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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

My porch. Love sitting here with a cuppa and good book. Especially during a good rain.

Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Spring has sprung on my porch. No place I'd rather sit and pass time reading, meditating, sipping coffee or just watching the birds and squirrels.

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I'll be exhibiting 3 original works. Acrylic on canvas.

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Some sketchbook therapy today. I don't normal go the collage route but today feels very multi-layered so there we have it.

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I hate that it's on Amazon Prime, but I'm nearly through Overcompensating and I think its pretty good. 8 eps and I hear there may be a season 2. Benito Skinner plays Benny, created & wrote the show. Props for all that. It's predictable but I'll take that over no representation at all.

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Nearly done with the 2nd season and looking forward to the 3rd. This series is so good! The production values are fantastic. Cast is solid. Fans of the King family of writers should really enjoy it! #Locke&Key

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Interview With The Vampire also veers maddeningly from the books, but is more true in spirit than The Mayfair Witches. I do slightly recommend. Especially if you're one who can watch Queen of the Damned without throwing a shoe at the wall.

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

My viewing habits have been altered a great deal since the child came into our lives. However I have recently been able to catch up on some things. The Mayfair Witches have been entirely gutted beyond recognition. I can not and will not recommend it. At all. Heartbroken that her heir approved it.

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Newest member of the family. This is Bentley. He's 3 years old and stole our hearts immediately! 💖 Welcome, sweet boy!

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Halloween 2025 all wrapped up. Had a wonderful time with my little Witch.

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

On the Ohio River tonight just outside Madison, IN.

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Largely retired from photography. This is from one of my last sessions, a bit over a year ago. I've had a camera in hand since 1991. That's 34 years! These days, it's mostly painting and sketchbook works. Not very actively pursuing sales. Attempting to... just... be.

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Sunday morning coffee and reading time. With a 5 year old in kindergarten, a big 'ol farmhouse to take care of, full-time job, family and friends... my reading time often gets pushed out. Not today! Now... I read. 📖

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I buy used items whenever possible. Used books being one of my biggest weaknesses. Will I ever read ALL the books I own? Probably not. But life is about having choices, am I right? 🤔🌈🥰

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

We had a superb evening last night at the Art Saves Lives reception. I'm so glad to be part of this show 2 years in a row. At the Athenaeum in coordination with the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention.

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Complete. Fun fact. This is the very first time in my life that I've drawn a particular face without a reference photo or a live model. And I had no one in mind when I began. I prepared by asking that my vision and pencil be guided. I believe they were. #sketchbook #divination

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Holding down the fort at the gallery today. Sketch pad activated.

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

"Transformation" was accepted into the Art Saves Lives exhibit at the Athenaeum Indy and co-hosted by AFSP Indiana. The opening gallery reception is on Saturday, August 2nd, 6-9pm.

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Well, that was devastating. #ClaraBow #TheItGirl Any Hollywood biography suggestions for my next journey into the past? #RunninWild

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

"Masking" from the 'ol sketchbook.

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

From the sketchbook, 2023. Didn't get her name but I felt like she had a hard life, though she appreciated the little things no one could take away from her. The smell of lilacs wafting in the spring air. The sound of a child's laughter. The small things made her happy, and so she was.

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

"Lori" acrylic on canvas. Around 2022. I just love the color palette here. My first love and now the best Auntie a Gay 'ol Papa like me could ever ask for. 🥰 #acrylic #canvas #painting #originalart #artist

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

"Disassociation" acrylic on canvas 2023. Part of a series on men's mental health. This painting recounts the night of my daughters 3rd bday party. It was a wonderful day. Then night fell. My husband had been drinking. I was primed and ready for a complete mental breakdown. It was a perfect storm.

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Acrylic on canvas. 2018. "Jake" I have realized that in the beginning of my painting journey it just never occurred to me to use "natural" colors. Skin tone, etc. Then I just said "fuck it". 🤔😆 #acryliconcanvas #painting #figurepainting #maleform #acrylic

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

One of the best portraits I ever created. Heavily influenced by the style perfected by Greorge Hurrell. #portraits #photography #georgehurrell #monochrome #b&w

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Central Park. Fall. Taken on a long weekend, belated honeymoon trip. Saw Wicked on Broadway and got as immersed in Manhattan as we could in the brief time we visited. #centralpark #manhattan #fall #photography #travelphotography

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Alien Skull Sketch. I never really know what's going to come of it when I open my sketchbook and start a new work. I love this one so much. #aliens #skull #sketch #artist

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Correcting the fact I have never read this classic. #books

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Made some things, helps maintain the nerves, in... ya know... "these times" 🖤🧙‍♀️✨️

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Front yard, 2 years apart in the same spot. 🥰 #rosehips #willow

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Break the Audible cycle AND support a local independent book store? With the same number of dollars per month?! Why yes, I think I will! @libro.fm I'm pretty jazzed about taking money out of Bezos' hand and putting it here instead

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

No more! By Audible. Cutting the cords Amazon.

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Up next on Sit a Spell... a special intro to upcoming coverage of Alice Guy Blache. Not just the first *female* filmmaker but *THE* first filmmaker to use this new medium to tell narrative stories, use color by hand-tinting the neg & make "talkies" #sitaspell #podcast #filmhistory #aliceguyblaché

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Getting #tickled with David Farrier. I have it on good authority that shit's gonna get weird. @davidfarrier.bsky.social

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"Twin Flame" Oh how I fell for him. It was unreciprocated because, well obviously. #art #sketchbook #pastels #charcoal #human

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Jay Rickard @jayalanrickard.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"Lora" June 2023. Was not aware of who this was at the beginning of the sketch. But I knew before it was finished. No, I'm not telling. :) Yes, the name of the piece is a clue but I'll neither confirm nor deny. 😉 #sketchbook #artist #portrait #charcoal #pencil

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