Sarah Crumb

An orca peeks through green kelp with bubbles and I'm a turquoise circle. Sitting on a messy art desk.

Today's #ArtAdventCalendar is an almost complete orca peekhole illustration I've been working on. Micron pen and Daniel Smith watercolors.

#art #sciart

A wee baby orca still with orange tint to white patches, emerges from the water.

I made it to see the whales after all! K-pod has joined the party! Including a brand new baby!!! 😍

(Photo not by me)

Orcas approaching Edmonds ferry lanes on the day I'm not in until later.... Of course lol

😍😍😍

A red-lored parrot in loose watercolor on very rough paper.

A keel-billed toucan painted in loose watercolor on very rough paper.

Next up for #ArtAdventCalendar is a two-fer!

I went to Belize in 2015 and a few years later painted both of these birds I saw at the zoo.

#birds #birdart #sciart

A wooden tabletop with a box of various colors of ProAcryl paints next to a handful of unpainted miniatures.

It's mini painting time!!

Text reads: Lady in Hallmark movie just said "sorry I'm late. The stars are breathtaking tonight." And everyone was fine with it. No one blinked an eye. Those are two separate thoughts. I did not arrive late because you were just fucking looking up. I can't say "sorry I'm late, there are birds" Image of "kombucha girl meme" with more text: Everyone in this group There were birds

Another funny thing I ran across that is so very relatable.

#birds

A child's painting of a breaching orcas.

Today's piece is a really old throwback. I painted this for my aunt in 1989. I've been obsessed with orcas nearly my whole life. ❤️

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An explanation on how to write ALT text with a photo of a capybara as an example. The main points are Indentify who expression description colour interesting features

It's time for the "How to do ALT text" image again.

Writing a perfect ALT text is impossible, but please try 💚!

Visually impairment is a wide spectrum and doesn't keep people from loving the visual arts.

🐡 #art #kleinekunstklasse #artadventcalendar

A white woman in a green sweater holds an orange sea star. Text reads: "I thought it was perfectly normal to talk about having a nudibranch life list." Drew Harvell On her obsession with nudibranchs

Just ran across this image for a talk in Seattle awhile ago. It's on YouTube, I'll go watch at some point, but this is funny and I can relate.

#nudibranches #invertebrates

It’s only a crazy dream until you do it. Just sink it.

A little person faces away from the viewer, hands outstretched to four big orcas greeting the small figure. They are all in front of a full moon with a gradient background and several stars in the sky. Sketched in pen.

Here's an old thumbnail idea I had for a piece back in like 2018 I think. I was in a class and my teacher encouraged me to do a different layout entirely. I was never really happy with that one, but never returned to this. I think I will at some point. I still love it.

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A sideview portrait of a tri-colored heron. Watercolor.

Today's piece is a tri-colored heron portrait I painted in 2019.

#ArtAdventCalendar #art #birds #sciart

Happy birthday!

I gave my crows Cheerios yesterday and they had a similar reaction.

A raku fired dolphin sculpture on a white background. It is iridescent with blues, reds, coppers.

A close up of the face of the dolphin.

A view of the other side of the dolphin.

A close up of the body and fin of the dolphin.

'Delphinus' is a star, leaping from the ocean, a celestial traveller caught between the depths and the heavens.

Born from fire and smoke in the unpredictable alchemy of raku, it's iridescent surface swirls with cosmic starlight, copper reds and nebula blues.

#ArtAdventCalendar #pottery

Ending day 3 of #artAdventCalendar with 472 participants. A fair bit slower than last year where we had 625 on day 1 (!!)

but still good numbers and most importantly...great posts.

Be sure to let your artist friends on here know what a cool thing this is.

I'm thinking my family needs to learn Japanese soon... Might have a visit there in the near future. Any tips for staying from scratch? (Minus, like the tiniest bit absorbed from watching some anime and Final Fantasy games lol)

New animal #illustrations...
#ProjectAnimalia continues with 753: Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish (Forcipiger flavissimus)

Common on the Mauritius reef, they pick food out of cracks with their long snouts.

#sciart #dailyart #animalart #scientificillustration #medart #fishart #fish #butterflyfish

Storm clouds at night with a lightning bold in the middle over a valley with a river

For day 4 #ArtAdventCalendar evening

Bolt From The Blue
26×34 66×86cm
Oil on canvas
2023

Painting of my character, Pudgy Horse, a horse of baroque type appearance with luxuriant mane and tail, and deliberately exaggerated proportions, including short, slender legs with dainty hooves and an extremely generous girth; here painted in tribute to one of the famous horses in the Lascaux cave paintings using similar colours and simplified shapes.

A #PudgyHorse tribute to the Lascaux cave paintings, painted with the Strata Trio watercolours made by @thoughtsupnorth.bsky.social from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.

Might as well post this one as it's been stolen and sold on Australian Temu. 🙃

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A sideview portrait of a grey and white horse wearing a bridle.

I'm a bit of a horse girl at heart. This is a little watercolor painting I did in 2018.

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Day three #ArtAdventCalendar

A photograph of a white horse with blueish smudged markings, bending its head back to bite at its side with its teeth, wearing a bridle. The landscape in the background is bare with a few trees and an orange sky with a couple of clouds.

Day 3 of #ArtAdventCalendar, #filmphotography

A photo of my horse on Lomography turquoise, a colour shifting film the renders blue as orange and yellow as blue. This one earned a spot in a juried show last year.

😔❤️ My uncle (my mom's younger brother) has stage 4 cancer and it's the main reason I went to Hawaii last month (he lives there). My dad is also fighting various stuff. We're unfortunately kindred spirits in this way.

Yep I feel you. ❤️

Do not eat

Those top songs? They all make me cry. And I welcome it. ❤️

White woman's hand holding a cd copy of U2's Songs of Experience.

I recently bought the CD at an antique store and it's on rotation in my car pretty much 24/7.

I also prefer the short stories. There's too much politics and extra stuff I just do not care about in the full novels.