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Nicola Badger

@nicolaluvsart.bsky.social

I’m a retired art lecturer, in my art practice I work across media, mainly drawing, textiles and photography. I love bookbinding. Nicolabadgerartist.com

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drawing of a woman facing away with her back exposed and very long hair

drawing of a woman facing away with her back exposed and very long hair

todays daily drawing pratice! #expressivedrawings #charcoaldrawing #lifedrawing

09.09.2025 17:25 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Drawing of a woman with dark hair, seated and  tilted to the side holding a small guitar

Drawing of a woman with dark hair, seated and tilted to the side holding a small guitar

Maizy, the great life model @drawonline.bsky.social such a brilliant pose. Charcoal - stubby stick so no fine detail possible.
#dailydrawingpractice #lifedrawing #charcoaldrawing #drawingpractice #expressivedrawings

03.09.2025 14:25 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Door knocker photographic giclée print encased in encaustic wax. Printed onto handmade paper and float framed onto handmade paper backing. A5. This will be in exhibition as part of Hydra Blue collection.

24.08.2025 08:57 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's exhausting having to endure this media drivel day after day.

21.08.2025 10:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🙏 Thanks!

15.08.2025 16:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New work for upcoming exhibition. Portrait printed onto handmade paper then over painted and stitching added (including text). Collaged onto more handmade papersm. Smaller than my previous pieces (A5) #collage #dailydrawingpractice #textandimage #collagedrawings @drawonline.bsky.social

14.08.2025 07:28 — 👍 47    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
Life Drawing of an  person with cropped hair

Life Drawing of an person with cropped hair

Charlie, the model in a great dynamic pose. From the photoset at @drawonline.bsky.social #charcoaldrawing #dailydrawing #expressivedrawing

28.07.2025 16:24 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Every clip from South Park is better than the last!

24.07.2025 12:32 — 👍 132    🔁 49    💬 9    📌 3
portrait drawing of a woman looking out towards the viewer

portrait drawing of a woman looking out towards the viewer

The wonderful model Castor from the photoset @drawonline.bsky.social in charcoal A3
#charcoaldrawing #portraitdrawing #dailydrawingpractice#expressivedrawing

22.07.2025 15:47 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Drawing of a woman looking at the viewer. Half torso

Drawing of a woman looking at the viewer. Half torso

Castor from @drawonline.bsky.social trying to speed up.A3 charcoal

22.07.2025 13:23 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Building wrap of Jabaliya camp in Gaza opposite Labour Party HQ reads "Protesting this isn't terrorism"

Building wrap of Jabaliya camp in Gaza opposite Labour Party HQ reads "Protesting this isn't terrorism"

🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London.

We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.

22.07.2025 07:41 — 👍 3278    🔁 1263    💬 71    📌 66
 an A3+ charcoal sketch of a model facing forward with arm across body

an A3+ charcoal sketch of a model facing forward with arm across body

New charcoal drawing of Castor, they model for @drawonline.bsky.social this was from a wonderful photoset of them. A3 size. #dailydrawing #charcoalsketch #expressivedrawing #lifemoddelsketching #subtractivedrawing #lighttodarksketching #drawing

17.07.2025 14:25 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Tiny kitten peaking out through a crack in a pale blue painted old door, to the far right is another kitten partially concealed behind a fern

Tiny kitten peaking out through a crack in a pale blue painted old door, to the far right is another kitten partially concealed behind a fern

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the cat gets in! #leonardcohenlyrics #kittens #hydraisland #hydracats

18.06.2025 12:49 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Still life beaded bag with tassels and mirror discs, and assorted fruit in charcoal and graphite

15.06.2025 14:32 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A friend just texted me from LA that this was happening at the park she was at

14.06.2025 01:04 — 👍 2639    🔁 818    💬 56    📌 24
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Sketchbooking on the beach in Greece

13.06.2025 07:21 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This one is especially important.

There are a lot of ways to resist. They are all legitimate.

What’s not is ignoring, excusing, or assisting this attack on our nation and the people within it.

Stay strong. Stay United.

#RadioFreeAmerica

10.06.2025 11:21 — 👍 161    🔁 75    💬 6    📌 11

Here's gang violence.

09.06.2025 16:20 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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#BookSky

06.06.2025 13:07 — 👍 15631    🔁 2032    💬 346    📌 150
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Nigel Farage Teams Up With Extreme Anti-Abortion Group and Calls for Debate on Restricting Abortion Rights in UK The Reform Leader is joining forces with a US-based Christian legal group, which campaigns for abortion to be outlawed around the world

🔴Nigel Farage Teams Up With Extreme Anti-Abortion Group and Calls for Debate on Restricting Abortion Rights in UK

The Reform Leader is joining forces with a US-based Christian legal group, which campaigns for abortion to be outlawed around the world

bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

30.05.2025 15:55 — 👍 168    🔁 118    💬 65    📌 30

That’s a beautiful article.

29.05.2025 15:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pro life my ass. Republicans are not prolife.

28.05.2025 11:52 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says his country is committing war crimes Leader from 2006 to 2009 says Palestinian victims are at ‘monstrous proportions’ and Netanyahu heads a ‘criminal gang’

"The former prime minister of Israel Ehud Olmert has said Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza" 👏👏👏

Imagine an ex-PM of Israel having to say that before our own government acknowledges it. Shocking.

28.05.2025 10:20 — 👍 579    🔁 218    💬 20    📌 7
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Almost interchangeable quotes.

26.05.2025 16:46 — 👍 159    🔁 67    💬 4    📌 2

#foundphotographs #amazonrailway #fordlandia ##antiquephotograohs

27.05.2025 09:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Pile of velvet covered photograph album artworks

Pile of velvet covered photograph album artworks

Interior pages of album in first photo

Interior pages of album in first photo

Body of work around photo albums. This inspired by antique album of photographs from Amazon 1900s,British engineer went in Amazon to build railway,rotting engines still lying abandoned in jungle now.Album in my imagination is love story between engineer and young Brazilian from bourgeois family.

27.05.2025 09:56 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

25.05.2025 15:13 — 👍 1942    🔁 687    💬 49    📌 32
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‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ Labour’s VAT raid forces six-figure families to make lifestyle sacrifices

‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t afford to go on five holidays’

This is a GENUINE article published just now in The Telegraph.

25.05.2025 12:22 — 👍 764    🔁 206    💬 185    📌 51
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Some shit never changes.

He barely bothered to turn up as an MEP, barely bothers now he’s an MP.

Can’t say he’s not consistent when it comes to lying, misuse of power, using his status to collab with the far right and his shameless dedication to conning taxpayers out of their hard earned money.

22.05.2025 13:18 — 👍 435    🔁 66    💬 22    📌 2

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