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Crumplings Workshop 🐌
@crumplings.bsky.social
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Sculptor and dollmaker based in Scotland, working with paper mache, clays, fibers & found materials. Trail runner, cold swimmer, appreciator of folklore and old forests.

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An automaton / mechanical diorama I've been working on for a while! A young aviator in her study room, dreaming of the next adventure. :)

Made from paper mache, wood & brass, painted with acrylics. Operated by turning a wooden crank. Still needs a few touchups but the mechanism is working smoothly!
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This patch pairs will be available in my shop next week on the december batch

#SciArt #embroidery #insectart #art
A picture of a pair of handmade embroidered patches. It's a lesser stag beetle with its larval stage. They are colored blue and have a lilipad motif Another pair of handmade embroidered patches. This ones are a baby and adult leaf bugs, they are orange with red "leafs", and green details
December 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
crumplings.bsky.social
For Day 18 of #ArtAdventCalendar, another shy amphibious gremlin I made today - still a work in progress though with a few details to be added!

Paper mache, mulberry bark, flax fibres, and glass eyes, painted with acrylics.
A paper mache gremlin figurine with webbed duck-like feet and huge ears, painted in muted blue and ochre hues. She is wearing a tattered robe made from mulberry bark fibre.
December 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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handiworkgames.bsky.social
Weird little guys hanging out.

From The Burn, by @malcolmcraig.bsky.social. It’s a standalone title about being a weird little guy that uses The Silver Road story telling game. #ttrpgs
The weird little guys from The Burn sitting on a log. Two of the weird little guys from The Burn walking along the bank of the Burn Two of the weird little guys thinking about going into a tunnel. Two of the weird little guys in the tunnel.
December 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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valeriea.bsky.social
Watercolour painting of snow scene with pond
December 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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cazell.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18

A puffin in coloured pencil.
#puffin #birdart #birddrawing #SciArt #seabird #colouredpencil
A puffin with its colourful red, blue and yellow bill. It is sitting on grey rocks against a blue sky.
December 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Winter Landscape with Church, Caspar David Friedrich, 1811.
Snow scene with two snow laden firs, large rocks protruding from snow, hillside with fog and church seen emerging from it in the distance, painting.
December 17, 2025 at 8:46 AM
crumplings.bsky.social
Day 16 of #ArtAdventCalendar! A photo from last October of Birnam Hill, which is topical because I sprained my ankle pretty badly last week when climbing down the same hill just after dark. 🥲 Keep your torch batteries charged!

#photography #hillwalking #scotland
A photo of a rocky forest path surrounded by lush ferns and conifer trees in dappled sunlight.
December 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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handiworkgames.bsky.social
As someone who has learned to be an artist, there's a missing piece in all the button-pushing talk, & even the process chat (depending somewhat on what we mean by process) in that learning the process has shaped my whole life, and my whole life shapes the process? They're inseparable. Good thread.
rdonoghue.bsky.social Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 2d
Megathread got me thinking about the magic button.

Press a button to produce a work of art is a terrible idea, but what if the question was "If you could push a button to be good at drawing, would you?"

Knee-jerk, hell yes I would. Learning to draw is *hard*. And I'd love to skip that part.
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
crumplings.bsky.social
Day 15 of #ArtAdventCalendar - closeup/detail of a mechanical diorama I made. It features a young aviator studying her maps, surrounded by clouds and an airplane which move when a wooden crank is turned (there's a video in my pinned post!)

Paper mache, wood, brass, felting wool, misc. materials. ☁️
A closeup of a diorama in which a young female pilot with an aviator hat and dark brown braids leans over a desk to research her next route. There is a window to a night sky behind her, a candle on the windowsill, and a globe and a stack of books next to her desk. You can also see a red airplane and a cloud on thin brass rods - these aspects of the diorama move up and down when a crank is turned. The diorama is made from paper mache so has an organic and handmade-looking surface, which is painted with acrylics using fairly muted colours.
December 16, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Day in Winter by Xavier Mellery (1845–1921)
Melancholic painting of a woman in a long black hooded coat walking in the snow.
December 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Day 15 #Artadventcalendar

Shadowbox pendant to fit a pocket watch chain. Created as a retirement gift. I LOVE this idea, instead of having a traditional watch as a retirement token, you have a pocket full of magic instead. Sunstone, moonstone, silver and keum boo.

#art #artyear
Shadowbox pocket watch. Sterling silver pendant deep to create layers in the pendant with a textured and oxidized background silver moon, and clouds, keum boo guilded stars and sun with a sunstone center. A moonstone moon, textured crescent moon foreground and silver clouds.
December 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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scottbath.bsky.social
Island life
#TidesOutTuesday
#Scape
#LandscapePhotography
#EastCoastKin
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#Island
#LowTide
#Boat
December 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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For day 15 of the #ArtAdventCalendar, another picture I took while walking around the Netherlands
A black and white picture of a lamp near windmills in the Netherlands
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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I see what you did human. 🐾
My dog Pio is winking at me while laying in my lap.
December 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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There may not be snow, but it’s still our favorite morning walk.
Finnish Lapphunds stare off into the distant snow-free hills in search of deer.
December 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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#artadventcalendar Day 10:

Layers

#rocks #river #royalgorge #waterwednesday #colorado
Layers of rock cradle the running water of the Arkansas River,which has patiently shaped patterns and pathways over millions of years.
December 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
crumplings.bsky.social
For Day 14 of #ArtAdventCalendar, this bumblebee bear I sculpted last year! Made from paper mache, coated with silk clay for a smoother surface, painted with acrylic inks.
A bear sculpture with bumblebee stripes, iridescent-looking wings, and antennae from metal wire. The bear is sitting on a white windowsill next to dried plants and a glass jar candle.
December 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".
A photograph I took quite early on New Year's Day, 2019, while walking on the Isle of Purpeck, not long before I did a tweet using it, and the same caption. I imagine it won't have as much impact here, since loads of people have since reused it, and the phrase is now more widely known. It is still very very true, though. Lots of things are solved by walking. Although not everything, obviously.
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 14🍄

just finished up 2 more teacup gardens!🍄‍🟫☕️🐌

these will be used as christmas gifts this year🥰
2 tea cups filled with moss. each cup has a stained glass snail and mushroom
December 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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jillsunflower.bsky.social
Life underwater 🫧
A traditional media art piece with a watercolor background and colorful cartoon-style foreground, depicting fish and sea creatures undersea at the edge of a coral reef, with freehand mandalas in the watery background.
December 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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drawdrawdraw.bsky.social
Dec 14 #artadventcalendar
Another 'forgotten' page from a sketchbook.
A seashell collection August 2023
#drawing #temperastick #sketchbook #artyear #seashells #ink #pen
A landscape format, A4 sketchbook, open on a worn, wooden table. A range of seashells are displayed above it. Drawings of the same are in the sketchbook below - thickish black outlines with tempera stick colour - warm tones of pinks, sepia and some pale yellow.
December 14, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Dec 14: Gardener's Shed, Edwards Gardens, Toronto
#watercolour #watercolor #landscape #floral #ArtAdventCalendar
A white shed with a planted roof with trees around it. There is a poppy in the foreground.
December 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Christmas villages are Warhammer 40K for aunts.
December 24, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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Day 13 of #ArtAdventCalendar - a new snailshell giraffe I worked on today! Coarse paper mache painted with acrylics. 🐌
A paper mache sculpture of a giraffe living in a bright orange and purple snailshell. It is standing against an off-white background with a fern, and small citrus houseplant in a seagrass pot.
December 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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It's the end of the week, that means it's Half Frame Friday. Shots from last week's chilly walks.

Camera: Olympus Pen S
Film: Ilford XP2 Super

#HFF
#halfframefriday
#believeinfilm
#filmphotography
Black and white photo of a wooden fence post surrounded by tall grass and weeds. The top of the fence post is angled like a roof. Black and white photo of an old wooden gate which is stuck open at the entrance to a field. In the background is a field with trees on the horizon. Reflections of a bare tree in a large puddle on a farm track. Black and white photo.
December 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM