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Jason Behnke
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• Artist • Illustrator • Graphic Designer • Author • Committed to reflecting and celebrating the beautiful diversity of our humanity.
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Jason Behnke @jasonbehnke.com · 19d
Artist in sci-fi, fantasy, and horror markets
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Author of the Book of Urm including Tales of Piecora
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Owner of Behnke Design LLC
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#art #artsky #scifi #sciart #sff #fantasy #horror #ttrpg #rpg #ccg #booksky #noai @bsky.art 💙🪐📚🐡
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Happy Thanksgiving to all who observe.

"Still Life From Napavine Spring Ithra 2008", 8x10, painted in oils on canvas panel.

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#Thanksgiving #traditional #oils #art #artsky #drawing #painting #illustration #noai @bsky.art 🎨💙🪐🐡
"Still Life From Napavine Spring Ithra 2008", 8x10, painted in oils on canvas panel of a pear, green leaves, purple grapes, toasted bread and a green wine bottle. One of the few traditional paintings I'm kinda proud of.
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Mystical crowning under reflective moonlight: a powerful, silent wonder is captured in 'Coronation' by Brad Kunkle, 1st Prize Winner of the RAYMAR Painting Award in the 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize.

Oil, gold and silver leaf on wood panel.
Collection of the New Salem Museum

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November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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A beautiful collection of nocturnal wildlife and potent flora, titled 'Pick Your Poison' by Feral Fauna Art creates a stunning atmosphere.

#beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #surrealart #nature #wildlife #bats #artcollectors #artmagazine #artinspo #art
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Oh to be a cat in this moment. This light, this mood... @sarahhallidayart.bsky.social

#beautifulbizarre #catart #catpainting #animalart #animalpainting #brushstrokes #paintanyway #ipadart #digitalart #procreate #procreateart #art
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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When you collaborate with fascism, young people shop elsewhere. This week, we ain't buying it.

DO NOT SHOP AT:
❌Target❌
❌Amazon❌
❌Home Depot❌
November 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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I signed this petition organized by Showing Up for Racial Justice. They still need more signatures. Can you sign and share as well? www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...
We Ain't Buying It! Pledge to Boycott with SURJ · Showing Up for Racial Justice
............................................................................... ### SURJ is joining forces with the _We Ain't Buying It!_ Campaign to send a clear message to corporate America and the ...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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I signed this petition organized by Showing Up for Racial Justice. They still need more signatures. Can you sign and share as well? www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...
We Ain't Buying It! Pledge to Boycott with SURJ · Showing Up for Racial Justice
............................................................................... ### SURJ is joining forces with the _We Ain't Buying It!_ Campaign to send a clear message to corporate America and the ...
www.mobilize.us
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Irish artist Mildred Anne Butler, Shades of Evening, 1904 #womensart #November
Painting of crows in a bare winter tree with a house below with smoke coming out of the chimney under an early evening sky
November 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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This personal project by Valeriy Vegera has such a striking tone and colour palette that leaves me with so many questions as to the tale of this young woman.
#art #beautifulbizarre #valeriyvegera #digitalartist #digitalart #digitalpainting #conceptart #portraiture #artlovers #artinspo
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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I want to thank the American Writing Awards for naming my book "Tales of Piecora - The Emerald Cave" as a Finalist in 2025 Fiction / Fantasy.

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#BookofUrm #TalesofPiecora #TheEmeraldCave #sff #fantasy #horror #scifi #art #writing #indyauthor #booksky #noai 💙🪐📚
Cover painting for Tales of Piecora - The Emerald Cave, painted and written by Jason Behnke, with the 2025 Finalist badge awarded by the American Writing Awards.
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Ok one more video. the most beautiful fluke I've seen. edited for EXTRA BEAUTY!!!
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Information about the roles of each author of a paper can help to build trust, integrity and responsible research assessment

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A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work — and why there’s still more to do
Information about the roles of each author of a paper can help to build trust, integrity and responsible research assessment. Coordinated efforts are needed to consolidate progress.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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It’s that time of year. My annual How to Draw a Turkey Tutorial.
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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"Peace Be With You" painted in 2020.

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#peace #candle #heron #water #tranguil #calm #soothing #art #artsky #drawing #painting #illustration #conceptart #scifi #sciart #noai @bsky.art 💙🪐🐡
A floating candle on rippling water surface and the reflection of a heron flying overhead beside it.
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Delia Derbyshire (1937- 2001) UK musician/composer, pioneer of electronic music, working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1960s, she created the arrangement of the theme music for UK science-fiction TV series #DoctorWho
#WomensArt
Monochrome photograph of a white woman standing over a desk with reel to reel recording equipment
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Aida Overton Walker (1880 -1914), US vaudeville performer, known as 'Queen of the Cake Walk', after a 1900s dance craze. The Cake Walk, originally performed by enslaved people, mocked slave owners & high society #womensart
Sepia photograph of the upper half of a Black woman facing forwards wearing a low cut dress and necklace, looking directly outwards with proud expression
November 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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A couple of years ago a trend began for making crocheted and knitted mini sofas for pet cats 🐈 #Caturday ....
Four different photos of cats on small knitted sofas
November 22, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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THANK YOU for following WA ❣️ You're all very much appreciated 👏

Frida Kahlo with her favourite dog, Señor Xólotl who appeared in several of her paintings.....
Monochrome photograph featuring a sitting woman in an interior facing forwards wearing a checked dress holding a small dog on her lap while looking right out of a window
November 21, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Have you heard of US painter Ida O'Keeffe? Her work was largely overshadowed by that of her much more known older sister Georgia.... #womensart
Four images, including a monochrome photograph of two white women, head and shoulders and three paintings, one of tulips, one of a lighthouse in semi abstract style and one of an abstract design in black and red
November 21, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Starting to get real anxious here in the States but we all saw this going into this week, so have some soothing art I painted over the years for whatever it's worth. No AI.

#art #artsky #drawing #painting #illustration #conceptart #scifi #sciart #sciencefiction #sff #fantasy #noai @bsky.art 💙🪐🐡
A still life of apples in a wicker basket painted by Jason Behnke. No AI. Portrait of JRR Tolkien painted by Jason Behnke. No AI. Portrait of Nichelle Nichols as Uhura painted by Jason Behnke. No AI. Cloaked figures walk in a line toward distant monolithic standing stones with a large crescent moon overhead and ravens flying in the sky, painted by Jason Behnke. No AI.
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Researchers have found a way to use bacteria to produce a rainbow of sustainable fabrics

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Bacterial cooperative weaves sustainable rainbow materials
Several microbial strains working together in a ‘one pot’ production process could provide an environmentally friendly route to clothing.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Tapa or bark cloth with freehand painting, is traditionally a women's art from Polynesia, though terminology, decorations, dyes, and designs vary throughout the islands #WomensArt
Art work featuring a stylised image of a turtle created with patterns and motifs, surrounded by a rectangular border with similar designs in black, brown and cream
November 20, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Sarah Evans, contemporary Welsh painter known for her local landscapes #WomensArt #Winter
Painting of a rural scene under grey sky and snow, to the left is a barn with snow covered roof and to the right by the edge of a white winter field is a row of bare black trees
November 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Okuda San Miguel shares a wonderful collection of photos from back in 2015 when he helped transform an old church in Llanera, Asturias into a mecca for skate culture filled with life, colour and happiness!
#art #beautifulbizarre #okudaart #kaostemple #contemporaryart #skateboarding
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM