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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Lovely walk up to St. Catherine’s Chapel this afternoon.

The path leading up to St. Catherine’s Chapel, near Abbotsbury in Dorset. The chapel is silhouetted against a pink, sunset sky.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 25/12/2025

Give yourself a present & scroll through the over 8500 posted in #ArtAdventCalendar this month. The largest media event on Bluesky (probably) (And if you're a new artist just joining, there's 660 artists you can get to know)

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Day twenty-four of #ArtAdventCalendar The final artwork I’m sharing is one which means a lot to me because it’s inspired by my first paragliding lesson, and taking up paragliding is without a doubt the BEST thing I’ve done this year. Merry Christmas everyone!

Paragliding in West Dorset at sunset, an illustration created in soft pastels. Above a scrubby hill the sun is setting amid a rosy-pink sky, as a lone paraglider glides past.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Day twenty-three of #ArtAdventCalendar Here is a coloured pencil drawing of a mountain hare in the snow.

A coloured pencil drawing of a mountain hare in snow. Drawn on warm grey paper. There are snowflakes falling, and the hare is in the bottom right of the image, hunkered down.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Day twenty-two of #ArtAdventCalendar Tonight, here is a soft pastel painting of a winter sunrise, inspired by a sunrise I watched a few years ago.

A soft pastel painting of a winter sunrise. In the bottom right of the image is a row of three silhouetted trees. Above the trees the clouds, which run diagonally across the page from top left to lower right, burn bright pink.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Day twenty-one of #ArtAdventCalendar and a happy solstice to everyone! I said I’d look through the archives for my contributions this year, so here is a painting which must be about twelve years old! It was inspired by a wild-eyed hare I saw on a walk to Durdle Door in Dorset.

A painting of a hare on the cliffs above a rock archway called Durdle Door in Dorset. To the right of the image, a full moon is rising above the archway and the sea. To the left is the hare, sat in long grasses and wildflowers.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Day twenty of #ArtAdventCalendar Here’s a pair of miniature woodcock (made out of clay) reading all about themselves in my Observer’s Book of Birds.

A pair of woodcock, sculpted out of air drying clay and intricately painted. They are positioned so that they appear to be looking at the painting of a woodcock in the Observer’s Book of Birds.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Day nineteen of #ArtAdventCalendar. Tonight, I’m sharing a collection of raven stones.

Five stones, all painted with ravens on them.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Day eighteen of #ArtAdventCalendar A Fly Agaric painted on a stone. Reindeer eat this mushroom and experience a high without the nasty side effects suffered by humans if we do the same. Apparently this causes them to jump, dash and dance about, which might explain Santa’s ‘flying’ reindeer. 🍄

A Fly Agaric mushroom (the well-known red mushroom with white spots) painted on a pebble.

Bonus info: if you want to experience the hallucinations caused by ingesting this mushroom without the nasty side effects, you can feed a reindeer some Fly Agatics and drink their urine instead.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

How have I only just discovered google maps for space? If you, like me, did not know about this little piece of internet treasure, you must check it out! You can fly over moons and planets - and it's all real data <little happy skips> 🤗 🔭🧪 👉: www.google.co.uk/maps/space/ 👇: Dwarf planet Pluto!

A list of planets next to a labelled image of a dwarf planet (Pluto).

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Day seventeen of #ArtAdventCalendar Tonight I’m sharing this painted stone of the Seven Whistlers. Years ago, when people heard the Whistlers flying at night, they thought of it as a bad omen. Sailers would refuse to sail the next day, and miners would avoid the mines.

The Seven Whistlers, here portrayed as a flock of seven curlews flying together on the night of a full moon. They fly from right to left, above a silver loch and a little cottage on the shore.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Day sixteen of #ArtAdventCalendar. Here’s a soft pastel painting of my local river in the depths of winter.

A soft pastel painting of a river overhung by many spindly trees in winter. The sky is grey, the water is silver and the trees are brown, some of them delicately lined with verdant green moss.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Day fifteen of #ArtAdventCalendar Here’s a little watercolour of a Jenny Wren.

A watercolour painting of a Wren. The bird is perched on the ground and surrounded by blue Forget-Me-Not flowers.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Day fourteen of #ArtAdventCalendar Here’s a rook, painted with black ink. Unfinished as yet.

A painting of a rook in black ink. The bird is flying from the right to the left with its wings up and its feet lifted and pointing forwards, as if it is coming in to land.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Make sure you have a peek if you’ve got clear skies!

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Day thirteen of #ArtAdventCalendar Here is a Dalmatian pelican sculpture I made out of clay many years ago.

A Dalmatian pelican sculpture which is made out of air drying clay. It is painted in acrylic paint (the predominant colours are white, grey and orange) and it is stood in the palm of my hand.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Day twelve of #ArtAdventCalendar. I’ve taken up paragliding this year and I absolutely love it! This is a soft pastel painting of a paraglider flying beneath cumulus clouds.

A soft pastel painting showing a blue sky filled with cumulus clouds and a paraglider with a red wing flying beneath them.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Day eleven of #ArtAdventCalendar. Here are some Christmas cards I made for my friends and family a few years ago to celebrate winter. I know it’s not everyone’s favourite season, but up in the northern hemisphere it’s a brilliant time to gaze at the stars. ✨

A selection of nine Christmas cards, with three in each row, all depicting night or crepuscular scenes in winter, and drawn with soft pastels.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Day ten (!) of #ArtAdventCalendar - December is zooming by. Here’s a painted stone from a few years ago with one of my all time favourite birds - a nightjar.

A warm-grey stone with a portrait of a nightjar painted on it. Behind the nightjar is a full moon. A sprig of foliage reaches in from the left-hand-side. Around the edge of the stone are some other names for the nightjar, such as: evechur, gobble rach and Jenny spinner.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Day nine of #ArtAdventCalendar. Tonight I am sharing this miniature mallard duck I made out of clay.

A tiny female mallard duck made out of clay and intricately painted. She is held between my thumb and forefinger.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Day eight of #ArtAdventCalendar. Tonight’s offering is this coloured pencil drawing of a kestrel I drew for my mum.

On off-white paper is a coloured pencil drawing of a kestrel. The bird is a female, and she is perched on a wooden post. She looks over her shoulder towards something the viewer cannot see.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Day seven of #ArtAdventCalendar. Already a week in! I briefly tried paper cutting a few years ago and really enjoyed it. Here’s one of the scenes I cut out.

Paper cut art. Cut out of black paper is a scene of two storks displaying to each other from their nest on the top of a chimney. My hand holds the paper cut up against an off-white background.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Day six of #ArtAdventCalendar. Today’s offering is this coloured pencil drawing of a kingfisher.

A coloured pencil drawing of a kingfisher in flight. The bird has its wings spread and is facing towards the right.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Day five of #ArtAdventCalendar. Here’s a stone I painted a reeeeeally long time ago.

On a light grey pebble is a painting of a rising full moon with a silhouetted hare in front of it. The colours are monochrome, and there are lots of stars in the sky. There are silhouetted trees of either side of the hare.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Day four of #ArtAdventCalendar. Here’s a pen and pencil drawing of a woodcock (one of my favourite birds) flying out to forage as the full moon rises behind a distant hill.

This monochrome image depicts a woodcock, flying from the right to the left, over a field which is bordered by trees. In the background, above a distant hill, a full moon rises.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Day three of #ArtAdventCalendar. Many moons ago, I used to paint stones. I’d sketch out an idea and then slowly transfer it onto a selected pebble. Here’s an example of one of my concept sketches and the finished stone.

A painted pebble. On a small, grey stone, there is an image of a flying Barn Owl trailing a dusting of stars. There is a full moon in the background. Beneath the stone, on white paper, is a simple concept sketch of the Barn Owl.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 03/12/2025

HEY YOU. STOP DOOMSCROLLING. Right click or press and hold this > #ArtAdventCalendar and choose "See #ArtAdventCalendar posts" It's a portal to a beautiful place that has nothing but art made by real humans. DO IT.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Day two of #ArtAdventCalendar. Here’s a print I made just under a year ago of a crow carrying a crescent moon. 🌙

A lino print of a crow carrying a crescent moon. The image is printed in black ink on off-white paper. The crow’s wings are up, the moon is clutched in its feet.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Oooh, it’s time for #ArtAdventCalendar again! I haven’t made much art this year but I’ll see what I can find in the archives. 😉 Day One: A pencil drawing of a juvenile Tawny Owl, inspired by a pair of Tawny Owl fledglings which frequented our garden a few summers ago.

A juvenile Tawny Owl drawn in pencil on grey paper. My hand, holding a pencil, rests nearby.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

There’s Blackbird singing in our garden. It’s weird to hear that song, entwined as it is with spring and summer, floating through the grey of a November dawn.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Watching a cumulus congestus transforming into a cumulonimbus endlessly fascinating. As soon as the upper regions reach the tropopause (the boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere) they start to spread out, forming an incus, the well known anvil shape of a storm cloud.

A cumulus congestus transforming into a cumulonimbus as it reaches the stratosphere. Two birds (a Crow and a Wood Pigeon) fly towards it from right to left. Photograph by Kerrie Ann Gardner.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I’m dreaming of doing this again. For the last few weeks the weather’s been too rough, but hopefully it’ll settle down soon. 🤞🏽 Soft pastel on Pastelmat.

A soft pastel painting of a paraglider with a red wing flying beneath cumulus clouds and a blue sky. Painted by Kerrie Ann Gardner.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I’m pretty sure I heard my first Redwing last night…

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I haven’t created any art for a loooong time. My inner critic got too loud, causing me to abandon art entirely. But a few months ago I took up a new hobby - and whoosh! Inspiration flooded in, and I felt compelled to take up my soft pastels again. 🪂

A soft pastel painting of a paraglider at sunset near Swyre in West Dorset. The setting Sun is to the right of the image. To the left there is a silhouetted paraglider. Below is organic farmland. The sky is mostly clear and a peachy-orange colour. By Kerrie Ann Gardner.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Before the stormy weather passed through this morning there were some fantastic clouds around. An early show of Asperitas clouds gave way to a fiery sunrise. Worth standing in the rain for!

Fiery clouds at sunrise ahead of an approaching thunderstorm.

Asperitas clouds at sunrise. The undulating shape of the clouds means that some sections are pink in colour as they catch the dawn sunlight.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Gosh, I’ve been really rubbish at posting on Bluesky. Here’s a sketch of a Nightjar egg to say sorry.

Coloured pencil sketch of a European Nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus) egg on grey paper by Kerrie Ann Gardner.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

*Atmospheric Optics* ‘E’ is for Earth’s Shadow. Visible at twilight opposite the Sun, Earth’s Shadow is seen as a dark wedge on the horizon below the Belt of Venus. Its umbra extends 870,000 miles into space. It also gives us lunar eclipses. Total lunar eclipses turn the Moon bright red!

$A total lunar eclipse showing the Moon glowing coppery-red. This is due to refraction. Even though the Moon is covered in Earth’s shadow, some sunlight still makes it to the lunar surface. Because this light has passed through Earth’s atmosphere, it has been scattered, allowing only the longer red wavelengths get through, which turn the Moon red. Photograph by Kerrie Ann Gardner.$

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

*Atmospheric Optics* ‘C’ is for Crepuscular Rays. These are the sunbeams which shine out from gaps in clouds. Particles in the air scatter the light and make the beams visible. This phenomenon is also know as ‘God Rays’, as if a celestial being is casting them out as a symbol of hope.

Crepuscular Rays at sunset, shining out from golden clouds behind a silhouetted woodland. The beams are obvious and stretch overhead.

(Though the word ‘crepuscular’ comes from the Latin word ‘crepusculum’ which means ‘twilight’, the term Crepuscular Rays can be used for any rays of sunlight shining from behind a cloud, regardless of the time of day.)

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

*Atmospheric Optics* ‘C’ is for cloud iridescence. This colourful optical phenomena appears on clouds close to the Sun or Moon. It’s caused by diffraction (small water droplets or ice crystals scatter the light) and is also called irisation, after the Greek goddess of rainbows, Iris.

Cloud iridescence seen above winter trees. The area of cloud closest to the Sun is coloured like mother-of-pearl.

(Cloud iridescence is seen in Nacreous clouds too, also called Polar Stratospheric Clouds, but these need very particular conditions to form, so are far rarer.)

Photograph by Kerrie Ann Gardner.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

*Atmospheric Optics* Today we move on to the letter ‘C’ beginning with a Circumzenithal Arc (CZA). This phenomenon is caused by sunlight refracting through ice crystals in cirrus or cirrostratus clouds. It looks like an upside-down rainbow & is sometimes called a ‘smile in the sky’.

A bright circumzenithal arc in a cloud dappled sky. CZAs often show up when there are sundogs in the sky, but because they are higher up they are often overlooked. CZAs are located about 46° away from the Sun. They are one of the brightest members of the halo family.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

*Atmospheric Optics* Still on the letter ‘B’, tonight I’m focusing on the Brocken spectre; the magnified shadow of an observer cast on a cloud opposite a light source. This shadow is surrounded by a halo known as a glory. It’s named after the Brocken, a mountain in Germany where it’s often seen.

A Brocken spectre seen from a hill in Dorset, UK. There is a common misconception that Brocken spectres are only seen from mountains. This isn’t true. They can be at any elevation. Very lucky people sometimes see a version of this phenomenon known as Ulloa’s halo, where the shadow is surrounded by a bright area called the Heiligenschein, a glory and a fogbow.

Photograph by Kerrie Ann Gardner.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

*Atmospheric Optics* Time for the letter 'B', starting with The Belt of Venus. This atmospheric phenomenon is caused by backscattering. It's a band of pink seen close to the horizon during twilight. Look west before sunrise and east after sunset. The dark blue area below it is Earth's shadow.

The Belt of Venus and some silhouetted winter tree branches. This atmospheric phenomenon is named after the Greek goddess Aphrodite (later renamed Venus by the Romans) who was goddess of love and beauty. In mythology, Aphrodite/Venus wielded a girdle as an erotic accessory, and used it to ignite passion and desire in both mortals and immortals.

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Sarah Robinson @sarahdesigns.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

*Atmospheric Optics* Time for aurora! In a nutshell, aurorae are produced when charged particles from the Sun interact with the Earth’s magnetic field. The different colours are caused by various gases in Earth’s atmosphere. It’s one of my favourite atmospheric optical phenomena - magical! ✨

The Great Aurora Display of the 10th-11th May, 2024. I took this photograph from Dartmoor, UK. In it, a rainbow of colours fills the sky as the Moon sets (there is a small Hawthorn tree in the foreground.) All night, the sky glowed and danced. It was a spellbinding experience.

Photograph by Kerrie Ann Gardner.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

*Atmospheric Optics* Apologies about this photograph, as it doesn’t showcase this phenomenon particularly well, but here are some faint anti-crepuscular rays. These beams can be seen opposite the sun, converging toward the antisolar point. They are caused by cloud shadows and atmospheric haze.

Pink anti-crepuscular rays at sunset. It’s always worth turning around when you see crepuscular rays because their less well known counterpart (anti-crepuscular rays) might be converging towards the antisolar point behind you. These parallel shafts of sunlight are caused by cloud shadows, and they’re made visible by a hazy atmosphere. ☀️

Photograph by Kerrie Ann Gardner.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

*Atmospheric Optics* Still on the letter ‘A’, tonight it’s Alpenglow, from the German word Alpenglühen, which means ‘Alps glow’. Alpenglow refers to the reddish colour seen on mountain peaks at dawn and dusk. Have you seen Alpenglow? Please share your pictures if you have, I’d love to see. ⛰️

This photograph shows peaks near Knoydart in Scotland glowing red in the light of the setting sun.

The light appears red as it has passed through a greater area of the Earth’s atmosphere. The shorter, blue wavelengths are scattered by the atmosphere, so only the longer, red wavelengths get through.

Photograph by Kerrie Ann Gardner.

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Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

*Atmospheric Optics* Another ‘A’ today - Alexander’s Band. If you look closely at a double rainbow, you’ll see a darker area between the primary & secondary bow. This is Alexander’s Band. It appears darker because light in this area is being scattered at angles which don’t reach the viewer’s eyes.

On the left, a bright primary rainbow and on the right a fainter secondary bow showing Alexander’s Band between them. A small flock of Rooks flies past over green, deciduous trees. Alexander’s Band was named after Alexander of Aphrodisias who first described the effect in 200 AD.

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