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Tara Bush
@tarabush.bsky.social
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Fine Art / Illustration
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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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michalputo.art
Somehow it happened and I have three WIP paintings in progress after a few months of break.

This one is still on the sketching stage, I absolutely love the grisaille with raw umber and titanium white. It has this sculptural quality I like so much.

#art #oilpainting
Monochrome underpainting, an oil portrait of a woman with braids. There is my hand with a brush on the photo
November 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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tarabush.bsky.social
I accidentally deleted my original file of Agent Cooper, but I've now re-scanned it, and made it available on InPrnt :) ☕ I think there is a sale 🍩
#twinpeaks #artprints #inprnt

www.inprnt.com/gallery/teeb...
B/W pencil, charcoal & ink portrait of Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks. The image is monochromatic. His face is in shadow on one side, and he is looking slightly haunted. Image is from shoulder up, and he is wearing a smart suit and tie.
May 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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davis.social
Looking forward to winter snow ❄️
Digital illustration (2023) of a little ghost in a winter jacket waiting at a bus stop in the snow. The bus will take them to pass on to the next plane of existence.
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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jimmymakepeace.bsky.social
Hello #Portfolioday

My name is Jimmy Makepeace and I am an illustrator and sometimes animator based in Bristol UK.
A woman rides on the back of a dragon with a bow and arrow over a blasted landscape. A barbarian stands surrounded by skeletons in a throneroom backlit in red A sleep paralysis demon sits atop a burned out tank against a crimson sky Elric of Melnibone is gently pushed forward into the future by an unseen breeze, he's stood atop a boat surrounded by candles
October 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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catgraffam.bsky.social
"James Through the Window" oil on board, 16x16in
painting of a man drinking from a glass bottle in front of a bar as seen through a window, reflected light distorting the shades of the bottom half of his torso. Behind the figure is an abstracted interior of an empty restaurant.
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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morrah.bsky.social
#OC_tober day 4. Aida
"The crown you bestowed upon me"
October 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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bettyjiang.bsky.social
I designed the inner and outer sleeves as well as the vinyl centers 😤
October 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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bettyjiang.bsky.social
I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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eleonorpiteira.bsky.social
Here's the endpaper illustration I painted for @adriennebooks.bsky.social 's 'Fallen City' ☀️
Photo of a hand holding a book opened, showing an horizontal illustration painted by Eleonor Piteira for the book 'Fallen City' by Adrienne Young. On the left side of the illustration, a man with shoulder-length dark hair is wearing Greco-roman inspired armour and a red cape, with a broken coin necklace. The background is made of broken mosaics framed by two columns and an archway, and on the foreground the silhouette of a city burns while birds fly away. On the right side of the illustration, a woman with long wavy dark hair wearing a pale off-shoulder Ancient Greek-inspired dress, with a coin necklace. The background is made of mosaics framed by two columns and an archway, and on the foreground the silhouette of a city burns.
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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crittercrafterally.bsky.social
"Red Lily Sentinel" - ballpoint pen and watercolors

#TraditionalArt #OriginalArt
Ballpoint pen and watercolor artwork of an armored androgynous figure holding two twisting polearms while perched on a cliff with red lilies
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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slimyswampghost.bsky.social
Hello! I'm Trevor, a horror illustrator / creature concept artist working in Toronto.🪳📻

📮 trevorhenderson86(at)gmail dot com
⭕ trevorhenderson.com
👁️ instagram.com/trevorhenderson
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🖼️ inprnt.com/gallery/slimyswampghost/
A snowy parking lot at night. An abstract, fleshy, meaty thing is draped over a rusty, bloody shopping cart. The shopping cart melts into the creature through long ribbons of flesh to the point where the cart might actually be an extension of the creature. Its head is an oval on a long neck, like a sperm. Its only feature is a hole, making its face appear like a sucker. a creature with a fake face that looks like a sleeping old man crawls on all fours in a dark, tiled room the rotten corpse of a woman stands and stares at the viewer with malformed empty eye sockets. the raw flesh of its face is dominating by many rows of teeth, twisting around a black void of a mouth. giant dog made of meat in a parking lot at night. it's snowing. the dog has no eyes and its skin is sloughing off.
December 12, 2024 at 1:55 AM
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fallenlights.net
My husband's book, the dark side of super, is now on backerkit so that he can get it made into an AUDIO BOOK!

Book's already done :) He even found a really great narrator!

You can check it out here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...
Cover art for the book the dark side of super. It is red, black, and white. Cityscape of abstract buildings. There's a red figure in the foreground, staring at the viewer. Far in the distance is a small super hero standing on top of a building.
November 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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raccuun.bsky.social
Gave Pluribus a try, it was gay
Sketch featuring Carol Sturka and Zosia from Pluribus. Zosia is lighting a cig for Carol, there’s a smiley face looming over them.
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Sorry wrong link. Here:

variety.com/2025/digital...
Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine Ink Deals for AI-Generated Versions of Their Voices With ElevenLabs
Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine have teamed with AI audio company ElevenLabs to produce virtual replications of their famous voices.
variety.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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mateusroberts.bsky.social
Another illustration based on an idea I had for a story. Just like the last one, this one is set in Victorian times. It's about an English aristocrat who becomes infected with an extraterrestrial parasite, which begins to gradually unravel reality around him.
Digital painting. A man stands before a giant coiled worm.
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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hummingbird-the.bsky.social
I think it's important not to overlook the common birds, so here's a beautiful little robin, from RSPB Pulborough Brooks last weekend, early in the morning 😍🌅🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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tarabush.bsky.social
Corvid with attitude
#birdart #sciart #b&w
Graphite, pan pastel and ink drawing of a corvid in profile. The image is in black and white, and I have used pan pastels and ink splashes to create some texture on the bird. The corvid looks quite nonchalant
November 25, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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himansu.bsky.social
Oh hello #Portfolioday! Here’s some of the stuff I’ve done:
Digital drawing of a winged veiled woman using one of its wings to partially cover a horned child from the light above them both. Shades of brown hints of teal. Digital painting base on a sculpture angel by Lorenzo Bernini bastardized. The head of the angel is now two blooming flowers obscured by a sketchy pink neon skull, complete with horns and halo. The background is textured with a non repeating pattern resembling a script. Digital portrait of a masked woman. Tones of pink, grey and yellow. Large coiled snake bares its fangs in the foreground. Digital drawing of a white barn own standing on a plinth with a mutated mouse in its talons
October 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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checanty.bsky.social
just a fun little experiment 🖤
digital mixed media collage portrait blending a painted acrylic portrait of a young woman with a vintage botanical illustration. The leaves of the plant frame one eye looking at the viewer. Overall muted colours.
August 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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checanty.bsky.social
If you see this, post your bird art!
Artwork of a girl standing on a bridge watching the GIANT phantomlike figur of a swan pass by Artwtork inspired by the Tower card in tarot. A GIANT black swan curls around a dark tower Artwork of a bird of unclear species but with a very long beak swooping down on a human hand and piercing it with said beak artwork of a white corvid in front of a black background. Presumably a raven.
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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coreybrickley.bsky.social
Eyes of Kings.

Artwork for the final book in Chloe Gong's "Flesh and False Gods" trilogy
Princess Calla wearing a tank top, cargo pants, combat boots and a ton of leather holsters/pouches, determinedly holding her sword in front of her as she stands in the debris of a knocked down section of brick wall, a slum like city looming up and glowing behind her against the night sky.
November 12, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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buriedbybooks.bsky.social
They showed up way down here in NorCal. Barest pink visible with the naked eye.
Pink northern lights
November 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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juliedillon.bsky.social
I think the painted version of this drawing turned out okay. 👉👈This was done in watercolors, with graphite, gouache and chalk pastel finishing touches.
A watercolor and graphite illustration of a sad mermaid with long flowing hair holding a wounded albatross to her chest.
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM