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daverclarke.myatproto.social
Dave Clarke
@daverclarke.myatproto.social
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Artist, illustrator, teacher, storyteller. I used to think I was interesting then I realized I was just an old dude telling the same stories all the time. He, him. Currently living in Shawnee, Cherokee territory.
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daverclarke.myatproto.social
Very funny how folks here at the airport look at the few of us wearing masks as if we are plague carriers.
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
daverclarke.myatproto.social
Trying to teach the game Fishboobs to A’s family. The two 5 year old nephews are making it difficult as we have not gotten past the name in 10 minutes.
December 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
daverclarke.myatproto.social
Merry Christmas from warm and sunny Colorado!
A small Norway Pine sapling stands at the edge of a rocky trail in the woods. Hanging from its thin, twiggy branches are Christmas ball ornaments of shiny red, green, yellow, and white. The ground around the tree is very dry with just a few sparse patches of snow back in the woods in the shadows of larger trees. The tree is in light shadow with bright beams of sunlight visible on the ground.
December 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
daverclarke.myatproto.social
So “chile con carne” is now called “chili colorado”?? Do you know how hard it is to search for a place serving chili/e in Colorado? No search, I do not want a Chili’s, jeebus.
December 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
wendell berry
QUESTIONNAIRE
Questionnaire by Wendell Berry How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade? Please name your preferred poisons. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do? Fill in the following blanks with the names of your favorite evils and acts of hatred What sacrifices are you prepared to make for culture and civilization? Please list the monuments, shrines, and works of art you would most willingly destroy In the name of patriotism and the flag. how much of our beloved land are vou willing to desecrate? List in the following spaces the mountains, rivers, towns, farms you could most readily do without. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes, the energy sources, the kinds of security; for which vou would kill a child Name, please, the children whom you would be willing to kill.
December 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
daverclarke.myatproto.social
Anyone in Denver should check out the art exhibits at the Botanic Gardens. Jazz Holmes mixes vibrant paint, collage, glitter, and rhinestones in images that celebrate her culture and family. 1/2
A colorful portrait of three Creole women holding chickens before a background of enlarged vegetables, including onion, carrot, and leek). The women are dressed in colorful robes (?) of green, red, and plum and orange. The robes are studded with matching color rhinestones. The title is Tchoupitoulas referencing the dish Pollo Tchoupitoulas. A portrait of a brown-skinned woman in a billowy top with a deep, emerald green bodice and red sleeves with blue polka dots. The bodice is painted and the sleeves are collaged from the wrappers of Cracker Jacks prizes. She is holding a ziploc bag filled with something light brown in her left hand. Her right hand is raised with her pinky lightly touching her teeth. Her long hair hangs down in a flat tan silhouette. Behind her is a pale blue background filled with oversized flowers and leaves. A two-panel painting with an overall yellow coloration. Two women stand back to back looking out at the viewer as they hold two enormous crawfish. Behind them are giant pepper plants with blossoms. The women wear black pants and yellow sleeveless tops.
December 23, 2025 at 12:35 AM
daverclarke.myatproto.social
A reluctant subject at the Denver Botanic Gardens
An Eastern Fox Squirrel sitting atop a large grey rock looking back over its shoulder at the viewer with a Why Are You Bothering Me?! face. The colorful rust orange and tan backside and fluffy tail of an Eastern Red Squirrel atop a large grey rock trying to get away from the paparazzi. One last image of the same Eastern Fox Squirrel now looking back at the viewer with fierce intensity thinking another nice day in the gardens spoiled.
December 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
daverclarke.myatproto.social
Every timeI take one of this “get up at 3am” flights I swear it will be my last, yet here I am once more.
December 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
daverclarke.myatproto.social
A wee painting from days long gone by
A small 4”x5” oil painting of a large tan mastiff (mutt) dog sitting on a blue rug in front of a brick hearth, looking at the fire (which is out of scene to the right). We are looking from behind an undecorated pine tree at the broad back and profile of the dog. Leaning against its stomach is a small child in a red onesie pajama. Next to the hearth in the background is a large poinsettia.
December 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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emilyhare.com
Just wanted to say WOOOO!! It's the shortest day! Which means we can look forward to spring from now on. Thank goodness for that. Happy Solstice and see you in 2026!! #wintersolstice #solstice #shortestday
painting of a dragon who is grey with a big grin on his face (you an see his head and shoulders). He has a lot of antlers/horns and one of them has a small red and white striped wooly hat on it, and he's holding a red and white striped scarf in his sharp teeth...
December 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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deanbarker.bsky.social
"I'm so sorry this is happening to you, bespoke AI prompters," I try to articulate, in-between bouts of hysterical laughter.
arif.bsky.social Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️ @arif.bsky.social · 4d
It's a whole genre it's beautiful
December 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
daverclarke.myatproto.social
Christmas carol sing-a-long and The Muppets Christmas Carol in an old movie theatre might just be what I need to get in the spirit of the season this year
December 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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pamwishbow.bsky.social
Every artist you know has a fucking reference both in their head and saved in books, objects, photo folders, etc. The sausage isn’t made like that and the experience of being able to take those references and make them into something that makes sense is kind of the whole thing, that’s communication
deanw.xyz Dead Walshe @deanw.xyz · 8d
The act of gathering reference is such a deeper thing than just a fucking collage.

It's research, learning, assessing and building on your knowledge base.
Even google image search is dog shit for this, crack a fucking book.

Learning names, history, influences.
December 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
daverclarke.myatproto.social
What is the idea behind NPR’s World Cafe? I assumed it would showcase music from everywhere but the US. Instead, every time I hear it they’re playing American music. Right now it’s Hall & Oates “She’s Gone”.
December 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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reneefrench.bsky.social
graphite and watercolor drawing of a humanoid staring
December 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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djtalia.bsky.social
Curzon is missing. I let him out back to do his business and he just disappeared. I've looked and I haven't found them. Anybody if you're in the Potomac/ Bethesda area please keep an eye out.
December 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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neal.fun
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)

The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

> neal.fun/size-of-life/
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
daverclarke.myatproto.social
I hear it’s #MonkeyDay so here are some sketches I did for various projects:
A rough pencil sketch for a fireplace screen insert. The scene shows velvet curtains hanging down with a layer of swag and cords with tassels. Four capuchin monkeys are in the scene. One is apparently peeking from around the left edge of the fireplace, while two are coming out from behind the curtains, and the last is hanging on a tasseled cord reaching for something out of the scene on the right. A pencil sketch of anthropomorphized chimpanzees dressed in clothes while juggling. On the left foreground a chimp in a dapper trouser and vest combo with a floppy bow-tie and a miniature top hat stands on one leg atop a disc balanced on a large ball juggling balls. Behind and to the right of him are a pair of chimps, one in a tutu and crop-top, the other in shorts and a t-shirt, dual juggle bowling pins. A pencil sketch of baboons juggling marmosets. In the center foreground with its back to us is a baboon in a tutu with a tall marching band style hat looking to the right. In the background to the right is another baboon dressed in short pants and a vest wearing a bowler. A third baboon is in the far back on the left wearing knee-length short pants and a conical hat with a pom on top. Text at the bottom says: Juggling Monkeys Juggling Monkeys.
December 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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kaikronfield.bsky.social
"students, society and administrations that are unwilling to take a hard stance (unless it’s the promotion of AI) are crushing higher ed. A college degree is not just about a job afterward — you have to be able to think, solve problems and apply those solutions, regardless of the field."
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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marinaomi.bsky.social
I'm excited to announce that I've accepted a comics co-editor position at @therumpus.net

We're looking for original literary fiction and non-fiction comics that feel personal. Bonus if it's hand-lettered (the path to my heart) 😘

No AI

Pays $100

therumpus.submittable.com/submit

Pass it on!
Baby raccoons just because
December 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
please support writers and artists and musicians and all the people who are doing the actual labor to create interesting, intentional work
December 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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isaacpickell.bsky.social
This sentence has been caught in my teeth for days, chewy and true and hard to live up to—

We're given so many chances to sell out [everything]. Good to remember it's not an imperative.
Settle/ment after Christina Sharpe People will keep saying that white supremacy is setting, these are death throes. People will say hold close what you can and mean the big things that hold us back; this low-slung sun-glare splaying out for the horizon can’t be solved with shade. A site of refuge doesn’t look like compromise. Just to have a little shine. But I don’t have to embrace anything that means me and us harm—We weren’t meant to be bargain- ing chips. Take it, and what will our dead have left to say besides live.
December 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
daverclarke.myatproto.social
In classic fashion I caught a (blurry) photo of Bigfoot in the town Xmas parade.
A small town street lined with trees festooned with strands of lights. Small children dressed warmly in minter coats and toboggans watch anxiously for the next float to arrive with folks chucking candy at them. Meanwhile, unseen in the foreground is somewhat blurry but still identifiable Bigfoot walking with Pikachu and waving to the crowd.
December 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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motherjones.com
The GOP-majority Supreme Court will issue a ruling on Trump's executive order banning birthright citizenship, one more step in the president's plot to take away citizenship for the US-born children of immigrants.
The plot against birthright citizenship
The incoming Trump administration wants to take away citizenship for the US-born children of undocumented immigrants. Here's how.
www.motherjones.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
daverclarke.myatproto.social
Merry Krampusnacht!
Holiday postcard. Pen and ink drawing of the Krampus emerging from the left of and grabbing a small boy to stuff into the large sack has carries for "bad" children. In the lower right of the image is the phrase "Gruss vom Krampus" (Greetings from Krampus).
December 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM