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Cecilia Di Miceli

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#Pastel and fiber artist inspired by #nature, night time scribbler, piano torturer, #BoardGames nerd, ex-linguist, #MarineBiology fan and much more! 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇦🇪🏳️‍🌈♾️ Recovering from cancer treatment. www.ceciliadimiceli.com https://ceciliadimiceli.etsy.com

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Cecilia Di Miceli @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social · Dec 28

Nembrotha Kubaryana (variable neon slug)
Pastels on coated pastel paper
30 x 40 cm

(3rd #InverteFest post) Poisonous nudibranch, living in the tropical Western Indo-Pacific ocean.

#art #nudibranch #pastelart #pastelpainting 🦑 #pastel #marinebiology #SciArt #seaslug

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Cecilia Di Miceli @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social · 2d

La ville derrière les volets
#Pastel on #Pastelmat
40x30 cm

The second #PastelPainting of my Parisian series. I've always been charmed by Parisian rooftops and chimneys. More versions of this #cityscape to come.

#pastelart #sunset #paris #art #painting #feance #rooftops

Pastel painting of a view on the Montmartre district at sunset from the window of an apartment in Paris, where I've been staying this summer.
Vivid sunset colours in the sky and a more dimmed palette for the buildings (Siena, blue/gray and creme tones).

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Cecilia Di Miceli @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social · 4d

Alice
#PanPastel on #Sennelier #pastel paper
40x30 cm

My daughter came to sit for a #portrait session at my local life model painting club. Lately I really like to #sketch or lay the base of a #PastelPainting with PanPastel (pigment powders pressed in a small pan that you apply with tiny sponges).

Lightly sketched portrait of my 19 year old daughter. Light warm brown background, blue/grey outlines, soft colour accents here and there. bright eyes and earrings.

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Cecilia Di Miceli @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social · 11d

Pont du Port à l'Anglais
#Pastel on coated pastel paper
30x40cm

I'm finally getting back into a painting rhythm! This is the first #PastelPainting of a mini series about #Paris. The second is in the making. For this one I worked almost exclusively with #PanPastel.

#pastelart #waterscape #France

Vaguely impressionist style painting, with dominant blue and green tones, of a Parisian bridge on the river (Seine). The water and bridge are in the foreground, the archs sustaining the bridge and a long boat passing by occupy the middle ground. In the background greenery and sparse houses.

Warm light, serene atmosphere.

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Cecilia Di Miceli @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social · Jul 14

I'm secretly happy my husband didn't sell this wonderful artwork yet, as it's now in our living room💚🏡

Thomas Schmall @thomasschmall.bsky.social · Jul 14

A watercolor artwork I painted in a forest in the German Eifel - and just did the finish touches to show at a painting festival.

#art #アート #illustration #イラスト #絵画 #芸術 #gemälde #Dreamy #FairyTale #GermanForest #Rursee #watercolor #artwork #pleinair #watercolors #ink #schilderij #Ampersand #Eifel

Dreamy painting of an old hut with a red roof in a forest. Watercolor and Ink with flowing colors.

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Cecilia Di Miceli @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social · Jun 26

I take the resemblance as a good sign😅

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Cecilia Di Miceli @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social · Jun 26

Yay! Thank you so much🌟

Cecilia Di Miceli @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social · Jun 26

Can any #MarineBiologist review this diagram for accuracy? I made this in the context of an upcoming art exhibition where I will show sea star and marine life related artworks in different media. Thank🩵🙏🙏🙏🦑

#SciArt #inkdrawing #echinoderm #seastar #artproject
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Black and white diagram illustrating the life cycle and larval development of a typical sea star (with planktonic larval stages). Represented stages: fecundation, cleavage, blastulation, gastrulation, juvenile and adult sea stars. Hand drawn. Captions written with Photopea.

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Cecilia Di Miceli @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social · Jun 18

Asterina Gibbosa
#Pastel and #gouache (underpainting) on #Pastelmat
24x30 cm

Portrait of one of the 13 European sea stars I selected for my big sea star pastel painting project I've been brooding over for the last 2 months.
More #SeaStars paintings and diagrams to come ⭐🦑

#pastelart #echinoderm

A single sea star with bright red spots on a blue turquoise skin, resting on a bright coloured abstract textured substrate.

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Cecilia Di Miceli @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social · May 22

I'm not a biologist. I'm just an artist in love with #MarineLife and #SeaStars are my most recent obsession. Can anybody check my #diagram of a typical sea star's lifecycle for accuracy, before I proceed with colours and labels? Thanks⭐ 🦑

#echinoderm #sciart #larvae #audhd #plankton #inkdrawing

Black and white, ink, hand-drawn diagram of a lifecycle of a typical sea star with planktotrphic larval stages. Including fecundation, cleavage, blastulation, gastrulation, bipinnaria and brachiolaria larval stages, juvenile and adult sea star.

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Cecilia Di Miceli @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social · May 14

Here is the 3rd illustrated #chart for my big #pastel artwork, featuring 12 #SeaStar species. This is on the Ophidiaster Ophidianus 🦑

#MarineLife #artinprogress #art #MarineBiology #echinodermata #echinoderms #starfish #asteroidea #asterozoa #BabySteps #sketches #gouache

Illustrated chart on Ophidiaster Ophidianus, aka Purplesea star. Up left a gouache and water colour pencils illustration of a purple specimen. Up right a drawn map of its distribution. Middle right a rough taxonomic categorisation. Down left a short description of appearance, habitat, diet, movement, defensive behaviour, reproduction, larval stages.

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Francine Fox @francinefox.bsky.social · May 6

Planning new #paintings with some compositional studies. If you are (or know) a scientist specializing in #coralreefs and #aquaticlife in the #BismarckSea region, I’d love to connect. This upcoming series will be about #deepseamining near #PapauNewGuinea.

#wildlifeart #fish #marinelife 🐡 🦑 🧪

An open sketchbook shows four small sketches in ink on white paper. Each sketch has coral reef structures at the bottom and swirling schools of barracuda-like fish filling the top of the page.

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Cecilia Di Miceli @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social · May 6

Here is the 2nd #chart for my big #pastel artwork, featuring 12 #SeaStar species. I'm learning about them as I go. This is on the Marthasterias Glacialis. 🦑

#MarineLife #artinprogress #art #MarineBiology #echinodermata #echinoderms #starfish #asteroidea #asterozoa #BabySteps #sketches #gouache

Illustrated chart on Marthasterias Glacialis, aka spiny sea star. Up left a gouache and acrylic paint illustration of a greenish specimen. Up right a drawn map of its distribution. Middle right a rough taxonomic categorisation, down left a short description of appearance, habitat, diet, movement, defensive behaviour, reproduction, larval stages.

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Cecilia Di Miceli @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social · Apr 30

Today I started laying the groundwork for a big #pastel artwork, featuring 12 #SeaStar species. I think I made one of these charts in primary school for the last time! So much fun 💫

#MarineLife #artinprogress #art #MarineBiology #echinodermata #echinoderm #starfish #asteroidea #chart #BabySteps

A hand made illustrated chart about Asterias Rubens. Includes: taxonomy, distribution, body size, colour, habitat, diet, reproductive and defensive behaviour.

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Cecilia Di Miceli @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social · Apr 13

Thank you🩵

Cecilia Di Miceli @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social · Apr 13

Hi Carolyn, feel free to add me too, if you find it fit. I'm focusing on sea life at present.

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Cecilia Di Miceli @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social · Apr 13

Voting wisely, eliminating sea food from my diet, going on electrical boat trips with my kids and collecting trash floating on the river shores, purchasing fresh food that is not packaged in plastic. But really the first measure is the most impactful.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Apr 11

Board game publishers lament the devastating impact of new US tariffs on the tabletop industry: 'There is no silver lining. It is a lose-lose-lose situation for everyone involved'
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Board game publishers lament the devastating impact of new US tariffs on the tabletop industry: 'There is no silver lining. It is a lose-lose-lose situation for everyone involved'

The tabletop boom just stopped dead in its tracks.

www.pcgamer.com

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Adam Schiff @adamschiff.com · Apr 9

We just witnessed the full Trump cycle.

1) Make horrible policy decision.
2) Create lot of pain.
3) Falsely claim problem is solved.
4) Reverse course.
5) Leave things worse than before.

Rinse. Repeat.

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Cecilia Di Miceli @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social · Apr 9

Love it!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Apr 3

America, you f**ked up!

She warned us. She had a plan that would have benefited everyday Americans. But too many ignored her—because it was never really about the economy.

Now folks are scared, struggling—and we’re cooked.