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Les 🇨🇦 @lgvdart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My contributions to the #EssenceOfTheGarden exhibition at the Toronto Botanical Garden from Oct 3 to Oct 18. Come for the show and stay for the gardens. Full details: torontobotanicalgarden.ca/event/essenc... #watercolour #floral #ink

Four individual paintings: the Gardener's Shed with a red poppy in front; a red iris with a bud; three yellow cone flowers; and an ink drawing of echinacea.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 28/09/2026

Today, my 6 yo grandkids came to my studio and painted these frames I built & then used bones they collected over the summer at the lake to create creepy creatures which we glued to the paintings. That's how you instill creativity. You let them be creative. They've already asked to come back.

2 square wood frames with kid's painting with creatures made of small bird & fish bones glued to it.

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Rebecca @rebeccafpainter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Morning!!! I am very excited that my painting of Tobias Menzies is going to be exhibited at the Oxo Gallery as part of the British Art Prize in October. There is a People's choice award & if you feel so inclined I'd be very grateful for your vote!! awards.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/vote/?artist...

Oil painting of the actor Tobias Menzies

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Thierry St-Laurent Dion @tstld.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sketch of a Hawk Ballpoint pen on paper #art #birds #nature #sciart

Sketch of a Hawk, made with a black ballpoint pen on mixed media paper.

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Les 🇨🇦 @lgvdart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I thought you couldn't give out water to people waiting to vote (that's stupid), but a $5000 bribe is okay? 🤔

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Les 🇨🇦 @lgvdart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Come see some beautiful art from over 40 local artists who paint in Toronto Botanical Gardens and Edwards Gardens. I'm donating all MY proceeds from any sales to the Toronto Botanical Gardens. These two gardens have given me a sense of peace and inspiration.

Poster for Essence of the Garden Art Exhibition and sale.

Toronto Botanical Garden | Presenting sponsor Foresters Financial

Tagline: "I've been painting in the garden. Come and see!"

Essence of the Garden
Plein Air Art Exhibition & Sale

October 3 to 18 • 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
777 Lawrence Ave. E.

Hosted in partnership with Alexandra Sharma, Don Valley Art Group, Toronto Heliconian Club, Toronto Watercolour Society, Willowdale Group of Artists, Women Artists Association of Canada

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Les 🇨🇦 @lgvdart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rudbeckia (main gardens) Toronto Botanical Gardens #watercolour #ink #floral

Flower with a cone head and drooping yellow petals.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 29/08/2026

Hey #yeg Sunday is lemonade stand day for the Stollery and my grandson & granddaughter (both NICU babies) are raising money. And papa (me) is donating some prints which can be had for a huge discount to help. If you're in Millwoods between 5-7 Sunday stop by. That's grandson #1 below in 2020.

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Donate to team Lemon Drop | Lemonade Stand Day 2026

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Becca Thorne @beccathorne.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A charcoal drawing of the cottage at Llwyn Onn, Gwynedd. #charcoal #landscape #Wales #barmouth #memories Charcoal on gessoed Fabriano Artistico.

Black & white charcoal drawing of a mountain landscape: a small white cottage almost buried in the foreground, stone wall leading across to it from the left, darkly shaded and outlined, and the dark outline of a hedge on the right. Forested hills stretch into the valley on the left of the composition, there is a glimpse of the estuary to the right , behind the cottage. And beyond is the Cadair Idris range, with steep sides and a grey sky above .

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Exactly 3 months from today is the most important midterm election in our lifetime. Our opportunity to hold him accountable. Register to vote here: Iwillvote.com The stakes have never been higher. Show the world the majority of Americans are good, decent, honest people. #VoteBlue🗳️ #RejectMAGA 👎

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If you’re watching Fauci’s testimony remember that science isn’t an ideology. It doesn’t lie. It evolves. COVID-19 was a once-in-a-century pandemic caused by a brand-new virus, recommendations changed because the evidence changed. That’s not deception. That’s how it works.

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Ellen Friedman @ellen-friedman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is a vicious political attack on person who worked with integrity & good intent and who saved millions of lives by trying to get tr**p admin to take Covid seriously and protect people. So now they attack him.

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Paul Rogers @rogers492.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Widemouth Bay XVII: Sun Reflected in a Rock Pool. 2026, 30cm x 20cm, watercolour on paper #art #painting #watercolour #watercolor

$Looking down into a tidal rock pool. The seaweed is bright yellow and grey-green and the rocks light grey. An image of the sun is reflected in the water and is edged with prismatic colours where the sun-rays diffract past the edge of a rock above the pool. There are some limpets attached to the rocks, mostly out of the water.$

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Got the chance to see these talented players in action today! It was great having the @wnba.com at Home Court at the Obama Presidential Center for All-Star Weekend. 🏀

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

watched the odyssey last night. film ruined by everyone speaking english instead of ancient greek.

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Becca Thorne @beccathorne.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I’m over the moon to have learned that 2 of my paintings of the Mawddach estuary have been selected for the Wales Contemporary in September. 🥳 It’s a very special place for me. This means a great deal. 🙏

Limited palette oil painting of my father sitting on a grassy wall facing the viewer, arms crossed over his walking stick and a pipe in his mouth. Behind him is the Mawddach Estuary and Cadair Idris range. It has been painted to look like the old, faded black & white photo I used as reference. He is gone, yet still rooted in the landscape.

A colourful oil painting of the Mawddach Estuary, viewed from the harbour. Two boats in yellow and bright blue are shown moored, with a suggestion of the railway bridge sketched in black pigment stick and the mountains roughly added beyond. All tied together by the blue of the water and sky.

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Ellen Friedman @ellen-friedman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

DANGER: If you live in the areas of NE /Mid US or Eastern Canada affected now by smoke from fires, your lungs could be at risk. Wildfire smoke damages lung tissue. Not just unpleasant but dangerous. Wear N95 mask to filter particles. Use HEPA air filters inside (order one?) Please be careful 💙

Map showing areas around Great Lakes and east to New England, New York, Washington DC etc with dangerous levels of wildfire smoke.

Article https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ez9yft362u16764apr3a0/Screenshot-2026-07-16-at-1.00.18-PM.png?rlkey=xltcw6573q4pur3j4gmdkta9b&dl=0

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Downing Street, Cambridge, the row of museum buildings, large watercolour drawing from 1992 done from the opposite side of the road using my bike to prop up the drawing board. #streetart #Cambridge #museums

My on the spot watercolour drawing of the museum buildings on Downing Street, Cambridge from 1992. The corner of the building on the right has some very pretty arts and crafts carvings of angels which I have drawn separately.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thankyou so much for your support of my posts here on Bluesky. I had a full breakdown last yr & *really* struggle with executive function due to autism & ADHD but you seem to enjoy my posts which gives me a lift & is helping me recover tbh. Really hope they help on your tricky mental health days 🌿

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Ellen Friedman @ellen-friedman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Just seeing this & maybe the smoke has passed by now, but PLEASE WEAR N95 MASK if you are in that area. Smoke damages lungs, sometimes permanantly. cc @clinto.bsky.social #smoke bsky.app/profile/drje...

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Tara Bush @tarabush.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Pencil & charcoal on paper. #art #graphite

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Les 🇨🇦 @lgvdart.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Poppies for Peace Say no to delusional egotists who want to wage war and play with lives. Their fragility is glaring. #watercolour #watercolor #floral #peace #nowar

Two orange-red poppy blooms and three green buds in green leaves.

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Ellen Friedman @ellen-friedman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A non-pretend crowd 😊

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nancyAlocke @backriverqc.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Serenity.

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