A little evolution… Happy Wednesday Bluesky friends! I hope you are finding magic everywhere! ✨💛💛💛 #blueskyartist #art #nature #community #painting #oilpainting

‘The Healing Place’ in progress 2025 oil on canvas 2025 ✨✨✨💛 #process #oilpainting #blueskyartist #art #lucidexpressionism #dreamscape #trees

Hello Bluesky! Happiest Friday to everyone💛 I haven’t had much time to create since the beginning of the school year, but I did at a bit more to this one and I started a new one last weekend, so hopefully I can add to it this weekend. 💛💛💛 #trees #oilpainting #healing #art #blueskyartists #peace

‘The Language of Trees’ #oiloncanvas in progress…trees have always felt like friends to me. I’m wondering if that’s why I always paint them? When I was small I used to walk all over our property with my stuffed rabbit “Bunny” and we would visit all the trees together✨ #process #memories #tree #art

Still in progress with this one, but making headway! Tomorrow the school year begins for me and many other teachers. Sending you all 💛 and 💪! Let’s keep creating:) #blueskyartist #create #community #love #support #oilpainting #trees #nature #arttherapy

‘Unlearning the Arrangement’ oil on canvas. I still have some work to do on this one but made good progress yesterday. I’m wondering if you can decipher the symbolism, or what it makes you think of:). #blueskyart #art #community #growth #flowers #waves #transformation

A little bit of another side besides painting:) it doesn’t sound good, but these are the best times with my sister Dawn❤️

My one and only attempt at a self-portrait 2020. I admire all the artists who paint people! Maybe one day I will be brave 💪! I haven’t kept up on appreciating all of you who have shared my art. I want you to know I appreciate all the kind comments and reposts. 💛 #blueskyart #art #community #create

Playing with acrylics and Posca markers. I’ve realized a thing about my art process and I’m wondering if you feel this way too? I love lines and working fast and not thinking too much about what I’m doing and I think this keeps me authentic but maybe this keeps me from leveling up? #blueskyart

‘Where the Light Rests’ 36”x36” #oiloncanvas I was never afraid of the dark walking on our property. The darkness felt safe, quiet and magical. ✨ This could also be daytime 🤔 I softened the clouds this morning and I think it is finished now. 💛 #forestart #art #believe #create #magic #peace #tree

Sometimes as I’m painting, the name of the piece comes to me. I never know until it starts to show itself. This is what I thought as I worked on this one today. ‘Don’t give up. I am here.” I know it is not a tree title, but trees are strong with deep roots, and so must we be. #blueskyart #womensart

‘Constellation of Souls’ oil on canvas 2025…it’s been a great day of finishing little things on paintings. Thank you for all the 💛. I appreciate your shares and comments! Bluesky has so many good people with good hearts! I’m thankful to be a part of the community. #blueskyart #oilpainting #womensart

‘Underwater Garden’ oil on canvas. This is one of my personal favorites…It’s been in my bedroom since I started it last summer and I’ve spent most nights studying it as I fall asleep. I’ve wanted to fix a couple spots and feel that I can let it be now💛 #lucidexpressionism #art #flowers #womensart

‘Mysterious Plants’ 2024 #oiloncanvas #stunday #blueskyartists #womensart #plants #community #practice #monstera #art

‘Blustery Afternoon Walk’ oil on canvas 06/2025 #blueskyartist #art #create #nature #practice #original #trees #magical #expressionism

Happy Saturday #blueskyartists I did a little more work on this one this week. I’m experimenting with value and as usual struggling a bit with #trees. I hope you have all had a good week and are enjoying a restful weekend! #art #practice #colorist #expressionism #oilpainting #community

‘Where the Light Rests’ oil on canvas 2025 marsireneeart #blueskyartist #art #trees #light #oilpainting #light #nature #create

Alcohol inks and oils… no name:) 2021 I still feel a lot that art is like science… what do you think? ✨

Here are some close ups … I try to get the painting to feel visually pleasing up close and from a distance. Still trying to figure out how to do that most times!

Good morning #bluesky ! ‘Prism Forest’ 2025 after some more hours of work. I just felt like it wasn’t finished before and the colors were too blocked out. I will probably go back in and add more light after this layer dries. ✨ #stunday #art #create #light #forest #trees #practice #findyourstyle

‘Moon Rests in Branches’ 2018 acrylic on canvas and ‘Moon on Fire 2025’ oil on canvas. Can you see the growth? Curious about your thoughts. Maybe I just feel the growth:) I don’t think I felt like an artist in 2018 and now I do; maybe it is just my confidence that has changed. #art #growth #practice

Good morning Bluesky☀️:) This is one of my earliest paintings from 2018. ‘Moon Rests in Branches’ I was still using acrylics exclusively because oils were a mystery to me. I realized that it is similar to my recent oil painting…It’s pretty exciting to see the progress I’ve made!🤸✨ #art #trees #create

‘Moon on Fire while Trees Dance’ 2025 Oil on Canvas #art #create #trees #expressionism #nature #womensart #blueskyartist

‘Summer Tree’ 2024 mixed media (acrylic on paper, ink, and pastels) Sending ☀️to all of you on this beautiful Saturday morning 💛

‘Prism Forest’ 2025 #oiloncanvas outside in full sun. I always want to show accurate photos of my work. It’s still very wet and I had to take a quick shot because I was worried I used too much oil. #art #light #oilpainting

‘Prism Forest’ oil and linseed on canvas. I got in the zone this morning and feel very pleased with my creation! I hope your Saturday is fabulous Bluesky friends! #art #create #oilpainting #womensart #believe #trees #forest #prism

‘Joie de Vivre’ 2023 #acryliconcanvas Happy Friday Bluesky #community! Sometimes I like to do quick acrylic weirdness in between bigger paintings. It helps me feel freedom with whatever emerges. This one I gave to my school secretary Mary because it completely embodied her energy and spunk:)❤️🤸 #art

‘Butterfly Garden’ 2022 #oiloncanvas Sending you ☀️ on this cloudy day! #art #butterfly #paint #light #create #share #community

‘The Path We Take’ 2025 #oiloncanvas Finished… I’m pretty sure:) thank you all for your support and kind words. I’ve never felt so supported on any other platform. It inspires me !🤸💛✨🌱 I hope the rest of your weekend is fabulous! #landscape #art #blueskyartist #create #believe #community

‘The Myrtlewood Tree’ 2023 #oiloncanvas . We used to play for hours in the branches of an old myrtle wood tree down by the creek house. It had so many branches that you could walk around inside it like a big space ship! We called it the Space Tree. #art #expressionism #tree #abstractlandscape

Happy Friday Bluesky! I hope your day is wonderful💛✨ ‘Three Trees’ 2021 oil on canvas this was one of my earlier oil experiments:) #art #oilpainting #trees #nature #landscape #light

Happy Saturday Bluesky! This one is unnamed but I wanted a long painting to put above my tv…I started with a lot of linseed oil on the canvas and just moved color around and then little by little removed the excess. #art #create #play #light #oiloncanvas #practice #landscape

BEING AN ARTIST IN AN UNEQUAL WORLD #blogpost #artwriting #art ko-fi.com/post/Being-a...

Thank you for reposting Breezie! 🌿✨ @breeze420.bsky.social

‘Stained Glass Trees’ 2021 Oil on Canvas sending 💛 and ☀️✨🍃🌿 to everyone this morning! #art #create #trees #oilpainting #blueskyart

‘Together in Sunlight’ 2025 … a slightly different approach to sunflowers yesterday and today🌿:) #acrylicpainting #sunflowers #spirit #together #art #create

Some changes to this one today, so now it is called ‘Two Afternoons Playing with Flowers and Linseed Oil’ :) I also want to say how grateful I am to all of you who support me in creating. I feel part of an artist community of both creators and cheerleaders here and my heart is ✨💛 #art #flowers #blue

From 3 years old until I went to college at 18 we lived in a barn house in Oregon. My dad was a hippie and did his best to keep us away from television, so we spent hours outdoors exploring and playing in nature✨🍃 I try to capture those feelings in color in my paintings. This was our house:) #art

‘Afternoon Playing with Flowers, Drying Paint and Linseed Oil’ 2025 I almost added ‘with scraping tools’ but that would have been a very long title. #art #flowers #practice #play #create

I didn’t have a name for this one…it has been many different paintings underneath. This was the last version 2023. The feeling I have had with it is Transformation, Belief, Determination. Because we have to ‘Keep Going’ (thank you @mjwyatt.bsky.social for those words 💛 #art #womensart #believe

More progress ‘The Path We Take’ I’ve had a good bit of time to paint today… it feels ✨ 🌿🤸 #blueskygallery #art #create #peace #light

‘Flowers Near the Spring’ 2025 mixed media #art #bluemonday #flowers #landscape #arttherapy #acrylic #oilpastels

I wanted to thank you all for the positive thoughts with my son’s surgery. He is doing well and we are very hopeful that it will help. This painting was a recent experiment for my sister’s meditation room. Sending you all 💛 and healing thoughts. #art #mediation #blueskyart #peace #dream #be

‘Solstice’ 2022 oil on canvas My youngest son is having a surgery today for a rare condition called Eagle Syndrome. Please send sunshine 🙏 ✨🌿 #heal #sun #energy #positive #love #community #blueskyart #unity

‘September Afternoon’ 2024 oil on canvas I grew up on a farm and in the fall, cows used to like to nest under a group of apple trees in the upper field. We would always be running around barefoot…It was magical✨🤸 #art #expressionism #oiloncanvas #blueskyart #trees #nature #september #fall

‘The Journey’ 2021 oil on canvas. I had just bought a Quiller color wheel and wanted to try all the colors! #blueskyart #art #practice #landscape #galleryart #nature #trees #expressionism #oilpainting

Happy Monday Everyone! I haven’t had time for new work this week, but this is the last mural I created at my last school. I couldn’t get a good full photo of it because it is in a hallway #mural #expressionism #art #flowers #blueskygallery #diversity #love #paint #ocean

‘Longing for Home’ 2024 oil on canvas #art #trees #womensart #blueskyart #oilpainting #landscape #nature

This was my first painting when I was teaching music and library and I was given the biggest canvas ever:) We must create!! ✨ 🤸 #art #arttherapy #paint #blueskyart #explore #create #grow #heal #shine #light