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@templinjay.bsky.social

@elizahowdy.bsky.social just wanted to stop by and say thank you for putting up the #mARTch25 thing! Even though I didn’t do a lot of the prompts, I had a lot of fun with it and got to see some excellent art from a great many people.

April 3, 2025 at 4:38 AM Everybody can reply

Azure Chi Art

@azurechi.bsky.social

Not quite done today just yet! Here is another #mARTch25 drawing. I had a lot of fun with this one, did not expect to be able to mimic the skin well enough. Faber-Castell PITT Artist brushpens again.

#art #sciart

A marker drawing of a red newt on a white background. The newt's lighter parts are yellow - the muzzle, inner sides of appendages, the belly and bottom of the tail. Their eyes are also yellow. The prevalent colours of newt's skin are dark red and raspberry red, with red and orange colours blending in with the yellows. The newt is crawling across the drawing, towards the viewer. There are colour swatches at the bottom of the drawing. Above them, there is a title: '06. newt'.

April 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM Everybody can reply

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Azure Chi Art

@azurechi.bsky.social

And another #mARTch25 prompt, a vase. No colour swatches because this one was also for work, I was testing out Winsor&Newton Promarkers, plus some Copics.

#art

An orange acrylic vase with a blue branch is on a white background with a light texture. The vase is transparent, and it has ribs on the left side. We cannot see the right side, but there is a hint of the vase's bottom reflecting on other sides. The light blue branch splits into two as it leans onto the vase's rim. There are several fuzzy dark-blue flowers; they look fuzzy.

April 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM Everybody can reply

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Azure Chi Art

@azurechi.bsky.social

March might be gone, but not #mARTch25 - yes, I am catching up.

As always - Faber-Castell PITT Artist brushpens.
#art

A bar of lavender-coloured soap lies in periwinkle bubbles with peach-y accents. The bar has a raspberry-coloured border in its center and similarly coloured letters saying 'soap'. There are colour swatches on top of the drawing, and a title '04. soap' in the top right corner.

April 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM Everybody can reply

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subsciurus.bsky.social

@subsciurus.bsky.social

##mARTch25 ...too many to list. @elizahowdy.bsky.social

March 31, 2025 at 3:07 AM Everybody can reply

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Lara T is a museum nerd

@museumlara1.bsky.social

#mARTch25 day 30: lemur.

Sketch in watercolor pencil of a red-ruffed lemur. Reference photo from NC zoo.

Watercolor pencil sketch of a lemur relaxing on a tree. Red-ruffed lemur have long pointy faces like a fox, which are black with startling yellow-orange eyes. Their red ruff to either side of their heads reminds me of big fluffy earmuffs. The majority of the body is reddish thick fur, with a long black fluffy tail, black paws, and a black on some of the belly around the back legs. Some also have a white collar, which this one in the picture does have.

March 31, 2025 at 1:27 AM Everybody can reply

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Jodie Apeseche

@jodieapeseche.bsky.social

Some #unexpectedcolor and a fancy #comb, meet Iuka! My fancy friend. #mARTch #mARTch25 #animalart #animalartist #hen #chicken #collageartist #mixedmediaartist #farmanimal #chickenart #henart #watercolor #collage #watercolorartist #artyear #eastcoastkin

March 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM Everybody can reply

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Pauline

@paulinedrawsbears.bsky.social

The prompts in this image are: 18 - blue, 19-cycle, 20 - rain, 21 -mug, 22-lucky, 23-puffin, 24-loaf, 25 - basket, 26 - coat, 27 - meadow and 28-trombone 🎺 All from mARTch25, hosted by @elizahowdy.bsky.social

the same image as the main post cropped and with numbered labels:
18 and 19 for the blue bike, 20 for rain, 21 for mug, 22 for the puffins luck in having an umbrella and a raincoat, 23 for the puffin, 25 for the loaf of bread, 25 for the basket on the bike, 26 for the rain-coat, 27 for the meadow on the rim of the cup and 28 for the trombone the frog is playing.

March 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM Everybody can reply

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Pauline

@paulinedrawsbears.bsky.social

I haven't had the time to make something for the #mARTch25 prompt-list in a while, sooo I may have just merged about 11 prompts in this one image ✏️
I'll put a labeled copy in the comments in case anyone is curious and does not feel like searching.

#artyear #digitalart #cuteart

A digital drawing showing a blue cup with a cloud pattern with grass and a tree on its rim and a pond with waterlillies inside. On the rim, a blue bike is standing which has a puffin in a raincoat on its seat. The puffin is holding an umbrella over itself and a basket with a loaf of bread, cheese and grapes. On the handle of the bike a little frog is playing a trombone. Over everything, a raincloud is hovering, with raindrops raining down into the cup.

March 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM Everybody can reply

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Denise

@cwrg65.bsky.social

Winston isn’t too sure about all those butterflies. Then, the flowers…achoo! Maybe meadows aren’t for him?? #martch25 #art #illustration #catart #martch @elizahowdy.bsky.social

March 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM Everybody can reply

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Be Jay, Boo Crimes 👻

@templinjay.bsky.social

#mARTch25 day 25- Basket These are both twined in the tradition of most of the Eastern Woodland peoples from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. These won me back-to-back blue ribbons at the Virginia State Fair in the Miniature Basketry division. Unfortunately, none of the other divisions permit twining.

This was my 2023 entry. Hemp cordage, mostly in its natural, unbleached colour. The cord making up the darker squares was dyed with leather dye because it was handy at the time. One is about an inch (2.5 cm) across and about an inch and a half tall. I ended up giving it to our bonus kid, who adores miniatures.

Our people didn’t have hemp until Europeans introduced it but there are plenty of similar native fibres, including dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum), which the English colonizers in Tsenacommacah called “Indian hemp.” There are also native species of flax, milkweeds, the barks of various kinds of trees, yucca leaves… lots of plants for making cordage.

My 2024 entry. I call it The Snow White basket because the materials were brought to me by the woodland creatures of the neighbourhood. The farmer across the road was growing maize this summer and as it ripened, the deer, raccoons, and squirrels were stealing it and dragging it into my yard to eat, leaving me with a big mess to explain!
So I shredded the husks, soaked them in warm water for a bit, and hand-twisted them into a cordage. Then I twined a basket just about 3.75” (9 cm) tall and 3” broad at the bottom. The handle is 3 strands braided. I gave this one to a friend at work who I used to supervise. She’s a supervisor now, herself.

March 26, 2025 at 3:40 AM Everybody can reply

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Lara T is a museum nerd

@museumlara1.bsky.social

#mARTch25 day 23: puffin

A watercolor in my sketch book inspired by @carlbovisnature.bsky.social who does many many amazing photos of puffins!! (I hope he doesn't mind being inspiring. And if you don't follow him, you should!!)

Watercolor of a puffin coming in for a landing on a green rocky cliff top. Its wings are spread wide, as is the tail, and his feet are hanging down ready to land. More rocky cliff is seen in the distance on the left and a bit of distant hazy blue ocean is beyond the cliff edge.

March 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM Everybody can reply

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Lynn Wartski Sculpture

@lwartskisculpture.bsky.social

Re-posting (forgot alt text) - my #puffin #mARTch25 ornaments tanking a #journey #blueskyartshow! #art #artYear #birds #needlefelt #stunday #eastcoastkin

needle felted anthropomorphic puffin with fishing hat sculpture by Lynn Wartski. Based on travel photo where puffins seemed to pose with their catch before they ate it.

Needle felted puffin holiday ornaments by Lynn Wartski

March 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM Everybody can reply

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Elizabeth Heller

@elizahowdy.bsky.social

first piece for #mARTch25 lucky!

woooo digital art! love the contrast in this one!

#artshare #lucky

Sandra | Atelier Hibou 🦉 @atelierhibou-ch.bsky.social · Mar 22

My journey😉 of digital art continues with experiment no. 6.

#MakersmARTch draw
#BlueSkyArtShow the journey
#mARTch25 lucky
#march4monsters strange friend

#art #artYear #artChallenge #kleineKunstKlasse #EastCoastKin #digitalArt #tryingSomethingNew #fungiFriends #agaric #fantasy #fungi

Digital art of an agaric fly with swirled hat. Not photorealistic, more fantasy like. Black background.

March 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM Everybody can reply

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Elizabeth Heller

@elizahowdy.bsky.social

lumpy or not, i actually LOVE the texture that comes through on this!

amazing #mARTch25 mug!

Be Jay, Boo Crimes 👻 @templinjay.bsky.social · Mar 22

#mARTch25 day 21: mug.
@museumlara1.bsky.social convinced me to try pottery (other than historic replicas) again after a decades-long hiatus. This mug was one of my first projects. It’s lumpy, the bottom isn’t well attached, and the glaze didn’t come out like I thought. But it’s mine. And it works.

The medallion is too thick and the red glaze came out muddy, but I like how the blue, white, and ivory came out! I pressed the design with a cookie cutter.

The rose I formed in a silicone candy mould. Again, the red glaze disappointed me. But I love the canvas texture and brown colour on the mug itself. I had trouble with a handle, so I decided I didn’t need one.

The inside was supposed to look swirly like a galaxy, not speckled with green like it’s mouldy. 🤣
Works well nonetheless.

March 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM Everybody can reply

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Elizabeth Heller

@elizahowdy.bsky.social

wow beautiful!!

catching up on #mARTch25 mugs!

🫶 #mugs #artshare

Melaelettrica @melaelettrica.bsky.social · Mar 21

#mARTch25, day 21: #Mug.

Equinox mug with two of my Celestial Sparks collage pieces. Photos courtesy of my friend Tiziane Negri - the mug was a present for her. 😊
@bsky.art #ArtYear #sparksfanart #sparkscollage #ronmael #russellmael #equinox #sunandmoon #celestialart #sparksband #surrealart #art

The mug's Autumn Equinox side, showing Sparks' Ron and Russell Mael as the Sun and Moon. The solar and lunar circles are depicted in yellow and black respectively, with metallic lunettes on one side. As the Sun, Ron is standing on the Sun's gold lunette, while Russell is sitting on the Moon's silver lunette. Orange background with whirling Autumn leaves.

The mug's Spring Equinox side, showing Sparks' Ron and Russell Mael as the Sun and Moon. The solar and lunar circles are depicted in yellow and black respectively, with metallic lunettes on one side. As the Sun, Ron is standing on the Sun's gold lunette, while Russell is sitting on the Moon's silver lunette. Deep blue background to represent the Spring sky

March 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM Everybody can reply

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Sandra | Atelier Hibou 🦉

@atelierhibou-ch.bsky.social

My journey😉 of digital art continues with experiment no. 6.

#MakersmARTch draw
#BlueSkyArtShow the journey
#mARTch25 lucky
#march4monsters strange friend

#art #artYear #artChallenge #kleineKunstKlasse #EastCoastKin #digitalArt #tryingSomethingNew #fungiFriends #agaric #fantasy #fungi

March 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM Everybody can reply

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Be Jay, Boo Crimes 👻

@templinjay.bsky.social

#mARTch25 day 22: lucky
I’ll start with this piece, which is only mine in the sense that I commissioned it from @cuatrojosz.bsky.social last year. Because I’m the luckiest boy ever, and @museumlara1.bsky.social is why.

A stylized portrait of a man and woman who are clearly very happy and in love. She wears a green dress with her very Elven art nouveau leaf necklace. He’s wearing a brown waistcoat and cravat. Shaved the beard off but regrowing it now. Still grey, though.

March 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM Everybody can reply

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Be Jay, Boo Crimes 👻

@templinjay.bsky.social

#mARTch25 day 21: mug.
@museumlara1.bsky.social convinced me to try pottery (other than historic replicas) again after a decades-long hiatus. This mug was one of my first projects. It’s lumpy, the bottom isn’t well attached, and the glaze didn’t come out like I thought. But it’s mine. And it works.