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Wicked West 🍄 (She/Her)
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🌲 Fungi Fan 🌲 32 🌲 Oregon Coast 🌲
Mushroom-inspired Sculptor/Artist
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Wicked West 🍄 (She/Her) @wkdwest.bsky.social · Oct 30
🥰 Available now! My collection of Leucocoprinus birnbaumii sculptures, sold in sets of 2 and 3, designed to hang out with your houseplants 😁
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I still look back at this and it excites me so much that I know I have to start working on the next mycology zine 😍😍😍
wkdwest.bsky.social Wicked West 🍄 (She/Her) @wkdwest.bsky.social · Oct 13
I think the zine is ready!!! I just need to get them printed on quality paper, take a few photos, and this collection will be ready to release!!
December 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Flashback to this cute collection from 2021 featuring geckos!!!
February 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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I made some pretty amazing customs in 2020 🥲 I'm considering opening up customs again soon!!
February 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Before and after painting! 😍
March 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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This "cheek rider" frog will live rent free in my head forever 🤣 Also shoutout to the dangle leggy on the other frog which was inspired by my cat Jack who passed a few years back 💔
March 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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I recently made an earth star inspired sculpture! This one is currently living at Weird Sisters in Astoria Oregon. 😁
March 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Since apparently the video type I have been uploading to Instagram since the dawn of time is "no longer supported" im angry posting this here. Enjoy a look at one of my pieces from December, Reishi - available in Cannon Beach Oregon!
May 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Made it to my deadline!! I van finally rest tonight. 8)
December 22, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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I'm in the home stretch now 😎
December 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Lately I've changed the way I use bluesky. I basically only use the feeds feature now, and I'm following about 5 different fungi focused feeds so when I want to scroll endlessly, I just flip through feeds of Fungi pics. My mental health has improved!
December 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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With Christmas around the corner, it feels right to share a few more Amanita muscaria photos 🍄

📷 Canon 5D Mk III
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/80, ISO 320
Stack of 77 images
10/23/21
Northern Oregon Coast

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms

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Three perfect Amanita muscaria, mushrooms with an iconic red cap covered in white dots, grow from very mossy ground. The two mushrooms on the left are very young and small. The mushroom on the right is very large and is perfectly shaped. Its base is bulbous and the stipe is thick with a slightly rough texture and off-white color. The cap is very round, like three quarters of the top of a round red ball, uniformly fire engine red, and covered in evenly spaced white spots.
December 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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I had to paint by lamplight yesterday morning to continue painting.. deadlines you know!!
December 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Excellent progress today!!
December 15, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Working on a NEW collection of sculptures which I'm trying to finish in record times. I'm only doing ONE in person sales event this year and it's on the 21st, so everything must be ready before then !!!
December 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Lichenomphalia umbellifera is a rare (in the lichen world) mushroom producing fungus that’s also a lichen. Newfoundlan, Canada. Mushrooms are about 2cm high.
#fungi #lichen #mushroom #fungifriends
Photo of two yellow-brown, small mushrooms backlit by low angle, late day sun.
December 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Day 1258 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and you might think this is just a candlesnuff fungus for today
BUT this is actually my appropriately timed and abstract piece simply titled 'Rudolph' 🎄🎅🤶🦌🔴👃🤣🤗 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
December 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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A cute little alien Cladonias #lichen. Northwest Territories, Canada. Lichen is about 1.5cm high.
#fungi #fungifriends while #hiking
Photo of a Cladonia lichen with apothecia in the form of bright red rings.
December 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Artomyces pyxidatus, the Crown-tipped Coral or Candelabra Coral fungus, was not seen in the UK over the entire 20th century, its last record in 1886 until a spate of recent findings around 2022, which is when I found this specimen (in East Kent). Where did it disappear all this time?
December 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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🌿 FERN STICKERS ARE UP! 🌿
Ahhhh excited to finally reveal these :D

www.kamakru.com/accessories?...

#ferns #nature #PNWplants #artstickers
Photo of all six of the PNW fern stickers including Deer fern, lady fern, bracken fern, sword fern, oak fern and western maidenhair fern. Text in bottom right reads kamakru.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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It´s all about fungi!
Galerina marginata
was surprised to find them today
#fungifriends #nature #mycology #fungi #photography #macro
November 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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What you are missing if you aren’t following me at FungiFanaticFinds on Instagram. Link below.
November 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Heyo Portland/PNW artists, this is for you!!
sarahmackattack.bsky.social Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Nov 22
ARTISTS!
I need your help!

In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.

Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
A picture of a frog on a leaf with the SICB and Skype a Scientist logos on the bottom right with the following words on top: "Call for Artists!" Learn about the latest animal research adn create art inspired by the science at the SICB meeting in Portland, OR. Deadline to apply: dec 12, Project dates Jan 3-7, Stipend $1000"
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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👩‍🌾 Grab your tools
An illustration of a young women yanking a weed out of a bed of marigolds. The primary colours of the piece are deep green and a saffron yellow, with some brown and moss green tones as well. The camera is looking up at the young girl with a forced perspective, as she pulls out the weed while leaning back. The text reads: PULL FASCISM UP BY THE ROOT.
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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2026 Mushroom House Wall Calendar is now available for preorder! Size: 6x11"

I'm doing a week of preorders to help determine how many to get printed. They will ship first week of December so they still can be given as gifts!

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Overhead view of 2026 Wall Calendar featuring mushroom houses painted by Nicole Gustafsson aka Nimasprout
November 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Me, too, Blanche, me, too.
Blanche Devereaux from the Golden Girls holding up a newspaper comics page and saying “I love my comics”
February 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM