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Harkthorn

@harkthorn.bsky.social

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Does art, likes birds | Daily sketches | Parrots and Pigeons | NoGеnAߊ 🎨 Art Only Feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nzmnuu7z3a3pod4lambkzj6y/feed/aaaeovka2azm6 Tumblr: https://harkthorn.tumblr.com/ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/harkthorn

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · Sep 1

✨Reintroduction post!

I'm Harkthorn, and I like to draw mostly fantasy and wildlife art-especially griffons, dragons, birds, and big cats. I also post a lot of bird photos-both of my three parrots, and of the pigeon flock that visits my window, especially Coopuccino (shown here with his mate)

🎨🪶🐡

A realistic drawing of a Blue-throated conure griffon on a branch with leaves in the top right and bottom left of the image. The griffon has one forepaw raised and a pinned eye, looking at the viewer

A green ballpoint pen sketch of a running wingless griffon, based on a grey heron, with a more dog-like back half

A photo of two feral pigeons on a window sill, without the glass in the way. The front pigeon is a pied black male. The back pigeon is a spread/back female with feathered legs and feet

A photo of a Blue-throated conure on a wooden desk perch stand thing. He is facing the viewer, but has put his head down, and turned it sideways a bit so his eye is viewable, and most of his beak. He is looking, with half-closed eye. He wants pets!

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 14m

Aww. Inko was actually clipped too, unasked for, at his first vet visit, but it was completely pointless-he never once tried to fly in the entire time it took to moult out the feathers and grow new ones. Also, he hovers to places more than flies-his wings are offset and his landing gear doesn't work

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 18m

Awww!! This is the best update, they're so cute together

Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 47m

A damp Marshmallow

#pigeonSky 🪶

A photo of a pied ash-red grizzle feral pigeon, with heavy fleg and foot feathering, stood outside on a window on an overcast grey day. She is damp from rain

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 49m

Inko here will not fly, unless it's to escape the nail file, or he fell off a perch outside his cage

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Deby Tingley @dting.bsky.social · 10h

Mickey waving "hello" to all you Blueskyers.
#parrots #parrotsky

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Parrot air traffic controller @bobthebird.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I know - my own fault for trying to buy parrot toys on Temu...
#ParrotSky

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DarkShadowfax🌙 @darkshadowfax.bsky.social · 13h

Went to buy croissants so I could share them with him 😁

#Bird #Cockatiel

Picture of a male cockatiel parakeet in his cage, eating from a small piece of croissant.

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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 20h

Lovely selection of goodies folks bought during my sale... which is still going on, just in case these entice you to check out what I've got..

www.loadofolbobbins.com

15% OFF full price goods with code SUPERSECONDS too, just saying 😉

#BirdArt #SciArt #Illustration #PigeonSky #ArtShop #NatureArt

A collection of items created and sold by Loadofolbobbins. Clockwise from top left an illustrated 100% organic cotton tea towel of a robin on perched on a branch with mistletoe, a laser cut wooden statement nekclace also of a robin on perched on a branch with mistletoe, the berries are standing proud of the necklace which is in a lovely gift box, a shrink plastic brooch showing a pigeon cosplaying as princess leia, a pair of wooden pigeon stud earrings, a pair of wooden classic literature stud earrings inspired by Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. They show a small silhouette scene of Mr Rochester galloping towards Jane.

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 13h

Griffon sketch

-3199 🎨 #art

A blue ballpoint pen sketch of a wingless griffon with horns and a fluffy tail, wearing a collar, mid walk

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 13h

Yep!

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Peppermint Bubble @peppermintbubble.com · 20h

HAPPY WORLD CEPHALOPOD DAY! 🐙
I love love love cephalopods, especially octopuses, and they're some of my favorite animals to draw!

Email me to commission your own octopus art, or check out the octopus prints I have up on sale here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/pepp...

#art #octopus

A traditional mixed media illustration of two cute happy yellow flapjack octopuses with a stack of flapjacks (or pancakes) on a plate floating between them. Pink syrup is being poured on the flapjacks from a floating small saucer, and there's strawberries and bilberries floating around, as well as a starfish and a seashell as decoration.

A digitally colored ink and marker illustration of a happy gardener octopus, drawn in dark blue and yellow on aqua blue. He's wearing a straw hat, smiling with his eyes, and holds a pot with a yellow flower in it, as well as a watering can and spade in some of his tentacles. There's some kelp, yellow flowers and tiny yellow fish as decoration.

A traditional mixed media illustration of a happy small grey East Asian common octopus, holding a grey ceramic traditional matcha tea cup in its tentacles while using a bamboo whisk to whisk green matcha tea with two of its tentacles. There's some green tea leaves and a bit of matcha powder as decoration, and there's a light pink watercolor pattern for the background.

A collection of 15 small circular colored pencil illustrations, each of a different animal in a different color. From left to right, top to bottom: a red macaw, an orange fox, a yellow tang, a green frog, a blue whale, an indigo snake, a violet octopus, a magenta katydid, a pink pig, a teal peacock, a brown buck deer, a black panther, a grey elephant, a white polar bear, a rainbow chameleon.

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 15h

Blurry, but-

#pigeonSky

A photo of two dark pied feral pigeons outside on a window sill. The furthest pigeon is hidden except for his head, which is peeking out and shaped like a bowling pin

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 15h

Tango is a great name

Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 15h

Wow! That's amazing work!

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biscuit @biski.bsky.social · 1d

!! I totally forgot to post! Here's ginger 👩🏼‍🎨🎨🫚!!

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 15h

Inkotober, day 9-just chilling after lunch

The door to his cage is often left open for him, but he doesn't come out much. I think he prefers being in his space, because 1) no Ohtori, and 2) easier for him to move around freely via the bars. He climbs far better than he walks/perches

#parrotSky 🪶

A photo of a Green Cheek conure inside his cage, perched on a wooden branch perch, with one foot holding on to the cage bars

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Lazuli Paints @lazulipaints.bsky.social · 1d

#inktober Day 8: Reckless

#art #traditionalart #ink #inktober2025 #day8 #reckless #cat #whiskers #patience #birds #chick #chicken

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Tibsun @sunoftiberian.bsky.social · 1d

In search of a better background for dark jewelry. #electroformed #insect #nature #sciart #handmade #copper #ruthenium #beetles #bugsky

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 1d

I'm being literal when I say he was here all day, btw. I first checked at noon, and every other time I looked he was there, until dusk. Is he lazy? Unwell? Grieving?

COME INSIDE AND RETIRE PAL

Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 1d

I expect maybe one, two at best, people who follow me to read this and know wtf I'm talking about

Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 1d

I really like the linework in this! Especially the loopy lines in the facial skin, it just really works

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 1d

Boosts: 🐡🪶

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resonanteye, anji, tattooer in spokane @resonanteye.bsky.social · 1d

the #artsky post for the day!
this was a study for a tattoo project that i got really into and finished as a watercolor and ink painting.
#traditionalarts #watercolor #birds

a painting of a vulture, with brushes laid across the paper and a cup of coffee on the table next to it. the vulture has black and white feathers and a neck ruff, a red head and neck, and a yellow background with small flies buzzing round

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to @beefanddairy.bsky.social someone went to Tesco in search of the mythical RICH BEEF SAUSAGES and kept sending me increasingly furious messages with photos from the shop in the meat and sausage sections when she couldn't find them and staff WEREN'T HELPING. WHERE ARE THEY. WHERE

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful work!

Boosts: #sciArt #birds #pigeonSky

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