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KCimaginary
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I'm Kristen, aka KC (she/her).🏳️‍🌈 Librarian, art-maker, talks to spiders and houseplants.🪴 No A/I 🚫 Tip jar: http://ko-fi.com/kcimaginary ❤️
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KCimaginary @kcimaginary.bsky.social · Nov 9
Welcome to BlueSky! I'm Kristen (aka KC), a queer librarian and digital artist specializing in portraits, fantasy + nature-inspired illustrations. #art #illustration

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✨Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/kcim...
In the bottom half of this painting, a young man with brown skin and dark brown hair raises a cupped hand with a conjured witch light inside; additional witch lights hover above him. He is entangled in vines and his garb is pierced by blades which radiate outward from behind him. Behind his head is a golden shield which creates a halo effect. The shield is held by an ethereal woman with thick, textured hair that glows gold and orange. She wears golden armor and a feathered cloak. She has two pairs of wings which frame the male figure. A painting of a starry purple nebula with three peony flowers growing in front of it with lush green stalks and leaves and blush-pink blooms. Some of the stars appear to be emanating from inside of the blooms. A painting of a light-skinned, black-haired woman wearing a red and black dress. She is a magic-user who is playing a gittern (a predecessor of the guitar) and is accompanied by her familiar, a floating manta ray. Her lower right arm is missing and is replaced by a ghostly transparent arm. She stands near the ocean and is surrounded by coastal plants, including yellow sand verbena flowers. In this version of the drawing, the manta ray is a soft pink color. The tone of the painting is brighter and more naturalistic; the ocean fades palely in the distance. A digital portrait of a woman staring directly at the viewer. On the right side of the portrait, her head and face are ordinary flesh and hair, but on the left side of the painting, she appears to be a stone statue with a hollow eye socket. The “statue” side has several large cracks beginning from the hairline, below the nose, and on the chin which continue to the “flesh” side as deep cuts in her face that glow red in places. Her hair, which is dark brown on the “flesh” side, is pulled back and decorated with a beaded headdress which has golden leaves hanging from it. The headdress is broken near the crack in the “statue” side’s forehead.The woman is backlit from a rapidly spreading fire in the background.
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herdwicksheep.bsky.social
Happy Christmas to ewe all 💚
December 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
For Day 21 #ArtAdventCalendar

A Little Night Magic
32 x16 81x40cm
Oil on Canvas
2021
Abstract landscape. Tall rotating storm cloud with a funnel at the bottom at night illuminated by a lightning strike.
December 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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auraboo.bsky.social
A little lurker, hidden in the tall grass. Another acrylic miniature, mostly painted with shiny, metallic colours.

#art #acrylic #AnimalArt
Acrylic painting in hues of green and some purple highlights of a cat sitting among tall grass under a beam of sunlight. There are flowering bushes on the cat's left.
December 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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garybirdshirt.bsky.social
solstice-posting

#art
all four are digital paintings i did of winter scenes - most from 2022
December 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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ichimakesart.bsky.social
There is something peculiar in this bouquet in my Study.
December 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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liiga.bsky.social
Hey artists!! Post some art you made from before Bluesky!! 🎨

This is from... oh wow 2016, didn't think it was that old. Time fies.. ..LIKE OWLS!
A digital painting of a puffed up owl trying to look threatening and not at all cute (which is not easy when you're a puffed up owl, they get so fluffy). It was drawn for Android:Netrunner by Fantasy Flight Games.
December 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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timosborne.ca
Day 21 of #ArtAdventCalendar: "The Count"

#birds #owls
A Great Grey Owl landing on a post. His eyes peer out from over his wing, looking similar to Dracula looking over his cape.
December 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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rspb.bsky.social
There's a little magic to December evenings... ✨

Is nature looking festive where you are? Share your Sunday snaps with us. 👇
A Starling sits silhouetted on a bare winter branch at dusk, its shape outlined against a deep blue December sky. Soft yellow fairy lights glow through the surrounding twigs, giving the scene a quiet, festive sparkle as the bird watches the fading light.
December 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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eleonorpiteira.bsky.social
Happy to finally show the illustration 'In Artur Hawkwing’s Hand' that I painted for @dragonsteelbooks.com 's edition of 'The Eye of The World' by Robert Jordan, from 'The Wheel of Time' series!
Horizontal illustration painted by Eleonor Piteira called 'In Artur Hawkwing’s Hand' for Dragonsteel Books' edition of 'The Eye of The World' by Robert Jordan, from 'The Wheel of Time' series, showing a night scene with Perrin and Egwene (and a mare called Bela) crouching next to a giant statue of a hand and hiding from soldiers walking on the other side of the statue with torches, looking for them. On the background, on top of some giant boulders we can see a group of wolves, one of them has a circle of dots around his head as does Perrin, hinting at a connection between the two.
December 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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standplaatskrk.pl
me: it's okay to be a person struggling with productivity during a prolonged crisis my brain: not u though me: not me though
October 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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benmce.bsky.social
Autumn’s Waning 🍂
A digital painting of a large tree in fall. A figure walks through a creek in the foreground, surrounded by fallen leaves.
November 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
kcimaginary.bsky.social
I will throw in my hat with a few of my favorite sightings, large and small:

Bighorn sheep
Great Blue Heron
Sea otters
Seagull chicks
Walkingstick (the insect)
colpizen.bsky.social Colpizen @colpizen.bsky.social · 29d
I feel compelled to break this vicious cycle of "laaaaarge ferocious wild animals" and reintroduce invertebrates huhu

Swallowtails 🦋
Crabs 🦀
Achatinas 🐌
Various caterpillars 🐛
Jellyfishes 🪼
:)
ytsl.bsky.social YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 29d
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

Wildebeests
Elephants
Zebras
Lions
Wild boar
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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kennedytcooper.bsky.social
Remember to thank Rebecda Black today for inventing Fridays, we honor her today on Black Friday
November 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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sculptedreef.com
🪸 Coral Garden 🪸

#Art #ArtYear #BSNM #BlueSkyArtShow #ArtGallery #CoralReef #Reef #Coral #Sculpture #MarineLife 🦑🐡
Close up of a mixed media artwork featuring hand beaded corals in olive green, golden topaz and hints of purple and gold.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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franzanth.bsky.social
dear artists,

if you're feeling down today for whatever reason, know that at least you're not being scolded by Le Guin
aptshadow.bsky.social Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · Nov 24
At’The Word for the World’ exhibition of Le Guin’s maps and it includes what reads as a very irate note to her cover artist about how a dragon should look.
November 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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francinefox.bsky.social
Have you ever heard of an allonautilus? The fuzzy sea peach at the top of my oil painting is the extremely rare allonautlius. Its only been documented in the wild a couple of times.

*more in comments*

#nautilus #allonautilus #marinelife #cephalopods #wildlifeart #oilpainting 🐡 🦑 #deepseamining
Oil painting of two nautili and one allonautilus on a blue gradient background with patches of copper mica. Each cephalopod has an atomic diagram around it like a halo.
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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devinellekurtz.bsky.social
Modern Phoenix
A digital painting of a huge, starry, blue phoenix emerging from a glowing lake in a distant city. A group of teens with a dog watch the night-time scene from ruins on a hillside. The phoenix is sparkling with blue stars in front of a cloudy, dark gray sky. The city below glows gold.
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Nov 18
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.

TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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mstaylor-art.bsky.social
We’ve been reading ‘My Street Remembers’ and creating abstract maps in Grade 2. Ss used sharpies & transparency sheets to trace sections of our Flemingdon Park map and then created abstract collages to go underneath #abstractart #EduSky
Colourful multi-layered abstract maps, using colour, shape and line
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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thebookinator.bsky.social
This article, from @chronicle.com, is from December 2024 but is still a thought provoking read and worth the time it takes to read it.
📚
How Changes in K-12 Schooling Hampered the Preparation of College Students
Accountability and test-based reforms, pandemic-era disruptions, and larger social and economic pressures have fostered ineffective habits.
www.chronicle.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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scalzi.com
All the leaves are now dead LIKE MY SOUL

(Update: Soul is fine, actually, it just needs to, like, hydrate or something)
Walking the dog at the local forest preserve where the leaves have fallen and are now scattered on the walking path
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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guildwars2.com
Guild Wars launched 20 years ago, starting a franchise that's helped shape the #MMORPG genre. On Dec 3, Guild Wars Reforged launches!
✅ Steam Deck verified 🎮 Controller support ✨ Visual updates and more!
🔗 www.guildwars2.com/news/announc...
#GuildWarsReforged #GuildWars20
November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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michaelwhelan.bsky.social
ARMENIA (1990)
Oil on Canvas - 22” x 35”

Ar-me-ni-a, city in the sky, a Who song, not the country.

This painting is part of a series dealing with what Barbara Tuchman describes as the disillusionments of twentieth-century man. 1/5
With arms crossed and wearing long white robes, a young woman leans against a pillar and offers the audience an apathetic glance. Behind her, the warm glow of the setting sun—unseen behind low billowing clouds—illuminates the water and the tilted remains of a futuristic city. It's not clear if the city is sinking or rising out of the water. On close examination, human and animal bones can be seen in relief on the surface of the pillar. The weathered stumps of other pillars can be seen in the field around her. Small creatures, cute and furry, stop for a snack on alien vegetation, which includes red flowers that stand vibrant among the muted greens in the foreground.
November 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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jessstrueeyes.bsky.social
One of these days I really got to put in some hours into learning how to actually ✨paint✨

#guildwars2 #charr #artsky
November 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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jdebbiel.bsky.social
new book cover for Camille Chong's debut novel at Macmillan
illustrated book cover for Love Gods and Sinners. Two women back to back brandishing daggers and swords. They're eyeing each other
November 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM