The sculptural part of my “About Time” monotype, collage, mixed media piece. Unfolded, the fan was 58” wide. Folded and complete, it's 12.5” H x 23”W x 2” deep. #wide #blueskyartshow #monotype #artprocess #printmaking #monotype #originalart #womensart #fan #art

There is still beauty in this world. “Sun is not all. Here we drink fog like rain” —from Eric Barker’s poem “Fog Over Big Sur.” My photo, July 1, 2021 #wide #blueskyartshow #bigsur #panorama #pacificocean #california #eastcoastkin #photography #pano #poetry

A very cute caterpillar: Spotted Tussock Moth. This is its most beautiful stage. The moth it becomes is small, brown and ordinary. Named for the tufts of hair. Tussock is not a word I hear much, but I like the sound of it. 🦋 🐙 #sciart #caterpillar #spotted #moth #invertebrate #phonesthetics #word

A very magical treehouse built on the thick trunk of a Redwood tree. Don’t you love the curved shape? The steps inside the trunk were too steep for me, so I admired it from outside. #thicktrunkTuesday #eastcoastkin #trees #treehouse #architecture #inthewoods #magical #fairytale #elves 📷🌲

Closeups of my "About Time” piece. There’s a lot going on, including lots of blue! Not very #uniform, but I missed the #time week. #AccidentalArt #BlueskyMonday #alphabetchallenge #birds 🦉 #weektfortime #printmaking #art ✂️ #collage #fan #fossil #monotype #ArtYear

I see a fossilized, surprised Mr. Potato Head, a gently smiling dragon’s head, a happy frog waving, and maybe a crusty roll in the middle. What do you see? #pareidolia #IseeFacesEverywhere #wondersofnature

“About Time” - my newest, largest, most complicated monotype/collage ever! It celebrates the passage of time, hopefully flowing into a better future. Details/process in future posts. 🪶 #time #printmaking #art ✂️ #collage #fan #fossil #monotype #ArtYear

More public art today: this is the Chicago Cultural Center, formerly the Chicago Public Library. Near Millennium Park, it is truly spectacular.

“Essence of Wonder.” Fans represent open-ness and unfolding possibilities. I still have a fan that my uncle brought back from Japan when I was a child & I’ve made numerous works featuring them. 🌺 🌷 🪷 #Februarty #fan #essence #wonder #lotus #painting #botanical

“Ancient Nectar” Kingfishers were revered in ancient Egypt. Lotuses/ waterlilies were gifted to visitors as offerings of goodwill and to remember the dead. 🪶🌺🌷 #fan #fly #Februarty #waterlily #birds #painting #botanical

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” —MLK Jr. “Night Blooming” by Taiji Miyasaka, Bellevue Botanical Garden, Washington. #Januarty #light #WeekDforDramatic #AlphabetChallenge #EastCoastKin #sculpture #MLK #nonviolence

Closeup of a very feathery Pincushion Protea, spring, 2025. #WeekCforCloseUp #AlphabetChallenge #Januarty #season #nature #botanicals #flowers #bloom 🌺🌷🌱

#Alphabetchallenge #WeekCForCloseUp #BlueskyArtShow #Cold A frosty cobweb at sunrise

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.

“Tightrope: Behind the Processor #5.” 2023, Elias Sime, SJ Museum of Art. “He’s transforming outmoded technology into … #poems to the present.” —James Cohan. More info=alt text. #Januarty #green #nail #woven #recycling #mixedmedia #abstract #contemporaryart #technology #Ewaste #art #sciart #tech

Close-up. #Insect origami. #Januarty #craneFly #invert #wings #sciart #artyear

#Insect origami. #Januarty #CraneFly #invert #wings #sciart #artyear

It appears that these piers are Mother Nature’s brushes – a true watercolor! #Januarty #brush #alphabetchallenge #weekAforabstract #eastcoastkin #photography #water #artyear #watercolor

A shadow of my former self looking down at my shadow and Richard Serra’s “Sequence” sculpture at Stanford’s Cantor Museum, December, 2025. #down #Januarty #January2026 #eastcoastkin #shadow #curve #sculpture #art #RichardSerra #Stanford #artyear

Happy Saturday! So #bright that the yellows almost seem to be melting. Chihuly Garden & Glass, Seattle, 2017. #glass #glassart #chihuly #blueskyartshow #art #artistsupport #glow

Life imitating nature. The Santa Cruz Beach boardwalk colors echo the blooming passion flowers. 🌺🌷🌱 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPink #nature #boardwalk #rollercoaster #photography #EastCoastKin #bloomscrolling #flowers #FlowersOfBlueSky

Glorious spiderweb in front of my art studio door, 10/22, before Open Studios. Pretty sure Charlotte Jr. Jr.’s message was “I ❤️Anita’s art!" 🕸️ 🕷️ #spiderweb #spooktober #31daysofHalloween #cobweb #CharlottesWeb #artistsupport #invert #arachnid #web #eastcoastkin #nature #onlybeautifulthings

Californian Morning' (mid 20thc) by US artist and printmaker Emmy Lou Packard (1914-1998) #WomensArt

Art-making keeps me sane! “Glow”- new #monotype inspired by the SF “Bouquets to Art” at the SF DeYoung. The garlic scapes reminded me of a blue & yellow macaw. 🌺🌷🪶 #BlueskyArtShow #Glow #printmaking #bloomscrolling #eastcoastkin #artistsupport #womensart #birds

I truly enjoyed turning the Indiana map blue in this “homage collage” “Jazzed I.” Inspired by @SassyDivaDesigns Bouquets to Art arrangement, SF DeYoung museum, inspired in turn by Matisse’s “Lagoon” collage. ✂️🌷🐟🌺🌱🐠 #santacruzopenstudios #artscouncilscc #Matisse #collage #goldfish #JazzUnbound

See “Stepping Out” at my Santa Cruz, CA Open Studio, Oct. 11/12 & 18/19. Inspired by an inventive arrangement at the 2025 Bouquets to Art at the SF DeYoung museum. 🌺 🌷 🪶 🎨 #visitSantaCruz #floral #printmaking #monotype #bloomscrolling #bird #botanicalart #artyear #eastcoastkin #artistsupport

We built a giant puppet! Mother Earth is 10' tall and she's got the whole world in her hands! There’s 4 more puppets… Unveiling 9.21.25 at SC Sun-Day. ARRT is building #hope and #community: defending democracy and working to save our planet. #resist #art #resistanceart #climatechange #nonviolence

Lost Constellations 2: New! Highlights 5 constellations that are no longer recognized: Little Owl (noctua), Argo Navis (the ship), Pyxis- mariner’s compass, the giant swallow and hippocampus (seahorse). 🦉 🪶 🔭 #owlishMonday #sciart #birds #constellations #printmaking #drypoint #monotype #sky

Magenta Orchid cactus. Makes me think of a punk rock star with three back up singers swaying to the music. #flower #MagentaMon #coloraday #onlybeautifulthings #dailyflowers #dailybotanicalbeauty #nature #epiphyte #bloomscrolling #eastcoastkin #flowerreport #cactus

“One-way colour tunnel” at SFMOMA: a long arched walkway #sculpture created by Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. Walk one way: it’s mostly black. Walking through the other direction & it’s a prismatic wonder!. #blueskyartshow #alternating #prism #rainbow #art #contemporaryart

I got lucky in 2017 on an unusually sunny October day in Seattle at the Japanese Garden when the maples were in their most glorious fall colors. #JuliArty #maple #onlybeautifulthings #trees #fallcolor #eastcoastkin #nature #artistsupport #artyear

“Golden Orchid Cactus” My most recent #monotype, inspired by a colorful hybrid. In the wild, it’s an epiphyte or “air plant” that grows on the surface of another plant and gets its moisture and nutrients from air & rainfall. #Stunday #artyear #printmaking #botanical #nature #sciart #akuainks 🌺🌱🌷

Basse Buller, The Painting Troll. Inspired by the nature he lives in, he makes his marks with stones, leaves, sticks…. in an effort to lead the humans onto the right path. —Thomas Dambo #sculpture, #SavetheHumans, #Filoli #California #trees #nature #BlueSkyArtShow #GetOutside #EastCoastKin #forest

Ruth Asawa’s looped wire sculptures cast fabulous shadows. Go see the #SFMOMA retrospective featuring over 300 works! Learn more about her @sfmoma on Insta or sfmoma.org #wallsonwednesday #sculpture #RuthAsawa #art #shadow #SanFrancisco #artyear #patterns #contemporaryart

Well, this was a real treat this afternoon as I found this Periplacis menander #butterfly outside my kitchen window. A new species for @casabentbill.bsky.social (and for me). These have a wide range from Mexico to southern Brazil, but they aren't common. #lepidoptera #costarica #butterflies #bugsky

Love that the vase is hovering. #Vibrant flowers & #art at the San Francisco de Young Bouquets to Art: Orinda Garden Club (Mari Tischenko), inspired by Saif Azzuz’ painting “Lo’op’ (It burns).” His palette was inspired by maps of the 2020 CA wildfires. #flowers #botanical #painting #Blueskyartshow

Loved “My Friends” by Fredrik Backman: a moving and very human story about friendship and the power of art. Both help us survive and can have a big impact on ourselves and others, even years later. The characters have troubled lives, but humanity wins out. #fiction #booksky #art #book #friendship

“Guardian” This fluffy queen cat dared me to make a print of her protecting a neighbor’s sculpture garden. #monotype #cat #cats #sculpture #cactus #printmaking #artyear #tetrapak #art #garden #neighbor #caturday @Akuainks @speedballart #arnhem

I'iwi on Māmane bush/tree on Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii. A honeycreeper it fills the niche to some extent that the lack of hummers miss. I apologize for putting things up and removing them. My typing is execrable. #birds #I'iwi #HawaiianHoneycreeper #Maui #Māmane

“Capricornus.” New #monotype #analogcollage with #beige on the spiral shell. Fun facts: goats have horizontal pupils! & in the Bronze age, this #constellation marked the winter solstice. #printmaking 🐠🐟✂️🌺🌱🌷 #astronomy #capricorn #sciart #zodiac #acoloradAyPRIL #flower #Artyear #womensart #collage

“Mercurialosity” #sculpture by Michael Emery, at Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. Originally installed at #burningman. The dome shape itself is gorgeous and casts great shadows. Then the sun shines through displaying amazing patterns on the inside. #acoloradAyPRIL #rust #metal #contemporaryart

Golden Rat Tail #cactus. Great name for such a homely, un- #earth -ly prickly plant that has such beautiful flowers! #acoloradAyPRIL #olivegreen #botanical #flower #nature #onlybeautifulthings #photography #bloomscrolling #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin

Pride of Madeira. This one resembles a giant glowing caterpillar! The base of each flower has just a bit of #magenta. The flowers spiral up like the lanyards I made as a child. #acoloradAyPRIL #botanical 🌷🌱🌺 #flower #nature #onlybeautifulthings #photography #bloomscrolling #invert

Turquoise Puya. The flowers look almost plastic, but it’s a cousin of the pineapple, with rare otherworldly #turquoise flowers. Native to #Chile, seen at the UCSC #Arboretum. #acoloradAyPRIL #botanical #flower🌷🌱🌺 #nature #onlybeautifulthings #photography #bloomscrolling #bromeliad #sciart

Splendiferous blooming artichoke. #acoloradAyPRIL #lavender #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPatterns #botanical #macroMonday #flower 🌱🌷 🌺 #nature #onlybeautifulthings #photography

May you have an uplifting day. “Ascendance.” A great blue heron’s wings are #lavender and purple in my 2013 #monotype. Sold. More art available at Anitaheckman.com #acoloradAyPRIL #lavender #artyear #artistsupport #flowers 🌷🌺🪶🌱 #birds #printmaking

Our Bigleaf Maple tree in its springtime splendor with #oodles of tiny #limegreen flower buds and brand new leaves. These trees can live for over 200 years and their leaves can grow up to 12” across. #acoloradAyPRIL #tree #spring #onlybeautifulthings #nature #WeekOforOodles #AlphabetChallenge

Looks like it’s frowning, as I am way too often these days. ‘Hope your day is going well. #BlueskyArtShow #Silhouette #Photography #SantaCruz #clouds #trees #mobilephotography #RollerCoaster

What Works to #SaveDemocracy: speak to the people; find inner calm; work long term; build support & #community. Gift article: NYT 4/2/2025. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

Yayoi Kusama, luminous Infinity Mirror Room, SFMOMA. “Dots are symbols of the world, the cosmos. The Earth is a dot, the moon, sun, the stars are all made up of dots. You and me, we are dots.” 📷 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMulticoloured #womensart #reflections