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Nature-inspired art and gifts by David and Jennie. Bloomington, Indiana. blueasterstudio.com

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blueasterstudio.bsky.social @blueasterstudio.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hello! We are David and Jennie, and we make artwork and fun gift items inspired by our love of nature! 🐡🎨

Jennie and David, a middle-aged white couple next to a display stand of wildlife screen prints.

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blueasterstudio.bsky.social @blueasterstudio.bsky.social · 19h

New in our shop! A collection of cute wooden wildlife ornaments, laser cut and screen printed by hand in our studio. Choose from gray squirrel, box turtle, opossum, turkey vulture, bison, and saw-whet owl! 🎨🐡

blueasterstudio.com/collections/...

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blueasterstudio.bsky.social @blueasterstudio.bsky.social · 3d

We just finished printing some creatures of the night on this Halloween... 🎨🐡

A table of fresh screen printed artwork of an opossum walking across a fence at night. A rabbit and luna moth are in the yard below.

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blueasterstudio.bsky.social @blueasterstudio.bsky.social · 12d

Do they look cute in the daylight? We think so! 🐡🎨

blueasterstudio.com/collections/...

Two stickers displayed on a green mossy background: snaggle toothed anglerfish with a shining head lure and a flying squirrel with patagia outspread

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blueasterstudio.bsky.social @blueasterstudio.bsky.social · 12d

Heads up! We just added two new glow-in-the-dark stickers to the shop: Anglerfish and flying squirrel.

Pro-tip for all you Bluesky followers: 20% off sale starts tomorrow!

A green glowing sticker of an anglerfish

A green glowing sticker of a flying squirrel

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Natalie Wernimont | nataliejunewernimoon @nataliewernimont.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hi, hello, here to let you know that a selection of moth & butterfly paintings are on sale in my web shop through the end of august :)

www.nataliejunewernimoon.com 🦋🌙

#paintings #butterfly #moth #art #entomology #lepidoptera #moths #butterflies #bugs #insects #oddities #bugsky #sciart

Realistic paintings of moths and butterflies in frames of varying styles. The pieces are sitting on a distressed white tabletop. There are hints of wood tone showing throughout the white surface, which you can also see behind the insects. This helps to indicate that they have been painted on clear glass, and each one looks like it is floating in the middle its respective frame.

Top row: red admiral, white-lined sphinx
Middle row: question mark butterfly, black swallowtail
Bottom row: monarch, honey locust moth

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Shirley Jackson @lioninthetrees.bsky.social · Aug 11

Reduction block print inspired by the Western and California Scrub Jay! 🪶🌿
Done with two different colour variants for the month of July Print Pals' crew over on my patreon ~*
www.patreon.com/lioninthetrees

#art #SciArt #NearbyNature2025 #printmaking

Block print featuring a Scrub Jay using a variety of blues with a teal ink background printed on a cream paper. The bird is surrounded by flora including California Poppies that create a border around the piece.

Block print featuring a Scrub Jay using a variety of blues with a sky blue ink background printed on a cream paper. The bird is surrounded by flora including California Poppies that create a border around the piece.

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The Wee Owl Art (Scotland) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @theweeowl.bsky.social · Aug 11

Tall densely planted trees in deep shade with bright golden light where the forest ends. Oil pastel, A5 on blue paper. Available on Folksy...
folksy.com/items/8530294

#Landscape #Trees #forest #OriginalArt #Drawing #OilPastels #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #bsnm

An oil pastel painting of the edge of a dark forest, tall densely planted trees in deep shade with bright golden light where the forest ends. A5 size on blue paper.
This is an original art work
Fine art oil pastel on toned pastel paper
Size A5 (21cm x 14.5cm)
Sold unframed

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Jeremy Sell @jeremysell.bsky.social · Aug 11

Living throughout the year far to the south, common buckeyes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Junonia coenia) venture north every summer. Adults are often seen in open meadows and old fields where they feed on asters and other summer wildflowers. Clayton Michigan, 28 Sep 2012.

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · Aug 11

Zammara smaragdina #cicada at @casabentbill.bsky.social #costaRica

#nature #insects

Bright turquoise cicada with clear, veined wings perched on a moss-covered tree trunk.

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blueasterstudio.bsky.social @blueasterstudio.bsky.social · Aug 10

The Blue Aster booth is ready for action at #esa2025! Come on by starting tonight at 6:30pm.

An art and gifts booth with stickers, stationery, tote bags, magnets, buttons, and art prints.

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blueasterstudio.bsky.social @blueasterstudio.bsky.social · Aug 10

We're here too!

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blueasterstudio.bsky.social @blueasterstudio.bsky.social · Aug 8

No, that one wasn't one of ours!

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The Wee Owl Art (Scotland) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @theweeowl.bsky.social · Aug 5

🔴This artwork is now sold, thank you.
If you are interested in seeing or purchasing my art, I'd love you to visit my Folksy shop.
folksy.com/shops/thewee...

#Frog #PoisonDartFrog #OriginalArt #Drawing #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #bsnm

A small original drawing of a strawberry poison dart frog sitting on a leaf, with a semi abstract background of jungle foliage. The drawing is on cream toned paper.
The strawberry poison dart frog's skin becomes toxic, or poisonous, because of what it eats. When these frogs eat certain types of tiny mites and ants, their skin becomes harmful. They are famous for their many different colours. There are about 15 to 30 different colour patterns.
An original art work
Colour pencil and mixed media on acid free toned artist paper
5 by 7 inches (12.7 by 17.8 cm).
Sold unframed

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.bsky.social · Jul 26

Still plenty of room in our workshop/course on Decolonizing Ecological Praxis and Engaging with Indigenous Communities at #ESA2025 in two weeks! Join us if you’re able to as we are planning to spark some deep conversations vital for the future of our field.

Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.bsky.social · Jun 12

Planning to attend @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social's upcoming #ESA2025 annual meeting in Baltimore?
Consider signing up for my short course w Gwen Bridge:
Decolonizing Ecological Praxis and Engaging Ethically with Indigenous Communities
Look for SC 02 when you register!
Curious but unsure? Ask me!

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blueasterstudio.bsky.social @blueasterstudio.bsky.social · Aug 4

Those last two really bring it together though!

blueasterstudio.bsky.social @blueasterstudio.bsky.social · Aug 2

Printing a new edition of our beavers. 3 colors down, two to go... 🎨🐡🦫

A screen print with layers of light blue, green, and warm brown in the vague shape of three beavers, foliage, and a fallen tree

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blueasterstudio.bsky.social @blueasterstudio.bsky.social · Jul 21

Here's a close up of this lil' guy. 🐡🎨🪲

Close up of the image from my previous skeet - a black and brown rhinoceros beetle surrounded by forest floor litter.

blueasterstudio.bsky.social @blueasterstudio.bsky.social · Jul 21

Another new screen print! We've got a sweet little forest floor scene with a toad 🐸 and rhinoceros beetle 🪲. Measures 10" by 4.5", edition of 30. 🎨🐡

A wide format three color screen print in rusty brown, yellow, and black. An American toad sits on a leaf surrounded by forest floor litter with a black rhinoceros beetle in the background.

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The Wee Owl Art (Scotland) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @theweeowl.bsky.social · Jul 7

My little art shop has a selection of landscape and nature drawings in a variety of subjects to please everyone. All one of a kind originals at affordable prices for gifts.
www.etsy.com/shop/TheWeeO...

#Landscape #AnimalArt #Scotland #OriginalArt #Drawing #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #bsnm

A photo collage of some of my artwork:
Mushrooms, Edinburgh Castle, a white stork, butterflies, a hare and a birch tree landscape.

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blueasterstudio.bsky.social @blueasterstudio.bsky.social · Jul 7

Thanks so much!

blueasterstudio.bsky.social @blueasterstudio.bsky.social · Jul 7

Got this guy listed in the shop. Three colors, edition of 30,measures 10 × 4.5 inches. 🐡🎨🪶

blueasterstudio.com/products/bla...

blueasterstudio.bsky.social @blueasterstudio.bsky.social · Jul 7

We spent a good part of this long weekend printing... A not so fearsome foursome. 🐡🎨🪶

Two wide pieces of paper showing two screen printed layers: one has only blue ink, the other has gray added. The gray reveals that this print is of four birds perched on a tree limb

Two more sheets of paper of the same print, one with the blue and gray ink. The other has black added, showing the forms of four black vultures.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · Jul 4

I know we don't feel like there's much to celebrate this July 4th. It's been a rough several years.

So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.

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blueasterstudio.bsky.social @blueasterstudio.bsky.social · Jul 3

When you learn that an armadillo's armor is made up of keratin scales called scutes, the obvious next step is to draw an armadillo line dancing

Right?! Or maybe that's just us... 🤷🤷‍♀️

A rounded rectangle magnet with an Illustration of an armadillo in western wear dancing. Text reads Boot Scute n' Boogie.

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blueasterstudio.bsky.social @blueasterstudio.bsky.social · Jun 29

We've increased our mustelids greatly over the last year but haven't gotten to fishers yet, alas!

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