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@nambroth.bsky.social

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Wildlife & fantasy artist • BIRDS • Nature nerd • Loves plants • Oil painting, gouache, digital paint. They/Them, Nonbinary Queer • Shy, Weird, Furry, Tired, Chronically ill, a bowl of neurodivergent soup ∞🌈 I block GenAI Personal site: featherdust.com

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Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · Oct 15

I'm Nambroth, an artist that loves painting birds and fantasy critters. I currently work mostly in oil paint but also play with watercolor, gouache, and digital painting. I'm a very tired, nonbinary, weird, furry, chronically ill, disabled, neurodivergent mess. I love bird and plant
featherdust.com

An oil painting of an American crow with wings open and feet hanging, as if swooping down from above to land nearby. The scene is at the last light of sunset, with the sun half hidden below the horizon and glowing red. The sky is mostly cloudy with a few colorful breaks where the sunset sky peeks through, and below are rolling wooded hills in dark muted green. The watermark reads: copyright 2022 Jennifer Miller "Nambroth" featherdust dot com

An oil painting of a Harris's Hawk, Parabuteo unicinctus, as seen from the side, flying with wings open. The hawk is a mix of browns, with russet on the wings and legs, a white tail with a dark brown band, and lemon yellow legs and skin on the face. The beak is grey. It is banking away from the viewer, turning away and to the right, with tail flared and body turned toward the viewer. The background is warm colored sunset or sunrise with a cloudy sky. The watermark text reads: Copyright 2019 Jennifer Miller featherdust dot com

An oil painting of a white-breasted nuthach, standing on a soft looking moss-englufed rock. Nestled into the moss on the lower left is a jocose sallow moth, which is covered in cryptic pale green, white, and black patterns, giving it a remarkable resemblance to lichens. The nuthatch is facing left and looking downward. The lighting is strongly backlit at sunset, and the background suggests an autumn forest with the silhouettes of tree trunks. The watermark reads: Copyright 2023 Jennifer Miller featherdust dot com

A digital painting of a wide format pre-dawn scene. The horizon is hilly and just starting to glow with a rainbow of early twilight, with some stars still out. Trees line a ridge on the right, with a white pine making a silhouette. A dragon is soaring down from above the ridge, wings wide. The dragon is blue with webbed and feathered wings, various tail and ear fans, and very subtle stars in the wings. Accompaning the dragon as a flock are thirteen crows. The scene is a bit haunting in the still pre-dawn morning way. The watermark reads: Art copyright Jennifer Miller "Nambroth" 2022 featherdust dot com

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going to cry over how much I love this already ♡

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 3d

I was hoping that new/bot accounts that don't have their settings changed from defaults would no longer get suggested my account, because it contained "adult content," but in reality it hasn't seemed to slow it down any.

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 3d

this is very much my weird attempt to experiment with this problem indeed

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 3d

Ah, also just to be clear! This isn't at all mocking adult images; I encourage anyone that enjoys posting or viewing them to have a wonderful time! I was just attempting to weaponize the weird censorship here in my favor, alas

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 3d

No worries, it didn't hurt to try, and was amusing as well!

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 3d

Just a ton of newly created spam/scam/bot accounts have been following me

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 3d

I understand. It seems my account is being reccomended to new accounts as a "who to follow" and when I wrote to bsky about it they told me there's no opt-out

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 3d

I was going to explain but this is better. thank you

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 3d

Update: it has seemingly not helped. a shame, because I've already written to bsky for help and was told there's no opt out (cool)

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 3d

"Let me help u, childe"

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 3d

This happened to me on my thala last night and I had the same reaction

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 3d

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Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you so much!! that note was mostly a joke because I'm sure the surge of follows I've gotten has mostly been bots and spammers that won't even see this XD

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 4d

It has been a deluge and it really sucks

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 4d

I have no idea if this will actually help or not but I gotta try

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 4d

just. trying something here.

an artist's sketch of a white gryphon looking at the viewer with some digital color thrown on and the following text:
THIS IS AN ADULT GRYPHON
FOR VIEWING WITH ADULT EYES ONLY
look not upon my unfinished art with youthful gaze

Sorry, this is really stupid, but I have a bajillion new followers
happening each day and I’m trying to make my account less attractive
to whatever damn algo is recommending my account to all the FUCKING spam
PLEASE STOP
FUCKING PLEASE STOOOPPPPP
Anyway this sketch is my art it’s copyright 2023 Jennifer Miller “Nambroth” featherdust.com
Please fucking stop following my account unless you’re genuinely interested in my art thank you

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 5d

To second this, figs really love it humid to start new roots! :>

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 5d

Awesome handling of form and lines!!

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 5d

I hope it's okay to share, this site is full of very good info, with ways to fix windows inexpensively too:
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Stop Birds from Hitting Windows – FLAP Canada

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 7d

Depending on where it originated, compare your unknown plant with Virginia creeper, Parthenocissus quinquefolia. They can make really cool bonsai!

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 7d

very Shape

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 7d

We tried very hard to be optimistic that the daylight would help

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 9d

So awesome, congrats!!

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 10d

I too cannot make my little crest mans understand that sometimes the Art Zone is not safe

Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 10d

For cuttings, rooting hormones, shove them pretty deep into the soil, then put them into what i call a "humidity dungeon". I'm cheap and use clear or white plastic bags. Try part shade, keep them warm!! but dont let the sun cook them in the bag! They often drop their leaves, thats ok, dont give up!