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Gareth Rain

@newmoonrain.bsky.social

100 followers 310 following 140 posts

He/they. Digital and mixed media art. 32 year old trans and disabled artist inspired by nature, magic, & fantasy! No AI

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Gareth Rain @newmoonrain.bsky.social · 1d

(For clarification, most of the art on my inspo board isn’t new but I rearranged it recently lol)

Gareth Rain @newmoonrain.bsky.social · 1d

Btw, thank you all for 100+ followers!! Here’s some of what I’ve been working on

#Art #ArtSky #TraditionalArt #MixedMediaArt

A photo of a small paper covered in writing, acrylic paint pour, and drawings of leaves and sparkles. Four pens rest next to the paper.

A gold wire grid hangs on the wall. Pinned to the grid are paintings, drawings, and a collection of watercolor swatches.

A sketchbook open to three pen drawings: a spider plant in a pot, a folk art design, and a design of an hourglass in a sun with a moon.

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Gareth Rain @newmoonrain.bsky.social · 1d

I remember discovering Hey Ocean because of you 🥹

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Lina Svärd 🐻 Commissions open! @softlywool.bsky.social · 3d

Day fifteen of 31 Days of Fungi~
This is Yellow Stemmed Micropore 🌟

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Gareth Rain @newmoonrain.bsky.social · 25d

Overlayed a photo I took on the leaves. A little doodle

#ArtSky #ProcreateArt

A digital drawing of leaves, sparkles, and a crescent moon over a burgundy background.

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Jay 🌲➡️ Howloween 2025 @telekitnetic.bsky.social · 5d

Today is Indigenous People’s Day!! I’m Wet’suwet’en, oooooo look at my art 🌀🌀🌀 my stomach is still cramping so that’s all the introduction I have the willpower for 👍

Website: www.jazzjosart.com
Online Shop: ko-fi.com/telekitnetic...

#indigenouspeoplesday #formline #indigenousart

A formline design of a cocoon and an emerging butterfly, coloured in the same shades as the transgender flag. The cocoon has half of a human face on it, and the butterfly’s wings are made of human hands.

An assortment of formline stickers. The designs include a hyena, a chickadee, an otter head, a capybara, and a harbor seal.

A picture of the vendor booth for TeleKitnetic Art at Canfurence 2025.

A picture of a formline wooden pin. The design is of a sitting wolf and a wolf pup in grey-brown. The wolf pup is pawing at its parents leg with its tongue stuck out.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 5d

It's #IndigenousPeoplesDay!

Fellow settlers, if you have a little extra, today is a great day to give to Native Mutual Aid and/or one of my favorite organizations, Native American Rights Fund.

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Home - Native American Rights Fund

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Gareth Rain @newmoonrain.bsky.social · 6d

I love DJ Catnip and how you drew him!!

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Gareth Rain @newmoonrain.bsky.social · 6d

What a cute little bug! Sorry you’re not feeling well 🫂

Gareth Rain @newmoonrain.bsky.social · 7d

For August's theme challenge on Ko-fi's discord server, though I finished it late. I decided to explore the theme (identity and creative drive) through poetry and then illustrate it.

#Poetry #Illustration #ArtSky

Three illustrations with a poetry stanza next to each one. Text reads "New Moon Rain- a name evoking the cycles and new beginnings of my identity, my episodes, phases of life ever changing. Yet through the chaos, New Moon Rain survives. This world I've created within an iPad and a sketchbook is my safe space." In the first illustration, Gareth draws in a sketchbook emitting sparkling beams of light.

Next stanza: "I seek expression of the storms, the droughts. Experiences so intricately tangled that only pencil to paper, metaphors and symbols, color and composition, can make sense of."
The second illustration features a tangle of thorns and a pen.

Third stanza: "And in all my art, a world takes shape. A place that is only mine, a cozy cottage where atmosphere is unnecessary and the stars rush in. Only in my illustrations and poetry am I home." The final illustration features swirls of light and sparkles coming out of a central point.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 7d

Happy #Caturday!

🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

Digital drawing of a white cat sitting in a garden. There are layers of flowers echoing the blue, pink, and white colors of the trans flag. Blue hydrangea at top, pink roses, white snowdrops, pink daisies, and finally, small blue flowers among the grass at bottom.

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Gareth Rain @newmoonrain.bsky.social · 7d

Super cute! It’s been raining here too

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Alexis @patterned.bsky.social · 8d

A colorful print crew for this sunny fall morning. #artsky #printsky #linocut #illustrator #halloween

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Gareth Rain @newmoonrain.bsky.social · 8d

Oooh this is gorgeous

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Gareth Rain @newmoonrain.bsky.social · 9d

Never! 😊

Gareth Rain @newmoonrain.bsky.social · 9d

I do this too!! Good to know I’m not alone 😅

Gareth Rain @newmoonrain.bsky.social · 9d

I like to think I’m a chill person who doesn’t have an anxiety disorder but then I don’t socialize because everything I say is wrong and I don’t leave my house without fear and I regularly have breakdowns about it. Just existing in my house and my small social bubble

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Gareth Rain @newmoonrain.bsky.social · 9d

“If it’s not a bland cookie-cutter compliment, they’re going to misunderstand what I’m trying to say and they’ll hate me” and so I end up just leaving likes 🤣

Gareth Rain @newmoonrain.bsky.social · 9d

For every nice comment I leave on someone’s art, there are three more that I type out to other people and delete because anxiety

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Gareth Rain @newmoonrain.bsky.social · 9d

I love seeing your Ashley drawings!

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Gareth Rain @newmoonrain.bsky.social · 9d

Ooh I can see goldenrod now!

Gareth Rain @newmoonrain.bsky.social · 9d

Gorgeous painting 🤩 What is that plant?

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Gareth Rain @newmoonrain.bsky.social · 16d

A drawing from 2021, sharing because it's autumn 🥰

#ArtSky #AutumnArt #NatureArt

Digital art of an orange-brown maple leaf.

Gareth Rain @newmoonrain.bsky.social · 16d

Why is it still 100 F, it’s October 🥲

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Dhiyanah @bydhiyanah.bsky.social · 17d

🌸 'Another Beacon' is the new art I showcased for my demo at FoF2025! A trad-digital visual meditation on living with chronic illness and disability while carrying desire for growth, solidatity & connectivity.

🖼️ Prints here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/bydh...
#art #artists #bsnm #DisabledArtist #wonder

An intricately detailed traditional and digital mixed media illustration by the artist Dhiyanah Hassan. An ornate frame with Arabesque and Jawi Peranakan inspired designs frames the illustration as a brown femme in a batik sarong and tank top sits on the floor next to her walking stick. A fantastical plant with glowing flowers grow from a wound on her back, ripping the back of her tank top. The plant faces us, the character is facing away, her face pointed between her cream-colored cat who is walking up to check on her and a large mystery moon glowing in the sky. Dark crescents surround the larger moon, and the same flowers from her body is depicted glowing in the purple watercolor sky amidst the stars.

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