I made this cyanotype print with #two pieces of lace. Fun technique to experiment with! 💙 Historically interesting too - a botanist named Anna Atkins was a pioneer of this early form of photography & published the first book with (her) photographic illustrations in 1843. #BlueskyArtShow #Cyanotype

I had a lot of fun playing with this chunky vintage wooden type at a letterpress workshop hosted by Robert Smail’s Printing Works, a Victorian-era industrial heritage museum run by @n-t-s.bsky.social in Innerleithen in the Scottish Borders. #WoodType #Letterpress #Typography #BlueskyArtShow #Wood

I found some fairy doors while out walking today ✨ #BlueskyArtShow #Wood #Scotland

From my walk along the River Tweed on the edge of Galashiels today. Paths that my ancestors no doubt walked too, as my great-grandfather’s childhood home was just a little bit along the river at Galafoot. #BlueskyArtShow #Wood #ScottishBorders

I lived with an alcoholic. It ended *badly*. 😔 That in turn made me question my own relationship w/ alcohol. I had been gradually reducing my intake over the years as a result, then last year I did Dry January, & (mostly) just kept going. All of 2025 I had 1️⃣ drink! Today I’m exactly 333 days sober.

Some thoughts on the role of the artist in the struggle against oppression open.substack.com/pub/braggb/p...

Muppets… and giant crumpets. Does life get any better? 😎

I had intended to post this yesterday but got a wee bit sidetracked (story of my life!). I remember the day I took the picture on a walk with my Canon DSLR in Leith Links, and thinking the light was so perfect on this beautiful rose by the allotments. 🌹 #Bloomscrolling #Sunlight #BlueskyArtShow

Double exposure delight. Shot on 120 (medium format) b&w film with my Diana F+ camera. #Sunlight #BlueskyArtShow #AnaloguePhoto #ShotOnFilm #DoubleExposure

Golden hour #sunlight on the River Tweed, near Melrose in the south of Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #BlueskyArtShow

A lovely oak tree, with its leaves beautifully illuminated by #sunlight for #BlueskyArtShow.

It is Bandcamp Friday.

On Wednesday, Edinburgh councillors will vote on plans for a new AI data centre which could set a precedent for Scotland. It’s controversial and many questions remain unanswered. A guest post by @rachaelrevesz.bsky.social: www.edinburghminute.com/an-open-lett... #edinburgh #scotland

I’ve enjoyed following the glorious parade of birdie-themed art for #BirbFest2026. I saw today’s prompt is the Indian Peafowl 🦚 and decided to share some #peacock art I made a while back, a pencil drawing and an etching. #BirbFest #TraditionalArt #BirdArt

It’s a hard no from me. Please sign this petition to help keep chlorinated chicken OUT of the UK! 🙅‍♀️ Animal welfare & food quality standards matter.

Threads is trying to suppress this letter. They’re pulling posts and limiting views. Please, Bluesky - get this out! This is for the American people. Written by “Grannies Against the Far Right.” They’re German women who lived through WWII. They want to help, and they have something to say!

Happy Burns Night, folks! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Perfect time tae share a Rabbie Burns-inspired piece. 🌹 Mixed media collage with two of my favourite lines from the poem “A red, red rose” and my hand-drawn illustration of a rose. #BurnsNight #RobertBurns #MixedMedia #ScottishArt #MadeInScotland

These folks are drumming up hope across the pond. 🥁 Hi-hats off to them! mastodon.social/@sheislauren...

Overnight, he crept to the window with a silver fingertip and a pocket full of old spells, pressing fern-fronds and feathered leaves into the glass like a secret blessing. Each crystal etching, a rune - winter is here. #BlueSkyArtShow #Cold #WeekCforCloseUp #Abstractia #PhotographersOfBlueSky

The #BlueSkyArtShow theme today is #Cold ❄️ so here’s a wintery scene from a couple of years ago. #Galashiels #Scotland #Snow

The story of a long-lost Rabbie Burns portrait - just in time for Burns Night! Brings back fond memories of “babysitting” some of Raeburn’s most famous paintings during my time working at the National Galleries of Scotland. 💙 youtu.be/StBuAumI-es?... #RobertBurns #HenryRaeburn

I have never visited India (yet!) but Yash Sheth’s atmospheric photographs of the monsoon season in Mumbai really bring it to life. ☔️ wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/yash... #India #photography #culture #monsoon

One very lovely small copper butterfly, found while walking around Thornielee Forest in the Scottish Borders. 🦋 (Thankfully I had my trusty Canon DSLR with me!) #BlueskyArtShow #one

I love this. I have lived through a lot to get them, and actually kinda love them anyway. 🩶 #GreyHairDontCare

Late-night #Bloomscrolling. Working on a gift for someone who taught me many moons ago when I lived in Berlin and went to school in Potsdam. 🌹 #TraditionalArt #Botanical #Rose #FlowerDrawing

Ready to push your chair back and have a little boogie? I thought so 😎 Posted before😉.. The beautiful #Birds at #SuffolkOwls and their version of: 📷💚✨ 🎶🦉 Chuck Berry 🪶🎸🎶 🎶💃🏻’You Never Can Tell’🦉🕺🏻🎶 #Owls #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin

@manekinekohub.bsky.social I think these ones mainly came from Hong Kong, as my dad spent time living & working there 😊 #ManekiNeko

I always enjoy playing with colour. This is a detail of a meditative painting I made back in 2021. Definitely want to make more art this year! #Vibrant #BlueskyArtShow #Painting #AbstractArt #MakeArtNotWar

I loved this #vibrant splash of light at St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh. #BlueskyArtShow

Sharing these beauties again 😍 #BlueskyArtShow #vibrant #Bloomscrolling

How’s this for #ThickTrunkTuesday?! 🪾 A glorious sequoia, or giant redwood tree, one of a few that stand guard at the entrance to a local woodland here in the Scottish Borders. (I like to visit them regularly and pay my respects 💚) #Arboreal #Tree #Scotland

Happy new year! I hope 2026 is kind to you all. I went for a brief Ne’erday walk and found some flowering quince - proof that even in the dark days of winter, there are little glimmers of hope if you look out for them. 🌺 #Bloomscrolling #Blossom #WinterWalk

That's the bells!! A very happy New year to all of you from me in Scotland. May 2026 bring great things to you. Lang may yer lum reek. This is an oil pastel painting of Edinburgh Castle. #HappyNewYear #Scotland #EdinburghCastle #Painting #OilPastel #Art

Betwixt one year and the next. A strange, yet oddly familiar, liminal space. #Edinburgh #Scotland #FromWhereIStood #LiminalSpaces

The tender-hearted have to cover themselves up, layer by layer. Wishing you a happy new week 🫶 #MacroMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #photography #flowers #photohour #MinimalMonday #bloomscrolling #nature #thelittlethings #Poetry #Poem #Haiku #MicroPoem #FreeVerse #ImageAndVerse #EastCoastKin

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains. Hole’s “Live Through This” remains one of my favourite records of the 90s. 💟

#BlueskyArtShow #Holiday A little red cardinal has decided to perch on my tree. 🐦‍🔥

Those we love don’t go away they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard but always near. Still loved, still missed and very dear. This can be such a hard time of year. A huge hug to you if you need it, whatever the reason.

Tonight’s Christmas Eve moon with a favourite unicorn standing atop the Mercat Cross on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. Making this a Moonicorn - see, when you have a mythical beast as Scotland’s national animal we can make up all kinds of shit. May Christmas be full of love peace smiles & happy memories.

Poem of mine published in the latest Christmas / winter anthology from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 23 Think this is one of my favourite drawings of the year. #tabbyandwhitecat #cats #drawing #charcoaldrawing #catart #catdrawings #monochromedrawings #art #visualart #womenartists #sleepingcat #expressiveart #figurativeart

Remembering that time the Ross Fountain froze #Edinburgh @edinburghcastle.bsky.social

‪Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday December 27, 2025 The theme is #Holiday With over a dozen holidays happening there should be no trouble finding images to share this week. Show us what you love and how you celebrate! Use both tags to be included in the feed #art #artists #supportartists #makeart

Maria Chepeleva (Ukrainian Artist, born 1985) "Her First Snow", 2015. Oil on Canvas, 60 x 70 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt #catlover

Happy Winter Solstice, Bluesky friends! ❄️ Always glad to reach this day in the calendar, and welcome the return of the light. This photo is from December 2022, when the Eildon Hills were looking pretty with their dusting of snow. #WinterSolstice #ScottishBorders #Landscape #Scotland #Snow

It’s #OpenHouse for #BlueskyArtShow, so here are an assortment of rather charming wee birdhouses I spotted in Amsterdam this week while visiting my sister! 🪶

It’s #OpenHouse on #BlueskyArtShow this week! I usually share my photography here, but today I wanted to share my mixed media artwork. It’s a piece that’s a hybrid of analogue & digital art: my hand-drawn illustrations, hand-lettering and digital collage elements. #GraphicDesign #MixedMediaArt

the most wonderful time of the year just got a little more colorful! it’s with much happiness in my heart that i share with you my new coloring ebook: meowy christmas 🎄 poorlycatdraw.gumroad.com/l/meowychris...

Day fifteen of #ArtAdventCalendar Here’s a little watercolour of a Jenny Wren.

If you live in the UK and you would like to buy art from my shop for Christmas. I am sending everything 'Tracked24' just to be sure of swift delivery! folksy.com/shops/thewee... #Landscape #Winter #Trees #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #ChristmasGifts #bsnm