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Craig Marks the Spot

@craigmarksthespot.bsky.social

Husband, artist, conservationist, cigar lover and Pikuni descendant. Salty old Jarhead. Autism and angel dad. Punk Rock Dad. Belle the bloodhound. “Just trying to leave this place better than I found it.”

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Why is my feed 80% rabbits?
Y’all do know I EAT those things, right?

14.05.2025 18:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If you ever need a reality check, go stand in street clothes next to a 13 foot alligator in its environment during the mating season.

14.05.2025 16:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pleasure meeting you, @aaronjohncurtis.bsky.social

Looking forward to your next story.

13.05.2025 21:50 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Have to to buy a gun too. Stop.

11.05.2025 18:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m a Marine. This is just a fancy restaurant.

08.05.2025 21:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Craig MARKS the Spot on Substack How many of you would be interested in seeing my art process from start to finish in a video format?

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06.05.2025 18:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Art of the Ledger: Three The Piikani Way

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21.04.2025 17:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Craig MARKS the Spot on Substack Listen: All I need is within me right now. I wake up motivated. I am an unstoppable force of nature, and I recognize my place within the world. I am a living, breathing example of motivation. Be saf...

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14.04.2025 19:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Craig Thomas Marks on Substack First, I want to thank you for your kind remarks. If you knew me in my past life, you would know that this mentality is a conscious effort. The late Robert L. Humphrey’s “Hunting Story” is a harsh ...

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08.04.2025 12:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Craig Thomas Marks on Substack I was today years old when my bubble burst, and I realized that Substack is full of hate and toxicity, too. I am grateful to have learned this early on, and I am still happy I get to share my passion...

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07.04.2025 18:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Craig Thomas Marks on Substack I don't fantasize. I do it every chance I get. Too many depend on me to disappear, but when I am close to the end, and my ancestors call my name, I will disappear into the woods and never be seen agai...

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07.04.2025 18:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Craig Thomas Marks on Substack “Old School Indian” by Aaron John Curtis is worth a look. I am excited to talk with him next month. CTM

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02.04.2025 17:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Testing We have a lot of stress and fear going around right now.

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18.03.2025 14:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It's Pronounced OH-KEE (Part 2) No "fake Indians" here. Just an authentic human trying to figure things out.

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17.03.2025 10:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It's Pronounced OH-KEE Why Blackfoot Language and Imagery are so Important to Me and My Work

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17.03.2025 10:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today I am Grateful. Why I Post a Daily Note of Affirmation.

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10.03.2025 15:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pay special attention to some of these images… I may be dripping hints at future work.

#guitar #pistol #sixgun #countryboy #cowboy #outlaw

27.02.2025 19:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hoping some or all of you will come join me on my Substack reboot. I will be focusing most of my efforts there.

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27.02.2025 14:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@clyde12345.bsky.social maybe you can advise on what galleries to pitch to down there in paradise?

26.02.2025 18:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ledger up.
Blackfeet.

#indigenous #proud #equine #horse #chiefs #indian #native #skoden

26.02.2025 15:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oki!

25.02.2025 23:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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More entertaining version for you.
With a better soundtrack 😉

#art #artist #sickday #painting #blackfoot #agnosticfront

25.02.2025 16:55 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This paper is from 1898.
The process requires some protective pigment to be applied to the paper to help protect this 127 year old page from the wet medium.

25.02.2025 16:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Day two of the flu.
While I have some juice in the tank, thought I would work on a ledger for one of my business card variants.

#blackfeet #indigenous #chiefs #horse #riders #art #artist

25.02.2025 16:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Acrylic glazes and seawater.
Inspired by a little place near me.

#sailing #art #boating #florida

25.02.2025 02:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I love these.

25.02.2025 02:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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These Lynx are painted on Bavarian maps from the 1850’s. They are reproductions sent to me by the Bavarian Parks Service to commemorate the return of the Eurasian Lynx to its native range after more than a century of extinction.

#lynx #cartography #art

24.02.2025 13:51 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This work in progress is for Operation Home Shores, helping veterans find peace and fellowship in the outdoors. As a salty old jarhead, I got a soft spot for vets.

I like this one so much it may be on my next business card variant.

#duck #art #vetrans #usmc #outdoors

23.02.2025 18:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was honored to contribute to an exhibit in Germany a few years ago, in celebration of the return of the Eurasian Lynx to its native range. One of my pieces was on an “extended”visit there before being claimed.

This piece would have been a showstopper there!

23.02.2025 17:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Packing up my #Trifecta of #florida #ducks for the #deltawaterfowl banquet next weekend.

Ledger #art tells #stories. These three are #indigenous specimens of the #Tampabay area on old city of #stpete documents!

22.02.2025 16:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0