Starting something new — digital collage. Layering old images, flowers, marks, and words… seeing what happens when they start talking to each other. This is #1. #DigitalCollage @procreate.com

"Why don't Americans–" Motherfucker, I live in Minneapolis

i have a new toy: a cutting machine! I bought a Cricut Joy Xtra. This is SOOOOO much easier that a cranked die cut machine, plus I don't need a million dies.

full in the bird or leave it white? #watercolour #messy

wild watercolour class paintings last week. another session today. only three more left! #wildwatercolour @karenelaineartist.bsky.social @willawanders.bsky.social

bought myself a cheap sewing machine so i could use it on mixed media projects and journals.

i love how much they resemble muppets

chilaquiles a la tamouse__

new dies for making cut outs. lotta work. not i like this process much. #diecutting #sizzixbigshot #cardmaking

Gif that make you smile

i oppose KOSA and i hope you will talk to your less politically engaged friends and family about why they should too

idk what's worse, editing out Maui's nipples or Namor's bulge this erasure traps popular culture between a Rock and a hard place

Let me write that part again: in the last 5 years there have been over 300 state anti-trans laws; compare that with just over 400 Jim Crow state laws in the last 100 years. (No one wins an “ i’m more discriminated against” sweepstakes - we all lose, instead.)

Ongoing, severe flooding in Hawaii. www.kcra.com/article/hawa...

actual "art" today. otherwise, lots of prep, fodder, and general what-not.

open.substack.com/pub/theconsc... from @theconsciouslee.bsky.social

collage and spread in my art journal 2026 No. 1

actual art made today, by me. catching up on class from last week. #watercolour #painting #wildwatercolors @karenelaineartist.bsky.social

Quoting OP: “there was a new study published … in Nature showing that state-level anti-trans laws increase suicide among trans kids up to 72%.” Between denying them care, ignoring CSA, & shrugging off mass murdering shooters as “normal”, we kill more of our children than any other rich country. Why?

Catching up on Wild Watercolor class from last Tuesday. #watercolour #painting #WildWatercolour willa-workshops.teachable.com/p/wild-water... @willawanders.bsky.social @karenelaineartist.bsky.social

ICE is still here in MN, and our neighbors are still in hiding. Rent is due TODAY, and I’m scrambling to raise funds to keep immigrant families in need out of eviction court. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and give if you can! Thank you! 🌷

Back on this, and today we have a $1000 match! Working in coordination with standwithminnesota.com, I’m adopting a rent. This Minneapolis immigrant family has a total need of $1800. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and give if you can! Thank you! 🫶🏻

Hailey's been stuck at 8 percent for a while... Can we get her to 10 percent TODAY? <3

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school. They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

Whenever I get very angry with this current timeline, I donate to a rent fund. It is very cathartic, I highly recommend you try it. www.standwithminnesota.com

Thank you for standing with MN and supporting our neighbors! The next Minneapolis immigrant family I’m adopting the rent for has a total rent need of $2400. Can you help them stay housed today? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and give if you can! Thank you! 🥹

2 studies on atmospheric perspective tonight in class. #art #painting #watercolour #studies

Queer bookstores died in 2010. We had a funeral and everything! Except... a ton of people decided to roll up their sleeves and start *new* queer bookshops, all over the place. In cities. In tiny towns. My latest newsletter is about the rebirth of the LGBTQ bookshop: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Writing this story made me happy in a dark time. I talked to half a dozen people who started queer bookstores in their communities, and what I heard gave me hope. These aren't just bookstores — they're a lifeline for people who have no place else to go.

reposting with hope

I dont know where this was but lol

Some #wonderful #wild #watercolour with @karenelaineartist.bsky.social

I got some dip pen nibs today. can anyone explain what the nib throwing the bird is for, and why it's designed that way?

Another go at the barn and mountains landscape. Colour studies trying to make them work. #watercolour #painting #landscapepainting #landscapewatercolours #colourstudies #WIP

Urban sketching in Drawing class (my favorite!). Pencil work first to practice. 2nd half straight in with ink. I try to use the single line approach, but I never make it. That means I need to simplify a lot more. Still amazing fun! #painting #urbansketching

NEW: ICE in Minnesota – Days 51-56: Bovino Removed After Pretti Killing; Noise Demo Drives Out Agents; ‘ICE Out’ Day of Action in Twin Cities unicornriot.ninja/2026/ice-in-...

tonight's mood

late night studio shenanigans before bed. Snippets/scraps sheet. Acrylic abstract city scape. #acrylics #collage #painting #gluing #art

Outside agitators? Please. You think anyone who didn’t live in Minnesota would be outside in this?

MINNESOTA VERSION OF COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS

I welcome any and all attempts to offset the rough examples of religion that I've experienced in my life and this is certainly one. 👏🏻👏🏻

Shared with immense grief and pride that this is where I choose to call home 🩵💙 Fuck ICE. Stay safe, MN.

Think they get dizzy doing all these circles?

I just want people outside of Minneapolis to watch this and imagine listening to that noise over you literally all the time

#urbansketching #drawing #sketching #yellow #indigo #inkandwatercolour #inkandwash #watercolour

A commissioned art work I can finally share. Had so much fun painting these two pigeons on a rock! If you feel like owning a commissioned painting yourself, I do paint most mammals, birds and extinct animals Acrylics on pressed board 15.7″ x 15.7″ (40 x 40 cm) www.esthervanhulsen.com

Bobbin the Robin likes a suet pellet. #BirdOfTheDay #FoodFinds #birds #photography #EastCoastKin