"Ladyhorse" I sing to you daily Love you forever You crawl in my ear Like a fever I treasure An addiction created Feelings fortunate Also so welcome I lay here in a slumber Waiting to be enticed You bring it out of me Like ink to the page I am a story to be told Forever your slave #vss365 #ink

It’s been a busy couple of weeks changing up a local exhibition and preparing for another gallery in Vienna, Austria. Part of the consideration is what goes in the checked luggage and keeping it at the required weight. I’ve been doing speeches and traveling locally and loving spring’s gifts. #ECK

Scottish Highlands. Oil with Cold Wax. 1st of 3 panels in the series. 2022. Read the ALT text for details. #ForestFriday #ECK #Highlands #countryside

The one tulip said, “I’m not like the others.” #photography #flowers #garden #tulips #stunday #kindness #spring

On Stewart Island, a painting I did from sitting on the shoreline of Stewart Island in New Zealand watching godwits and blue heron looking birds. A smiling dark-skinned man rode up on a horse with two pale skinned people following on two more horses. It was a shared moment of excited wonder. #horses

Pink and yellow Tulips #spiritualjourney #art #flowers #tulips #springtime, #Floral, #Nature, #Photography, #BloomScrolling, #Garden #springflowers,#redflowers, #tulipseason

Sea thrift giving a pink makeover to the Shoreham Beach nature reserve ✨🌸✨ #pollinatorparadise #biodiversity #coastalflowers #wildflowers #bloomscrolling #southcoast #sussex #photography #sussex #england #flower @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Day 123 of #365PhotoADay - #ColorADay From our old house's driveway, what it looked like after a spring hailstorm knocked down a lot of the leaves onto the ground. I miss how lush and #Green everything would get near the house. #photography #WestCoastKin #EastCoastKin #LuminarEdit #LuminarMobile

It's #ForestFriday, Enjoy this celebration of nature and the outdoors. 🌳🌲 Wells State Park Sturbridge, Mass #ECK #statepark #Forest #Trees #Outdoors #Nature #EastCoastKin #NewEngland #Treesky #WestCoastKin #blueskyphotos

Sharing this painting and giving access to people who might not see art like this is exciting. Jen (middle), Makaila and Kane helped me get my art on Peinetti’s bakery walls. Jen’s giveback to local community is having rotating artists for 2 months. #BigPainting #WestCoastkin #teamwork #thankful

Sharing this painting and giving access to people who might not see art like this is exciting. Jen (middle), Makaila and Kane helped me get my art on Peinetti’s bakery walls. Jen’s giveback to local community is having rotating artists for 2 months. #BigPainting #WestCoastkin #teamwork #thankful

Circo Massimo is up on the walls at Peinetti’s. After two tries, it was team effort from the baristas Kane and Makaila and owner Jen. Also included made in house pepperoni roll and coconut latté. #grateful #teameffort #bigpaintings #ECK #WestCoastKin #international #RomanRuins

I’m holding a painting that I’ve just put on stretcher bars to be taken to a café bakery outside of Pittsburgh for the month of May. This acrylic painting on rolled linen is my biggest one yet. This summer Circo Massimo is ready for a new home. #ECK #WestCoastKin #big paintings #Rome

I drove across the border for my first few days after my birthday. When I think about travel, I think about judgments people make about one’s origins. The painting is from 2023. I used a palette knife and a textured rolling pin. #Substack amandamottornartist.substack.com/p/crossing-t...

Azaleas #Spring #flowers #bloomscrolling

When you have a gallery that you’ve partnered with, how do you decide which are your top 2 or 3 paintings to submit? The galleries are in Vienna. One has changing exhibitions with monthly themes. The other has a space requirement with any theme. How someone experiences art will vary. Thoughts?

A recent posting (free) on my Substack: Crossing the Peace Bridge. (Description of the available painting is waiting for your in the ALT text). #Canada #ECK #stateparks amandamottornartist.substack.com/p/crossing-t...

In the building of layers the second one became the first one. Disclaimer: I was not feeling awesome. Usually the painting improves because I start feeling better. This time the intuition nudged: you better stop now. And a reminder; wait ‘til the next layer on another day. #alignment #ECK

This was my next layer from the previous one I did yesterday as part of the 15 minute painting practice. Mainly responding to the color, forms and palette knives that my intuition was guiding me to. I did another practice today … to be revealed later. #ECK #WestCoastKin #ArtProcess

Two new paintings. Round scribbles → cover-up → layers. The only predictable part. Last night I was thinking of Sant’ Ambrogio in Milan, the original idea for the two paintings. Next: The Selves, Part I. Is there a Part 2? What do you see? #ECK #WestCoastKin #ContemporaryArt #ProcessPaintings

What if it only took 15 minutes? To do what you love. Every single day. Confidence builds in small moments. Especially when you have a community like Toastmasters. I wrote about it. The beginning is free. amandamottornartist.substack.com/p/what-if-it... #toastmasters #community #confidence

F.E.A.R. Lessons from “Guest Speaker” in the Modern Journeyer. Have a listen or a Read. #Toastmasters #ToastmastersInternational #LessonsLearned #friendships #Community amandamottornartist.substack.com/p/guest-spea...

In Rome in 2021 I created a drawing by covering the paper in black charcoal and using the eraser to create the sculpture before me. I remember how hard it was unsure of how I could create what was before me. After I got into the flow, it felt like painting. #ECK #BlueSkyArt #RomeItaly #charcoal

#storm #clouds #sky #landscape

Smoky air when rolling through prescribed burns at St Croix State Park in Minnesota #Photography #Photographers #BlueSkyArt #ECK #Nature #Minnesota

Silhouette at sunset in Minnesota #Photography #Photographers #BlueSkyArt #ECK #Nature #Minnesota

Roncy streetcar mural. On the corner of Wright and Roncy, This mural has been here for at least 20-25 years. #LanewayTO #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #UrbanGaze #Toronto #Roncy #Roncesvalles

Today’s dirt road view from my corner of Montana.

Buongiorno tutti! {The Lilacs have arrived!} #New #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin

This is the view I’m looking for at a small village train station.

A male and female blue-winged teal. The male is the more colorful one. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

Welcome to the ShowHeart Account, the daily dose of heart. Whenever you 🎨📷 a heart, please feel free to use the hashtag #ShowHeart to spread more 💕 Willkommen auf dem ShowHeart Account, die tägl Dosis Herz. Wann immer Ihr ein Herz 🎨📷, verwendet gerne den Hashtag #ShowHeart, um mehr 💕 zu verbreiten.

This is a solo exhibition I’m having at a coffee/bakery shop called Peinetti’s in Jeannette outside of Pittsburgh. Jen had a dream of having a bakery. Every 2 months different artists have showings. This wall of my art is called “Four Seasons.” I’m rotating each wall biweekly. #BlueSkyArtShow #new

I painted this in Rome in 2021. I painted and drew in July that year during the pandemic. This is panel three of three which started at dusk and continued until dark. I often would start in watercolors before moving to acrylic. #ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #Scape #PaintOnSite

#ForestFriday #ECK #EastCoastKin #Painting #CyrilCox Painting by Cyril Cox, Canadian artist www.crescenthill.com/artists/cox/

I believe I finished painting this last night. It has countless layers. I work on rolled linen and nail it to the dining room wall. Who needs a studio?! (Except when you need a dining room). Next up: put it on stretcher bars. #ColorADay #EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling #flowers #WestCoastKin

I painted this the other day as part of my practice. Someone split a log for my seat holding me and all my art supplies and lunch. This is in southwestern PA. #MountainMonday #EastCoastKin

I’m a day late on #ForestFriday maybe somewhere in the world it’s still Friday. I painted this in the middle of a bike ride on a butt break. I was probably eating lunch, too. It’s on a path from countryside Pittsburgh to Butler. About an hour’s driving distance from the city. #nature

It’s possible I posted this one before. It was inspired by a photography shoot I participated in at Sand Wash Basin in Northwestern, Colorado. #horses #horsepaintings #wildhorses

It’s a painting in process. I’m painting a little each day figuring out where it takes me. #BloomScrolling #EastCoastKin #WestCoastKin

This painting called Ljubljana was one I created from a photo that looked black-and-white with sepia tones because of the way the sun hit. I painted with acrylic and I used a glass medium. #EastCoastKin #WestCoastKin #water #bridges

I painted this in a moment of frustration to calm. This is the calm layer. Am I too early for #ForestFriday ? If yes? how about #EastCoastKin or #WestCoastKin ?! This is small. 180 x 240 mm.

This is a painting from the Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University. It was an image that stayed with me. A mother is carrying her child around her shoulder with a blanket over top. I was there last week to deliver a speech for the State Toastmasters Club. #pennstate #toastmasters

Last week I witnessed a car lose control. Everything slowed down. Then it sped up. It stayed in my body longer than the moment. I wrote about it, what stirred & stayed & about releasing. Have a listen; read it. #Writing #PersonalEssay #CreativeLife amandamottornartist.substack.com/p/may-all-be...

This is one of yesterday‘s 15 minute painting practice. It’s a #watercolor. I sat on a bench in the woods and painted what I imagined. Earlier I’ve driven past a church called Saint Demetrius with a stout turquoise dome.

This may or may not be finished. It’s the unrolled linen painting I have nailed to the wall. I had covered up a lot of the previous orange flowers using remaining paint. When you zoom in on the picture, you can see the texture where they used to be. #flowers #FlowerPaintings #FlowerPower

I’m having an extended break from my computer. Bluesky doesn’t count. A mourning dove visited me on my deck’s railing. Birds of a different feather are chatting away. The wind is mostly still and the sun warms my skin. A yellow forsythia bush is all blossoms below where I sit. Spring’s Delight.

#ForestFriday is something I look forward to. Not because it’s a TGIF thing. Even if I’m not in the woods, I get to sense it through everyone’s pictures. Thank you for providing my late lunch eye candy as I sit outside on my deck hearing chirping birds with a slight chill in the breeze. #grateful

“Into the Glade” (2021) Oil with cold Wax. Texture carries this one especially in the yellow path and surrounding brush. Shown in my first international exhibition in Paris, down Carrousel du Louvre in 2022 to arrive in the conference space. #art #painting #creativeprocess #BlueskyArt

A quick 15 watercolor painting I did to keep up the #dailypractice #ForestFriday #EastcoastKin