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Martina BWC
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I take pictures - I read books - Daily photos - Daily quotes. The rest is cattle, hydrants, rugby, tech and security.
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Martina BWC @blackandwhiteandcolours.de · Oct 12
Do you think I particularly like you?
Do you think I particularly like you?
"Do you think I particularly like you?" - A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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13. Common wasp AKA Jasper

Back to pencil & watercolour, this a good stripey girl who cleans up the dead fruit around neighbourhood. Wasps should be appreciated for their services. Just no pet, no boop, ok? Ok.

#SciArt
#ArtAdventCalendar
A colour pencil and watercolour illustration of the common wasp, or jasper as it's known in parts of the UK. Label includes the Latin name Vespula vulgaris. It has the classic pointy black and yellow stripey wasp butt, slender honey coloured wings, long sturdy yellow legs, and a black fuzzy body and head. Two comments on the page read 'worker wasp AKA best stripey girl in the dead fruit clean up crew' and 'underappreciated. Just no pet no hoop, ok?'
December 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Anthropic's AI Lost Hundreds of Dollars Running a Vending Machine After Being Talked Into Giving Everything Away - Slashdot
Anthropic let its Claude AI run a vending machine in the Wall Street Journal newsroom for three weeks as part of an internal stress test called Project Vend, and the experiment ended in financial ruin...
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December 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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If you didn't know, between Steam's cut, taxes, and company profit splits, I get maybe 25 cents per unit sold of Eldritch at this price. And that's fine, it's a game I made in another lifetime, I'm just happy if anyone is still enjoying it in the year of our Lord 2025. But yeah. Games is hard.
December 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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And the last one I have... I think I might try to do more... What do you think?
December 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Oddvent Day 19.

On the nineteenth day of Christmas…my true love has left me…the days are all blurring into one…Why are these drawings getting worse? Is this AI? Am I AI? Is the cheese AI? Where did all these chickens come from..?

#ArtAdventCalendar #Illustrator #Advent #Art #Oddvent
A lift with nineteen chickens stuck in it, although we can’t see them as the artist has got progressively lazy as this has gone on…
December 19, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 19

Owlet
Acrylic painting of a white fluffy owlet
December 19, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Day 18 of #ArtAdventCalendar
"Seadog"
Otter hand embroidered thread painting artwork.
#WildlifeArt #embroidery #AnimalArt
A turquoise fabric background square with a hand embroidered Otter's head in profile facing to the right.
December 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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A monarch a-munchin'. 4x6" four color screen print we printed a couple weeks ago. Edition of 27. #ArtAdventCalendar 🐡🎨
An illustrated screen print of a yellow and black monarch caterpillar on a milkweed leaf
December 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Similarly, can you spot the owl?😉

“Owl In The Woods”, 16” x 20”, acrylic on canvas

#ArtAdventCalendar #art #artsky
“Owl In The Woods”, 16” x 20”, acrylic on canvas
December 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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#artadventcalendar day 18
Yes, it’s very silly
Paper collage, a man with a parachute on a lily pad, waterfall behind, dragonfly about about to ruin his day
December 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Jack o'lantern mushrooms. I was asked twice if they were real. I was sitting on the ground with the mushrooms growing out of a stump in front of me. Water soluble encaustic on black prepped wood board. 12 x 12 inch #artadventcalendar #botanicalart #fungi #fungifriends
A large cluster of orange jack o'lantern mushrooms reaching for the sky. These mushrooms glow in the dark and are poisonous.
December 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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December 18: "Two From One" (2019) mixed media on canvas, 18 in. x 24 in. #ArtAdventCalendar
Two strips of blue wallpaper form an off-centre cross. In the upper right quadrant are the outlines of two small figures. Below them and upside down in the lower right quadrant is a similar figure though much larger. The painting has been built up with a variety of found papers and a variety of colours ranging from yellows, browns, blues, and white.
December 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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"Rooms" Crete October '21

I hope the colour edit expresses an emotional tone:
Holiday happiness, like the indistinct memory of visit to the beach. The original was a bit muddy...

Juggling the channels once more but all from the same photo for a change

This for #ArtAdventCalendar day18
a Mediterranean alleyway coloured up in blue greens and pinks. Well tended plants lead to a doorway in an attractive colourful house. Human scale! Human vision works by perceiving objects primarily through lightnesses/darknesses with colour as a glorious and recently evolved additional add on.. which I exploit an awful lot with my pictures. If the monochrome image makes sense, the colour edit can freely add emotional tone. This picture has a warm centre, nice summer evening sky tones above, and a path right up to a doorway in that warm house.
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Day 18 of #ArtAdventCalendar - adventures in watercolour.
My first proper attempt inspired by the amazing, larger-than-life botanical paintings of British artist Rosie Sanders. If you don't know her work, do look it up. Stunning!

#watercolour #watercolor
Watercolour painting of lilies in the style of Rosie Sanders in soft pastel hues of orange, pink, yellow, red and purple. 42x29cm
December 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Day 18 #artadventcalendar

This photo was take middle of the night on a ski trip to Sarikamiș, Turkey. It had snowed heavily, moons shining so brightly the pine trees silhouetted on the snow. Wolves howling had woken me. Winter memories, this one special.
Moonlight photo so this is a very dark sort blurry photo. The moonlight is caught and magnified in the snow covered ground. There are two cross country ski tracks below the massive pine trees that rise up from the snow covered ground.
December 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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I didn’t like where this might go.
I didn’t like where this might go.
"I didn’t like where this might go." - All Systems Red by Martha Wells
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December 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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popsci.com
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.

And trans lives are grounded in reality.

We see y'all. No matter what.

www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
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December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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For day 17 of #ArtAdventCalendar
where is my mind today?

Tangled Memories
Intaglio with spit bite and soap ground
of magnified and abstracted imagery of neurons under the microscope.

#SciArt 🧠🔬 #printmaking
An intaglio etching in dusty indigo blue and white of a silhouette facing right, containing magnified and abstracted imagery of neurons under the microscope. by Kindra Crick #art #artist #neuroart #intaglio
December 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Blue Microbes, watercolor, 2022 #sciart
watercolor grid of microbe images in blue and white
December 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Morning frost on the windshield.
Unfortunately, it had to be destroyed so I could see to drive for work!
#EastCoastKin
#PalacesAndGardens #WinterWonderland
#ClassicMono
#photography
#ArtAdventCalendar
Frost forms sweeping branches across the inside of a car windshield on a cold winter morning. There are trees silhouetted outside the window. Unfortunately, it had to be destroyed so I could see to drive for work!
December 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Dancing knight no. 3

I researched depictions of unicorns in heraldry for this and there is some hilarious stuff. Mine is definitely related to the coat of arms of the municipality Opfenbach in Bavaria. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opfenbach

#ArtAdventCalendar
Lineart of a knight in armour supporting themself on a shield while jumping into the air. The knight is wearing a helmet which covers their face, shin guard, hand guard, chainmail. On the shield the head of a black unicorn is depicted. It is looking at its own horn in surprise and seems to have cleavage.
December 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18. I've been showing pieces that play with light for this tag. This bracelet doesn't play with the light, it throws it around. Hematite cubes with a mirror shine, and honestly the shiniest chunky pink glass beads I've ever seen. An antidote to the grey, dark, days.
The image is a shiny bracelet against a grey fabric background. The bracelet is made with hematite cube beads and chunky pink glass beads, with a silvered swirl that makes them extra shiny. Every surface is reflective. The bracelet is strung on elastic, so no clasp.
December 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Something a little different for #ArtAdventCalendar Day 17 “Echoes,” an 11 by 14-inch mixed media work that explores the interplay between chaos and order.
"Echoes," an 11 by 14-inch mixed media work that explores the interplay between chaos and order. The composition layers vibrant shades of orange, blue, yellow, and gray with bold black and white accents, creating a lively surface filled with texture and movement. Intricate black swirls and curvilinear patterns emerge amid the energy, offering moments of structure amidst the fluid, organic shapes. This piece came from a stream-of-consciousness process, allowing intuition to guide each brushstroke and mark. I hope "Echoes" invites you to experience the balance between unpredictability and design in its depths.
December 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Day 18: #ArtAdventCalendar
Trio of garden birds
Graphite, acrylic, finished digitally.
Pencil & colour pencil drawing on watercolour paper of three birds: A blue tit, long tailed tit and a gold crest. Colour added digitally too. The birds are all hovering in a kind of triangular shape in the air.
December 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18

The Reign themed rat valentine. The first rat who launched a thousand rats. Rat Zero.

#linocut #printmaking #art #artsky #crafts #traditionalart #blockprint #print #ink #artsky #rats
Linocut of a rat clutching a heart with a message coming out of its mouth- one rat down, two to go. Black ink.
December 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM