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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 39m

You did predict this, fingers to fall off next

Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 43m

76, before I even look at ipad or computer

(Reading list probably has another hundred or so that I’ll get back to any day now)

Random sample - article of the Doves typeface, a 70s strategy boardgame, construction of the Mulberry temporary harbours and a cooking article. Pretty typical of the rest

Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 2h

Not yet, got to have a brain biopsy and suspected lupus first

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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 13h

My #draweachother portraits for this evening, 15min each, 2B & 4B pencil. Likenesses weren’t coming but there are bits here and there which worked

Pencil portrait of a man looking straight on

Pencil portrait of a woman looking off to the left

Pencil portrait of a woman looking to the right

Pencil portrait of a woman face on but looking up and right

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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 16h

Nuts! Day 8

Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 16h

Day 7 of Inktober “reckless” - for which I decide to how hip, groovy and down with the kids I am by referencing a single cover from 1977. Indian ink and marker pen on cartridge paper #inktober #inktober2025

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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 23h

Wow! Something like a Wellesley, Warwick or Wellington?

Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 1d

My muse

Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 1d

Inktober day 7 “Starfish” - Indian ink, starfish larva based on a photograph in www.sciencedirect.com/topics/bioch... #inktober #inktober2025

A black and white ink drawing on a black background - a microscopic larva which looks almost abstract and art nouveau

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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 2d

Inktober day 6 “pierce” - Mitsubishi 0.05mm unipin fineliner and diamine blue/black ink #inktober #inktober2025

A drawing of a sashiko style visible repair in progress. A hole is torn in a textured paper with a smooth paper behind patching it. A series of drawn stitches connect the edges of hole and patch ending in a drawing of a needle piercing the paper

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 4d

p.s. my other thought was to do this array of annoyed expressions from Brodick Castle staircase

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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 4d

Deer” for day 5 of @inktober - 0.5mm Pigma micron pen. Swimming reindeer sculpture in the British Museum. 11000 years old, carved from mammoth ivory. Captivating art - www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... and www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a... #inktober #inktober2025

A sketch on white paper in brown ink - a carved sculpture showing two reindeer in line astern swimming from left to right as we look at them

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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 4d

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Let Perish the Money Tyrants, 1982
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1119531

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sfella87 @sfella87.bsky.social · 4d

Drawings from the latest #drawingisfree session

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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you, I wanted to get something that looked like the start of a Gothic horror novel (by day the farm is more Richard Scarry picture book than Scary)

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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 4d

If Eric Ravilious and Charles Rennie Macintosh can chop up and reassemble paper to fix art then you’re in pretty decent company

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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 4d

I wasn’t sure of what to do for inktober day 4 “murky” but Storm Amy and the view yesterday evening of the farm behind our house provided appropriate inspiration. Micron pen, indian ink, marker,… a bit of everything got thrown at this #inktober #inktober2025

A dark rain sodden farmhouse with lit windows in yellow - drawn in inks

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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 4d

Excellent accidental post juxtaposition

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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 4d

Mo’traits 1 & 2 done for @galleryofmo.bsky.social 5 and 15 min

Pencil drawing, portrait of a man wearing a flying jacket and sporting a handlebar moustache

Pencil drawing, portrait of a man wearing reflective sunglasses and sporting an extravagant moustache

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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 5d

thanks for including my Paints & Pints session, much appreciated

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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 5d

Inktober drawing no.3, Crown. From a photo reference at watchingthesunbake.blogspot.com/2012/12/thre... I think I’m going to have to draw something other than a bird tomorrow before I inadvertently lock myself into a month long theme #inktober #inktober2025

African Grey Crowned Crane drawn in black ink with pops of colour in gold, orange and blue for the crown, wattle and eye respectively

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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 6d

I can properly call myself an artist now - Courtesy of @csteichenart.bsky.social’s design I can authenticate my sketchbooks with an “official artist” stamp

Hogs (for hog hair) rampant, stickman on an easel field, topped with a beret

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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 7d

My two options for inktober day 2 “Weave” - I think I prefer idea no.1 the weaver bird with a work-in-progress nest over no.2 trying to draw the texture of denim #inktober #inktober2025

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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 7d

Didn’t “end the war on warriors” star in the original The Equaliser tv show?

onion person @junlper.beer · 8d

do these people not get embarrassed

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