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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Like a nightmare it came. Another #awkwardrobot from an ongoing series. Back when this textbook was required reading and thoughts of the future involved #robots one could see and control, we missed that moment when the machine became invisible. #analogart #art #kunst #contemporaryart #handpainted

A monochrome off kilter one eyed robot form with clunky arms and legs that don't seem to be the same length seems to stagger towards the viewer.
Light green translucent background that somewhat hides a page from an illustrated technical book.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Buy art, support a good cause. Bidding begins today to support the Wisconsin Master Naturalist program. My piece is #109 in case you want to have one of my originals for your desktop while you work away in that windowless office. #blueskyart #buyart #artauction #landscapeart #driftless #tinyart

Flyer announcing the Nature's Canvas Tiny Art collection now available for bidding until Oct. 2. Every bid supports the Wisconsin Master Naturalist program that supports volunteer efforts across Wisconsin's natural places.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Flicker. Once more with the #birdoftheday and #birdsinabstract theme. No reason photographers should have all the fun. #abstractart #analogart #art #kunst #avianart #avianvisitors

Black silhouette of a flicker in flight over a multicolored background of some vague shapes in yellows, blues, greens, and peach.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Apparently one can only post one photo at a time on this platform? I did not know. Spent the weekend near the #BWCA. Lots of lakes, mushrooms, and task trees.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Pool A at Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge looking SE towards Minnesota with Little Black Oak Island in the mid-ground. Last week there were dozens of white pelicans in this backwater pool of the Mississipi River. Such it is to live by the migratory flyway. #uppermississippiriver #driftless

A pool of blue water with water lily pads near a small tree covered island. In the background are bluffs of Minnesota.
The Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge is a small Refuge next to the Perrot State Park of Wisconsin to the south and the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge to the north.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

from April, 2026 collage, original painting, prints of original painting, stencil. The robot dreams of flying. #abstractart #avianvisitors #kunst #blueskyartshow #robots #dancers #dreamscape #awkwardrobots

Multiple layers of image. Background is a series of somewhat circular light green forms with a slot of darker green across is centers. Midground has an eagle's wing in the your left-hand corner, a fluttering yellow flicker flying into the frame from the lower right corner. Two small dancer silhouettes, one blue, hovering over the eagle's wing, the other yellow, leads into the frame in the upper right side. In the foreground, a translucent 1960s robot seemingly reviewing the scene, leans towards the left in the lower left hand side, it's feet not seen in the frame.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Observing the lily pads in the backwaters of the #uppermississippiriver is sort of fieldwork for future artwork. So, no I wasn't just lollygagging about all day. #blueskyart #waterlilies #backwaters #inspiration #lilypads #kunst #art #nature

The distinctive form of lilypads, a green circle with a wedge cut out, fills the photo.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Waiting on a phone call. Had a painting instructor a long time ago teach me about negative spaces. This summer there has been too much of too much. #blueskyart #abstractart #analogart #art #kunst #contemporaryart #staywell #bekind #changeyourstory

A Series of squiggly shapes all interconnected that shift from yellow-green upper left to dark green lower right.
The shapes created by the continuous line asks if the colored area creates the image or if the negative areas do.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This only a test. I haven't been able to post to bsky on my phone browser. This is a close up of sunflowers in bloom from 7.09.2015. #gardenonthesideofahill #urbangardener #sunflowers #growyourown #outside

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Spending more time weeding, reading, biking, hiking, and visiting than making art this time of the year. So here's a piece from some years back w shadows of today. #abstractart #contemporaryart #kunst #analogart #mapart #foundpaper

Hard shadow lines running lower left to upper right obscure somewhat the multi-colored mostly vertical nonreprestational forms that are somewhat linear in form. The background is a map with four horizontal lines evenly spaced.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

It will be a little while before the purple coneflowers are looking like this, but they are getting ready, especially after the much needed rain yesterday. from 2022 #gardenonthesideofahill #urbangardener #driftlessregion #coneflowers #gardenart #blueskyart #kunst #staywell #bekind #growyourown

Purple coneflowers painted in an expressionist way with the sunlight highlighting the pedals.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Back during the pandemic I was investigating ameba shapes layered in transparent patterns. from early 2021. #abstractart #thosedamnameboas #foundpaper #kunst #art #blueskyart #staywell #bekind #makeart #buyart

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Fish with extensions, because sometimes you just need to make an impact. #fishart #underwaterart #blueskyart #gofish #poisson #kunst

A brownish left facing fish that is shaped by like a sunfish. The fish has exaggerated fins that look at bit like long fingers.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This Sunday, May 24th. Travel the #greatriverroad this weekend. Stop in #fountaincitywi check out #thecornerstorefc as they celebrate their 100 yr old soda fountain. I'm next door. I have a lot of my original art for sale & on sale, as well as prints, cards, and more. #handmade #art #kunst #buyart

Drawing of an 1864 small brick house.
8 South Main Street, Fountain City, Wisconsin.
11-4pm, Sunday, May 24th.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

"He's a person I've known for a long time." Seriously, who talks about your own son like this? from a series of Critters from 2020 (pandemic). This may be available as a notecard SUN, May 24, at my Studio Sale in Fountain City, WI. #buyart #art #kunst #greatriverroad #fountaincitywi

A green goblin-like round-headed creature seems to be holding the earth with its red arms. It has spiky brownish hair, two red eyes with slits for pupils, a green brow and nose, yellow tinted lips and a??? blue beaded moustache that has a blue squiggly line that accents where the cheekbones might be. Also string green beans for ears.
Also green shoes. It seems to be standing on something, but the background is black with points of light stars, so maybe just floating in space.

This not based on any living, or dead, being and shouldn't be interpreted as political commentary of any sort.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Still hawking my Studio Sale this Sunday, May 24. This is about the electrical charges our nerves send/receive. Acrylic on panel. 11-4, 8 South Main, Fountain City, WI. My neighbor is celebrating their 100 year old soda fountain w a street party. #fountaincitywi #driftless #greatriverroad #buyart

A mostly blu horizontal painting w yellowish lightening like lines moving around the piece.
Some of the blue shapes have a bit of yellow/orange in them.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

For #Feathursday Pelican at Mile 722 acrylic on panel This along w other bird portraits will be available at my Studio Sale, SUN, May 24, as part of the Fountain City, WI, community celebration. It is available as a post card too. Both ON SALE. #driftless #fountaincitywi #uppermississippiriver

White pelican, with black wing tips facing right with Mile 722 of the Mississippi in bright blue and red as the background.

Studio Sale
8 South Main Street
Fountain City, WI

My neighbor, The Corner Store, is celebrating 100 years of their newly refurbished soda fountain. There is will be a street party including other marker vendors, music, and bbq.

I'll have 9 years of Avian Visitor, 100 Views of Trempealeau Mountain, and Robots! paintings available, as well as cards, prints, bandanas, t-shirts, pillows, painted wood boxes, and more.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Take a trip on the #greatriverroad this Memorial Day weekend. My neighbor #thecornerstore is celebrating 100 yrs of their soda fountain w a street party w music, bbq + more. I'll have loads of art for sale and on sale. #fountaincitywi #driftless #art #analogart #safetravels #staywell #staykind

Yellow 1864 house w brown trim rendering. Studio Sale, 8 South Main Street, Fountain City, WI. I'll be open 11-4, Sunday May 24th, but the street party kicks off closer to 2, with music and bbq 4 til 7.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

It is all-embracing and essential and pluripotent.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I'm having a Studio Sale on Sunday, May 24, as part of my neighbor #thecornerstore celebrating 100 years of their soda fountain. There will be a street party w music, bbq, + other maker vendors. I'll have these post cards and original art and prints on sale. Travel the #greatriverroad that weekend.

Picture postcards of pelicans, okay three versions, they are fav, as well as a sandhill crane, and blue heron postcards that have sections of the Mississippi River nautical maps as a background in bright colors.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

May the fourth... After the film thing got old he/she/they found a nice quiet planet where the locals where looking for a god figure to worship. steel engraving w acrylic [available] #robotlove #robots #maythefourth #R2D2 #bewell #staykind #findyourtibe

Steel engraving of a procession of the followers of Canute coming upon an apparition of R2D2, upper right, painted in a ghostly/godly white.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Dinosaur as part of the Parade of Creatures at the Bluffview Community Earth Day celebration yesterday. #winonamn #earthday #Dinosaur #awkwarddinosaur #handmade #blueskyart #studentmade

A dinosau skelton with a long neck being carried by several students coming over a slight hill. Blue sky. Green grass.
A most excellent morning.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

#awkwardrobots from a series of robots based upon past images of robots. Our current 'robots' do not reflect what we thought we were going to get. Faceless metal boxes connected to other faceless metal boxes doing someone's bidding. #contemporaryart #kunst #blueskyart #staywell #bekind #beaware

A somewhat wedge shaped silver robot with clunky legs and skinny articulated arms has a large blue domed head with a much smaller blue dome sitting just to its right (our left). Each dome head as a red light atop it.
The body of the robot has 4 red lights in a row level with the middle of the arms, another red light below the others. Below them, even with the end of the arms is what appears to be either a green grill or a slot that could fit a movie cassette.
The background is green with typing somewhat visible. Upper right are the words Dear Editor. Lower right is the word LETTERS 583.
Interpret this as you will.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Eagles' nest There are a number of eagles' nests one can see, walk near, in the #trempealeaunationalwildliferefuge . Winter provides clear viewing and less chance of upsetting the inhabitants. #landscape #eagles #expressionism #kunst #blueskyartshow #analogart #staywell #bekind #gooutside

Landscape of yellows and browns with a tree with an eagle nest dominating the image.
Painted in an expressionist style. No songs birds were hurt at this spot in real life.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The only way to prove you have a mind is to change it occasionally." -Reyner Banham

Abstract art. Seems to be a human figure turned away from the viewer looking towards a scene inside a scene.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Gathering of blackbirds. Informed by a photo from September, 2022. Every year blackbirds gather for their migration to somewhere hopefully warmer. A scene from the Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge. #abstractart #landscape #driftless #trempealeaunationalwildliferefuge #staywell #beprettigood

Loose brush showing scrub trees and golden grasses in the foreground. Bluffs of the Driftless region in the background with a blue sky.
The blackbirds, tiny specks, gather to the right of the image in trees and the grasses.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Awkward Robot WIP #awkwardrobots #blueskyart #foundpaper #analogart #art #kunst #handpainted #contemporaryart #staysafe #bekind #beprettigood Going out again today to walk with a crowd holding up signs and talking of a different path.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Storm over Trempealeau Acrylic/paper This piece is in "Driftless" exhibit at the Winona County History Center til Feb 28, 10-4. TU-FRI. Pulled together by the River Arts Alliance. Feels weird to be promoting my work now. To make up for that, there is a march, SAT 1-3 in Winona, MN. #beprettigood

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

3 years on. Takes a licking, keeps on ticking. Dang lucky guy. Dang good cardio team at Gundersen Lutheran. Dang. #gratitude #heart #luckyguy

echogram of a heart artery.
Dated 1/30/2023.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Tendrils between us, 2026 Visited by anger, sadness, and finally hope. I'll do better tomorrow finding those tendrils. #staysafe #beGood #bePretti #resist #noice #nokings #nowars #bluskyart #art #kunst #analogart

Thin, crooked lines span between two groupings of blues colored messy clouds. On a painted yellow sheet of paper with some red-brown clouds.

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Ah, they still haven't released the Files, meanwhile the madman rants and proves he had lost his marbles somewhere in Florida. Let's reorder the international political, economic, social fabric so a demented old man can avoid spending the rest of his life in jail. #releasethefiles #staysafe #begood

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Pgracedesigns @pgrace.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Even with the fact that my friends and families are being terrorized every day in the Twin Cities, I do occasionally try to make art. There is a spot in the #trempealeaunationalwildliferefuge where fish go to mate. #fishspawn #handpainted #artsky #contemporaryart #kunst #staysafe #beGood #makeart

A series of stylized fish swim above a pool of water that shifts color from orange in the upper right corner to a dark shade of purple blue on the lower right.

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