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Liz @lizms.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

9/27: acrylic painting of my brother’s neighborhood in Southie for this weekend’s #skecthbook #painting update #artyear #art #eck

Loose painting of a city street lined with trees and parked cars reflecting the sky and a vanishing point leading towards a yellow and pink sunset and distant cluster of trees

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Liz @lizms.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Finally got back to to my sketchbook this evening after months of feeling too busy. 🙃Here’s a quick acrylic grayscale painting that felt right to pair with Charles Bukowski’s “air and light and time and space” (full poem in alt text) for this week’s #ImageAndVerse

Charles Bukowski
"air and light and time and space" 1992

'- you know, I've either had a family, a job, something
has always been in the
way
but now
I've sold my house, I've found this
place, a large studio, you should see the space and
the light.
for the first time in my life I'm going to have a place and
the time to
create.'
no baby, if you're going to create
you're going to create whether you work
16 hours a day in a coal mine
or
you're going to create in a small room with 3 children
while you're on
welfare,
you're going to create with part of your mind and your
body blown
away,
you're going to create blind
crippled
demented,
you're going to create with a cat crawling up your
back while
the whole city trembles in earthquakes, bombardment,
flood and fire.
baby, air and light and time and space
have nothing to do with it
and don't create anything
except maybe a longer life to find
new excuses
for

[pictured: black & white painting of a lightbulb on its side]

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Liz @lizms.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

9/20: flower picking view for this week’s #Stunday prompt

photo of a bouquet filled with bright flowers tilted toward the camera with purple and white flowers and greenery in the background

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Liz @lizms.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

9/19: marigolds for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow theme, #golden

close up view of a patch of marigolds and a small honeybee

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The Misty Miss Christy @tmmc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries Croatian painter Nasta Rojc (1883-1964) 1. Self-Portrait in a Hunting Suit, 1912 / Oil on canvas / National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb, Croatia

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Liz @lizms.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

9/6: Closing out summer with some Mary Oliver energy for today’s #ImageAndVerse (“In Blackwater Woods” in alt text) #Stunday #SelfPortraitSunday #eck

“In Blackwater Woods”
Mary Oliver, 1983.

Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars

of light,
are giving off the rich
fragrance of cinnamon
and fulfillment,

the long tapers
of cattails
are bursting and floating away over
the blue shoulders

of the ponds,
and every pond,
no matter what its
name is, is

nameless now.
Every year
everything
I have ever learned

in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires
and the black river of loss
whose other side

is salvation,
whose meaning
none of us will ever know.
To live in this world

you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.

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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Paul Evans The Yellow Field acrylic on canvas

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dboydart 🦋 @dboydart.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Blurry-Go-Round A slow shutter image that is just #Chaos for the #BlueSkyArtShow #photography #merry-go-round #G+Circle #EastCoastKin #ECK 🦋

A slow shutter photo of a merry-go-round in motion. It mainly a golden yellow, with stripes of green, red and blue.

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Liz @lizms.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

8/22: recent aquarium view for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow theme, #chaos

photo of a darkly lit aquarium tank with colorful sea anemones and coral

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Liz @lizms.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

8/10: Friday’s fireworks over the St. Lawrence River #MinimalMonday #eck

photo of a dark night sky over black water with a line of lights and fireworks along the horizon in the distance

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Long_Painter @longpainter.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Harbor Study No.4 8”x10” oil on wood panel , Available

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Liz @lizms.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

8/9: recent view of Montmorency Falls for this week's #BlueSkyArtShow prompt ( #water) #eck #scape

photo of a tall waterfall with a suspension bridge running across it

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Liz @lizms.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

8/1: recent view from the MFA (Boston) for today's #BlueSkyArtShow prompt, #big #ColorADay #GreenSat

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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Alice Dalton Brown (USA b.1939) Summer Breeze (1995) oil on linen

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Liz @lizms.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

7/22: The deer that I’m pretty sure I drew last year (same markings on her face) has returned to our backyard this summer and yesterday brought this little guy with her. #photographersunited #photographersofbluesky #photography #eastcoastkin #eck #artyear

photo of a young fawn standing still among greenery, looking towards the viewer

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Liz @lizms.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

For today’s #BlueSkyArtShow prompt ( #growing), a recent hiking view with my youngest off in the distance #scape #artyear #ColorADay #GreenSat

forrest view of mossy rocks and leaves in the foreground with a wall of green foliage and sunlight streaming through casting shadows and illuminating a figure walking in the distance

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Liz @lizms.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

7/16: people ( #sketchbook update, trying to get back to art before break slips away, this one felt more emotional and is something I’ve been processing a lot this summer) #humansofbluesky #artyear #drawing #dailyart #art #portrait

sketchbook open to a pencil drawing of two people in graduation caps and gowns holding diplomas and smiling with their arms around a woman [their mother] in the center of the picture

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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Jan Dingle Summer Meadows

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Liz @lizms.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

7/12: #Stunday - scenes from the ICA Boston’s Derrick Adams: View Master exhibit (with some tall ships along the way) #SelfPortraitSunday #EastCoastKin #Boston #art

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Joseph Lewczak (Truth Seeker) @truthseeker59.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This artwork, "Fireworks, Nagaoka," was created in 1950 by Japanese artist Kiyoshi Yamashita. Happy 250th.

The festival was established in 1946 to console the souls of the 1,500 residents who lost their lives during World War II air raids. Yamashita famously reflected on this event, noting that if people focused on making beautiful fireworks instead of bombs, wars might never happen.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

'Blue scene' by Tina Morgan, contemporary English painter born in Devon #womensar

Painting of a hazy beach scene with a small group of figures in silhouette by the sea in the distance

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Liz @lizms.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

6/20: a view from Boston last night for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow prompt, #curve

Nighttime view centered on an archway with the words “Tadpole Playground” across it and a frog statue sitting with an orange traffic cone [from Scottish soccer fans] on its head

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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Alfie Caine (British Artist, born 1996) "New York Penthouse", 2020. Vinyl and Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 70 × 97 cm. Private Collection. #Art

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Liz @lizms.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Attended an incredible concert last night to support the PAIR Project and their efforts to provide free legal services to asylum seekers and detained immigrants (links to support in alt text) @pairproject-ma.bsky.social #eastcoastkin #artyear #communityoutreach #brightspots

photo of a moonlit building with stained glass windows lit from within

interior photo of a vaulted ceiling lit with pink and blue and stings of smaller yellow lights hanging across

two women standing in a room lit with pink and blue

Links:
for more info and donations to PAIR:
https://www.pairproject.org

for item donations:
https://www.myregistry.com/giftlist/compassioninaction

Text:

PAIR
The Henry Purcell Society is proud to be partnering with the PAIR Project for this community outreach concert, supporting their mission providing free legal services to asylum seekers and detained immigrants

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Continuo: Andrew Sheranian, Sarah Freiberg
Piano: J. Kathleen Castellanos
Upper Strings: Susanna Ogata, Jane Starkman, Joy Grimes;
Recorders: Daniel Meyers and Roy Sansom
Vocalists: Charles Blandy, Cody Bowers, Jessica Cooper, "Aviva Dias (Emerging Young Artist), Craig Juricka, David Thomas Mather, Emily Siar, Lyracle (Ashley Mulcahey and James Perretta)

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Liz @lizms.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

View from today, a little early for #BlueSkyMonday

Photo of a lobster roll and fries set on a table with the ocean and blue sky in the background

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Tove Jansson in her studio,1956, Finnish artist and creator of the Moomin book series #womensart #RoomArtWeek

Three monochrome photographs featuring a whte woman dressed in a black top and trousers standing in her artist studio surrounded by paintings and art equipment

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Liz @lizms.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

5/3: Getting back to #painting after a busy few weeks, here’s one for this week’s #ImageAndVerse prompt: another #acrylic #sketchbook entry (rambuten for this week’s fruit) to pair with Aimee Nezhukumatathil's poem “from The Rambutan Notebooks” (excerpt in alt text) #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #DailyArt

I won’t ask the rambutan about its messy hair.
I know you are tired of trying to flatten
your hair into something it is not. When
it is meant to flap and fly in the wind-salted air.
Unplug the iron. Let the questions of what is beauty
and what is not-beauty fruit down your back.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, excerpt from “From The Rambutan Notebooks" 2018

[photo of an acrylic sketch of a rambutan cut open with its fruit set in its spiky skin like an egg in a nest]

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