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Rune Winters - Formerly Laura Garabedian
@wintersrune.com
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Rune Winters - Formerly Laura Garabedian @wintersrune.com · Jul 11
Oops guess it was #portfolioday yesterday and I missed it but Happy day today I guess?
Watercolor painting of a dog head that is turning into fire and then leaves and then darkness Watercolor painting of the five of pentacles from the deck. The subject matter is a wolf headed being with red hands in a green cloak on a green background pointing down to five coins in a swirl with a sun behind them Oil painting of an eagle in blues and violets against a background of abstracted, teals and golds Watercolor painting of a figure with the head of an otter and red hands against a greenish background wearing a brown cloak with a series of flat stylized metallic green bubbles going around the figure
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athanaca.bsky.social
🪁 A design approach based on traditional kite and Wallcreeper!Maybe will make it possible for flying in the future?🧐

#bird #birdart #illustration #digitalart #kite #design #animal #animalart #conceptart #ornamental
A traditional Chinese kite design based on the specie - Wallcreeper
January 10, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
if you want to throw a few bucks to an organization that is doing really great work against ICE here in Portland, this is a Willett family rec

pircoregon.org
Home | Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition
Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition (PIRC) support immigrant rights through direct assistance, education, legal support, advocacy, and community organizing.
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January 8, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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sodalitejatholo.bsky.social
Birbs Birbs Birbs!

Sage grouse by @tkdbull65.bsky.social
Lady Amherst and Golden pheasants by @wintersrune.com
Hooded merganser by @ironfeathers.bsky.social
Palm cockatoo by @hbruton.bsky.social

(I have too many others >.>)
January 9, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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bookshop.org
If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.
January 8, 2026 at 6:47 PM
wintersrune.com
Going live today on @everydayoriginal.bsky.social
wintersrune.com Rune Winters - Formerly Laura Garabedian @wintersrune.com · 5d
Coming to @everydayoriginal.bsky.social on Wednesday! "Silver and Roses"
A friend of mine has the most stunning rose garden and every year I try and take photos of her dogs and mine with them, this is based on the result of those photos, just magical dogs and magical flowers.
watercolor painting of a grey silken windhound face emerging from abstracted rose florals
January 7, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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bisonrimant.fr
You can commission me ✌️

This is the kind of thing I do.

You can share that post to help me, if you want 🙏
Woodcarved humanoid octopus wearing a robe, arms wide open, in front of a book standing on branches. On the book, a frog. On the right arm, a kinfisher, and on the top of the head of the octopus, a round duck. The base is burn, on that angle it is not really obvious but is water with a slight wave form arround the octopus. On the background, an old door with old white paint. Woodcarved humanoid crow with a hooded cloak, a sword, satchel on its belt. It has a squirrel climbing its arm, and a cat sitting next to its feet Woodcarved scene on a round base. An humanoid octopus wearing a dress is holding a basket with a duck inside of it. On the head of the octopus, a grumpy frog taking shelter of a big ancient book. Next to them all, a sword is coming out of water among bulrush. On the top of it sits a kingfisher. An anthropomorphic goose weraing plate armor. It's holding a shield and a mace. On the mace, red robin sits.
January 6, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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Coming to @everydayoriginal.bsky.social on Wednesday! "Silver and Roses"
A friend of mine has the most stunning rose garden and every year I try and take photos of her dogs and mine with them, this is based on the result of those photos, just magical dogs and magical flowers.
watercolor painting of a grey silken windhound face emerging from abstracted rose florals
January 5, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
Good for Reuters for changing their headline. Pressure works. Grok did not do this. Elon Musk did.
@ketanjoshi.co: This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X Reuters: Elon Musk's Grok AI floods X with sexualized photos of women and minors January 2, 2026
January 3, 2026 at 4:14 AM
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michelegiorgiart.bsky.social
Another card for Magic:The Gathering

This piece was fun, a bright and comic moment.
Full of Art Deco and pastry. Painting that croissant was so relaxing. 

"City Pigeon"
© 2025 Wizards of the Coast LLC  @magic.wizards.com
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#magicthegathering #wizardsofthecoast
#mtgart
January 3, 2026 at 4:13 PM
wintersrune.com
Happy third birthday to my most handsome and floofity man Felix 💚
White silken windhound lying on a woven throw
January 2, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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pachineorzea.bsky.social
MMORPG players in Westworld: people torture the NPCs because they're not real and nothing matters Real MMORPG players in real games: for a while there was a rock with textures that didn't load in correctly so people made a pilgrimage to Smooth Rock
January 1, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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The books I read (or listened to, mostly listened while working or driving) this year, lmk if you have any questions and feel free to friend me on @thestorygraph.com some highlights are @tkingfisher.com @annleckie.com @seananmcguire.bsky.social @veronicarothbooks.com @travisbaldree.bsky.social
January 1, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
Metal detectorists/mudlarkers in North America: "Look, three pennies and a belt buckle! Best day on the beach ever!"

Metal detectorists/mudlarkers in Great Britain: "Remember to report all the dead bodies and live WWII-era ordnance you find. They have a form at the office."
December 30, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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tkingfisher.com
If you buy a hot snake on a whim, you deserve what’s going to happen to you, but the snake really doesn’t.
ethankocak.com Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 12d
I’m learning today that much like clownfish after Finding Nemo, there is now a boom in sales of tree vipers after the release of Zootopia 2.
December 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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nimasprout.bsky.social
Finished up this wave painting! Will be varnishing it to bring out the richness but want to let the paint fully dry overnight before applying.

This one is up for grabs.
Size: 6.5x11" Acryla gouache on paper
$600 (US shipping including)

DM to claim
Wave painting with greens and blues with paint pallet in background
December 28, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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chuwenjie.bsky.social
I’ve curated another starter pack, this time to make it easier to find artists working in the illustration and comics fields! (If you qualify to be on this list but are not on it let me know, I will fill it up until it hits the 150 limit!)

go.bsky.app/JU83vmM
December 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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nimasprout.bsky.social
Mini painting - upturned mushroom with evergreen
December 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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nimasprout.bsky.social
Alas no rest for artists trying to make their mortgage payment. 😞

New artwork is now available!
DM to claim (Venmo/PayPal preferred)
Three new paintings available - LG Magical Bookshop, small blue crystal cottage, and turned up mushroom
December 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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dconaty.bsky.social
The audiobook of "Swordheart" by @tkingfisher.com is on sale at Chirp for $3.99 today. It works as a standalone even tho the series (Hugo finalist World of the White Rat) technically starts with Clockwork Boys.

Daggerbound (Swordheart #2) comes out next August!

www.chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/s...
Swordheart
A New York Times bestseller from a “master” of the genre (Travis Baldree, author of Legends & Lattes): When Halla inherits her great-uncle’s estate, she receives an ancient sword which, once unshe...
www.chirpbooks.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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lasrina.bsky.social
I’ve met a fair number of dudes at dog parks who are like “yes, my dog is one-eighth mighty Alaskan gray wolf” and I’ve nodded politely at what is very clearly a Labradoodle.
December 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
The lessons for heavy DIYers to take from this, btw:

If your doctor says your insurance won't approve a newly-released drug you really want to try, don't despair. Ask them if they're willing to do a "peer to peer" if you draft the justification for them to edit to save time.
December 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
wintersrune.com
I hate it when that happens
avianfae.bsky.social Amberle M. @avianfae.bsky.social · 22d
Found the chart! It was on Twitter, username was @ DelKittyy but I'm not sure if they were the original maker or not.
Image of a growth chart. The first section is steadily rising with text above it that reads "oh hey :) my art's improvi-" the text is cut off by a dramatic downward spike. Underneath the spike it reads "what the hell" in italicized red text. The chart then dramatically returns to the previous upward slope with two lines of text. The one right after the spike reads "what the hell was that<" and the second line further along the slow reads "oh hey my art's improving :)"
December 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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athanaca.bsky.social
Red fox’s Dream🦊🔆

*Try to express the colors hidden in the fox’s fur

#illustration #fox #animalart #originalart #digitalart #wildlife #portrait
Illustration of a fox and a smaller version of it
December 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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restingdinoface.bsky.social
Drawing again has made me realize how often I’d see a piece of art I admired and I’d think “That’s so cool, I could never do that,”

when I couldn’t have any idea of what style or vibe I’d cultivate if I just kept practicing. If I’d even want to make something like that once I’d learned how.
December 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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palaeosinensis.com
Happy winter solstice to all; from this day onward the light only grows.

#death #rebirth #art #cat #wolf #linocut #digitalart
A digitally created faux linocut print; there is a column with text on the left and a columb with artwork on the right. The entire piece is based on Mahler's Symphony No. 2. The text reads "You were not born for no reason. You did not live for nothing; nor suffered in vain." The artwork on the right uses a cat buried and growing a new tulip poplar above it to represent the remaining symphony text, "What has lived must also perish. What has perished shall rise again." Artwork is human made with zero AI. Digital artwork of an anthropomorphic white wolf figure in a field of snow in the dark. The wolf wears a purple ruana pinned with a penannular. The wolf is highly stylized and the snow has faint celtic designs in it. The wolf is using their paws to shelter a single tiny flame on a pile of twigs while faint embers, dead leaves, and snowflakes blow around the wolf in the wind.
December 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM