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Mark Pritchard
@markgpritchard.bsky.social
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Curious about the world, and more specifically about communicable disease dynamics.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1726-8989
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#ArtAdventCalendar The only watercolour I've done this year was another surprise gift, this time for my sister in law. Her grandsons. It's a different challenge when you're painting for someone else.
Watercolour of the back view of 3 small boys looking over and through a 5 bar gate at a tractor in a field.
December 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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choy.bsky.social
Day 4 #ArtAdventCalendar A Flock of Discontent #art #painting
An acrylic painting of a bunch of seagulls with only their heads visible, all stacked on each other making a lot of noise, blue background
December 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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cahanpathfinder.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar
Snowy landscape in watercolor
December 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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resad.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #OilPaint #Portrait
Detail of a portrait of my 89 year old mom. I’m not quite finished yet. Still working on the background but her face and shirt shall remain as is.
An elderly lady looks off to the side into the distance with a worried expression. She has grey hair, a prominent nose and eyes hooded by old age. She is wearing a white and blue checkered shirt over top of a white turtleneck that matches the white highlights of her hair. Over all that is a gray sweater. The backdrop is strips of trellis that mimic the checkered pattern of her shirt.
December 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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spetersartist.com
For day 5 of #artadventcalendar… One of the rarest birds in the world but their numbers are growing.. so hopefully one day I can say they are as common as any other ibis.

Until then, the #NorthernBaldIbis continues the fight to thrive… with the help of many heroes.

Mixed media
#waldrapp #birdart
Painting of a northern bald ibis
December 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
markgpritchard.bsky.social
Day 5 of #ArtAdventCalendar: a drawing of Tower Bridge #art
Pen drawing of Tower Bridge, viewed from a low perspective looking up at the bridge
December 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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ajcousins.bsky.social
Today's #ArtAdventCalendar is my favorite photo that I took this year. ❤️ #birds
Photo of an immature Spotted Sandpiper, before it got its spots, standing ankle deep in shallow water at the edge of the lake with its wings raised and a tiny curved white feather floating on the water behind it
December 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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elizabethkennen.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar day 3 🎨 Harbor Seals at Hopkins Beach
My watercolor painting is inspired by walks along the Monterey Bay Coastal Trail. Always nice to see the harbor seals of Pacific Grove.
#art #watercolor #nature #Monterey #California #coast

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Watercolor painting of harbor seals resting on a beach. Group of seals on the shore with sand and seaweed. Blue/green water, rocks, cliff and trees.
December 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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spetersartist.com
Day 3 of #artadventcalendar!

Featuring the ever so complex Griffon Vulture - these birds are super social, I suppose it’s because you can’t dine on decaying carcass without your buddies.

Mixed media on paper.
#birding #birdart
Vulture sketch on a purple abstract background
December 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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spetersartist.com
A trio for day 4 of #artadventcalendar

Atlantic Puffins hanging out

#watercolor #seabird
Puffins watercolor painting
December 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
markgpritchard.bsky.social
Broken Arch, in Arches National Park, Utah. #ArtAdventCalendar day 4, #art #painting
Acrylic painting. A sandstone arch dominates the foreground. The sky is blue and some hills are seen in the distance.
December 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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annesleystudio.bsky.social
#artadventcalendar Day 3

From my latest exhibition:
"Apricity"
Watercolour, 36 x 20"
(sold, private collection)

#art #watercolor #canadianart #alberta #landscape🇨🇦
Watercolour painting by Jennifer Annesley of a Alberta prairie in winter. February sun sets over a frozen lake rimmed with silhouetted evergreens, undulating snowdrifts are fringed with back-lit bulrushes. Colours range from golds, pinks and oranges to indigo, blues and deep black. "Apricity" means the feeling of warmth of the sun in winter in spite of cold air - something I strive for in my winter paintings, and a somewhat unexpected joy to experience when pursuing outdoor adventures or simply walking in the city.
December 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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drrjwarren.bsky.social
#ArtDD2025
Oystercatcher

One of my favourite bird calls is the plaintive cry of the oystercatcher.

Day 3 of #artadventcalendar

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Front view of wading bird with black head, neck and back, white breast and belly. Pink legs and striking orange beak and eye.
December 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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emmasartworks.bsky.social
Goldfinches (the European species) in the winter’s morning sunshine. Ink and watercolour.
#artAdventCalendar
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Ink and watercolour painting of two European Goldfinches perched on bare twigs against a pale blue sky
December 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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suzspetals.bsky.social
I know I’ve been active on @bsky.app for a year now because it’s already #ArtAdventCalendar time again! Better late than never, here’s #day3 for me. An oldie of mine hanging in a friend’s house. #oilpainting #makeartnotwar
Framed oil painting of a dirty window with blue shutters against a cracked stucco wall and a lone columbine flower growing beneath it.
December 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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A sketch I did of the view toward Skiddaw in the Lake District. This was meant to be the start of a habit of making frequent sketches. Hopefully I will revisit this habit soon. #ArtAdventCalendar day 3 #art #drawing
Pencil sketch with a building in the foreground in the right and hills and mountains in the distance
December 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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debmaluk.bsky.social
day 1 #ArtAdventCalendar all aboard the posting beautiful things train! Let's make everyone's timelines joyful and inspiring!
A frosty spruce tree on the right with snow all around. There is a pale band of aurora in the dark blue night sky.
December 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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elizabethkennen.bsky.social
Asilomar Beach Pathway, watercolor 💙 #ArtAdventCalendar day 2.
One of my favorite places in Pacific Grove, California. Inspired by peaceful walks at Asilomar Beach. #art #artist #watercolor #landscape #Monterey #California #coast

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Watercolor painting of a pathway leading to a beach. Sand dunes and plants on each side. Monterey Bay in the distance.
December 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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For day 2 of #ArtAdventCalendar, a view of the Matterhorn seen from Zermatt. The mountain was very bright and golden in the early morning light but I am afraid I somewhat ruined the painting with the trees. I plan to revisit this view more carefully in the future. #art #painting
Acrylic painting of the Matterhorn. The mountain is bright and mostly covered with snow. Trees and hills in the foreground to either side are much darker
December 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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bugwonk.bsky.social
Super exciting opportunity to work on an ambitious project both developing novel statistical methodology for infectious diseases and applying it to real world AMR problems in the UK:
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Associate/Fellow in Statistics (Fixed Term)
We are looking for a highly motivated researcher, whose expertise lies in statistics, to work with Prof Theodore Kypraios on a project at the forefront of infectious disease modelling. The role focuse...
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk
December 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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eolai.bsky.social
A #painting. Now hanging in Liverpool, "Stone Wall, Cottage" came out of my brief life on the north coast of Donegal, where me and my little dog would walk 5-mile loops enjoying the views of the Seven Sisters. I can't look at it without remembering her. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear
Landscape format in very painterly textured acrylics. A dry stone wall, of mostly grey but also blue, lilac, shadows of navy, and flecks of white and red, runs diagonally across the foreground to the bottom right corner, with long grass of blues, greens, and yellows in front of it and a rough field of yellows, greens, oranges, and browns, behind it. Beyond another stone wall on its far side is a sliver of a yellow field, the far side of which is a small grey cottage, its gable end in sunlight, and a row of dark bushes and trees, of blues, reds and greens. Behind is a low orange hill and behind it a grey-green one before in the distance on the right in light blue are peaked mountains. Sky is a paler blue. With the heavy texture, flecks of red and yellow peep through almost everywhere. Signed top right, Liam Daly
December 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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karakwan.bsky.social
#artadventcalendar Day 1
A study of a photo I took from the fall - my Vancouver nephew looking at the northern light near our home.

8x10 oil on board
8x10 oil painting study of young man looking away from us at the northern lights across a field.
December 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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illgottencranes.bsky.social
Just finished this painting of a branch, incidentally featuring a great spotted woodpecker! 😂

Watercolor on 30x40cm paper, 425g/m2 - but learned my lesson about trying to use anything but Arches. 🙃

#BirdArt #SciArt #ArtAdventCalendar
Watercolour painting showing a bird sitting on a branch. The bird, a great spotted woodpecker, is black and white with a red vent. The branch is highly textured and detailed with blue-green lichen and peeling bark. There is a hint of golden light coming up from below. The background is a slightly textured wash in shades of blue, cooler at the bottom and warmer at the top.
December 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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manyfaceremade.bsky.social
happy december! here's a cool bird :)
#art #ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt #birds
a digital painting of a blue jay in flight.
December 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
markgpritchard.bsky.social
This year has raced by and I don’t think I have much new to show for it so here’s one of my favourites that I shared last year: Greylag geese flying over Coral Beach (Isle of Skye) (acrylic) #ArtAdventCalendar
Acrylic painting. 16 greylag geese fly over a curved black and white beach
December 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM