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Sylvester Stallone as a mob boss in Oscar.

Jane Lynch as Sazz Pataki from Only Murders in the Building

Left is the look I aimed for tonight. Right is much closer to what I think I actually pulled off.

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Leather bag shaped like a bat.

Things have been very busy lately but when one of my favorite pattern designers (Vasile and Pavel) released this earlier this month, I HAD to make it and it had to happen before Halloween. So all my spare time has gone into him. Isn't he adorable? Just a couple finishing touches left. #leatherwork

I don't understand why people aren't more troubled by this. It terrifies me.

🦇 Noctule bat (Nyctalus noctula) hunting a Noctua moth.
Illustration for "Animals on the Move" series for Dina Dechmann's lab at MPI of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
#SciArt #art #bats #wildlifeart #insects

*10/13/2025 noncooperation thread*

Going to a #NoKings event? Can't? Either way, can you:

Print/make Megan's "Report ICE" zines (find yours: drive.google.com/drive/folder...) & ALSO her new zine ⬇️ to bring/give to folks who are going?

h/t @besecretandexult.bsky.social who apparently made 2000‼️
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Guys, a five ounce flying human is a ✨fairy✨ so I'm just here looking forward to all the fairy John art.

You've convinced me to give it another try. I watched the occasional episode when I was a kid and was fond of it. So when the pilot popped up recently, I was curious if it would hold up. I enjoyed it, but not enough to keep watching past the pilot.

October is #BatAppreciationMonth! Here they are being fully appreciated in plate 67 from Ernst Haeckel’s dazzling Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature), published in 1904. More about the image, including details of the line-up, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/e...

I have both of these shirts! 🤩

🦋 ⛅ 📖 🌈 🥰

A four panel comic called Happy Halloween From The Birds. In panel 1, a pileated woodpecker has pecked its huge gaping rectangular holes in a pumpkin. In panel 2, a yellow-bellied sapsucker has pecked a face using its standard rows of small holes. In panel 3, a satin bowerbird has carved a pumpkin into a bower and placed its favorite blue candies all around it. In panel 4, a loggerhead shrike has impaled mini pumpkins on a fence's metal spikes and is saying "fight me."

Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.

five pose reference models crammed into a tiny hallway attempting to emerge monsterously

...zombies.

#PoseRef

Man holding flowers, face looking grim, and woman with mouth open looking astonished.

These people too.

A wooden geometric slatted dome with glass enclosing it.

“why don’t we make buildings pointlessly beautiful anymore?”

LOOK AT THIS. just LOOK at THIS.

Thought I gift linked to it. Here you go. READ it. Your welcome.
GIFT.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

Set of books titled The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Spines show increasingly deteriorated columns.

Yeah, that strategy got me through Fellowship but I ran out of patience somewhere in the middle of Towers. My boxed set looked a bit like this but reversed.

Ugh. I adored The Hobbit but never finished LOTR. Around the same time period I was completely enamored with Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, etc. I don't think the "not quite modern" language was the problem.

Exactly. Like it came out of a dollar tree trump themed monopoly game.

It's brand new to me and delightfully unexpected, so thank you for sharing!

Well that was delightful.

You asked for it! We delivered Quack-O-Grams to our members of Congress urging them to #ImpeachRFK, and get that Quack out of office!

There's still time for you to get in on this fluffy, feathery action: Send your own duck at zurl.co/W1ZnB and keep the momentum going! 🦆

QRP with your mental state.

Thanks, that's about what I had gathered too. I can't find any exactly the right shape though. I'd like to figure out how old it actually is before I attempt cleaning and repairing it myself.

The first two are old photos from before the fire. I'm not looking to restore it for use, but I'd like to display it.

Brown antique teapot

Same brown antique teapot, different lighting.

Current photo of the bottom of the teapot showing fire damage and no visible markings.

I'm hoping someone might be able to give me info on a family heirloom teapot. I was told it came to the US from Scotland with my family (in the early 1900s I think). The shape doesn't look quite like any of the Brown Betty pictures I'm finding online. It is fire damaged and I'm hoping to restore it.

Colored pencil sketches of hands and feet

Badly needed #anatomy practice. #sketchbook

Really I'm pretty low maintenance I just need 17 hours of alone time in the morning, absolute silence the rest of day except for my comfort shows which will be on in the background 24/7, constant reassurance that everybody I know isn't mad at me and also ten thousand dollars cash

Available for purchase! All mirror mosaic on wood skimboard.

Contact me for price and shipping info! 🙏♥️

#mosaic #art

The Lightfastness and Student Grade Materials discourse on Watercolor YouTube has, predictably, veered into anti-intellectualism (spearheaded, coincidentally, by sleazy influencers trying to sell low quality, non-lightfast paints under their own brand)

So... from the top...