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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 · 17/04/2025

Is there even a Bar Association still? How are all these lawyers just defying and violating law? Where are all the heroes who took an oath??? Where the AF is everyone??? I am so confused and disgusted at this pathetic country too busy making funny memes to actually stop all of this hateful insanity.

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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

Thank you, she was a sweet purr box!

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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

Thanks so much! 😊 I appreciate you.

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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 · 20/03/2025

Felt same. My mom told me to go help someone. Anyone. Do something good for someone who needs it. Shelter, soup kitchen, food pantry, babysit for someone so they can go to a job interview or just get a moment for themselves. She stressed that doing for someone else will help your spirit in turn.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I am so sorry to hear this. I remember the day mine shattered in this way. There are no words.

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artfullyEllen @artfullyellen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Thank you for this, very much needed

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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 · 17/03/2025

Congratulations! 👏🏼👏🏼

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

Just my fingers (I’m a lefty hence the counterclockwise spiral) 😁

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

Someone just let me know I didn’t make it clear this isn’t real. This is just polymer clay 😉

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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 · 16/03/2025

I got to meet one of these years ago when I went along to observe a scientist studying them. After weighing and banding he showed us how their feathers tell age and I got to hold it on my hand momentarily. It was so magical. Thank you for the reminder.

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

Yesterday and today were fun, and perfectly placed on the calendar, thanks for the motivation, I needed it! 😁

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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

Check back tomorrow to see if there’s any left! (something might be cookin’ for tomorrow’s prompt 🤭😆 )

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

Actually it’s a little less than an inch and a half, technically the pie is 1.25 inches wide 😬

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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

Thank you and can you please directly explain to Sen Shumer re his comment that a No would hand Prez Mump “the keys to the city”—Thieves don’t NEED keys! The B&E is already in progress, hello….

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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 · 12/03/2025

That is so exciting! 🎉Congratulations and beautiful artwork! 🙌🏼

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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

This is super cool! Concur with Christine about how fascinating it is when zooming in too.

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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 · 09/03/2025

That’s terrific, you did amazing.

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

Thanks for reminding me of the fun visit to that castle! Great pic!

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

What a gorgeous cat 😍 And it’s perfect for the #Caturday feed too 😉

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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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