 01) is pictured. She has a dolphin shaped metal robotic implant around her left eye because she is a borgs. Closed caption reads, "Fun will now commence."
December 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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manticore-aw.bsky.social
Now what everybody likes? SKULLS
QRP with your Skull Art ☠️💀☠️
A Quarter or so skull on a red background with black drips running vertically A Hippo Skull orbiting a moon, underlit from below. The nearest sun is cresting over the moon. An anguished Skull screams and looks up, the roman numerals VII (seven) are in the background, behind them, a deep red/black void An 8 Ball floats above a Horse Skull, split in to top and jaw parts like it is screaming. A black void is in the background.
December 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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bruib.bsky.social
Quantanical storm shunt.

#Art
Abstract colourfield backdrop of a magical storm. An odd, dark triangle fires energy, from ports in its face that race into the sky.
December 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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debidoesdrawing.bsky.social
Posting one comic issue a week(ish)...Comic #171

A Cosmic Narrative: An extraterrestrial travel journal that asks the big questions by examining the small moments of life across the universe.

👽 #webcomic #webtoon #comic #writing #MicroFiction
A journal page with 2 sketches on it, one is a woman with her hands on her face, looking scared. The other is an alien leaning up against the wall, hands casually in it’s coat pockets. Its head is that of a praying mantis. Text reads: She never liked normal bugs, so now that the Newcomers, with their large eyes, small mouths, antennae and clicking language were filling up her neighborhood, it was creeping her out. She wanted them gone, but this was now their home too. Swallowing down her fear, she approached one she'd passed many times. “Hi,” she said. “Hi,” it said back and smiled. That wasn't so hard, she thought.
December 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
captainpurple.bsky.social
#fullmoon #furnacefilter

Dang. I can't remember if it's good or bad luck to change the furnace filter during a full moon

🤔 🌕
December 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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ishiko.bsky.social
1日1枚(ｲｪｨ!!!)
December 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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chorilate.bsky.social
🍄
Inking/lineart of a mushroom magical creature drawing based on a bridal veil fungus with a sword and a wooden druidic magical staff. Dark fantasy monster art.
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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davidbrace2.bsky.social
Purchase of small works really helps me out. If you're interested in one or more of these send me a DM. #art
davidbrace2.bsky.social David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 9d
🧵Small works available. Shipping via letter mail. Prices & descriptions in alt-text. #art #sciart 1/3
"crush squeeze splatter", oil on watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150(Cdn). A small painting of a crushed corona can, black, white & gold, with a mutilated wedge of lime above it with lime juice splatter. "(crushed) ICE", oil on watercolour paper, 5 3/4 x 7 3/4", 2025- $150(Cdn). A small realistic painting of a black & silver Labatt's ICE beer can. The can is crushed so the round top & bottom are showing. The word ICE is in white, outlined in gold. Beneath the can is a squashed cockroach. "Diet (croak)", oil on Strathmore watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150(Cdn). A painting of a crushed silver & red Diet Coke can. Beneath it is a female tree frog, brownish with a pale belly, playing dead to avoid mating. "RED (scare)", oil on Strathmore watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150 (Cdn). A painting of a crushed red, silver & white Red Bull RED watermelon energy drink. Above the can is a wandering red and black spider.
December 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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captainpurple.bsky.social
#excuse #2025underperformance

Didn’t get as much done as you expected this year? Join me in blaming it on misaligned tectonic plates! All we can do is keep trying

Sorry, babe, I wanted to do more but the tectonic plates are out of whack, vibe is all off
December 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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salvaterra.bsky.social
places to get it:

bsky.app/profile/salv...
salvaterra.bsky.social Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · Nov 23
they can be tiny, or giant. it's up to you.

this stock art pack is now available on @drivethrurpg.com and @itch.io including art no longer available on my Patreon.

🐌 www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

🐌 salvaterra.itch.io/monstrosilis...

#stockart #bsnm #ttrpg #mausritter #art #bestiary
cover of a stock art pack comprised of four little fantastical creatures: a needle firefly, a rainy and thunderous floating snail, a fire moth and a chicken spider.
December 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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deadder.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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mikez.bsky.social
Winter is a hobgoblin.
#ArtAdventCalendar
A humanoid person wearing a cloak, scarf, and an icy hat conjures a tiny snow cloud.
December 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
captainpurple.bsky.social
QRP with something with horns
A pen drawing of a rhinoceros with a house-shaped burden on its back. The rhino is mostly grey. The house has the number 20 and letter “w” and a scissor headed bird on the front. There is a long brass pole that extends out horizontally from the structure that has a pumpkin dangling from it
December 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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jillsunflower.bsky.social
Gotta bring it back for the 2025 rehash recap!! Ahoy 🚤🚤🚤

Hopefully smooth waters lie ahead in 2026.

(+1 low-effort bonus honorable mention: the crossover people didn’t know they wanted and that nobody asked for.)
Dug’s infamous boat illustration overlaid onto my parallel imaginary nature scene, docked at the edge of the lake.
December 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
captainpurple.bsky.social
#excuse #2025underperformance

Didn’t get as much done as you expected this year? Join me in blaming it on misaligned tectonic plates! All we can do is keep trying

Sorry, babe, I wanted to do more but the tectonic plates are out of whack, vibe is all off
December 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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jillsunflower.bsky.social
Another slow year in art for me 🐌 but I managed to finish a handful of pieces. These are my favorites :)
A colorful piece of art with a jeweled snail hanging out near the forest floor A colored drawing of a floral-printed stegosaurus in a white background A big piece of embroidered fabric art, with a fuzzy moth and lots of plants A vibrantly colorful piece of artwork with a parallel structure, depicting a big round sunset with a butterfly, mountains, trees, flowers, and a lake filled with fish
December 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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davidbrace2.bsky.social
Work from "A Birder's Guide to the Apocalypse" #art #birds
"You'll have to carry me from here", pencil/pencil crayon on paper, 7x10", 2023- $250(Cdn). A colour pencil drawing of a dead crow lying on its side. "What are you? Where do you come from?", pencil/pencil crayon on paper, 9x12", 2023- $250(Cdn). A colour pencil drawing of a dead shore bird lying on its back. "This mustn't happen here. I cannot bear this to happen here.", pencil/pencil crayon on paper, 8x8", 2023- $250(Cdn). A colour drawing of 2 dead goldfinches, one above on its side, the one below on its back, wings open, feet up. "We are a dying symphony", pencil crayon on paper, 9x10", 2024- $250(Cdn). A colour drawing of 2 dead blue jays, one lying on it's side, the second one lies to the right of it on it's side, head back, one wing outstretched.
December 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
captainpurple.bsky.social
QRP with something with horns

🦏 How about an older piece? This is from 2023, an early test piece where I digitized a traditional piece
A digital pen drawing (iPad Pro, Affinity Designer 2) of a rhinoceros fitted out for riding with a saddle and bridle. The rider, young woman wearing a billowy green cloak and a sword slung to her side holds a short staff with small purple banner on it, stands next to the rhino
December 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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pastelgrays.bsky.social
If you see this, post something monochromatic.
December 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM