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@justinkingdesigns.bsky.social

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Multidisciplinary artist concentrating in sculpture in St Louis! https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/justinkingdesigns/ Www.justinkingdesigns.com Www.instagram.com/justinkingdesigns

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Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social · Nov 22

Im a sculptor living in St Louis. I use a lot of cardboard and other under appreciated materials to create taxidermy style art pieces. You can find my work at Houska Gallery here in STL or contact me directly for current available pieces or commissions.

#art #sculpture #mixedmedia

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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 5h

My most recent one from last year! Had a new friend (him in the second pic wearing a pumpkin) who'd just moved up from Mexico and he'd never done pumpkin carving before. I saw this vaguely skullish pumpkin and mentioned Calavera and he urged me to go for it - really proud of how it turned out!

A pumpkin, wider at the top and narrowed toward the bottom somewhat like a skull, which has been carved into (but not carved right through) in a design like a Calavera, the decorated skulls associated with Dia de los Muertos in Mexico, with flowery designs around the eyes, nose, and teeth.

A man in blue jeans and a black t-shirt, fists on hips, proudly wearing a pumpkin on his head.

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Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social · 5h

Yeh it’s awesome!!

Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social · 5h

Yeh, the LEDs are awesome. I had some leftover from a project and now it’s a thing. My kids love it.

Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social · 5h

QRP your punkin art!!

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Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks PJ!

Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social · 13h

Tysm ☺️

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Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social · 14h

No matter how you spell it, it’s a good message.

I’m holding up a wish written on the cardboard dragon scales I’m using for the the finish on my sculpture.

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Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social · 14h

Safe for work, made by me, a human and totally fungible!

Heron sculpt im working on. First coat of paint. It’s made from a recycled coat rack.

Buffalos unite!! Myself and Bess Kalb showing off our respective additions to bison culture.

Myself working on a dragon’s tail made of cardboard while talking about technique so to a young artist at a local makers space for kids.

T hi is is the head section of the dragon. All in all I’ll have about 30’ of undulating cardboard dragon going in and out of the ceiling at the magic house.

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Nodens☄️ @nodens.bsky.social · 15h

⭒⋆✵ ART SHARE ✵⋆⭒
Let's share some love and kindness!

🔮 Post your art
🔮 Repost this for visibility
🔮 Invite friends and support other artists
💀 Human artist only, no Ai, no NFTs, keep it SFW pls

I'll RT my favorites through the days 💜

#selfpromo #artshare

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Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social · 15h

a man wearing a cowboy hat and sweater says " that 's pretty awesome cowboy "

ALT: a man wearing a cowboy hat and sweater says " that 's pretty awesome cowboy "

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · 15h

Made a cool skull pauldron along with the earrings for my next cosplay, which is gonna be the Feral Queen from Sea of Stars!

Pauldron modelled in Z-Brush, printed in PLA and painted by hand

A woman wears a 3D printed pauldron resembling a wolf’s skull with a blue moon on its forehead and horns

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Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social · 16h

I love libraries.

Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social · 16h

I have lots of reasons to love my wife but I adore her pointing out moons and hawks and all of life’s little lovely things to me.

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I think there’s a lot of great composition in this bunch Elsa!!

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Dan H Artworks @danhawk333.bsky.social · 1d

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Pen drawing of a humanoid figure, seemingly colossal, striding across a twisted organic landscape with T shaped towers emerging out of the vine and tendril like ground under a pinkish-purple and blue plasma coloured sky. Structures reach up into the sky with shapes of various beings silhouetted against the sky in the large branch like structures. Other celestial figures hang in the sky at various distances while orbs of blue and purple light hover over the landscape in the foreground.

Pen drawing of a horde of open mouthed and screaming faces with tongues and other appendages stretching out from right to left on the page towards a screaming figure whose throat is exploding as a result of the various tendrils and energies lancing out from them towards it.

Pen drawing of a gaunt stone or bone oval crested celestial with gems for a face radiating aurora like plasma set against distant large constructions that form part of a helix while several techno-organic "moons" orbit it. It's body flows into a world of temples and structures from antiquity made of stone and bone with several figures embedded in them with the most prominent having the head of a wooly mammoth.

Pen drawing of a celestial being made up of the void of space with stars shining floating in front of circles within circles of otherworldly material with symbols embedded in the second layer and the outer layers becoming progressively more and more twisted, root-like and organic. These structures reach out to the edges of the page leaving the celestial floating in front of the central structure.

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Sarah McKenzie @sarahdraws8.bsky.social · 1d

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Riola @riolavar.bsky.social · 1d

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Val @valssky.bsky.social · 1d

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ShiftyPumpkin @shiftypumpkin.com · 1d

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“Autumn Stream”, an 18”x24” oil painting of a forest in autumn. A dramatic sunset and gathering clouds fill the sky, with rolling hills of colorful trees. A slightly rushing stream cuts through the clearing towards the viewer.

“Haunted Swamp”, an 18”x24” oil painting of a swamp in several colors of green, grey, black, blue and purple. Glowing mushrooms and hanging moss dot the landscape.

18”x24” oil painting of a night sky filled with a blue nebula. Sharp mountains and trees line the background, while a lake in the foreground reflects some of the blue light from above.

Oil painting of old graveyard at sunset in autumn, on 18-inch by 24-inch canvas. Orange and red sky, with trees in orange and yellow leaves, green grass, headstones, and some spooky elements in blue and purple.

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Victor Kozuchenko @lightvick.bsky.social · 1d

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Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social · 1d

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Victor Kozuchenko @lightvick.bsky.social · 1d

How about a little silent artshare?
Just us, the art, and the sound of nothing.😊

#artshare #art #selfpromo

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Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!!!

Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social · 1d

Orb weaver! You can’t build your web there. I had to relocate this fella. If I hadn’t both him and the mail man would have had a bad day.

#spider

Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social · 1d

Where the buffalo roam? Apparently in St Louis. @bessbell.bsky.social stopped by the Central Library to promote her new book “Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo” and I showed off a sculpt and made masks with the kids while she signed books.

#kidlit #books #sculpture #cardboard