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Tara Bush
@tarabush.bsky.social
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Fine Art / Illustration
https://linktr.ee/tarabushart
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Tara Bush @tarabush.bsky.social · Jul 8
Hello #portfolioday
I'm Tara, I'm a freelance artist, and I love dark, surreal, dreamy art. 👩‍🎨

You can get in touch here:
✉️ [email protected]
linktr.ee/tarabushart
A charcoal drawing on toned paper I did of a photograph I took of my friend's daughter. The angle is from below, and the lighting is creating subtle eerie shadows. I wanted a macabre effect to this art, it is unclear if this is a floating head... and also her eyes are translucent, so she appears in a trance. There are mysterious marking down the side of her cheek. Close up pencil drawing of an eye looking to it's left/straight forward, with what looks like spiders legs crawling out from the bottom lid. There appears to be bits of spider web around the eye. I wanted to create the effect of a sinister symbiotic relationship. The 'host' looks strangely complicit. The artwork is entitled 'Home'. Pencil and charcoal portrait of agent cooper from twin peaks. The light source is from the viewers right, and casting strong shadows to the right of his face (viewer's left). Black and white. Graphite pencil drawing + watercolour on toned paper of a close up of a woman's face. She is in profile, only her nose and mouth is visible. She appears to have quite a sharp tooth. I have added colour tones in photoshop. Her nose and lips have a reddish tone, almost like blood. She has a scar/cut on her cheek. The art is called 'Drained'.
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aimeekitty.bsky.social
Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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tarabush.bsky.social
Pencil in moleskine sketchbook
#moleskine #art #leepace
Pencil portrait of the character 'Roy Walker' in the film The Fall, played by Lee Pace. A man in a wide brimmed hat and cloak looks into the distance. His eyes are mainly in shadow. The image is monotone, pale background.
September 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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lri.bsky.social
Human artists?!

Use one piece to convince people to follow you.

#starwars #illustration #pencilart #traditionalart #handmade #graphiteart #vader #drawing #fanart #characterart #creatureart ✏️
A piece showing Lord Vader flanked by all his most trusted bounty hunters. Boba Fett, IG88, Bossk, Dengar, Zuckkus and 4LOM. The Millennium Falcon buzzes across the top of them all. 2-4B graphite on 110gsm paper. All drawn individually and then edited together as one.
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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coreybrickley.bsky.social
Artwork for this book, I'm a wee bit sad they couldnt keep the reflection motif but it probably would've BLOWN kids' minds or something

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/772343...
Same image as the artwork in my original post but flipped upside down. The title printed on the book is "Anna-Jane and the Endless Summer by Paige Classey" Quote from Megan E Freeman, New York Times Bestselling author of Alone and Away reads: "A Nail-biter of A Survival Story." Tagline: She couldn't wait for camp. Now she can't leave.
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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pftompkins.bsky.social
ChatGPT is NOT alive and yet it IS stupid? God’s mysteries confound us all!
November 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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steillustrates.bsky.social
Ah forgot about these 3!! #startrek #characterdesign
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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doth.bsky.social
Does anyone have any good recommendations for horror audiobooks? I just finished The Haar & it was incredible. I’m looking for a scare that keeps my hands gripped at 10 and 2, feet firmly at 4 and 6.
November 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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umadlp.bsky.social
Dave Vanian of The Damned, Slash Magazine, Los Angeles, Vol.1, No. 1, 1977.
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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tim-burgess.bsky.social
I wrote a few words about Mani for The Sunday Times - I didn’t know it would be behind a paywall, so here it is if you would like to read it:

(1/7)
November 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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julijana-m.bsky.social
Use only ONE piece of art to convince folks to follow you! 🌸
An elf girl, amongst the forest trees and bushes, cradling a brown chicken , light coming through the canopy falling on her face and chest
November 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
We're getting so close! This thread and the link can help you decide if you want to participate (the answer is yes) It's an all skill levels, unthemed, relaxed, fun & easy to spend the dark days of winter.
jayispainting.earthskyart.ca JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 11d
Artists & Art lovers!

Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!

Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
earthskyart.ca
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
tarabush.bsky.social
Finally free of covid, dragged this drawing out...

Graphite, charcoal & ink on moleskine
#darkart #folkhorror
Folk Horror style drawing of a young girl looking directly to camera. She has light skin, dark hair tied up in a bun, and a top with a white collar. She has pencil marks all over her face that look like tree branches. A slight paler halo is behind her head. The image is black and white, pencil, charcoal and ink. She looks quite intimidating.
November 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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rhysknightstudio.bsky.social
Recent study ✍️

#art #drawing #charcoal #darkart
November 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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greybriar.art
Winter Burrow - a little Friday speed paint and continuation of my “making the most obscure fanart possible“ habit. #animalart #darkart #anatomicalart #frankenstein
A painting of a mouse in the snow eating a handful of red berries while sheltering in the strangest of burrows. Distant fanart for GDT’s Frankenstein
November 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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greybriar.art
Hiss. #darkart #artistonbsky #feline #art
A black and white painting of a black wildcat hissing as it turns to smoke.
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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eleonorpiteira.bsky.social
Celeste dos Cravos (2025), acrylic gouache (+ tiny bit of watercolour) on hot pressed paper (A3)

The traditional version of the illustration I painted digitally last year, now as I had first envisioned it :)
Illustration by Eleonor Piteira featuring a woman on a balcony, holding a bouquet of red carnations, giving one of them to a soldier passing below, placing it on the muzzle of his gun while he looks up at her. All around, other soldiers walk beside him, some wearing red carnations on the muzzles of their guns too, others waiting for their turn to get one. On the background, Portuguese tiles frame the woman, while the balcony's railing slowly transforms into a streetlamp typical of Lisbon (with a caravel and 2 ravens, the symbols of the city).
October 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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aliceduke.bsky.social
haven't posted this here yet: magpie study
digital painting of a magpie preening
November 15, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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rosenkranz.bsky.social
#xfiles but it's just scully in dark rooms
December 8, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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kellylink.bsky.social
spent the afternoon tidying Book Moon and refreshing displays. We have such an excellent horror section right now. Oh, and so much Tanith Lee! Sold one today.
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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abstracttruth.bsky.social
Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
screen grab from video of the incident. Dude dressed up like Max Headroom wearing sunglass is laughing.
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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beccathorne.bsky.social
Lovely people of Bluesky: Please support my prize draw! I'm giving away recent oil painting, "Water Washed By Wind", to raise money for Care Leavers this Christmas & will ship it (free) anywhere in the world. Entry is free, but any donations would be fantastic. www.givewheel.com/fundraising/...
Dramatic seascape in oil (on primed hessian): Huge, foamy waves lit up by sun or moonlight breaking through stormy clouds. Traces of ochre across the sky, reflected through the water, with odd patches of indigo.
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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jenniferdionisio.com
My new poster artwork just dropped over @codacurates.com - in time to celebrate the 50th anniversary this week of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’

Grab as a screenprint here: www.codacurates.com/collections/...
November 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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plataica.com
Estas preciosidades ya están terminadas y DE NUEVO DISPONIBLES, listas para irse a tu casita‼️

#Pendientes hojas 🍃 de #monstera en latón y #plata925, elegantes, únicos y atemporales 😜

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#CostilladeAdán #brassjewelry #handmade #joyeríaartesanal #freeshipping #bsnm
Cuatro pares de pendientes de colgar, de latón con el "gancho" de plata 925. Tienen forma de hoja de monstera deliciosa o costilla de Adán, y están patinada con una bonita pátina en tonos verdes, oscuros y claros. En la imagen también se ven unos alicates con mango rojo y punta fina, unas pequeñas cartulinas negras y una cajita de metal roja con pequeños topes de silicona para los ganchitos de los pendientes. Unos pendientes de colgar, de latón con el "gancho" de plata 925. Tienen forma de hoja de monstera deliciosa o costilla de Adán, y están patinada con una bonita pátina en tonos verdes, oscuros y claros.
November 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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hbtyson.bsky.social
Mild plant horror 🌱🌿
Digital illustration depicting a hooded figure. Her face is not visible, but in its place are stylized shoots protruding from the hood’s opening. Dark mountains are visible in the background. Digital illustration styled as if it were printed on an old battered card. It depicts a character whose head is replaced by black branches. Digital illustration in the style of a vintage storybook. A man peacefully sits in a sparse forest with his back against a tree stump. Muted red flowers grow out of his chest. Below the illustration reads “several flowers bloomed from his chest.” Digital illustration in the style of old print. It displays three plants in various states of transformation. All are growing vague animal-like bodies: one birdlike, one serpentine, and the other humanoid.
October 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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olliemnjones.bsky.social
Hi, looking for some illustration work at the moment, send me a message if you'd like some art for your project. You can also email me at [email protected]
Thanks!
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM