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toothwalker.bsky.social
Rax
@toothwalker.bsky.social
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artist, photographer and baby writer trying to work despite chronic illness

#art / #oc / #photography

I have an art feed and a photography feed! I do not have a writing feed because oh the horrors
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a ref sheet for one of my Kirby series ocs, Wobble Dee! he's travelled all the way from Rainbow River to make his fortune as an acrobat, performing in front of packed audiences in a touring circus!
#kirby #waddledee #ocsky #oc #reference
a reference sheet for a small blue blob creature, who is a Waddle Dee, a type of person from the Kirby series. this one's name is Wobble Dee. on the left you can see him standing in a spotlight, wearing his makeup and circus costume (space boppers and acrobat's slippers). one the right you can see him without his costume and the parts of the costume separately. the text says "Wobble Dee, a clumsy waddle dee circus artiste. A dee who longs to sparkle like a star on the circus stage, but people love his act more for his constant mishaps... At least his dear friend Model Dee understands him!" the sheet is decorated at the top with strings of circus lights and glittery stars.
November 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
toothwalker.bsky.social
The leaves all blew down a while ago, but I managed to get a few photos first

Surrey, UK, November 2025

#photography #trees
a photograph of a beech tree with orange and yellow autumn leaves, against a blue and white sky
November 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
toothwalker.bsky.social
I believe this is Acer palmatum Dissectum, a cultivar of Japanese maple with lovely feathery leaves

Surrey, UK, November 2025

#photography
a photograph of many red and orange feathery Japanese maple leaves, on the tree
November 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
toothwalker.bsky.social
it's my birthday!! and it would make me very happy if you would look at my best art so far this year
a digital painting of a long, orange and yellow serpent with many arms, spiralling down from where it's wedged between the branches of a tree. the creature's mouth has many mismatched, yellowish teeth, which stop a huge blue-irised eyeball from falling out. the arms show animation - this thing is alive! all over the body of the serpent are white, concentric circular markings, which extend luminously into the sky around it. also growing out of the serpent's body are many bright blue mushrooms. several bright red, glowing goo rabbits wielding macuahuitls are sliding down the creature's body. one has just fallen off, and is snatched at by the serpent’s arms as he goes past, and another seems about to attack the serpent’s head. at the bottom of the picture, among bright green grass and plants with white seed-heads, a mouse watches the whole scene with interest a digital painting of an anthropomorphic leopard seal girl, with grey fur with piebald splotches, in a pink top, reading a book in a meadow full of tall daisies, with a backdrop of bare, brown mountains, under sunny, blue sky. A digital painting of a pink-to-purple evening sky lit by blue stars. Nearly filling the picture is a huge purple-blue cloud, on which are sitting two semi-anthropomorphic walruses. One (Wynstan) is wearing a blue wizard robe and hat, and is pouring tea for the other (Wally), who is dressed in a red and black football/soccer shirt. Next to the pair is a huge hamper full of various tasty foods, surrounded by three large plates with puddings on. The whole scene is lit by magical comet butterflies, who swirl around leaving trails of greenish light. a digital painting of a popplio plushie, standing in the sun on an english pebble beach, with the sea behind him. next to him is a patch of pink beach daisy (erigeron glaucus) and canadian wildrye (elymus canadensis) and in the background are two large rocks and smaller plants
November 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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I've been sketching all the important walrus characters from Wynstan the Wondrous. (From left to right: Wynstan, Wally, Chou-Chou, Aurora, Grace, Nerisse)

#art #oc #ocsky #kidlitart #kidlit #WynstanTheWondrous
a digital sketch of six lightly anthropomorphic walruses, three teenagers and three adults. Wynstan The Wondrous is a story I am working on about a young walrus (Wynstan) who qualifies for a prodigious magical school, and the friends he makes and adventures he has there.
November 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
toothwalker.bsky.social
A stormy looking sky, looking across the golf course towards Greater London

Surrey, UK, October 2025

#photography
a photograph of a group of trees, blowing somewhat in the wind, in bright sunlight but under a sky of mixed bright blue and dark clouds
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
toothwalker.bsky.social
If you see this, post your bird art 🦅
a digital painting of a white ural owl dressed in goth regalia (huge ankh, black beads, spiked collar, torn shirt, top hat with a silky veil), perched on a branch and lit from below by pink lighting a digital painting of a stylised white ural owl in a purple striped kimono with a red obi with a print of maple leaves in a stream, in orange, on. he is standing on a pile of autumn vegetables, one of which supports a candle a digital painting, mimicking oil paint, of a very fluffy tawny owl chick being cradled in someone's hands on a green cloth in the lap of that person, who is wearing a black jacket with a print of wild cherries a simple digital drawing of a macaroni penguin in bold unnatural colours - grey for the body, with an semi-abstract print of flowers on the chest, and the colours of the flowers (orange, dark orange, purple, and green) repeated in the eyebrow feathers
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
toothwalker.bsky.social
A domestic apple tree, growing wild on a golf course above Epsom. It obviously hasn’t been pruned for a long time, and so produces an enormous quantity of very small, sweet fruit

Surrey, UK, October 2025

#photography #foraging
a photograph of an apple tree, growing in a shrub-like shape, absolutely smothered in little round yellow apples, against a sky of clouds and very bright, almost turquoise blue
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Nice autumn colours in someone’s garden, with a dwarf Japanese maple as the star of the show

Surrey, UK, October 2024

#photography
a photograph of a group of plants growing in a garden next to a mid-century modern style house. the plants are a mixture of green, yellow, and red, crowned by the bright scarlet red of the little maple
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
toothwalker.bsky.social
I hit 200 followers on tumblr (I'm toothwalker there too) and did a raffle to celebrate! the winner was www.tumblr.com/purpledeerdude

#art
a digital painting of a anthropomorphic dinosaur(??)/avian character with black feathers and glowing yellow eyes. he is wearing a dark brown trench coat and fedora. the background is green.
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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A very lovely Woodpigeon, Columba palumbus, at Warnham Nature Reserve. I’m pleased to get a good shot, I’m usually either too slow or too far away for birds!

Sussex, UK, September 2025

#photography #birds
a photograph of a largish bird (a woodpigeon) with grey, white, pale blue and dusty rose coloured feathers, bending down in front of a pool of water. it is about to take a drink!
November 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
toothwalker.bsky.social
I believe this is Hypogymnia physodes, also known as Monk’s hood lichen. I love the texture and colour variation it has!

#photography #lichen
a photograph of a log covered in a thick layer of pale greenish-grey folliose lichen
October 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
toothwalker.bsky.social
I was in @ascalaphid.com's latest art telephone game, #feastphone2025! the art that came out of the game was amazing and I suggest you check it out on the website: ascalaphid.com/telephone/fe...

(fashionably late post??) #art
a digital painting of a long, orange and yellow serpent with many arms, spiralling down from where it's wedged between the branches of a tree. the creature's mouth has many mismatched, yellowish teeth, which stop a huge blue-irised eyeball from falling out. the arms show animation - this thing is alive! all over the body of the serpent are white, concentric circular markings, which extend luminously into the sky around it. also growing out of the serpent's body are many bright blue mushrooms. several bright red, glowing goo rabbits wielding macuahuitls are sliding down the creature's body. one has just fallen off, and is snatched at by the serpent’s arms as he goes past, and another seems about to attack the serpent’s head. at the bottom of the picture, among bright green grass and plants with white seed-heads, a mouse watches the whole scene with interest
October 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
toothwalker.bsky.social
artists, what's your favorite part to draw? quote this post!

pinnipeds and pinniped people I suppose!
a digital painting of an anthropomorphic leopard seal girl, with grey fur with piebald splotches, in a pink top, reading a book in a meadow full of tall daisies, with a backdrop of bare, brown mountains, under sunny, blue sky. A digital painting of a pink-to-purple evening sky lit by blue stars. Nearly filling the picture is a huge purple-blue cloud, on which are sitting two semi-anthropomorphic walruses. One (Wynstan) is wearing a blue wizard robe and hat, and is pouring tea for the other (Wally), who is dressed in a red and black football/soccer shirt. Next to the pair is a huge hamper full of various tasty foods, surrounded by three large plates with puddings on. The whole scene is lit by magical comet butterflies, who swirl around leaving trails of greenish light. a digital painting of a popplio plushie, standing in the sun on an english pebble beach, with the sea behind him. next to him is a patch of pink beach daisy (erigeron glaucus) and canadian wildrye (elymus canadensis) and in the background are two large rocks and smaller plants a digital ink drawing of a walrus person in armour standing in an arctic scene with a mountain
October 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
toothwalker.bsky.social
human artists, use one piece to convince other humans to follow you!
A digital painting of a pink-to-purple evening sky lit by blue stars. Nearly filling the picture is a huge purple-blue cloud, on which are sitting two semi-anthropomorphic walruses. One (Wynstan) is wearing a blue wizard robe and hat, and is pouring tea for the other (Wally), who is dressed in a red and black football/soccer shirt. Next to the pair is a huge hamper full of various tasty foods, surrounded by three large plates with puddings on. The whole scene is lit by magical comet butterflies, who swirl around leaving trails of greenish light.
October 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
toothwalker.bsky.social
Blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, covered in sloes. They are used to flavour sloe gin, but are too bitter to eat raw.

Surrey, UK, September 2025

#photography
a photograph of a plant with small green leaves and thorns, covered in dark blue berries with white bloom on them, against green grass
October 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
toothwalker.bsky.social
he's dressed up for waddle dee wednesday! I think he's hoping you'll tell him he looks nice...

#art #kirby #oc #ocsky
a digital drawing of an orange waddle dee (from the Kirby series), wearing a flower crown made of Nasturtiums (a type of orange garden flower with round blue-green leaves), on a bright blue background. he looks excited and anticipatory!
October 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
toothwalker.bsky.social
The Stag Beetle Loggery at Warnham Nature Reserve, showing carvings by John Glazier. The logs are partially buried so as to create tasty edible homes for stag beetle larvae!

Sussex, UK, September 2025

#photography #bugs
a photograph of a group of vertically clumped logs in a sunny clearing in the woods. at the front is a log with carvings of the life stages of the European stag beetle, Lucanus cervus
October 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Apples, probably a domestic of some variety. The trees are really cropping extravagantly this year!

Surrey, UK, September 2025

#photography #fruit
a photograph of a clump of pale yellow-green apples, growing amongst green leaves
October 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
toothwalker.bsky.social
Broadleaf Arrowhead, Sagittaria latifolia, also known as Wapato or Duck-potato - the tubers are edible by humans as well as ducks, and were an important food source in pre-colonial North America

Sussex, UK, September 2025

#photography #bloomscrolling
a photograph of a large green leaf with three rounded points, and a flower stalk with white-petalled flowers with prominent yellow centres. the rest of the picture is assorted green wetland plants
October 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Some sort of bumblebee, on stonecrop (Hylotelephium telephium, previously known as Sedum telephium)

Sussex, UK, September 2025

#photography #bloomscrolling #macromonday #insect
a photograph of a large, black bumblebee with orange stripes and a rich cream bottom, feeding on a plant (stonecrop) with fat, pale green leaves and many tiny pink flowers, clustered into flower-heads
October 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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here's the progress gif!
October 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Red-legged Shieldbug, Pentatoma rufipes

Surrey, UK, August 2025

#photography #macromonday #insect #bug
a photograph of a shield-shaped, mostly brown hemipteran, with red legs, a little orange spot in the middle of its back, and a black and yellow striped edge to its body
September 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Acorns of the Pedunculate oak tree, Quercus robur. The penduncular acorns have long “peduncles” (or stems) on each cup, whereas the acorns of the other oak you typically find in England, the Sessile oak tree, Quercus petraea, attach directly to the stalk

Surrey, UK, September 2025

#photography
a photograph of two brown acorns, still growing in their cups, amongst green oak leaves
September 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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A branch covered in lichen, I think this is Ramalina farinacea but I am not sure

Surrey, UK, September 2025

#photography
a photograph of an oak tree branch thickly coated in a pale greenish-grey strap lichen, looking a bit like matted fur
September 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM