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Mari Stauffer Howard
@maridara.bsky.social
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Visual artist & illustrator…cat mom…happy wife…progressive to the core✊🏽Iban/Swiss/American #decolonize ✨Art✨Cats✨Music✨ Foraging✨ Nature✨ Cosmos✨Gardening✨🛸✨
🎨: https://www.maristaufferart.com
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All done! Finally got around to painting one of my absolute favorite mushrooms.

Manzanita bolete (Leccinum manzanitae)-watercolor.
#leccinummanzanitae
#manzanitabolete #mushroomillustration #fungiillustration
#fungiwatercolor #mushroomart #natureillustration #maristaufferartdotcom
Watercolor painting of a reddish capped bolete mushroom growing out of brown, reddish brown, and grey leaves. The background is a blurry view of thin green forest. Color photograph of a reddish capped bolete mushroom, growing out of a thick layer of brown, reddish brown, and grey leaves. The background is the green foliage of a tan oak forest.
December 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Finally all caught up, last day!

INKTOBER DAY 31: Award
(Pic 2: Tindu is happy to divert my attention back to him)

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#inktoberday31 #penandink #drawing #inkdrawing #penandinkdrawing #sketch #maristaufferartdotcom
Black and white drawing of a grey alien standing up, proudly holding up a basket of foraged wild mushrooms with one hand. Next to the alien is their friend, a black cat, sitting on top of a large mushroom and looking up at the basket, very pleased. Color photograph of a grey cat sitting on a patio table outside, on a patio surrounded by forests. Next to the cat is the author’s sketchbook, open to a completed ink drawing. The cat appears happy that the author is finished with her drawing and can now pay more attention to him.
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Almost there...:)

INKTOBER DAY 30: Vacant

#inktober #inktober2025
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Black and white drawing of a flying saucer, with a grey alien and black cat piloting it. They are hovering above another flying saucer that’s empty, and has a “for lease” sign on it. The background is black space with stars, in a circular shape, and there are a few stars outside of the circle.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Getting there!

INKTOBER DAY 29: Lesson

#inktober #inktober2025
#inktoberlesson
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#inktoberday29 #penandink #drawing #inkdrawing #penandinkdrawing #sketch #maristaufferartdotcom
Black and white drawing of a classroom setting where a black cat is the teacher, pointing at the chalkboard. On the chalkboard, it says “lesson 29: how to keep us happy”, and there are drawings of an empty food bowl with a line through it next to a food bowl full of food with a positive checkmark that the Cat teacher is pointing to. There are three students sitting on the ground attend, attending the lesson and they are all gray alien children.
November 4, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Getting caught up slowly:)

INKTOBER DAY 28: Skeletal

#inktober #inktober2025
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Black and white drawing with a circular frame drawn in, of a black cat and its friend, a gray alien, peering over some rocks and looking at some fossilized fish skeletons.
November 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Still catching up...letting Inktober slide into November.
Happy Halloween!🎃

INKTOBER DAY 27: Onion

#inktober #inktober2025
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Black and white drawing of an onion sprouting in a glass container in front of a circular window, showing a space scape outside with a spiral galaxy.
October 31, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Still catching up!

INKTOBER DAY 26: Puzzling

#inktober #inktober2025
#inktoberpuzzling #inktoberpuzzling2025
#inktoberpuzzlingday262025 #inktoberday26 #penandink #drawing #inkdrawing #penandinkdrawing #sketch #maristaufferartdotcom
Black-and-white drawing of a Mobius strip. Sitting inside the Mobius strip is a gray alien, and it is tapping on the surface above its head where there is a black cat, the aliens friend on the other side, the top.
October 30, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Another fun and quick one, still catching up!

INKTOBER DAY 25: Inferno

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#inktoberinferno
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#inktoberday25 #penandink #drawing #inkdrawing #penandinkdrawing #sketch #maristaufferartdotcom
Black and white drawing of a sketchy style sun, being orbited by a small flying saucer that is in silhouette in front of the face of the sun.
October 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Catching up still, quick fun one...

INKTOBER DAY 24: Rowdy

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#inktoberrowdy
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#inktoberrowdyday24
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Black and white drawing of a flying saucer, being piloted by a laughing Grey alien, with its friend, a black cat, peeking out from a port hole in the side of the flying saucer with a bull horn yelling and just being rowdy in general. in the background is a night sky with stars and a crescent moon.
October 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Still catching up...

INKTOBER DAY 23: Firefly

#inktober #inktober2025
#inktoberfirefly
#inktoberfirefly2025
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#inktoberday23 #penandink #drawing #inkdrawing #penandinkdrawing #sketch #maristaufferartdotcom
Black and white drawing of a flying saucer landed in a large field at night with a crescent moon in the sky. Inside the flying saucer are a gray alien and it’s Friend, a black cat, who are marveling at all the fireflies ascending from the grass into the sky.
October 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Catching up…

INKTOBER DAY 22: Button

#inktober #inktober2025
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#inktoberday22 #penandink #drawing #inkdrawing #penandinkdrawing #sketch #maristaufferartdotcom
Black-and-white drawing of a small button mushroom growing out of a mossy hill in the foreground and in the background are a gray alien face and it’s friend, a black cat, staring at it and both faces much larger than the tiny mushroom.
October 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Slowly catching up…

INKTOBER DAY 21: Blast
@inktober @inktober2025 @inktober @inktoberofficial
#inktober #inktober2025
#inktoberblast
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#inktoberday21 #penandink #drawing #inkdrawing #penandinkdrawing #sketch #maristaufferartdotcom
Black and white drying of a flying saucer with a boom box suspended and it’s beam and below that are a gray alien and it’s buddy a black cat dancing. There are many musical notes emanating from where the boombox is suspended above the dancers.
October 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Catching up…

INKTOBER DAY 20: Rivals

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#inktoberrivals
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#inktoberday20 #penandink #drawing #inkdrawing #penandinkdrawing #sketch #maristaufferartdotcom
Black and white drawing of two flying saucers, one piloted by a black alien and white cat & the other piloted by a gray alien and black cat. Each saucer has a tractor beam to the same suspended mushroom they are both trying to levitate to their ship. There’s a cluster of mushrooms below, where the suspended mushroom came from, and pine trees in the background, with stars in the sky.
October 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Tindu: artist’s “assistant”🩶
#cat #cats #catssittingonthings
Photograph of a cute gray cat sitting on top of a sketchbook, interrupting the artist. Photograph of a gray cat's paws stepping on an incomplete sketch in a sketchbook.
October 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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INKTOBER DAY 19: Arctic

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#inktoberarctic
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#inktoberday19 #penandink #drawing #inkdrawing #penandinkdrawing #sketch #maristaufferartdotcom
Black and white drawing framed in a triangular shape, of a flying saucer, landed on an iceberg in the sea of iceberg with mountains in the distance. Piloting the flying saucer are a great alien and a black cat, and there is a polar bear standing on its hind legs, greeting them, leaning against the flying saucer.
October 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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INKTOBER DAY 18: Deal

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#inktoberdeal
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#inktoberday18 #penandink #drawing #inkdrawing #penandinkdrawing #sketch #maristaufferartdotcom
Black and white drawing of a black cat’s paw, shaking the hand of a gray alien with a collective speech bubble for both of them that expresses the “No Kings”sentiment in an image of a crown with a line drawn through it.
October 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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INKTOBER DAY 17: Ornate

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Black and white drawing of a flying saucer, piloted by a gray alien and a black cat, making an intricate sacred geometry design with its contrail.
October 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Catching up...

INKTOBER Day 16: Blunder

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#inktoberblunder
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#inktoberday16 #penandink #drawing #inkdrawing #penandinkdrawing #sketch #maristaufferartdotcom
Black and white drawing of a piece of cherry pie that has been smashed by a cat, and there are paw prints of cherry pie, leading away from the piece.
October 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Catching up still...

INKTOBER Day 15: Ragged

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#inktoberragged #inktoberragged2025
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#inktoberday15 #penandink #drawing #inkdrawing #penandinkdrawing #sketch #maristaufferartdotcom
Black and white drying of a big ragged hole in the clear sunny sky, showing a black space escape with a Saturn like planet inside the hole. Zooming out of the hole is a flying saucer, piloted by a gray alien and a black cat, leaving a black speckled contrail in its wake.
October 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Catching up...

INKTOBER DAY 14: Trunk

#inktober #inktober2025
#inktobertrunk
#inktobertrunk2025
#inktoberday14 #penandink #drawing #inkdrawing #penandinkdrawing #sketch #maristaufferartdotcom
Black and white drawing of a flying saucer hovering above the ocean at night with a beam coming down that is lifting a trunk that’s closed and covered in seaweed and dripping. Inside the flying saucer are the two pilots, a gray alien and a black cat.
October 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Catching up...

INKTOBER DAY 12:
Shredded

#inktober #inktober2025 #inktobershredded
#inktobershredded2025
#inktoberday12 #penandink #drawing #inkdrawing #penandinkdrawing #sketch
#maristaufferartdotcom
Black and white drawing of a clear daytime landscape with rolling hills and some clouds. Ripping four tears in the sky are four black cat claws, and the tears reveal a black night sky with stars behind.
October 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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INKTOBER DAY 13: Drink

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Black and white drawing of a grey alien and black cat. Shown from behind, they are sitting with a small table between them, looking out the window of their spaceship to the view of a spiral galaxy in space, and each raising a glass of wine to salute the view.
October 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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INKTOBER DAY 11: Sting

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#inktobersting
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#inktoberday11 #penandink #drawing #inkdrawing #penandinkdrawing #sketch #maristaufferartdotcom
Black and white drawing of a grey alien and its buddy, a black cat, studying a book-field guide to the bees of earth-behind a large beehive sitting on the grass, with many bees buzzing around.
October 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Still catching up…

INKTOBER DAY 10: Sweep

#inktober #inktober2025
#inktobersweep
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#inktoberday10 #penandink #drawing #inkdrawing #penandinkdrawing #sketch #maristaufferartdotcom
Black and white drawing of a gray alien in a room, holding a broom about to sweep up, spilled catnip, while a black cat lies on the ground, obviously high on the catnip. On the wall behind them is a framed photograph/selfie of the alien and cat.
October 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
maridara.bsky.social
Catching up…
INKTOBER DAY 9: Heavy

#inktober #inktober2025 #inktoberheavy #inktoberheavy2025 #inktoberday9 #penandink #drawing #inkdrawing #penandinkdrawing #sketch #maristaufferartdotcom
Black and white drawing of a flying saucer, piloted by a black cat and a grey alien, lifting a huge pumpkin in a net, which bears a ribbon that says “Biggest in the Milky Way”. The background is rolling hills and a black/night sky with stars and a crescent moon, in a circular frame, with some pumpkin vines creeping out of the frame.
October 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM