Day 15 #ArtAdventCalendar Variegated Culture 2, watercolour paint on paper, 22.8 cm x 30.5 cm, 2013 #art #painting #watercolour #WatercolourPainting #InspiredByNature

Thundering Oceanbergs! I feel ambiguous about the sea on the one hand buckets and spades on the other getting drowned. long lens time for #ArtAdventCalendar day15

There's a bit of an art to photographing a black dog. Digital sensors tend to gather more info in darkness than brightness so I set exposure to avoid burning out highlights. The edit's then largely about creatively bringing up the shadows (using adjustment layers). for #ArtAdventCalendar day14 #dog

#ArtAdventCalendar day 13 a little index card #collage

Geometry on the Onsen Stylistically it's the kind of thing I learned from a pair of beautiful 1950s curtains that I knew as an infant: fabric by John Piper. The sensory deprivation of childhood in the '60s meant colourful glimpses hit hard #MidCenturyModern from #Nagano for #ArtAdventCalendar day13

Decided to try a self portrait, which I pretty much never do. I’m always more interested in how everyone and everything else looks than I am in how I look. #ArtAdventCalendar

the so-called real world's harsh but its shapes harmonies and tones can be worked into the still safe silent space of a picture. I prefer to see the outside world as Unmade Art than what I fear it might really be. Another new one for #ArtAdventCalendar day12

A new picture for day11 of #ArtAdventCalendar Ghent garage + lovely Lisbon hillside buildings: 2 photos mixed with a "difference" blend mode + theshold layers for whites and blacks + compressed colour areas by histogram adjustment + fabulously tasteful colour edit = another pretty picture hello

Lisbon! There's a lot been going on there for a thousand years and it looks it, a proper old town built on hills and FRIGHTFULLY Portuguese. Here's an old house with some lovely southern European vibes... It's my picture for #ArtAdventCalendar day10

cogs elevate a museum here's some from glum berlin compositionally it's a cloud machine for #ArtAdventCalendar day9

I don't really do people photographically 1) stealing their souls 2) shapeshift 3) rude to point but when I'm actually married I'll give it a go so here's Mary under the watertower for this UXORIOUS #ArtAdventCalendar day8 a triple exposure remix

More travel photography. I took pictures from Berlin and made this. Flowers and machines! two of my favourite subjects. Anyhow this is my kind of robot with notes in the ALT xxx for #ArtAdventCalendar day7

Oooooohh dogs in Scotland land of windy mud wee mammals and dogpeople walking about for a chat and a biscuit Healthy you know?

🥰 Larger Pacific Striped Octopus 🐙 Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨 #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 5. When I originally drew this, the NFT bubble popped not long after. May reposting it bring the AI bubble the same fate.

ok ok ok the leaves aren't blue. reality's inadequacies. texture texture, it's photography of a better woody world #AbstractLenspressionism #ArtAdventCalendar day6

Choosing a picture for day5 of #ArtAdventCalendar has been strangely difficult... I actually put a picture up earlier, then deleted it because I wanted something a bit more... FLAMBOYANT! Then I found what I needed in November, it's a burned out car: Out of the strong came forth sweetness right?

last week in california I saw the pacific ocean do this #colour #photography

bleep!

So @plantteaching.bsky.social travels the world... sometimes I tag along. This time Belgium. Ghent! I loved it. plenty of raw material.. I like to make the world look GOOD in my photography because it is, if you look carefully. This picture's all about SUNSHINE for #ArtAdventCalendar day4

HEY YOU. STOP DOOMSCROLLING. Right click or press and hold this > #ArtAdventCalendar and choose "See #ArtAdventCalendar posts" It's a portal to a beautiful place that has nothing but art made by real humans. DO IT.

IC-1805 -The Soul Nebula. HOO process 40 mins from 10th November 2025. ZS61, ASI 585MC, L-eXtreme filter. #astronomy #astrophotography

This year I went to Berlin; didn't like it. But there were some nice engines in the technischen museum; here are two of them in my picture called "An Artist's Tribute to Professor Branestawm". #RoleModel This is my #ArtAdventCalendar day 3 pic. I was trying for "cheerful" with this edit.

"Many disabled people need adaptations made to cars before they can use them – anything from adjusting the controls to work around limb impairments, to removing the driving seat so that a wheelchair can fit into that space. They need to pay for these themselves." #Motability #Disability #WelfareCuts

I love this so much.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”

Let's get #ArtAdventCalendar rolling! It's December 1 somewhere right now. Saskatchewan Supercell 32x40in 81x102cm Oil on Canvas 2019 #Art #Painting

These boat strikes will be nothing compared to the war crimes they will commit after they initiate regime change to seize Venezuelan oil companies.

Old Lisbon in Portugal was the highlight of my photographic year, what a city! I love to come home knowing I have a thousand exposures of interesting scenes to work on.. here's two of them on day two of #ArtAdventCalendar #photography

we're just back from california... here's a quick edit of a misty scene. I'm afraid this kind of hobbit-land prettification editing is just the kind of thing that AI does so convincingly, but in this case it was me honest! I've put some notes in the ALT text about how I did it #photography #ca #usa

It's time for #ArtAdventCalendar to start up again! Here's my first picture, imagine opening a little door... This on is one of my mixes, two photos from the Science Museum in Leiden. I mix using layers with a "difference" blend mode. So both pictures contribute equally, then I edit for colour.

BBC runnong a 'Disclosure programme in Scotland about migrant hotels. Isn’t it funny, how we haven’t had a Disclosure programme, about radioactive leaks in the Clyde. That surely affects more folk, than a few BritNat ignorant pricks, shouting at hotels.

We had a wonderful few days visiting my parents in California where it is still autumn and beautiful, but apparently the dog is missing us ❣️ so we are heading home tomorrow. My mum's macular degeneration is getting serious, so our visits are particularly special to her 🥺.

Excellent article, perfect reading to prepare for family and social gatherings. psyche.co/guides/how-t...

It's gift-giving season! Why not give the gift of plant knowledge? Here are some excellent, accessible books to engage & excite. Fantastic offerings from @berondam.bsky.social (& a new one out in Jan) @jondrori.co.uk (& a new kids book) @razda5.bsky.social 💚 @ferrisjabr.bsky.social 👍 Novels too!

Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames *** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *

Released this morning. A great resource to challenge Britnats TOP 10 MOST CRAZY CLAIMS UNIONISTS MAKE | And Why Scottish Independence ... youtu.be/JtAJcMZhUos?... via @YouTube We have all heard them - the most ridulous claims unionists make to defend the UK and attack Scottish independence.

I was that husband. 🤓😘

We stayed in touch & collaborated on several projects, always driven by his desire to help scientists think beyond the status quo. I loved the discussion on "What makes a paper really pioneering", it is a relevant today as it was five years ago plantae.org/plantae-webi... (2/3)

しちごさん Shichigosan for my second granddaughter today. I didn't make it in person but I am enjoying the cute pictures 🩷🩷, and I will be in Japan when she turns four in a few weeks 🇯🇵.

We took the dog past the horse pasture for the first time, and her reactions were brilliant. I'm not sure what was going on in her head, but she thought these huge creatures were fascinating. (She probably liked the smell too, she's very scent-sitive ❣️)

We are looking with lawyers at the propensity of AI to produce dishonest and defamatory statements.

Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era. ✍️ Rachel Ehrenberg knowmag.org/4hImL8e

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

I’m stoked to #boycott Christmas! Let those corporations tank.

This extra £25.5 million means more appointments, more procedures, more people getting care faster - part of £135.5 million invested this year to keep cutting waiting times.