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Dance of bluebirds

#BlueSkyMonday #art #illustration #painting #digitalart #artistsonbluesky #artcommunity #ArtYear #bird #bluebird #Birdofhappiness #MakersmARTch #MkrsmART #connect #Matingdance
Stylized image of dancing bluebirds. Mating dance
March 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
annalois36.bsky.social
Shining bright like a diamond...
#Glass #MakersmARTch #MkrsmART #photography #reflections #light #surfacepattern
Sunlight reflecting off my grandmother's cut glass perfume bottle. Photographed holding the bottle upside down by the neck.
March 18, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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When I think about what home feels like, it's always being in the middle of the redwood forest.

#makersmARTch
#mkrsmART
#photography
#redwood
#redwoodforest
#naturepics
#BlueskyArtShow
#ArtYear
#wood
#trees
Three redwood trees
March 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Doesn't everyone have an inherited button box? #Buttons for #MakersmARTch #MkrsmART #SewSky #Photography #colours
Colourful photograph of my inherited button box. Many are from Austria and some have the original threads from when they were sewn on. Variety of shapes, sizes and colours. If I need buttons, I always have a rummage in here first.
March 2, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Earth, Wind, Fire, & Water.
Halima Cassell.
#Sculpt #MakersmARTch #MkrsmART
On display at Blackwell House, Lake District. Four white/natural colour, rectangular sculpted panels by the amazing artist Halima Cassell. Each has different sculpted, recessed forms. The panels represent the four elements: earth, wind, fire and water. For more info: www.halimacassell.com
March 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Narvals

#Northernlights #MakersmARTch #MkrsmART #flash #art #illustration #painting #digitalart #artistsonbluesky #artcommunity #ArtYear #seaunicorn #narval
Two narwhals frolic in the waves of the northern sea. The northern lights sparkle in the sky, reflecting in the water above the narwhals.
March 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Spring in the #dank swamp.
If you #draw a swamp, then use the sfumato technique

#art #illustration #painting #digitalart #artistsonbluesky #artcommunity #ArtYear #Wind #MakersmARTch #MkrsmART
#heron #bird #grayheron #swamp
Heron in the swamp made in the sfumato technique (digital version) Gray-green tones, soft transitions, a slight glow around the bird
March 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
annalois36.bsky.social
Artwork from 28 years ago based on sea snail shells.
#Collage #MakersmARTch #MkrsmART #waxresist #shells
Piece of artwork done many years ago using sea snail shells as inspiration. Created using collage, wax resist (drawn using just-extinguished candles) and watercolour paint. Riot of colours from browns, corals and greys, to bright yellow and sky blues.
March 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Evening sunlight catching fuzzy magnolia buds for #Soft. The skin really was soft too!
#MakersmARTch #MkrsmART #magnolia #photography #spring #tree #nature #naturephotography
Colour photograph (close up) of buds on a magnolia tree. The evening light is catching them so you can see their tiny surface hairs. Colours are dark browns, olive greens and a bright cream from the sunlight.
March 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Diptych Duel of the Black Mantises

As you can see, the opponents are using #opposite tactics. The right mantis is attacking, trying to #stab the enemy, the left one is in deep defense. A #eerie sight!

#MakersmARTch #MkrsmART #SensoryArt #ArtYear #art #digitalart #mantis #artcommunity
A stylized depiction of a duel between two praying mantises, designed as a scroll of Japanese characters
March 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Yes I kept a bent pin because it's a lovely colour. Doesn't everyone?
#Pin #MakersmARTch #MkrsmART #colour #photography #creative #SewSky #sewing
Close up photograph of a corner of my eau de nil-coloured pincushion. Lots of pins at different angles with colourful heads in a pearlised finish. Colours are golds, creams, pale salmon, coffee, dark grey, one red and one turquoise. Black background behind. The turquoise pin is bent but hasn't been thrown away because it's such a gorgeous colour!
March 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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First offering for #Woven for #MakersmARTch #MkrsmART
Everyday items on a macro setting.
#Photography #SurfacePattern
3 x 2 colour photographs on a macro setting of everyday woven items. Texture is fascinating. From left: natural wicker waste basket; turquoise woollen rug; white woven office chair back; navy woven cushion; natural fibre woven plant pot; green and white woven woollen rug. Love the fresh colours and materials.
March 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Orchid in a glass vase
This is specially for #MakersmARTch #MkrsmART
Frozen praying mantis (saw its reflection and froze)
This is for #landscapes #Frozen

#art #illustration #painting #digitalart #artistsonbluesky #artcommunity #flower #orchid #manyis #vase #ArtYear
A sprig of orchid with pale pink flowers in a round topaz glass vase. A pink praying mantis stands next to the vase. It saw its reflection and froze.
March 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
annalois36.bsky.social
Shiny, crackled #glaze in the most beautiful of colours for
#MakersmARTch #MkrsmART #reflections #shine #photography #cracks #surfacepattern
Close up photograph of the cracked glaze on my table lamp. Overall colour is a jade green upon which reflections look a pale grey. The surface of the lamp base has a repeating diamond pattern with a sunken effect in each shape. Imagine a 1970s lattice-top pie cutter! The underlying pattern makes reflections a random mixture of shapes.
March 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Endless possibilities with nature's finest material #Wood for #MakersmARTch #MkrsmART #photography #inlay #tudor #Arts&Crafts
Collage of different colour photographs of uses of wood. Overall colour theme from almost black to rich browns, onto golden hues and white. From top left: bumpy bark with a heart; Salmesbury Hall exterior (Tudor); carved wooden panel at Blackwell House (Arts&Crafts); inlaid cabinet at Lady Lever Art Gallery, cross-section of a bamboo bug hotel; waney lap fence section.
March 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Mantis flight

#art #illustration #painting #digitalart #artistsonbluesky #artcommunity #ArtYear #smArtis #Wind #MakersmARTch #MkrsmART #smArtis #prayingmantis #mantis #flight
Depicted is a flying praying mantis, which looks like some kind of fairy-tale creature like an elf. It has an elongated head with large, elongated eyes, and its front legs, similar to large, jagged pincers, are held in front of it. The red wings are delicate and also look like some kind of fancy piece of clothing
March 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Polar Owl
Somewhere on a distant island, a young (judging by the large number of stains on its plumage) owl listens to the cold respiration of the Arctic Ocean

#ArtYear #landscapes #Untouched #smArtis #Respiration #MakersmARTch #MkrsmART #stain #digitalart #owl #bird
#art #illustration #painting
A young snowy owl is shown perched on a piece of wood. Behind it is a snowy landscape, with a pale sun with a distinct halo in the cold blue sky.
March 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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The hottest rooster in the village and his song is just fire

Rooster 2019

#MakersmARTch #MkrsmART #landscapes #Heat #ArtYear #art #illustration #painting #digitalart #artistsonbluesky #artcommunity #rooster #bird #sunsong
In the foreground, a red rooster is drawn at the moment when he crows. Behind him, in the early, almost night twilight, rural buildings can be discerned. This is the first song of the rooster before dawn.
March 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
annalois36.bsky.social
Largest Mother's Day gift received to date for #Soft
#MakersmARTch #MkrsmART #teddybear #photography #fur #contentment
Photograph taken of a ridiculously large teddy bear my son gave to me for Mother's Day some years ago. Its body fur is a very soft cream with pink quilted ear fur. It has an expression of happiness and contentment but it sits in the morning sunshine so I would too! Shiny black eyes contrast with the soft fur.
March 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Final stage...button choice. #Buttons for #MakersmARTch #MkrsmART #SewSky #PatternMatching #Photography
A collage of two close-up photos of the pockets on a homemade coat from vibrant 'biblical fabric' (Dad's words not mine). Final stage was the button choice - dark or light. Went with dark. Fabric is thin vertical stripes with pattern within some (herringbone and hearts) in a variety of cheerful colours (turquoise, ochre, sienna, red, brown, blue). Particularly proud of the pattern matching. Instructions firm on 'not appropriate for stripes'...challenge accepted!
March 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Evening shoe heels set with diamanté pastes from 1926.
Bedazzled exhibition, Liverpool.
#Bead #MakersmARTch #MkrsmART #shoes #sparkle #Liverpool #ArtGallery #pattern #photography #colour
Eight shoe heels from 1926. Plastic-covered heels are set with diamanté pastes in a variety of different patterns. Heels are in a range of colours including black, green, white and red. They were made by J. Collinson & Co, on Bold Street in Liverpool. They feature in the Bedazzled exhibition at Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight, Liverpool.
March 4, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Monday itself is a challenge. So I suggest looking at the world through rose-colored glasses for about 15 minutes on Mondays

Seagul

#art #illustration #painting #digitalart #artistsonbluesky #artcommunity #ArtYear #MakersmARTch #MkrsmART
#seagul #bird #sea #flightseagul
The painting depicts a blue seagull on a pink background. It takes up almost half of the sheet. Above it is the sun, as if lying on its wings. Below it are pink waves, in the middle of which a heart has formed.
March 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Close up of a beautiful beaded vintage dress.
Bedazzled exhibition, Liverpool.
#Bead #MakersmARTch #MkrsmArt #pearls #pattern #surfacepattern #bronze #symmetry #liverpool #exhibition #PortSunlight
Close up of a vintage dress at the Bedazzled exhibition at Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight, Liverpool. Symmetrical pattern of what looks very loosely like tree rings (huge amounts of artistic license in that description!) in tiny seed pearls and bronze beads. The pattern is intersected horizontally by a straight waistband in a different design with larger pearls. There is a vertical intersection too, which is two straight lines of pearls edged by tiny bronze beads. Must be incredibly heavy to wear!
March 4, 2025 at 7:07 AM
annalois36.bsky.social
Doesn't every hobby artist have one of these lurking in a cupboard?
#Paint #MakersmARTch #MkrsmART #palette #artist #abandoned #colour #mix
Photograph of my watercolour palette discovered, uncleaned, in my art cupboard. Last used when designing travel cushions for my garden bench. Palette is white/cream, lying across the picture. There are three rows of paint mixing compartments: eight small circular indents across the top; four larger circular indents on the middle row; four square indents across the bottom. Paint has long-solidified in each. Some indents are holding colour from the tube ready to be mixed, while others are a mish-mash of colours. Some have separated to show some of the colours combined. Colours include pinky-red, browns, sunflower yellow-orange, lilac, sky blue, and greens.
March 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Day 4
Bead #MakersmARTch #MkrsmArt #Bead
This one is difficult for me 😂
Well difficult to find any of my jewellery makes with just one bead in it 🤷‍♀️
I bead! That is what I do!
I don’t just bead I teach others to bead and I can restring broken bead treasures for you too
Silver Wire flower pendant with a single turquoise coloured glass bead in the centre
March 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM