You can see over 8000 human made images (97% of them with AltText) posted by over 600 #ArtAdventCalendar participants just by clicking or long pressing on the hashtag and selecting See Posts. I guarantee you it's better for your mental health than whatever else you're looking at on here.

Everyone in my house (except the cats) is super sick, but at this moment I'm well enough to whine about it here, so I must be on the road to recovery.

Work deadlines met! The festiveness can finally begin!

It's just that I would *like* to stop writing poems that question and seek hope, beauty, joy, reason in this bonkers and increasingly awful world, but they're the only ones that come out.

Ditto the 'it's too late to do anything about climate change' crowd

This is so f%$#ing infuriating. Killing the planet and wasting precious water for a plagiarizing, stupifying, meme-making, disinformation centre. Brilliant. #WeLiveInTheDumbestTime

Tonight, #YEG friends...if you can brave the snow for a little merriment!

very Happy Wednesday to Skate Canada and gratitude for speaking out against the UCP's BS! I hereby apologize for and take back all the mean things I ever said about figure skating.

Cigarettes aren't coming for your body -- they're already here. Our new Smoking for Health Bootcamp gives your heart and lungs the chemicals and carcinogens to die quicker.

3 days left to enter this contest!! We want your poems! ❤️

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 16 A bunch of random animals I drew whom study in the same school as our bunnies. ✒️ At Carrotington school, they welcome all sorts of animal pals - big and small, furry and feathered! 📚 #traditionalart #conceptart #characterdesign #anthroart #pendrawing

#ArtAdventCalendar no15 Meine #sewingbee hängt über meinem Nähplatz an der Wand. Wie immer mit Finger auf Smartphone gezeichnet, kein AI.

Day 15 of #ArtAdventCalendar this snowy Monday, with the Stump Witch. She's got that Monday vibe. Not the defeated one so much as the 'try me. Go on' one. Coloured pencil in sketchbook. #Witches #Sketchbook #Spooky

Day 15: #ArtAdventCalendar Tisha Mark ©2024, Storm's End, oil on linen, 20"x16" tishamark.com/product/stor... #art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm

For #artAdventCalendar Day 15 Carstairs Redux 42×34″ 107×86 cm Oil on Canvas 2025

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

That was an especially awful weekend of news, so time to revel in some joy, my friends! Please tell me something good that you did, will do, saw, ate, made, listened to, etc. etc. Hit me with the happy!!! 💖

Credit Matt Z. Haig @matthaig.bsky.social

we need to flush this rancid garbage out of this province

Please stay home if you’re feeling sick. If you absolutely can’t stay home, wear a mask. There are people who can’t afford to get sick. People without paid time off, people who are disabled or immune compromised, people who are caregivers. Help break chains of transmission

My completely unimportant seasonal take is that white chocolate is grossly sweet, chalky, trash that has zero business calling itself 'chocolate' in the first place.

Never have small acts of human creativity mattered so much. Paint, draw, put on a play, write a song, learn an instrument, write a story (or a book!). The worst thing you ever make will be better than all this slop.

Fucking incredible dystopian shit, comparing super rich people risking millions if not billions of lives just to make more money to people that risked their life actually building incredible things that would then make millions of dollars for super rich people.

1/ The Prairies gave Canada Medicare. Today, the Alberta government passed a bill to take it away and replace it with American-style, two-tier healthcare, all while Carney looks the other way. That's not who we are. That's the system our party fought to leave behind.

Danielle Smith is cynically endangering Trans youth in Alberta just to feed the Maple MAGA base. This shall not stand! Sign the petition from @faejohnstone.bsky.social. I just did: www.stop-smith.ca www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I don't trust anyone who doesn't have anxiety in this world. I'm also incredibly envious.

A world in itself. From a book I read, how each tree we see is a whole world all it's own. From the tree itself to bacteria and fungi, insects, birds and animals that live on it. 30x40 cm. Oil pastels on paper #treescape #trees #park #TreeOfTheDay #TotD #Austria #painting #ArtAdventCalendar

Whenever I see people acting like ragey, dickish jerks out in the world I think, 'If this is how bad you are in public, how much worse are you in private?'* *This post inspired by the asshat I saw screaming expletives at a woman driver in a parking lot before spitting on her car.

For #artadventcalendar #day9 , a cactus trio I painted in a class thru Denver Botanic Gardens' School of Botanical Art and Illustration. This was in colored pencil, watercolor, and gouache. I think I spent more time on the silly little rocks than the plants... Whose idea was this composition?!

Day 9 #ArtAdventCalendar #artistsofBlueSky #oilpainting This was a painting I did for Dr Darren Markland, based on one of his photos from his cabin. Sadly, we lost him due to an accident earlier this year. This one is for you, #drdagly

For day 9 #artAdventCalendar a large commission from 2022 Across The Valley 36×96 92x243cm Oil on Canvas Commission 2022

Day 9: #ArtAdventCalendar Tisha Mark ©2025, A Little Hopeful Light No. 2501, oil on gessobord, 4"x4" tishamark.com/product/a-li... #art #painting #SciArt #TraditionalArt #bsnm

In Welsh mythology, Blodeuwedd (also known as"flower-face") was a woman magically created from flowers. She was later transformed into an owl as punishment for betraying her husband, Lleu Llaw Gyffes, and cursed to be a creature of the night. Art my own. #ArtAdventCalendar #Folklore #WelshMythology

Day 8 of #ArtAdventCalendar Testing a new tune of two tone granulating color I just got! I love the tone so much. Already thinking about purchasing a bigger tube. On a side note: My paintings should really be more diverse. I paint too much snow lol #art #watercolor #artsky

Day 8 of #artadventcalendar2025 #artadventcalendar Raindrops on a leaf

For #ArtAdventCalendar day 8 evening, a temporary chalk mural I did for the 2019 DeepFreeze Festival in January 2019. Fortunately it was only -5 so not super deep freeze-y. Took about 9 hours.

"The Road Not Taken"... a poplar grove (cultivated) near Andrew, AB. i captured this in the fall when most of the leaves had fallen but there were still leaves on the trees in the background and the soft late afternoon light was filtering through them #ArtAdventCalendar www.stevericketts.ca

You should write weird, human stuff as a fuck-you to AI and the awful world we live in, yes, but also because you will be changed and your life will be changed through allowing yourself to be vulnerable and uncomfortable in your art.

Listening to A Perfect Circle at an unreasonable volume to get 'Step Into Christmas' out of my head

It's only been five years, but it's amazing how quickly we've forgotten that the people who really affect ours lives positively are medics, farmers, shop workers, etc, and not entrepreneurs, billionaires, etc

Happy #caturday throwback to me (about 4?) and my sister (about 12?) demonstrating how exceedingly tolerant our awesome cat Fonzie was. ❤️ And yes, he was named after the Happy Days character. #CatsOfBluesky

This poem is framed on my wall, but it doesn't need to be, because it also lives in my brain.

Come be festive with me, wordy #YEG friends!

please be nice to service workers in the holiday season. a woman beside me waiting for coffee just said, out loud, in full earshot of the barista, "they're really slow, huh?" and all I wanted to do was tell the worker I'd be her alibi if she wanted to punch her

This came to me in a dream

Do Smith and UCP ministers and MLAs go out in the wild a lot? Does anyone ever see them eating lunch in downtown #YEG and ask them, politely but firmly, why they continue to screw over Albertans & do corrupt crap at every opportunity? I would like a chance to do that. #ChristmasWish #AbLeg

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 5: Gruss vom Krampus! Krampus celebrations were banned in the 1930s by the Nazis in Germany and the fascist Christian government in Austria. Therefore, it's canon that Krampus is an anti-fascist symbol. Graphite and charcoal powder on paper.

🅳🅰🆈 5 - Frosted Forests... Winter's fingerprints are everywhere now, even on the tree tops. The sun burns coldly but the light only gets weaker all month. We get 7 hours and 45 minutes of light today. #artadventcalendar #forestfriday #photography #winter #eastcoastkin #yeg #blueskyartshow #scape

What flavour is he? #CatsOfBluesky