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Aspen

@aspentangle.bsky.social

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Canadian freelance artist from the east coast. Digital, Watercolour and Gouache. Fantasy, Sci fi, Furry/Anthro. Chihuahua and Cat Dad. Trans, Bi, perpetually tired. Would like to go lie down in some moss. (Aspentangle on fa, masto, telegram, and discord!)

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Aspen @aspentangle.bsky.social · 11m

I've had to blacklist ppl for using AI refs eugh

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🌿 Aspen / Avery 🌿 @aspentangleart.bsky.social · 1h

Aidan (large) and his husband Kyr. Grab the tiddy

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cupofmin @cupofmin.bsky.social · 6h

All of the teabag bookmarks from my September collection are still available! 🫖🍂 Mushrooms, animals, flowers... There must be one that is exactly your cup of tea! (pun very much intended).

Bookmark shaped like a teabag, with a red mushroom and hedgehog embroidered on it.

Bookmark shaped like a teabag, with acorns embroidered on it.

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Aspen @aspentangle.bsky.social · 2h

fucking right? There are great things for kids and teens that covers darker or heavier topics. Not everything that does so is intended for them. My art is for adults.

Aspen @aspentangle.bsky.social · 3h

c h i l d *_*

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Annie Stegg Gerard @anniestegg.bsky.social · 1d

Blocking in each of the little woodland critters one by one for the new Moonlit March painting. Here’s a tiny sneak peek of what’s to come! 🌙✨

#MoonlitMarch #WIP #AnimalArt #FantasyArt #WoodlandCreatures #OpossumArt #FantasyPainter #InTheStudio #OilPainting

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Aspen @aspentangle.bsky.social · 3h

RIGHT a toddler could do it whilst doin that little whole-hand-fisting-the-crayon move they do, I guarantee if you have the dexterity it takes to make and can pickles, you can draw a GADDAM PICKLE!!!!

Aspen @aspentangle.bsky.social · 5h

Like, my brother in christ how hard is it to draw a pickle. Draw a stretched out circle. draw some pimples on it. PICKLE.

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Aspen @aspentangle.bsky.social · 5h

Thoughts and prayers are with the knife and it's family in this terrible time.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins dies in prison attack

Watkins was serving a 29-year sentence imposed in 2013 after admitting 13 child sex offences.

www.bbc.com

Aspen @aspentangle.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah! That would be an option for sure. Airbrushing is one i see a lot of people use for stuff like this but i have no personal experience with that so xD

Aspen @aspentangle.bsky.social · 5h

The practice was to seal between layers... like you get to a point you're happy with for one layer, seal it and let dry before going in with the next layer of pastels- I would ofc do those as a last step after using any paints cuz otherwise it would just get covered

Aspen @aspentangle.bsky.social · 5h

Back when I did bjds, a lot of it was using hard pastels, scraped off and painted on like a powder. I bet a mix of that, and using washes would work well.

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 6h

tick pin, anyone?

A photo of a black legged tick enamel pin. It is small and plated with gold metal, and has a blackish-brown scutum and head with a red-orange body. The legs are black. It is photographed on a lichen-covered rock.

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Aspen @aspentangle.bsky.social · 6h

Hell yes! I only have one enamel pin from an artist of a crow, i dont wear it or use it bc the one time i did i almost lost it XD but maybe it's worth getting one of those special bags.

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Sennamatic @sennamatic.bsky.social · May 7

A shy sphinx 🐆🌷

A digital painting of a sphinx laying down. Her body is that of a black panther with faint jaguar spots. She has dark skin, with a catlike nose and whiskers. Her face is round with spots along her forehead and cheeks. She is wearing a dark magenta headscarf that is fastened into a thick gold necklace. A brilliant blue reflects on her, adding volume to the painting. The entire background is a flat peach color, with the shape of low foliage in the foreground. The artists name is in the bottom right of the image

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Aspen @aspentangle.bsky.social · 6h

Also i think the worst offender is the 2 toe foot cuz like... literally all it did was erase 2 toes for NO REASON!?

Aspen @aspentangle.bsky.social · 6h

It's so nice that they're employing parrots after their horrible accidents in the 'bad parrot isolation cube', despite their deformities.

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Aspen @aspentangle.bsky.social · 6h

AHhh i was so tempted but dang, i knew it would sell out fast! they're SO FRIGGIN GOOD

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Aspen @aspentangle.bsky.social · 6h

Eugh I won't even start cleaning the bathroom without opening the windows, even if it's winter. Those fumes, man.

Aspen @aspentangle.bsky.social · 7h

Fuck Eris I hate eris all my friends hate eris.
trashy bitch omfg always leaving GARBaGE

Aspen @aspentangle.bsky.social · 7h

In America, if you are a naturally born citizen who is a veteran of the military that is worshipped with a religious like fervor, but happen to have the wrong last name or skin tone... You might get sent to a country you have no association with at all.

Aspen @aspentangle.bsky.social · 7h

In most places, if you are not a born citizen, but do something good for the country - military service, an act of bravery etc- you are basically fast tracked to some kind of citizenship.

Aspen @aspentangle.bsky.social · 7h

The Titanic was 'unsinkable' and now it's at the bottom of the ocean with the corpses of billionaires who thought they were rich enough to be safe.
No such thing as 'too big to fail'.

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Aspen @aspentangle.bsky.social · 7h

I want a movie where Julian Ritchings plays a creepy monster in prosthetics while Doug Jones plays a calm unsettling man who's presence in the scene makes you jittery in your seat.
Brought to you by my describing Ritchings as "the Doug Jones of playing creepy guys WITHOUT prosthetics"

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Lydia @coyoteprince.bsky.social · 9h

Incredibly charmed people were doing this nearly 100 years ago but I've also gotten this occassionally on my art and stories and it makes my day every time. Incredibly silly but the raw earnestness of it... one of the best compliments one can recieve imo

Mircalla @inplacesdeep.bsky.social · 15h

This is old and it's not even the first time I've seen it but I need to stress to everyone that I am the reincarnation of this teenage girl

Tale Foundry
@TheTaleFoundry
Brainrot this, chronically online that...
Meanwhile some teenage girl in the 1930s was sending these to her faourite horror magazine:

Devil's Croft is enticing. Raggh---woof---grr---I like so very much.

If you can get me any more story-length poems like Lovecraft's Psychopompos---by all means 'gimme.'

Ah---ahaha---haw haww---chuckle!

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