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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Inspired by nature is the prompt for #mARTch today. Cumberland Island National Seashore offered this and of course I painted it. 11 x 14 in oils. #cumberlandisland #nationalparks #georgia #wildhorses #horses #painting #oilpainting #artonbluesky #artsky

A dirt road running through thick woods, three horses standing in the center.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

My domination of the national egg market has begun. With this egg I shall CRUSH MY ENEMIES! Or have it for breakfast tomorrow whichever comes first. 🦆 #eggs #duckeggs #marketmanipulation #crushingenemies #breakfast

A single duck egg on a floor of straw in a structure made of pallets.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Jewel is the prompt for #mARTch today. Here's the finest #jewelry in all the land heaped on this queen. 9 x 12 in. Oils. #fashion #tiara #painting #artonbluesky #artsky #oilpainting

A girl about 3 years old wearing multiple bracelets, necklaces, and a tiara, fiddling with an earring on her ear.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Shades of green for #mARTch today. This is the view from the parking lot of Saltwater Cowboys, a restaurant outside St. Augustine, FL. 11 x 14 in. Oils. #staugustine #florida #intracoastalwaterway #saltmarsh #oilpainting #painting

A flat salt marsh with a part of cracker style house showing behind a tree.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Once again, ducks are the answer to a stupid news cycle that never ends. Go stare at some. Throw peas for peace. 🦆🦆🦆

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This is how the #chemistry department rolls on the top floor of the W. C. Morris building. Chemistry wasn't placed there for safety reasons per usual but to lord over the much larger #biology department. #universityofcentralmissouri #ucm #gomules #womeninstem #professors #academicsky

Interior hallway in a large building. Windows along the wall have painted letters in them written backwards to allow them to be read from the presence outside "UP AND ATOM"

A white board with a jumble of math equations, cartoons, and memes written on it.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

First day of #Martch is #selfportrait. This is me trying to illustrate #hyperfocus, one of the ways my neurodivergence manifests itself. As exhilarating as it is exhausting. 11 x 14 in. Oils. #oilpainting #painting #neurodivergent #artonbluesky #artsky

A self portrait. Me, with a sparking electric cord connected to the side of my head.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Took advantage of the warm weather to clear out last year's weeds and stalks. Turn around and there's a crew of supervisors. Unnecessary in my opinion. 🌱🦆 #gardening #zone6 #ducks #duckpics #hugelkultur #permaculture

Four ducks on a garden mound with dead weeds everywhere.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Sharing this #drawing I did a few years ago to see if I could render smoke and fog with #markers. 5 x 7 in. #trains #steamengine #engine #artshare #artonbluesky #artsky

A steam train chugging through a mountain pass.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Magenta for the #Februarty prompt today. Here's my one artwork with #magenta in it. #Markers 5 x 7 in. #lilypad #powellgardens

A flower protruding from water in front of a lily pad.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Beams of Heaven as the #songoftheday treated with incredible skill by this #amateur church #choir at Beth Eden Baptist Church in #Chicago. Released 1974. One of my favorite recordings. #gospelmusic #wootenchoralensemble #charlestindley

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Beams of Heaven

YouTube video by Wooten Choral Ensemble - Topic

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Just my weekly friendly reminder that #writing #Wikipedia articles can be a positive way to help defend facts. I wrote both of these and about 50 others. Ask me anything about getting started. #libraries #sayamensomebody #raycharles #blackhistorymonth #blacksky

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Daily #drawing #markers and #microns 5 x 7 in. Would you rather go in, exit, or remain outside eating a sandwich? #doors #doorway #arch #sandwiches

Ornately carved wooden double doors under a stone arch covered in vines.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

#Februarty is pointing out all the things I don't do in art. The prompt today is socks. I have zero artworks with socks in them. But here's this. Reference shot taken in #antiques shop near Clinton, MO. 11 x 14 in. Oils. #painting #artonbluesky #oilpainting #artsky #kettle #vintage #missouri

A shelf of vintage tin cans of various items, behind a polished copper tea kettle.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Waiting for Smith with the #songoftheday. Another one I've played more than a hundred times. I'm not into super #positive hippy trippy happy music unless it's incredibly good then I definitely am. #Indie #folk, released 2024. #waitingforsmith #listentothis #indiemusic

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Waiting for Smith - White Light Of Love [Official Music Video] Part 2

YouTube video by Waiting For Smith

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Rough... again? as a prompt for #Februarty? I painted this #tobacco #barn and remember taking great pains to make sure the boards looked rough and weathered. 9 x 12 in oils. Reference shot taken in #Amherst MA. #oilpainting #painting #artonbluesky #artyear

The double doors of an old weathered tobacco barn open wide with fresh tobacco leaves hanging from the roof drying.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

#Farmland divided into plots all divided by a river, for #Februarty today. 5 x 7 in, #markers. A visual representation of a flyover state. #missouri #farmland #aerialview #flyoverstate

Aerial view of large areas of farmland divided into plots with a river flowing through the middle.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Daily #drawing of great #architecture. This is an urban wizard's house being held together by #wishes and #magic. #diy #shanty #corrugatedmetal

A ramshackle house made of corrugated metal sheets and boards that's barely standing.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

#Februarty fish, water, I don't know. Here's a sea turtle. I wish I was with it underwater. Oils, 30 x 40 in. #painting #artonbluesky #seaturtle #turts #squishinturts #perchance

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

#Februarty pick of the day with #artyear. No theme, so here's Forest Park in St. Louis. Spent an afternoon there and got great pics. 12 x 16 in. Oils. #stlouis #forestpark #missouri #painting #bandstand

A public gardens featuring a bandshell in front of a pond.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

My weekly PSA. If you want to do something positive, consider #writing #Wikipedia articles. I've written 50 total including these 2. Facts need defending. Ask me anything about getting started. #blackhistorymonth #blacksky #libraries #florida #rosewood #hbcu

Screenshot for the Wikipedia article for Mary McLeod Bethune.

Screenshot for the Wikipedia article for Rosewood massacre.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Daily #drawing #markers and #microns, 5 x 7 in. Maybe it's a transportation center so people in rural #Missouri can #travel quickly to 7 predetermined destinations. And maybe that's in a #foggy #marsh. I don't know. I just draw things. #interdimensional #artonbluesky

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Daily #drawing #markers and #microns, 5 x 7 in. Certified fact my art is way better with my glasses off. Those of you with perfect vision, I don't know if you're getting the full experience. #gothic #crypt #trees #spring

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Rough is the stuff for the #Februarty prompt today. Here's someone going through it. I hope you're not going through it today. Oils, 30 x 40 in. #painting #artonbluesky

And old woman sitting on a porch in front of a screen door.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Beautiful work here. I'd never seen it before today. Hope you like it too.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Daily #drawing #markers and #microns 5 x 7 in. Sometimes you put your hand somewhere and you get a handful of blue tongued skins. That's the way the universe works. #skink #bluetongueskink #reptiles #tiliqua #blueys #artonbluesky

A hand holding 5 blue tongued skinks. The middle one is sticking it's tongue out.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Big and small for the #Februarty prompt today. Big #sky, big #prairie, little farm house. 9 x 12 in. Oils. #painting #artonbluesky #missouri #farmhouse

A farmhouse in the distance in the middle of a prairie under an expansive sky.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Solomon Burke with the #songoftheday. This song often pops into my head when the anxiety gets too much. #R&B, 1968. Nina Simone recorded it too. Her version is always great. #solomonburke #billytaylor

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I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel to Be Free)

YouTube video by Solomon Burke - Topic

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Monochrome for the #blueskyartshow today. I don't do a lot of monochrome. Not sure if I should start. 22 x 28 in, oils. #painting #artonbluesky #artonbluesky #aquarium #underwater

A boy sitting in a plexiglass cubby under an aquarium.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I wrote this article in 2009 because it needed a better treatment. #Trans people were there wtf. I feel like the woman being hauled out of the bar looking at the crowd asking "Why don't you guys do something?" Write #wikipedia articles. Facts need defending. #writing #stonewall #lgbt

Screen shot of the Wikipedia article for Stonewall riots.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Love and pairs for #Februarty today, the day of #love and stuff. Here's a small #chapel framed by a pair of flowering trees, at Powell Gardens outside #KansasCity. 12 x 16 in. Oils. #painting #artonbluesky #powellgardens #spring #crabapple

A small chapel in the distance framed by two flowering trees closer to the viewer.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Dr. B got hold of a cool collection of "When you're dead inside but still love plants" #stickers. This is but a fraction. We are wealthy in #skeleton plant stickers. Eat it, billionaires. 🌱 #gardening #garden #macabre

A collection of stickers showing artworks of various skeletons tending various plants.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The prompt for #Februarty today is fish, but here's a sea turtle in this #painting and many people don't notice it. I asked a friend to pose for me after a visit to #Canaveral NS where a #biologist saved a struggling hatchling in a lagoon. Oils 30 x 40 in. #seaturtles #florida #artonbluesky

Young woman in a bikini looking at a beach towel with a tiny sea turtle hatchling on it.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I went shopping for #newmusic and did I know I was going to get a song called Crablice and Quaaludes? No. I heard it before I saw the title. #Songoftheday, enjoy. Released 2024, alt rock. #theboltcutters #donheffington #listentothis #musicsky

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Crablice & Quaaludes

YouTube video by Release - Topic

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Winter shot of our #garden area and hoop house. This was a few years ago. We've since built a #composting system in that weedy area in the center. Since we're in an ice storm this is what it looks like today. 🌱 #gardening #missouri #homestead #lgbtfarmers #zone6

Outdoor scene in winter of a half acre area with a garden in misuse, a dog standing, and a hoop house covered in snow.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Orange is that prompt of the day for #Februarty. I shared those clementines a few days ago but this #painting of the #amtrak station in #Sedalia, MO will save me! The architect of the station saw me at an art fair and bought it. Oils, 12 x 16 in. #missouri #artonbluesky #trainstation #trains

A small Amtrak station with glass bricks and a triangular feature over the door.

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Blue Bottle Gardens @bluebottlegardens.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

#Marisela with the #songoftheday, a #Mexican gem from 1990. I add songs to my collection anywhere I find them. I found this in a vid showing a couple arguing and the woman is so upset she undresses on the street. Pop ballad en Español. Muy bonita. #publicfreakout #listentothis #musicsky

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A CAMBIO DE QUE - MARISELA

YouTube video by Musica de Arranque (Suscribete)

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