skrif

Despite 2025’s various agonies, I achieved both of my resolutions: 1. Run a mile every week (if i don’t go on a 5+ mile hike) 2. Do an oil painting for every month

Weekend adventure exploring and camping at Fort Worden.

Skrif! 💜💙 @skullbird.bsky.social

you gotta be the kind of person that says yes to spontaneous international travel.

The way you have to book group camp sites 6 months to 1 year out, with each location having a different process and registration window 🤪

Fish friday. Maybe if the fish is fictional it’ll work better? Fictional fish. Fishctional.

Took Sabo on his first van camping trip. He was a good boy, though he loses some points for demanding half the bed space and then throwing a tantrum whenever we stopped petting him.

A little reminder. #art #illustration

Experimenting with new brushes and textures. #ocs

Saw a big northern red-legged frog while camping. They were incredibly chill. Just sat on a mossy rock, unmoving, staring at the river for three hours. I know this because i was sitting near by also staring at the river unmoving for three hours as i was painting… Shoulda painted that frog 😔🐸

Took the van out on her maiden voyage.

Thought I’d try out that “have a midlife crisis and buy an expensive car” thing. So uh We bought a van. 🚐

Trying out the fish theory. Dunno if it worked.

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

Been trying out this fading-into-total-obscurity thing, and not gunna lie, so far it’s been pretty awesome.

If you aren’t cheering on every little raindrop that is coming down, then we can’t be friends

I found out today that my number one most influential art book is up on the Internet Archive for free. This book basically taught me how to draw. archive.org/details/The_...

It’s tough to be a god. #ElDoradoReference #ocs #divineinspo

Got a one of those xteink e-readers a couple weeks ago. Love the thing! Small enough it comes alongside the wallet and keys every day. Find myself reading pages instead of doomscrolling when bored. Been using it daily for two weeks, still haven’t recharged it. An incredible camping accessory. 📖

Our original weekend plans got smoked out, so we last minute pivoted to backpacking along a river on the olympic peninsula. Not the kind of trip i would have done otherwise but ended up being a wonderfully relaxing time. Saw a river otter pass our camp and so many shooting stars at night.

Test page as I struggle with writing an outline and committing to a format 🙃 #OCs #DivineInspo

Look at this doofus.

Being into your own characters sucks. Basically zero fanworks or lore discussions. Totally dead fandom.

Meeting (again) for the first time. #OCs #DivineInspo

"Actually, this is not fine" Acrylic markers on reclaimed MDF board #art #acrylic #climateart #darkart #animalart

We saw a mysterious mustelid near Nada Lake on our Enchantments hike. The encounter stuck with me, so i wanted to try and sketch the sighting from memory.

Back from spending 4 amazing days backpacking the Enchantments! The most hiking I've done in a weekend. With the two ascents to the core: ~50 miles with 8000 feet of elevation. Glad we could camp, had plenty of time to explore and enjoy it compared to the thru hikers that usually seemed rushed.

Backpacked the Enchantments 🏔️ over the weekend. Longest and most challenging hike I've ever done. Wont forget it any time soon!

My light-purple adventuring hat got so sun bleached it almost looked white, so I re-dyed it. I love revitalizing over replacing~

We'll be open for new fursuits on August 7th! ✨ Our quotes are open as always, and we HIGHLY recommend getting a quote before applying. poeproductions.org/quote-form/ We also have a bittersweet announcement... 👇 #fursuit #fursuitmaker #furry #furryart #furryfandom

The way i complain about being busy every weekend, like i’m not the asshole doing that to myself 🤪

Page of scribbles as i get to know this new character. #OCs #DivineInspo

I know this might sound crazy but sometimes MORE followers and interactions is bad

Feeling anxious before meeting a god. #ocs #divineinspo

Names and character sheets for this duo. Aldwin is an engineer selected to be the city’s annual ambassador to their strange and distant artistic god, Meraki, who draws and paints their world into existence. I’ll be tagging everything related to these characters with #DivineInspo

Rejuvenated by the power of a weekend backpacking trip. I love where we live so much~

Here it comes.

Finally decided on colors for these two. #characterdesign #ocs #DivineInspo

Spent the weekend camping, helping build trails, and enjoying a DJ set in the middle of the woods 🌳🌲🪩🌲🌳

Plein air oil paintings from CFT.