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KOISHIIKITTY

@biorave.bsky.social

Autumn Foo Pup pyo from
#windstoneeditions hand painted in soft and crisp browns. With metallic powders to give it some Pearlescent look. He has red, green, and gold irridescence.

#pyoartist #fantasyart #handpainted
#fantasysculpture #koishiikitty #biorave #bioraveart

October 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM Everybody can reply

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Prismatic✨️Pixie

@prismaticpixie.bsky.social

I love the irridescence <3

October 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM Everybody can reply

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✨ River ✨

@thefruityrivulet.bsky.social

One of the prettiest butterflies I've photographed up close: the Danaid Egglfy (Hypolimnas missipus) ✨✨✨

#photography #entomology #butterfly #nature #insect

Dorsal view of Danaid Eggfly: dark brown wings with white, egg-shapped spots (two on each forewing, and one on each hindwing) surrounded by irridescent blue outlines. The abdomen also glitters with blue irridescence.

October 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM Everybody can reply

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Bekah Rhea

@revbeks.bsky.social

The irridescence is excellent!! 😍

October 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM Everybody can reply

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🌸 Ariesian 🌸 アリエシアン 🌸

@ariesian.bsky.social

Hey y'all, help me out here? I'm trying to get on #vgen, but to do so I need to get this post to 100 likes and at least 20 reposts. Would you be willing to share my art to help me?

My VGen Profile URL is: vgen.co/Ariesian

#colorpencil #art #sciart #birds #bigcats #nature #promotions

A tricolor heron stands in the shallows at sunset, a wing extended to shade the water while he hunts for his dinner. He has one leg up in the traditional 'water bird' stance. His feathers are blue, fading to purples and greys, with bright flashes of yellow underneath.

Color pencil on drafting film. 2025.

A black lab stares at the viewer, she has a blue collar on and deep, soulful brown eyes. Her name is Millie and I got to meet her when I delivered this commission. It was very good.

Color Pencil on Drafting Film, 2024.

A big ol' crow, with shades of blue and purple irridescence in his feathers. He's landed on a tree with little small sprigs of leaves coming off of it. This was a gift to my Brother and Sister-In-Law, at the birth of my niece, who's middle name is Morrigan.

Color Pencil on Drafting Film. 2024.

September 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM Everybody can reply

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🦇🧛‍♀️Fae🧛‍♀️🦇

@faerilyth.bsky.social

C'est compliqué parce que c'est pas une irridescence, c'est une couleur tellement claire qu'elle paraît blanche sauf sous certains éclairages, on avait acheté ça dans un truc de matériaux écologiques, j'ignore si ca existe ailleurs

September 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM Everybody can reply

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Tarael_Blackwing🔞

@taraelblackwing.bsky.social

Infernal Irridescence
Shrazda developed a mutation that gives him an additional hit point per level. And also makes him shiny for some reason.

#Art #infernum #ttrpg #ttrpgcharacter #demon

A digital artwork depicting a demonic feline beast with long mane and metal spikes, blades and chains growing out of its body. He has scars on his face and along his arms. One shoulder is also heavily scarred. Their skin, fur and metallic parts have an irridescent shine to them.

Upon reaching level 9, Shrazda developed the first link of the Vitality mutation chain, so I decided to try illustrating the visual changes it brought. The mutation's description goes as follows:
"Unnatural Health: The demon gains one extra hit point per level, as if its Constitution bonus was one point higher than it actually is. The demon’s flesh becomes oddly iridescent and strange to the touch, as if unnatural energies were flowing just beneath its surface."

So, I suppose Shrazda is somewhat shiny now. I decided to apply the flavor to his fur and metallic bits as well, since he doesn't have a lot of skin showing except for face, abdomen and one shoulder.

September 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM Everybody can reply

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vampironique emma houxbois

@emmahouxbois.bsky.social

ok but no that's why you need the conspicuous one, your face can't be seen through the blinding irridescence

September 13, 2025 at 4:51 AM Everybody can reply

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Turbolazr

@turbolazr.bsky.social

#art #neon #touch #next #style #blacklight #candy #glow #futurepop #neoncore #bodypaint #irridescence #glitter

September 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM Everybody can reply

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KWilde

@flowerchildob1.bsky.social

irridescence.... that's what I always see.

and I wanna reach out and touch it... be there...

August 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM Everybody can reply

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Rosanna P. Brost (she/her/them) 🐾🐺

@copperbora.bsky.social

Friday Fact: muscovy ducks, easily recognizeable from other quackers kept by humans by their bald faces, originated from South & Central America where they were domesticated by indigenous people. While most domestic ducks claim the mallard as an ancestor, muscovy ducks belong to Cairina moschata.

A beautiful black duck with green and bluish irridescence to its feathers. It has white feathers around its face and head, along with bare red skin around its pink beak and dark eyes.

Photo from the Audobon.org bird guide.

August 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM Everybody can reply

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Phil Plait

@philplait.bsky.social

Seems like it's in a pretty public place at Va beach. :)

Also my science chops are still there: My first thought was this was irridescence caused by wave interference likely due to oils in the leaves, and I was right! Too bad this is like a 3 hour drive for me; I'd love to see it.

August 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM Everybody can reply

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🌸 Ariesian 🌸 アリエシアン 🌸

@ariesian.bsky.social

I don't think I'm in there, and I'd love to be, please!

I'm Ari, a trans/NB artist from western NC. I specialize in colored pencil work of wildlife - especially birds. I also do a lot of pet portraits!

A tricolor heron fishes in the bright yellow evening sunlight.

A black labrador, head and shoulders shot. The black dog is wearing a blue collar.

A black raven is in a greenish tree. The raven's feathers have shades of blues, purples, and greens in them, highlighting it's irridescence

A wolf looks back over it's shoulder at the right side of the frame.

August 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM Everybody can reply

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MIA: Art of Africa and the Americas (Bot)

@miaafricaamericas.bsky.social

Vessel https://collections.artsmia.org/art/14735/

Vase, glass, deep clear blue bottle with crude diamond forms at corners continued into short legs, small cylindrical neck enlarges to hexagonal deep rim, color hidden largely by irridescence, Egyptian, century? cat. card dims H. 2'. Cosmetic vessel; deep blue irridescent cut glass

August 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM Everybody can reply

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skizelo

@skizelo.bsky.social

I was checking out domesticated pigeon breeds and found this charmer. They're archangels, apparently, showing that pigeon fanciers can be goth too.

All images were scraped from a search, sorry copyright holders. Perched on a rail, the background is green and blur bokeh. A pigeon with a bronze-coloured body and dark grey wings, a touch of irridescence.

A pigeon seen from above, being held. The guy's second hand is stretching out its wings to show off the irridescence. The background is orange and the guy's shirt is dark blue, which matches pleasingly with the bird.

a glamour shot of a pigeon. I presume it's taken under flash so its feathers seem metallic. The pigeon is looking backwards, showing off the small crest at the back of its head.

August 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM Everybody can reply

Steve Batch

@stevebatch.bsky.social

A Superb Ant-hill Hoverfly (Xanthogramma pedissequum) for #YellowTHur #ColorADay #InsectThursday #Macro #MacroPhotography #MacroPix

A bright yellow and black Superb Ant-hill Hoverfly (Xanthogramma pedissequum) as identified by the INaturalist app) Spome irridescence is also present on the wings.

August 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM Everybody can reply

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James Petruzzi

@hawaiianimages.bsky.social

This is an actual aviform dinosaur and not something made up by Dr Seuss. Look at that feather irridescence on the back!🦉🌿📷

The head of a peacock, deep blue shading to green irridescence on the back. He has white markings on his cheek and above the eye, and a plumed crest

August 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM Everybody can reply

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Net~

@netcat.moe

Oh yeah, I saw it on you and i instantly fell in love with it :3
The irridescence just looks so nice >w<

I had my one of my friends fit and weightpaint it for my selestia body, cause unfortunately it was never made for her D:

(There's still some clipping issues, sadly..)

July 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM Everybody can reply

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Quick Photography

@quickphotography.bsky.social

NicobarPigeon
Caloenas nicobarica

Spectacular ground-dwelling pigeon with long, extravagant plumes trailing down from the neck. Dark green intermixed with gray, blue, and bronzy orange irridescence. Native to the Philippines. #birds #pigeon #photography #colorful

July 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM Everybody can reply

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Indulged Cats

@indulgedcats.bsky.social

Cute fuzzy and beautiful irridescence on the wings.

July 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM Everybody can reply

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I'm Not Sue

@imnotsue.bsky.social

Nah its not that, good slices of labradorite have a real noticible irridescence at the right angles due to light passing through the layers of mineral and refracting. Even great labradorite has dullness patches and only glows at angles, but the ones in the photo dont seem to have much at all.

July 18, 2025 at 7:01 AM Everybody can reply

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Sean Gallagher

@thepacketrat.net

Handsome fella hanging out on my porch roof would like me to start a GoFundMe to make sure the table feeder there is always full.

A rock dove, aka a pigeon, showing maximum irridescence.

July 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM Everybody can reply

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Andrea Holme

@andreaholme.bsky.social

"Muted irridescence"

Perelandra was just such a peaceful book for so much of it. Like, actually you can have a story and a setting without much conflict. Oh to be as certain of yourself and your destiny as that Venusian queen.

July 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM Everybody can reply

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alison says reinstate Link!

@alisonborealis.bsky.social

We're about to get a thunderstorm, so everything has become dark and the birds are fleeing...

But here are some more spectacularly irridescent or just delightful juvenile magpie photos!
#birds

A juvenile magpie perches on the balcony railing, facing out and calling for its parents, beak wide open.
The sun is shining off the wing and tail feathers in a way that enhances the green-purple irridenscence.

Two magpies on a balcony.
One is on the lower flat platform of a bbq lid, eating from a pile of sunflower seeds.
The other is on the railing next to the bbq, above the bbq and looking down.
Its back is to the camera and the wing and tail feather irridescence is coming across in shades of teal, green, and purple.

The magpies, munching on sunflower seeds from the bbq lid, and watching on from in back, perched on the handlebars of a bicycle.

The magpie on the far railing (same as first pose) facing outwards, tail feathers drooping down a little, mouth closed.
All that is irridescent is shining brightly in shades of teal, emerald and purple on the wings and tail.
The tail feathers have not yet reached full adult length yet.

June 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM Everybody can reply

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