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WinterCity Edmonton @wintercityyeg.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a WinterCity Book Flood! Winter is just around the corner, so it’s time to refresh your to-be-read pile! On Nov. 21, shop local and support your community for the holiday season. Enjoy unique offerings from 10 participating bookstores! #YEGreads #YEGevents

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Kate Gunn @kategunnyeg.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Cottage life summer scenes near Perth, On.

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Kate Gunn @kategunnyeg.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

A sunny Alberta blue sky day for a hike up to the End of the World and...the wonderful Mood Cafe!

A blue sky over the partially snow covered river- with some ice abd patches of water. An evergreen tree in the front left foreground.

A view from the top of wood staircase at the End of the World lookout by Saskatchewan Drive
Below, the still frozen and snow covered river winds it way from left to right across the photo. Brown trees bare of snow line the far shore of the river.

A small two storey shop structure. The sign Mood Cafe in a blue circular sign above the door. A woman is entering the door to the cafe. The sun shine is reflected in an upper story window.

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

In Canada, our history books refer to Liberation Day as May 5, 1945, the day when the Netherlands was finally liberated from Nazi occupation through the hard work, courage and great sacrifices of Canadian and other Allied soldiers. #LestWeForget 🇨🇦🇳🇱

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Kate Gunn @kategunnyeg.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Shopping local on a Saturday.

A colourful grocery store aisle. Along the tip, a sign saying Go Canadian with a red abd white maple leaf flag and a man standing in a green golden wheat field. Below, rows of Canadian made food packages for sale.

Another special exhibit of fresh Canadian vegetables of all colours- red peppers, green cucumbers, yellow peppers. A large red and white Canadian maple leaf flag hangs over top of the display abd a smaller one along the right hand side. Buy Canadian!

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Richard Williamson @rcwmsn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Friday Finnish! HELENE SCHJERFBECK (FINLAND, 1862-1946) Girl on the Sand, 1942 Oil and charcoal on canvas 47 x 35,7 cm

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Reporter asking about Trump’s trade war chaos: “Your Foreign Affairs Minister yesterday called all this a psycho-drama. How do you characterize it?” Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau: (pause) “Thursday.”

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🇨🇦Bella🇨🇦 @bella1910.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

From our great PM Justin Trudeau 🇨🇦

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Judith Slaying Holofernes (1614–20) by Artemisia Gentileschi, considered one of the most accomplished of all Italian Baroque painters #WomensArt

Painting featuring two standing white female figures, to the right, holding a sword in the act of beheading a white male figure who lies centrally on a bed, all in a dark room

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Kate Gunn @kategunnyeg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

A great afternoon of hockey st the PWHL Takeover Tour at Roger's Place in Edmonton. So many young girls and women hockey players and fans! #yeg #hockeygirlsrule #takeovertour

A vivid violet sign reading PWHL Takeover Tour Edmonton

A view of the Roger's Plave hockey rink filled with women hockey team players. Bright lights, spotlights and 18000 people in the audience.

The screens at the hockey game xeroed in on dozens of young fans with inspirational hand made signs. In this shot a yellow sign reads Hockey Girls Rule.

A woman in the foreground, high up in the stands, with the lower seats and ice rink behind her in the distance.

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Kate Gunn @kategunnyeg.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

A sunny morning visit to Edmonton's Silver Skate Festival. Carvers, skating, winter films on a snow screen and maple taffy! #yeg #alberta #SilverSkate

An Alberta blue sky Bove an outdoor skating rink. Wooden benches and fire pits at the edge of the ice. Forests in the background.

Silver skate hosts this festival of film that celebrate winter in the evenings. Using a snow screen.

Two Carvers, one from France, work with tools on carving a large moose head sculpture at Laurier Park.

A man dresses in a red abd black plaid jacket and fur trimmed hat pouts hot maple syrup on cold packed snow. He begins to roll it up on a short stick.

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JulRue @julrue.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I'm grateful for the #ArtAdventCalendar! A big thank you for all the likes and shares! An extra big thank you to @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca for organizing! What a joy to see all the amazing artwork and community out there! For Day 24 I'm posting a work in progress - stuck on where to go next.

Abstract painting with warm browns and vivid turquoise, suggesting a rocky landscape with streams or water.

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saraofwhimsy @saraofwhimsy.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Thought it would be fitting to end #ArtAdventCalendar this year with another miniature library. This is a magical little library in a tree case, and I hope to be able to make more like this in the new year! 🧶 Happy holidays all, and thank you for sharing so much amazing art this month!

This miniature library is in a case that features a tree on the front, allowing you to peek in to see its contents. The library is filled with tiny handmade books and scrolls, including a book of magic on the top shelf beside a star. Below you find a tiny potion bottle and a small piece of spinel sitting on a book. On the lower shelf there is a larger piece of apatite.

Photo of the miniature library with the case opened. The library is filled with tiny handmade books and scrolls, including a book of magic on the top shelf beside a star. Below you find a tiny potion bottle and a small piece of spinel sitting on a book. On the lower shelf there is a larger piece of apatite.

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Kate Gunn @kategunnyeg.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Here's to #ArtAdventCalendar 2024! What a wellspring of hope, cheer and creativity.

A Christmas wreath of colored metal balls, coveted in a dusting of snow and surrounded by lights.

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Kate Gunn @kategunnyeg.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Illuminated candy canes seen tonight on a winter evening stroll down Edmonton's famous Candy Cane Lane. The warm temps of minus 2 C brought out huge crowds for the pedestrian only Open Streets night! #ArtAdventCalendar

Two life size lit up red and white candy canes tied together with a huge bright green bow. Standing in the snow in front of a house with white Christmas lights twinkling in the window.

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Kate Gunn @kategunnyeg.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

#ArtAdventCalendar the North Saskatchewan River on the Winter Solstice 2024!

A wide view of the winyer-blue snow covered North Saskatchewan River with trees on the banks and the winter sun shining amidst mottled clouds.

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Kate Gunn @kategunnyeg.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

A hopeful, bright Winter Solstice photo from our hike by the ravine in Edmonton this afternoon. Today, the days begin to lengthen! #ArtAdventCalendar

A bright blue Alberta sky and sun drenched clouds are a backdrop for tall leafless trees. The snow below is in shadow. Winter Solstice greetings!

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Kate Gunn @kategunnyeg.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

A hike along the ravine trail today. The forest, at times, was filled with mountain ash berries capped with snow! #ArtAdventCalendar

A close up shot in the winter forest of red mountain ash berries capped with white snow tops.

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

A watercolour painting of a small patch of woodland on the Cleveland Way path near Helmsley - for today’s #ArtAdventCalendar

Watercolour painting of a path through trees, with the tree shadows falling across the track

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Last week before all hell broke loose, my sister and I did our annual gingerbread decorating extravaganza. It was a little smaller than usual. We only did a half batch because it’s a lot of cookies. Still, lots of fun and many of the usual characters are there.

A table full of decorated gingerbread cookies. There are about three dozen of them. Some are people shaped and include Spock, Santa, a guy with a broken leg, Plumber Butt, John Travolta from Saturday night, fever, and Groot. We have some cookies that have already got bites out of them and are bleeding. Roadkill is there. We also have ninja bread cookies and a couple of robots. There are gingerbread trees, candy, canes, reindeer, snowman, and an owl.

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Kate Gunn @kategunnyeg.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

#ArtAdventCalendar "When snow falls, nature listens." A quiet spot to sit on a winter walk along the ravine and river valley trails.

The scene foreground has a wooden park bench surrounded by white snow. Trees covered in snow in the background, with an Alberta blue sky.

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Kate Gunn @kategunnyeg.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Winter lighting is an art. The historic Selkirk Hotel at Fort Edmonton is lit up with dramatic effect on a snowy night for the YEG Christmas Market! #ArtAdventCalendar

A two story historic hotel is lit up with red and green lights. Each floor had a number of windows, with the upper floor red brick. In the foreground at night, people stroll past admiring the sight.

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snowgall @snowgall.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Lace #doily I knit in April 2019. Another presumed Niebling design. It appeared in a design leaflet published by MEZ with the unoriginal title of "Handarbeitsvorlage 7016" (Handwork pattern 7016) with no date or designer credit. Looks a bit like a snowflake to me ❄️ #ArtAdventCalendar #knitting

Knitted white cotton lace doily in a hexagonal shape. The center star-like motif consists of six inverted diamond-shaped leaves, and those same leaves are repeated again in the outer border in sets of three. Placed on a dark pink background cloth for the photo.

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DoodlyDoo Doodles @doodlydoodoodles.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

#Day17Doodle for the #ArtAdventCalendar. This was a pattern challenge I was invited to participate in on Instagram. I enjoy working in minute detail, but I learned I’m not a fan of regular patterns — I much prefer organic shapes. But it was fun to try, and I loved working with the colours.

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Barb Sohn @barbsohn.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

#ArtAdventCalendar day 17. Tay River in Stewart Park, Perth Ontario. #art #CanadianArt. #OntarioArt. #GalleryRaymond

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Kate Gunn @kategunnyeg.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Day 16 #ArtAdventCalendar "Let us love winter for it is the spring of genius." Pietro Aretino

A cluster of red mountain ash berries close up with bare branches and blue sky in the background.

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Saskya @saskya.com · 17/12/2024

I don't think I ever posted this one. #ArtAdventCalendar #watercolor #toucan #birds #sciart #nature #bskyart

A watercolor painting of a toucan. He is facing to the right and his beak is larger than his head - it is multicolored with a red tip. He is perched on a branch with a few Tufts of grass/ long thin leaves protruding from it.

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RJ @rjjb94.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

#ArtAdventCalendar This is tablet or card weaving. The Vikings did a lot of #TabletWeaving. Every time I weave with cards, I think I’m just about to really figure it out and enjoy the process. This was not that time. 😆 Design is my own. #Weaving #InkleLoom #BandWeaving

Red, green, and cream band being card woven on an inkle loom. You can see living room in the background.

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Kate Gunn @kategunnyeg.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

#ArtAdventCalendar "The only other sounds the sweep, of easy wind and downy flake." Robert Frost

A view of frost and snow covered trees against a blue Alberta sky.

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Kate Gunn @kategunnyeg.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14 Skiing cross-country in the heart of the city in winter. Such a gift! Fresh snow, an Alberta blue sky and calm.

Two pairs of skiis and poles are propped up against a standing ski rack on the white snow. In the background, a brilliant blue sky and the urban skyline of high rises in the distance.

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Kate Gunn @kategunnyeg.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Day 13 #ArtAdventCalendar "Every winter has its spring." H. Tuttle This painted resting seat by The End of the World Lookout over the North Saskatchewan River is a vivid reminder of warmer spring days ahead!

A snowy spot in Edmonton by The End of the World lookout over the North Saskatchewan River. A cement bench is painted with vivid yellow and blue flowers. An inspiring glimpse or reminder of summer in the midst of snowy winter beauty!

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Cynthia W. @myownlittlecorner.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

A little winter landscape from the sketchbook. #artadventcalendar

Evergreens stand out against a cold blue sky, while snow lays undisturbed upon the ground.

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Fish Problems @blossombeast.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Missed a few days but back for Day 12 of #ArtAdventCalendar with a wintery piece.

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Kate Gunn @kategunnyeg.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show." - Andrew Wyeth. Winter woods #ArtAdventCalendar Day 12 #yegwinter

Winter sunshine slices like gold through a forest of tall evergreens in winter reflecting off the snow beneath.

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Paul Horsman @cphartist.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Continuing on a distinctly praire theme. Here is an #oiloncanvas depicting a summer evening storm. Based on a photo taken while driving home from a visit to my sister’s farm. #ArtAdventCalendar #farmlife #rurallandscape

Evening thunderstorm clouds over a field of green fields.

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Karen's Nature Art @karensnatureart.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar -2 page spread of my Illinois prairie nature journal, covering May 25-June 3, 2021. I tend to gravitate towards the colorful flowers, but I included the pale brown Alum root flower stalk amongst this rainbow of colors to remind myself that they're all important. #SciArt

2-page spread of watercolor and ink sketches interspersed with handwritten notes. Left page: May 31, 2021, 70 degrees, cloudy and breezy, IL Beach St Park Nature Preserve (Dune trail), saw the trifecta of puccoons- hairy, hoary and fringed! Also visited the prairie at Hosah Park- saw the 8-spotted forester moth and sketched the coreopsis. Just as we left IL beach, we saw the Indian Paintbrush and ended the day with a bald eagle flyover! Sketch has overlapping ink drawings with painted flowers-prairie phlox (pink), coreopsis (deep yellow- orange), lupine (blue-purple), the three puccoons (yellow, lemon yellow, yellow orange) and a blue-eyed grass. A black and white spotted moth with orange pantaloons is near the bottom.
Right page: flowers continue with scarlet Indian paintbrush, pale brown alum root with a damselfly on the stem, and 3 stalks of purple-blue spiderworts with leaves arching in many directions. A brown and yellow skipper is in the center. Notes: June 1, 2021, Schulenberg Prairie, 72, sunny and warm, saw black and tiger swallowtails, monarch, pearl crescents, Hobomark skipper, E.forktail damselflies ovipositing in Willowbrook creek, common green darner, and whitetails
June 3, 2021 75 degrees and warm, Springbrook Prairie, bullfrogs are croaking, red-wing blackbirds singing, B.impatiens on spiderwort, ponds and streams are very low- almost dry.

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Sue Zipkin @suezipkin.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Today is day 11 for #ArtAdventCalendar. I am not caught up yet. I paint a lot of watercolor florals. I love #ranunculus sue-zipkin.pixels.com/featured/ran...

A vibrant watercolor painting of a bouquet of ranunculus flowers in various shades of red, pink, orange, and yellow, surrounded by delicate green foliage. The loose, fluid brushstrokes give the painting a soft and airy feel, capturing the natural beauty and texture of the blooms. The artwork is signed with 'Sue Zipkin' in the bottom right corner.

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Amanda Hammill 🇨🇦 🎨 @amandahammill.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 11 "Moonrise Among the Birches" (2022) 10x10 #Alcoholink on #yupo mounted on Russian birch cradleboard, sealed with #artresin #art #painting #inkandessenceart #forest #birchtrees ##hamont #artistsofbluesky

Alcohol ink painting of two stands of birch trees with a full moon rising behind and fallen autumn leaves on the ground beneath (12x12)

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Today for #ArtAdventCalendar - lichens, moss and fungi from a winter walk in the Lake District last year - winter’s great for finding these, as they become more prominent amongst the bare branches. #nature

Watercolour painting of various fungi, moss and lichen from Great Wood near Keswick, Cumbria: chlorociboria fungus, Usnea lichen on larch, little shaggy moss, common feather moss, big shaggy moss, common tamarisk moss, Evernia prunastri lichen

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Kate Gunn @kategunnyeg.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

There's something about the vivid, cheerful yellow of this snow shovel. It makes the job of shovelling a corner lot more enjoyable! #ArtAdventCalendar Day 11