Dancing Vulture

@dancingvulture.bsky.social

I like and do a lot of things! Here you'll find: fiber art - birds - bugs - nature - mountains - rivers - lifting - kitties

There's nothing I want more right now than to go home and work on my heron nest!!! (This was some progress from last night) Gonna have to add some trees to both pieces when this nest is done. I WANNA WORK ON THEMMMMMM I DON'T WANNA WORK AT WORK

Two needle-felted Great Blue Herons in a mixed embroidery, yarn, and felted nest in progress. They're sewn into an embroidery hoop.A needle-felted Great Horned Owl with 2 owlets in a mixed yarn, embroidery, and felted nest.

I have an MRI for my shoulder finally tomorrow and I'm crazy nervous. I don't remember my first one (it was right after my car accident and I was pumped full of drugs lol). Not only that but my insurance tried to deny my need for one. Dr's office said not to worry, they'll fight them on it. 'Murica

Just applied for a really cool job, I hope I hear back!! There's nothing more stressful than writing applications in the Internet/AI age, I swear I drive myself crazy trying to figure out how to get myself in front of an actual person.

Started doodling and brainstorming my next piece, then got inspired to come back to my chickadees. Need to do some sanding so I can throw down some color on that background, but I'm pretty excited to get them all together! Bad pic is bad lolll

Needle-felted Mountain, Boreal, Black-capped, Carolina, and Chestnut-backed Chickadees perched on felted branches on a circular wooden background. Not finished yet!

I've been using my 20(!!!!!) year old Copic markers again. Bobo is obsessed. Maybe she wants to draw some manga or something. Seriously though, the fact that many of these still have ink in them is mind-blowing to me.

A black cat (Bobo) inspecting my Copic markersBobo looking very judgy over my copics. I'm not sure what this face means.Bobo sitting over my copics. She looks ready to start a project.

Oh hi I am learning all about digital art, please pray for me Definitely have to fix colors, and the halos around all the line art 😅😅 and give it an actual background and and and... This is so hard lmfao but I'm hopeful I'll get the design done in time to get a small batch of stickers made for IVAD!

A very wonky attempt at digitally coloring traditional line art for a sticker. A turkey vulture bust with glasses, holding a felting needle, and surrounded by feathers and wool.

Did my second training hike alone this time- beat my last time up by 10 minutes despite the heat! Treated myself to breakfast and now waiting for my PT appointment for my arm. Hope I'll be mountain ready for once this winter!!

The view from summit. Sun wasn't out in full force yet but the gap is beautiful

Anybody have any half decent, free image editor recommendations? I'm designing a sticker and will want to tweak it and get it to the proper file size and type for the printer. Grandma is a traditional artist lol the last time I did anything similar to this was in Gimp 😅

Today Mr. Wolverine and I started (what we hope to be) our weekly ADK training regiment- hiking Mt. Tammany! Here's hoping to get in mountain shape this summer, instead of just jumping in cold turkey like I do every winter lololol

And with the completion of Ms. Woodie, they're done!! Just have to do some touch-ups and sign them. Holy smokes did they take way longer than I expected (smaller wings will go faster, I said 🙃) but I'm so happy with the results! 2026 has been the year of the Wood Duck for me ♥️ #birdart #sciart

A needle-felted female Wood Duck in flightA needle-felted female Wood Duck in flightA pair of needle-felted Wood Ducks in flightA pair of needle-felted Wood Ducks in flight

Made a little friend on river patrol today ♥️ Little Northern Water Snake! Saw em swimming with their little head sticking out of the water. Swam right up to me, cozied up against my cockpit and hung out for a little bit before swimming off to the shore. I'm obsessed 😭♥️

A northern water snake sitting on a blue kayak