Yup. Just lost it at “I’m lucky to have found my people.” That’s the ticket.

The Difference an Oil Pastel Makes One of my favourite ways to add light back into a mixed media painting is a light-coloured oil pastel.

#VoteGreen #SNP1ScotGreens2

Don't print lies in the newspaper. That doesn't just mean in the news section. The opinion section, which benefits from less urgency, demands *more* stringent honesty in both making sure the authors are saying what they actually mean and telling the truth about factual assertions.

One thing I have learned: you have to attack far-right/anti-democratic voices in the places and on the issues where they appear to be the strongest. You have to remove their assumption that they have *any* easy wins. The more pointless the battle feels, the more important it is to fight it.

The acts of defiance can be big or small. Painting over a bigoted piece of graffiti. Running a youth club for refugees in an area that mostly loathes them. Wearing a rainbow flag in an anti-queer neighbourhood. These acts all accumulate towards something better, I have seen that in action.

A few seconds of rigger brush. #painting #pleinair #markmaking

On multiculturalism, Cook argues: “Those countries who will adapt best to the internationalism of the modern age will be those who have already built diverse multicultural societies” And I particularly like this passage on 'British' history:

This is probably either a really good or really bad time to point out that this classic Roy Lichtenstein Pop art painting from 1962, showing a fighter pilot shooting down a military jet, is in the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art www.lichtensteincatalogue.org/catalogue/en...

Jannos Dannavitz, This War Makes Me Sick, 1967 whitney.org/collection/w...

I made this 8x10 plein air oil 22 years ago. It's still one of my favorites. Rio Ruidoso, painted behind the house of my mentor, Ann Templeton. #anntempleton

& plenty of the times they really didn't think about what they said/did in a sinister way "its just how they are" but instead of them reflecting, changing, being informed - perhaps.... apologising, it's down to us to to "not make a big deal of it"

A monoprint impression of the starlings as they come in to roost, based on my video from a couple of weeks ago. Drawing their powerful sweeping swirls as I watched the video.

Thank you everyone who shared this yesterday. No one’s bought anything lately, but I will be going to the post office today probably (if it’s not too wet) so there’s still time! To get in there! For that! (Yes.)

We are the ones who trained AI. Our data was fed to it. Our public dollars also funded the R&D. Universal basic income NOW, not only to create a floor that the displaced can't fall below, but also to universally share what we all made possible. UBI is a dividend. It's just. It's rightful. It's ours.

Protecting the environment and pursuing green policies is so baked into how the public views the Greens that they don't need to make a huge effort to convince people that they are strongest in this field. That gives them the freedom to pursue other issues

This plein-air drawing is titled "Spot the Red Boat" because there was a bright red boat in my view, but I didn't have a red pencil or any red paint with me. #pleinair #drawing

That noise you hear is people across England suddenly realising that blocking Reform by voting Green (historically a 'wasted' vote) *is* a realistic prospect. Go for it, England.

Alexander claiming Labour is left of centre Theres nothing left wing about demonising the disabled, siding with the private utility companies, scapegoating refugees, expanding private sector provision of NHS services, refusing to redistribute wealth, arming Israels genocide etc

I've shared glimpses of this piece along the months it took to complete: here at last is the finale. open.substack.com/pub/majnouna...

Frankly it is *astonishing* in how many areas Scotland outperforms England when you look at how Holyrood is hamstrung by Westminster's retention of key powers. Scotland needs those powers, and to regain them it needs to regain its independence. #Scotland #Holyrood26 indyposterboy.scot/powers-less/

Doesn't this spinner with my cards look fabulous? As you can see, all my new cards, and an assortment of others, are available in the Portsoy Gift. Visit in person or get them posted to you by contacting the shop. They're not on my website yet, and some won't be. #portsoy #ShopIndependent #NoAI

Perfection. This alone should make you want to vote Green. Smart, fast, funny, honest and better. Just better. (open the link)

That scented ink thing isn't new 👇

So the BBC promised Davidson and StudioCanal (who made I Swear) that any swearing tics would be edited out from broadcast, and instead they left them in despite a two hour delay, and even put a fucking microphone right in front of him to ensure they picked it up - he was sat at the back of room.

Fresh batch of pots online!! www.roseschmits.com worldwide shipping

Isn’t it amazing the way life can seem too short, and intrinsically magical, yet at the same time feel like a long, uphill road, potholed with fuckwits?

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755 –1842) was a French portrait painter in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Completely self-taught, she faced many obstacles due to her gender, and was finally admitted to the French Academy as one of only four women members. #CelebratingWomen

BBC really stretching with its anti-Nicola Sturgeon-ism today.

Drawing at Tarlair Outdoor Pool "If you go down to Tarlair today you're in for a big surprise..."

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Spot the plein-air painter. #pleinair #painting

This is SUCH an important piece and it articulates something that's been really irritating me – also why I have nothing good to say about "awareness-raising" art or exhibitions. ibraaz.org/ibraaz-publi...

my thoughts on gen-ai are pretty simple and all contained in this drawing. Things that rob us of experience and substitute answers for learning are anti-human...

I hate it. Video is not the same as written media. It doesn't do the same thing and it does serve the same purpose. Also it is so damn slow, I read so much faster than people talk, I don't have enough minutes to waste on all the ado you do after saying without further ado

Found this little zip case on the beach. Don't know what it's "officially" meant for, but it's the perfect size for oil pastels. #art #pleinair

New in my webshop: my book on my drawings and paintings from my first year in Portsoy. boddy-evans.com/product/port... #art #Portsoy

Monday Motivator: The Measure of a Life Not Wasted The measure of unwasted time spent making art is ...

"If Scotland can run its health system, education, and justice, why not foreign policy and economy too? Self-determination isn’t radical. It’s normal." #Scotland #Holyrood26

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

How does one get through to art group organiser that using AI slop imagery on social media promoting plein-air meetups is contradictory to everything about plein-air painting? Just take your own photo of a brush and use that ffs. #NoAI

Monday Motivator: The Measure of a Life Not Wasted The measure of unwasted time spent making art is ...

Like. There is a way forward without giving into this shit and then seeing everything you rely on collapse when the bubble bursts. procreate.com/ai

Long live The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows – uncommonly lovely invented words for what we feel but cannot name, such as maru mori (“the heartbreaking simplicity of ordinary things”) and apolytus (“the moment you realize you are changing as a person") www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/12/d...

Activists from the anti-billionaire campaign group "Everyone Hates Elon" went to the Louvre museum in Paris where they hung a framed photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, taken by Reuters photographer Phil Noble on February 19.

The night sky is ours. All of ours. Our children’s. Their children’s. We should be doing more to preserve the view of the stars for all. We give this up for some ludicrous to churn out wasteful nonsense to feed rich maniacs’ grift, it’s not coming back…

"I wouldn't park there mate." #Portsoy

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Good morning & welcome to #Caturday We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. 🧡 A small act of kindness can reach places only compassion can heal. Never underestimate the power of simply being gentle, present, and kind, you might be the light someone needs today

#Caturday in Portsoy, Scotland.