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illustrator and art (history) enthousiast of the naive and silly kind
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Tessie Curates a Feed @studiotessie.bsky.social · Dec 14
sketchbook pages about being okay and finding a home and snails which i just learned are not insects

(if you like this stuff feel free to check out my insta www.instagram.com/studio_tessie/ c:)
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Goodnight.
🖼️ From a book by František Halas, illustrated by Ota Janeček, 1961.
Two crows in one nest, one crow in another nest, one crow perched in tree, wintered branches, full moon in night sky, illustration.
December 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social
For #NationalMonkeyDay 🐒:
There are a lot of cute #monkeys in #JapaneseArt but this one may be the cutest 🥰
Kanō Sansetsu (Japan,1589-1651）
猿猴図（えんこうず) Monkey Figure (Enkozu), 17th c.
Ink on scroll
Tokyo National Museum
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pa...
Long vertical scroll with an illustration of a monkey (Gibbon) sitting on a branch - extremely cute with a happy little smiling face!
December 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🕷 Jacobi Petiveri Opera, historiam naturalem spectantia
London: Printed for John Millan, Bookseller ..., 1767.

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Historical botanical illustration titled "Jacobi Petiveri Opera, historiam naturalem spectantia" from 1767, showing detailed black-and-white sketches of various plants, leaves, seeds, and roots. The image features numbered figures of a flowering plant with round clustered blooms, fern-like leaves with curled edges, and several seeds or shell-like shapes with textured surfaces. The plants have fine-veined leaves and visible roots. Despite the spider keyword, no spider is depicted; the focus is on natural history botanical specimens with intricate line work and shading typical of 18th-century scientific illustrations.
December 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
‘O thou! whatever title suit thee,-
Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie!
Wha in yon cavern, grim an' sootie,
Clos'd under hatches,
Spairges about the brunstane cootie
To scaud poor wretches!’ 1/2 Address To The Devil ~ Robert Burns for #BookWormSat
A section of the fresco series from the Camposanto Monumentale in Pisa, titled The Last Judgment and Hell, attributed to the artist Buonamico Buffalmacco and painted around 1336-1341. The fresco is segmented into tiers, presenting a cave-like depiction of Hell. A large, monstrous, greenish devil figure dominates the center of the composition, shown seated and consuming figures. The work illustrates the punishments of the damned, with various naked figures suffering in different sections of the painting, consistent with medieval depictions of the afterlife. This scene is part of a larger cycle that includes The Triumph of Death and Stories of the Holy Fathers, intended to provoke reflection on sin and virtue.
December 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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basquiat.bsky.social
Jim Crow, 1986
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5294
Jim Crow
November 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🌳 Revue horticole..
Paris: Librairie agricole de la maison rustique, 1829-1974..

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Illustration of a Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora branch with a large, dense cluster of small flowers. The flowers are pale cream to soft pink with rounded petals and reddish centers. Above the main cluster are smaller buds and tiny white florets. The green leaves are ovate with serrated edges and visible veins. The botanical illustration is detailed and labeled, showing the natural structure and delicate color gradations of the hydrangea flower. The image has a vintage style typical of 19th-century botanical prints.
December 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japan, 1797–1858)
#Grasshopper and Begonia
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink & color on paper
Horizontal yotsugiri (quarter ôban); 11 x 16.6 cm
Poem: Shûkaidô/ sono ha wa nani o/ kata-omoi
秋海棠 その葉は何を 片思い
MFA Boston 21.8647
collections.mfa.org/objects/236264
#JapaneseArt #Insects
woodblock print of a blooming begonia plant with a grasshopper perched on flower stem, minimalist line & color depiction with green, pink, and black inks, with poem to left and artist’s signature to right
December 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Goodnight.
🖼️ Ota Janeček
Painting of night scene with silhouetted landscape and a stylized starry sky. The sky is a dark, textured blue-grey, filled with numerous bright, yellowish-white stars; they look like cut-out shapes with radiating points, some resembling flowers or bursts in a kind of folk-art style. The lower portion of the image shows a silhouette of a cityscape and prominently, what looks like the silhouette of a cathedral with several spires.
December 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
I thought of a couple C- jokes for this but the overwhelming feeling is just how sad some peoples lives are. We live in a world full of wonders and amazing experiences and this is all some people have, this is what they think life is. They have a profound emptiness.
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 9d
Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
December 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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tate.bsky.social
Peter Doig, From ‘Pond Life’, 1996
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1120366
Presented by the artist and Charles Booth-Clibborn 1997
December 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Tierra del Sol Gallery’s Bazaar Bazaar is on view until December 23, 2025, presenting work by more than 140 artists from the Tierra Studio Arts Programme. The exhibition offers a wide survey of the studio’s approaches, including textile pieces, ceramics and vivid compositions.

Image: Eileen Mabini
December 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Afterimage of cat

ink & watercolour on sketchbook
#art
A black cat paces in a cirlcle, leaving behind its afterimage.
December 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
studiotessie.bsky.social
looks like my childhood dog Pepper who was a lovely bearded collie ☺️
jdmccafferty.bsky.social John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 14d
A little curosity: "Canis Irlandicus" by Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, c. 1596-1610 (Rijksmuseum) #dog
December 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Blasted Oak, Bohain, 1903
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/15161
Blasted Oak, Bohain
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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vangogh.bsky.social
Cypresses and Two Women - 1890
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14755
December 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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House with Shingles, 1915
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25718
Egon Schiele’s "House with Shingles" captures the rustic complexity and textural richness of a traditional European structure with its dense overlay of shingles and earthy tones. The artwork illustrates Schiele's distinctive linear style and emotional expression, characteristic of his contributions to the early 20th-century Expressionist movement.
December 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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rawvisionmagazine.bsky.social
On 4 December 2025, Galerie Atelier Herenplaats in Rotterdam hosts Colin Rhodes for a talk on the life and work of Jon Sarkin. Presented alongside How to Draw a Cactus, Rhodes will reflect on Sarkin’s transformed practice after a major stroke and consider wider perspectives on outsider art.
December 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Composition with Glass and Apple (supplementary suite, plate 2) from Dans l'Atelier de Picasso
https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/1142460
The Louis E. Stern Collection
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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'Die Ruine des Klosters Walkenried im Winter' (The Ruins of Walkenried Abbey in Winter)

Carl Hasenpflug 1843

#art #painting #gothic #winter #snow
Oil painting of the interior of a ruined Gothic cloister in winter, with tall pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and stone columns. Snow covers the floor and drifts in from the open archways. Daylight illuminates the structure through the broken walls. Scattered stones lie across the ground. There's a door to right, with a painting hanging over it. To the left, there's statue of a saint on the wall next to a doorway.
December 2, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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vangogh.bsky.social
During his stay in the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum, Van Gogh painted Irises.
Blue petals swirl around a single white bloom, repetition giving way to individuality.
Order and impulse find harmony in brushstroke and color.
November 30, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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The Art Brut 2025 touring exhibition opens its first Tokyo venue at Shibuya Koen-Dori Gallery, on view until December 21. Featuring six artists working through improvisational bricolage, the show highlights how ordinary materials can become vivid markers of personal experience.

Image: Shuji Takashi
November 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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monet.bsky.social
The Cote Sauvage - 1886
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10669
November 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🐞 Report of work of the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association
Honolulu: Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, 1905-1909

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Illustration from the 1905-1909 Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association report, depicting detailed black-and-white line drawings of an insect and its anatomical parts. The main subject is a cicada-like insect shown with extended wings, segmented body, and large eyes. Surrounding the full insect are multiple close-up views of various features, including detailed wing structures, head, mouthparts, legs, and abdominal segments. Each part is labeled with numbers and magnification scales, highlighting the intricate veins of the wings and body segmentation. The drawing serves as a scientific study of insect morphology relevant to agricultural research on pests.
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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The arms of an octopus were used to mark specific parts of this page that were of importance or interest - 14th century, Bancroft Library, BANC MS UCB 085
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🪱 Illustrations of the Linnaean genera of insects
London: W. Wood, 1821.

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Illustration from an 1821 entomology book depicting a centipede labeled "Scolopendra." The main subject is a detailed, colorized drawing of a segmented centipede with a reddish-brown body and multiple pairs of legs along its length. It has prominent antennae and a slightly curved posture. To the left, a magnified, segmented part of the appendage marked "a" is shown separately. The background is plain beige, with the title "SCOLopendra." printed at the top center and scientific name "S. coleoptrata." below the centipede. The image is simple and scientific, focusing on anatomical details.
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM