On the easel. #WIP #Gouache #Watercolor

BREAKING NEWS: Crocodile spotted in Limehouse Basin. Londonist Exclusive!!

#PalacesAndGardens #WeatherAndMood theme: a quiet corner at the Chateua de Villandry, on my 30th anniversary.

The #BirdoftheDay theme today is #LunchTime. I'm always happy to share this photo of Green Heron who caught an enormous fish and spent fully 5 minutes working it down his gullet. He probably didn't need to eat for a week after! 🪶

I am ridiculously gutted over the news that Tika the Iggy has died. I loved her so much 😭 Safe travels over the rainbow bridge, queen.

For #ColorADay #RedWed, I have a copy of a #RuthAsawa poppy lithograph I did when her show was on here at the @deyoungmuseum.bsky.social. What a force of nature she was. #Watercolor #ArtYear

@robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #CloseUps. Here's a very handsome male and female California Quails, both beautiful each in their own way. #Birds #Birding 🪶

Do English people pronounce the biblical name "Job" with a short O as in "I just got a job?" I heard a podcast today in which two English art history scholars pronounced it that way and it was so grating. The Hebrew is ee'-yov (אִיּוֹב) so the modern version is abritrary anyway. It bugged me tho

It's #AnimalArtTuesday and I've got something hot off the easel. This is Denny; he's a Red-eared Slider #turtle who was rescued from the middle of the road in Los Angeles by one of my mom's caregivers. I made this as a gift for her. It was very fun to paint #Reptile #Gouache #Watercolor #ArtYear

#BirdofTheDay theme is #HolidayRobin. This is a European Robin shot at #BodnantGardens in North Wales, sitting in a cotoneaster hedge. These little guys are just irresistible! 🪶

Dick Cheney has died. He is preceded into death by his parents, the guy he shot in the face, and a million Iraqis.

George Eliot's "Romola" spoiler alert: I'm on Chapter 40, and Savonarola really does Romola dirty. Like, let her have her independence and find her own damn purpose. Tsk.

My husband makes a calendar every year from my artwork. This Nov will be Cindy's birthday, so he chose a #painting of her. The original is only 6"x6" but it was blown up to enormous proportions. When I flipped over the page, I jumped backwards and had to calm myself 😅 #Watercolor #Gouache #ArtYear

For #MinimalMonday, here is Cindy, struck down by a sunbeam. She loves this time of year when the sun can angle in through the window and give her an opportunity to bake herself on the carpeting. #PenAndInk #Watercolor #MonochromaticArt #Cat

Per @robcrank68.bsky.social today's #BirdOfTheDay is #Pigeons I love pigeons and have a lot of photos of them. I finally settled on this one of a racing pigeon who came and hung out with us for a few days last year. I named her Mabel. 🪶

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Stress drawing done while participating in an absolutely farcical call with my mom and, as it turns out unexpectedly, many other members of my family. This is adapted from a Corinthian painted ceramic from 640 A.D. #Watercolor #BirdArt #ArtYear

We think these memes are Going Places. 🧳 📖 The Torment of the Proud - Valley of Burning Sulphur (detail) from Visions of the Knight Tondal, 1475, Simon Marmion. Getty Museum, Ms. 30 (87.MN.141), fol. 15v

It's #Caturday! Cindy's favorite time of the year is when the sun is finally angled enough to pour through the sliding glass doors.

What a beautiful thing

How to scare people around the world: UK: Boo! FI: pöö! FR: hou! DE: buh! ES: uhh! JP: kekeke! CZ: baf! RU: oo-oo! MX: ¡Buu! NL: boe! IT: bù!

I wish they added him as a villager, I feel like they forgot him a bit those past years but Kass will always be my favorite character from recent Zelda legends 💙💚

Get ready to see this poppy a lot! In my new art class, I'm going to be drawing and #painting it in all different media, on all different surfaces. This is #Acrylic #Gouache (basically, acrylic paint that dries with a matte finish). #ArtYear

This morning on Corte Madera Creek #Marin #California, I spied this harbor seal enjoying some fresh salmon! #MarineMammals

sometimes you have an image in your head and you just have to get it out

Vase of Gladiolas https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-caillebotte/vase-of-gladiolas

One of the exercises in art class yesterday was to work in grayscale, and the teacher gave us a photograph of Herman Munster to work from, in honor of the season. #Acrylics #Painting #ArtYear #31DaysofHalloween #Spooktober

A #PleinAir sketchbook drawing of a plum tree with twisted trunk at the @gettymuseum.bsky.social Villa Gardens in Malibu. #Watercolor #PenAndInk #ArtYear

A rare event! I have a rule that I don't go for Queen Bee: I immediately navigate away the minute I hit Genius, because my time's not worth much, but it's worth something. I am also strict in that I don't use any hints. But today I stuck around after Genius & managed to pull off a QB! 🐝 👑

I made these brown butter Snickerdoodles from @smittenkitchen.bsky.social and they came out great! Delicious and you can taste the browned butter. #Baking

Self-portrait. Chicago IL. October 28, 2011. #chicago #anishkapoor #selfportrait #cloudgate #thebean #bluesky #skyline #alongthisroad

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I'm not very #cactus or #succulent knowledgeable; I think this is something in the Stenocereus genus. It was about 20 feet tall, blooming to beat the band yesterday in the San Fernando Valley #LosAngeles on a foggy morning. Anyway, I LOVE IT. #ColorADay #PinkMon

Great Egret coming in reflectively for a landing this morning at Corte Madera Creek, #Marin #California 🪶 #Birds #Birding #Photography #BlueSkyMonday

My only complaint about this hotel is the light fixtures aren’t big enough

A fish I apparently freaked out at Boboli Gardens, Florence, Italy for #FishyFriday

Possibly my favorite Hopper.

Poor George. If only there were a farm in Ambridge suddenly and unexpectedly in dire need of labor 🤔 #TheArchers #MeadowFarm

My vote was counted! I was getting a bit worried, as I sent it in some time ago.

Wise words from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission which has somehow managed to maintain its integrity *and* its sense of humor during these miserable times.

For #MountainMonday, Mt Banner, in the #SierraNevada, reflected in 1000 Island Lake. #Backpacking #California #Photography

For #BlueskyMonday, here's a Himalayan Blue Poppy (Meconopsis betonicifolia), possibly my favorite flower. This was taken at Holehird gardens in Windermere #Cumbria, an all-volunteer garden of the Lakeland Horticultural Society. #Botany

Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy) for #ColorADay #PinkMon #Botany

Wonderful line work

This may be the best comment thread in the history of #BlueSky -

This is my friend Jane’s daughter’s dog, Toby. #Gouache #Watercolor #Dogs #DogsofBluesky #ArtYear

There's a doctor's office near our condo with a gorgeous butterfly garden out front, and this morning there were a half-dozen Monarch Butterflies out there, the most I've seen at one time in years around here. So beautiful it makes my heart ache in a good way. #Butterfly #Insect #Marin #California

I got to spend a little time this morning with this lovely Pileated Woodpecker (red "mustache" indicates male). They have got to be one of my favorite dinosaurs -- oops I mean birds -- in the entire world. #Birds #Birding 🪶 #Marin #California