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Mike Z

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Guild Eleven co-founder and artist. I mostly work with watercolor. Guild Eleven = my creative friends! https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ovf2usv5d7piqbfwwjq3puar/lists/3kmkp5p2bkp2b Check out my Linktree! Prints & such. https://linktr.ee/artistmikez

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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 11d

Three whimsical prompts. Less stress than Inktober. Painters, pencilers, wordsmiths, photographers - join us! No artificial flavors, please.
#art 🍂

Lu @rendernev.bsky.social · 13d

Hello, everyone! It’s almost October, and Guild Eleven will be hosting the 3rd annual tiny art challenge called, “Guild Eleven Mysterium”. It’s only three prompts! Just post here on the dates below and use the hashtag #Guild11Mysterium. Look forward to seeing your mysterious artwork in October!🍂

Join us for three art prompts! Precocious Pumpkin-lings on 10/9, Decrepit Domicile in 10/16, and Bespoke Beasties on 10/23!

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Lu @rendernev.bsky.social · 1h

Some festive decor in the kitchen for a small gathering tomorrow evening.

Some orange dishes to decorate for Halloween at the end of my kitchen’s breakfast bar.

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Lu @rendernev.bsky.social · 3d

Hello, all! We are looking forward to seeing your creations (no AI, please) for the first prompt of the “Guild Eleven Mysterium”. The prompt this week is “Precocious Pumpkin-lings”. Post and use the hashtag #Guild11Mysterium this Thursday, October 9th. Can’t wait to see what you create!🍂

Create some art for these three prompts! On October 9: Precocious Pumpkin-lings. October 16: Decrepit Domicile. October 23: Bespoke Beasties.

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Recuperating Dug Rusin @captainpurple.bsky.social · 6h

#inktober #inktober2025

Day 8: reckless

A ballpoint pen drawing of three young men perched on the exterior of a SUV that is driving down a road balanced on two wheels. The passengers are attempting to remove the wheels that are off the ground

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 6h

🧡🎃QRP your Pumpkin Art!🎃🧡

map fragment depicting a mouse city of tatched roof little houses near an abandoned human graveyard with tilted tombstones and a gnarled tree stump made tower by the mice population. a Halloween pumpkin is used as a tavern.

a ttrpg battlemap fragment with some pumpkin plants in the shade of a mill and warehouse.

detail of a halloween-themed decorative border with a carved pumpkin on the corner, surrounded by a vine motif, crow and rat skulls.

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Cascade Crisis Miniatures @cascadecrisis.bsky.social · 8h

Ramping back up and progress is being made.

- New sculpts
- Print station is set up
- New studio is set up

Plans for new releases, sculpting/diorama build videos, and a lot more are coming.

I forever appreciate your support.

#ttrpg #dnd #pathfinder #daggerheart

Traditional/mini painting studio set up.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 15h

For #spacetober_challenge day 8 prompt propulsion, my portrait of #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠ 🧪🐡🧮🔭👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci
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Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the

Linocut portrait of Mary Golda Ross looking over her shoulder in a gradient of green (at bottom) to gold (at top) surrounded by vehicles important to her career including P-38 Lighting fighter plane, and Agena rocket, important to Apollo missions in grey.

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#Whistpr Daily Word @whistprword.bsky.social · 1d

A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for October 8, 2025: #CRIMSON

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

Digital painting of a bright crimson pompadour cotinga bird that is red all over except for some white along the edge of the wing and a few black patches. It is perched on a narrow branch against a creamy background..

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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 1d

Precocious Pumpkin-ling preview. His band mates will join in on Thursday for the first Mysterium prompt!

A pumpkin person playing piano. Watercolor on toned paper.

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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 1d

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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! Looking forward to your piece as well!

Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 1d

Precocious Pumpkin-ling preview. His band mates will join in on Thursday for the first Mysterium prompt!

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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 1d

Sharing a peaceful autumn landscape from a few years ago. Feeling inspired by the fall foliage, and might have to paint a few of these this month 🍁🍂

Tisha Mark ©2021, Autumn Dawn, oil on gessobord, 6"x6" (Sold)

#art #painting #TraditionalArt #autumn

An autumn landscape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Autumn Dawn" 6"x6" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2021). A sunrise with yellow light over a woodsy landscape with a river or a creek running through it. The foliage is turning fall colors. Light reflects in the water.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 1d

If you enjoy my art, I have shops at inprnt and threadless, including many images appropriate for the Halloween season!

and both are having BIG SALES right now!

inprnt (high quality art prints): 30% off

and threadless: cheap tees and up to 35% off other merch!

Links below & in bio!

Drawing in white against a black background of a beetle, drawn symmetrically with legs outstretched. Its back shell is filled with an abstract, doodled design that suggests human bones and sports a grinning human skull near the top.

Drawing of an angelic figure with large wings that take up most of the image and extend beyond the boundary of the drawing. The wings form layers of blue, pink, white, pink, blue to echo the design of the trans flag. The angel is a skeleton with a bird-like skull and one glowing pink eye and one glowing blue eye. They are holding a sword to their chest with the tip of the sword pointing toward the ground. Their feet are extended downward in such a way as to make it look as though they were floating. They are wearing a crown of pink and blue flowers on their head.

Black tshirt with an illustration of a white rabbit at top of image weeping blood tears and a red rabbit at bottom with skeleton exposed weeping blue tears. There is an anatomically correct heart with a pin stabbed through it in the middle of the image and the rabbits and their tears form a loose circle around the heart.

Black tshirt with illustration of a creature with tentacles for legs, luna moth wings and feelers, a bird skull-like head, antlers, hoofed hands, fur-covered body and glowing red eyes.

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The Hermit of Everything @hermiteveryday.bsky.social · 1d

An evening walk to swoon over Autumn. 🍁✨

A bridge stretches over water. A tree with orange leaves reflects in the water.

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lessEthereal @lessethereal.bsky.social · 2d

#inktoberday6 #inktober

check out the ‘stash on this foxman… wonder what he’s checking out?

a fox man wearing a zip up hoodie and pants

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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!

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Maddy Bellwoar @maddybellwoar.com · 1d

Autumn painting in gouache 🍂✨ (thanks tyrannosara on Unsplash for the ref pic! 😊)

Photo shows a sketchbook sitting open on a wooden desk, surrounded by painting supplies such as paint tubes, brushes and a palette. The painting depicts a

Photo shows a sketchbook painting sittong on a wooden desk, surrounded by painting supplies such as paint tubes, brushes and a palette. The painting depicts an autumn scene with a pathway through nature and trees with orange leaves on the right side of the path.

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 1d

Flat illustration of a Wood Pigeon, Magpie, and Robin in a parade-line stride holding autumn leaves up high with their beaks! (UK birds as I am there right now on vacation!)

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 1d

follow @lalionnepublishing.itch.io and check out the project below, halfway through funding.

I'm making another map for it, can't wait to show you. This project is amazing, packed full of talent.

Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 1d

The Sienne map complete landmass, final art, including the submerged lands.

process, 1/5

Back it now: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...

#CandelaObscura #ttrpg #cartography #process #art

a fantasy map illustration depicting a continent with a bigger mainland and a large island to the west of it. the biomes go from snowy mountains, a vast wetland, grasslands with many hills. the prevalent features here is that it is crossed by many rivers in all directions and it is surrounded by a the shades of a vast submarine landscape that where part of this land before a big flood catastrophe.

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Katscales @katscales86.bsky.social · 1d

Last, but not least, a Hildegarde’s Tomb Bat shimmer magnet! I may end up making a few more magnets before Bat Fest, but hard to say! The festival is really sneaking up on me!

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Jason Song Quinn @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 1d

For #Folktober, “Tizzie Whizie” a totally real not fake creature that was NOT sewn together, I’ve seen the old grainy picture.

An illustration of a strange hedgehog with a squirrel tail, bug antennae and bug like wings.

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Matthew Siadak @backwardsknight.com · 1d

It's spooky time, so lets get lost in some novels!

The Backwards Knight and The Dark Side of Super, while not directly horror, have some elements of it to them. Available almost everywhere books are sold, or directly through me!

backwardsknight.bigcartel.com

#BookSky #BookTok

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Erin Hanson @erinhansonartist.bsky.social · 2d

Colored light filters through the branches of these Japanese maple trees. The abstract pattern of light and dark looks like filigree.

Autumn Mosaic
Original Oil Painting
by Erin Hanson, 2021
48 x 27 in
www.erinhanson.com/portfolio/au...

#autumn #fallcolor #beauty #natureart #dailyart #oilpainting🎨

Colored light filters through the branches of these Japanese maple trees. The abstract pattern of light and dark looks like filigree. Each brush stroke is thick and impressionistic, adding to the movement of the piece.

"Autumn Mosaic"
Original Oil Painting by Erin Hanson
2021
48 x 27 in
ORIGINAL SOLD
3D Textured Replicas Available
Canvas Prints Available

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#Whistpr Daily Word @whistprword.bsky.social · 2d

A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for October 7, 2025: #INSECT

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

Black and white drawing of a multitude of insects including spiders, wasps, flies, beetles, crickets, worms, centipedes, ants, ticks, bees, and mosquitoes arranged in a pleasing symmetrical pattern.

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Dan H Artworks @danhawk333.bsky.social · 2d

About as far as I can get tonight. More tomorrow
11x17 pen and paper
#surreal #macabre #wip #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #GrimDark

A work in progress pen drawing of a humanoid from the shoulders up with technoorganic wiring and piping coming out of the back of its head

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