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fen frond 🌷 | 2D + 3D comms open! @fenfrond.neocities.org · 5h

Bumper sticker that says "honk if you want me to pull over to give you my Maud Lewis rant"

fen frond 🌷 | 2D + 3D comms open! @fenfrond.neocities.org · 5h

anyway I found a house-shaped piece of cardboard while tidying my desk today, and I'm painting that to look (mostly) like Maud Lewis' house. It's healing me. I want to paint my own windows, too.

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fen frond 🌷 | 2D + 3D comms open! @fenfrond.neocities.org · 5h

what kind of tea is he drinking?

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fen frond 🌷 | 2D + 3D comms open! @fenfrond.neocities.org · 5h

I really wish the price difference between cheap paint and good paint was not so steep. I do really like what I can do with cheap acrylics, but I'd never like. sell anything I make with them.

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fen frond 🌷 | 2D + 3D comms open! @fenfrond.neocities.org · 9h

I cannot wait until everyone can read this story 💗⚔️🦀

three wolf hall moon @plainchant.bsky.social · 9h

Overjoyed to say: my short story, Siren Song, has been accepted by the rad folks at @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social! I can't wait to share this tale about a huge, hardy, blade-hewing sellsword gal toughing through a terrible job to slay a terrible beast! ⚔️ LET'S GOOOOO ⚔️

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three wolf hall moon @plainchant.bsky.social · 9h

Overjoyed to say: my short story, Siren Song, has been accepted by the rad folks at @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social! I can't wait to share this tale about a huge, hardy, blade-hewing sellsword gal toughing through a terrible job to slay a terrible beast! ⚔️ LET'S GOOOOO ⚔️

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☆ COR @portocor.bsky.social · 10h

uriah (he/him) month #kinktober day 15 - self care, aftercare #☆ #♡

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Dave Green @artist-in-a-shed.bsky.social · 11h

Dense arboretum 7.

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Erin Hanson @erinhansonartist.bsky.social · 1d

Mt Rainier was alive with wildflowers this summer--Paradise Valley was a paradise indeed, full of purple, white, yellow, and blue flowers.

Cascades in Bloom
Original Oil Painting
by Erin Hanson, 2025
8 x 16 in
www.erinhanson.com/portfolio/ca...

#pnw #washington #art #oilpainting #womanartist

Mt Rainier was alive with wildflowers this summer--Paradise Valley was a paradise indeed, full of purple, white, yellow, and blue flowers. This painting captures a scene from the base of Mt Rainier, looking back at the southern Cascade peaks. Thick brushstrokes of oil paint capture the lively colors and beauty of the landscape.

"Cascades in Bloom"
Original Oil Painting by Erin Hanson
2025
8 x 16 in
ORIGINAL SOLD
Canvas Prints Available
3D Textured Replicas Available

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Fen, moss goblin @fluidfyre.bsky.social · 1d

'First Blush', 2023, in acrylics on canvas.

Definitely been hankering to do more macro paintings 😏

A vertical acrylic painting of one, irregular leaf that has begun to die in autumn. The left side is mottled browns and oranges, while the right still shows green in the veins. The serrated edged of the leaf are slightly backlit against a dark background.

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 1d

A little Lapland longspur foraging along the shore. I'm always struck by how easy they are to approach. #birds 🌿

A largish sparrow-like bird with mottle brown plumage forages on the sand right at the water's edge

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fen frond 🌷 | 2D + 3D comms open! @fenfrond.neocities.org · Nov 4

imo, if you want to grow as an artist, make your sketchbook your best friend. tell it your secrets and your doubts, share memories from your day with it, and try new things together.

your sketchbook will not judge you and is just happy it gets to spend time with you.

[ #art #sketchbook #abstract]

a scanned Sketchbook spread with an abstract painting on each side. the left painting has simple flat black, orange, blue, red, and yellow forms. the right side has the same colours but blended, smeared, and applied with differing strokes, and accented by pencil crayon lines. the backdrop is muted red with a colourful border decorated with star and leafy shapes. the artist's name, PJ Picnic, is written in the bottom ri

a scanned sketchbook spread composed of scraps of coloured paper that are drawn on top of. the same figure, a person with long black hair, is drawn in different poses, some stretched out and relaxed, and some curled up and tense. one of the figures stands looking at a distorted humanoid figure that looks back at them. the page is also decorated with leaf shapes and curvy lines. the backdrop is pine green with a colourful border decorated with star and leafy shapes

a scanned sketchbook spread where one side has simple cartoony drawings showing off an outfit, and the other side has an abstract red, yellow, and orange painting. the backdrop is mango yellow with a colourful border decorated with star and leafy shapes

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fen frond 🌷 | 2D + 3D comms open! @fenfrond.neocities.org · Dec 7

a little something wintery

#ArtAdventCalendar #art

a digital line drawing in a simple style, depicting a person in a big coat and boots taking a step forward and making a silly face toward the viewer. they hold a pair of mittens attached by a long string over their shoulders, letting them dangle and sway with their movement. the art is coloured in flat blocks that stray from the lines, as if the colours filled in different shapes before, or are a printing registration error.

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fen frond 🌷 | 2D + 3D comms open! @fenfrond.neocities.org · Dec 31

more words on perfectionism. "We always do the best that we can by the light we have to see by."

screenshot from an ebook. the text reads: "Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough— that we should try again.

No. We should not.

“A painting is never finished. It simply stops in interesting places,” said Paul Gardner. A book is never finished. But at a certain point you stop writing it and go on to the next thing. A film is never cut perfectly, but at a certain point you let go and call it done. That is a normal part of creativity—letting go. We always do the best that we can by the light we have to see by. "

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fen frond 🌷 | 2D + 3D comms open! @fenfrond.neocities.org · Dec 31

some choices passages from The Artist's Way - evergreen reminders.

screenshot of a book passage. the text says "LISTENING

The ability to listen is a skill we are honing with both our morning pages and our artist dates. The pages train us to hear past our Censor. The artist dates help us to pick up the voice of inspiration. While both of these activities are apparently unconnected to the actual act of making art, they are critical to the creative process.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down. The directions are important here.
If we are trying to think something up, we are straining to reach for
something that’s just beyond our grasp, “up there, in the stratosphere, where art lives on high....”
When we get something down, there is no strain. We’re not doing; we’re getting. Someone or something else is doing the doing. Instead of reaching for inventions, we are engaged in listening.
When an actor is in the moment, he or she is engaged in listening for the next right thing creatively. When a painter is painting, he or she may begin with a plan, but that plan is soon surrendered to the painting’s own plan. This is often expressed as “The brush takes the next stroke.” In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express. "

a screenshot of an ebook passage. it reads: "PERFECTIONISM

Tillie Olsen correctly calls it the “knife of the perfectionist attitude in art.” You may call it something else. Getting it right, you may call it, or fixing it before I go any further. You may call it having standards. What you should be calling it is perfectionism.

Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole. Instead of creating freely and allowing errors to reveal themselves later as insights, we often get mired in getting the details right. We correct our originality into a
uniformity that lacks passion and spontaneity. “Do not fear mistakes,” Miles Davis told us. “There are none.”

[italicized] Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.

MARTIN RITT [end italics]

The perfectionist fixes one line of a poem over and over—until no lines are right. The perfectionist redraws the chin line on a portrait until the paper tears. The perfectionist writes so many versions of scene one that she never gets to the rest of the play. The perfectionist writes, paints, creates with one eye on her audience. Instead of enjoying the process, the perfectionist is constantly
grading the results.

The perfectionist has married the logic side of the brain. The critic reigns supreme in the perfectionist’s creative household. A brilliant descriptive prose passage is critiqued with a white-glove approach: “Mmm. What about this comma? Is this how you spell ... ?”

For the perfectionist, there are no first drafts, rough sketches, warm-upexercises. Every draft is meant to be final, perfect, set in stone.

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fen frond 🌷 | 2D + 3D comms open! @fenfrond.neocities.org · Jan 7

THE WORLD NEEDS YOU 🌞

the days ahead will prove difficult and dark, but the sun always rises again after it sets.
thank you for being here.

#CreateEveryDay #Art #QueerArt #LGBTQart #Illustration

a digital illustration featuring chunky block letters that read "THE WORLD NEEDS YOU". The words are surrounded by blooming flowers - resembling fuchsia and lupines and daisies with eyes in the center - leaves, and butterflies, as well as a happy snail, and are lit by a peaceful smiling sun. The background is of a green grassy hill kissed by the orange sunset sky. The artist's name and symbol, pansy picnic and a pansy bloom, are in the bottom left corner.

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fen frond 🌷 | 2D + 3D comms open! @fenfrond.neocities.org · Jan 15

stars + spirits

#CreateEveryDay #art

digital lines over a scanned watercolour painting. there are 3 yellow shooting stars surrounded by sparkles and smaller stars with energetic lines along the top and bottom in blue.

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fen frond 🌷 | 2D + 3D comms open! @fenfrond.neocities.org · Jan 19

lines and shapes are my best friendz

#CreateEveryDay #AbstractArt #DigitalArt

a digital drawing consisting of pastel blue, pink, and cream lines on a dark purple canvas. the lines and shapes are abstract, energetic, pointy-curvy-boxy and snug amongst each other. some shapes resemble animals.

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fen frond 🌷 | 2D + 3D comms open! @fenfrond.neocities.org · Jan 23

aquatic entities

#CreateEveryDay #DigitalArt #AbstractArt

an abstract digital drawing consisting of swirling lines, shapes, and dots filling the whole page in pink and blues on a dark red background. some shapes resemble creatures and/or plants.

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Woxie.png @woxie101.bsky.social · 2d

Happy indigenous peoples day!!!!

Check out my Webcomic full of my variant of my Oaxacan language of mixtec!!!!!

#indigenoudpeoplesday

Woxie.png @woxie101.bsky.social · Aug 16

My webcomic update!!!! #comicfury #webcomic #magicalgirl

cosmicfault.thecomicseries.com/comics/54/#c...

Also on Tumblr!!!

www.tumblr.com/cosmic-fault...

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 2d

Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day with queer planty IndigiLit!

ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · Aug 15

Our ALOCASIA has unfurled a new leaf! And we're so proud!

It's our first all-Indigenous issue! This is a showcase of the work of 20 writers from around the world, curated by our guest editors Yasmine Bolden, tripp j Crouse, and Sarah Clark. We hope you are as delighted by it as we are

ALOCASIA.org

Alocasia leaf background. Text reads "Plantcestors: The Indigenous Issue"

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mossyvida @mossyvida.bsky.social · 3d

My “starry stag beetle” design looks so magical on color paper!! 🥹💕
#linocut #bugart #stagbeetle #art #linoprint #printmaker

Many prints of a stag beetle in different colors laying in the grass

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fen frond 🌷 | 2D + 3D comms open! @fenfrond.neocities.org · Sep 28

cattails at the lake

#art #sketch #queerart #queerartist #lineart

a digital drawing. simple green lines depict stylized leaves, grasses, and cattails. there is a bird with wings raised perched on a cattail leaf. waves, ovals, and arches decorate some of the spaces in between the foliage. sparse green stippling accents some of the shapes. the background is a muted light yellow. the artist's name, nixpicnic, is written in a light reddish-purple on the left side of the drawing.

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · May 10

For #WorldMigratoryBirdDay :
Andre Minaux (France, 1923-1986)
Migration, 1960s
Editions Braun et Cie., Paris (15/200)
Tapestry wallhanging printed on linen
49 x 64 in. (124.5 x 162.6 cm)
www.abell.com/auction-lot/...
#BirdsInArt

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