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James
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Started working on this crow painting back in 2021 (left). Today I sat down and finally put my acrylics and paintbrushes to use again (right).
It's looking a little messy, but I feel like I made good progress and have an idea how I want this painting to look in the end.

#art #acrylicart #painting
Painting of a crow sitting on a branch. The colours are flat and splotchy, some areas are still unpainted, the sketch and outlines peeking through. Painting of a crow sitting on a branch. It's coloured in cool blue hues and is roughly shaded. The blue is now also present in the previously black background, swirling like mist around the animal.
August 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Thought I‘d give this art trend a try ^^
💙❤️
#appletrend #acgas
#fanart #art
A digital painting of an apple core. The sides that have been bitten off form the silhouettes of Audrey and Siegfried (from the 2020 TV show “All Creatures Great and Small“) in profile. The apple is coloured and shaded in a painterly way, whilst both characters‘ heads are only sketched in to let the focus remain on the apple core. The two apple seeds in the middle of the core are arranged to form a heart.
August 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Made a lizard freehand :D
Colourful beads strung together to form a lizard keychain.
July 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Finally made a rat out of beads yesterday. Didn't have brown beads for a hooded rat so I decided to make a rainbow one instead :)
Beads of different colours strung together to form the shape of a rat, with a rainbow carabiner attached to the end of the tail.
July 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Michael Morpurgo's "Cobweb" was such a lovely, quick read.
I'm normally not really a fan of a first person point of view, but for this sweet story, it was the perfect choice. And the illustrations by Michael Foreman are lovely.
The book "Cobweb" by Michael Morpurgo. The book is closed and its cover depicts the protagonist, a Pembrokeshire corgi named Cobweb, front and center in the countryside of Wales. Behind him stands an army drummer, and birds are soaring through the golden sky. The book is opened to a page roughly im the middle of the book, which features an illustration of a man and dog riding on the back of a horse.
July 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Today I read "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown. I had to put the book down so many times to wipe my eyes 😭!
It was so good and beautiful and heart-wrenching! I think especially because I love nature and found family it ticked all the right boxes for me.
And the illustrations – so adorable!
I am holding the book "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown in front of a white background. The cover is an illustration by the author, depicting Roz, the robot protagonist, standing on top of a rocky cliff, overlooking the ocean beneath. Behind Roz, a red sun can be seen above a forest landscape. The bold letters spelling out the title of the book are in a blocky font that resembles the strokes of a hard paintbrush.
July 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Did not expect this result, haha

Quiz: uquiz.com/quiz/eTdXoU/...
Picrew: picrew.me/ja/image_mak...
A picrew (digital dress-up game) image depicting what is supposed to be the poster: a young man with short, side-parted, blond hair, freckles, and pale skin. He is wearing a dark, collared shirt with a dark blue jacket. The artist who created this picrew game is called Fuzenia. Quiz result: So Much Fanfiction "You have so, so much fanfiction, either because you're so shippable, or because you're hot. Maybe both. Probably both. You definitely flirt with everyone, either way. Tumblr and Twitter love you and showers you with queer headcanons. Reddit keeps a safe distance."
July 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Peter Sandys-Clarke as Edward Burne-Jones. First time I‘ve done one of these portraits in 3/4 view.

#art #digitalart #fanart
A digitally drawn portrait. Depicted is British actor Peter Sandys-Clarke as Edward Burne-Jones in „Desperate Romantics“. He is facing the left side of the image. Edward is wearing a suit with a waistcoat and cravat. In his left hand, he is holding a sandwich as he looks upwards.
July 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Bought a postcard set just for this beauty of a car.
Since I have still been unable to find anything with Siegfried's Rover, I continue collecting cars that look sort-of like it but aren't, haha
Postcard with a vector image of an MGTD Roadster from 1953 on a white background.
July 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Enjoy this quick practice doodle, and the alcohol pun my German friends asked me to draw lol
Practice drawing I had made before. Digital illustration of a great auk standing on a rocky cliff. The same digital illustration of a great auk on a blue background as the original post, but instead of catching a fish, it is drinking beer pouring from a can above.
June 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Great Auk! :D

#birds #greatauk #art
Digital illustration of a Great Auk. The bird is depicted from its side and it is stretching its neck and body upwards to catch a fish in its beak. The background is a muted, dark blue.
June 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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quick study of a Great Auk, (or well, it‘s head,) as practice

#bird #greatauk #art
Digital illustration of a Great Auk‘s head on a white background.
May 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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After uni I had a gut feeling I should head to the local arts and crafts supply and lo and behold, today was the day they had the silly fish pens in stock that I've wanted!
Two pens shaped like fish. The tail fins are the pen caps.
May 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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This artwork was inspired by this picture I took a few weeks ago:
A photo of an Egyptian goose standing on a lawn that has become a field of daisies.
May 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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"Gänseblümchen", 2025

#art #bird #Egyptiangoose
A digital illustration of an Egyptian goose on a dark green background. The goose is framed by seven daisies.
May 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Without downloading pics, where are you mentally?
A photo of David Tennant wearing sunglasses. The corners of his mouth are slightly downturned. Next to his head, white letters spell out the word "pain".
April 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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A photo of this chocolate bunny before I smash it to pieces and devour it. Happy Easter!
A Lindt chocolate bunny.
April 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Before I started to make art digitally I mostly painted acrylic on canvas. It doesn't feel like a long time since I last worked on those WIPs, but I just looked at this crow piece, because I want to finish it sometime soon, if time allows, and the date I'd written on the back says 2021...
A small, rectangular canvas, standing upright. The motive is a crow sitting on a branch. The background is black, the crow has been painted in different shades of blue. Half of it, as well as the branch, are still just the sketch, and the colours that are already on the canvas are just flat colours, without shading.
April 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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What a beauty! 🪶

#birds
On a sloping river bank, an Egyptian goose is foraging in the grass. It looks around and is taking small steps as it explores its environment. Something has caught the Egyptian goose's eye. Maybe a tasty snack? The bird is focused, head close to the ground, and its feet firmly planted side by side.
April 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Today I went to the shops to buy more beads for bracelet-making and now I laid out all my boxes filled with beads on my floor at home and I fear I may own too many beads at this point...
Eleven plastic boxes filled with beads in different colours and shapes, some with letters on them.
April 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Finally finished this hawfinch! :)

#bird #art
A digital drawing of a hawfinch‘s upper body half on a yellow background.
March 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Hawfinch in progress 🪶
#art
A partially shaded digital drawing of a hawfinch.
March 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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I love watching the nutrias, they're super cute
#nutria
March 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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A grey heron I saw on my way to uni this morning. I wanted to take a clearer picture, but it unfortunately thought I was getting too close and flew off.
#birds #GreyHeron
A grey heron sitting on top of a budding tree (possibly a willow – I'm no good at identifying trees). The bird's long neck is fully stretched out and it is looking over its shoulder towards the left.
March 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Built this lovely model today, I'm quite happy with it, and it was fun to build. :)
A red vintage car from the company "Sembo Block", made of building blocks (akin to Lego). Design-wise it looks like a sports tourer from the 1930s.
March 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM