Melanie Narish

A sketchbook spread that is mostly blank with the exception of an owl in watercolors

A sketchbook spread of Sonoran desert creatures

A sketchbook spread of a tortoise and other creatures

Went on a tour of the Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center in Scottsdale! I had to sketch quickly because we kept moving! #usk #urbansketching #conservation

Way too many cookies discarded in a pile in a parking lot

Did somebody toss their cookies?

I #embroidered a plain canvas bag to make an #rpg kit for my PC Ned/Cosmo, a well meaning but generally incompetent druid that's obsessed with the meteor in #dungeonsofdrakkenheim. I made the #ogham staves back in the day, and it's super fun to use them in role play!

Two felt bookmarks embroidered with a beach scene and a pair of yellow shoes

Two more birthday bookmarks! #embroidery

Adam tabulating scores over a finished game of Harmonies.

A bathroom sign that says whatever, just wash your hands. It has a mermaid and a centaur on it.

Excited to play games and drink coffee at our new go-to coffee shop Empower in Mesa! It's like @brickroadcoffee.bsky.social moved closer! 🌈♥️

My kids know an American flag when they see one – but they don't yet know all that it represents.

When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:

🚨The kids in larchmont are doing rage songs🚨

Oh I would love to see your thoughts on this! This is such a tricky aspect, especially when I'm with people that are not sketching! How can I let others know that I'm present when I look distracted by painting? (Especially since I am more present because I am sketching!)

Fair enough. I live in the same region and put out bird seed and the doves have taken over the backyard. Lots of white winged doves right now.

This fits the candy colors prompt for today's #USkJunePrompts2025!

And set water out for the birdies and critters! ♥️ And it's still pleasant early, early morning. Besides that, I feel like it's winter in the midwest. Just instead of the heat being on I have AC. And I don't have to dig out my car! 💯

Melanie dressed up as Gideon the 9th with a black outfit a skull face paint and aviators.

My last #cosplay for the weekend! I just love being #GideontheNinth. Ran into another Gideon that gave me a bracelet (with curse words of course 😂). It was so sweet! (Alas, I also lost my skull somewhere on the convention floor! 😭)

1 minute sketches, the color was added later though. A cosplayer reading a book one kneeling and another lying on the ground.

2 minute sketches, color added during the sketch. One person kneeling with a giant sword and another person sitting down with their arms crossed over their legs head down

The rapid fire 30 second sketches! The color was added in afterward. Four figures loosely sketched.

One 10-minute sketch of a woman sitting with a maid uniform and holding keys

Timed #sketches at #PhoenixFanFusion! They had a fun event where cosplayers modeled and anybody could come and sketch them with timed intervals. #cosplay #watercolor

#booksky

Don’t forget you can just go draw a bug whenever you want.

Tree journals each with an awesome sticker. One of Gideon the 9th, another of a snail with a house, and a teacup!

Look at these amazing illustrations from @hemask.bsky.social! A most amazing artist at Phoenix Fan Fusion! I just kept picking up thing after thing (not in the photo is the pencil bag and Raven trinket pin!).

I did a real time STEAM panel! It was fun. I talked about kestrels!

Tippi from The Birds nervous near two large avian customers

Bloody skinned knee and Steve, a blackbird, on my foot

Tippi's ootd: green dress, leather purse, birds, and cuts.

Phoenix Fan Fusion fun as Tippi Hedren from The Birds. Absolutely shocked how many people recognized me and came up to talk to me about the movie. Even young folks - gives me hope that the next gens are watching great movies

A sketch of a window with light shining on a coat rack that has a dog bag and leash. Under the window there is a little footstool.

Even though there are no pets in this sketch, I see them. I see Jackie on her little footstool looking out the window, and Bowie waiting for me to grab his leash for a walk. #urbansketching #watercolor #sketch #pets

emotion wheel starting with "joy, fear, anger" in the center and then lapsing into gibberish

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

A macro photo, front three-quarter view, of a little butterfly perched on a green leaf. The butterfly has pale green eyes with black speckles, legs covered in thick yellow fuzzy hair, and orange wings sprinkled with metallic light blue patches. It is very cute.

A macro photo, side view, of a little butterfly perched on a green leaf. The butterfly has pale green eyes with black speckles, legs covered in thick yellow fuzzy hair, and orange wings sprinkled with metallic light blue bands and patches. It is very cute.

Please enjoy this ridiculously cute butterfly, which was about the size of my pinkie fingernail. It's in the butterfly family called metalmarks (Riodinidae). Males, like these, have reduced front legs and perch using only the rear 4 (females can use all 6). Sarota acantus; Costa Rica 🐙🌿 #insects

Take a breather and watch a #dog explore! (Taken at Boyce Thompson Arboretum, #Arizona 🏜️)

The sketch held in front of a background of a rocky train with a gazebo in the distance

Close-Up of the sketch with watercolors of Boyce Thompson Arboretum

A really cool looking seed pod with a drop of water that is hydrophobic on it!

Boyce Thompson post drizzle walk and #sketch! 🌦️ #urbansketchers

Oh what a great sketchy snapshot!

I've used that ink! It does exactly as it says, but unfortunately it doesn't work for somebody who always forgets and leaves it in the pen. It keeps gunking up my pen, but I know that's my fault. 😭

What kind of ink do you use in your pen?

Ethnos board game set up

A handful of seaside wooden tokens pulled from a canvas bag

Formula 1 cars taking a tight turn in the board game heat

Another #boardgame day! This time #Ethnos was my fave, but I really liked the sounds and tactile feels of Seaside.

The TNG Enterprise bridge crew. None of these people have a beverage. Not a cupholder in sight. Hell, Worf doesn't even get a chair. Standing desk only.

Star Trek is this weird space-themed workplace drama where no one is allowed to have coffee or a water bottle. (Picard gets tea because he has a private office.) Everyone else is presumably dehydrated all the time, which works out because they have to take an elevator to find the nearest bathroom