Leonard Cohen’s Cocktail Recipe: Learn How to Make “The Red Needle”

More Objects from Films (Shockproof [1949]) Original drawing for sale by me here 8x10 | $200 marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/shoc...

I've added a few little prints to my shop in some new colours! If you're looking for an original and affordable gift, why not head over and take a look at my shop..... www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Sara... #shopindie #originalart #linocut #printmaker

Seen on this side of a building in Frome, Somerset, UK. There's always #hope #sensoryart

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

So I've just spent all day (and much of the evening) updating my great big list of concerts between now and the end of the summer. ottawaroadtrips.com/2024/09/10/d...

My Cat laser print reproductions on maple wood veneer are back in stock! They measure 8.5x11" so they'll fit standard frames of that size, and the wood is sustainably harvested and processed in the USA. Based on my original woodcut art. xylographilia.etsy.com/listing/1318... #bsnm #caturday

Shop window display in Aberystwyth, Wales. #urbangaze

Some power #lines for #BlueSkyArtShow #photography

May 5 is Red Dress Day also know as the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit People. It’s a day to honour those lost and bring attention to the crisis of #MMIW & the disproportionate violence Indigenous women, girls & 2S have faced in Canada.

#EastCoastKin Flower #Scape #MayBlooms #Bud #smARTist #StateFlower California poppies with buds - 2016, ink on paper. From a small colouring book I did of flora around San Francisco #Phonetography #ArtYear #flowers #bloomscrolling #onlybeautifulthings #liningitup #fluttery

More drawings by me of payphones from movies: The Terminator (1984) Dark City (1950) Midnight Run (1988) C.H.U.D. (1984) marcusjmerritt.com/objects-from...

40+ years of live music! The Rainbow, Ottawa. #WatercolourAndInk #Sketching #Drawing #Ottawa

This can’t be allowed to happen. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If anyone what's to follow the results of the Canadian election without the pundits CBC has a handy page. The Atlantic results are coming in, Quebec & Ontario polls close in about 15 minutes. newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/fe...

##PrintPromptMonday #Earth A tetrapak etching of a @hookland.bsky.social pylon, I think I might be a pylon person underneath it all, a child of the hum. I like the watch the Rooks chattering on the lines as they convene in the early afternoon.

Just wonderful. Can’t help but be inspired!

Bought one of these prints a few months ago. Arrived quickly, and I love it!

Just had to pay out an unexpected £160 for a new car tyre, so yeah yeah, if you know anyone who might like a haunted lino print that'd be really nice, yeah yeah... 🚗 🛞

Accessorizing for #BatAppreciationDay Lacloche Frères evening bag, c. 1905 Gauze fan with shaped edge, painted with bats www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/... Pinterest - no attribution

More Objects from Films (Dead & Buried [1981]) original drawing for sale by me here: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/dead...

Cool! Took this photo from the plane a few years ago and never knew the clouds had a name. Yes, it was a bumpy flight. #photography

Thinking about pollinators, so sharing a favourite. 🐡🧪🦋 This is a hand-printed lino block print of the charming Hummingbird Clearwing moth (Hermaris thysbe) seeking pollen from cherry blossoms. The olive-headed burgundy moth has transparent wings (though colour can be variable). It beats its wings 🧵

Happy Monday! Just wanted to let everyone know that my new single "Northern Star" is now live on all streaming platforms! You can add it to your playlists starting now. ❤ Dan lnk.to/fXwcS4LK

Matchbox, 13 April

More Objects from Films (Twelve Monkeys [1995]) marcusjmerritt.com/objects-from...

Years and years ago I put together a resource page for artists who wanted to add some electronics to their art but didn’t know where to start. Just got a thank you email from a Dad saying that he used it to help his son get his Electricity Badge for scouts (complete with a suggested addition). 😊

Shou Xin

My occasional reminder that you can buy my 2024 collection of poetry here if you’d like to: amzn.eu/d/jbkSxhx

My #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday

The Masked Anemone https://www.wikiart.org/en/odilon-redon/the-masked-anemone

A parking lot transforms into a flexible parklet hosting a weekly farmers market in Ottawa, Canada 2015 ➡️ 2021 ➡️ 2024

I haven't really done a proper Friday Shop Plug this week, but here's a picture of me in the back garden just now holding up my Queen of the Field lino print, that'll do, right..? 👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

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More of my pollinator garden work in progress about the future of pollination for Manufactured Ecosystems. 🧪🐡🦋 I’m thinking about a variety of futures possible for pollination & pollinators. Planting native plants wherever you are can foster these species on whom we and our ecosystems depend.

A self portrait of my silhouette reflected in the hotel room wall art. #AColourADaypril #grey #photography

#AColorADaypril 11: #gray figure based on a 1960s fashion photo, background inspired by vintage wallpaper #watercolor and pen #analog

The subject of alt text has come up again I see. Here's basically everything I have to say about it, including my frustration at the idea you're "kicking back at scolds" by [checks notes] not doing the bare minimum to include blind people.

A lot of #white for #acolouradAyPRIL #photography

This print “Occam’s Razor” is about the Law of Economy or Parsimony postulated by Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347), “pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate” or entities should not be needlessly multiplied. 🧪🐡 #histsci More simply this law, or really, rule of thumb is 🧵

Canadian media: Artist Christopher Griffin (Ottawa and PEI based) has just left his Artist in Residence position at Atlantic Veterinary College because US professors objected to a painting. He was given the option of taking it down, or leaving. He left. @sproudfoot.bsky.social @seansnmurphy.ca

Let's be real, Edward Gorey's covers to John Bellairs books are little masterpieces of horror art.

Is this really the scariest movie ever made? #horror #horrorsky www.iheart.com/content/2025...

In tough times, Stan Rogers sang of perseverance. Of hope. Worth a listen. 🇨🇦 “And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain And, like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again”

We have a newsletter we send out 4-6 times/yr! Each December, in appreciation we give away a piece of pottery to a subscriber. This year, I think it will be a bear. Subscribers get access to see our new work, special offers and our annual sale first. Sign up here: rakupottery.ca/newsletter

Love using a dark background to show the wonderful shapes of flowers. #acolouradAyPRIL #black #photography

Titled #Spring, I just finished this #needlefelted #sculpture a day ago. #BlueSkyArtShow #deer

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

A photo for #acolouradAyPRIL #brown