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Laura
@barklaart.bsky.social
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Aussie artist, she/her. Talks too much about drawing, gardening, foraging, knitting, vegan baking, poetry, sci fi, gaming, nature in general etc tumblr: elbarkla, reddit: lauras_art_account
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 11h
welp, the upside of estrangement: even if that's the case, that's not your problem anymore 🙃
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 12h
psst, as an artist: it's just simple, not terrible. that's why it's blowing up 😉
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 1d
(also, just realised I may have phrased things poorly: "she was rightfully livid" in my last post refers to Taylor, not my friend. And of course that incident was way more gross than what Taylor's doing now)
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 1d
Totally fair, it's a bad song! And in a way, the badness makes it feel meaner. It's like Big Foot - the less you put into performance, the less you can ride the kayfabe/persona defence, because that's clearly not the point here (or why fans like it)(also Nicki is way worse obvs lol)
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 1d
All your sins (this makes sense if you've seen the show)
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 1d
Humans are interchangeable 🙃 please volunteer your biomass for Mars
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 1d
Sending you solidarity from the cabbage caterpillar front in the southern hemisphere 💚(I've had to ask myself a lot of difficult questions about my veganism lol)
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 1d
Shirt got longer instead of shorter! Never happens for me lol
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 1d
Halloween + Christmas = ...Easter? (Catholicism with resurrection, makes sense to me)
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 1d
It's giving the Hollow (everyone go watch Scavenger's Reign thanks)
Scavenger's Reign screenshot of the Hollow, a bastard who looks like a human baby crossed an axolotl or something
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 1d
This is amazing. Every time I think I’m done crying someone does something kind like this and I’m in tears again. A weird mixture of happiness and gratitude and just missing him so bad.
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 2d
He looked so regal in that pic, I had to draw him! Hope that's OK. I'm so deeply sorry for your loss. He looks a beautiful boy who probably purred really loud 🌸☘👑
A digital illustration of an incredibly fluffy cat, drawn in a watercolour-and-ink style. The colours are pastel with lots of yellow, aqua, and cool pink. The cat sits facing us, his bushy white chest contrasting with brown tabby colouring, giving the air of a wise white-bearded king. He has white paws and a white blaze on his face that covers his cheeks and nose. His long, bushy tail curves behind him, adding drama to the seated pose. A gold crown with red gems floats above his head like a halo, sending off radiant lines in the background. He sits on a fluffy white cloud. Around the image is a stylised frame, decorated with red clover (state flower of Vermont) and in the centre, the subject's name: FERGUS.
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 2d
He looked so regal in that pic, I had to draw him! Hope that's OK. I'm so deeply sorry for your loss. He looks a beautiful boy who probably purred really loud 🌸☘👑
A digital illustration of an incredibly fluffy cat, drawn in a watercolour-and-ink style. The colours are pastel with lots of yellow, aqua, and cool pink. The cat sits facing us, his bushy white chest contrasting with brown tabby colouring, giving the air of a wise white-bearded king. He has white paws and a white blaze on his face that covers his cheeks and nose. His long, bushy tail curves behind him, adding drama to the seated pose. A gold crown with red gems floats above his head like a halo, sending off radiant lines in the background. He sits on a fluffy white cloud. Around the image is a stylised frame, decorated with red clover (state flower of Vermont) and in the centre, the subject's name: FERGUS.
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 1d
So glad you love the portrait! I think I speak for all your followers: if being a kind online stranger is a virtue, you're magnitudes beyond the rest of us. A little something in return is the least I can do 💗
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 1d
Not anymore I'm afraid! Best I can offer is a free guide I wrote last year on improving your art (it's more achievable than you'd think): www.tumblr.com/elbarkla/747...
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💬 0  🔁 9  ❤️ 16 · Check it out everyone, 3 years of art progress! And I wrote a guide for beginners! 😊 Hi! I’m Laura, age 31. I’ve always drawn occasionally, but never really stuck with it. Frank…
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 2d
He looked so regal in that pic, I had to draw him! Hope that's OK. I'm so deeply sorry for your loss. He looks a beautiful boy who probably purred really loud 🌸☘👑
A digital illustration of an incredibly fluffy cat, drawn in a watercolour-and-ink style. The colours are pastel with lots of yellow, aqua, and cool pink. The cat sits facing us, his bushy white chest contrasting with brown tabby colouring, giving the air of a wise white-bearded king. He has white paws and a white blaze on his face that covers his cheeks and nose. His long, bushy tail curves behind him, adding drama to the seated pose. A gold crown with red gems floats above his head like a halo, sending off radiant lines in the background. He sits on a fluffy white cloud. Around the image is a stylised frame, decorated with red clover (state flower of Vermont) and in the centre, the subject's name: FERGUS.
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 2d
My friend has reminded me this basically happened with Ye and she was rightly livid lol. It's just different when Taylor does it I guess
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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d
it’s so beautiful to be alive
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 2d
I liked it way better the first time she misunderstood/fanficced a Shakespeare
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 2d
Title suggests an anthem for millennial girls in therapy, dunno how she arrived at "song the teenage protagonist writes in a TV film about cyberbullying"
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 2d
Funny you mention Jax, I was thinking Victoria's Secret (the verses feel identical to me)
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 2d
Still thinking about it, honestly. If a man made a song about Taylor that went "You suck, but your bitchy little comments make my dick hard," I think we could all agree that's super gross and inappropriate right? That it's clearly invoking and encouraging misogyny by fans even if it's a "joke?"
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 2d
It's one of my favourite apocalypse stories! 🐰 (it's always the apocalypse when you're a rabbit)
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 3d
Cowslip's warren every time
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 4d
Such a cute image I had to use it for art practice/warmups, thank you for sharing it 💚🐑
A cosy, storybook-style illustration of two little boys jumping on a trampoline. The trampoline is in a big grassy field with yellow flowers. Two pairs of boots lie in the grass below. Around the trampoline, three sheep watch the boys with serene curiosity, as the forms of other sheep fade into the distance. Beyond the field are distant farms and forests. The boys have joyful faces and their baggy shirts swing around them as they jump. The sky is blue with scattered, fluffy clouds. It's a beautiful day for friendship
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 4d
Really sorry this is happening, I'd be panicking too. Wish I could offer actual help or advice. But I dunno, get some rest and try to be kind to yourself 💗
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