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Donna Letterese

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Over 🐨-fied Teddy Bear Enthusiast Western WA Based🌲 Creator of Comics/Illustration, Botanical Art, Kidlit, Cut Paper/Book Arts, Urban Sketch/Nature Journal-er, Teaching Artist & Continuing Education Instructor www.drawdvl.com / www.donnaletterese.com

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · Jun 21

Hey it’s both #WorldMusicDay and #Caturday today! 🎶🐱

Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · Jun 22

For #WorldMusicDay:
The Cat Symphony, Moritz von Schwind, 1868, H 31.6cm W 25cm, pencil/brown pen/brown brush on paper. "A humorous depiction of a melody for violins in which, instead of notes, numerous cats move across the paper." 🐈
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#CatsInArt

The Cat Symphony, one of his best-known hand drawings, is a humorous depiction of a melody for violins in which, instead of notes, numerous cats move across the paper.

The composition can be interpreted as a caricaturing dig at Richard Wagner's music, which the artist did not appreciate very much. Schwind gave the sheet to one of his friends, the violinist Joseph Joachim. The reason for the gift was Joachim's appointment as director of the Berlin Academy of Music. Schwind sent a letter and a photo of the drawing to Eduard Mörike on January 19, 1869.

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Donna Letterese @drawdvl.bsky.social · Jun 17

The little newt's sad eyes!!! What a sweetie 🥹

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morriebird @morriebird.bsky.social · May 27

If you see this post a witch!

#Witch #Comic

A four panel comic reading from left to right. First panel: A young witch girl stands over a bubbling cauldron reading from a book. She says "hmmm...This recipe calls for eye of newt." A newt sits on a stack of books behind her. Second panel: The witch girl looks at the newt and it looks startled with an exclamation point over its head. Third panel: A close-up of the newt's face and it looks very sad and pathetic with pleading eyes. Fourth panel: The newt now has an eyepatch. The witch girl, back at her cauldron, irritably reads from the recipe book "AND toe of frog?" Black and white digital drawing. Comic series in upper left reads "a circle is round." Artist name in mid right reads "morriebird."

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Donna Letterese @drawdvl.bsky.social · Apr 2

Posting as Bremerton's First Friday Art Walk is this week 🐿️

I'll have the graphite squirrel drawing shown here up at Rimbert Illustration by @daniellerimbert.bsky.social, on Callow Ave, 5-8:30 PM.

It is based on the poem "Observe" by Jane Nelson for Ars Poetica ❤️

#pencilart #grayscale #animalart

Graphite illustration of a Puffy Squirrel in an Old Growth Forest, drawn for Jane Nelson's poem "Observe," for the 2025 April Ars Poetica and shown in Bremerton, WA, at the Rimbert Illustration Gallery.

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Donna Letterese @drawdvl.bsky.social · Mar 19

This should've attached earlier, but here's" A Nuthatch 'Lichen-ness' ," my watercolor/ink piece up currently at Gallery North in Edmonds.

Many thanks to Gallery North for the chance to be part of this really fun show 💚 Check them out for the Edmonds Art Walk 5-8 this Thursday night, March 20 💚

Donna Letterese @drawdvl.bsky.social · Mar 19

A detail shot of " A Nuthatch 'Lichen-ness' ," watercolor and ink piece 2025 by Donna Letterese

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Donna Letterese @drawdvl.bsky.social · Mar 19

Here's one of the two pieces I have up at the "Small Works" show at Gallery North in Edmonds, WA: "A Nuthatch 'Lichen-ness' " (yay puns) 💚

Photo 1 is a photo of the piece on the wall at Gallery North & Photo 2 is a detail shot 🐦

#nuthatch #lichen #edmondsWA #gallerynorthedmonds #watercolorandink

" A Nuthatch 'Lichen-ness' ," watercolor and ink piece by Donna Letterese, framed on the wall for the Small Works 2025 show up at Gallery North in Edmonds, WA

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Donna Letterese @drawdvl.bsky.social · Feb 17

Happy #WorldWhaleDay 🐳 I drew this icon of an Orca as one of several themed on Central Kitsap County, and they are all shown in a series of little double sided accordion books I've made.

🤍🖤🤍

#icon #illustration #accordionbook #pnwartist #pnwart #kitsap #bremerton #pnwart #silverdale #psba #orcas

Black and White Ink Illustration of an Orca Whale

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · Feb 17

3 weeks until 7pm sunsets. 👀

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Donna Letterese @drawdvl.bsky.social · Feb 15

Happy #ValentinesDay from this little digital Tree Swallow w/Pink Heart Flower Sketch from some time ago. May your day be filled with whatever brings you the kind 🩷 feeling that you need
🌸🐦🌸
#animalart #animaldrawing #treeswallow #illustration #birdart #birbart #pnwart #birb #pinkgoesgoodwithgreen

Digital Painting of a Bluish Green Tree Swallow sitting on a Brown Branch with a Pink Flower turning into a Heart Shape from a Flower Bud at the end of the Branch

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Monster C. Camacho 🧌💀🎃👻 @mc2x.bsky.social · Feb 8

This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake

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NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon - NASA

Lee esta historia en español aquí

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Donna Letterese @drawdvl.bsky.social · Feb 8

@prism-sentient.bsky.social, I think you would like this!

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Sami W @samicreates.bsky.social · Feb 8

My local bookstore, @ballastbookco.bsky.social put up an amazing display for black history month 😍 but also, read black authors all year long. #booksky

Display of books at a book store for black history month.
Death of the Author
Black Powerful
An African History of Africa
Bad Witches
Between Friends and Lovers
Dear Black Girls
King, a life
Children of Anguish and Anarchy
Skin and Bone
The Selected Works of Audrey Lorde
In the Shadow of the Fall
At the Fount of Creation
Self Care for Black Women
Pritty
Get a Life Chloe Brown
Jamaica Ginger
Lore of the Wild
All About Love
All Boys Aren’t Blue
The City We Became

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Donna Letterese @drawdvl.bsky.social · Feb 8

Repost, with alt text!

Bremerton First Friday at the @daniellerimbert.bsky.social February art show.

This is my piece, "Dad's Hug," inspired by a zoo photo of me & my Dad when I was little.

In memoriam, "Love, Loss, and Light," 💔❤️

#bremertonfirstfriday #rimbertillustration #love #loss #light

A photo of me, wearing my Dad's blazer, posing next to an illustration I did of him in memoriam, which is an ink drawing with brown ink on brown paper of he and I years ago (him holding me up at the zoo while the seals were behind us).

Closer view of an illustration I did of my Dad in memoriam, which is an ink drawing with brown ink on brown paper of he and I years ago (him holding me up at the zoo while the seals were behind us).

Zoomed in view of an illustration I did of my Dad in memoriam, which is an ink drawing with brown ink on brown paper of he and I years ago (him holding me up at the zoo while the seals were behind us).

A selfie I took, wearing my Dad's blazer, posing in front of an illustration I did of him in memoriam, which is an ink drawing with brown ink on brown paper of he and I years ago (him holding me up at the zoo while the seals were behind us).

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Donna Letterese @drawdvl.bsky.social · Feb 8

First post for Bremerton First Friday at the @daniellerimbert.bsky.social February art show.

This is one of my pieces, "Dad's Hug," inspired by a zoo photo of me & my Dad when I was little.

In memoriam, "Love, Loss, and Light," 💔❤️

#bremertonfirstfriday #rimbertillustration #love #loss #light

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · Feb 6

Store-made standard colors keep expanding for both gouache and watercolor! 🌈🎨

Store-made gouache display featuring both tubes and Sticky Caps.

Stack of tins featuring half pans of standard colors and an accompanying swatch page.

Swatch sheet of standard watercolors on display under individually available half pans of store-made watercolor.

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Donna Letterese @drawdvl.bsky.social · Feb 5

The "Love, Loss, and Light" art show opens Friday night, February 7th, at Rimbert Illustration Gallery on Callow Ave in Bremerton during First Fridays Art Walk ❤️ Come check it out, 5:00 PM to 8:30 PM 🩷🖤🕯️

daniellerimbert.bsky.social @daniellerimbert.bsky.social · Jan 24

Calls for Art Feb.-April at Rimbert Illustration #calltoartists #skyart #artspace #bremerton #kitsapcounty #kitsap #callowiscool

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Kerry Smith @kitsapimages.bsky.social · Feb 4

A Winter Morning
We got an inch or so of snow overnight which helped create this unique light. It was extremely still and the water was very calm except for the ripples caused by the birds.
#photography #PhotographersUnited #KitsapCounty
#gallery365in2025 #gallery365

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Donna Letterese @drawdvl.bsky.social · Feb 5

Is this Silverdale Waterfront Park?? Wow!

Donna Letterese @drawdvl.bsky.social · Feb 5

Love your work, it was wonderful to meet you at last year's Seattle Art Book Fair! Great to see you on these Blue skies 🏙️💙

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Donna Letterese @drawdvl.bsky.social · Feb 4

#TBT since Art & Science are both important.

Seattle's #BurkeMuseum has a great show up called "Rare Air: Connecting with Species of Flight." It was great to do #urbansketching at this exhibit. Please visit & find out ways to help flying animals 🌎

#natureconservation #beeart #birdart #uskseattle

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · Jan 23

We've still got space in ALL the weekend classes! Join us 𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗗𝗔𝗬 for Cartooning & Character Design, 𝗦𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗗𝗔𝗬 for Watercolor Pet Portraits and/or DIY Screen Printing, and 𝗦𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬 for Intro to Alcohol Markers! So many different subjects and mediums to explore! www.pushpullseattle.com/classes.html...

Photo of people working with small 4x6 screen printing frames at a table.

Photo of an in-progress watercolor painting of a small dog. Artist hand holding paint brush in foreground.

Photo of a smiling person holding up a pencil drawing of two characters in a ballroom setting.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · Jan 23

Here are some nice mushrooms

A family of grey Mycena semivestipes mushrooms grow from the rotted punk of a mossy log. Gossamer bug threads crisscross their caps

All photos by me

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daniellerimbert.bsky.social @daniellerimbert.bsky.social · Jan 23

The only bandit I want to be in cahoots with.

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BremertonZineFest @bremertonzinefest.bsky.social · Jan 22

Unsure how to connect on a new social media app? Check out your friends and local business' followers and following lists! It's a great way to find your people. I've been looking at @ballastbookco.bsky.social @krampusbremerton.bsky.social

Tag ur fav PNW peeps and businesses to help build community

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