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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 18h

Sam helping me remember lyrics during rehearsal.

Small white dog with his chin holding up. A sheet of lyrics in a red binder.

JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 23h

Don't think this qualifies as a roll cloud (because it's flat) but it's cool in any case. It's probably 100km long. Awaiting the 60-80kmh winds (I have my doubts they'll get that high)

over a grass beach next to a lake, a very long, narrow cloud surrounded by some wispy clouds and a bright blue sky.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 13/10/2026

Since the twitter discorse is discoursing.... When did you leave (bonus points for meta platforms) And if not why not (I don't want answers to this one. You should)

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 13/10/2026

Sunset before dinner is an October thing.

View from a chilly beach of a sunset over a lake with completely clear sky

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 13/10/2026

We're back at Sam's happy place. (And ours) The trailer at the lake. Very cool day today but about high teens this week (and around 0-3 overnight)

A Small white dog in a sunbeam in a bed in a trailer

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 12/10/2026

This clever corvid has figured out that we put out the bird food when we get back from Sam's walk. It followed us from our gate and talked to us for the entire walk this morning.

A magpie on a feeding box attached to a fence

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 11/10/2026

To get my blacks like in this piece (it is still available), I use layers of indigo, Prussian blue & Egyptian Violet. Not only does it avoid mud, the layers give a real feeling of depth to something that could easily feel very flat.

Pain of a nebula. Swirling orange & reds in a finger shape pointing to the upper left, a spiral galaxy if the background & a large area of not really black with hundreds of stars

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 11/10/2026

I forgot to post this when I started my new piece. Thought some might find it interesting how I set up for a new painting.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 11/10/2026

Fall with early snow got you down? Just remember. It's extra fridge season!

A pot of stock & a pot of stew outside on a table on the deck

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 11/10/2026

Hey @benjaminahr.mobi You're probably legally obligated to make a tour date in this town in Ontario

A Google map screenshot of Uxbridge, Ontario

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 11/10/2026

Using yesterday's homemade chicken broth - ground lamb, carrots, potatoes, onions, mushrooms, garlic, Worcestershire, fish sauce, lime juice, tomato paste, bay leaf, smoked paprika, cumin, sage, thyme, cloves, pepper, salt.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 10/10/2026

Actual day 10. About 2 hours on the left middle. Plus I replaced both the headlights in my car.

WIP painting of a nebula with orange swirls in the upper left and things that kind of looks like an orange chair in the middle on a dark blue background

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 10/10/2026

Sometimes 2004 me was really on point. -cough- Sony (And I had a website before Sony did 😎)

Snip from the blog post

Napster 2.0? Give me a break. Personally, I think the

music industry listened too much to the software community whispering in their ear. Don't -sell- music, -license- it. Restrict its use. Make people keep paying. KaChing! What the industry didn't and mostly still doesn't understand is that music is Art. It is al business, yes. Artists and people involved in producing and distributing music need to eat more than 3 times a week. (Notice I mention Artists first?) But the reason mainstream music has become so insipid and un-listenable is that the people involved in making it think of the business before they think of the art. It's a recipe for crap. Imagine some freakish world where The White Album stopped playing after a period of time and required you to upgrade to The White Album v2.0. I imagine the industry is wishing

they'd figured a way to do it back then. They are sure

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 10/10/2026

Stock from leftover roast chicken bones 12 hours in the pressure cooker. This time I browned the bones & skin in a 200c oven (a tip from Fallow) & added 3 beef marrow bones (my idea which I've done before) Amazing.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 09/10/2026

Day 10. About 3 hours. Getting into the nitty gritty of the upper left main nebula.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 09/10/2026

Some lovely ravine bracket fungus from our dog walk earlier.

Some green white & black striped bracket fungus looking like half plates on a dead tree stump

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 09/10/2026

Peppers apparently love our condo/grow light. These did nothing all year & now...

Small jalapeno pepper growing out of its flower base on a grow light stand.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 08/10/2026

Day 8. Woke up at 3:30 so another tired day but 5 hours on the left side. (This detailing part is really slow even when I'm not tired)

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 08/10/2026

Molasses Kisses by Kerr (in Canada) We were always sad to see them because no one liked them and we always got way too many.

Rectangular candies wrapped in wax paper with witches, owls & pumpkins printed on them

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 08/10/2026

How I arrived on Bluesky (while leaving twitter & deleting my account) (Also, my shit post meme)

Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner with the text "15 YEARS OF SHIT POSTS
GONE LIKE TEARS IN THE RAIN"

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 08/10/2026

Apparently, me & someone 9 years ago are the authorities on this question. (That was fast)

Google search result

@jayispainting.earthskyart.ca on Bluesky

9 minutes ago - Saw a YouTube comment that misspelled Chichen Itza as Chicken Itza and now I'm wondering how many restaurant...

GameFAQs

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com

Why on Earth hasn't anyone opened a Peruvian restaura...

May 29, 2017 - Why on Earth hasn't anyone opened a Peruvian restaurant called Chicken Eatza? Zednark 9 years ago#1. The pun is too...

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 07/10/2026

I'm sorry folks. Apparently the WHO saw my shit post. My bad.

JaylsPainting...3d

Hope everyone is washing their hands.

CNN @cnn.com

Russian authorities are responding to an incident in which a suspected dangerous...

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 06/10/2026

Day 6. Almost 6 hours today on the lower 1/3. Was a struggle because I was out last night until 11 and that is Just Not Done. Basic shape is now mostly set I think. Now just hours and hours of refining. Tired but happy with what I got done.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 05/10/2026

So LGBTQ friends. Just got this DM & a follow from this new account. It's seems a bit sketchy (partly because I'm an old cis guy) Might be legit but I probably wouldn't be trusting cold DMs asking for info in this environment. If I'm wrong, let me know

Hello Jay i am Daniel Villarreal one of the marketing manager of the LGBTQ nation.

I hope this message finds you well. We're building an LGBTQ projects and every platform that support it, and we'd love to invite you to join us and help shape what we're creating and also be a shareholder in this project. Your involvement would mean a great deal. If you choose to

LGBTQ NATION

LGBTQ NATION BUILDING PROJECT WORLDWIDE added you

@Igbtqnationwide.bsky.social

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 05/10/2026

Day 5. Another 3.5 hours on the upper center & left of the nebula.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 05/10/2026

Guess I need to update this post from a couple of weeks ago. Is that $70 billion in subsidies? (30 ongoing + 40 for pipeline) So the entire value of o&g to the Canadian economy is given straight back to big oil? Absolutely corrupt behaviour & a climate crime.

Fun fact. Canada's arts & culture gdp is basically the same as oil & gas at about $70 billion.

Direct funding for the arts & culture is about $700 million annually

albertaviews.ca/arts-publicl...

It's up to $30 billion for oil & gas depending on how you count

www.theenergymix.com/canada-pours...

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 05/10/2026

Final step, cream, some cornstarch slurry & frozen spinach (because that's apparently healthy)

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 05/10/2026

Corn, onions, garlic, jalapenos, mushrooms, left over roast chicken, homemade chicken broth, Worcestershire sauce, black pepper, cumin, smoked paprika, chipotle powder, oregano, lemon juice, water

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 05/10/2026

For those asking, Big Mountain fava bean tofu (made in Delta, BC)

Opened package of tofu as described in post.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 04/10/2026

Crispy fried marinated fava bean tofu. Might be a game changer because I don't tolerate soy all that well (don't like the taste either) It's really good.

A plate of thin sliced fried tofu on a paper towel

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 04/10/2026

Some not terrible pricing on ddr4. Especially if you buy from eStink.

A such a ddr4 16gb ram from company called eStink

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 03/10/2026

Sam now knows mom's shoes, dad's shoes & blue shoes (which are also mom's)

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 03/10/2026

Cauliflower from the 4th dimension at the farmer's market today.

$Romanesco cauliflower which is a bright green vegetable that looks like a fractal.$

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 03/10/2026

There's a Volvo repair shop next to my studio and I'm pretty sure this is the coolest stationwagon ever.

Some 70s model (probably) Volvo stationwagon

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 03/10/2026

Day 4. about 3.5 hours on the right side of the main nebula bit

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 01/10/2026

Another 4 hours today. Mostly on the background.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 01/10/2026

I'll never forget how, in the first summer of lockdown, the city stopped mowing. The fields & walkways were full of clover - bees & butterflies were everywhere. Then they mowed it. And they were mostly all gone.

A large section of green space next to a path. tall grass in the back and clover in the front.

Section of green space by a path that has been mowed with heavy grass clippings

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 01/10/2026

I found out yesterday my 1st clarinet seat mate June had seen it a couple of months ago and it made me very happy. I haven't been in touch with anyone from high school since we had a band reunion in 1983. And yes, we were really good.

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@juneaustin5870

Thank you for posting this, Jay! Patti and I were reminiscing today (yes, still best of friends 45 years later!) and were doing a search to remember everyone's names...and to our amazement, we found this! Turns out we were very talented

Jay, Shelley, Patti, Rob, Elliott, Tom, Donna T., Kathy, Michelle, Alan, Barb, Joanne, Caroline, Terry, and so many others...

If anyone who was part of "us" in '82 views this, please comment June (1st clarinet, 2nd chair)

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