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Steven Strang
@alchemicalrat.bsky.social
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Artist, researcher. Anthropology, experimental archaeology, painting, sculpture, visual communication. Slowed but not entirely stopped by ME/CFS. Ottawa, Canada.
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Day 9 of #ArtAdventCalendar
Bejewelled Hare
Painting of a hare in an ornate silver frame. The hare is posed as if sitting for a portrait before a blue background. It is wearing several gold renaissance-style necklaces and a pearl drop earring.
December 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Day 8 #ArtAdventCalendar • Everyone seems to love this #SciArt #anatomy #embroidery, she breathed (2018). It appears on the cover of the anthology Sharp Notions arsenalpulp.com/Books/S/Shar...
An embroidery on a pale natural linen. There is a bone white diagram of a vocal apparatus, trachea, and bronchi/lungs. In between the branches of the bronchioles are small words embroidered in cursive in thin burgundy thread. They read: she breathed. Inhaled. exhaled. she knew. that breathing. was beauty. was the way. inside. to outside. when her breath. tightened. she found. ways. to soften. be still. to allow that. in. of the out. breath. to be. the. way through. she found the throughline. somehow. it. also found her. still. and   breathing. deeply. each day was. new. each breath. a. different. path. always. through her. and. throughout her. such a. simple. thing, breath. such a journey. through. trees. and. branches. how the body knows. to still. itself. if we learn how. to. listen deeply.
December 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Queen of Owls, as seen through the eyes of Trippy Pete, Child of the Hum.
Mixed media image by myself and @philh.bsky.social
@hookland.bsky.social 🖤 #OwlishMonday
large owl, talons clasped on what might be a branch or wires. Two stylized pylons in the background.. The owl is rendered in neon shades of orange, red, pink and purple. Pylons white in front of black. Mixed media, Maria Strutz and Phil Hine
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Day seven of #ArtAdventCalendar and #OwlishMonday
Looking Through the Owl’s Eyes
Pen and ink wash picture of a young person in a long dress holding up an owl in front of their face. The owl is perched with its wings spread open and its eyes directly in front of the person’s as if it were a mask.
December 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Have a Wyandotte chicken for today's #ArtAdventCalendar!

Had a good time drawing these feather patterns. This was another in my #TransArtMay project. You can browse that hashtag to see the others! Trans rights forever! 💜
Digital drawing of a striking white bird whose feathers are all edged in black, creating a stunning pattern. It has a red comb and wattles and a golden eye. It is holding a tiny bouquet of flowers with pink, blue, and white petals in the colors of the trans flag.
December 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Raven
Liv Rainey-Smith
Woodcut print
LE of 22 signed and numbered prints. Part of the ARCANUM BESTIARUM by Robert Fitzgerald. #art #woodcut #printmaking #bestiary #ArtAdventCalendar
A slender vertical rectangular black ink woodcut printed on cream colored paper. A raven with raised wings is perched upon a stoppered rounded bottle, leaning down with a key in its beak. A fire burns under the bottle and within it an anatomical floats in liquid, with steam emerging from the arteries and veins at the top.
December 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Day seven of #ArtAdventCalendar
Her Constant Companion
Painting of a woman in a blue silk Victorian gown. An enigmatic shadowy creature looms behind her, staring at you with yellow eyes. The woman holds a red leash loosely in one hand, the other end appears to be attached to the creature.
December 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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#artadventcalendar day 6
Paper collage - sea monster in an ocean under a zeppelin, a woman in an art nouveau style looking on in the foreground - probably a mermaid
December 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Because joy is resistance and because the fascists have no art in them, or magic.
Renaissance garbed woman holds a tripartite moon mask to her features. The words on the image say "re-enchantment is resistance"
December 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Day six of #ArtAdventCalendar
The Lads Had Dressed Fo Dinner
Painting of two people with animal heads standing in front of a green background. The raccoon is wearing a baggy blue jacket and leaning on a walking stick. The bear is wearing a long overcoat and carrying a salmon. Both are wearing bowler hats.
December 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 5, a friendly but very shy bog dweller.

Finished today and made from paper mache, wood, dyed hemp fibre and mulberry bark. 🐌
A gremlin or goblin figure with huge ears and a curious expression. He is draped in a cloak made from coarse mulberry bark, and bits of muted green hemp fibre that resemble seaweed functioning as a scarf. He has duck-like orange webbed feet, and carries a bucket in one hand and a fishing rod in the other. He is standing against a soft white background decorated with pieces of driftwood and some dried grass.
December 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Star fox, running across fossils amidst stars
#FoxFriday #FossilFriday 🦊🌀🌠
a fox running from right to left. Behind and above the fox stars, below the fox fossilized sea urchins with starlike markings. Linedrawing, water colours, shades of white, midnight blue and russetfoxishorangebrown. Maria Strutz
December 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Day five of #ArtAdventCalendar.
Painting of a raven perched on a branch of a pine tree. The raven is holding an old key on a string in its beak. The background is a forested valley with lakes and some cleared fields.
December 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Krampmouse has made an appearance! So it’s time to start setting up our Christmas diorama in the window…
Photo of a plush toy mouse dressed like Krampus. It is wearing a horned mask with bright red eyes, it has a whip in one hand, a chain around its waist, and a basket on its back holding a smaller felt mouse.
December 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 4 morning

Breakup
30x36 76x91
Oil on Canvas
2021

#art #painting
Abstract Landscape: orange sky with swirling dark blue clouds over a lake with ice, melt ponds and beach
December 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Day 4 of #ArtAdventCalendar
The Treasure Hunter
Painting of a solemn-looking girl in 19th century clothing standing in a pine forest and holding a shovel. The ground falls away immediately in front of her, opening into an abyss scattered with stars. She is looking to her side at an owl perched on a nearby tree branch.
December 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Cat-napped!
Photo of an old tabby cat curled into a ball on the coverlet while pressed against my leg. He’s multitasking by getting a heat transfusion from me in his sleep.
December 3, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Day 3 of #ArtAdventCalendar: It's always hard to find the perfect tree-topper, but I think I've done it! #wildlife
A Great Horned Owl sits on the top of a thin evergreen tree. The weight of the owl bends the top branch downwards.
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Day 3 #ArtAdventCalendar this year! This juvenile Northern Saw-whet Owl, which I had a lot of fun with in making that stark white ghostly cedar as a sort of pattern rather than aiming for realism with it. I think it turned out pretty cool!

#BirdArt #SciArt 🪶
Digital illustration of a juvenile Northern Saw-Whet Owl looking directly at the viewer. It clings to a single branch in the shadows, only very slightly obscured by impressionistic bright white cedar branches. The background is a mottled mix of light and shadow. The bird, a very small owl, has a large head with two golden eyes.
December 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I'm in a pile of pain today so you are getting a morbid piece for #artadventcalendar The skull's name is Eggy.

Oil paint on canvas

#stilllife #painting #naturemort
Painting of the top half of a human skull surrounded by cut golden chanterelles on dark blue table against a dark background. Morbid and edible.
December 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Day 3 of #ArtAdventCalendar
Painting of a person with a raven’s head, wearing an intensely red long dress is walking along a road. In the landscape behind them is a dead tree with three ravens perched in the branches.
December 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Day 2 #ArtAdventCalendar & #WomensBrainHealthDay • This #SciArt #symptomatology #embroidery is loosely based on a Ramon y Cajal drawing and depicts the electrical fog I feel in my brain due to #MECFS: she was tributaries (2016).
An embroidery on bone white linen. There are many coral-like neurons in the vague shape of a brain embroidered in shades of blue. The bottom section is navy blue and transitions to a lighter blue at the top. The text at the bottom reads: she was tributaries, all electric.
December 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Another horizontal day, but I can’t complain about the company.
Photo of a cat on my lap while I recline on the sofa under a blue blanket. A soft brown toy mouse wearing a silk shawl leans on the cat.
December 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 2
A cabin with a view.
Painting of a red frame cabin on a very small but heavily treed island which is floating mysteriously over the surface of a lake.
December 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM