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@renlodraws.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 8:07 PM

Trying different brushes to stave off art block! 💫

#art #digitalart #Procreate #BlackArt

The image is a screenshot of a work-in-progress drawing in the Procreate app. The drawing depicts a young Black woman. Her head is three-fourths view, though nearly completely turned towards the viewer. She has coily shoulder length black hair. She is wearing a wide, gentle smile, which accentuates her dimples. Her eyes are creased gleefully; she is looking past the viewer's left at something off screen.

@droppingfacts.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 4:25 PM

#blackart #afroart #ebonyart #africanamericanart #BlackSky

@laurajg.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 4:03 PM

By 19th century African-American/Canadian artist Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901), Walking Through a Field, ca. 1870–1880’s, oil on canvas, 22x42 inches, photo: Lincoln Glenn Gallery, New York. #art #arthistory #blackart #blackartist #BlackHistory

From the museum: ‘The painting's bucolic imagery of agricultural workers walking along picturesque paths, tracks and roads~ across crop fields and pasture land, up gentle hills, by rivers, or through shaded woodland is a constant throughout all phases of the artists career, reflecting not only his long-term aesthetic allegiance to American and French Barbizon, but also his childhood roots in Canada, where he helped with livestock on the Hatch farm in the timber town of Saint Andrews, and his close artistic, en plein air engagement with the New England agrarian landscape. In this work Bannister employs a compositional theme of the rural track, depicting both groups and solitary farm workers, and other country folk, some driving sheep or cows. The artist depicts his figures with wood cutting tools to identify characters' hands to identify their specific type of labor and to underline their rusticity.
Edward Mitchell Bannister was one of the few African American painters of the nineteenth century to win significant recognition. He grew up on the coast in New Brunswick, and spent several months working as a ship's cook. He lost both his parents when he was young and moved to Boston, where he took sculpture classes and learned photography. Bannister faced an uphill battle to become a professional artist. In 1867 the New York Herald stated that "the Negro seems to have an appreciation of art" but went on to assert that blacks were "manifestly unable to produce it" (Driskell, Two Centuries of Black American Art, 1976). Bannister decided to prove the article wrong and in 1876 achieved his goal when one of his paintings won a medal at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. When he arrived to claim his prize, however, he was refused entry because he was black. Bannister was a founder and member of the Providence Art Club and was an original board member of the Rhode Island School of Design.‘

@nocturnalxwhisper.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 1:08 AM

here he isss. trying to also rep the other islands

kez is bajan, dusk is guyanese

fun fact: his given name is dawn prashad (not deadname bc he still uses this name). he decided to masculanise it as a nickname. could also be unisex i feel

#art #oc #ocsky #blackart #blackartist #digitalartist

portrait of my oc dusk who's indo-guyanese. he has brown skin a hooked nose and plump lips, doe eyes and thick straight brown brows. he has layered gold jewelry including big beads. he has gold hoops, a gold septum and a gold hoop nose ring.

he's wearing a magenta strapless top with a purple overcoat and floral patterns. he has fluffy brown hair with a lighter ombre to the bottom in a lose side ponytail. he has 3 drawn hearts on each cheek. he also has freckles and moles

@disburst.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 9:36 PM

Amazing project we worked on from concept to release finally landed a few weeks ago.

Eric Orr was great to work with and far too underappreciated given his side by side work with Haring. 🧵

#streetart #graffiti #art #comics #80s #nycc #bipoc #blackart #blackartist #nyc #ericorr #keithharing #hiphop

@acorihonzo.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 8:59 PM

🧵As a Black creative, working on Rappin’ Max Robot means more to me than simply sculpting another figure.

Our first project featuring a character created by a Black artist has officially sold out, and I’ve been thinking about what that really means to me.

#blackartist
#bipoc
#blackart
#blacksky

@disburst.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 8:16 PM

🧵 @acorihonzo.bsky.social & I are debating an acorn setup for what we are do @ letsbeonyx.com but also to provide a community nexus place for creative ppl we know irl & digitally.

#art #blackart #blackartist #bipoc #sculpture #actionfigure #onesixthscale #Philly #Philadelphia #artcommunity

@disburst.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 7:35 PM

Acori Honzo, one of the most thoughtful, inspiring, and fun artists to work and also partner with in my many years in art/collectibles/ent.

#art #blackart #blackartists #blackartist #bipoc #sculpture #actionfigure #onesixthscale #Philly #Philadelphia

@s19101725.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 3:17 PM

【心中的那一片冰冷的海 The Icy Sea in my Mind】
Song List：
眩暈SIREN - Qualia クオリア
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdqs...

說自己是個不幸的人，
說自己不被任何人理解。
Jibun wa fuko na ningen datte
Dare ni mo rikai sarenai datte

#Darkart
#Blackart
#Melancholy
#original
#originalart
#digitalart
#digitalpaint
#digitalpainting
#illustration

@s19101725.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 3:10 PM

【水中 In the Water】
Song List：
眩暈SIREN - Jenga ジェンガ
youtube.com/watch?v=Qf7S...

你就是你僅僅是這樣不行嗎？
anata wa anatada sore dake ja dame ka？

#Darkart
#Blackart
#Melancholy
#original
#originalart
#digitalart
#digitalpaint
#digitalpainting
#illustration
#illustrationart

@obsidianlit.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 2:01 PM

SAVE THE DATES! Two in-person events in Normal, IL

A Revolution We Can Live For: South Africa's National Poet Laureate Mongane Wally Serote Comes to Illinois October 19 & October 20.

For more details and to RSVP: bit.ly/SeroteEvent

#ObsidianLit #BlackLit #BlackArt #BlackPoetry #ObsidianCommunity

@313smdhustler.myatproto.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:06 PM

Sorcerers, sorcereress, witches, and warlocks are feeling the energy for casting spells...

Enjoy your weekend people.🖤

#BlackArt
#Blacksky
#Spookyseason

@laurajg.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 10:24 PM

By African-American artist William Scott (1884-1964), “The Maker of Goblins,” 1919, oil on canvas, 32 1/8 × 26 1/8 inches, The Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, SC.
#arthistory #painting #oilpainting #BlackArt #blackartists

From the museum: "Characteristic of William Edouard Scott's depictions of African American life, The Maker of Goblins is a playful rendering of the autumnal tradition of pumpkin carving."
And 'In the groundbreaking anthology, The New Negro: An Interpretation (1925), educator and philosopher Alain Locke wrote of the need for African American visual artists to raise "the Negro subject from the level of trivial or sentimental genre to that of serious type study . . . and furnish the fullest and most revealing portrayal of Negro life." Citing the work of Henry O. Tanner, Hale Woodruff, and William Eduoard Scott, Locke hailed the "advent of a representatively racial school of expression, and an important new contribution, therefore, to the whole body of American.”’

@313smdhustler.myatproto.social Oct 1, 2026, 6:32 PM

I feel the energy in the air a stir...

#BlackArt
#Blacksky

@sp3llbook.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 5:03 PM

Bug Alarm

#art #character #reference #concept #humanartist #drawing #illustration #urban #blackart #AFAM #AFAMart #black
#supportartist
#Sequentialart #comics #comicart #BlackSkyCreativesInc #blacksky

@queerartistwebring.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 4:27 PM

OPEN ✅️
The Queer Artists Webring.

apply: queerartistwebring.carrd.co 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

#oc #ocsky #gay #queer #lgbtq #art #artists #illustrator #ocsky #queersky #bipoc #blackart #indie #smallartists #furry #furryart #kinkart #nsfw #nsfwart #bipocart #queerart #indieart

@helloelisamilan.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:06 PM

"those eyes" painting 🌸 #art #blackart #blackwoman

@lottimoreorless.blacksky.app Oct 1, 2026, 11:41 AM

I have this adorable little tea cup/mini pot thing and an OC I have zero clue what to do with or who/when/where she even is lmao 💀

Halp 😭

#Blackart #Blackartist #sketching #oc

@bhopdamaestro.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 12:33 AM

SUNLIGHT

A bit of a redesign of my one of my original superheroes, Sunlight. His powers are solar energy generation, flight, enhanced strength. He represents the Superman “Symbol of Hope” archetype.

#art #blackart #originalcharacterart #superhero #oc