One last #MacroMonday post for today. The heart of a daylily! 🌱 #Photography #Bloomscrolling #Flower #MacroPhotography #Close-up (remember the toothpaste commercials?) #lily #nature

#JanuArty day 12 - #wet Submitting a black and white ink drawing of mine featuring a wet echinacea bloom from the Inktober 2023 challenge. #Art #TraditionalArt #Floral #BotanicalArt

One of my #vibrant abstracts for the #BlueSkyArtShow. Acrylics on canvas with oil pastel. #Art #TraditionalArt #FineArt #Paintings #MagentaMonday

Your #EastCoastKin #ArtChallenges cheat sheet for Jan 12-18 Save it so that you always have it to hand 😊

#Corners are everywhere ugly & pretty We turn corners or get stuck in one streets or boxes buildings & books Subtle or dramatic support shadowed or unmistakeable How will you use them in #SensoryArt this week? Inspo: tinyurl.com/SensoryArt lnmimages.com #EastCoastKin #photography #Painting #art

Morning light lingers, A rose opens in silence, Love without a sound. This rose was from a bouquet my husband gave me, and I photographed it during a quiet moment when the light felt just right. #Photography #Bloomscrolling #Roses #MacroPhotography #MacroMonday #Poetry #PhotographersOfBlueSky

I started working on my garden plans for 2026 and my basket on burpee seeds is already exploding and I want more...it's going to be hard to trim it down. Maybe I should start selling my photographs to support my gardening efforts! Or find a local gardening club.

Macro photograph of hydrangea blooms from my northern shade garden. Not what I actually bought, but a pleasant gardening surprise. Online purchases continue to be like a box of chocolates 😁 🌱 #MacroMonday #MagentaMonday #Bloomscrolling #Gardening #Nature #BloomSky #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin

Old bark wears green silk Vines accent quiet beauty Forest dressed in time #JanuArty #Clothing #Haiku

A green abstract painting for #GreenSat #Art #BlueSkyArtShow #Vibrant #ColorADay #AlphabetChallenge #WeekAForAbstract

Art has taught me to sit with uncertainty instead of resisting it, and work through it. That’s usually where the work starts to reveal what it needs. (In a bit of an introspective moment - funny how mistakes can lead to enlightenment.) #art #wisdom #perseverence #intuition #positivity #ArtYear

One of the things art has taught me is that mistakes are not failures, but invitations to create differently. #art #thoughts #perceptions #philosophy #positivity #introspective #reflective

#JanuArty a Winter scene from my front yard #woven behind a window screen. #photography #landscape #snow #blueskyartshow #ArtistsOnBlueSky #nature #eastcoastkin #ArtYear

Hestia is looking deeply into your soul and questioning your motives, maybe even you existence - as we all know, we're only here to cater to the whims of our cat overlords. #photography #cats #caturday #mood #judgement #pet #pets #quirky #eastcoastkin

#JanuArty a Winter scene from my front yard #woven behind a window screen. #photography #landscape #snow #blueskyartshow #ArtistsOnBlueSky #nature #eastcoastkin #ArtYear

2020 was a year of experimentation for me and I spent a lot of time taking pictures of wildflowers on reflective surfaces. Here's one of my favorite pics from then. 🌱 #Wild #Violets #Bloomscrolling #FlowersOnFriday #plants #FloralFriday #ColorADay #PurpleFriday #EastCoastKin #nature #abstract

TGIF - It's been a week. At least my African Violets are bringing me some joy and sunshine! I just snapped this pic to share with you in hopes it adds a little happiness to your day 🌱 #Bloomscrolling #FlowersOnFriday #plants #FloralFriday #ColorADay #PurpleFriday #EastCoastKin #shine

Light, symmetry, and shadow doing the work. A minimalist geometric black and white abstract of pattern, texture, and contrast. #Photography #coloraday #BWFri #monochrome #BlueskyPhotography #EastCoastKin #FineArt #classicmono #architectural #ArtYear

This is one of my older hand-painted multimedia geometric abstracts from 2005. I layered shades of #blue on canvas to build texture & depth, then oil pastel to add structure. An intuitive contemporary minimalist painting focused on form, color relationships & harmony. #Art #JanuArty #ArtYear

Today's final progress. There's a few things I want to clean up, but I'm basically done with this botanical painting. Late submission for #JanuArty day #Sticky. Good night! #Art #MixedMedia #BotanicalArt #Plants #TraditionalArt #FineArt

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. This year my garden was bursting with butterflies and I managed to get one decent picture of this apparently very shy type of butterfly. 🍃 #photography #InsectThursday #flowers #bloomscrolling #lovelythings #nature 🌱 📷 #macrophotography #bugsky

An eepy bee 🐝 sleeping on a butterfly bush in my garden from this past summer . 🍃 #photography #InsectThursday #flowers #bloomscrolling #lovelythings #nature 🌱 📷 #macrophotography #bugsky

Progress for today's work so far. At this point I've only used Sakura Pigma Micron pens and Boku-Undo e-Sumi ink on Amazon Basics watercolor paper. #WIP #WIPArt #ArtYear

With the #JanuArty prompt for today being #sticky, I decided to create a painting of white-topped pitcher plants. I have the composition done, but it's time for bed, so it'll have to wait to be finished tomorrow. #Art #WIP #sketching #botanicalart #ArtYear

Morning glories from my 2025 garden to you 🌞 #Photography #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Flowers #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotoOfTheDay 📷 #GardenersofBlueSky #MacroPhotography #Nature #ArtYear #EastCoastKin #Zone6b🌱

An acrylic paint and oil pastel abstract painting of mine from 2005 with evident #brush work for #JanuArty day 6. #Art #FineArt #AbstractArt #TraditionalPainting #AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAbstract #PainterlyScroll #ArtistsOnBluesky #OriginalArt

Golden fall petals , Elegant, softly flowing, Beauty breathes softly. 🍃 Inspired by a reblooming iris from my fall of 2021 gardens. #Photography #Flowers #Haiku #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Irises #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotoOfTheDay #MacroPhotography #Nature #ArtYear #EastCoastKin #Zone6b🌱

Spring of 2025 was a good season for my knock out roses 🌹 🌱 #RoseWednesday #Bloomscrolling #Gardening #Zone6b #Flowers #GardenersofBlueSky #FlowerPhotography 📷 #beauty #lovelythings #nature

The only rose that knows how to KO 😜 #Flowers #RoseWednesday #Bloomscrolling #flowergarden #flowerscape #Flowerphotography #eastcoastkin #love

Progress today. Not sure if I like it. May nix the background and approach it from a fresh direction. #art #artist #WIP #Artprocess #originalart #traditionalart #fineart #sketching #cat

Quick sketch. Tulip again. #art #sketching #doodling #traditionalart #flowers #nature #sketchbook #drawing

For #SundayYellow I'm sharing a photo I took in 2020 of what I think is a Cabbage White butterfly (it was more of a buttery yellow than white) resting on a Bigleaf Hydrangea in my garden. 🌱 #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #NaturePhotography #flowersofbluesky #nature #lovelythings #smile

Containment Failure, 1991 - an older mixed media environmental illustration which went along with an article about the damage sewage overflow causes in our waterways. I thought this would fit nicely for #JanuArty day 4 prompt - #down #Art #Illustration #blueskyartshow #OC #ArtYear

I'm done and I am super happy with the way this one developed! I ended up using e-sumi, watercolors and white sakura jelly rolls pens. So here's my submission for #JanuArty day 3 prompt #tree #Art #TraditionalArt #Zentangle #Landscape #AbstractArt #Scape #FineArt #EastCoastKin #Painting #ArtYear

Progress post for today's WIP. #art #artist #WIP #Artprocess #originalart #traditionalart #fineart #painting

🎨 I've been working on a landscape zentangle style artwork today and after I take a little break, I'll be moving on to inking the lines of the elements I'm keeping, cleaning it up and applying some watercolor washes. 🤞 #art #artist #WIP #Artprocess #originalart #traditionalart #fineart #sketching

Backlit canna lily leaf from September 2025 for #Green today. #ColourADay #GreenSat #eastcoastkin #photography #macrophotography #nature #refreshing #fresh

A peony bud from my garden in summer 2022. 🌱 #gardeningfeed #flowers #flowerfeed #bloomscrolling #photography #beauty #peaceful #flowergarden #flowerscape #Flowerphotography #eastcoastkin

Sketch No.3 complete. The sun is setting and I've lost the light, so it's a wrap for day 2. 363 days of sketching to go! Have a good rest of your day! #Art #Artwork #PencilSketch #FineArt #Tulips #BotanicalArt #DailySketch #Artoftheday #artshare #ArtYear

Another one down ✏️ #Art #Drawings #DailySketch #Sketchbook #TraditionalArt #ArtistsOnBluesky #FloralArt #Tulip #ArtYear

First sketch of the day 2 done ✏️ #Art #Drawings #DailySketch #Sketchbook #ArtistsOnBluesky #BotanicalArt #Tulip

Sorry this is a short week but we gotta start somewhere. Like the card says, post it any time. If it helps your own art journey, add the hashtag #mm52w1 for the specific week. Have fun! #mm52 #mixedmedia52 #mixedmedia #begin #artchallenge #artonpaper #analogart #digitalart

Ihr habt Euch vorgenommen mit dem Urbansketchen anzufangen, oder sucht eine Promptliste zu Inspiration? Bitteschön. Die @urbansketchers.bsky.social laden ein & sind neugierig aus welcher Ecke der Welt Ihr mitmacht.🏘️🏙️🛖 #USkJanuaryPrompts2026 #kleineKunstklasse #ArtChallenge

Coleus leaves basking in the warmth of the sun during the Summer of 2025 💚🌞 🌱 #FoliageFriday #NaturePhotography #Gardens #plants 🍃

🌱 #Bloomscrolling #FlowersOnFriday #NaturePhotography #Gardens #Flowers #BlueFlowers 🍃

🌱 #Bloomscrolling #FlowersOnFriday #NaturePhotography #Gardens #Flowers #PinkFlowers 🍃

Begonia - In the hush of fall, slightly wilted by the cold, they bow their pink heads like tender spells fading at twilight, holding onto beauty even as the season teaches them how to let go. 🌱 #Bloomscrolling #FlowersOnFriday #NaturePhotography #Gardens #Flowers #PinkFlowers 🍃

V for Viola. Happy #FlowersOnFriday everyone 🌱 #Bloomscrolling #FloralFriday

For #JanuArty day 1 the prompt is #fresh , so I'm sharing my most recent completed artwork. It's a digital art piece of a crooner microphone I designed for my husband to use in the FFXIV housing design contest. We didn't win, but it was fun to work on!

Still a bit under the weather today so it's not my most productive day. I did manage a few rose sketches though🌹 Slow progress is still progress. #art #sketching #roses #ArtYear