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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 23h

A lovely colored engraved sard gem, with the laureate portrait head of a Roman emperor. Which one? With a face only a mother could love and that thick neck, there's really only one choice: Vespasian. The last man standing from the Year of the Four Emperor, founder of the Flavian dynasty. 🏺 1/

📸 me

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Snowman On The Moon @benjaminlong-art.bsky.social · 14h

Another painting that will be on view at Philadelphia Open Studios Tour (POST) this weekend, the 11-12th, noon to six.

View Through 62" x 48"
oil, acrylic, enamel, Dibond, aluminum

artist directory here:
www.cfeva.org/post-directo...

#art #philadelphia #painting #openstudio

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hobothumb @hobothumb.bsky.social · 15h

You were Here!...) acrylic mixed media on collaged paper, 12x16"

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 5d

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads!

Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.

From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio

#Archaeology

Museo Egizio Turin photo showing a small, dark-blue, core-formed, round glass jar which tapers in at the shoulders below the neck. It has yellow, white, and light blue festoon decoration trailed around the main body. There is a single yellow trail just below the neck of the jar. There is a dark-blue circular glass lid, the top of which is adorned with two dark-blue duck heads with yellow bills, a yellow trailed stripe on the top of each duck’s head, and indents for their eyes. The jar is displayed on a perspex (?) stand against a grey background. Glass jar dimensions: 7.6 cm x 9.6 cm.

Core-forming is one of the earliest glassmaking techniques. Glassmakers shaped the body of the vessel around a core, wound colored trails around it. They then let the vessel cool and removed the core.

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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 1d

#FindsFriday
Chalcolithic/Bronze Age 'beaker' pot from Argyll - dating from c2300-2000 BCE.

Someone took such care to make this vessel look beautiful.

(Kilmartin Museum)

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Wim Heldens Painter @wimheldens.bsky.social · Sep 1

“Lipstick”, 40 x 55 cm, 2002, oil on canvas, Private Collection U.S.A. #lipstick #dutchrealism #figurativeart #narrativepainting #portraitpainting #contemporaryrealism

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Häri Ren @r3nio.bsky.social · 11d

South of Harrowden past Gallows Bog, Gloamrat muck-bairns slip mist and dig deep. They find it - Soot Stone, Crackle Black, fire relics of mill and Ashengrave still hum with heat. Black cats watch, red eyes glow. Past ain’t dead, it still burns in the gloam. 🖤❤️

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Brian Dupont @briandupont.bsky.social · 3d

Continuing #drawing series; black and white as a way to focus on gesture, text & script.

ARCHIVE 2
Graphite, acrylic & mixed media on paper
15” x 10.5”

Drawing, horizontal text:

ULYSSES; script, erasure by area.

2.631; stencil, broken distribution. Odysseus’s place in the Iliad’s catalog of ships.

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Beastie and Bone @beastieandbone.bsky.social · 10d

LINOCUT RESTOCK! At last, I’m reprinting y’alls favorite linocut prints with the help of my press (my weight-lifting husband) in anticipation of both my shop update (Oct. 3rd for Patreon members, Oct. 10th for the public) and the @craftguild Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands Oct. 16th-19th!

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Felicity amelia @felicityamelia.bsky.social · 4d

#31DaysofHalloween
Day 5 #Nightmare
"Nightmare(Ivy)" - Charcoal on Fabriano, 50x70cm
#Spooktober #horse #drawing #traditionalart #dreamscape #eastcoastkin

Monochrome drawing of a horse in an abandoned building. The horse is facing the viewer at a slight angle, but its head and neck are twisted to look behind it, it is neighing at something unseen. She is at the front of a long corridor with windows, the floor full of debris, the window directly adjacent the horse is open, the others closed. Based on an actual nightmare I had, involving this very horse, who was rather brilliant and I should have bought her when I had the chance.

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Felicity amelia @felicityamelia.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysofHalloween
Day 8- #Zombie
"Ganymede" - Charcoal on paper
#Spooktober #drawing #traditionalmediums #mythology #anthropocene

Drawing of a Steller's sea eagle sat hunched, lurking on top of an old TV. The eagle's nictating membrane has closed, giving its eye an opaque white sheen. They are in a bedroom of an abandoned house, the walls are peeling and the floor and beds are carpeted in debris.

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duffcolors @brianmatthewduff.bsky.social · 1d

Untitled, 2025 24*24
#art
#painting
#minimalist
#portrait
#blackdog

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Bill Brunken @brunkenart.bsky.social · 5d

Autumn Abstract Collage.
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12 x 8 inches, mixed media collage on toned paper

#collage #abstract #fall #markmaking

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Micheal Eric Bennett @artisticpursuit.bsky.social · 1d

Some glass practice in my sketchbook today. Getting geared up for that inkwell still life I’m starting this weekend

#oilpainting #oilstudy #oilsketch #painting #paintings #fineart #fineartoilpaintings #sketch #sketchbook #realistpainting #realism #realismpainting #classicalpainting #stilllife

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Sewzinski @sewzinski.bsky.social · 1d

Day 7 is Cratus. Titan of violence and strength. Here’s my abstract for #dailypainting #mythtober #mixedmedia #painting

Abstract painting with bright pinky reds, teal blues in the foreground with splash of soft black browns, whites. Abstract and messy, but soft. Mixed media on heavy paper by Sewzinski (me)

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Solastalgic @my-solastalgia.bsky.social · 5d

#Watercolor #apocalyptic #Postapocalyptic #apocalypticlandscape #Landscapepainting #Abstract #abstractlandscape #traditionalart #Painting #fineart #inkpour #mixedmedia #eastcoastkin #stunday #orangesun #31DaysofHalloween #spooktober #Nightmare #artchallenge #artyear

Painting, mixed media on paper: An abstract landscape featuring warm colors with red and brown dominating. Marks suggest a treeline across the page; otherwise, interpretation is up to the viewer.

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duffcolors @brianmatthewduff.bsky.social · 4d

Untitled, 36*48 oil and alkyd on acrylic
#abstract
#painting
#flowers

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Bill Brunken @brunkenart.bsky.social · 7d

Autumn Abstract.
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8 x 5 inches, fine line marker in sketchbook

#sketch #sketchbook #autumn #abstract

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Positive Noise @positivenoise.bsky.social · 8d

by Arūnas Miliukas

#Art #Painting #Abstract #Expressionism

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Ehko @ehkoart.bsky.social · 7d

symphony of broken dreams

#acrylics #acrylicart #acryliconcanvas #abstracart #art #abstract #probablyawip

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duffcolors @brianmatthewduff.bsky.social · 7d

24*24 oil and alkyd on ply, untitled, 2025
#painting
#teakettle
#fruit
#stilllife

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Ray S @manemala.bsky.social · 8d

Nice piece

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John Douglas @johndouglasart.com · 8d

Someone left a chair in the garden
Mixed media - ink, gouache, charcoal, aquarelle pencils
#art #pleinair #painting #mixedmedia #garden #fineart

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Bill Brunken @brunkenart.bsky.social · 9d

Stilt.
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12 x 8 inches, mixed media on toned paper

#draw #expressionist #markmaking #figure

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 11d

George Clausen, British, 1852-1944
Reading by Lamplight (Twilight: Interior), 1909
Oil on canvas
73.2 × 58.4 cm
Lotherton Hall, Leeds Museums & Galleries, Leeds, UK
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

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