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Diana Poulsen
@dianapoulsen.bsky.social
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Artist, Filmmaker, Art historian, voice actor, machinist (etc) Indy game maker, theatre person, etc Canadian who plays a lot of Final Fantasy
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neonliminal.bsky.social
It's my bday! I don't usually celebrate, but I am this year by releasing HORNY MINOTAUR TECHNO.

PLEASE ENJOY.

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Big thanks to @joshuawaynehensley.bsky.social for maniacal laughter and @jjbbllkk.bsky.social for helping me make this EP WEIRD AND AWESOME 💖
labyrinth one, by neon minotaur
3 track album
neonliminal.bandcamp.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:05 AM
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portablecity.bsky.social
Find my playmaps, comics, and more, at the Danforth Arts Market! 1856 Danforth Ave, in Toronto.
a photo of the facade of the Danforth location of the Arts Market.
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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portablecity.bsky.social
This is the biggest oil pastel painting I've finished so far, at 22" tall. It is a study from my own photograph, and there is a large watercolour underpainting propping up the oil pastels, which really helped give me some incredible colour vibration that, sadly, the camera really can't capture.
A vertical painting of a stream with a rocky bank and a looming forest behind it, the sun peeking through the trees.
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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brianlongfield.bsky.social
Dynamic Rabbit
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas
2025

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#painting #bunny #rabbit #contemporary #art #animalart #acrylicpainting #artsky #artisticportrait #canadianart #winnipegart #contemporarypainting #rabbitart #bunnylove #bunnyrabbit
Dynamic Rabbit By Brian Longfield Acrylic on canvas 2025 An original acrylic painting of a rabbit with an abstract background I tried something interesting with the background here where instead of pallette knife painting the base layer, I hand painted an abstract image based on a macro photo of the upholstery of our couch. Why the couch? Idk. If I do more of this I’ll probably try to find a way to connect it conceptually to the animal portrait. This rabbit lives near me but has never been on the couch. I’m sure they’re very friendly though. #painting #bunny #rabbit #contemporary #expressive #artofdrawingg #artpiece #art_dailydose #artaddict #artist_sharing #artworkforsale #artistic_discover #artisticportrait #artmake #winnipegart #contemporarypainting #rabbitart #bunnylove #bunnyrabbit #bunnyrabbits
October 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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portablecity.bsky.social
One of the creatures I drew for The Ghost Houses of Phylinecra - learn more and see the rest in the system-agnostic adventure here: https://sorcererscatalogue.itch.io/the-ghost-houses-of-phylinecra
a graphite drawing on toned beige paper of a horrible knotted up deep sea worm creature with fractured glass teeth in its circular jaw.
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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portablecity.bsky.social
Got more zines up on my itch! Museum sketch art zines this time: sorcererscatalogue.itch.io/artifacts-zi...
Artifacts Zines by Shel Kahn and the Sorcerer's Catalogue
Sketches from museums, collected by theme
sorcererscatalogue.itch.io
October 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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portablecity.bsky.social
Reminder that I keep a blog at portablecity.net that you can subscribe to via RSS if you like! And that I also blog and such on tumblr at shelandsorcery.tumblr.com if you'd like to connect over there for any reason.
October 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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portablecity.bsky.social
Spent some time today reorganizing the page where I share original, traditional artwork I've made. Hoping this makes it easier to see the trends in my work! www.portablecity.net/original-art...
A ceramic sculpture of a small crystal island with blue crystals and a rough castle keep at the top of it. a surreal horror painting featuring a person wrapped in ornate red fabric with a huge red hat kind of maybe sort of tied to a staff that turns out to be an oar, balancing on a warped and twisted canal boat, floating in black water against a yellow sky with black stars and a distant greenish city, all framed in broken wood and ropes. The person is silhouetted in front of a huge red crescent moon with yellow-white center. The back of the boat boasts a furled and dragging red flag. A gouache painting of a hotdog stand at night, mostly dark blue except for the cold fluorescent light illuminating the signs and condiments. a watercolour painting that straddles the line between abstract shapes and a parsable map, in yellows and oranges and blues.
September 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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portablecity.bsky.social
Hey Toronto! Wolfspell (created by @epidiah.bsky.social and painted by me) is now in stock at Sword & Board and at 401 Games!
September 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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portablecity.bsky.social
I got really excited about learning something new about graphite drawing the other day, and wrote up a whole post on the subject: www.portablecity.net/high-level-p...
youtube screenshot of someone drawing a very realistic dry stone wall, with the truncated caption "anything about the mental processes" at the bottom
September 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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portablecity.bsky.social
I drew a dragon! whenever I see it, it reminds me to relax my shoulders and unclench my jaw.
a drawing of a serpent-like green dragon all tied up in a balled knot, its head with tongue peeking out, its legs and wings akimbo, on a white background.
August 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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portablecity.bsky.social
I wrote a bit about getting back into soft pastels! www.portablecity.net/soft-pastels...
A photo of a drawing table, where a square pastel painting of a pigeon is taped to a board, and a set of chalk-shaped soft pastels in rainbow order sits in front. The pigeon painting is unfinished, showing an upshot of a pigeon with sparking bokey trees behind it. A photo of a stack of four clear plastic trays, each divided into three sections, each section containing paper towles folded up and a smattering of colour-related pastels, eg, a square of reds and oranges, a square of pinks and purples, a square of dark greens, etc.
August 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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portablecity.bsky.social
Heads up, I added a few things to my concept art/visdev portfolio today: www.portablecity.net/visual-devel...
Visual Development – the portable city
www.portablecity.net
August 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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portablecity.bsky.social
Hey folks! I'm starting the hunt for September work now - happy to join you as an illustrator, do some vis dev for your next big project, or step into a bigger art direction role! Shares very appreciated.

Check out my portfolio here to see if I'm a good fit: www.portablecity.net/shel-kahns-p...
Shel Kahn’s Portfolio – the portable city
www.portablecity.net
July 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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jellyfishflan.bsky.social
Moenbryda, 2021 #ffxiv
Shoulders-up drawing of Moenbryda smiling, surrounded by moon daisies.
June 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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portablecity.bsky.social
Catch my wordless risographed fantasy comic, Orin and the Dead Man's Sword, at TCAF this June!
A comic cover featuring a little guy in layered tunics, precariously reaching between red granite islands above a clear lake; all illustrarted in greens and pinks and teals. The title reads Orin and the Dead Man's Sword. A page of comic panels in black and teal, featuring a little guy walking between cliff walls in shallow water, until he comes to a ruined stone wall with a glowing clearing behind it.
May 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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redditffxiv.bsky.social
"Honestly, I feel like this was too much flavor text for the MTG collab card..." by Sir5000
http://redd.it/1kl5si9
FFXIV Reddit
May 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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portablecity.bsky.social
hell yeah #webcomicday ! Allow me to pitch to you a comic or two on the web - they all live at my stories website and are free to read online! stories.portablecity.net
A comic from By Crom! where the narrator and Conan the Barbarian are hanging out on a park bench. Narrator says "What can I do when it feels like the whole universe is out to get me?" Conan replies "First, I would decide if it is a worthy opponent. If not, I prefer to laugh." A comic page from Orin and the Dead Man's Sword, in teal and black, showing five panels of Orin in shirt and braies swimming down into a clear pool, revealing weedy skulls and ruins at the bottom. A comic strip from Lomy in the Abyss, showing Lomy and Louis in line at the school cafeteria, each listening to music made visible in illustrated bubbles coming from their headphones. Lomy's is a blue wizard; Louis' is red writhing guts and bones. They competitively turn the volume of their music up until everyone else in line is squeezing out of the way of the oversized illustrated balloons emanating from their headphones. A panel from A Brief Guide to (Early Onset) Wizard Puberty, showing the wizard dramatically pulling a sparkly cloth off of a crystal ball. They are saying "More seriously though: has this process unlocked something uncanny, powerful, spiritual or occult in them? Fuck no."
May 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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neonliminal.bsky.social
I was featured on this week's episode of Chasing the Beats, the podcast that explores Weekly Beats artists and their music. I had a ton of fun, we talked lots about music, storytelling and dogs:
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Chasing The Beats
Interviewing Weekly Beats artists and listening to their songs.
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May 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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portablecity.bsky.social
If you see this, post a sword!
a chunky oil pastel painting of a bust of a young white woman in armor holding up a greatsword against a green forested background
May 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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neonliminal.bsky.social
Making space music album cover art by throwing my eclipse photos up on my shitty tv and photographing them again with a bigass camera and a shitty pinhole lens and I am pretty happy with the result!
April 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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panecasio.bsky.social
lmfao
a photo of a (sample) ballot for Carleton, Poilievre’s riding, where lots of folks banded together to essentially spoil the ballot, making it hard to find Poilievre. a special detachment had to be assigned by elections Canada to count just this riding.
April 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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seansnmurphy.ca
hope you're all ready to refresh this every 10 seconds 🇨🇦
Get live results from the Canadian federal election
Who will form the next government in Canada? Follow live election results on April 28, with breakdowns from your riding and races across the country.
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April 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
dianapoulsen.bsky.social
Voted.
April 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
dianapoulsen.bsky.social
Painting Ishgard #ffxiv #heavensward www.tumblr.com/pictomachine...
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April 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM