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@sia.studio

Final self-portrait... What do you think? I was so nervous doing this one since we are always our own worst critics 😂

Overall, I'm pleased with it (and embracing all my imperfections)

11.5x15 watercolor on paper

#watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #watercolorportrait #portraitpainting

Watercolor portrait of a woman wearing glasses. She has long, wavy brown hair

October 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM Everybody can reply

Mangolily.exe 🔞

@mangolily0.bsky.social

Are you crawling through my dreams? You're the reason I don't sleep 🖤 #inkycap #traditionalart

A traditionally painted watercolour painting featuring a melancholy inky cap mushroom woman with a haunting, ghost-like appearance. She is wearing a ribbed turtleneck sweating, belt, and skirt. The collar of her sweater has inky drips coming off of it. She has long, curly hair that has a very gradual gradient from white on top to dark blue-black at the bottom. On either side of her two cutie ghosts.

October 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM Everybody can reply

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Artwork by Paula

@squeakie.bsky.social

George Michael watercolour and ink portrait unframed, Wham picture, original painting, 80s pop music wall decor, celebrity portrait https://tuppu.net/cb98348f ##giftideas ##greetingcards ##buynow ##artwork ##customart ##80sPopMusicArt

October 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM Everybody can reply

David Brace

@davidbrace2.bsky.social

"me/moi/home/maison", oil on watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $200(Cdn) #art #sciart

A small painting of a garter snake emerging from & curling around a crumpled Coke can. The snake is green with yellow stripes down the scaly back & sides & the Coke can is red, white & silver.

October 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM Everybody can reply

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wandklex Ingrid

@wandklex.art

Ahoi, ihr Landratten und Hochseefischer, dieser #wandklex ist eben im Shop eingelaufen.
Zu sehen und im Original für Eine/n zu haben auf www.wandklex.art/product/anke....
#MarineLife #watercolor #watercolour #art #artShop #anchor #roses

October 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM Everybody can reply

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Paintings by Raymond ( NSFW art )

@paintingsbyraymond.bsky.social

18/10/25 sketches with water colour
#drawmensfw #bodypositiveart #bodypositive #watercolour
#paintingsbyraymond
#paintings_by_raymond #sketchdaily
#paintingsbyraymondnsfw #nsfwart #NSFW

October 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM Everybody can reply

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Paintings by Raymond ( NSFW art )

@paintingsbyraymond.bsky.social

18/10/25 todays naughty art sketches with water colour
#drawmensfw #bodypositiveart #bodypositive #watercolour
#paintingsbyraymond
#paintings_by_raymond #sketchdaily
#paintingsbyraymondnsfw #nsfwart #NSFW

October 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM Everybody can reply

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Poppy Balser

@poppybalser.bsky.social

Hey, #Halifax! Tonight is Nocturne, an annual one-night-only art experience. Dozens of galleries open until late, up to 80 artists presenting their work. I won’t be there, but my paintings are on the wall at Teichert Gallery on Hollis St, in their #Nocturne exhibit. Check it out!

#halisky

Oil painting titled “Weathered Coast” measures 11x14 inches. Shows a rocky basalt shore in South West Nova Scotia. Hazy light highlights the varied colours of the rocks.

Artist statement: This painting is a studio piece based on plein air sketches on a sunny July late afternoon. What I love to paint about these rocks at the later time of day is how as the light slants and angles light reflects, bouncing onto the shaded sides of the rocks and revealing colours that are harder to see at mid-day when the sun is straight overhead. These rocks are ancient basalt, left over from immense lava flows causing mass extinctions over 200 million years ago. As we follow the path over this shore we have no hint of the destruction unleashed when these stones were born. Now the rocks lie peacefully under gentle summer sun and invite us to explore the coast

Watercolour painting titled “Revereberations” measuring 28x38 inches. Shows a rocky coast being washed by immense waves in a November gale. The size of the waves is implied by the trees dotting the coast above the cliffs.

Artist Statement: This painting is based on plein air sketches I made during a November gale on the shores of Point Prim , outside of Digby. I was tucked behind some sheltering rocks as I watched massive waves scour the shore. Over eons similar storms have weathered the rocks and stripped away the topsoil, revealing the bones of the earth below. These stones are truly ancient. They date back to over 200 million years ago, when the piece of land we now call Nova Scotia was part of the super-continent Pangea.

October 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM Everybody can reply

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JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁

@jvlart.bsky.social

My painting assistant today he's happy the dog is taking a nap in a different part of the house. Not unveiling the watercolour I was working on as it's part if an art challenge later this month and because I might still work on it some more. #Caturday #catsofbluesky #blueskycats #cat

Grey cat laying on my pillow, blocking access to my watercolour paints beind him

October 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM Everybody can reply

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David Brace

@davidbrace2.bsky.social

In progress: "me/moi/home/maison", oil on watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4". This one is coming along, fast & easy. #art

A small painting of a garter snake emerging from & curling around a crumpled Coke can. The snake is painted in (green with yellow stripes down the scaly back & sides) & the Coke can is red & silver.

October 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM Everybody can reply

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Orla Nic Fhlannchaidh/Orla Clancy

@orlacp.bsky.social

I love sketching in pencil on good watercolour paper, as I have the option to add the watercolour if I want ... and the colours are like jewels. #smallbutlovely #watercolourlandscape #contemporaryart
https://www.orlaclancycontemporaryart.com/unframed-works-on-paper/p/dingle-peninsula-covered-in-mist

October 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM Everybody can reply

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Isaiah

@izzwithyourmom.bsky.social

I had an idea
I promise
This was the idea but it left before i could complete the thought

But this was a fun one for me

#drawtober #drawtober2025 #drjekyllandmrhyde #watercolour #art #sketchbook #artwork #henryjekyll #edwardhyde #watercolor #watercoloursketch #watercolorsketch

October 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM Everybody can reply

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Olivier de Saint-Aubin du Pressoir

@chrisoligh.bsky.social

Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938), Männlicher Rückenakt [Male Back], 1909. Watercolour on wove paper, sheet: 64.9 x 50 cm.

October 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM Everybody can reply

Olivier de Saint-Aubin du Pressoir

@chrisoligh.bsky.social

Long rough-headed poppy or prickly poppy (1869) by Margaret Rebecca Dickinson (1821-1918). Collected in Norham, Northumberland.

Watercolour.

October 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM Everybody can reply

Doug Rutherford

@dougrutherford.bsky.social

On the marge of Lake Lebarge.
#Watercolour on paper, 5x7 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2063.

Painting of the shoreline of Lake Laberge, Yukon, Canada.

October 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM Everybody can reply

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Miss Ali

@fushicha88.bsky.social

Thank you for the art share! Here are some of my pieces!

This is Ceres. She loves to welcome Autumn. Made on Made on 12x16” Canson Plein Air Watercolor Board. Medium I used:

Watercolors:
-A. Gallo Watercolors
-Sheep & Sundry
-Della Magna watercolors
-Playful pigments
-Tiny Watercolors
-Poems About You
-Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolors
-Qor watercolors
-Jazper Stardust
-Prodigal Son’s Pigments

Watercolor Pencils & Markers:
-Caran D’Ache Museum Aquarelle
-Winsor & Newton Promarker Watercolor

Pens & Fineliners:
-Gelly Rolls (Goldshadow,Moonlight)
-Micron Pigma Pens
-Staedtler Pigment Liner
-Uni ball pens (One,Signo)
-Pilot Juice Up

Markers:
-Faber Castell Pitt Artist brush pens
-Karin Decobrush
-Kuretake Zig Memory

No matter how twisted the world can be there always a silver lining. This was a fun illustration to create. I was influenced by Trauma Core Aesthetics ,street fashion and a bit of surrealism. Made on 12x16” Canson Plein Air Watercolor Board. Here are the mediums I used:

Watercolors:
-Prodigal Son’s pigments
-Tiny Watercolors
-Isaro watercolors
-Della Magna watercolors
-A gallo watercolors

Watercolor Pencils & Markers
-Caran D’Ache Museum Aquarelle
-Winsor & Newton Promarker Watercolor

Pens & Fineliner
-Uni ball (one,signo)
-Zebra Sarasa (Clip,Nano)
-Staedtler Pigment Liner
-Gelly Rolls
-Micron Pens

Watercolor Pencils & Markers
-Caran D’Ache Museum Aquarelle
-Caran D’Ache Supracolor II
-Winsor & Newton promarker watercolor

Inks:
-Kous
-Organics Studio

Crayons & Markers:
-Sakura Coupy Pencils
-Faber Castell Pitt Artist brush pens
-Kuretake Zig Memory Dot Markers

A lady from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). This style of clothing was from the 19th Century. I have named her Měiyù. Done on 12x11” Arches 300lb Hot Press Watercolor Paper.
Mediums I used:

Watercolors:
-A. Gallo Watercolors
-Tiny Watercolors
-Sheep & Sundry
-Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolors
-Kuretake Gansai Tambi
-Della Magna watercolors
-Prodigal Son’s Pigments
-Poems About You
-Jazper Stardust
-Daniel Smith
-Qor Watercolors
-Playful Pigments

Pens & Fineliners:
-Uni Ball (One,Signo,Air)
-Gelly Rolls (Goldshadow, Metallic, Moonlight,Classic,Stardust,Glaze)
-Zebra Sarasa (nano,clip)
-Micron Pens
-Pilot Juice Up

Markers:
-Faber Castell Pitt Artist brush pens
-Molotow One4all & Liquid Chrome Marker
-Kuretake Zig Memory (Brushables,Writer)
-Marvy/Uchida Decocolor

Watercolor Markers & Pencils:
-Winsor & Newton Promarker Watercolour
-Caran D’Ache Museum Aquarelle
-Caran D’Ache Supracolor II

Ink:
-Deleter White
-Kous Rose Gold
-Kuretake Zig Mica Silver Ink

This is Fujiko. She is from The Taisho Roman period (1912-1926) in Japan. She likes taking an evening stroll by the Wisteria Tree. Done on 10 1/2inx15in Arches 300lb Hot Press Watercolor Paper.
Mediums I used:

Watercolors:
-Della Magna Watercolors
-A. Gallo Watercolors
-Tiny Watercolors
-Isaro Watercolors
-Sheep & Sundry
-Poems About You
-Jazper Stardust
-Mostly Magic Watercolors
-Prodigal Son’s Pigments
-Dusty Bee Watercolors
-Old Holland Watercolors
-Oto Kano Watercolors
-Pruche Watercolors
-playful pigments
-Kuretake Gansai Tambi

Pens & Fineliners
-Zebra Sarasa (Clip,Nano)
-Gelly Rolls
-Uni ball (One,Signo,Air)

Inks:
-Herbin
-Organics Studio
-Ranger Distress Oxide
-Deleter White
-Kous

Colored Pencils & Watercolor Pencils:
-Caran D’Ache luminance
-Caran D’Ache Museum Aquarelle
-Caran D’Ache Supracolor

October 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM Everybody can reply

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Asya Y.

@ahnesa.bsky.social

Crocus.
#watercolor #watercolour #painting

October 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM Everybody can reply

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Scott Rochester

@scottrochester.bsky.social

#WIPsnips 18 Oct 'Dodge'

Is the newly press ganged MickeyWarr planning something?

Thinks Slender, the demi-psychic.

see Alt Text for more

#scifi #SlenderWolf #LessonLearned #pirates #clairvoyant #writingCommunity #ships #LoveStory

Book extract:

SlenderWolf Conflicts and Alliances

Chapter 14
A Delicate Question

Slender can’t pick out any thought patterns. There are thirty people on the dockside, and others on board the two ships. A few more people are standing by the stores and by the main gate. There’s simply too much noise on the wavelengths.

However, she can see that MickeyWarr is concentrating on something, though she has no idea what. Probably an escape plan, or at least a skiving plan, a plan to avoid working aboard either ship. That’s the sort of thing that the smart people think about.

Image:

A watercolour painting of a pretty 18 year old young lady. She has long straight black hair, part of which is brought forward into a ponytail held in place with a gold hair band. She is wearing a tricorn hat and has small silver stud ear rings. A gentle face has a hint of a smile. She also has a royal blue waistcoat over a frilly white blouse with an upturned collar. She looks thoughtful and wise. The image is labelled Slender.

A watercolour painting of a 20 year old man with a plain, slightly puzzled expression on his face. His chestnut eyes are focussed on the camera. He has short dark brown hair with an abundant quiff on top. And a slightly tanned complexion. His beige collared shirt has the top three buttons undone. The image is labelled MickeyWarr.

copyright © Scott Rochester 2025

October 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM Everybody can reply

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Murph's Images

@murphsimages.bsky.social

Oxford Roof Tops, a digital watercolour sketch of the college building roof tops in Oxford from a photo. #Oxford #colleges #university #architecture #rooftops #Photography

October 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM Everybody can reply

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angela hudson jones

@angelahudsonjones.bsky.social

Georgiana Houghton [1814-1884]
Flower of Catherine Emily Stringer, 1866
watercolour on paper
33 x 24 cm

Collection of the College of Psychic Studies, London
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October 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM Everybody can reply

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gravesounds

@wavesounds.bsky.social

#watercolor #portrait from painting class. not too unhappy with it given how long it's been. eyes and ears a bit wonky, tho a bit of that was the reference!

watercolour portrait, head and shoulders of older man with spiky hair and beard in red shirt

October 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM Everybody can reply

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☁️Now🤖Breezing💨

@nowbreezing.ntw.app

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*🔓 = Unlocked Emergency Words (see img)

#ListenToBlackVoices

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💬# | 10min Post Count
🆎# | 10min Word Count
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October 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM Everybody can reply

John Carver - Artist / Photographer / Children's Book Author

@carverphotography.com

Another black flatcoat retriever artwork completed - now in my Etsy store: johncarverphotoart.etsy.com

Contact details are in my biog - let me know if you would like an original artwork featuring your dog / pet / home

@sligogirl.bsky.social #art #flatcoat #flatcoated #retriever #watercolour #print

October 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM Everybody can reply

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freehandlines.co.uk

@freehandlines.co.uk

Autumn is here. Love the colour and light at this time of year makes for the best paintings. #watercolour #watercolor

October 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM Everybody can reply

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Paju

@blualgae.bsky.social

I had an idea but the execution is messier than I’d like because apparently I’m just struggling with watercolour rn but imma still post these #blualgaeart #watercolour
Cw bugs insects

A picture of an aquarelle paper with four little drawings on it. The drawings depict different kinds of isopods in see through candy wrappers

October 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM Everybody can reply

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