“a shredded blue line” 26 Jan 2026 oils on 3”x3” magnet-backed canvas #art #abstractart #oilpainting #abstractexpressionism #humansrt #BlueskyMonday #painting

Muddy the Mudcrab #pixel_dailies #Pixquare #pixelart #Crab #Mudcrab #AustralianWildlife #Mangrove #Dream “We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars" Ivan Turgenev, Author

quick 5min #sketch bc anxiety is keeping me awake #digitalart #art #digitaloilpainting #quickart #expressionist

“with us or against us” 23 Jan 2026 3”x3” oils on magnet-backed canvas #art #BlueSkyArt #expressionist #painting #oilpainting #humanart

Fountain Square, Cincinnati 21 Sept 2024 iPhone 13Pro w/filters #iphonephoto #digitalphoto #art #bskyart #scape #cityscape #Cincinnati #fountain #EastCoastKin

rough weird #digitalpainting bc i’ve missed doing them so far this year #art #digitalart #quickpainting #landscape #surreal

feeling done and time to move on, but this was good fun and experience (2 shades of blue for #blueskymonday) #art #painting #oilpainting #expressionist #forest #scape oil on 3” x 3” magnet-backed canvas, painted with palette knife and bamboo skewers—in a week it might be dry

Same as it ever was Mitchell P #art

more playtime with this #oilpainting added #One color today: magenta, applied on the edge of a palette knife (plus more bamboo skewer scratching) #BlueSkyArtShow #expressionist #art #abstractart #forest #scape #trees #green #bskyart #painting #humanart

still: * playing with #oilpaints * don’t know what i’m doing * having fun #wip #needsmoreshading #oilpainting #humanart #ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #abstractart #expressionist #trees #forest

got to play with #oilpainting again today, best thing about 2026 so far #art #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #painting #abstractpainting

red sky at night, cyberpunk delight or whatever Starland Vocal Band said plumbers from the state capitol drove all the way here to dig up our yard while pointing beepy-boopy wands at the ground—it was so surreal, and so expensive #sunset #appalachia #westvirginia #digitalphotography #iphonephoto

A donkey walking past a Norfolk church with a Jesus on it

An affair to remember Mitchell P #art

our household disaster cleanup continues and time-wise it’s been an #art desert, but for a small set of oil paints the eldest kid gifted me it’s my 1st time #oilpainting and i love them despite or maybe because of the fact i don’t know what i’m doing “a fat blue line” & “tlalocan” #wip #learning

7 Jan 2026 iPhone 16Pro #scape #abstractphotography #digitalphoto #bskyart #blue #sky #digitalphotography #Appalachia #sunrise

Drawing from last year ✍️ #art #drawing #charcoal #darkart

Swan Mosaic #pixel_dailies #Pixquare #pixelart #Swan #Mosaic #Opal No prompt today. Here’s one I started work on ages ago and then got carried away with. With bonus variations.

Winter skating Mitchell P #art

“it feels like i’m finally about to get a break for a few days,” i said out loud yesterday a couple hours later sewer backup 💩flooded the ground floor of our home so in honor of the break i’m not getting, here’s some unfinished art from 2025 that also probably won’t fully materialize 🙃 #scape #wip

Happy New Year Mitchell P #art

ending #artyear review, Nov-Dec a hard stretch for mental health and finding #art time all the more pleased to have made a series of 4 w/ ✨real paint on canvas✨ since Oct the final 2025 #painting became a nice capstone project—i like it, it makes me want to keep going 🖌️🎨 #abstractexpressionism

October #artyear review: time for #art stayed scarce but i did *pick up real paint and canvas again for the first time since about 1997* 😱 a mix of spooky, expressionistic, #surreal and colorful projects #painting #acrylicpainting #digitalpainting #expressionism #abstractexpressionism #bskyart

September #artyear review: mostly it just continued August’s #abstractexpressionism tear but with a series of Very Bad Life Events + panic attacks, so less time to paint … a few faves #expressionism #art #digitalart #digitalpainting #bskyart #scape #arttherapy

August ‘25 #artyear review needs two posts due to the bonkers amounts of spontaneous #abstractexpressionism it was the last month i had ‘enough’ #art time—life and mental health stuff was about to take up too much of the rest of the year #digitalart #landscapepainting #scape #abstractart #bskyart

#artyear review of August ‘25 went bonkers with #abstractexpressionism, making the most #art in any month of the year these 4 all came from a single starting point: a canvas full of color blobs (i’ll post it in the comments) #art #abstractart #digitalart #digitalpainting #scape #landscapepainting

on with #artyear review “doing #art to process feelings” was big in July ‘25, with many quick & spontaneous #abstractart pieces but also 11+ hours (over 3 weeks) working on a single stylized “flag” idea that came to mind in the shower #abstractexpressionism #arttherapy #bskyart #digitalart

also in the June ‘25 #artyear review, it was a month of trying new #digitalart brushes and experimenting a little with using layers in static images

blazing through #artyear review before the year runs out: in June ‘25 i learned how to use layers and do simple animations with them #digitalart

“blood of the forest” #4 photo taken 29 Dec 2025 #acrylicpainting #macro #abstractexpressionist #scape #art #colors #painting #acrylics #abstractart

“blood of the forest” #4 of 4 might be done or i might keep messing with these awhile longer 🤔 but soon i want to move on and try bigger canvases (these are 4”x4”) #art #abstractart #bskyart #abstractexpressionism #acrylicsoncanvas #acrylicpainting #nature #scape #forest #painting

Home for the holidays Mitchell P #art

trying to catch up with #artyear review May ‘25 i still didn’t know how to use layers in #DigitalPainting but was having too much fun making stuff to care #bskyart #art #arttherapy #abstractart

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quick 13min sketch before bed didn’t get enough art time today #digitalpainting #landscape #sketch #quickpainting

Freezing night Mitchell P #art

1 year for #BlueSkyArtShow, about 13 months of #art for me, a return to something i left behind for a few decades. this piece from summer ‘25– “exit strategy”—began a several-weeks stretch focusing on digital abstracts. #OpenHouse #abstractart #digitalpainting #abstractexpressionism #scape #escape

#3 of 4 mayyybe finished in this “blood of the forest” series i’m trying to complete by end of year but #4 still has quite a ways to go #scape #ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #art #abstractart #acrylicpainting #nature #branches #fractal #Appalachia #Appalachianartist

back to #artyear review: April was the month I began #painting in a proper #art app (Procreate Pocket) the tools were overwhelming—and i did not understand Layers—but was still so inspired and created #digitalart that made me happy #digitalpainting #surrealism #abstractart #abstractexpressionism

14 Dec 2025 taking a break from the real paint to play around with digital art again variation on a recent style with some lazy brush shortcuts, just having fun #art #digitalart #digitalpainting #abstract #surreal #landscape #quickpainting #abstractart #appalachianartist #bskyart

14 Dec 2025 #digitalphotography iPhone 16Pro #photography #art #naturephotograhy #forest #trees #Appalachia #winter #snow #snowfall #iPhoneWallpaper #EastCoastKin

14 Dec 2025 #digitalphotography iPhone 16Pro #photography #naturephotography #trees #forest #snow #snowfall #Appalachia #winter

2/4 complete in this series of 4”x4” acrylic paintings (working title, “blood of the forest”) i hope to have all 4 complete as a connected set by the end of the year #art #abstractart #Appalachianartist #bskyart #expressionist #abstractexpressionist #forest #painting #acrylicpainting #Appalachia

53yr old baby artist paints the waiting room during a tire change Drawing/painting from life has never been the easy or fun part of #art for me, so i put off practicing it for a few decades But lately you might say the Time Pressure Monitoring System has been flashing warnings, and i’m feeling it

got some #oilpastels today and played with those for the first time since the mid-‘90s. first order of business: Get Well card for an Appalachian artist i appreciate and admire, @oddoblivion.bsky.social

My Winter Garden, 12/7/2025. Digital painting.

#wip for #BlueskyArtShow 6 Dec 2025 finally made progress on the #sky today and it feels like this one is close to finished; it’ll be just my 2nd real-paint-on-canvas #art since the 1990s! #painting #acrylicpainting #landscape #scape #forest #sunset #river #EastCoastKin #expressionist

Mother and child Mitchell P #arr

“chiron’s sacrifice” 5 Dec 2025 #art #abstractart #intuitiveart #abstractexpressionist #digitalpainting #adopteevoices #chiron #bskyart