Sketchbook portrait. Mixed media. #art #fineart #sketchbook #mixedmedia #bskyart #blueskyartist #artistsonbluesky #womensart #womensartbluesky

I remember that as I was writing a poem on snow when I was 8, I said aloud, I wish I could have the ability to write down the feelings I have now when I am little, because when I grow up, I will know how to write, but I will have forgotten what being little feels like. Sylvia Plath My yard, now.

Thursdays wind ruffled crow. ✨

One Fat Fig. Oil on canvas. #art #fineart #oilpainting #stilllife #fig #worksoncanvas #bskyart #blueskyartist #artistsonbluesky #womensart #womensartbluesky

Sketchbook study of an eye. Mixed media. #art #fineart #sketchbook #mixedmedia #bskyart #blueskyartist #artistsonbluesky #womensart #womensartbluesky

These bitter cold days when the snow lies deep on the ground, and I need travel but little way from the town to get to a Nova Zembla solitude. Thoreau, journal entry. 10 January 1856

Loose sketch of a dead songbird (from a photo l'd taken earlier) drawn in a doctor's waiting room on the back of some paperwork they gave me. Ink and wash. #art #fineart #sketch #inkandwash #songbird #deadbird #bskyart #blueskyartist #artistsonbluesky #womensart #womensartbluesky

Running headlong into the storm. Kodachrome slide, March 1963. #winter #snowstorm #newengland #sleddogs #mushing #kodachrome

“It is not our job to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves Like the trees, and be born again, Drawing up from the great roots.” Robert Bly. With gratitude to Whiskey River. Vincent van Gogh, Trunk of an Old Yew Tree (1888), oil on canvas. Collection of Helly Nahmad Gallery, London, UK.

the madman turns everything into shit.

Bee at peace with the world. My personal antidote to doomscrolling. #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Sunflowers #Dailyflower

Sketchbook study of an eye. Grayscale. Mixed media. #art #fineart #sketchbook #mixedmedia #bskyart #blueskyartist #artistsonbluesky #womensart #womensartbluesky

Sometimes I make art and sometimes I look at other people’s art. #artist #artstudio #artgallery #oilpainting #landscape

Landscape with five cows | Piet Mondrian

Macro of butterfly wing- this one in a museum collection by Margaret Fountaine(1862-1940). The Fountaine-Neimy collection was left to Norwich Castle Museum when Margaret died.

I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove. Jack Kerouac Boy. Charcoal on paper. 10 x 8 inches. #fineart #portrait #charcoal #worksonpaper #jackkerouac #womensart #bskyart

These sudden ends of time must give us pause. We fray into the future, rarely wrought Save in the tapestries of afterthought. More time, more time. Barrages of applause Come muffled from a buried radio. The New-year bells are wrangling with the snow. Richard Wilbur, Year’s End (excerpt). 1948

Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt; sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on Earth

Another bit of bright color on a (slightly less dreary) winter day. Still more apples from that particular point in time when I was painting a LOT of apples. Three Apples II. Oil on canvas. #stillife #oilpainting #fruit #apples #greenapples #womensart #bskyart

shuddering winds, a grim sky and cruelly cold, but my heart is snug. Me, this evening. Drone photo taken over the woods behind our house. #haiku #dailyhaiku #micropoetry #winter

A bit of bright color on a dreary winter day. I painted this during an all-consuming apple phase I was going through at the time. Three Apples I. Oil on canvas. #stilllife #oilpainting #fruit #apples #greenapples #womensart #bskyart

melancholy heart, not quite healed from losing you, sad, but not as sad. Me, recently. #haiku #dailyhaiku #micropoetry #death #loss #pain #cairn #grave #dog #dogs

It’s an absolutely beautiful foggy Fall morning. #fall #nature #fog #leaves #trees

Hari Ren

Overhelmed by everything everywhere. And not in a good way.

wee little seamstress length of fabric, colored thread tiny stitches sewn. #haiku #dailyhaiku #micropoetry Spools of thread on an old fabric tag. Mixed media. #mixedmedia #foundmaterialsart #worksonpaper #womensart #bskyart

Understand me. I'm not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul. Charles Bukowski Abbott Handerson Thayer, Seated Angel (detail). Oil on wood, begun 1899, completed 1921. Photo taken Hartford, Connecticut, May 2018.

Death. Little dogs. Dark chocolate.

- after the rain, before the sun -

My painting BLACK EYED SUSAN

People take pictures of the summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to prove that it really existed. Ray Davies #porch #porchswing #summer #dancing #thekinks

I want to find myself lost here (again). Dizzy with looking up, and dancing, always dancing, among the trees. Taken by me, in a forest somewhere in New England.

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! Charlotte Brönte Spool of thread on an old fabric tag. Mixed media. #mixedmedia #foundmaterialsart #worksonpaper #womensart #bskyart

Will it ever be winter and cold again? My god, I hate summer. Sketch of pears in the late afternoon sun. A quick and scribbly moleskine study of three pears in soft pastel + graphite. #stilllife #study #fruit #pears #pastel #graphite #mixedmedia #moleskine #sketchbook #sketch #womensart #bskyart

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. Henry David Thoreau Sketchbook study of an eye. Mixed media (watercolor, graphite, ink). #painting #mixedmedia #sketchbook #womensart #bskyart

I used to feel like the t-rex, but now I’m just the frightened deer. Brimfield, Massachusetts. #bwphotography #brimfieldantiques #trex

tattered soul and a broken heart, you ripped apart my love and my self. #haiku #dailyhaiku #micropoetry #betrayal

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. Emily Dickinson Moleskine painting of Bram (detail). Mixed media. #dog #chihuahua #portrait #mixedmedia #moleskine #sketchbook #womensart #oskyart

the gentle light, in a cruel world.

you may think I’m strong, but my appearance deceives. in truth I’m fragile. Me, today. Photo of a dandelion, seed head ready to take flight on a summer afternoon, taken in my back yard somewhere in Massachusetts. #haiku #dailyhaiku #micropoetry #fragile #dandelion #seedhead #blowball #summer

If you voted for anyone in this regime, including any of spineless toadstool-sucking orange-lipped lawmakers, then the blood is on your hands, too. And trust me, you will never again be able to wash them clean.

I fucking hate this guy with the intensity of a thousand burning suns.

I am a victim of introspection. Sylvia Plath Self portrait in an old Jane Eyre Cliff's Notes. #portrait #selfportrait #graphite #pencil #artbook #foundmaterialsart #worksonpaper #womensart #bskyart

I’d be perfectly happy never bathing properly ever again if I could fill my bathtub with colorful koi and lily pads.

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars. Carly Simon Sketchbook portrait. Mixed media. #portrait #mixedmedia #sketchbook #womensart #bskyart

Dandelion punk. ✨

The pollen is so heavy that when I stepped outside my house I swore I was in a Wes Anderson film.

Rescued dog. Rescued human. Quincy Bell (detail). Mixed media in a moleskine. #dog #blacklab #labmix #portrait #mixedmedia #moleskine #sketchbook #womensart #bskyart

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave. Emily Brontë #georgeharrison #thebeatles #emilybronte