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Nicola Black
@nicolablack.bsky.social
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Design, history, knitting, genealogy, gardening, hiking, self-employment, cooking, baking, outdoors.

👩🏻‍💻Ethical Creative Director & Design Strategist: https://nicolablack.com
🚀Community: https://joinwip.com
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nicolablack.bsky.social
I needed this thread. 🥹
johnmoe.bsky.social John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 1d
This picture was taken by my daughter when she dangled Maisy’s favorite toy right in front of Maisy.

If you like, you can do the same with your dog and post a picture in this thread.

I think if people did that, we’d all benefit.
February 14, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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kathleenneeley.bsky.social
Tiny cuts
February 13, 2026 at 6:07 PM
nicolablack.bsky.social
This is adorable! I'm gonna have to make my way over to see what print I get. I love this!
February 13, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Packing up shirts!

I’ll have them IRL at Artpocalypse Now this weekend at Starbolt In Fishtown/kenzo (noon-5)

For those not in Philly, you can order em at SquidFacts.net!
A box of shirts with a screen printed black shirt featuring cool lady in a stained glass window with plants around her head, and underneath the stained glass it says “plant native plants”
February 13, 2026 at 12:31 AM
nicolablack.bsky.social
I just listened to LeVar Burton read “The Toynbee Convector.” Perfect way to end the day. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
"The Toynbee Convector" by Ray… - LeVar Burton Reads - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · LeVar Burton Reads · 05/07/2024 · 43m
podcasts.apple.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:31 AM
nicolablack.bsky.social
What just happened to my brain?! Memory unlocked. I spent so much time looking at these endpapers when I was a kid. ❤️
lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · Jan 17
Ladybird endpapers.
‘Fairy tale’

(Artist: Brian Price Thomas, 1979)
Illustration of a ‘fairytale tree’ with tangled branches filled with random or assortment of characters from fairytale stories
February 12, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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dmacalvert.bsky.social
🎵Mahna mahna🎵
February 12, 2026 at 6:40 PM
nicolablack.bsky.social
This thread is very relatable in regard to my own relationship with my art. I've been reevaluating to focus more on what I enjoy creating and doing. My intention is to follow my own sensibilities and create as much magic as I can. For myself and those who'd like to come along for the ride. 🤓
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d
I often feel like there's a war going on over my books between the readers who connect with what they are and the people in the publishing industry who think I should make them more shit, dumb & unoriginal so they sell more. I know whose side I'm on, and I know I've never been on it more zealously.
February 12, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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symbo1ics.bsky.social
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zannavanloon.bsky.social Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 16d
Browsing through Koberger’s 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle in which the #woodcut illustrations do the heavy lifting long before the text gets a chance.

#bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜
Hand colored city view of Venice depicted in a woodcut illustration. It contains the colors blue for water and red for the roofs of houses. You see brown ships with white sails. In the background a green hillside. Woodcut illustration surrounded by gothic type of Judith with Holofernes on her sword. The illustration is colored in by hand. Woodcut illustration of the sun next to the moon. Both of them have faces. Surrounded by gothic type and colored in by hand. Page in the book with a large woodcut illustration of Adam and Eve in Paradise colored in by hand. Below text in gothic type.
February 12, 2026 at 5:18 AM
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symbo1ics.bsky.social
I'm fascinated by the decorated capitals throughout the text. Great skill, my guess is by someone still trained as a scribe?

#typography #bookdesign
OP's book image with background dropped out and colour attempted to enhance the hand-inked rust-red capital letters over the printed capitals in both the title and the body text.
February 12, 2026 at 5:33 AM
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jameshance.com
De artsy fartsën progrëssënsën!

✨🎨 Gesso / Gouache on Canvas - Work in Progress
February 11, 2026 at 6:41 PM
nicolablack.bsky.social
I usually post WIP schedules on Mondays and I totally forgot this week! Anyway, here's what's happening/has happened at Work in Progress this week. If you're a solo small business owner, we're the community for you! Learn more and apply to join us today: www.joinwip.com
Graphic for events happening this week at Work In Progress. A list of event titles, dates, and times. At the top is the Work In Progress checkmark logo. The text of the graphic says: Mon., Feb. 9 • 10:00-12:30pm ET Coworking with Kara + 2:00-3:00pm ET Accountability Group Meeting Tues., Feb 10 • 2:00-3:30pm ET Coworking with Nicola Weds., Feb 11 • 10:00-12:30pm ET Coworking with Kara Thurs., Feb 12 • 3:00-5:00pm ET Coworking with Nicola Fri., Feb 13 • 4:00-5:00pm ET Create & Play with Nicola The above are prescheduled events for the week listed in Eastern Time. There may be additional impromptu coworking events throughout the week. Lite Members may add "Core" events (labeled above in yellow) a la carte. Apply to join us at: JoinWIP(dot)com is at the bottom of the graphic in a black box.
February 11, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Exciting news! My mum has just kindly given me this bundle of handmade linocut bookmarks. I'm giving one of these away for free with signed copies of my two latest novels. Please let me know if you'd like to grab one of these bundles for just book cover prices plus p&p.

Only sending to UK, BUT...
A selection of six bookmarks by my mum, linocut, on expensive card My second novel, 1983 My latest novel, Everything Will Swallow You
February 10, 2026 at 8:46 PM
nicolablack.bsky.social
Wow! This is interesting news! "The Muna minimum (67.8 ± 3.8 ka) exceeds the published minimum for rock art in Maros-Pangkep by 16.6 thousand years (kyr) and is 1.1 kyr greater than the published minimum for a hand stencil from Spain attributed to Neanderthals6..."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi - Nature
A hand stencil painted on a cave wall on a small island off the coast of Sulawesi more than 67,800 years ago suggests a very early occupation of Wallacea.
www.nature.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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jontofski.bsky.social
Back in stock. My Venice Greengrocer poster prints. jonathanestore.bigcartel.com/product/extr...
Also available in the regular A3 size.
February 10, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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helveticablanc.bsky.social
Six of Hands
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🖼️ Prints
www.inprnt.com/gallery/helv...

🃏 The Wormsong Oracle Deck
helveticablanc.bigcartel.com
Six red hands work together to manipulate six connected black circles. The background is filled with collaged sheet music.
February 9, 2026 at 9:16 PM
nicolablack.bsky.social
I treated myself to some treasure for my birthday this year. It was just delivered and...it's GORGEOUS. @pamwishbow.bsky.social is so incredibly talented! The calendar is everything. I also love the little extras included like the divination card! Is there a full deck?! 😍
A few beautiful treasures that came in the post, laid out on a black table: A calendar, divination card, business card, and postcard. All artwork by Pam Wishbow. The divination card that was added as a little extra to the package. It's numbered "9" at the bottom. On the shield is a key, a ribbon, some leaves, and a skull. Artwork by Pam Wishbow. The calendar is flipped to show the current month, February. Illustration of a skull as the focus with various accompanying illustrations: dagger, candle, pot/cauldron with steam, chain, hand, snake, fly, and moon (I believe?).
February 9, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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merriam-webster.com
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January 30, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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pamwishbow.bsky.social
I had to delete my first post because I am a dingdong who wrote the wrong year on the first handful of comics, let's try this agan. Hourly Comic Day 2026

#hourlycomicday #hcd
illustration for the start of a comic "HOURLY COMIC DAY Feb 8,2026 Pam WISHBOW" illustration of people walking home in a cityscape "A short walk home from movie night with friends" illustration of a person sitting in a chair with cats "I work on hourlies and other drawing work with the boys" illustration of someone hanging out in a doorway "I interrupt the last Moments of the Finale of Brian's snow to Kiss him good night"
February 9, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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escherbug.art
HOURLIES 2026 PART I
since it's a Sunday this year, the day isn't nearly as packed as it would be otherwise. Almost wish I'd just done them for yesterday because we went to a SUPER cute cafe and bought yarn
Full inked page of hourly comics up until 12pm. Gaming, my cat sleeping on my face, and breakfast. First half of the page. George plays darkest dungeon II while I read Traitor and the Wretch, noticing it's midnight already. I go ahead and wrap up my animal crossing dailies for the night on a rare summer island (looking for tiger prawns). I fall asleep before George stops playing, and wake up with a huge black cat snuggled up to my face. Maybe he loves me, but maybe it's just that both the heat vents blow into my pillow. He forgets he has wet food and tries to steal our other cats', but I pick him up and take him over to remind him. Breakfast is peanut butter in waffles and tea, which I eat while I watch George play more games, and then get cleaned up and dressed to go out later today. However, I have some time until then, so I hunker down to start drawing my hourlies.
February 8, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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careydraws.bsky.social
i sat down to draw this and twig did bound right over to sit on us so YMMV #hourlycomicsday #hcd #hourlycomicday
February 8, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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linseedling.bsky.social
These are going to be mega delayed due to me staying up past my strict 10pm bedtime. 😪 #hourlycomicday #HourlyComicDay2026
February 8, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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nimasprout.bsky.social
✨Original mini painting roundup!✨
Painted with Acryla gouache & ink on paper 🖌️🎨

DM if you are interested
Price includes US shipping!
Two artworks - one with a salamander reading and the other is a thatch windmill with blueberries
February 8, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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heathermahler.bsky.social
5am ish - 8am
Comic sketch. 5 AM Ish to 8 AM. Nadja was on one this morning. Me in bed waking up, asking why? As Nadja scream meows.
February 8, 2026 at 4:22 PM