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Kelly Leahy Radding

@kellyleahyradding.bsky.social

Contemporary Naturalist Artist/Instructor, Animal Lover. All things in Nature are my inspiration, painting them is my passion. Traveling to wild places is essential to my soul and protecting those places is now urgent. 🐝 🌿 🦊 🐋 🦉

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Kelly Leahy Radding @kellyleahyradding.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Studio Assistant Gryffin got promoted after my long-time Studio Manager Gram left us for the Rainbow Bridge last December. I don’t think Gryff was paying attention to Gram’s instruction. He’s supposed to help, not hinder. #cats #catsofbluesky #studiocat

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Kelly Leahy Radding @kellyleahyradding.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Does anyone need a moment of quiet stillness? Art can help. Here’s my contribution. Reflecting, silverpoint & watercolor on casein prepared paper, 14x10 in. #artheals #natureheals #silverpoint #birdart

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Kelly Leahy Radding @kellyleahyradding.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Mr. Scruffy, the Carolina Wren, faces Monday with his jaunty tail up in the air for all to see. On this Monday morning, be like Mr. Scruffy! 😉🪶. #mondaymorning #funnybirds #facethedaywithboldness

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Kelly Leahy Radding @kellyleahyradding.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I’m embracing a ‘skies the limit’ philosophy here at @bsky.app. As an artist on other social media, I’ve pretty much adhered to the ‘artist social media rule’ to only post art- but not here- my art, photography and anything I feel like! #skiesthelimit #artist #photographer #wanderer #backyardbird

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Kelly Leahy Radding @kellyleahyradding.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Day 20- #artadventcalendar I missed a few days but today the snow is softly falling outside my window so I give you a cool tree from a snowy day in Yellowstone NP. Witness 16x12 inches Egg tempera on gessoed panel

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Kelly Leahy Radding @kellyleahyradding.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Day 16-#artadventcalendar More feathers and a maple seed samara on vellum. Of Winged Things Watercolor on calfskin vellum 7x5 inches #watercolor #vellum #featherpainting

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Kelly Leahy Radding @kellyleahyradding.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Day 15- #artadventcalendar switching to drybrush watercolor on vellum. This piece is just finishing up traveling with the 2023 Birds in Art exhibition. I think I’ll see it back in the studio sometime in January. I love painting feathers! #feathers #watercolor #vellum

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Kelly Leahy Radding @kellyleahyradding.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Day 14- #artadventcalendar - this painting just came home to me today from Iowa- it was in the Society of Animal Artists annual exhibition. It is a casein painting of a wild mustang in the Onaqui herd in Utah. The Reflecting Pool Casein on museum rag board 7 3/8 x 18.5 #casein #mustang # wildlifeart

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Kelly Leahy Radding @kellyleahyradding.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

#artadventcalendar Day 13- Another blue sky piece- Of Air & Water Casein on Ampersand Aquabord 8x8 inches #casein #egret #birdart #birdartist

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Kelly Leahy Radding @kellyleahyradding.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Jumping on the #artadventcalendar a little late, but as the saying goes - better late than… Day 12 - picking one of my ‘Bluesky’ paintings Gliding Under a Gilded Sky Casein on panel 16x16 in American White Pelicans

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Kelly Leahy Radding @kellyleahyradding.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Nature is my personal muse. My intention is to have my work create a connection not only to the physical beauty of the natural world that I love, but to reach a deeper understanding of our own essential connections to nature, to our own stories.

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