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Ultragross @ritualacts.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

It has arrived!! Yayyy!! @joannegreenart.bsky.social

Holding the book
NATURAL WATERCOLOR
PAINT MAKING
Create Beautiful Pigments at Home Using Botanicals, Vegetables and Other Foraged Materials
madder root
red cabbage
JOANNE GREEN, Creator of Joanne Green Art

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

T-minus 39 days until my publish date and my book hits the shelves. I’m so freakin nervous because… well… BECAUSE!

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This vid has gone viral on two other social media platforms. It’s evoked a lot of strong feelings & I’ve received a wide range of opinions. It’s been… intense. I’m grateful though, for connecting with so many human souls over the topic of life & death and the gratitude & love we feel about it all.

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

So after a lot of soul searching, I have decided NOT to travel to the U.S. for book events. My American publisher supports me 100% and so for now, the Canadian distributor (Manda Group) will help me promote my book here in Canada. I’m sad b/c I love my U.S. friends 🙁

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Naturally dyed easter eggs using red cabbage, blue spirulina, butterfly pea flower, arbutus bark, onion skins and leaves from my front yard. Each year I improve a little. 🥚🩵🥚🩵🥚

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

The animals I create in my mixed media collages are inspired by the old jewelry in my collection. I thrift for costume jewelry & old brooches and shiny pretty things. Currently I have a lot of metal bits that look rather medieval. Ravens always want to be the main character in my art! #collage #art

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I collect odds & ends and bits & bobs for lighthearted whimsical collages. Usually they try to communicate my reverence for Nature and My love of… Love ❤️#art

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I don’t know about you…but when I remember that we are all just trying to survive on this little rock that is hurtling through space at 67,000 mph… well, that freaks me out. Instead of hurting each other, I think we should be holding onto each other for dear life. #love

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I had to run away from the news today. I went on one of my favourite hikes.

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This tiny sketching set is perfect for carrying in my purse and whipping out on the many ferry rides I take. I’m happiest when my hands are busy being creative. Even if it’s just my hair scrunchie.

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Is he just trolling us now? Sorry, NOT sorry but Canadians will never want to be the 51st state. 🇨🇦

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Timelapse of extracting seaweed pigment & then washing it. Later, I paint with it.

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Update on my recent post about finding a disc golf ‘frisbee’ on the ocean floor. I posted on our local disc golf course page and the owner was found! The Innova disc belongs to a Labrador Retriever named Lucy. Who’s the retriever now? 🙋🏼‍♀️ Happy to help a dog out #discgolf

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Green pigment is made from seaweed (sea lettuce). I mix this into watercolours. You can see how the pigment has faded in two years.

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

My quirk? I’m always looking for meaning or for signs. Things to shake me awake from the mundane. Yesterday… I had to choose between going snorkelling or… playing in a disc golf tournament. I chose to go snorkelling but can you believe what I found on the ocean floor? A disc golf frisbee! Wth?!

A pair of snorkelling fins near the edge of the water on a pebbly beach. The ocean is calm and the sky is blue. On the distant horizon are other islands and a snow capped Mt.Baker. Near the fins are a snorkel and mask.

An underwater scene of a gloved hand in a neoprene wetsuit holding an algae covered orange plastic disc. The sea floor is visible in the background

An orange disc golf frisbee is being held just above the ocean’s surface. The hand is in a neoprene wetsuit glove. The disc is orange but is cracked and brittle suggesting that it’s been in the ocean a while. In the background another snorkeler is floating.

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Making watercolour pigment from the bark of the Arbutus (Pacific Madrone). This is a quick painting of my home (painted with the arbutus pigment and a few other homemade botanical paints).

Close up of the peeling reddish orange bark of the arbutus tree

Hand holding a piece of bark. It is curled up and dry.

Watercolour painting on counter with paint making supplies, mortar and pestle, palette knife, glass jar, paint brush.

A watercolour painting of woodsy house held in front of the house in the actual painting.

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

My book had an Amazon best seller label for two whole days!!! I’m glad I took screen shots because it’s slipping back into obscurity! 🤣 Hopefully once it is beyond the preorder stage and actually printed & on the shelves, people will buy it and…. Like it?! (This is scary sh!t).

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Ok so it IS happening. My American friends are being locked out of their Tiktok accounts tonight. 😥

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Hi! I’m Jo & I’m doing a #promosky for the algorithm ✨ art ✨ communityovercompetition (or community over competition) ✨ nature ✨ natural dye ✨ paint making ✨ ink making ✨ sustainability ✨ authenticity ✨ vulnerability ✨ creativity ✨ empty nest ✨ Gen X ✨ artist ✨ kindness

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Tell me why you love Bluesky. I’m open minded to learning yet another app… but could use a crash course in it. I mean, if anyone sees this! 🤣

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Watching all my 🇺🇸 friends say goodbye on Tiktok is surreal. Why do I feel like it won’t go dark? Most of my 363K followers are likely 🇺🇸. It’s been such a roller coaster but it’s led me to friendships and art opportunities. Friends are scrambling to other platforms like this one! 🦋 interesting times

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Red Cabbage pigment. Where science meets art. Anthocyanin pigment colours are derived from creating a lake pigment and altered by adjusting the pH.

dried & ground red cabbage pigment powder

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

“My work is loving the world.”~ Mary Oliver I’m loving my new mini calligraphy travel set with my own homemade ink. (set made by Blue Star Crafts)

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Joanne Green Art @joannegreenart.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Landed here in Bluesky. What is this new land? 👀 But hey! I wrote a book. Preorders available today!

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