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Retired graphic designer, amateur photographer, arts, hiking. SoCal | Berlin | Pasadena, CA | Nevada | Central Coast, CA. Weather enthusiast. 🚫Please no DMs🚫

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 5d

Here's your cheat sheet for art challenges

October 6-12

Art challenge themes and hashtags.

Compiled by @handcranked.bsky.social
#EastCoastKin #ArtChallenges

Art challenges: October 6–12

Monday, October 6
#BlueSkyMonday (anything blue)
#MacroMonday (any macro)
#MountainMonday (mountains)
#MinimalMonday (minimalism)
#ColorADay (#PinkMon)
#Spooktober (#BlackCat)
#MagentaMonday

Tuesday, October 7
#RockinTuesday (rocks)
#TidesOutTuesday
#TagTuesday (graffiti/street art)
#AnimalArtTuesday
#ColorADay (#BlueTue or #CyanTue)
#Spooktober (#lightning)
#TheCampfire (tell a story)

Wednesday, October 8
#WaterfallWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday
#WackyWednesdayArt (odd/unusual)
#ColorADay (#RedWed)
#Spooktober (#zombie)

Thursday, October 9
#HumansOfBlueSky (people)
#UrbanGaze (anything urban)
#PalacesAndGardens (#Myth&Legend)
#ColorADay (#YellowThu)
#Spooktober (#poison)

Friday, October 10
#scape (any kind of scape)
#FishyFriday
#ForestFriday
#FoodOnFriday
#FlyDay (critters that fly)
#ColorADay (#BWFri)
#Spooktober (#vampire)

Saturday, October 11
#BNWmacro
#ColorADay (#GreenSat)
#BlueSkyArtShow (#glow)
#Spooktober (#spider)

Sunday, October 12
#Stunday (stunning)
#ImageAndVerse (photos with poems written by you or anyone)
#BNWmacro
#ColorADay (#OrangeSun)
#SelfPortraitSunday (#FrightNight)*
#Spooktober (#shapeshifter)

All Week
#31DayOfHalloween (anything fall, Halloween, or spooky)
#ArtYear (any art)
#ArtOfSelfPortraiture
#BirdOfTheDay (see Alan H or Rob Crank for daily prompt)
#ClassicMono (monochrome)
#smARTIST (purposeful art of any theme)
#AlphabetChallenge (#WeekOforOpulence)
#SensoryArt (#shadow)

*Playful/spooky Halloween-inspired

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks so much, G! ☺️

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 6h

#ForestFriday

Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 7h

Hoh Rain Forest, Olympic National Park, Washington

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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 7h

Hoh Rain Forest, Olympic National Park, Washington

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Ephlam @josephlm.bsky.social · 16h

The Fog

#forestfriday #photography #classicmono #scape

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Mark Donaldson @markdon.bsky.social · 14h

And now for something completely different, for #ForestFriday…

Eyvind Earle - “Autumn Evening” 1979.
(Oil on masonite, 71.1 × 55.9 cm.)

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 6h

Awesome tree!

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𝕋𝕪 𝕊𝕦𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕒𝕟 ☮️💟🕉️ @thetysullivan.bsky.social · 9h

“Moaning”

Unhappy with man’s treatment of the Earth.
🌲 🌏
#Scape
#ForestFriday
#EastCoastKin
#31DaysOfHalloween
#Spooktober
#blackandwhitephotography #bnw #ClassicMono #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #tree #woods

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 6h

Yes, it is! ☺️

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 6h

😆

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you!

Love your new word! 😁

Yes, if only humans could evolve past its love of extreme violence!

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 6h

You're welcome, Robyn!

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 7h

It's just high enough. 😊

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 7h

Exactly! Lots of hard labor.

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks so much, Jaycee!

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 8h

😆😍🤗

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, it is! 🫂💙

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 8h

I love living here. 💕

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks, Loretta! It is, and not difficult.

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 10h

That's another question I have!

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 10h

You're very welcome, Sandra!

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Timothy Dungan-Levant @phototrippa.bsky.social · 21h

Center Road
East Montpelier, Vermont -- 10/13/03

#foto #photo #fotografia #fotografía #photography #photografie #fotografie #autumn #otoño #vermont
#october #octubre #Scape #landscape #paisaje #EastCoastKin

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 10h

I have too, and I still do.

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 11h

Fabulous, Mary! 🐝✨

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Mary Dineen 📷 𓀡𓆀 @marysunshineisgone.bsky.social · 1d

Bee butt #Scape

Bee hanging on a white aster. Butt and legs visible. Covered with pollen.

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 @alinagrafik.bsky.social · 11h

What a gorgeous flower and image!

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