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Jessie Greer Brown @jess357.bsky.social · 1h

It's for any website it breaks the visual coding (css) but much of the building blocks (html and images) will be there for retrieval. See if you have a backup option in SquareSpace to save to a local disk.

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Jessie Greer Brown @jess357.bsky.social · 1h

Day 21 - Greater Rhea

Water color and color pencil

20 years ago a pair of Rheas escaped a private zoo in Germany. There's now a population of nearly 600 feral Rheas.

#beansbirdtober2025 #birdtober #watercolorandcolorpencil #wildlifeartist #PNWartist #humanart #greaterrhea #rhea #birdart #sciart

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Jessie Greer Brown @jess357.bsky.social · 5h

You should save the whole website to your local computer. That way you can re deploy/build if it gets unusable.

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Jessie Greer Brown @jess357.bsky.social · 3d

South Korea and London are also out for #NOKINGS

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3d

South Koreans held their government accountable earlier this year. And now they’re protesting for American’s rights and democracy on No Kings too!

Thank you South Korea! #NoKings ❌👑

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 4d

2025 feels like that late-stage game of monopoly where you just go round and round paying rent and utilities forever and nobody knows what the rules are anymore and everyone’s just waiting for it all to end except the one player who cheated and has all the money

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Jessie Greer Brown @jess357.bsky.social · 6d

DAAAMN!!

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Jessie Greer Brown @jess357.bsky.social · 6d

Beautiful work!

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Jessie Greer Brown @jess357.bsky.social · 6d

Day 14 -- Roseate Spoonbill

Wasn't in studio today so this is part sketch and partially digital color added in Adobe Fresco.

Seen together they are A BOWL OF SPOONBILLS!

#beansbirdtober2025 #birdtober #roseatespoonbill #adobefrescoillustration #PNWartist #seattleillustrator

Graphic painting of a Roseate Spoonbill standing in water with one leg hoisted up out of the water.

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Jessie Greer Brown @jess357.bsky.social · 8d

Day 11 — Oriental Dotterel

Experimenting again with watercolor and colored pencils. Straying from the comfort zone.

#beansbirdtober2025 #birdtober #coloredpencil #sciart #dotterel #plover #PNWartist

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Jessie Greer Brown @jess357.bsky.social · 8d

Gorgeous! 😍

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Jessie Greer Brown @jess357.bsky.social · 9d

Day 12– Hummingbird or as I say humming friend

It may be due to doing this everyday, I find this getting much easier to click into the zone.

#beansbirdtober2025 #birdtober #hummingbird #anashummingbird #graphite #graphitesketch #pnwartist #wildlifeartist #sciart

Sketch of a hummingbird resting on a evergreen twig

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Jessie Greer Brown @jess357.bsky.social · 9d

Day 11 — Budgies

I love these birds. They are so pro-social it made sense to put two in the sketch. Another really fun one to do.

#beansbirdtober2025 #birdtober #graphitesketch #budgies #sciart #PNWartist

Sketch of two budgies nose to nose on a perch

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Jessie Greer Brown @jess357.bsky.social · 10d

We have a downy woodpecker opening the aperture of our wren box!!!

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 11d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Jessie Greer Brown @jess357.bsky.social · 11d

Day 10 — Turkey Vulture

Graphite drawing. Actually have a social life today. I mostly got done, you can see incomplete feathering.

#beansbirdtober2025 #birdtober #graphitedrawing #sciart #vulture #turkeyvulture #PNWartist #wildlifeart

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Jessie Greer Brown @jess357.bsky.social · 12d

This is a stunning piece. I imagine you are feeling proud of it.

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 12d

I FUCKEN FINISHED!!! As always, it took me 2 months, but I got there in the end.

The final illustration of a pink silkmoth with beige and brown upper wings and vibrant pink lower wings. Oh, and an incredibly fluffy body.

A close up showing the detail of the furry wings.

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Jessie Greer Brown @jess357.bsky.social · 12d

Day 9 — Bat Falcon

Graphite form study. Not much time today so I just did a sketch of the form that I can come back to and create finished work later.

#beansbirdtober2025 #birdtober #graphitesketch #sciart #batfalcon #falcon #formstudy #PNWartist #wildlifeart

Rough pencil sketch of a bat falcon in flight. The sketch has annotations about the birds colors and patterns.

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Jessie Greer Brown @jess357.bsky.social · 13d

Day 8 -- burrowing owl

Graphite study. Another fun one. The white spots aren’t quite sharp enough but the eraser couldn’t get too fine.

#beansbirdtober2025 #birdtober #graphitedrawing #sciart #burrowingowl #owldrawing #PNWartist #wildlifeart

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Jessie Greer Brown @jess357.bsky.social · 13d

The pro AI argument is that AI greatness will raise everyone's life to a better standard. Looking at capitalist society in the US. What philanthropy from the hyper-rich is giving homes to the houseless, addiction recovery to addicts, and health services to the sick right now? Would it change? How?

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 13d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Jessie Greer Brown @jess357.bsky.social · 14d

Day 7 -- Anhinga

This cormorant type bird is new to me. It had a lot going on and I ran out of time. Someday I will throw more energy into finishing the details and a dark backdrop behind the head to let it stand out.

#beansbirdtober2025 #birdtober #graphitestudy #anhinga

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🃏Kit🃏 @kittick.bsky.social · 15d

A cat pushes a glass off the counter. Text reads "because maybe it'll be different this time."

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Jessie Greer Brown @jess357.bsky.social · 15d

Day one million or 6 -- Muscovy duck

Actually enjoyed this one. Ducks are so sweet.

#beansbirdtober2025 #birdtober #muscovyduck #graphitedrawing #graphitestudy

Graphite rendering of Muscovy deck. The duck is looking downward and the rendering is very soft.

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Worms & Bones @homemadehorrors.bsky.social · 15d

Wish I'd had better light for this pic, this custom gryphon turned out really neat! He's based on a male house sparrow.
#art #artdoll #gryphon #furryart #handmade

A large gryphon art doll stands with wings folded over its back, alert. Its colouration is based on a male house sparrow, with a black throat and white/grey accents in an otherwise rusty-red body.

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