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Blue Owl Song

@blueowlsong.bsky.social

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A creative seeking refuge in the storm of sorrows this world currently has to offer. Posts will mainly concern world building and my original content, as well as boosting other creatives 🍄 I'm ace, bi, and agender. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ https://ko-fi.com/blueowlsong

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Blue Owl Song @blueowlsong.bsky.social · Aug 19

New pinned post! I recently updated my shop and have more of my original works available as prints, stickers, pins, throw pillows, and phone cases!

Redbubble:
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Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/blueowlsong

#supportartists #artshop #artistshop

Luminous Depths, Aug 2025

Mixed pen illustration of a serpentine, bioluminescent deep sea dragon for Smaugust, curled in an S shape, with the tail at the top and head at the bottom. The body of the dragon is mostly black with shades of dark blue, purple, and dark teal, and there are brightly colored spots, with the biggest being green spots resembling the patterns of orcas and behind large barely visible black eyes. More elongated yellow, light green, and light blue spots are scattered along the trunk while smaller spots of varying colors including pink and orange line the spine. Large colorful glowing fins emerge from the middle back and under the chin, and the tail to the neck is lined on the dorsal side and underside with a continuous multicolor fin.

The background is almost completely filled in with black pen, with some shapes cut out from the darkness, including squid and shark shapes near the top with light coloring in teal/purple and yellow/orange respectively, bubbles throughout, and a few strange deep sea inspired creatures, as well as distant glowing green, yellow, and purple lights. By the dragon's head is a colorful creature with a dolphin shaped body and a head with a mouth that is like the trunk of an elephant with teeth lining it. There is a large glowing coelacanth in the middle left by an orange snake, and an eel-like creature at the top with an orb by its mouth like an anglerfish near the squid.

Framing everything is the very long and thinner tail and body of another creature, another sea serpent that is much bigger and has a small sail on its back like a sailfish.

Sea Turtle Reef, Mar 2020

Acrylic painting of a green sea turtle swimming down through turquoise waters lit by sun beams and facing a lovely and warm toned coral reef with various kinds of corals and anemones, sea grass, and stone. Several tropical fish including clownfish, angelfish, tangs, and others swim among the reef. In the background a few schools of fish are visible, and there are a few large jellyfish, one very close to the sea turtle.

Pangender Snowbank, Aug 2025

Digitally painted landscape with a pink and peachy orange sunrise sky, the sun slightly blurry and yellow, rising over a mostly pink river with chunks of floating ice that reflect the peachy pink river, and a distant snowbank lined with trees marks the horizon on the right, and curves into the river slightly. The bottom left snowbank in the foreground has more distinct shapes cutting into the water to form a shore/bank as well as snow dusted reeds and a few small trees. Snow is falling on the scene.

Leaping for Life, Aug 2025

Abstract deer leaping upwards with a curved back, curly multipronged antlers, and loosely defined legs, with looping lines crossing through and overlapping the deer and forming the background, which is fully filled in with color. Some areas are scribbled a lot and have small white spaces as a result, most of which are filled with spots of color. Others are open and have patterns, cross hatching, color fills, several spots with blended colors, and a section to the left with colorful repeated lines interrupting each other. The deer is breathing out bands of color and is colored in multiple patterns.
The colors of the piece are a full spectrum from pinks and purples to yellow, orange, red, greens, and blues.

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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you for the long-awaited 14,5 k followers!
Time for the #artshare
🍂Share your art in comments
🍂Tell a little about yourself
🍂Comment, like and share other people's art
🍂Keep it SFW, no AI/NFT
🍂Be nice and have fun!
🍂Use alt text
🍂Share this post for exposure!
🍂 Follow me!(optional)

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It's based on my Hansry artwork. Hans and Henry are on their horses on a sunny autumn day. They touch their palms as if they are dancing instead of jousting.

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𝕬𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖑 (𝔬𝔫 𝔳𝔤𝔢𝔫 𝔫𝔬𝔴!) @dozosugoi.com · 10h

#wip done with this freaking hair

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Nush @nushdeco.bsky.social · 22h

Commission for an amazing vgener 💜

[ #art #oc #artsky #illustration ]

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Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · 10h

Prompt #8 is "Summer's night"

The best things in life are free.

#OC-tober #scribbles #inamorata

OC, Victoria Sweet
Digital sketch with rough, muted watercolor. A dark-haired woman in a white gown dances by herself in the dark, surrounded by fireflies.

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mrJohn @new0500blues.bsky.social · 20h

In the rays of the setting sun
A spider waits, for who will come
To his party, not yet begun
Be you beetle, or be you fly
You’ll not escape his greedy eye
The victim’s fate — her careless life

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Kate @notsogreatkate.bsky.social · 1d

A #wipwednesday from one of Luffy’s first scenes. One of my favorites, for sure.

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EVA🏳️‍⚧️ @thesoulpunk.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you for hosting!!! I’m actually working on some more spooky art atm, but here is some I have ready to share! 🎃🎃🎃

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Blue Owl Song @blueowlsong.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you!!!

Blue Owl Song @blueowlsong.bsky.social · 13h

This is so pretty! And I love the source of inspiration

Blue Owl Song @blueowlsong.bsky.social · 13h

Tagging @notsogreatkate.bsky.social :) You've done a lot more Halloween themed art than I have.

Blue Owl Song @blueowlsong.bsky.social · 13h

Hello! Thank you for the art share and thank you, @emberssbm.bsky.social for the tag! I need to make more spooky art, but I have some:

The Aftermath, Aug 2025

Pen drawing of a landscape view inside a cave that has light coming from the left and fading into darkness on the right, with prominent stalactites and stalagmites framing the top and bottom, detailed with loose and wavy lines. The stalactites on the left are dripping. A pool is in the center, and behind it are bones of a long gone dragon, facing left with the top half of its skull while a shoulder bone, spine bones, and a long bone, possibly from a leg, are framing the pool, which has ripples from drips of water from the stalactites. The bones are covered in small, sharp crystals and on the skull are a few remaining clusters of scales. Its left horn is long, curved slightly, and intact, and the right horn is split off, though it isn't clear when this happened. Behind the skeletal remains is a lumpy pile that may be crystals or glass pieces. From the top left, where the shading of the cave is a lot lighter, a dragon head is visible looking at the remains with a difficult to read expression. It is unclear if the dragon is simply moving in, if the dead is an ancestor or was its young, if the living dragon actually killed the other, if it's looking at the hoard with greed. Its eyes have no pupils and it has a slightly jagged appearance on its head/face.

Black and white pen sketch of a raven with constellation markings on the chest and beak. The bird's body is facing right, and its head is facing left, over its right wing which is tucked against its side.

Memories, Oct 2019

A pen and ink sketch of an abandoned swing set, with two wooden swings, the one on the right sitting higher than the one on the left. Cattails and other tall grasses grow all around the set, and a triangular spider web connects the left rope of the right swing to the horizontal bar at the top of the swing set, nearly touching the rope of the other swing. Weeds grow from the top of the swing set, and the sky is slightly shaded.

The First Gargoyle, Aug 2025

Black and white pen illustration of a stone building on the right with a tall rounded top wooden door opening to a dark interior that is shaded all in black with no visible features. The wall is made up of medium wide stones and chunky uneven mortar, with vines creeping all over the surface. Near the top, facing left, is the slightly curved neck and face of a dragon with small scales on the head and large round scales on the neck. The horns are simple and curve out of the back of the head and forward, the teeth are varied in size and all sharp, and the visible eye is vacant, no pupil visible. Some of the vines are creeping onto the neck at the base, and the creature might have been alive and mounted, or it might be made of stone.

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Blue Owl Song @blueowlsong.bsky.social · 13h

I love the watercolors as well as the pen pieces, which are so vibrant and the first piece is so cute!! I love the vampire palace and the demon girl- so cool and spooky

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Zoe The Tsitsa @zoethetsitsa.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you for hosting and thanks to @toffat.bsky.social for tagging!

I'm Zoe, pen and watercolor artist.

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ShiftyPumpkin @shiftypumpkin.com · 18h

Thanks for sharing! I make oil paintings of natural & fantasy landscapes #art #tradart #oilpainting

perceptivepumpkin.com/gallery/
shiftypumpkin.etsy.com
ko-fi.com/shiftypumpkin

“Haunted Swamp”, an 18”x24” oil painting of a swamp in several colors of green, grey, black, blue and purple. Glowing mushrooms and hanging moss dot the landscape.

18”x24” oil painting of a graveyard in autumn among a hilly landscape. The sky has yellows, reds, oranges and purples of sunset. A pumpkin sits against a large, bare tree, with gravestones dotting the landscape and into the distance. Grey fog creeps along parts of the ground.

Oil painting of old graveyard at sunset in autumn, on 18-inch by 24-inch canvas. Orange and red sky, with bare trees, green grass, headstones, and some spooky elements in blue and green.

“Obsidian Peaks”, an 18”x24” oil painting showing a dark foreboding sky and black-blue mountains. A brief opening in the clouds shows the blue sky above, shining down on a valley teeming with forests.

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Félix the Rover @therovercomics.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks Coldrose for the Artshare and Toffat for the tag!

I'm Félix, french comic book artist and illustrator, and here's a couple of things I do :

cyber-punk city scape featuring a futuristic samurai in the front

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Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 17h

Spooky art share?
Is this a spooky art share?
Yes, I've spooky art to share.

I'm Richard, a published sci-fi, fantasy, and horror artist and illustrator and accomplished multi-genre print-on-demand artist and designer.

Here's some of my spooky art:

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𝚍𝚘𝚗 𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚎 @donrice.art · 17h

Nice! Thanks for the artshare!

Hello all. I am a sketcher, trying to capture the strength, love, madness and chaos of the 'reality' I see around me.
Some recent sketchy work.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Luminous Beings // Radioactive Decay
Photo: 1964. -public domain. Sketch art by Don Rice.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of colour in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination.

Monster Mash
#neverplayanythingthesamewaytwice #maynewsufferingstormentyoursoul #everyonecarriesaroundtheirownmonsters
Monsters form a band, and rock out at a Halloween gig. Dracula and Mummy play guitar, Creature lays down the bass line and Wolfie pounds the skins. The Monster hits a triangle arrhythmically as Bride shrieks out the vocals. Amazing show. Catch them if you dare. Sketch art by Don Rice.

inktober | day nine | ‘heavy’
A Nice Day for a Swim
A bear with half of its head above water, the remainder of its body below the surface, swimming from one bank to the other. Sketch art by Don Rice.

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Blue Owl Song @blueowlsong.bsky.social · 13h

That last image is transfixing and gut wrenching knowing the symbolism of it, and it's so beautifully rendered. I really like the sandwich, too. It feels like it is being pierced. And the starfish has a great threatening aura

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JABart(Justin) @juicebars.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks for the artshare, Coldrose! And thanks to both @toffat.bsky.social and @emberssbm.bsky.social for the tags!

I have some spooky pieces for inktober 💀👻

A starfish perched behind a running shower head. He is holding a kitchen knife, ready to attack.

A monstrous sandwich skewered with a spear with a skull. An arm sticks out of the sandwich's mouth, next to the tongue.

A creature skulks in a murky swamp, right behind a lone tree.

A human heart and a feather are weighed on scales. The heart is much heavier, and dripping.

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Corutani Connolly @corutaniconnolly.bsky.social · 14h

Ahoy. I've been tagged to participate. Thank you for hosting. Here's some Kawaii Halloween art and autumn art:
Anyone new? Feel free to ask me to be moots! I'm active and supportive!

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Blue Owl Song @blueowlsong.bsky.social · 13h

These are so cool!!!

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Coldrose @coldrose.bsky.social · 20h

I will start Hi I'm Coldrose I like to make pokemon art and other fanart of my favorite hyperfixations

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Coldrose @coldrose.bsky.social · 20h

🎃Art Share!!👻
Let's Spread positivity

-Post your art
-repost other artist's
-optional invite friends
-No AI No Nfts keep it sfw please

I will Repost art throughout the day 🎉

#artshare #artistsupport

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Ember @emberssbm.bsky.social · 19h

Ty for hosting!! Happy Autumn >:D

Hellooo I'm Ember, a digital painter and comic artist who loves making atmospheric pieces with cute little (or sometimes not so little) critters in them 😌 I also do a weekly comic called "I don't mind." every Friday :D

A digital painting of Hornet and the Bellbeast, from Hollow Knight: Silksong, walking down a foggy road past a ragged dead tree. The road is lined by purple bushes, and mountains fade into the background under a full moon that shines through the fog and night

Signed: EmberSSBM <3

A digital painting of a dense forest of silver trees with purple leaves, the shadows behind which have the glowing red eyes of various creatures. The ground and trees are covered in lightly glowing foliage and mushrooms. There are many characters throughout, from left to right:

A brown-headed mushroom friend leaning back in the crevice of a tree with a sack full of goods beside them.

Two little mushrooms happily and wondrously interacting with each other, the right most having a red head, and the left having a glowing mint head.

A tired goblin walking out of their house and checking out what the commotion is.

A femme person walking with a map in their hands and looking up into the trees. They have mushroom earrings and are wearing a yellow sweater over a maroon skirt and brown boots. Beside them is a one-eyed purplish-black cat.

Two mushroom friends peeking out from behind tree trunks, one of which has a glowing green top and the other a brown top.

A purple-headed mushroom peeking out from behind a tree.

On a stump, a round frog and a corvid.

Signed: EmberSSBM <3

A digital painting of the Pokemon Regigigas walking in the distance of Snowpoint Temple (from Pokemon), leaving large footprints behind it. The temple is perched at the top of a mountain peak in the foreground, its entrance following a set of stairs and a path from the nearby Lake Acuity. Evergreen trees are scattered about the snowy mountain, and across the distant land.

A large ravine is open in the distance, separating lanes of mountains. The sky is dark and cloudy, which reflects onto the surface of the lake clearly.

At the base of the pathway stand Cynthia and her Garchomp (from the Sinnoh region in Pokemon) looking out at the Regigigas)

Signed: EmberSSBM <3

A stormy ocean scene in which a small ship, captained by Mr. Briney and his pet Wingull Peeko (Pokemon), are fighting to stay afloat amidst the waves.

The lights of the ship are a small reflection in the monstrous eye of Kyogre (big ol scary whale pokemon), its golden eye piercing through the fog, its teeth and features fading into the fog and waves

Signed: EmberSSBM <3

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