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Unconventional wildlife art, pewter, & cardboard mask patterns. I DO NOT TAKE COMMISSIONS. Beware scammers! Site: PaleoPanthera.com Merch: redbubble.com/people/paleopanthera Prints: inprnt.com/gallery/palaeosinensis Tips: ko-fi.com/palaeo

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Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · Feb 2

For those interested this art is now available on shirts, stickers, magnets, zipper pouches, and more on my Redbubble account. Resistance artists gotta eat.

www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1682... (original light variant)
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1682... (dark variant)

#BlueskyNightMarket #art #resist

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 7h

I'm growing a bunch of American Chestnut seedlings right now! But I'm doing it from ground zero in the American south. Surely someone has mapped some pure American Chestnuts out there. I know people brought the trees west & the blight stopped where the forests did.

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 7h

You are the casual hero we need in the world. <3 Seriously. People are either in no position to voice their displeasure or so conflict avoidant that clowns like that never get told "no". I bet his deepest shock came from just being told "no. Be nice."

People like you make me feel safer in public.

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 7h

I have never done this. Is it a cousin of Shower Drink (beer/coffee/soda/juice of choice)? If so...I may need to try it.

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Kaylee's Boyfriend @megsyv.bsky.social · Jun 16

Artists Meeting Artists

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 17h

Researching rock art hasn't become quite a nightmare because I know how to adapt my search terms, but gone are the days of simple image searches for cave paintings and petroglyphs. I don't understand inventing so many AI fakes when you have the full wealth of archaeology to turn to.

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 18h

Spite makes more of the good parts of the world go 'round than people admit lol.

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Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 1d

The monstrous forms of two characters from a continuity that will never see the light of day. I’m still playing with Verūk’s demon design a smidge (right) but the real breakthrough was an angel’s form I didn’t hate. #art #sketch #sketchbook

An open flat sketchbook; each page contains one character rendered in layers of colored drawing pencil. The character on the left is a long thin dragon with features of a biblical angel such as a body covered in eyes. The character on the left has a quadrupedal stance, a wedge shaped saurian face, long hair, and features such as scales and neural spines.

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 1d

If only radio in its various forms had stayed more relevant and you could've run the station...

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 1d

omg you have just described an agony I feel. Fighting muscle memory. ALL of my artwork -unless- I'm doing the hyper exaggerated shapes thing feels like there's two pilots: what -I- want to do and then the shapes/motions my hands want to do. Drawing doesn't come naturally to me at all; will try this!

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 1d

I'm curious how you'd feel with a scheduled artistic "play time". Where once a week, even if only 5-15min, you just...messed around. Tried stuff. No productivity, just curiosity and because you'd think it was fun.

You are tough as nails to do what you do. You art desire will change post school. 💙

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 1d

Being a student is hard on its own. Being a student who works a job too? -Hard-. A full time student who works AND has interests outside of passive media? Insanity Challenge Mode Activated.

I can say that whatever time you can steal back is worth it in the long run. Don't damage your soul. <3

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 1d

You think it feels exhausting because all non-income art always would be or do you think the kind of art that would hook your mind is just different than it was years ago?

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 1d

I've got ideas and stories in my own head using human/human adjacent OCs, but never pursued them far outside my mind so I could hone what I'm good at.

Well. I didn't hone what I've learned from sitting on my butt. I'm only good at what I am from spending the time on it.

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 1d

Any other artists out there turn around and fold in human subjects in equal measure to your animal-based ones or pivot to humans later in your art career?

I'll keep making creature art to the end of my days. But man. I should've practiced drawing people way more by now. I need to fix this.

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 1d

Hell yeah Nebby! That's FANTASTIC progress and so fast too. Y'all are good cat owners to him. <3

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 1d

The monstrous forms of two characters from a continuity that will never see the light of day. I’m still playing with Verūk’s demon design a smidge (right) but the real breakthrough was an angel’s form I didn’t hate. #art #sketch #sketchbook

An open flat sketchbook; each page contains one character rendered in layers of colored drawing pencil. The character on the left is a long thin dragon with features of a biblical angel such as a body covered in eyes. The character on the left has a quadrupedal stance, a wedge shaped saurian face, long hair, and features such as scales and neural spines.

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 1d

I feel so called out right now

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 1d

The only thing I have determined is to keep one's eyes open for opportunity & be prepared to act on opportunity. Someone needs money & you have none to share? That's not your opportunity. Someone needs knowledge you have & can easily share? There's your opportunity. And so on and so forth.

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 1d

Oh this is badass. VERY nice!

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 2d

Was it a good movie in the sense of a movie just being a good ride rather than high quality? I didn’t realize it was out. I’m a sucker for the world of Tron.

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 2d

I'm not sure I've ever seen as much suffering in my own backyard as I have this year. People. Pets. Families. Their homes. Their livelihoods. Their support. Their basic sense of safety. That safety changing sometimes daily. I don't have words. It fills me with a dreadful awe. None of this is right.

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M. Cromwell @marandart.bsky.social · 2d

Important update: Echo and I will not be at #BLFC as planned. Alt txt/ img for details.

Hi everyone, life update from Laughing Coyote Homestead.
Not only are we grieving the loss of several members of our chicken flock, including beautiful Brave, a rooster I raised from hatching 5 years ago, but life has thrown us an even harder curve ball.
Last night, moments after we pulled our 8-year anniversary pie out of the oven, Echo and I noticed our cat, Nebby, in distress. Turns out that the coolest, sweetest cat in the world had his very first bout of urinary crystals. The night before we were to leave on a 2 day road trip to BLFC. We must attend conventions to pay our bills-- and they're our only chance to see many of our found family and closest friends-- but now, we have to stay home. We must watch over Nebby, administer meds, and find ways to increase his fluid intake to prevent this from happening in the future. I knew male cats struggled with this problem, but even my best at prevention wasn't enough. It is what it is.
We must allow ourselves to love, even if it hurts sometimes.

So. What this means for us is we'll be working harder to make cool art from home, running sales and maybe streams and opening commissions, so we can make it through to January for Further Confusion. (We may not even get selling tables there, either, but will shoot for what we can.) Our life is a financial hopscotch from convention to art fair to convention, and missing a step is going to be quite a leap indeed.

If you appreciate what Echo and I do, whether it be the experimental art, farming, local political activism, or what have you, now would be a fantastic time to help. There’s also lots of inexpensive digital downloads on my PayHip, where you can get crafts to make, sketchbook compilations, and ebooks. Anything helps to recoup the cost of needing to miss a huge chunk of our yearly income. Thank you for your support: the only reason our studio runs at all is because of you. And now it's time to get to work! Stay tuned for announcements for shop sales and commission openings.

www.marandart.com/s/shop
https://payhip.com/MCromwell
https://ko-fi.com/marandart

A tuxedo cat half in a carrier, two hands (ours) holding his head and paw

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 2d

I know how frightening that is personally; it happened to my first childhood ragdoll when he hit around 8 years old.

I am SO SORRY. Life served you both one hell of a shit sandwich as of late. :(

The crystals are so much more treatable now than they used to be; get better soon Nebby!

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 2d

It’s one thing to change course because you want to, but I’m resentful how much job changes, job hunting, going back to school, moving, etc is by force right now.

Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 2d

I know your terror because I literally can’t do retail work. It’s a nightmare to look for & compete for them, but there are jobs that may suit you totally outside retail.

I hate how many artists are staring down the barrel of a career change. In your 20s? Fine. What about us towards our 40s?