Su Blackwell, UK artist who creates paper art using books, often based on fairytale and nature #WomensArt

#Artists— What are some good books, podcasts, or accounts to follow to learn how to turn art into a business? 🤔 🖼️ 💰

Hobby mashup: yoga 🤝 painting #ArtofSelfPortraiture #yoga #wildthing

A new week is about to start and that means new art challenges! Here's your cheat sheet for April 21–27. Share away! #ArtChallenges #ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #dailyart #art #traditionalart #painting #drawing #onlybeautifulthings

Hey BlueSky! Sharing some gummies I painted for #foodpaintchallenge on IG. Take what you need: ❤️ Red is joy 🩵 Blue is bravery 💛 Yellow is chill I’m poppin all 3. #gouache #art #blueskyartshow #painting #easter #gummies

Birthday card season continues #pickle #art #watercolor #gouache #cards #pun

My mental health as a fed employee can be described as a single shot of espresso in a tequila shot glass Part restraint, part escapism, slightly rebellious (in a symbolic sense), self-medicating with the tiniest allowable dose, self-soothing with aesthetics, savoring the small joys

Beach art, part 2! See alt text for my initial thoughts on “urban” sketching. Cliffnotes: 🎨Changing scene + limited setup are difficult but got me out of my comfort zone 🎨 Cool way to immerse yourself in a scene and create a momento 🎨 Mixed feelings on being perceived while creating

#painting en la playa en Mexico! 🏝️ 🎨 #beach #art #watercolor #seascape

Sneaking one in last-minute for #MarchintoLandscapes: #dank (because I’m procrastinating packing for Mexico) A mini #gouache #painting of Linville Caverns in North Carolina, where I visited several years ago. These jadey green deposits were so cool

#Drawing for #MakersMArtch. The best drawing advice I’ve gotten: 1. Everything is shapes and lines. Including… 2. Negative space. (The shapes between the shapes.) Don’t say, “I can’t draw XX” (mine was mouths), because that, too, is just shapes and lines. What’s your best tip? #drawing #drawingtips

I know some of you have seen this guy before, but I wanted to submit this today for the "Draw" prompt. Bruce 2.0, the mechanical shark used in the filming of Jaws. 🎬🦈 #MakersmARTch #MkrsmARTch #art #ArtYear #Jaws #movies #blueskyartists #artonbluesky #Draw

#dank #landscape from a photo I took in #southcarolina made w the Color Therapy app years ago (iykyk 😎 You can do a fair amount in the paid version & they actually had great tutorials). I think I did pretty good for fingers + an iPhone! I 🤍 the ripples in the water #MarchIntoLandscapes

A quick daffodil for a birthday card for my mom 💜 purple is her color and daffodils, apparently, are her birth-month flower #daffodil #watercolor #gouache #painting #art

#Frozen #landscape painted through the POV of binoculars, featuring ice fishers we saw on Lake Winnipesaukee this winter. “Orange Coat” was out there all day doing their thing, joined off and on by assistants. We were very impressed by their tenacity. #nh #watercolor #marchintolandscapes

A tiny, stained-glass heart painting I made for Valentine’s Day last year. I add a new tiny painting each birthday, Valentine’s Day, and anniversary. Filling in all the fragments with different gradients was very meditative and relaxing. #glass #watercolor #sharpie #makersmartch

An oldie but goodie. I painted this #crowded beach scene for Father’s Day 2 years ago when I’d just started painting. I think I did a good job but every part of this was a learning experience (see alt texts for details). #MarchIntoLandscapes #landscape #watercolor #art #BlueSkyArtShow

Some art and a song from me... #donovan

Micro “alien landscape” 👽 🦀 🐚 for Day 15 of the #MarchIntoLandscapes challenge. This is a closeup of a rock on a beach in Panama with a bunch of little hermit crabs (I think) hanging out within the rock face #landscape #watercolor #painting #gouache

#Jagged #landscape for #MarchIntoLandscapes is from a photo I took at Cannon Beach in Oregon where The Goonies was filmed. It’s a #seascape but it’s low tide, so it counts

This is barely a #landscape but this gorgeous yoga shala is #cavernous and I just couldn’t wait to start painting some scenes from my Panama trip / join the #marchintolandscapes art challenge

My little beach treasures. This is apparently a travel account for now until I get my paints back 😂 maybe I could gather enough to stage a little miniature mountain scene. Anyone know what flowers these are? #panama #beach #travel

#Wood burning experiments for #MakersMartch ! (1) Axe handle w my own 🌭 font for our annual neighborhood Sausage Fest (2) Initials and fleur de lis for a friend (3) hands of family in ILY in ASL 🤟🏼 for in-laws’ Xmas gift

The closest I’ll get to “art” this week is the food here at Sansara Resort in #Panama 😍 Media: beet hummus, egg yolk, and balsamic on to-go container ( / toast) 😜 Everything has been so amazing.

The beauty of Cambutal, Panamá #panama #travel #latinamerica 🇵🇦

In this beautiful place and I forgot #art supplies. Was so hoping to try #urbansketching but 🥲 capturing some references for later #panama #panamacity 🇵🇦

Here is some #pottery we made for “date night” at Studio 550 in #Manchester, #NH. 🍯 I made the pieces on the right our first time (the pros did the glaze and handle) and we brought the fam for the second time (left) and will have our final pieces ready in a few weeks 😊

#FebruArty #turquoise #FishyFeb #reef I had just gotten metallic #watercolor paints and white acrylic pen, so I experimented to see if I could create water effects over this turtle swimming through a coral reef. A less realistic and more graphic/illustrative style than I usually do.

#FebruArty Day 18 = #Glasses 🫙🍹🥃🥂

King of the #rough seas (left) who inspired me to improve my #rough rocks (right) using a credit card in #watercolor technique from an excellent tutorial by YouTuber @artbypaulclark. I love the controlled randomness of this technique, mimicking nature with and unnatural object. #FebruArty #painting

W&N designers gouache on cold press watercolor paper 6x9” #gouache #art #painting #traditionalart #artbyhumans #berniesanders

#BigAndSmall #Februarty Even though we’ve been following the progress of these ice fishers with binoculars, they’re still so far out that they look tiny 🎣 🔎 🧐 #lakewinnipesaukee #icefishing #painting #gouache #watercolor #nhartists #lake #fishing #angler

“Warm Glow” Sharing a close up of the coziest piece I’ve painted. I wanted viewers to feel warm, cozy and safe when they look at it, esp in this cold season 🤎 ~watercolor ~original sold / prints available on website #watercolor #painting #artist #art #artwork

Lake Winnipesaukee looking very demure and #monochrome in honor of #BlueSkyArtShow. We’re up here getting some skiing in before we get a couple feet of snow #watercolor #painting #lake #blue #newhampshire #nh #FebruArty

Major throwback! I painted this #pair of wolves back in 2012 on my parents’ living room floor and now it’s hanging in my guest/hobby room where I do a lot of my painting. I didn’t know what I was doing but I still love it 🤍🤍 #acrylic #painting #FebruArty

“Guys seriously, why are you looking at me like that?” 😟 “Fish has algae growing on its forehead” was the caption of the reference on Reddit, thus my take on #AlgaeEater for #FishyFeb x #FebruArty is more of a snack than a snacker. Gotta watch out for those omnivores. #art #gouache #watercolor

Me: What should I paint? Spouse: Paint me like one of your French girls Me: Best I can do is a sketch of you falling asleep on the couch after playing XBox Happy #ValentinesDay 👵🏼 💎 🎧 #sketch #art #titanic #gamer

Ok I already posted this but not for #FebruArty and I just posted a bunch of fruit yesterday but not for #Orange 🍊 🍊 🍊 So here it is! 🤗 #gouache on #watercolor paper #stilllife #fruit #painting

The #FebruArty word today is #Sweet. This couple strolled through Falmouth; crooked backs, cocked hips, canes clicking; holding hands and swaying in a dance they’ve done forever. #watercolor #watercolour #artistherapy

Some #sweet #SensoryArt for #FebruArty! This one was easy because fruit is apparently one of my favorite things to #paint 🍓🫐🍉 Shoutout to #foodpaintchallenge on IG for 2 of the references. The blackberries were a snack and the watermelon was from multiple photos #watercolor #art #fruit #stilllife

One more for #FebruArty #rings + PSA to play with your food (or put down the paints and touch grass 🤷🏼‍♀️ ) I used real cherries to stamp the outlines + painted over with #watercolor. The spatters are also squeezed cherry juice I blew around with a straw… Finally #acrylic white pen for the highlights.

#FebruArty #Rings I made this with #metallic #watercolor for a friend’s nursery as a shower gift 🩵💛 It was challenging to adapt my style to what I felt nursery art *should* look like. Her baby just celebrated his first full rotation around the sun (another ring) and I’m tempted to redo as a gift..

Final #lion for #FishyFeb / #FebruArty ! I grew up drooling over the illustrations of Graeme Base (Sign of the Seahorse, anyone?) and I think a little of that influence has (hopefully!) krept into this painting. This fish is for sure a character. #lionfish #watercolor #gouache #painting #mood

Please allow me to introduce myself... I'm a former national union president (the Graphic Artists Guild, at the time affiliated with the UAW), a retired illustrator, and parent to two adult children, both of them creative as hell, with day jobs. Liberal. AF. I still art every day--some of my work:

Searched for a #lion fish to paint for #FishyFeb / #FebruArty and one in particular really resonated with me for some reason 🤔 Sketched him in bed this morning and hope to paint after work. What would you caption him? I’ll start: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Here’s how the painting from my last post turned out! Acrylic on wood panel, 12x16 inches. #botanicalartist #raspberryart #acrylicpainting #natureartwork #realisticpainting

Today’s #FebruArty entry is these soulful #Eyes giving me the Sarah McLachlan ASPCA special 💛💛 👁️🐽👁️ His name is Karl and he is an #AmericanBulldog and certified sweetheart, unless you’re a tiny dog walking by the window. #dog #dogsofbluesky #painting #watercolor

a helpful diagram. #art #design

Don’t talk to strangers unless they’re kindly #antiques dealers. #Purple flowers for #FebruArty, inspired by a photo from this book I got at an antique shop. I never get stuff for free but the older man working there took pity on me because I was starting my first garden and he had some thoughts!