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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

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

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

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

Mo Willems’ framed visual art interpretation of Beethoven’s ninth symphony, in a black frame on a white wall in the exhibit at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Four sections of art arranged vertically, representing the four movements of the symphony.

Beethoven Symphonies Abstracted by Mo Willems exhibit in the Kennedy Center hall. Chunky white pillars with one of the nine pieces of art, arranged along the red carpet with international flags hanging from the ceiling above.

Introduction and description pillar of the exhibit in the Kennedy Center hall.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

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

10 inch by 10 inch canvas with horizontal sections of acrylic paint smears across, dark burgundy at the top transitioning to deep red under, about a third of the way down, then into soft pink, then mixing into a neutral tone into a pale green with blue mixed in through the middle of the sea green. Edges are left raw paint.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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.

A wood bookmark about six inches with two orange ribbons and a string with some beads attached to a hole at the top, laying on beige fabric. White, light blue, and red floral motifs on the wood with the light blue words: “BE courageous! HAVE faith! GO forward! -Edison” and two floral motifs at the bottom.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

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.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

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

Cat with tabby striped markings sleeping on her side on a woven blanket, head in the lower right, front legs stretched out toward you the viewer at the bottom (drawing stops before the paws) and bottom of back foot with toe pads in the lower left of the drawing.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

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

Graphite drawing: in the center is a fluffy white owlet with eyes closed sleeping on a tree stump. The stump has a large chunk of bark missing below where the owlet is resting. The owlet’s far wing is resting on a sliver of the tree stump left of center that is separated from the rest of the stump. Background blurred foliage.
(The owlet was trying to fledge to a nearby tree branch and fell 30 feet into understory brush. Climbed up onto this stump and rested before resuming its new adventure up into the trees to successfully join the rest of the owl family that year.)

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

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

A square white canvas on a black metal painting easel.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

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

Eight one-inch-wide strips of paper, eight inches in length, lined up next to each other with black ink curving designs with geometric lines, shapes, and/or patterns along the curving shapes that overlap in places and appear to have depth.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

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

Cloudless sunset sky of yellow and oranges on the horizon of the Pacific Ocean with dark blue sky above fading to night and dark silhouette of land rising in the middle with a few bushes and just a few trees at the peak of the hill silhouette. Darkness of night in the bottom third below the land line.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

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

My Golden Coil contest entry design is my artistic representation of us and our connectedness even with our different orientations/directions and colors and sizes.
A planner, tilted to the right about 45 degrees, sitting on the corner of a dark blue tufted cushion, with two gold paper clips to the right of it on the cushion. The planner has a gold metal binding, and the design is layered circle motifs all different sizes and colors, red, green, blue, pink, rusty orange on a creamy yellow background. The motif has a hole in it off to one side and three gradations of colors outward from the hole, darker the farther away from the hole. The layered motifs are arranged such that the holes are in different directions and they appear to be connected to at least one other via the hole’s loop.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

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

The ancient ruins of the Arch of Galerius along a sidewalk in the city, old marble reliefs with brick arch above, modern buildings in the background.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

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.

Pieter Aertsen painting, A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms in the background on the wall on the right, floral interpretation on pedestal on left by Tonia Gebhart of The Barefoot Artist with bouquets and arrangements of blush colored roses, ranunculus, anemones, lisiathus, anthuriums, eucalyptus, dishes of herbs, on a cutting board with post representing meat stall.

Museum painting on the wall on the right in the background of The Wind Stood Still by Irene Rice Pereira, blocks of blues with white and black vertical lines. The floral interpretation on a pedestal on the left by Adama Jay-Harrison of Lavish Leaf, of different blue shades of hydrangea, chrysanthemums, and delphiniums.

Museum painting on the wall on the left in the background The Cliff, Etretat, Sunset, by Claude Monet—a dark silhouette of a cliff with an arch feature with the sea in the foreground and the setting sun on the right in the dusk sky. On the right on a pedestal the floral interpretation by Elizabeth Zimmerman of Elizabeth Zimmerman Florals, of a dark vertical structure backdrop with an arch feature and green, blue and blush colored flora in the front with a clump of orange flowers on the right (representative of the sunset) and white, blush, and blue flora above the arch (as sky) all done with roses, delphiniums, rananculus, peonies, anthuriums, Queen Anne’s lace, astilbes, and clematis.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

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

Four various sized smooth round flat rocks and five small tubes of metallic colored paints-gold, purple, turquoise, black, and silver-on a black craft cutting mat that has white grid lines.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Peeled my minneola in one piece today 😬 #stunday

My naked minneola orange sitting on my white speckled quartz kitchen counter to the right of the peel sitting propped up in one long spiral piece.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

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

A miniature polymer clay plate with a minature polymer clay baked apple pie slice sculpted with a couple of baked apples falling out and the juice dripping off the edge, with golden brown crust, and a scoop of vanilla ice cream just to the left of the slice of pie on the plate. X-Acto knife in the background on the left for sense of scale. All on a black craft cutting mat with white line grid.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

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

Evening sunset after a storm with puffy clouds still on the horizon blocking the direct sun but the broken clouds are letting rays of sun through just enough to light up all the moisture still in the air so it looks like bright flashlight beams coming out from behind the clouds on the tree covered horizon. Colors range from bright orange and yellow emanating from where the sun is behind the clouds beyond the black trees’ silhouette on the horizon to a steel blue near the top of the image beyond the remaining broken gray clouds.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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

An X-Acto craft knife on left; a miniature scale polymer clay pastry rolling pin in the foreground; a miniature scale polymer clay unbaked apple pie in a pie tin with “pastry dough” colored lattice on top and a Bluesky butterfly shape in the middle; a miniature pile of polymer clay apple slices to the right of the pie; remnants of the polymer clay “pastry dough” lattice behind the pie to the right; a tiny piece of polymer clay “pastry dough” with the butterfly cutout in the background behind the X-Acto knife; three chunks of brown polymer clay in the background along the top of the photo; All on a black craft cutting mat with white half-inch lines between inch lines on the mat. (Pie is about an inch and a half diameter)

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

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

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

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

Different colored ink pens with the Serenity prayer inside a decorative dark blue border, “Grant me SERENITY to ACCEPT the things I cannot CHANGE, COURAGE to CHANGE the things I CAN, and the WISDOM to KNOW the difference.” Serenity in blue, Accept in light blue, Courage in dark pink, Wisdom in light green, curved pink lines around Grant me, arrows to the right of Accept, wavy lines around Change after Courage, and little pink stars around “to Know”.

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Tara Green @folkmeadow.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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...

Wooden puzzle by Lighthouse Puzzles, featuring artwork by Tara Green is a Michigan collaboration. Puzzle depicts a cat snuggling a tea kettle, with monstera and philodendron plants in the background.

Wooden Cozy Kitty puzzle by Lighthouse Puzzles, featuring artwork by Tara Green. Shows a detail of a cat-shaped puzzle piece found in their wooden puzzle.

Wooden puzzle by Lighthouse Puzzles, featuring artwork by Tara Green shows a close up of four cat-shaped puzzle pieces that make up the Cozy Kitty puzzle.

Lighthouse Puzzle’s Cozy Kitty puzzle has a second puzzle created from all the cat-shaped pieces inside the original puzzle, shown here.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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

Up close painting of a Jude the Obscure rose past peak bloom, with the sunlight casting shadows on the petals and yellows to deep blood oranges inside the center. Painted from my own reference photo. Titled such because throughout painting it, whenever the music playlist track with that name played, I had to pause my brush and listen to the beautiful song. And, the rose is (was) the US national flower and despite all the pain we are in right now, there is still love for the America I know and believe in.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

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

Butter potato carved into a rose sitting on a cutting board in front of a smaller potato carved into an attempted water lily, with potato shavings to the right and my potato peeler and little paring knife to the left.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

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

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

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

Sun streaming through an architectural design of varied sizes of diamond shaped window slanting upward to a point at the top on the entire back wall of the chapel, cross-crossing shadows of all the beams between the windows on the slate floor in the foreground, view through the wall of window of partly cloudy blue sky above the garden with sun shimmering on the garden pond.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

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

Very tall narrow window openings, bottom half with old iron grating deeply inset in thick stone weathered wall with stone column carved between each opening, blue sky above the wall and through the window openings.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

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

Spiral staircase going down inside the Little Chapel, tall thin stained glass windows with diamond colored glass inset in the walls of the stairwell, with its walls and ceiling and floor covered in mosaics of pebble, seashells, and broken china that was found or sent for using.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

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

Three story stone buildings abutting each other in an L shape, all twenty second and third floor windows of both buildings with flower boxes under the windows overflowing with cascading yellow purple and pink flowering plants. Blue sky above.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

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

View of city lights below with the moon mid-horizon and morning twilight orange glow on the horizon pre-dawn, from inside EC135 helicopter, instrument panel lower left corner, me on right with flight helmet.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

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

View looking out at Fiordland from the square window in the door of the loo atop McKinnon Pass along the Milford Track in New Zealand. Tall mountains plunging into the deep green valley below.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

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

Open window view of Chania from the left jutting out to the water to the right, rocky cliff and some rocky bits sticking out of the water in the foreground. Bottom left of image is breakfast table with coffee and a plate in front of the long window sill bordered with geranium plants.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

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

Outside view of worn stone wall window opening with wood framed 4-pane each casement window set in deep stone surround with half moon window above it. Three potted plants on the stone sill, middle plant flowering pink, at Chrysoskalitissa Monastery on Crete.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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/

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WBU Owl Cam with interior and exterior owl nest box camera views. Watch the Barred Owls' activity and later see their nestlings.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

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

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

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

Polymer clay miniature daffodils on wrapped floral wire arranged among moss in the open top of a small white ceramic decorative watering can found object in front of a black background. Varied yellow daffodils, white daffodils—some with orange inside edges—in full bloom interspersed with clay buds and leaves.

Additional side view of polymer clay daffodils, buds, and leaves arranged with moss in the open top of a small white ceramic decorative watering can, handle on the left and spout on the right, with a black background. On the left are two fingers holding a U.S. quarter next to the flowers to indicate size perspective of the blooming flowers about the size of the coin.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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

Digital illustration of two pears with burgundy color berets on their heads and handlebar mustaches: left pear holding a French baguette under his right arm and a glass of red wine in his left hand; right pear holding a glass of red wine in his right hand tipped toward his friend’s glass to toast, left hand outstretched as he’s conversing. Burgundy colored lettering underneath: Burgundy Pears.
This was the January illustration in my 2025 Food Follies wall and desk calendars, and starting March 1 they are 25% off for you in my shop artfullyln.etsy.com

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Harriet Bevan Art @harrietbevanart.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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

White double mat around a pastel pencil portrait orientation work of magenta coneflowers past bloom scattered around randomly, some overlapping, on a bright green blurred background color representative of the field they’re in.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

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

Digital illustration of: An orange number two standing on the left with a smile and hands in the air celebrating it being Tuesday aka Two’s Day, his words above him “So glad Monday’s over and it’s my day again!” A purple number three standing to the right of Two, arms outstretched palms up and sad eyes looking downward, his words above him “When do I get a day?”

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

#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

U.S. Marine Corps. Lieutenant General Frank E. Peterson, Jr. Photo credit: Sgt. M.G. Lindee, U.S. Marine Corps.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

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

Abandoned two-story flat-roof building and aircraft hangar on Sikorsky Memorial airport (BDR) in Connecticut. This building was originally the airport’s passenger terminal back in the early days. Igor Sikorsky first flew his helicopter at this airport, Howard Hughes kept aircraft here, Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh flew in here. Before I was even eighteen, I took flight lessons and first soloed an airplane on a cold but sunny February 22nd from the flight school that this building housed in later years. (And ironically ended up in a helicopter pilot career.) Flight school lounge was the two picture windows with broken blinds to the right of the door entrance. Broken bay window on the lower left was flight school admin office. The downstairs was originally the waiting area when it was a passenger terminal. Upstairs was a big open space at the top of the stairs with flight school instructor desks abutting each other and the school manager’s office was the two individual windows on the upper left. Open-air right upper corner of the abandoned structure used to have a big corner picture window, part of the communal instructor space upstairs, where you could observe airport activity. After a few steps down from the entrance there was a gate to the ramp next the concrete pylon that used to have a flag pole and flag flying. Tall grass and weeds used to be mowed grass and flowering plants. A few days after taking this photo the building and hangar were razed to make a parking lot.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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

Limited Edition print by illustrator Yolanda Cooper dated 1983 bottom right corner. Pencil drawing composition of African-Americans various ages in the middle of the print viewed in portrait orientation, overlapping each other slightly and sometimes along strategic pencil lines, starting with the bust drawing of a young man top left of the group to a basketball player from the torso up shooting a hoop, a modern dance woman, a baby, a flute player, a praying child, a baseball player, a ballet dancer, playing dancing children. Stripes of yellow and orange vertically layered over the drawing the length of the print.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

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.

Cloudy day at Wings Over Dallas airshow at Dallas Executive Airport, one vee formation of four vintage airplanes in the sky in the upper left, flying to the left, and a second similar formation of four trailing behind them, on the right side halfway up the image. A third up from the bottom along the entire ground left to right is a solid line of controlled explosions red hot fire bursting up behind static airshow aircraft, simulating a bomb drop.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

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

Graphite drawing, from the perspective above and slightly in front, of one single rose in bloom, with texture and shadow of each petal.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

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

Thin shafts of light arranged like circular wheel spokes, with each wheel-like structure arranged abutting each other, filling the whole image. These were all secured on a dark dome structure about four feet tall on the ground such that you could walk right up to it.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

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

Cloudless sky, outside the World War 1 Museum, the memorial architecture of Liberty Tower in the middle, 217 feet high, emits a Flame of Inspiration at night. Four guardian spirits carved on the sides of the tower, protectors of Peace named Honor, Courage, Patriotism, Sacrifice. To the left of the tower is one Assyrian Sphinx (mythical guarding creatures with the body of a lion, wings of a bird, head of a human) named Memory facing east toward the war’s battlefields with its wings shielding its eyes from the horrors. Museum building and trees to the left of it. To the right of the tower is a second Assyrian Sphinx named Future, facing west, also shielding its eyes from the unknown and uncertain future. Museum buildings and trees to the right of it. Downtown Kansas City skyline in the distance on the horizon beyond the memorial. Construction of the memorial museum complex was completed in 1926, recognized by Congress in 2014 as a national memorial.

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