Sophia

Still flying pigeons and a popsicle hand, but now the sky is blue.

Where we're at now.

You may think this is a bucolic scene, but it is actually a portrait of neurosis, obsession, and occasional paralysis. 🙃

#art #artsky #painting #wip #oilpainting #oils #birds #traditionalart

You're _almost_ making me like him. (I ❤️ fun free-spirit weirdos.)

Oil painting of a hand holding a popsicle with flying pigeons in the background

More progress! I'm learning a lot. Unsure what's going on in the background still. 🤷‍♀️ #oils #oilpainting #artsky #art #painting #wip #workinprogress

Deciding I'm a friend bc this is beautiful. ❤️❤️ L'shana tova.

Every day after sunset during summer + fall hundreds of thousands of bats leave the their roost near Sacramento, CA to feed

A family of Swainson's hawks waits for them for their own dinner.

Due to the light they're hard to photograph.

Last night one caught a bat less than 30 feet in front of me 🪶

I was just thinking "Audition"! Also, "Society." 🩸

Thank you for blessing my timeline with that gif

Goth af, like her oft mocked Christmas. Reminds me of Wicked. This is to say, sorry but I like it.

Propublica and local media

This is so beautifully done. 💜

But then you can't dog-ear every other page like I did.

(Not saying others shouldn't share them. Just that so many people are that I don't think there's value in me doing it too.)

I make an active effort to *not* reshare upsetting news items here, even ones that feel urgent, since I figure anyone on Bluesky is probably already seeing them

I've loved this one for a long time. ❤️

Oil painting of a hand holding a popsicle with flying pigeons in the background

More progress. The core composition is wrong, but I'm learning things, and the thumb-knuckle and top fingertip are masterworks.

#oils #oilpainting #watermixableoils #painting #artsky #art #birdpainting

It's the 9pm hand-licking for me. Never go to bed without freshly groomed hands.

Like... If you want to bring lefties to the center, hiring Yglesias is not the way to do it, and I imagine they're smart enough to know that.

Agreed. Also, their stated goal is to "make a case for liberalism," and I suspect they implicitly mean "to people who are further right."

Cathy Young is pro second wave feminism.

Right. Also, instead of ceding ground, seems easy enough to gain centrist vote share by ceaselessly reminding ppl that trans athletes in women's sports affects barely anyone, compared to millions losing health insurance (e.g).

The brush strokes in your clown are thrilling to look at

Hell yeah, keep thriving. 💜

Fund the arts and tell every artist in your life that they're very special

Ehh, I *have* been harassed, mugged, and assaulted in cities, but it's survivable and 100000000x better than a fascist takeover that institutionalizes assault and harassment.

I'm a very sporadic gamer. Haven't played Soul Calibur in decades but it occupies a fond cross-faded spot in my memory. ❤️

YouTube video by kademan13 Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air - Full CD (HQ)

TIL "Baba O'Riley" was partly named after the composer Terry Riley, which super makes sense (the intro sounds like his work).

youtu.be/hy3W-3HPMWg?...

That's such a sweet thing to say. ❤️

Decriminalizing and destigmatizing sex work, making therapy more affordable/accessible, and having leftist cishet men go into venues where young men are brainwashed and offer friendship and alternative ideas

The left did its part for straight men looking to get laid: birth control, the sexual revolution. Much more transformative than pickup artistry.

Drawing of an axolotl in a leather jacket eating tater-tots on the patio of Eli's Mile High Club

An axolotl eating tater-tots, drawn for a friend who seemed like she needed it.

#artsky #art #drawing #coloredpencil #gouache #watercolor #axolotl #weirdart