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Azure Chi Art @azurechi.bsky.social · Aug 12

Behold! I drew this as a gift for a friend. They always get this fellow in their starting hand - a dragon named Deathfang (based on Flamecraft by Cardboard Alchemy, art by Sandara Tang).

Media: Winsor&Newton pastel watercolours, drawing inks, watercolour paper.

#art #tabletopgames #dragon #fantasy

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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · Aug 4

✏️ Ottomans’ Visual Poems; "The Art of Drawing Poems". Examples of how, in the Ottoman era, quatrains were written in various geometric shapes and presented with an aesthetic appearance: #Art #Poem #Poetry

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Azure Chi Art @azurechi.bsky.social · Aug 5

Fun fact: despite a popular opinion that his deteriorating mental health had a visible linear impact on his drawings, Louis Wain easily switched between his typical drawing manner and the psychedelic experimental style.

Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · Aug 5

Happy birthday to the master of psychedelic cats, Louis Wain 🐾

Read more about the painter 👉 buff.ly/BiQ9Nn6

📷 @wellcomecollection.bsky.social

Three anthropomorphic cats dressed in colorful suits and top hats, dancing joyfully in a garden with blue and white flowers behind them.

Intricate abstract artwork featuring a symmetrical design with swirling yellow, blue, and red patterns on a green background with red motifs.

Three expressive cats, two blue and one brown tabby, singing while holding red books against a floral background.

Intricate blue cat portrait with large yellow eyes, decorated with white and red ornamental patterns on a dark blue background.

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · Aug 5

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

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Jean Wei.... @weisanboo.bsky.social · Aug 4

do people post comics here... anywho! a really old one!

Dragon Whiskers (2019)

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Azure Chi Art @azurechi.bsky.social · Jul 27

It's been a while! Life is hectic, but here is an update on the latest piece: it became a painting on a suitcase.

Materials: Posca acrylic markers

#art #decoration

A small square black suitcase with a colourful painting of a bunch of grapes. The grapes are magenta-coloured with fluorescent blue shadows and white highlights. The plate is bright yellow with a red rim.

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Azure Chi Art @azurechi.bsky.social · Jul 13

A little something I am working on. It will become an acrylic marker decoration on a suitcase.

Materials for the grape plates: Caran d'Ache Neocolour II crayons

Marker swatches (top right and bottom left): Posca markers

#art #food #graphicdesign

A sketch image of two near-identical plates with a bundle of grapes. The top left sketch features a yellow plate with red grapes that have blue shadows and red outlines. There are two grapes laid separately on the right side of the plate. The bottom right plate has a similar composition. The plate is yellow, the grapes are pink-magenta coloured, with blue shadows and outlines. There are marker and crayon swatches in the top right corner of the sheet, and a marker test of grapes in the bottom right corner.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Jul 11

Artists’ “purpose may lie in being that counterpower—demonstrating alternatives + standing up to gov’ts, institutions, corporations + so on—to societal bullies. Artists shld also be a counterbalance to trends + conformity. Existing outside the norm is a very precious + important position in society”

What Is Art Good For?

Responses from Camille Henrot, Rose B. Simpson, Stephen Shore, Freida Toranzo Jaeger, Walid Raad, Christine Sun Kim, and Andrew Norman Wilson.

www.artnews.com

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Oxford Medieval Studies @oxmedstud.bsky.social · Jul 1

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY!

@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social are advertising a full-time 6-month postdoc position to work with Andrew Dunning on redeveloping the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project as a sustainable, open-access digital resource for manuscript studies.

🖊️ Apply by 14 July

Home page of the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project beta website.

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Azure Chi Art @azurechi.bsky.social · Jun 30

A little work in progress: a sketch for a future lino. A great blue heron, if I am not mistaken.

Blue pencil on tracing paper.

#SciArt #sketch #art

A photo of a table with several art supplies scattered upon it. There is a chunky red-and-blue pencil, a tracing paper pad with a sketch of a bird, and a notebook with several smaller stylised bird thumbnails. The big bird sketch is a pencil lineart of a big blue heron. It spreads its wings and twists its neck in a stylised manner.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Jun 28

Here is a little story about the #earlymodern emoticon "<3" and the complex symbolic meaning of this typographical entity that I posted yesterday. Follow me, for catholic symbolism and some #bookhistory, dear #skystorians of the blue skies. Here we go...

A detail from a page of a 1702 German publication with the title "Reimb Dich, Oder Ich Liß Dich, Das ist: Allerley Materien, Discurs, Concept, und Predigen, welche bißhero in underschiedlichen Tractätlein gedruckt worden" (vd18 10307974). The author explains on this page, and on pages before and after the Holy Trinity. Part of the detailed explanation if a human heart, made of a V (in German printing a "U") and a three as a cap. In the text, the "V" stands for the Latin "unum" (meaning: one, as in: together as one) and the number 3 is of course the Holy Trinity. This heart symbol, explained in the text, looks like a contemporary emoticon: <3 . The typographical entity highlighted consists of a the letter "i", the number "3", the word "HOMO" (in which all letters are crossed out except for the "M"), a small "z" as part of the M, and the mentioned emoticon: a "V" with a "3" on top.

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · Jun 25

June's Treasure of the Month is our new digitised collections - Linnean Online.

The platform makes images of our herbaria, specimen and manuscript collections available for researchers around the world. It will also allow us to grow this important resource in the future.

Read more: buff.ly/8E3OiOT

The Linnean Online entry 'Cassia glauca' part of the Buchanan-Hamilton Drawings collection. It shows a drawing of yellow flowers on a stem with small, light green leaves and a single pea pod, with metadata on the left-hand side.

The Linnean Online entry 'Papilio menelaus' part of the Insect specimen collection. It shows a blue butterfly, with metadata on the left-hand side.

The Linnean Online entry 'Artocarpus incisus' part of the Anderson Manuscripts collection. It shows a Triangular shaped tree with a man in blue shorts sitting in a relaxed posture underneath, with metadata on the left-hand side.

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Azure Chi Art @azurechi.bsky.social · Jun 25

I have just submitted the last essay of this academic year! Freedom!

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · Jun 24

News | Bristol Museum launches urgent fundraiser to acquire Turner artwork – organisation has just one week to raise £100,000 to buy the painting, which is to be auctioned at Sotheby's on 2 July

Bristol Museum launches urgent fundraiser to acquire Turner artwork - Museums Association

Organisation has just one week to raise £100,000 to buy the painting, which is to be auctioned at Sotheby's on 2 July

www.museumsassociation.org

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Azure Chi Art @azurechi.bsky.social · Jun 22

The soonest I get my salary, I will order one. Now is the time to choose which character...

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Azure Chi Art @azurechi.bsky.social · Jun 22

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Diana Huh @dihuh.bsky.social · Jun 22

hypernormalisation

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NOLNIR ✨🌠💫 @nolnir.com · Jun 20

I've slapped together approximately 173 pages of material that aims to teach programming a personal website with HTML and CSS to artists, animators, writers, music producers, etc.

F*ck It, Let's Make a Website Part 1 is now live ✨
Go here to read: bit.ly/filmawPartOne
More info below 👇

a digital drawing of a young character with a turquoise bow on her head. She possesses canine-like features and wears a white outfit with yellow gloves. To the right of her is text that reads "Fuck it, let's make a website!"

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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · Jun 22

The latest resource available for members. Download the 100-slide presentation I created for a lecture on the Data and Design - Ticket to Destination. designreviewed.com/member-resou...

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Azure Chi Art @azurechi.bsky.social · Jun 19

A /medium/ dungeon.

Azure Chi Art @azurechi.bsky.social · Jun 19

Would repost, but the amount of typos and digital artefacts... is this AI?

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · Jun 11

We're excited to be looking for our first ever Maker in Residence this summer! We're seeking a MiR who can inspire our audiences through their creative response to our exhibition #MagnaCarta1225. All the details are on our website, closing date 14 July.

www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...

Vacancies & Volunteering - Society of Antiquaries of London

Current roles available: Assistant Librarian (full time)

www.sal.org.uk

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · Jun 11

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.

ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600

And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.

www.extremetech.com

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · Jun 10

Our Lady of the Cow Parsley, 1923, by #ElisabethSonrel (French, 1874-1953). Private collection; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:So... #artherstory #womenartists #WorldArtNouveauDay

A watercolor painting of the bust of a young pale-skinned, brown-haired woman standing outdoors, gazing at the viewer from behind stalks of cow parsley. In her hair she wears a wreath of flowers with yellow petals and orange centers, with their leaves. The square collar of her rust-colored blouse is decorated with the same flowers.

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Azure Chi Art @azurechi.bsky.social · Jun 8

Oh, I can also recommend Orcs Nest in central London.

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