#ArtAdventCalendar Day 23: painting a set is always a blast. For these two, every 10 paint splashes I smashed the canvases together to see what transfers!

We're at day 22 of #artAdventCalendar. 630 participants have posted nearly 8000 images. An average of 360 per day. 97% of them have AltText. If we can do it. So can you.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 22: My first mixed media art from almost 10 years ago, where I repurchased a canvas and I stitched actual embroidery thread! It was fun!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 21: My first and only attempt of designing a book cover for my first collection of poems and illustrations published in 2017. Really enjoyed the experience and I'm so grateful that the local library's MakerSpace gave an affordable opportunity to print and bind a few copies!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 20 A little cheaty feeling because I shared this poem for last years calendar, but it's a different imagine all together and this goes with the funky vibes I've been feeling with the last couple posts ❤️ It (and she) is called Gift Giver

I don't remember what this one was called, but here's day 20 for #artadventcalendar coming in hot! Mixed media collage on paper. #mixedmedia #collage #art

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 20 (and 19!)Medium art pieces that are mostly upcycled! Gravity, time random selection makes interesting pieces! 🥰

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18: upcycled wedding memento using vintage frames and sample lace from my wedding gown and my husband's pocket square!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 17. A fully upcycled piece, from the frame, acrylics, nail polish and glitter!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 16: I didn't know what to do with the lace of my wedding dress that I took apart for materials. This is the result for the skirt part.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 15: my favorite way to re-use campaign lawn signs. And now I have even more supplies from two elections!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14: A piece that made it to two Filipino-Canadian exhibits, with my using my own clothes and figuring out how I showcase being Filipino in a place that doesn't always understand regional nuances.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14: a painted forest nymph!

Day 14 #ArtAdventCalendar Taken on a trip to Jasper, Alberta

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 13: I did a decoupage/mixed media piece using a frame and old dictionary. I displayed it as an art piece for years then used them to frame medals when I moved to our current house.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 12 (and 11 also!) The husband & I had an era of painting dozens of miniatures that we had diorama and had perfect representation of our board game characters!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 10: another mixed media flow art piece, on a 16 inch frame. I poured so much and since it was house paint it took a week to dry! 😅

This is one of the first things I made back in 2017 #artadventcalendar

🩵 Caribbean Reef Octopus 🐙 Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨 #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

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#ArtAdventCalendar #sashiko #embroidery The upper left is a traditional pattern, the rest are based on outlines of real leaves found in my neighborhood. All waiting to be incorporated into something else. Sashiko is very relaxing, especially if you do freestyle shapes. Day 9.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 9: I got those colouring books for adults and decided to use acrylics to bring them to life to brighten up my cubicle. Been my office decor for the past 3 years! 🥰

Today we had 39 #ArtAdventCalendar posts without AltText, and that doesn't include the accounts I've muted so that brings us to under 90% AltText usage. And that makes me a bit sad. On the other hand, AltText usage on BlueSky runs at about 20%, we're doing amazing. But let's get that number up

It might not be anywhere near cool enough here to need hot chocolate at night to warm up, but it's still hot chocolate season. I drew this a few years ago in Procreate. #ArtAdventCalendar Day 8

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 8: One of my first experimentation with abstract flow art from 11 years ago. A piece I titled "Precious Metals". Acrylic on canvas. I donated it to some art fundraiser a long time ago, so it's nice to see a photo from my archives.

#ArtAdventCalendar for day 6 and 7: mixed media pieces that are 75% recycled: house paint, old glass picture frames, just a bit of acrylic artist paint. Very messy and fun to just let the paints flow! 😁

Just heard from my neighbourhood community league board that our new city councillor visited them already! I'm very impressed since election day was only 6-ish weeks ago. Not bad for her first term! #yegCC

In a special #Caturday edition of #ArtAdventCalendar, these are paintings I've done of my cats through the years. They are great models whether they're being elegant, cozy or goofy.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 5: I made several double-sided paintings before and this is the one I kept for myself. I flip it to the other side 2x a year.

Day 6 #ArtAdventCalendar #artistsofBlueSky #oilpainting Another Vancouver Island painting. Near Sooke. This one resides in BC and was a joy to paint.

Hey Edmonton-based Bluesky friends. Do you care about how walk-/bike-friendly 76 Avenue is, between the ravine and 99 street? If so, you are invited to meet me and some like-minded friends at 2:30 tomorrow at Bent Stick brewing to help formulate a response the city's proposed new design. DM me!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 4: a Covid-related keepsake. I volunteered with hundreds of people to sew hundreds of fabric bags for healthcare workers to store their dirty work scrubs. Which meant dozens of spools of thread used! It meant to read the word "serve"! 😊

@talilalewis.bsky.social has the best definition of ableism, which applies here! 👀 If you are newer to thinking critically about ableism, please take a moment to check out the Disability Justice framework of 10 interconnected principles that we ALL need to invest in: sinsinvalid.org/10-principle...

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 3. Paper mache Canadian goose protest hat for the March 21 solidarity protest in Detroit.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 3: what started as a simple jeans repair turned into an upcycled/visible mending chaos that my husband refused to let go. He really loves his "artsy pants" and it's been ripped so much that I need to patch and embroider so much more this year! 😁

Today is International Day Of Persons with Disabilities. It's 2025 and I want to emphasize we can all help with digital accessibility! Always: Put captions on videos. Put alt-text/ image descriptions on photos. Save files ensuring that digital readers can access them!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 2! My husband's quilt needs another square repaired. It was an old shirt from the board game league so the new patch needs to have the same theme! 🥰🧵

Just recorded a candid episode on The Agege Bread Podcast about running for council twice, losing twice, and everything behind the scenes of municipal campaigns. "It's an endless auditioning to prove your viability!" 🎧 Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2146949/epis...

Starting simple for #ArtAdventCalendar! The only physical crafty thing I did when I ran for city council this year (and lost again)! It's still displayed in my home office and makes me feel a lot of feelings whenever I see it.

Yessssssss!

Sign of an introvert: after 3 activities yesterday that require being around people, my brain wanted me to take an extra 3.5 hour nap today to recover. 🙃

Marry someone who thinks about your nerdy tendencies and keeps their transit ticket as a souvenir after a trip! 🥰🚍

Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero.

Do you make... Paintings, pots, sculptures, sketches, photographs, quilts, digital art, beading, textiles, mini figs, printmaking & any other visual art... Whatever skill level you're at, if you made it, it's mostly sfw, and not AI (never AI) I want you to participate! Starts in 4 days! #art

The honorarium I've earned from facilitating writing workshops becomes the money I use to pay my Writers Guild membership fees. Full circle moment every year, keeping the money within the literary community. 😀

I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

Discovered blueberry perogies for the first time. So good! 🥰 Father-in-law served them for dinner tonight along with cabbage rolls.

Was waiting for my next #yegTransit connection for 15 minutes. No one tapped off their ARC card after leaving the LRT. Only 7 of 30 tapped on coming in. The scanner location makes it so easy to ignore. Would having fare gates fix this, to help with both getting revenue and proper ridership stats?

At Edmonton City Hall this afternoon for the Holodomor Commemoration - an event with a very real resonance this year, with Ukraine again under Russian threat. #yeg #yegcc #Holodomor #Ukraine #cdnpoli

Living in downtown Edmonton has been working well for my 77y.o. father in law! The festivals, activities, amenities are so accessible for him! Looking forward to better safety measures on transit so he'll feel safe taking it often once he sells his car! #yegDT #yegCC