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Laura Mellin
@lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
2.9K followers 2.4K following 12K posts
Disabled, AuDHD, feral artist, pan/cis, 55, married, she/her. LGBTQIA2S+ is my fam, art shares are my jam. New art every day for 2025.
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · Mar 12
I unpinned my previous top post, b/c now I want to feature my fave pieces from my #sketchaday 2025 self-imposed challenge! I’m Laura, this is my art account, and this thread will be pinned to become my about me piece. I do illustration and cartoons, often riffing on a joke for multiple drawings.
A marker, ink, paint pen and paper collage drawing of my OC, Bela Lugosquid, a common squid, pale pink-grey with red and grey spots, facing left slightly, asleep. They are smiling (yes, I know, that’s not where their mouths are), and are wearing a pair of fake fangs, a black cloak with a red lining, white bow tie and vest, white shirt, and a red ribbon with a spiny Black Sea urchin attached to the ribbon by holding onto a gold ring. Basically, dressed like Bella Lugosi’s famous outfit* in Dracula (1931). Their tentacles and arms are drifting gently, with an arm on the right touching the edge of the cloak. Dream bubbles coming from their head feature an image of Bella Lugosi as Dracula from the movie poster (image sourced from IMDb.com). Bela Lugosquid is non-binary. They are fascinated by vampire squid, but too shy to actually talk to any actual vampire squid (and afraid of negative reactions). They are a very happy squid. They have dreams of stardom. I don’t know about the sea urchin; they usually don’t go that deep. A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing in my sketchbook. In the upper left hand corner, a white box with shadow lines has the hand-written text: “white potatoes are tuber-essentialist douchebags:” (yes, I’m going hard on this one! Pushing the boundaries!*). The main drawing is of an orange-pink yam (or sweet potato) in three-quarter profile, standing on root feet, with their sprout arms up in the air, leaning slightly forward, protesting (or yelling) at three white potatoes (who, ironically, are brown, because they haven’t been peeled) in a row on the right, in three-quarter profile, one in front, the second slightly behind that one, and lastly, a potato going off the edge of the paper (they’re half-visible). They have little beady eyes, and root feet and hands, with little potatoes growing on them (I love the little potato feet!). The lead potato is asking: “Are you a sweet potato or a yam?”, and the second one is saying: “…you can’t be both.”. The sweet potato (or yam) is protesting: “Why are you so hung up on labels?! I yam what I yam! …or NOT.”. The wall is pale blue-grey, the floor is medium grey, and there are shadows underneath all the tubers. In a small white box in the bottom right corner, the top of a white potato is visible, showing their black dot eyes and angry eyebrows. They are saying:” This is potato erasure!!”. *Or, y’know, doing the absolute minimum by acknowledging that trans people are people, and TERFs/“gender essentialists” are complete C-words. “Dryad of the Vines”: An ink line drawing of a female-appearing figure wrapped in vines, which are supporting them as they sleep. Their face is mostly hidden by their left arm (on the right), which is raised, with vines loosely wrapped around it. Their legs are bent up in a seated position, and their fingers and toes (six on each appendage) stretch out into vines. Their hair is made of vines, and drapes down behind them, and over their torso. Some of the vines have leaves and flowers along them, curling around in spirals and loops. They are nude, but have no visible gendered body parts, just the curves of their body giving an overall female appearance. A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a toy mechanical mouse, facing left. The mouse is grey metal, with brass screws, and a brass key in the middle of its back. It is sitting upright on segmented articulated legs and feet (and toes) that are joined to the body with a round dome with brass screws. The head has large round eyes and ears edged with brass screws, with red lights in the center. The front legs and paws are also articulated/segmented, and are curled around to the nose, like the mouse is eating. The tail is long and articulated/segmented, bending as it reaches the ground, and goes to the left, behind the body. Background is blank. It’s a little toy mouse made of metal, with a key to wind it up. It’s cute, but I am not mechanically inclined, so I have no idea how it would actually move.
lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
Congratulations on 400 followers, @sasoartsisb.bsky.social! 🥳💜💜💜💜💜🥳 Thank you for the themed share! I love monsters, Cryptids, and weird! 😁💜
sasoartsisb.bsky.social 👁 Sa So 👁 Commissions: Open @sasoartsisb.bsky.social · 18h
👁 400 FOLLOWERS ART SHARE👁
Greetings, and thanks for following and appreciating what I created!

👁 Post your monster art or anything weird
💚 Like, share and comment on other's art
🚫 No A*I "art"
🚫 No N $f ₩
👻 Have fun!
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
TYSM for the silent #artshare, @meltingcore.bsky.social! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
meltingcore.bsky.social meltingcore @ Apokolips Ω @meltingcore.bsky.social · 16h
Time for a silent #artshare! 🤫

Ω Share your art silently!
Ω Like/repost this!
Ω Tag your friends!
Ω Support each other!

I'll tag... @double-4-designer.bsky.social @quinini.bsky.social @aerifiretruck.bsky.social @jazzytyfighter.bsky.social 🛸
A traditional manga drawing that was scanned and had the colors brightened. It depicts a girl in side profile with long black hair, horns, a red eye, and black dress. Her arm is abstractly turning into squiggly shapes that flow throughout the canvas. The background is bright red. A digital manga drawing of a silver skinned woman in a deep purple dress. She has long flowing dark grey hair and silver horns. She has red eyes and lava flows from the front of her dress without harming her. The background is orange with lava streams and a reflection of the woman. A digital manga drawing of a dark skinned woman surfing. Her hair is lavender and her eyes are dark green. She wears a short black surfing bodysuit. The sun is setting and pink clouds are in the sky. Stars are just coming out. A digital manga drawing of a woman in deep space. Her eyes are ice blue and she has short black/blue hair. Tears flow from her eyes and turn into globules due to the lack of gravity. The space behind her is purple, pink, and blue; stars are everywhere and light flows in spirals.
November 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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@pinkleader.bsky.social, the first one! 😃🤣💜💜💜
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Aw, damn, @angrychango.bsky.social, these are amazing!🤩😍😍😍😍💜💜💜💜💜
November 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
#sketchaday #artsky #blueskyart #bskyart #art #sawwhetowl #littleowl #panowl #pansexualpride

The Pan owl is a Virginia relative of the saw-whet owl, but has no interest in camouflage. Nocturnal, tends to be found in hollow trees, roadsides, and nightclubs. 🤨🧐
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of an owl in Pan Pride colours (magenta pink, yellow, cyan blue). The owl is sitting on a branch, eyes with black round pupils in yellow irises staring at the viewer. Their ear tufts are extremely long and curly, and their body is brightly coloured, with a pink face, yellow crown of the head, yellow and blue ear feathers, a pink, yellow, and blue front, and blue wing and tail feathers. Their feet are pink, with gold claws. Background is dark blue-grey, with metallic blue and gold dots like stars, or nightclub lights. Inspiration: Anton Seder. References: Virginia Dept. of Wildlife, saw-whet owl.
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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*cries in joy* read the comments, I made a difference in someone’s life! 🥹💜💜💜💜
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing with digital finishing. A pink Axolotl (asch-o-lotch; it’s Nahuatl, not Greek!) with big red gills, swimming underwater (the water is several shades of teal, from light above the axolotl to dark ground on the left ), with big eyes and a huge smile, oriented head right, tail left, looking at the viewer. Text above the tail says “Be your true self, and always, always…”, then underneath, says “BE STRANGE AND MAGICAL AND CHANGE THE WORLD.”.
November 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
Congratulations on 500 followers, @umbra-ludus.bsky.social! 🥳💜💜💜💜💜💜🥳🥳🥳 TYSM for the #artshare!
umbra-ludus.bsky.social Umbra Ludus: Creative Mercenary Originator of Electronic Imagery @umbra-ludus.bsky.social · 1d
500+ followers #Artshare

- Introduce yourself
- Show your art
- Mark NSFW
- Interact
- Share
- Tag people (friends and whatnot)
- Follow if you like
- Be Excellent to Each Other

Thank you for the love and support to all those involved. I dig our community!

#artmoot
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
In the mood for beautiful dark art? Check out @chrisnazgul.bsky.social! 😍😍😍😍💜💜💜💜💜
chrisnazgul.bsky.social Chris Illustration 🌙 Comms Open @chrisnazgul.bsky.social · 1d
thanks for the tag and congratz !
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
#fortunesfromcookies #fortunecookie #contradiction #artlife

It’s not often you find the contradiction of being an artist summed up in your fortune cookies. I need these pens to express myself! 🤣🤣😭

(We got these together, I swear! 😁)
A colour photograph of two fortunes from fortune cookies, laid on the restaurant table, one above the other. The upper fortune says “Do not spend money you do not have”. The lower fortune says “Nurture your creative talents to express yourself fully”. “…but I NEED these 300 markers in 100 slightly different shades of green to express myself fully!!!”
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
#sketchaday #artsky #blueskyart #bskyart #art #opossum #c’mon #we’reonanadventure

Fred’s second cousin is more into adventures in trees than Broadway. You probably shouldn’t trust them with your wallet.
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a North American opossum climbing a tree, with text saying “What are you waiting for? C’mon!”. The tree is brown, and only the trunk is visible, on the right of the image. The opossum is clinging to the left side of the trunk, tail wrapped around the lower trunk, oriented upward, facing the viewer. Their ears are black, their body beige, grey, and black, with a pink nose, toes, and tail. They are Fred the opossum’s more adventurous cousin. They look like they are smiling, and you probably shouldn’t trust them. Reference: Javin Photography/Getty Images, an opossum in a tree. Background is blank paper. (Next to the artist’s signature, it says “Happy Birthday, Pinkleader!” She knows.)
November 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
#AIdoesntmakepplartists #everydayImdrawing #learningart #artisalifetimeofcreativity #theprocessisthepoint #markerart #month1tomonth11 #sketchaday2025

I’m not gatekeeping art. AI is stolen art, turned into slop, and you’re not an artist. Pick up a pen; start creating!

Jan-Nov 2025: A🧵
Snails:
A marker and ink cartoon of a woman on a plane in business class, with shoulder length hair and unfortunate bangs, wearing a stretchy top/light sweater, and leggings, sitting with one leg curled up, her feet in those little sock slippers they give you at the start of the flight, her right arm is raised to get the flight attendant’s attention, her left arm is resting on the armrest, with the window on that side. There are six snails around her; on the right side of the drawing, two snails are sitting on her left arm, staring out of the window at the clouds and sky, making “ooh!” Faces with their mouths puckered. On top of her seat, a snail is moving towards the aisle. On the left, on her lunch tray, there are three snails: one is on her plate, one is in her salad bowl, eating her salad (that’s not a euphemism), both of them looking at her, and the third is in her wineglass, trying to get out, but too drunk to do so. The woman has a speech bubble, saying: “Um… I ordered the chicken?”. Colours: mostly simple line drawing, with the seat in blue-greys, and the snails in brown-grey, with shading. A marker, ink, and paint pen (with digital speech bubbles) cartoon of two brown garden snails with their bodies pushed together, brown shells facing each other in profile, like bookends. They both have their eyestalks extended over their backs (the one on the left looking left, the one on the right looking right, with their shells pointed in the opposite direction), and they look very nervous. The snail on the left has their tail curled up, and their pupils are pinpoints; they have their mouth closed, their speech bubble is just “*whimper*”. The snail on the right has large pupils, and is saying “uh-oh!”. The Snail Collector is an urban legend in the snail community! On a quiet night, you can hear the growling; a speech bobble from off right says “GRRRRRR!! *snarfle*”! A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a snail reclining in a martini glass. Their eyes have green irises and black pupils, their eyestalks are pointing in different directions. The snail is lying in an inch of green-tinted clear liquid in the glass, with four pimento-stuffed olives, two underneath the snail, two on a toothpick. The snail has their mouth open, and is speaking with a smile. Text is black on white above the glass and background. Imagine the snail speaking in a very silly French accent that gets more American towards the end: “Chéri, I buy you a drink? Moi, a GARNISH?! NON!! I’m from the French restaurant next door! Yeah, I work there… hey, bartender, I’m getting dry here! Merci!”. The glass is on an off-white/cream coloured tablecloth, the background is dark purple-grey. Text next to the stem of the martini glass says “POTTED SNAIL”. A marker, ink, and paint pen cartoon of four sleeping snails, and one snail on the right holding a bell rope clenched between his teeth, a rope that is attached to a large bell hanging over the sleeping snails. The snail with the rope is Phil. Phil is thinking “REVENGE!!”. The snails are asleep on cushions, the closest one has a purple sleep mask, and is holding a plush snail curled up in their tail. There is a folded paper sign by their head that says “do not disturb until 11am.”. In the background, the sun is rising. Top left, a gold outlined sign says “The Mysterious Mystery Of The Very Loud Bell That Woke Everyone Up, heh, heh, heh: a Novel by Phil the Snail”. Bottom right, an inset drawing of Phil’s eyes glaring says “Phil never forgives.” Phil thought long and hard about the revenge he would wreak on the snails who had mocked him when he had a blind date, drank too much wine, and got a hangover. Unfortunately, he thought about it so long, all the other snails had completely forgotten about the whole thing. Phil doesn’t care. (How is that bell loop hanging up there? Who knows the ways of snails.)
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
Congratulations to @annevandenbroekart.bsky.social for 500 followers! 🥳💜💜💜💜🥳 And an animal-themed share, so if you love drawing animals, real or imagined, feel free to join, there’s some amazing art! 💜💜💜💜
annevandenbroekart.bsky.social Anne van den Broek Art @annevandenbroekart.bsky.social · 3d
Thanks so much to my 500 followers!
Let's celebrate this with something I have never done before... An artshare!
🦜 Birds & animals
✨ Fantasy
🎨 Any medium but no AI
#artshare
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
#sketchaday #artsky #blueskyart #bskyart #art #toads #frogs #amphibians

And then, there are those days when you’re drawing a toad, but somehow it turns into an alien. It’s cool. Toadally cool. *ahem*
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a very squat purple toad alien. It wasn’t meant to be an alien, but something happened, and this was the result. The metallic purple paint highlights seemed logical after that, as did the red metallic eyes with yellow irises and sideways black pupils in the toad’s very large eyes. The smile was intentional. This is a very happy purple alien toad. Above the toad’s back is written “toadally confident in my weird”, with a gold star at each end, and surrounded by red metallic dots. Reference: 19th century botanical toad prints, but it’s kind of moot at this point.
November 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
RP with how *you* draw women!

I draw animals, mostly. There’s a reason for that. 🤭
The last one is women *and* men b/c: animals. I draw animals.
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a brown skinned, dark haired human type mermaid, with a purple scaled tail, looking left, with her back to the viewer, sitting on a dark rock in a stylized blue sea, with a wreath of poppies around her shoulders and back, and poppies fixed by her ear, and loose in her hair, which is flowing in the wind behind her. Her tail has round scales in shades of purple, with small fins at her hips, and flukes curled around to the right behind her. The sea is dark blue in front, lighter blue in the back, and the sky is pale yellow, like the sky at dawn. She looks thoughtful or sad. A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a woman from the shoulders up, blindfolded, with a skeleton in a black robe behind her. The skeleton’s fingers are wrapped around the purple blindfold. Death is not meant to be threatening, more like they are leading the woman towards a surprise. Her face is not scared. Her chestnut hair is draped softly around her shoulders, and Death’s fingers are gently twined in her hair. I don’t fear death, but I don’t wish for it, though I did once, and this is the subject of this piece. The background is golden yellow and orange. A partially colored ink, marker, and digital colour (on the black vulture) of me, in 3/4 profile, on the left side of the image, facing right (this portrait makes me taller than I am; I’m 5’3”). I am wearing a yellow and black 14thC cote (long dress, fitted through the arms and waist, laces up the front, with a white under-shift, very flattering on every body type!), my right arm down at my side, my left arm and hand cradling a fluffy black vulture chick.* I have red curly hair and very non-14thC bangs. An adult black vulture with their wings half-open is standing beside and behind me on the right. A large shield shape behind my upper body shows my SCA heraldry in pencil and ink, which is an eagle displayed, with wings raised, inverted, facing left, black background with a plain border, and three estoiles (six-pointed curly stars) on the eagle’s wings and chest. The black is shaded with pencil, and the white parts are yellow. The adult black vulture has their wings in the same position. *Black vultures are federally protected under the Migratory Bird Act, and it is illegal to interfere with their nests, or handle the chicks/adults. Don’t pick up a baby black vulture; they WILL vomit on you, and the smell is unearthly awful. An acrylic painting on paper of a 15th century tournament, with a tournament viewing stand behind, and people gathered around the fence enclosing the tournament. The knight fighting on the left is the recipient, and his pose is almost exactly like the one in the photo I worked from, arm scarf flying, and all. The knight he is fighting has an incredibly intricate helmet that required seven photographs and two days of crying to figure out. I am standing at the fence on the far left, in my heraldic cote, a friend is behind me, and I am arm in arm with my husband, Bob (the one with white hair and beard, that I made look a bit like Kenny Rodgers, sorry!). One of our neighbors is standing next to Bob, then other friends are on the other side. In the viewing stand is the recipient’s wife, stroking one of their cats, left of center. Other friends, alive and dead, are around them, mostly women, except for the then-king, and the original head of their household. The lettering is Google Translate Latin, and in the center bottom, the recipient’s heraldry, done with full crest, and the symbol of the award, a white belt. I am really proud of this one. Even the lettering is shaded in darker blue underneath, to make it pop. People were sad they were not included! Success! His wife loved it so much, she made fine art poster prints for everyone included in the picture. :)
November 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
Welcome back to , and thank you for the #artshare! 😊💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 (some NSFW, all labeled.💜)
the-a.bsky.social The 🅰️ [DTIYS Ongoing!] @the-a.bsky.social · 4d
It's been a long while since I paid enough attention to Bluesky, I definitely wanna be more active here and the best way is most likely with an #artshare!!!!

All rules are on the image and alt text below!! I will make sure to respond and support every single one of you!!

#art #bskyart #artsky
The A's artshare!! * Share your works/links/commissions!!! * Like and repost!!! * Support and interact with others!! * Label NSFW * Tag some artists!! * No AI or NFTs
November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
HUMAN ARTISTS!

Use 1 piece to convince ppl to follow you! #aisucks #theprocessisthepoint #growyourbrain #anyonecandraw #AIisunethical #AIisimmoral
A marker, ink, paint pen, and collage drawing of a garden slug crawling down their hall, looking at three posters of nudibranchs (a kind of sea slug) on the wall. Posters, left to right: a sea fairy nudibranch, with “WISH!” in white lettering at the top, two leaf sheep, one above the other, top one a cartoon, bottom one in pointillist style, with “EVERYONE BELONGS” in white letters at the top, and a gem nudibranch in pink coral, with “FEEL JOY” in white letters at the top. All posters are edged in gold. The garden slug is green-brown. Underneath the garden slug, black lettering says “GARDEN SLUGS STAN SEA SLUGS.”. The wall is green, the floor is light brown. The posters are my art, printed on thin paper and collaged to the drawing, then outlined in ink and gold paint, with a little shadow underneath (hey, I’m proud of this! 4 pieces in 1!). :) Garden slug reference: 19th century scientific illustration.
November 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
I adore @nistolisk.bsky.social’s work - look at these perfect pieces! I’m always going to love animal pieces the most (I am who I am), but I love all of Nist’s work! 😍🤩💜💜💜💜💜💜
#artshareshare #adorable #thecuteness #dedfromcute
nistolisk.bsky.social nist 🍄 Elgar'nan worshipper @nistolisk.bsky.social · 4d
hello! thank you for the share and i hope you will feel better soon 💜. hm, i don't remember which of my drawings i've shown you before, but here is a selection of some that make me smile.
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
#sketchaday #artsky #blueskyart #bskyart #art #transdayofremembrance #nolgbwithoutthet #belalugosquid

Today we mourn the trans ppl we have lost. The way trans ppl are being treated rn is unacceptable. If you think trans ppl are the problem, you’re being lied to. 🏳️‍⚧️💜🏳️‍⚧️
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of three orange spotted squids wearing trans flag clothing and holding a candlelight vigil. The squid in front is my OC, Bela Lugosquid, mourning their lost trans friends, a tear in their eye. Bela is wearing their signature costume based on the 1931 movie Dracula, but wearing their purple-lined (instead of red) black opera cloak, a purple bow tie, and a white waistcoat. Bela is wearing a medal ribbon in the trans flag colours (light blue, light pink, white, light pink, light blue in horizontal stripes), but instead of a medal, a spiny Black Sea urchin is holding onto a gold ring. The sea urchin is also sad. Bela has their tentacles crossed over their heart. The two squids behind Bela, one on each side, are holding magic candles that glow underwater. The left squid is wearing a trans flag scarf, and has their tentacles over their mouth, eyes closed, weeping, holding their purple candle in one arm. The squid on the right has a large ribbon sash in the trans flag colours tied in a bow around their neck. Their eyes are closed, they are holding their purple candle in a tentacle and weeping. The sea around them is a deep lavender blue with silver dots and gold hearts floating in the water. Top right, a white square sign edged with gold says “Transgender Day of Remembrance 2025”, with cursive lettering underneath that says “for all trans ppl silenced by hate.”. This is a day both Bela and I take seriously. We remember the trans people lost this year, and every year.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
ffs, YES! The process is the POINT. Creating art stimulates the brain. Learning extends neural longevity. AI doesn‘t.

But AI DOES:
Use up irreplaceable environmental resources
Steal the work of artists
Divert income from workers to billionaires
Stink.
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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@keycheyn.bsky.social is not feeling well, and is having a Thursday #artshare. I would consider it a great kindness if my moots would participate! 💜💜💜💜💜
Thank you, Key! And I hope you feel better soon!💜💜💜💜
keycheyn.bsky.social KeyCheyn @keycheyn.bsky.social · 4d
I'm not feeling well today, but seeing arts make me glad. If you can, share any of your works.

Thursday #artshare

• SFW only
• Share your art, writings, shops, links, games— anything!
• Tag your friends and interact!
• NO A*I, N*F*T

Sharing LENTE (Current project): youtube.com/playlist?lis...
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
Aw, I love @lddarts.bsky.social’s Stormy! Another ride on the art train! 💜💜💜
4 tags (or more!), 4 arts! The frogs invite some new moots!
@cryling.bsky.social
@wondiferouswyrmy.bsky.social
@unialien.bsky.social
@maegickal.bsky.social
@karenyumilusted.bsky.social
@markabramowsky.bsky.social
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of an orange frog (left) facing three green frogs (right). The orange frog is asking “No Monarchs?”, and the three green frogs are each saying “NO!”. Below left, is a title that says “STAND (swim!) WITH FROGS!!”. This is a slightly veiled reference to protests happening in the U.S. today (10/18/25). Inspiration and reference: Anton Seder, Art Nouveau artist. A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of an orange frog facing right, siting on a lily pad, with more pads and waterlily flowers in the background. The frog has their front paws outstretched beseechingly, eyes wide, looking anxious. Bottom left is a title-type lily pad oriented vertically towards the viewer, with “Froggie says please love Me!” written on it. The pad is light yellow-green, with pink and lilac edges. The water underneath is blue-green, and there are dark green plants in the background. Forg needs love! Please love Forg! Inspiration: Art Nouveau artist Anton Seder. A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of an orange frog and a purple frog playing chess, but the orange frog is eating the pieces. The orange frog is on the left, holding a bunch of chess pieces in their right paw, is taking another piece off the board with their left, and has one piece in their mouth. They are looking at the purple frog on the right, who is gesturing at the board and yelling. The board is red and black (I think it is a checkers board), and the pieces are orange, purple, and pink, because someone ate half the purple pieces (I wonder who). Underneath the chess board, white lettering on green grass says “Not all Frogs should Play Chess.”. They are sitting on grass with rolling hills in the background, under a blue sky with light clouds. Frogs are doing things in the background: left, a frog is half visible coming over the near hill, and an orange frog is looking panicked on the far left hill, as their purple frog friend has fallen over, feet in the air. Right, a purple frog and an orange frog are waving at each other from separate hills. This was inspired by a single goofy-looking frog in a 1577 print. A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a round green frog with yellow eyes and a goofy smile. Underneath is written “Stoned Forg is Stoned”, and above the head (right), is written “* mind completely blown *”, surrounded by gold dots. This is silly, and I needed it.
November 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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#sketchaday #artsky #blueskyart #bskyart #art #transjoy #transpride #LGBTQlove

This piece was started in 2020. Today, I decided LGBTQ mice would like a bright wardrobe.

“Pat, do you think this red suits me?“
“Oh, yeah, Sam! What do you think of this boa?”
“Ooo! Wear it with the purple ballgown!”
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of two mice looking at, and trying on the clothes in a 9” doll wardrobe. The wardrobe is a plastic box in the style of the 1960s Barbie portable wardrobe, about the size of a large lunchbox, with a plastic silver mirror on the inside lid. The fake brand is “USA Girl”, written on the left outside of the wardrobe, on the far left of the drawing. The wardrobe is yellow, with the lettering in blue, pink, and white. Inside, on the left side of the image, there is a pole, and hangers holding dresses, from left to right: a pink nightshirt with blue edging on hem and neck, with “USA” printed in blue on the chest, a purple ballgown, a blue fitted 1960s dress with yellow decoration at the neck, a dark blue shift dress, a tan tennis dress, a light blue party dress, and a green shift dress. One reddish brown mouse is wearing a pink feather boa around their neck, and looking through the dresses. The other mouse is darker brown, facing slightly right, reflected in the foil mirror by wavy lines of colour. They are holding a red 1960s fitted cocktail dress with gold decorations around the neck and the hem, holding it up to their front, like they’re seeing if it will fit. They are also wearing a gold tiara. The mice are facing away from each other, but their tails are wrapped affectionately around each other on the right of the image. Accessories are scattered around the mice; a blue sash is hanging over the mirror, a pair of diamanté cat-eye glasses is on the floor on the right, a blue hat with a yellow band, feather, and flower, a pearl necklace, and a pair of cherry earrings are on the floor to the left. Inside the wardrobe is a pair of purple heels, and a matching bag. The mouse on the right has a blue, pink, and white ribbon tied around their right wrist.
November 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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#sketchaday #artsky #blueskyart #bskyart #art #frogs #forg #stoned

Frogs look stoned a lot of the time, have you noticed? Must be something in that pond weed.

Heh. Weed.
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a round green frog with yellow eyes and a goofy smile. Underneath is written “Stoned Forg is Stoned”, and above the head (right), is written “* mind completely blown *”, surrounded by gold dots. This is silly, and I needed it.
November 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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I got two cephalopods for one in this art train! (click through and see the previous one, it’s special as well!)
Back on the art train! 4 art pieces, 4+ tags! 💜💜💜 (no obligation!)
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A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of an orange frog and a purple frog playing chess, but the orange frog is eating the pieces. The orange frog is on the left, holding a bunch of chess pieces in their right paw, is taking another piece off the board with their left, and has one piece in their mouth. They are looking at the purple frog on the right, who is gesturing at the board and yelling. The board is red and black (I think it is a checkers board), and the pieces are orange, purple, and pink, because someone ate half the purple pieces (I wonder who). Underneath the chess board, white lettering on green grass says “Not all Frogs should Play Chess.”. They are sitting on grass with rolling hills in the background, under a blue sky with light clouds. Frogs are doing things in the background: left, a frog is half visible coming over the near hill, and an orange frog is looking panicked on the far left hill, as their purple frog friend has fallen over, feet in the air. Right, a purple frog and an orange frog are waving at each other from separate hills. This was inspired by a single goofy-looking frog in a 1577 print. “Dragon Moonbathing” - A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of an orange sea dragon with yellow scaled swimming wings, sitting on a rock in the ocean. It is night, and there is a large moon silhouetting the dragon’s head. One forepaw is crossed over the other, and their very long tail is twisted and curled on the rock below them. The dragon, facing right, has no back legs, only webbed forepaws and swimming wings. Their head is tilted, so that their pupil reflects light like a cat. Their scales are dotted with gold, their wings are edged with gold, and the reflected moonlight is outlined on their wing and body scales in silver. The sea is dark grey-blue, the sky is deep night blue. No stars; the dragon is the star. Inspiration: Anton Seder crocodile and lizard monster, but mainly the crocodile. A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a little monster sitting on the shoulder of a person in a green top. The monster is grasping the person’s ear, and is grinning with a wide pointy-toothed smile. It is dark, and the monster is horned, has long orange fur, huge glowing eyes, purple hands and feet (that also look like hands) with long orange claws, and they are perched neatly, knees against their chest, with one thane on their knee, the other pulling on the person’s ear. This is a representation of the “devil on my shoulder”, a naughty creature that wants me to do naughty things, like hiding all the spoons (I’m in my 50s, committing actual evil is way too much work). My monster is snuggly, and is friends with the other voices in my head, especially Clive. They have a lot in common. A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a red wingless dragon climbing up a sheer cliff face. The dragon has their back to the viewer, their body vertical against the cliff, head facing right, forked tongue out to taste the air. Their four gold-clawed, five-digit feet are splayed, grasping crags on the cliff. Their body is curved in a snake-like shape, with large pointed scales all the way to the end of their tail. The dragon has small webbed head frills (like fish fins) on either side of their head, like ears. Their eyes have yellow irises and slit vertical pupils, and they are looking towards sunlight, suggested by raking yellow lines from top right to bottom left. The cliff is grey, cool in the shadow, and warmer where the rays of sun are hitting the rock.
November 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
lauramellinatelier.bsky.social
#sketchaday #day11/17/25 #WiPfinished #artsky #blueskyart #bskyart #art #labels #crystals

The finished label.

I was laid low by my COVID booster, so I’ve been slow, sorry. Still better than getting COVID.
A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a round purple label with a blue, black, and silver border of moon phases. In the middle, silver writing says “Moon Crystals”, then below it, “One year full moonlight guaranteed!”. A small picture in the upper center shows a smiling moon shining down on crystals coloured with pink metallic paint. Silver lettering on a dark purple ground around and through the center lists the names of each full moon throughout the year: 1. Wolf Moon, 2. Snow Moon, 3. Worm Moon, 4. Pink Moon, 5. Flower Moon, 6. Rose Moon, 7. Berry Moon, 8. Corn Moon, 9. Harvest Moon, 10. Frost Moon, 11. Beaver Moon, and 12. Frost Moon is laid out, starting and finishing in the center bar. A thin purple ring is around the outside, and there are stars (silver and white dots) on the blue between each moon. I find the most gorgeous chips of clear quartz in our soil, and I wanted to put them in a bottle with a label to add to a found object art piece.
November 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM