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Uni Admin some of the time. Pottery a lot of the rest, when not with nose in book/wandering the landscape/knitting.
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victoriaredfern.bsky.social
We should put together a list of books you can buy this Christmas from authors who were robbed and had their careers sabotaged* by Unbound.
(*What makes me forever angry is that it's about so much more than money. You'd think people who read would be better at empathy and understanding.)
December 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
If you're in the UK and would like a first edition Everything Will Swallow You hardback direct from me, I'll send you one of these beautiful hare linocuts by my mum, Jo, with it for free while stocks last (I have 5).

Book RRP is £16.99.

Drop me an email at [email protected] to nab one.
Red and a black hare cut-out linoprints by my mum, Jo Jim with Everything Will Swallow You
December 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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nataliebsketching.bsky.social
Support us dry dry humans
A two-panel comic drawing. The first panel says “why use water-hungry AI…”, accompanied by an abstract drawing of a dark cloud extending fingers into Earth or water. The second panel says “when you can support dehydrated artists?”. The image is of a skull next to a paintbrush and a palette. The skull says “we’re very low impact”.
December 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
ficooper.bsky.social
I'm finding #ArtAdventCalendar really uplifting in these dark times.

I also love this ⬇️ about it because I always totally fail at those *post every day* type online things.
jayispainting.earthskyart.ca JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 4d
If you are thinking about joining #ArtAdventCalendar but are thinking you missed a day or you won't be able to post every day, remember you get to be like Gandalf and arrive (or leave) precisely when you mean to...
a wizard is never late nor is he early he arrives precisely when he means to ..
Alt: man with a long beard and a big wizard's hat saying a wizard is never late nor is he early he arrives precisely when he means to ..
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December 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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fiddlehead.earthskyart.ca
Here's an ent for day 5 #artadventcalendar
Clay sculpture of a tree man
December 6, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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tishamark.com
Day 5: #ArtAdventCalendar

Also, it's #scape day!

Tisha Mark ©2025, To Dream by the Sea No. 2508, oil on gessobord, 8"x8"

tishamark.com/product/to-d...

#art #painting #bsnm #TraditionalArt #SciArt
Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "To Dream by the Sea No. 2508" 8"x8" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2025). An atmospheric textured seascape with white cloud formations over a dark blue sea with a rocky shore.
December 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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loachy16.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar

5th December! Behind door number five we have:

“Sunburst” 16x20in - Acrylic on canvas
Abstract painting Orange/yellow background with splashes of blue, gold and black over the top
December 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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stoutheartstudio.com
Day 5 #art for #ArtAdventCalendar is one of my rainbow wings series. I have recently ordered prints of some of these to see how they look! I’m excited for them to arrive.

This is a digitally painted European Peacock #butterfly, I like the traditional paint feel I managed.

#Procreate 🐡 #insect
An European peacock butterfly, its furry brown body surrounded by large red wings with gold and black eyes both top and bottom. It has wonderful striping and touches of blue and green iridescence near the eye markings. The butterfly is lined in gold to help it stand out from the dark background.
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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kerriedoodles.bsky.social
Day five of #ArtAdventCalendar.

Here’s a stone I painted a reeeeeally long time ago.
On a light grey pebble is a painting of a rising full moon with a silhouetted hare in front of it. The colours are monochrome, and there are lots of stars in the sky. There are silhouetted trees of either side of the hare.
December 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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burrddoh.bsky.social
Sometimes I just throw everything at a surface to see what works together & it turns out something like this
#ArtAdventCalendar #MixedMedia
#EastCoastKin
Watercolor salted background in pinks & blues, overlaid with Celtic knotwork in blue leaf & moon phases in Kuretake gold ink
December 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
ficooper.bsky.social
These take ages to make but I love making them.

Inspired by my local landscape this is the ancient chalk Uffington White Horse.

This pot pulled itself apart in the kiln so I did some kintsugi to put it together and, somehow, it just adds to it.

#ArtAdventCalendar #ukpotter #handbuiltpottery
Kintsugi vase featuring Uffington White Horse in its downland landscape of whites, greens and pale blue fields and sky.
December 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
ficooper.bsky.social
alexvont.bsky.social Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 1d
Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.
December 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
ficooper.bsky.social
ALL OF THIS:
gralefrit.bsky.social Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 1d
My Spotify wrapped summary is that my band took all our music off Spotify because the company’s CEO invests the billions which he doesn’t pay artists on AI drone weapons tech.

Ditch Spotify. Pay artists. Redistribute wealth. Stop war. Happy Christmas!
Photo that the Point Clear LP sleeve was based on.
December 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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fiddlehead.earthskyart.ca
Green man mask for day 4 #artadventcalendar
Clay mask of man's face with leaves for hair and beard
December 5, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
For day 4 #ArtAdventCalendar evening

Bolt From The Blue
26×34 66×86cm
Oil on canvas
2023
Storm clouds at night with a lightning bold in the middle over a valley with a river
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
ficooper.bsky.social
I did an archaeology degree and stuff I've had on my head since then keeps creeping into my pots!

Labyrinth and spiral design, inspired by European prehistoric rock carvings. A wax relief design on crank (textured) clay with a turquoise glaze.

#ArtAdventCalendar #handbuiltpottery #ukpotter
Pale green vase with labyrinth and spiral design, styled with grass and pebbles on a neutral background
December 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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nicolecowie.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar 4
Wall quilt 22”x24”
Foundation paper piecing. Made for my dad’s wife soon after he had passed this Spring. I combined elements of two patterns and made the cat to look like her beloved cat, ItsyBitsy whom has since passed as well. ❤️
Quilt is the image of a dark brown and back cat sitting on a ledge beside a row of three small potted plants. Sharp green leaves and stems in varying greens and purples, in white pots with colourful prints. The two tiered ledge spans the width of the bottom. Top layer is being on top of a grey concrete coloured ledge. Cat is looking off to the left at a small orange butterfly in the darkish blue sky with appearance of small light clouds. On the top right quarter, the quilting creates the outline of a sun and gently waving beams radiating out.
December 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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choy.bsky.social
Day 4 #ArtAdventCalendar shaggy dude #pottery #sculpture
A stoneware shaggy form with a blue face and arms and brown rutile glaze A stoneware shaggy form with a blue face and arms and brown rutile glaze A stoneware shaggy form with a blue face and arms and brown rutile glaze
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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cpswoveland.bsky.social
If you take photos, make pottery, textile art or other crafts, do paintings, sketches, collages or anything...whether you sell or just do it for fun...I would encourage you to participate in #ArtAdventCalendar You will enjoy looking back on your own work and find lovely things made by others.
jayispainting.earthskyart.ca JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 2d
Ending day 3 of #artAdventCalendar with 472 participants. A fair bit slower than last year where we had 625 on day 1 (!!)

but still good numbers and most importantly...great posts.

Be sure to let your artist friends on here know what a cool thing this is.
December 4, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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sculptedreef.com
Larger Pacific Striped Octopus sculpture 🐙 Clay & Paint 🎨

#ArtAdventCalendar 🐡🦑
A hand sculpted clay octopus, lovingly painted to depict the species Larger Pacific Striped Octopus. A white and warm brown octopus, with many white spots on its arms. The octopus is holding a genuine AB Swarovski crystal. Photographed on a solid black background.
December 4, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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kathryngarner.co.uk
For day 4 of #artadventcalendar a drawing I made of one of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin's insulin models focussing on the negative spaces 🐡

Promarkers, felt-tip pens and pencil on paper

From my blogpost about the challenges of insulin folding www.kathryngarner.co.uk/blog/peptide...
My drawing of the negative spaces within one of the models of insulin made by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. Most of the shapes are khaki-coloured, but several are golden and another grey.
December 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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hedgehoggrl.bsky.social
Some more pottery for #ArtAdventCalendar, one of a series of handbuilt pieces formed on fallen palm tree leaf sheaths.

#EastCoastKin #PottersOfBluesky #ceramics
An irregularly shaped ceramic tray with a matte green glaze with bright copper highlights.
December 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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loachy16.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar

4th December! Behind door number four we have:

“Cloudburst” 24×30in - Acrylic on canvas
Abstract painting A background of various shades of grey with a little purple running through it, evocative of storm clouds. Over the top are splashes of blue, yellow, black and bronze
December 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
ficooper.bsky.social
One from the past, springtime vibes for what's a dreary November day in the UK.

#ArtAdventCalendar
White brown and green round vase containing white spring flowers, on a grey backdrop
December 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
Day 2 #artAdventCalendar I made several portraits this year including Sophie Brahe (1559 or 1556 -1643) horticulturalist, astronomer, genealogist, & alchemist 🐡👩🏼‍🔬🧪🔭with the gardens at her brother #astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg estate, where she often assisted his research, alchemical tools &
My 11” x 14” linocut portrait of Sophie Brahe, a Renaissance aristocrat in headgear, ruff, dark clothing with medallion on a wide band and a long scarf or other thin fabric draped over her shoulders with her hands folded in front of her and alchemical vessels, printed in dark bronze ink, on a bronze background. In green behind her head is a map of the gardens at Uranienborg, with her head at the centre of the diamond shaped pale green knot garden (geometric planned gardens). This is surrounded by an orchard in darker green with semicircle bump outs on each side of the diamond. The stars of Cassiopeia from De stelle nova are printed in gold on top of everything; there are stars across her chest and ruff and in the garden and the large supernova is above her head
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM