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Drawn to drawing, curating, and visual communicating. Art lecturer turned author and online art tutor https://linktr.ee/helenbirch_drawdrawdraw

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 3d

I love this!

James Willis @thebunyipman.bsky.social · 3d

knocked up a quick animation to see how he might move

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Vlada Repina Art @vladabotanica.bsky.social · 2d

🌿 Last season I drew dogwood — a lovely plant with small red berries that ripen in autumn.
I finished the drawings but never shared them… until now! 😅

#BotanicalArt #BotanicalDrawing #Dogwood #AutumnVibes #NatureInspired

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Nína IF (Ivanova) @ninaif.bsky.social · 2d

Green tea or coffee caps. 15x20cm, watercolor, sandpaper.
#painting #illustration #watercolor #ArtYear #artonblsky #green

three coffee or tea mugs in simplified shapes

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Henri Matisse @henrimatisse.bsky.social · 2d

Three Apples and Plate, 1914-1915
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/1243931

The creation of a monotype involves drawing a design in ink on a smooth, nonabsorbent printing plate. While the ink is still wet, a sheet of paper is applied to the plate, which is then run through a press to transfer the image to the sheet of paper. Unlike other printing processes, the monotype technique allows for only one unique impression to be taken from the plate. Matisse monotypes all date from a short period during the mid-teens, when he produced a total of about seventy. Artists frequently use monotype to create their images by building up desired areas of the dark ink on the surface of the plate. Matisse, however, reversed the process. He began with a plate completely covered in black ink, and subsequently scratched lines of varying width through the field of wet ink. The resulting white lines in his printed monotypes electrify and seem to quiver against the deep black ground.

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20x200 | It’s art for everyone! @20x200.bsky.social · Sep 16

Artist Lisa Congdon elevates the humble eraser to sculptural proportions in her piece “Day 1: Vintage Erasers”. You can practically smell the Pink Pearl and feel its rubbery softness in your hands. 20x200.com/products/lis...

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Irfan Ajvazi @irfanajvaziart.bsky.social · 7d

Camera, 40”x40”, oil pastel on paper, 2025, See more work at irfanajvazipaint.wordpress.com

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Irfan Ajvazi @irfanajvaziart.bsky.social · 7d

Dog Portrait, 21”x29”, oil pastel on paper, 2025, See more work at irfanajvazipaint.wordpress.com

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Irfan Ajvazi @irfanajvaziart.bsky.social · 2d

Kitchen - Irfan Ajvazi

Kitchen 25x30 cm Charcoal and pencil on paper 2024 - Kitchen

www.artpal.com

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Irfan Ajvazi @irfanajvaziart.bsky.social · 20d

Lake, 31”x31”, oil pastel on paper, 2025, See more work at irfanajvazipaint.wordpress.com

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Irfan Ajvazi @irfanajvaziart.bsky.social · 15d

"Untitled"
25x30 cm
Graphite pencil on paper
2025

Email for inquiries

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 2d

Good night from the lion with tired eyes 😴

BL Add MS 15423; 1441 CE-1467 CE; Italy; f.15v

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 2d

🐦 Traité élémentaire d'histoire naturelle
A Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Crapelet: 1807.

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Historical illustration from 1807 titled "Développemens des Caractères" showing detailed line drawings of various bird beaks. The 18 different beak shapes are numbered from 60 to 77 and arranged across the page, highlighting diversity in size, curvature, and tooth patterns. The sketch style is minimalistic with fine lines and no shading. The text at the top reads "Oiseaux" indicating the subject is birds. The image demonstrates the anatomical variety of bird beaks for natural history study.

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Bryan Minnich @bryanminnich.bsky.social · 3d

Ink and brush and pen drawing of a palm tree next to a indeterminate pointy topped structure

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Robert Motherwell @robertmotherwell.bsky.social · 2d

Open Study #8 http://www.moma.org/collection/works/96764

The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift

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KANSHIKETSU! @kanshiketsu.bsky.social · 2d

Fdspoaifepsadif page 3

#asemic #typewriter feed

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Robert Kerber Collages @robertkerber.bsky.social · 2d

„Von der Gönnerhaftigkeit nachträglich angebotener Freundschaft (Zehn Monate)“ / „On the patronising ways of subsequently offered friendship (Ten months)“.

October 16th 2025 paper collage, ca. 13 x 13 cm.

#collageart #papercollage #analogcollage #industrialmusic #industrialmusicforindustrialpeople

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nina theda black @ninathedablack.bsky.social · 2d

mixed media collage on an old album cover

a collage i made featuring a vintage photograph of a mongolian woman, with tear-shaped markings below her eyes, wearing an extravagant traditional headpiece, centered against a background of distorted lines, abstract tree branches and a gold base.
nina theda black.

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ArtMouse @artmouse.bsky.social · 21d

#813 #art #abstractart #contemporaryart

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the artist formerly known as 'that guy' @oh-that-guy.bsky.social · 2d

Lap dog | Brian Kershisnik

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 2d

Thoughtful monkey in Glasgow

Long thoughtful monkey in half rendered crayon, with cone behind, decent feel, instinctive wax pastel layering and colour and line

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Liz Taysum @liztaysum.bsky.social · 3d

My rook drawing, done in micron pen.
#inktober #micron #birdart #birds

A drawing of a rook done in black micron pen.

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Michel Camerotto @michelcamerotto.bsky.social · Mar 5

#mARTch #mARTch2025
Day 4: Object(s)
Quick drawing of a little bike. Pencil on paper.

Pencildrawing of a little bike standing against a wall.

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Pandemic Masters @pandemicmasters.bsky.social · 15d

"Portrait of an Unknown Girl wearing a Bonnet"
Van der Cooghen (Leendert van der Cooghen), 1653
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
11.75 x 8,25 in (297 x 210 mm)
Graphite and marker on 111 lb (165 gr/m2) sketching paper
08/22/25
#rijksmuseum #leendertvandercooghen #vandercooghen #cooghen

Sketch detail version of Leendert van der Cooghen´s "Portrait of an Unknown Girl wearing a Bonnet", 1653

Sketch version of Leendert van der Cooghen´s "Portrait of an Unknown Girl wearing a Bonnet", 1653

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Pandemic Masters @pandemicmasters.bsky.social · 12d

“Two Wrestlers”
Francanzano (Cesare Francanzano), c. 1637
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
8.25 x 5 in (21,5 x 12,7 cm)
Ink markers and watercolor on plain 70 G/M² sketchbook paper
06/15/25
#pandemicmasters #kuretake #museodelprado #francanzano #cesarefrancanzano

Sketch detail version of Cesare Francanzano´s "Two Wrestlers", c. 1637

Sketch version of Cesare Francanzano´s "Two Wrestlers", c. 1637

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Pandemic Masters @pandemicmasters.bsky.social · 5d

"Portrait of Gillis van Breen, drawing or wood carving"
Goltzius (Hendrick Goltzius), c. 1600s
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
11.75 x 8,25 in (297 x 210 mm)
Graphite and marker on 111 lb (165 gr/m2) sketching paper
08/24/25
#pandemicmasters #rijksmuseum #goltzius #hendrickgoltzius

Sketch detail version of Hendrick Goltzius "Portrait of Gillis van Breen, drawing or wood carving", c. 1600s

Sketch version of Hendrick Goltzius "Portrait of Gillis van Breen, drawing or wood carving", c. 1600s

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