Life has a way of relentlessly pounding you like an ocean wave. I’ve needed to take a break from all socials and still not sure how much I want to be back. Come pause on the beach for a winter dawn with me. #ocean

Back when the Kennedy Center actually was, ( 😢 ) they asked Mo Willems to create art based on each of Beethoven’s nine symphonies. The exhibit of his resulting nine abstract works of art was beautiful. First pic is the ninth, commonly known as Ode to Joy. #BlueSkyArtShow #Joy

Life is slowly finding a new normal. This is one of my favorites, I was frustrated with my paints one day and put the brush down to just smear the colors with my palette knife. I left the messy ridges among the swipes as a defiance but now it’s one of my favorite aspects. #BlueSkyArtShow #texture

Fell out of a book I was putting in a box. Harmonic. I am doing exactly what it says. Apologies for not posting so much right now. Going through some stuff. Be back soon with my art. Thank you for understanding.

The fact that this evil gang of thugs dismantling everything had NO problem “facilitating” a private jet without delay to go retrieve the (allegedly) criminal T8s back to the (former) USA should put the entire gang and King Turd in jail for contempt for refusing to go get Abrego Garcia. W. T. F.

One other drawing for the #BlueSkyArtShow #Peaceful theme this week and for #Caturday! This was about practicing a new-to-me drawing method on that cute back foot Zoe always had up in the air while she slept peacefully like this. Not a Creature Was Stirring, 5x7 graphite

This week’s entry is for the 2 wbu owlets that just hatched this week! (see my March 6 post w/the owl cam link) A few years ago a wbu owlet fell while fledging, climbed onto a stump and rested awhile. Reference photo Jim Carpenter w/permission. Downtime, 5x7 graphite. #BlueSkyArtShow #Peaceful

That was easy 😂 Sorry couldn’t resist 🤪 #acoloradAyPRIL #white

Turned scraps into something with my ink pen. I call them The Inches. #acoloradAyPRIL #black

Interesting prompt posts in the show today! Here’s mine, from a lovely Northern California evening years ago. #BlueSkyArtShow #silhouette

I’ve never been one to just copy the crowd, so I knew my entry in a planner design contest was risky since it wasn’t repetitive floral like the rest. Still bummed it wasn’t chosen as a finalist. Oh well. I still love it. Maybe I’ll print my own. Design info in alt. #MakersmARTch #MkrsmARTch #Connect

A little late in the day but still Saturday! Arch of Galerius in Thessaloniki Greece, taken by me. Fascinating reliefs on the ruins dating back to 300 AD. #BlueSkyArtShow #Arch

Recently got to go see the #NCMA Art in Bloom exhibit where artists are assigned a museum work of art to interpret in floral form. These were my favorites.

I’m sorry I can’t do much today except maybe paint some rocks, I’m just so heartbroken about things

Peeled my minneola in one piece today 😬 #stunday

I saved you a piece of the Pi Day apple pie, and made it a la mode for you, for today’s art prompt! 🤭 (yes it’s only a half inch, had to stay true to yesterday’s miniature pie scale of course) #MakersmARTch #MkrsmARTch #Sculpt

After an evening summer rain storm I had to pull over and try to capture the heavenly sight. #BlueSkyArtShow #Sunlight

Happy #PiDay Bluesky! With today’s art prompt material I made you a little apple pie 😆 #MakersmARTch #MkrsmARTch #clay

I got nothin for today, though I’d love to try felting someday. So here is the one little piece of felt I have that my mom sent me in a notecard one day. I carry it in my pocket. It used to have a smiley face she drew on it but it’s been thru the wash too many times. #MakersmARTch #MkrsmARTch #felt

Just a little wind-down doodle for today with my Pitt pens. #MakersmARTch #MkrsmARTch #ink

I am SO excited to share with all of you that my collaboration with Lighthouse Puzzles is now live! My sweet Cozy Kitty artwork was chosen by Lighthouse Puzzles to create their latest wooden puzzle featuring cat-shaped pieces that fit into a second puzzle! lighthousepuzzles.com/products/coz...

Finished my painting in time for today’s prompt. It took longer than I thought but I’m happy with it. “With Love, Despite the Pain”, 40x30 acrylic on canvas #MakersmARTch #MkrsmARTch #paint #acrylicpainting #fineart

Ok, so here’s the results. The water lily potato didn’t really work out, I think I did it backwards 🤪 Next I tried a rose with the other one and started to get the hang of it near the end. Kinda like how that one turned out. #MakersmARTch #Carve #artisfun

This may or may not become a thing after I fiddle with it for today’s MakersmARTch Carve prompt 🤞🏼🤪

Natural and architectural beauty among the windows of the stunning Marjorie Powell Allen Chapel at Powell Gardens outside Kansas City, Missouri #BlueSkyArtShow #Windows

And I can’t leave out my ancestral land..an artsy one from the Rock of Cashel (St. Patrick’s Rock) in County Tipperary, Ireland 🇮🇪 🍀 I was fascinated with these huge windows in the cathedral and tried to capture how small I felt among them. #BlueSkyArtShow #Windows

Beautiful stained glass windows in The Little Chapel, on Guernsey 🇬🇬 thelittlechapel.gg for more on this amazing little gem on earth #BlueSkyArtShow #Windows

On Guernsey 🇬🇬 the flower boxes made all the windows oh so beautiful. #BlueSkyArtShow #Windows

As a medevac helicopter pilot, I spent years looking out these windows en route to the next hospital, or in this one on the way home after a pre-dawn patient delivery. (Photo courtesy of my medic) #BlueSkyArtShow #Windows

Billed as the best view you’ll find from inside a loo 🤭….up at McKinnon Pass, the highest point along the Milford Track in New Zealand 🇳🇿❤️ #BlueSkyArtShow #Windows

Every morning started with this amazing view from the open windows up in the breakfast room at the Old Government House Hotel in Chania on Crete, Greece 🇬🇷❤️ #BlueSkyArtShow #Windows

The windows were all so interesting on Crete, Greece 🇬🇷 #BlueSkyArtShow #Windows

The Ghosts Of Winter #Photography #ArtYear #EastCoastKin #lensbaby #closeup #Soft #makersmARTch #naturephotography #alttext

The WBU owl cams are back! The first egg was laid yesterday! If you haven’t experienced a season of the watching the owls, it’s an uplifting positive antidote to the stress of each day in this increasingly chaotic world. Follow along with me this year 🦉 www.wbu.com/owl-cam/

It’s such a strange day when you sign a painting and officially call it finished after spending so many days on it. I ended up painting the whole thing with my poor 3/8 angular shader brush but Dixon Ticonderoga kindly sent me a new one that won’t chip I hope. Time to clean the box! #artiststudio

For today’s theme, daffodils. A peek at the miniature polymer clay flowers I used to do. I mixed mica powders into translucent for the look and blended clays on the edges bcuz I don’t like the look of painted clay. These went to an aunt fighting cancer, a hope for renewal. #BlueSkyArtShow #Spring

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊

Salut! Had to give today to my Burgundy Pears after seeing the theme. They started my 2025 Food Follies illustrated calendar off appropriately 🍷😂 (see alt if you ❤️ and want to enjoy a Banana in March) #FebruARTy #Pear #altText #Procreate

Just off my drawing board... #cat #art #drawing #pencil

For today’s theme, not a color I use much. Coneflowers, 3 x 4.5 inches, pastel pencil. In the end I didn’t like all the green and wished I’d done it differently altogether but I learned and didn’t toss it. #FebruARTy #magenta #pastel

After telling myself today was Tuesday when I awoke, the number three popped into my head with something to say about it, so I drew this after coffee 😂 #FebruARTy #ArtYear #altText #illustration

#ResistanceRoots #Voices4Victory #BlackHistoryMonth Today in history, 1979: Frank Peterson becomes the first African American general in the Marine Corps. Told when he enlisted that he’d make a great steward, Peterson vowed to become a combat pilot and entered the Naval Aviation Cadet Program. /1

😂 (Pic cred sis) #Caturday

Ironically today is the anniversary of my first solo in an airplane, and this was the airport flight school. I remember bouncing out that door to go fly. I was shocked to see it like this many years later when I flew in as a helicopter pilot to pick up a client. See ALT. #BlueSkyArtShow #Abandoned

Today I honor artist Yolanda Cooper. She attended the Hussian School of Art in Philadelphia, PA with my artist aunt in the early 1980s. We found this among my aunt’s old items a few years ago. I love the composition and framed it. I tried to locate her now and had no luck. #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM

One for #Stunday It was my first time at this Dallas airshow and I didn’t know what was coming so I just readied my little camera and pressed the button a few times as the airplanes flew by for their awesome demo. We were stunned to find this perfectly timed shot on my camera after the show.

For my mom who has a vision defect and can’t see much color. 5x5 graphite on Bristol vellum. #BlueSkyArtShow #FebruARTy #Monochrome #Drawing

My other favorite from our visit to @longwoodgardens.bsky.social Light: Installations by Bruce Munro. No filter on this, it was just so mesmerizing. #BlueSkyArtShow #Monochrome #Photography

World War 1 Museum Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri. “Lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen.” (Old Testament passage inscribed above the bronze doors to Exhibit Hall) More about the Memory and Future Sphinxes pictured in ALT. #BlueSkyArtShow #Monochrome