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@hamiltonart.bsky.social
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Hamilton Art has been selling fine art out of BC, Canada for ten years. As well as painting, they are a multi-award winning author. ****This is a page for artwork and discussion only; thanks. If you want to follow writing see @EatonHamilton.bsky.social

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
How was Emily Carr’s house in Victoria laid out? I know she took in boarders to cover expenses, but in “her" space she hoisted her furniture up on a pully system to have room to paint—but where was that, anyone know, have blueprints? She manages to make BC forests look both tropical and dangerous.
One of Carr’s paintings with her typical dark forest, and here faced by a little creamy church with a little creamy steeple, surrounded by grave markers.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Really love Maria Farmer’s artwork. www.mariafarmerart.com
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Maria Farmer
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Alas, I am retiring this page as I reorganize my social media life again. I used to do a brisk business with my art on FB—literally had often sold a piece within a minute of posting it—but it’s been dead here. Don’t know what my plans are at this point beyond this one decision yet… Thanks to all.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Autistic artist wins Turner! www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Sketchbook, unsure of date, size.
Woman sitting 3/4 pose back to the viewer, in tones of orange and browns, arm along top of somewhat raised leg.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Doubt even Warhol could pull them out of their 3-D printed meat scandal now.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 01/12/2025
Jennifer Packer’s tender portraits of friends veer between mark-making and stunning specificity. Even if their faces were blurred, even if they melted into their monochrome surrounds, they were fully and lovingly rendered.
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Jennifer Packer Confronts Grief Through Paintings That Cut Deep
The painter mines an iconographical language of grief through delicate, translucent paintings imbued with a sense of intimacy and intensity.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Napkin and paint on paper. The Fight.
Two adults argue above their child. Figures are made from napkins, black and white dotted, have dashes for words. Kid has unhappy face and arms over head.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Here’s model Emily Metalskin in her fox fur stole, again a take off on Otto Dix.
Here’s model Emily Metalskin in her fox fur stole, again a take off on Otto Dix. 

Woman stands in black hat wearing fox stole. Fox is prominent. Hands are green-gloved and on her chest.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
After Otto Dix. Model Emily Metalskin. Thinking this is 9x12, and probably I painted it during the early part of this pandemic we’re in. Person with monocle sits craning to look at the camera while seated at small bar table. Martini, cigs, matches. Tones of pink and green.
After Otto Dix. Model Emily Metalskin. Thinking this is 9x12, and probably I painted it during the early part of this pandemic we’re in. 

Person with monocle sits craning to look at the camera while seated at small bar table. Martini, cigs, matches. Tones of pink and green.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
longconmag.com is having a contest. See their site for details.
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long con magazine
A digital arts & literature quarterly publishing artworks that respond to other artworks. We welcome international submissions from established & emerging artists.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
How do you feel about your mommy? I had an extremely contentious rel’t with mine. Anyhow, this quick sketch was from a pic I took of her when she turned 40. I’d just turned 17 and was already snap-happy.
How do you feel about your mommy? I had an extremely contentious rel’t with mine. Anyhow, this quick sketch was from a pic I took of her when she turned 40. I’d just turned 17 and was already snap-happy. Painting shows yt woman wearing taupe dress with something feathery surrounding her sleeves, three red roses and three lit red candles against a beige wall.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
After Van Gogh, tricky, time-consuming, made me ask myself how he managed a canvas a day. Talent and skill, of course, having no kids, but how else? I’ve never really known if I believe he was mentally ill.
Young white woman sits by the fire holding infant. Her dress is blue; she inclines her head toward the warmth. The fire looks like it’s coming from her feet (passion keeps us warm?).
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I love this artist’s work: www.stephenfriedman.com/artists/81-c...
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Caroline Walker
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I loved the time at the beginning of the pandemic when artists would build their online sessions in homages to famous painters. This little sketch, which I think is on paper, 9x12”, is from a Tamara de Lempicka session.
I loved the time at the beginning of the pandemic when artists would build their online sessions in homages to famous painters. This little sketch, which I think is on paper, 9x12”, is from a Tamara de Lempicka session. Woman or non-binary person taking a swaggery position in fatigue-coloured clothing, long coat, trousers, white shirt. Yt woman staring at the viewer.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
She looks so sad, don’t you think? I often think of her life as this sad, I must admit. I went to her house once in Montmartre, only to find its art emphasis completely male, incl featuring her son. She had a little wall to the side mostly of her sketches. Based on a Valadon self-portrait.
Sketch based on a Suzanne Valadon self-portrait. Valadon is staring into a mirror by a bowl of apples, her hair is short, blunt-cut brown, bangs. She wears a brown (with designs) dress.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Sometimes it’s fun to take on a glum photograph from more than 100 years ago. The mother here was a sister to my great-grandmother, and the children my grandmother’s cousins.
Males on the left, three: father, toddler, young teen, girls on the right: three sisters, mother on the far right. My ancestors painted in tones of pink, blue and red. 16x20” oil on canvas.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
“Childless Cat Ladies…” What could be more appropriate to comment on this regime? Women on a sidewalk with leashes holding black cats in tones of orange, blue and grey.
“Childless Cat Ladies…” What could be more appropriate to comment on this regime?

Women on a sidewalk with leashes holding black cats in tones of orange, blue and grey.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Photography, done the traditional way. White woman photographer wearing a red shirt, a scarf, and turquoise pedal pushers, leans contemplatively on finned green car. Near brick wall, blue sky in bkgd.
Photography, done the traditional way. White woman photographer wearing a red shirt, a scarf, and turquoise pedal pushers, leans contemplatively on finned green car. Near brick wall, blue sky in bkgd.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
What do you think when you gaze at yourself in a mirror? Are you critical of what you see? After Suzanne Valadon. White woman holding black and white blanket up stares at her refection in a black-framed full-length mirror. Greenery and red curtain to the side. 9x11 acrylic on acrylic paper.
After Suzanne Valadon. White woman holding black and white blanket up stares at her refection in a black-framed full-length mirror. Greenery and red curtain to the side. 9x11 acrylic on acrylic paper.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Sunday; not sure how that happened! I always imagined this large board (30x40”) as an underwater or beside a pond image. What do you think?
I always imagined this large board (30x40”) as an underwater or beside a pond image. What do you think? Cheerful, bright, a mix of grasses and dots and slashes moving upwards, green, purple, yellow w blue bkgd
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Another in the autistic masking series. I believe in covid masking, too, and I believe there’s a painting here that shows that in 1918. But autistic masks are metaphorical. What would they look like if we could see them?
Another in the autistic masking series. I believe in covid masking, too, and I believe there’s a painting here that shows that in 1918. But autistic masks are metaphorical. What would they look like if we could see them? Painting in oil, unsure of size right now, non-binary bald autist in white t-shirt, grey jacket, on turquoise bkgd. The mask is that of a parrot, hooked beak, red, orange and white face.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Do you have an obasan or granny who looks like this? Would she sit you down with a bowl of food, or is she another type of person? Mine was the second. Although she may have been warm to my siblings, she never was to me.
Older woman wearing green, greying black hair up, green bkgd.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
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Pauldemarrais.com oil sticks are groovy. Pic shows them in a rainbow of colours.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
What is she thinking, do you imagine?
Portrait of young white woman in a green dress with yellow/pink trim, orange room. The girl’s head is slightly inclined, looking at the viewer. Her hair is shoulder length, a honey brown.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPC-... Haven’t watched but I want to!
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A Study of Negro Artists (1935) | Black Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
YouTube video by Screen Prism
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
I always wonder if Gertrude Stein was ever truly happy as a butch dyke in Paris. Yes, she was well off, relatively, with whacks of freedom compared to most women, and she had what we ID now as a vivid, full life—but was it enough? Maybe she would have preferred not to write in “code?"
Gertrude Stein in her salon in Paris, with art behind her. Her hair is up; she wears a yellow scarf with a blue clip, and a green, form-fitting dress. The walls are orange.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Hopscotch! Feel the freedom your young body felt again? Girls hopscotch in blues and yellows. Oil on stretched canvas.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Hopscotch! Feel the kid’s body you once had, and how free it felt to move? Oil on stretched canvas, 20”x20”, for sale
How does this make you feel? Do you feel joyous, can you feel the freedom of your young body? Two girls play hopscotch. Tones of blue and yellow. Oil 20x20” for sale.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Working again on oil paintings from old images. Why is this mother so worried? I wonder what her worries might be. Has her husband left her to support the kids alone? 20”x20” oil on stretched canvas
Working again on oil paintings from old images. Why is this mother so worried? I wonder what her worries might be. Has her husband left her to support the kids alone?

Yt family, of older son, mother, young child, maybe 10 yo girl? Tones of peach/green/brown.

20”x20” oil on stretched canvas
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Have you ever had a conversation with an autistic person? The inside person, the outside person, which is most real? Oil in stretched canvas, yt woman sits on white couch with red pillow and red flowers. She wears orange dress. For sale. I believe this is 16x20”.
Have you ever had a conversation with an autistic person? The inside person, the outside person, which is most real? Oil in stretched canvas, yt woman sits on white couch with red pillow and red flowers. She wears orange. For sale. I believe this is 16x20”.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Two yt women in 1918 stroll wearing masks against the flu. (Not in very protective masks. We’re much luckier today to be able to find ones that work.) But it shows that protections/mitigations don’t have to ruin your life. 24”x30” oil on stretched canvas, by yours truly like all my entries here.
Two white women in 1918 stroll down the street wearing masks against the flu. (Not in very protective masks. We’re much luckier today to be able to find ones that work.) But it shows that protections/mitigations don’t have to ruin your life. 24”x30” oil on stretched canvas. Colours are brown, green, red, peach, off-white.
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History Chrono @historyachannel.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
In 1969, Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro founded the Feminist Art Program at CalArts, challenging male-dominated art education. It empowered women to explore identity, collaboration, and political expression—reshaping the art world from the ground up. #ArtHistory
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Sixties hair; who doesn’t love it? Those beehives, man, they were something. Oil on stretched canvas, uncertain of size off the top of my head.
Sixties hair; who doesn’t love it? Those beehives, man, they were something. Yt mother and two girls done in mostly yellows and greens. Checkered wall in behind.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Even though the world has been pitched into war, a Sunday painting, one that perhaps expresses where we are now: Do you feel endangered when you see this? I do.
Woman crouching, done in orange with deep blue floor and turquoise wall. Cold wax and oil, 2024, 16x20”. DM for purchase.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
What’s happening here? Two women in bathing suits, one probably helping the other to learn how to swim? Do you remember learning to swim, when someone else had to hold you up? Oil on board, 20x20”. In tones of muted pinks.
What’s happening here? Two women in bathing suits, one probably helping the other to learn how to swim? Do you remember learning to swim, when someone else had to hold you up? Oil on board, 20x20"
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Along The Garden Path @landscapechick.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"The primary theme that drives my art practice today is celebrating the beauty of black childhood." This striking Gustav Klimt-inspired painting is by Maryland based artist Tawny Chatmon. #WomenArtists #FineArt #BlackArtists #ArtHistory The Redemption by Tawny Chatmon @tawnychatmon.bsky.social
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Acrylic, unsure of size. Man in orange shirt on green bkgd, with beard and purple hair.
Acrylic, unsure of size. Man in orange shirt on green bkgd, with beard and purple hair. Tilt of head.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
It’s Sunday painting time! Here it is: How does this make you feel? I can’t imagine, really, the danger of a kid feeding a kangaroo, even a young one, but I personally would have loved the actuality. Heart sigh. Feel free to share with credit or DM for purchase. 18x24” oil on stretched canvas
It’s Sunday painting time! Here it is:

How does this one make you feel? I can’t imagine, really, the danger of a kid feeding a kangaroo, even a young one, but I personally would have loved the actuality. Heart sigh.

18x24” oil on stretched canvas
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I love this painting.
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One of Us Global Foundation @oneofusglobal.org · 01/06/2025
Happy Pride Month to the LGBTQIAP+ community. Throughout Pride month we want to highlight extraordinary LGBTQIAP+ historical figures who align with our values of love, hope, courage, and wholeness.
This graphic has a light blue background with a rainbow going diagonally through the center. The text, "Celebrate Pride Month with One of Us Global Foundation." The One of Us logo, a heart surrounded by a pair of hands, is at the bottom right corner.
This slide has the same blue background and a large red square in the center. Above the large square is a small light blue rectangule with the text, "Marsha P Johnson 1945 - 1992." The large red square hascthe text, "Transgender Activist & Stonewall Icon. A founding figure of the modern LGBTQ+ movement, Marsha was a fearless advocate and drag performer. She helped ignite the Stonewall uprising in 1969 and co-founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) to support unhoused trans youth." The bottom right shows a portrait of Marsha P Johnson, the bottom left shows the One of Us logo. 
This slide has the same blue background and a large orange square. Above the square is a light blue rectangle with the text, "Frida Kahlo 1907-1954." The large square includes the text, "Artist & Queer Icon. Frida’s deeply personal paintings explored pain, identity, and sexuality. Openly bisexual, she challenged gender norms and celebrated indigenous Mexican culture, leaving behind a body of work as radical as her politics and personal life." The bottom right shows a portrait of Frida Kahlo, the bottom left shows the One of Us logo.       
This slide has the same blue background and a large yellow square. Above the square includes the text "Audre Lorde 1934-1992" on a light blue rectangle. The yellow square has the text, "Poet & Intersectional Feminist. Audre Lorde described herself as a “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” Her writing and activism focused on the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class—empowering marginalized voices and calling for radical self-love." The bottom right shows a portrait of Audre Lorde, the bottom left has the One Of Us logo.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Sunday painting! Remember the 1950s, the “ladies” out walking their fanciful dogs? (Not where I lived, I can assure you. Where I lived, dogs usually worked at pulling up long garden stakes before going awol dragging these coiled metal snakes along behind them.) 16x20 oil on stretched canvas.
Sunday painting! Remember the 1950s, the “ladies” out walking their fanciful dogs? (Not where I lived, I can assure you. Where I lived, dogs usually worked at pulling up long garden stakes before going awol dragging these coiled metal snakes along behind them.)

16x20 oil on stretched canvas.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
"I paint with the stubbornness I need for living..." Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) French painter #WomensArt
Portrait of a white woman head and shoulders looking outwards with head tilted, with short red hair and wearing a low cut top with patterns
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Portrait of Otelia Cromwell, the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. from Yale University, 1926, by contemporary US painter Jennifer Packer #WomensArt
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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
“Mom” by Jordan Casteel (American) - Oil on canvas / 2013 - Cantor Arts Center (Stanford, California) #womeninart #art #mother #oilpainting #womanartist #womensart #femaleartist #ArtText #JordanCasteel #Casteel #CantorArtsCenter #fineart #mom #womenartists #AfricanAmericanArt #AfricanAmericanArtist
Included in Jordan Casteel’s first institutional solo exhibition at the Denver Art Museum between 2019 and early 2020, “Mom” is a poignant tribute to the artist’s mother, Lauren Young Casteel. Painted in 2013, at the dawn of Jordan’s practice, it demonstrates the rich, sensual painterly language for which she has achieved widespread critical recognition. 

With intuitive brushwork and deep, warm colors, Casteel captures a moment of peaceful solitude, registering the play of light and shadow across her mom’s face, clothes and hands. It is a rare example of a female portrait in Casteel’s early practice; a testament, perhaps, to the inspiration her mother had on her outlook. As President and CEO of the Woman’s Foundation of Colorado, as well as a noted philanthropist and activist, Lauren Young Casteel became the first Black woman in the state to head a foundation. 

Saturated with glowing familial warmth, this work is a tender celebration of the woman who helped to shape the artist’s social and artistic values. Indeed, her mother’s devotion to social justice resounds throughout Casteel’s artwork, which focuses on highlighting figures who might otherwise remain unseen.

Casteel recalled, “The thing that my mother always instilled in us coming of age was that it’s not necessarily about being the ‘granddaughter of’ or the ‘daughter of’ … it’s about living the values through the work that you’re doing … Long before I became Jordan Casteel the painter, I was Jordan Casteel who understood the value of everyday stories and people and creating voices for people and room for people who might otherwise feel that there’s no room for them.”
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
These may not strictly be museum pieces at the moment, I don’t know, but here are a few of my favourite contemporary artists: www.thecollector.com/black-artist...
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These Black Artists Are Defining Contemporary Art Today | TheCollector
From Amy Sherald to Mickalene Thomas, these Black artists are redefining the Black body, identity, and sexuality in contemporary art today.
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
It changed my paintings from predominantly nude figures to clothed figures when social media got so prudish. Most of my inventory, though, is still figure drawing/painting. I will always love rendering live figures. ❤️
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Eaton Hamilton @eatonhamilton.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Uploaded another oil painting @hamiltonart.bsky.social. Have a gander!
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Another lovely oil painting from last year. 24x30”. Please feel free to share with credit.
Three het couples dancing, done in blues with diamond shapes on the walls. 24x30"
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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
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