Heather 🌻

African penguins (and, let’s face it, all penguins) were a childhood favorite of mine, and conjure up fond memories of trips to the zoo with my grandma.
#gouache #art #penguin #painting
(Reposting because the scan I have is much nicer)

What a wild thread/article to wake up to 😵‍💫 I’m questioning my own experience now.
I can’t remember if my school taught us three-cueing but I’m pretty dang sure I learned how to read using phonics…but did my school teach me phonics or did my mom? I skipped kindergarten so did I dodge a bullet? Ohno 💀

Haha I remember trying so hard to get into the advanced oekaki board but also not being accepted 🤝

stylized 3d render of a morning fish market

fish market

Big streaky aurora across the sky with a silhouette of a tree in the bottom right corner

Looking straight up into the Aurora

Photo of a leaf-less tree silhouette with an aurora behind it

Tree silhouettes framing the bottom of the image with the Aurora brightly lighting up the sky

3am aurora pics! 3-sec long exposures taken with my phone.

It’s so beautiful!! And I love cowboy’s little gecko hands.

Nooooo 😭

Poor kitty :( they’re a little guardian of that area now

I too admired the moon this morning! What kind of skull was it?

Mooriah Carey

Dia De Los Muertos themed Rouge!
#fanart #rougethebat #sonicthehedgehog

Bahaha I have one of those blankets, from the Napa flea market, but mine is zebra print. I’m under it right now!! I’m never cold under it! I should get a tiger one too 🤔

Landscape
#油彩画 #oilpainting

I feel like I am looking at my dreams 💚

So cute 🥹 Happy Halloween!! Hope you bring home a bountiful hoard of candy!

Painting titled “Halloween Reunion.” A black kitten reaching up to three ghost kittens on top of a pumpkin.

Painting titled “November 1 Snack.” An opossum stands on top of a jack-o-lantern, chewing. A chunk of pumpkin is missing from the jack-o-lantern’s head.

Painting titled “Trick or Treat.” A bat swoops down at a moth, which sits on the forehead of a jack-o-lantern. Another jack-o-lantern looks on with fear on its face.

A painting titled “Omen.” A woolly bear caterpillar sits on a pumpkin, among other pumpkins in a pumpkin patch.

Happy Halloween! 🎃
Some pumpkin treats for you! Titles in the alt text.

#art #acrylicgouache #acrylagouache 🦊

A digital drawing of me, sitting with my arm over my knee. There is text on the image that says “Meet the artist/designer/educator/etc!” “Oct 31” “Queer” “She/they” and my name, Avery Helm.

A what’s in my bag image depicting a bunch of my belongings!

A page with my contact info, “Want to work together? averyhelm.ca / hello@averyhelm.ca” “averyhelm.ca/friends for a mini directory of my friends and peers!”

I’m 30 today!! I wanted to celebrate by making a new meet the artist post 🎊 #MeetTheArtist #art

I’m collecting resources! Mostly YouTube videos lol. I don’t want to mess anything up. I’m probably just gonna start with a basic aquascape situation and add shrimp later? Esp since we’re approaching winter and I’d have to get them shipped…

Requiem for the Christmas Island Shrew The Cry That Faded It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, moving through the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean...

Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, darting among the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. Australia’s only shrew, Crocidura trichura, has been declared extinct.

Touching obituary by @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social
🧪🌏🦊

www.butlernature.com/2025/10/24/r...

Literally just looking at shrimp tanks again yesterday. During the pandemic I made a whole plan to start a shrimp tank but never got around to it. Now I’m thinking about it again. Your shrimps are so beautiful

It now looks like a butterfly-shaped cloud or pillow u_u

Old sketchdump from 2022. It shows three different species of owl: Little Owl, Great Horned Owl, and Barn Owl. I've written "Owls!" in the centre of the sketchdump.

hoot hoot ✨🦉🌿

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The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

I feel the same way. I get embarrassed just thinking about posting there anymore :(

Me playing Kirby and the Forgotten Land

my official review of del toro's frankenstein just a comic of me sweating over jacob elordi monster

im a woman possessed

Artwork

"Tiny Sparrow", 2015
Oil on canvas, 5 x 6 cm cm
#painting #oilpainting #throwback #art #traditionalart #fineart 🎨

Wisptober Day 14 - Gems

"There once was a magpie that loved to shine his priceless treasures in the light of the setting sun."

Shiny stones means birds who like shiny stones.:D
#wisptober #wisptober2025 #illustration #mixedmedia

Did you show William!!!

Ouuugghh these are all my favorite colors. I love this very much 🤩