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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · 23h

⁣⁣⁣🦉Master Ornithologist, Quinton Ainsworth, was on a solo weekend expedition researching desert birds when he met two beings in the twilight hours....⁣⁣⁣
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⁣⁣🦉On his way home, he caught a mouse with his talons and ate it.

#owls #scifiart #desertart #creepyart #spookyart #alienart #oilpainting

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · 3d

❤️Question: Would it be a deal breaker if your significant other revealed that they were actually a Sasquatch in human form?

🌲✨#flashback “Becoming a Human” 18x24 Oil on Panel 2022.

#sasquach #bigfoot #cryptid #cryptidart #oilpainting #paranormalart

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · 7d

🧙🏼‍♂️ 👽 Here we see Haxm trying to mellow everyone out with crystal magick, Mora preparing to obliterate the extraterrestrials with her enchanted cast-iron pan, and Oren staring into the dead eyes of an alien and peeing a little.

🦖👽 #flashback “Battle in the Red Cavity” 18x24 Oil on Panel 2022.

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks Corey!! 👽🙏🏽

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · 9d

THE SOUTHWESTERN BELLOWS VOL. 1 is now available! What you see before you is a curious hybrid creature—an artist’s book that is also a book of illustrated short stories.

✨It is available through www.spireandscribe.com
Order a copy, it will make you happy!

#scifiart #artbook #westernart #alienart

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · 11d

📓✨ Greetings Earthlings, here are some preliminary drawings from my sketchbook. My next series will be called "Death Priests." 💀👽🌵

📓✨Which one is your favorite? Also, the future paintings are available for presale, so hit me up if you need a spooky paranormal painting for your spacebase!👽

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · 14d

“Ballard’s Failed Escape” 18x24 Oil On Panel 2024. The Mentorship Program 8/9. (Prints Available!)

**Artist note: I enjoyed the juxtaposition of Ballard’s low-tech ship below and the Pleiadian’s high-tech ship above. Also, I enjoyed painting the Pleiadian’s red pupils.

#scifiart #popsurrealism

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · 17d

✨NEW PAINTING: “William-of-the-Wisp” 16x20 Oil on Panel 2025

....as William became entranced by the meteor fragment, locked in a mental doom spiral of unending information, knowledge, and a few funny memes, the land was safe....

#oilpainting #popsurrealism #crystalcollectors #crystals #spookyart

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · 21d

👽Greetings Earthlings, the summer is just about over, and these prints are leaving the planet! Last chance to grab some weirdness for your spacebase, alien alchemy lab, or cosmic tortoise terrarium.

🌞 Get them while you can! www.markrogersart.com/store

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · 25d

🐬🍪 “Ballard Meets the Pleiadians” 30x15 Oil on panel 2023.

...💀🍪But, upon making contact with the extraterrestrials, Ballard quickly realized the folly of his optimism. For one thing, these creatures deplored sugar.

#popsurrealism #lowbrow #pleiadians #jumpsuits #cookies #oilpainting #scifi

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · 26d

✨🦉✨ “A Lesson in Shapeshifting" 18X24 oil on panel 2021

✨This one was super fun to paint and is included in my new book, "The Southwestern Bellows Vol. 1" available at www.spireandscribe.com

Have a cool day!🎃
#popsurrealism #westernart #shapeshifting #spookyart #spookyseason #narrativeart

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · 27d

Story sent!! 🙏🏽👽

Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · 28d

🌵🧙‍♀️“Alanzo and the Cactus Witch" 18X24 Oil on Panel 2020.

...She also taught him how to make Tears of the Black Rainbow, which caused colorful tears, followed by gross face-melting.
And things were going great until one day, Alanzo accidentally killed the Cactus Witch with poison.

#halloweenart

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · Sep 8

"A Witch's Funeral" 18x24 Oil on Panel 2021.

✨💀Here we see sad Alanzo holding a little funeral for his mentor, poison-making instructor, and only true friend, the Cactus Witch.... whom he accidentally poisoned. 💀

#narrativeart #westernart #halloweenart #spookyseason #oilpainting

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · Sep 7

🛸"A Separation" 14x18 oil on panel 2018.
✨In the 1901 case often referred to as the "Rusty Gut Incident", Rusty Godfrey claimed that aliens cured his appendicitis. His life was saved, but the experience left him with a mysterious compulsion to eat rare earth metals.
💀He died shortly after.

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · Sep 6

❤️🎨Greetings, Earthlings! Today is my love, Erica's (@erica_peebus_art) birthday! I feel so lucky to spend so much time with this talented, beautiful, amazing artist, super funny woman, mega goofball, and my best friend.

❤️We are getting married in a few weeks and I am so thrilled!! 💍

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · Sep 5

✨WHAT IS THIS PAINTING ABOUT?✨

👽🔮“A Mystical Crystal Encounter” 16x20 Oil on Panel 2024. Crystal Collectors 3 of 10.

#crystals #popsurrealims #magick #aliens #alienart #scifiart

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · Sep 2

🔥”A Fiery Wrath” 20x30 Oil on Panel 2023. Painting 7 of 9 in the Primordial Conjunction Series.
What is happening in this painting??
#popsurrealism #scifiart #cryptid #sasquatch #sasquatchart #bigfoot #breathingfire

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · Sep 1

🔶10 TIPS ON HOW TO FORM AN ENERGY PRISM AROUND YOUR BODY
Here are a few great tips to get you started:

1. Meditate every day, all day
2. Make sure your brain is full of juicy brain blood
.....read the rest on my blog: www.markrogersart.com/blog

#popsurrealism #energywork #desertart

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · Aug 31

👽"A Deceptive Offering" 16x20 Oil on Panel 2016.
✨What is this painting about??

#popsurrealism #alienart #scifiart #ufo #ufosighting #narrativeart

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · Aug 30

🌵”A Call for Aid” 14X11 Oil on Panel 2022. Painting 4 of 10 in the “Grand Recital Series”.

🏜 This scene shows Orren Mawson dramatically recounting the tale of his sister's extraterrestrial abduction to all who would listen.
#westernart #wizards #aliens #scifiart #characters #lowbrow #popsurrealism

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · Aug 6

✨ORIGINAL AVAILABLE: “Exchange With the Onion Witch” 18x24 Oil on Panel
www.markrogersart.com/store
#spookyart #popsurrealism #lowbrowart

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · Jun 13

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · Jun 5

✨NEW PAINTING: “Meditation Crystal” 16x20 Oil on Panel 2025
“Crystal Collectors” Painting 6/10
Pleiadian Meditation Instructor and Advanced Mindfulness Coach, Dee Mager, had the most embarrassing problem: He couldn’t meditate.

#oilpainting #crystalcollector #scifiart #popsurrealism #aliens

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Mark Rogers @markrogersart.bsky.social · May 31

✨👽Exciting News👽✨

My first Art Book/Story Book, “Tales from the Southwest Bellows Vol. 1”, is now available for pre-sale at www.spireandscribe.com
I put so much love into this book. Order a copy today!!

#popsurrealism #scifiart #alienart #fairytale #narrativeart #westernart

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