Skeptical Bear

A button up shirt in a superhero print with contrasting sleeve ruffles, collar, and button band, and a matching pair of shorts.

Rough pencil sketch of a shirt and shorts.

I’m sewing again, this time for a four year old.

Sketched out the concept and then drafted some basic pattern pieces.

A human in a plaid shirt with a Siamese type cat draped over their shoulder. The human is leaning their face away from the cat.

Cats don’t understand personal space.

#CatsOfBluesky

A cupcake in a paper wrapper is sitting on a granite countertop. The cupcake has a piped swirl of rainbow frosting.

I haven’t been painting for awhile because I was focusing on other projects, but here’s one of the cupcakes I made for a local queer youth group.

#QueerJoy #QueerArt

But her emails…

"No store is going to ask the fundamental question: why? Not in the way that culture does" The last sentence of an evocative paragraph, in a thought-provoking essay. I read with a sense of nostalgia for something that may not have ever actually existed.

Something something, leopards eating faces, something something…

A photo of a Siamese cat sitting on a table glaring up at the camera. Next to the cat is a collage frame with seven small paintings of Siamese cats in various stages of completion.

Cat is not impressed with my project.

#CatsOfBluesky #WorkInProgress #AnimalArt #NoAI

Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites "This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request," a directive "per NASA HQ direction" stated.

They burn our books, destroy the records of our science, medicine, engineering, etc; then turn around and teach our children, "obviously you were savages we have no record of you doing anything," all while they use the knowledge they stole from us

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Two pictures of a painting of a Siamese cat. The top image is the very beginning, showing the basically shape and colour of the cat, and the second image shows the same painting with more details added.

Another work in progress cat painting.

#AnimalArt #CatsOfBluesky #WorkInProgress #QueerArtist

if not hell, why hell-shaped

Two images of the same painting. In the top image the painting is very crudely roughed in, in the second image the fur and shape of a Siamese cat is more obvious.

Work in progress.

Acrylic on canvas board.

#QueerArt #painting #NoAI #Cats #AnimalArt

A colorful graphic for “FebruArty 2025,” an art challenge. The background features various art supplies, including paintbrushes, pencils, tubes of paint, and watercolor pans. At the top, the text reads: “FebruArty 2025” (in large, bold, blue bubble letters with a white outline). Below it, a description states: “Any medium, any style, any way you like; new or old, soft or bold. A prompt every other day to create in your way.” A section in teal and white block letters explains the challenge schedule: “ON EVEN DAYS IT’S FEBRUARY” “ODD DAYS JOIN OTHER PARTIES” A numbered list follows, alternating between hashtags and prompts: 1. #BlueSkyArtShow 2. Shoes 3. #SensoryArt 4. Purple 5. #ArtYear 6. Eyes 7. #FishyFeb 8. Puzzle 9. #ArtYear 10. Rings 11. #SensoryArt 12. Orange 13. #FishyFeb 14. Pair 15. #BlueSkyArtShow 16. Big & Small 17. #SensoryArt 18. Glasses 19. #ArtYear 20. Turquoise 21. #FishyFeb 22. Divide 23. #SensoryArt 24. Socks 25. #ArtYear 26. Magenta 27. #FishyFeb 28. Pear At the bottom, in bold bubble letters, it reads: ”#FEBRUARTY” Below that, the host is credited: “Hosted by: @whitneyyoh.bsky.social” A final section in a smaller font acknowledges collaborations with other art challenges: “In collaboration with: @annalarssonstudio (#ArtYear), @churchstreetimages (#BlueSkyArtShow), @subicrn (#SensoryArt), @victoriapfeiffer (#FishyFeb)” The graphic is designed with a bright and engaging aesthetic, using a mix of blues, pinks, and vibrant colors, with a clean and playful font style.

Alright #JanuARTy peeps. I made a typo yesterday so here is the corrected graphic; now with color coding for odd day challenges.

On even numbered days it’s #FebruARTy
On odd numbered days spread your wings and fly across the great blue sky to the listed challenge 💙

Near Redwater, Alberta in the early 2000s

I know I’m not a great artist. I’m mediocre and derivative *at best*, and honestly? That’s the point.

I started painting at 50. I didn’t go to art school. Hell, I didn’t even go to high school. But I’m sharing my shit with you because art matters. Even bad art.

Make bad art with confidence.

A sketchbook open to a painting of a raven in profile over a background of pine branches.

Third painting of 2025. This is the finished piece of the post I made a few days ago, talking about imposter syndrome.

Forest Raven
Acrylic on paper

USA has ~600K undocumented Canadian & European immigrants

How many CAN/EURO students is ICE raiding at schools?
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How many CAN/EURO babies ripped from parents?
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How many CAN/EURO people thrown in Camps?
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It was never about “protecting our borders”—it was about protecting white supremacy.

I don’t repost art without alt, and I hesitate to even hit the like.

Rough underpainting of a corvid on a mottled green background.

Starting another little painting today.

At this stage imposter syndrome is loudly insisting that there’s no way I can make anything of these blobs and I’m wasting my time.

Let’s see how this goes.

#ArtInProgress
#NoAI
#QueerArt
#BirdArt

A coil-bound scrapbook open to a moody painting of a brown bear clutching a blue teddy bear and a pink blanket.

Finished this little bear today.

Bedtime
Acrylic on paper
2025

#QueerArt
#NoAI #Painting #AnimalArt

When Mister Rogers said “look for the helpers” he was talking to children.

We’re not children anymore.

Stop looking and start being.

For most of my life, I’ve thought there were WAY too many books and movies whose sole message was “WW2 was a really big deal & Nazis are unredeemable monsters.”

But now I’m thinking there REALLY weren’t enough.

An in-progress painting of a brown bear holding a blue teddy bear and a pink blanket.

Work in progress

Bedtime
Acrylic on paper
2025

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That abortions are an essential part of healthcare.