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evidence based space-case petal pusher, idea shover, scribble maker she/her dual 🌉/🍁 #spousedup #celiac #ALTtextOnlyReposter 🚫AI Avatar: (b&w) tiny me digging for gold. Banner: three flower-painted oyster shells on a sill.

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Rebecca, House of Ogg @earthlingnoreally.bsky.social · 10d

🎨Oct Art Challenges w/ daily prompts!
#31DaysOfFungi - @malinadowling
#ArchInk - @blacktrowel
#Invertober - @fossilforager
#Epochtober - @romanlandry
#Paleoctober - @djigr.bsky
#Sharktober - @requinoesis
#Spacetober - @morgandenman
#Spooktober - @wealiearts
#streamink - @streamink

List update soon!

Rebecca, House of Ogg @earthlingnoreally.bsky.social · Sep 2

🎉September update to the #BlueSkyArtShowsss list has arrived!

A comprehensive list of art challenges on Bluesky. Save for easy reference

Comment below for errors or omissions - or if you have a challenge to add (*Include the host name if you know it), thanks!

Make with the art already!
✨✨🎨✏️🗿🪡🧶📸✨✨

#BlueSkyArtShowsss
All challenges are 📸+🎨 unless otherwise specified. 🚫 AI / Original Art Only
Use of [ALT text] strongly encouraged for equal accessibility for the visually challenged/impaired, legally blind
(*ECK = East Coast Kin Arts Collective host)

Monthly Current & upcoming - (for previous months this year go to the end of the list)

Hosted on BlueSky
September -
🎨 #LillasStylePlay2025 - @makeartthatsells
🎨 #SciArtSeptember - @lizlagomorph + @LucyGemArt
#SleepySep - @wealiearts
‬October -
‬🎨 #ArchInk - @blacktrowel
🎨 #Invertober - @fossilforager
🎨 #Epochtober - @romanlandry
🎨 #Paleoctober - @djigr.bsky
‬🎨 #Sharktober - @requinoesis
🎨 #Spacetober - @morgandenman
#Spooktober - @wealiearts
🎨 #streamink - @streamink
‬November -
🎨 #Dinovember - @kaseysnow
‬#NightmareNov - @wealiearts
🎨 #Nudivember - @nudibranch
🎨 #Temnovember - @batmanelvisigodo
December -
#ArtAdventCalendar -@jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
#XtraXmas - @wealiearts

One Day per Month
#BirdWhisperer - @birdwhisperers
#TheCampfire (1st Tuesday)- ECK - @pmgibbs

Monthly theme
Hosted on BlueSky
🎨#ENDANGART - @nollthere
Unhosted, Unidentified Host,
Not Hosted on Bluesky
(for previous months this year go to the end of the list)
- 🎨 #Birdtober, #Entober, #Mathober
mathober.com, #Sciartober, #SciCommInk
@scicommlexicon.com
- 🎨 #Neighvember
- 🎨 brrrdcember, #Decembird,
#Dinocember,#DinoDecember

Other Not originating on Bluesky 🎨
#AnimalDayCal2025 –
http://tinyurl.com/3vh22kn6
#The100DayProject – https://the100dayproject.substack.com/about

Weekly (year-round) New theme each week
#AlphabetChallenge - ECK - @sheena-mck
#SensoryArt - ECK - @subicrn

September 2025

#BlueSkyArtShowsss

Daily posting (year-round) - No theme
#ArtShow
#ArtYear - @annalarssonstudio
#onlybeautifulthings
#SciArt🐡- @flyingtrilobite.com
#urbansketchers - @urbansketchers
#ClassicMono - ECK - (📸 monochrome) - @fotonstudio, @clcart, @victorbz, @fotodefer, @wolfgangwhyte, @dmimaging, @starlitwaltz, @mclellandphotography.com

Specific Days (year-round) - Hosted
Mondays
#BlueSkyMonday - ECK - @arminausejo.com @rina2012
📸 #MacroMonday - ECK - @genypher @elaschneider43 @freyasnowball
📸 #MountainMonday - ECK - @rouxroamer
Tuesdays
#AnimalArtTuesday - @mikecoffeyart
📸 #RockinTuesday - @xobreex3‬
📸 #TagTuesday - @richardbcolon.com
📸 #TidesOutTuesday - @runningpast
Wednesdays
#WackyWednesdayArt - @itsmtntime
Thursdays
📸 #humansOfBlueSky - ECK - @luiscordoba
#PalacesandGardens - ECK - @sabineshutterbug
📸 #UrbanGaze - ECK - @rnantel

#ColourADay / #ColorADay - @wealiearts
#MagentaMon or #PinkMon
#CyanTue or #BlueTue
#RedWed
#YellowThu or #GoldThu
#BWFri or #BlackFri or #WhiteFri
#GreenSat
#OrangeSun

Fridays
#FishyFriday - @victoriapfeiffer
#FiveMinFriday - @captzerp
#FoodOnFriday - @lorettarobinson
#ForestFriday - ECK - @chrisclougholy
📸 #MacroFeatherFriday - @marjoriemcdonald
📸 #macrophotofriday - @macrophotofriday
#Scape - ECK - @jaycee-visionlogic, @rina2012
Saturdays
#BlueSkyArtShow - ECK - @churchstreetimages.com
📸#bnw_macro - ECK - @geraldmfoto
Sundays
#bnw_macro - ECK - @geraldmfoto
📸 #SelfPortraitSunday - ECK - @selfportraiture, @lotuscarroll, @eustace.link
#ShotsInSlots - @kerrieneet
#Stunday - ECK - @handcranked, @alinagrafik, @skarabara
🎨 #SundayFishSketch🐡- ‪@lampichthys ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

September 2025

#BlueSkyArtShowsss
Specific Days Year-Round
Unhosted 📸 # Challenges

Mondays
#AllMetalMonday
#Market Monday
#MinimalMonday
#MosaicMonday

Tuesdays
#TelephoneBox #Twosday
#TerraceTuesday
#TextureTuesday
#ThickTrunkTuesday
#TilesOnTuesday
#TinyWindowTuesday
#TulipTuesday

Wednesdays
#RoseWednesday
#WallsOnWednesday
#WaterfallWednesday
#WeirdBirdWednesday
#WhiteFlowerWednesday
#WindowWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday
#WordlessWednesday

Thursdays
#AdoorableThursday
#ThrowbackThursday
#ThursdayBins
#ThursdayChairs
#Thursgate
#PubSignThursday

Fridays
#FerrousFriday
#FloralFriday
#FlowersonFriday
#FontsonFriday
#PubfrontFriday
#ShopfrontFriday

Saturdays (#Caturday)
#PostBoxSaturday
#SatARTday
#SaturdayStairs
#SteepleSaturday
#StripesonSaturday

Sundays
#FlowersonSunday
#SignsonSunday
#SilentSunday
#SundaySkies
#SundayYellow

***@saveredlandlibr has tons of suggestions for other daily hashtag challenges to participate in.

September 2025

#BlueSkyArtShowsss

Completed This Year, Monthly with a Daily Theme (May return next year – 2026)

Challenges Hosted on Bluesky

January
#Birbfest2025 - @monkeymintaka
#JanuArty/#JanuArty2025 - @whitneyyoh
#Creaturanuary - @spectralashwood
February
#FebruArty - @whitneyyoh
#FebArt/#FebArt25 - @elunajewelry
#FebruaryElemental - @omegamom
#Februllage - @missprinted @rhedfawell @edincollagecoll
#FishyFeb - @victoriapfeiffer
March
#MakersmARTch - @whitneyyoh
#MarchOfTheMammals - @shunosaurus
#MarchIntoLandscapes - @victoriapfeiffer
#mARTch - @elunajewelry
#MathArtMarch - @ayliean
#MutationMarch - @galusaurus ‬
#smARTist - @kac-art.bsky.social
April
#4Art25 - @elunajewelry
#acoloraDAYpril - @whitneyyoh
#AprilColors - @faunwood
#smARTist - @kac-art
May
#streamink2025/#doodleawaymay2025 - @streamink
#MayBlooms/MayLeaves - @birdsinboughs
#MayJewels25 - @elunajewelry
#Maysozoic - @paleorex
#MothMay - @loadofolbobbins
#shrknd0petography - @shrknd0
June
#dyicad2025/#daisyyellowart - @tammy999
#JuneSea - @birdsinboughs
#smARTist - @kac-art

July -
#dyicad2025/#daisyyellowart - @tammy999
#JuliArty - @whitneyyoh
#smARTist - @kac-art
#USkJulyPrompts2025 - @urbansketchers
August -
#AbstractAug - @wealiearts
#AuGhost2025 - @therealaughost
#AugustAdventures2025 - @byjessicaelena
#AvianAugust - @cookiedoves
#smARTist - @kelseycarnellart
#USkAugustPrompts2025 - @urbansketchers

Challenges Unhosted, Unidentified Host, Not Hosted on Bluesky
#Figuary, #frogfebruary
#Marchitecture
#Plein Airpril
#MerMay (mermains/mercreatures)
#DrawEverythingJune2025 @adorkastock.com, #Junicorn (unicorns),#Kaijune

September 2025

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Rebecca, House of Ogg @earthlingnoreally.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks so much, Tré! 🙏🏻😊✨

Rebecca, House of Ogg @earthlingnoreally.bsky.social · 9h

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Rebecca, House of Ogg @earthlingnoreally.bsky.social · 10h

I don't know how I missed this post, butt really cute capture! 😁😊

Rebecca, House of Ogg @earthlingnoreally.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks so much, Mary 🙏🏻✨

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photoblair.bsky.social @photoblair.bsky.social · 11h

Aster Place.

#SibbaldPoint #Autumn #Photography

A bunch of asters crowd around the base of a birch tree at Sibbald Point Provincial Park in Sutton Ontario

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

#Glow bee

#BlueSkyArtShow

Bee on right with its face buried in goldenrod.

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Mary Dineen 📷 𓀡𓆀 @marysunshineisgone.bsky.social · 2d

Bee butt #Scape

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

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Anita Sagastegui Photography (she/her) @anitasagastegui.bsky.social · 1d

Orchid macro

#Glow

#BlueSkyArtShow

#artshow #blueskyartists #photographersofbluesky #WestCoastKin #macro

#macrophotography #close-up #nikon #Bloomscrolling #flowers #flowerpower
#visual_macro

An orchid shot in macro. The orchid is backlit and mostly a creamy ivory color, with a spotted and light pinkish-orange lip and anther cap.

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Helen Bennett 🌿 @helenbennett.bsky.social · 1d

'In the garden the Cosmos glow... soft pink places where young bush crickets show!' 😊 📷

For today's #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow the theme is #Glow Happy Saturday! ✨🕊️

#Photography #Nature #Invert #UKWildlife #FlowersOnSaturday #BloomScrolling

A photograph showing the side on angle of a pink Cosmos flower. It is being illuminated by the sun and shows a tiny Speckled Bush Cricket nymph that is on to one of the leaves. The cricket is a flightless species, green with minute black speckles and is staring straight at the camera. The background is blurred in shades of green and pink from other cosmos flowers. Taken in early Spring 2025 UK

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Dave @visionsabound.bsky.social · 1d

Poppin poppy.

#photography #bloomscrolling #glow #BlueskyArtShow #EastCoastKin

A backlit orange/red poppy glows as it is lit from the back by the late afternoon sun. Foliage from the plant and a few other poppies are seen below, out of focus greenery and trees are above the flower.

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amohr @amohr.org · 1d

Rose campion holding raindrops
#flowerreport #bloomscrolling #pnw #garden #macro #photography #eastcoastkin

A reddish purple rose campion flower with five broad, slightly tattered petals holding onto big rain droplets under an overcast sky.

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Bella 💚🌈🦄 @bellabelle.bsky.social · 1d

Tagesblümchen 🌼
'Farbe: Orange' #FotoVorschlag
#DailyFlowers #Bloomscrolling #SchönesGegenDoofes

Eine orangefarbene Blüten inmitten von grünen Blättern

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F/f Photography @ffaelan.bsky.social · 23h

"Oh wondrous sun,
you melt me with your gazes
this light shinning
brings a day within a day"
~jodde taylor(Poem in Alt)

#Marigold
#FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #photography #photographer
#Art #BloomScrolling #flowers #PhotographersOfBlueSky #FlowersOnBlueSky #Poetry #PhotographersUnited #SmArtist

A gold marigold flower glows so intensely in the sun.

Accomapnied by a poem by jodde taylor called

Marigold

Oh wondrous sun,
you melt me with your gazes
this light shinning
brings a day within a day
Oh how beauty runs away
with each thought of you
Your touch is a helpless
tomorrow
As I rise just to see you again
You bring every fascination
And beneath you, a burden,
is effortless
Oh the night, waves over me
gently the breeze kisses,
each rising star
How this evenings sight
pours over me
Your golden whistle,
I hear calling me
As I return to you again
The rain shall never sound the same....

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⋆｡˚☆⋆Tré⋆☆˚｡⋆ @tregallery.com · 20h

✨️🔮🌺🔮✨️

Snapdragon

Vivid glow
Drops of sky roll on
Dragon's tongue

#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow
#EastCoastKin
#dailyhaikuprompt Vivid

#Macro #Photography #Haiku #俳句 #Poetry #Micropoetry #Bloomscrolling #Wolftwin

Here is a macro photo I took of our last bi-color snapdragon in the front garden. The day was beautifully grey and rainy. Though there was no chance of seeing a tropical sunset, this flower held the might of dusk's glory in its misty face. This scoop of autumn sherbert glows against green peeps of background bokeh. Bending in for a closer look with my camera, I became enchanted by the perfect spheres scattered across its pink-red-orange-yellow petals. Within each crystal ball raindrop, a small universe of color and light. Their augury? My new 3-5-3 haiku:

Snapdragon

Vivid glow
Drops of sky roll on
Dragon's tongue

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 20h

A burst of color for your weekend: this variety of cosmos flower is aptly named "double take" #bloomscrolling

Glowing in the morning light, they look almost like a painting.

#photography #BlueSkyArtShow #glow #PNW #FlowerReport #garden #cosmos #ColorADay #GreenSat #nature #flowers

In crisp focus, a flower with pale pink petals that are outlined in a deeper magenta, with a ring of wider petals spread open around the edge and a set of smaller vertical petals in the middle, mostly occluding a yellow center. At the bottom of the image, a second flower, also pink, is just starting to bloom, only partially visible. The background is a blur of assorted garden greenery and a few yellow flowers.

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Laura Thomas 🇨🇦📸✌️ @gardeningdame.bsky.social · 15h

The Alchemy of Light - Laura Thomas Photography - Port Coquitlam, 2025

#photography #naturephotography #BloomScrolling #cosmos #flowers #dappledlight #blueskyartshow #Glow

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ione blue @ioneblue.bsky.social · 18h

crabapple blossom
#photography
#macrophotography
#abstractphotography
#blueskyartshow
#glow
#photographersofbluesky
#eastcoastkin
#flowers
#art
#bloomscrolling

that pinpoint of light behind the blossom...
highlighted courtesy of the late afternoon sun, low in the sky.

photograph.

macrophotograph of a pink crabapple blossom. the late afternoon sun created orange highllghts on blossom and leaf edge. diagonally in the frame—blossom and leaves take the upper left, pale grey hazy background in the lower right diagonal.

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Rob Watkins Photo @robwatkinsphoto.bsky.social · 1d

#mountains #scape #eastcoastkin #photography #believeinfilm #blackandwhite #classicmono #b&w #blancoynegro

Head in the clouds

Aoraki / Mount Cook, New Zealand, 2006.
Fuji Velvia, 135mm, Nikon FM2.

Photograph © Rob Watkins.
Find more Rob Watkins Photography at  www.alamy.com/portfolio/photorobw

Head in the clouds

Aoraki / Mount Cook, New Zealand, 2006.
Fuji Velvia, 135mm, Nikon FM2.

Photograph © Rob Watkins.
Find more Rob Watkins Photography at  www.alamy.com/portfolio/photorobw

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Levon Dymond @levondymond.bsky.social · 1d

Porcelain mushroom. October 2025

#porcelainmuchroom #fungi #nature #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono #omsystem #OMsystem #photography

white, slimy but beautiful, fungi growing out of a tree trunk.

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Keyser Lauze 🇨🇦 @keyserlauze.bsky.social · 13h

Here's one for the love of #Trees and for the #ClassicMono fans!

"The art of forest bathing is the art of connecting with nature through our senses. All we have to do is accept the invitation"

- Mike Erskine

#forestbathing #eastcoastkin #photography #nature #islandlife #westcoast #beauty #sunbeam

An upward view, taking in the grandeur of the forest canopy. Sunlight shines in sharp shards, its beams cutting fast through the spaces in between. Standing in the shadow of these gentle souls brings a powerful peace over one's mind.

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Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 1d

Dahlia.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #bnwmacro #SaturdayMono #BloomScrolling

Close-up black-and-white photo of a dahlia against a stone wall.

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Katie Jo @katiejomyers.bsky.social · 12h

Spider webs glistening with dew on a fall morning in Arkansas. A good one for Halloween month. 🕸️
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#spooktober #spider #31daysofhalloween #bnwmacro #eastcoastkin

This is a black and white photograph depicting spiderwebs woven around thin branches. The webs are white, glistening with dew, while the branches are black, against a blurred gray background.

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Rebecca, House of Ogg @earthlingnoreally.bsky.social · 10h

#NatureIsArt

Beading begonia opening - captured Monday

#Phonetography
#BNWmacro #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #flowers #bloomscrolling #onlybeautifulthings #morningedges #wetfuzzy

A white begonia bud opening with dew drops of various sizes beading on its edges. The outside of the bud is fuzzy with tiny hairs.

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photoblair.bsky.social @photoblair.bsky.social · 13h

Birch.

#SibbaldPoint #Autumn #Photography

A fallen birch trunk sits amongst autumn leaves at Sibbald Point Provincial Park in Sutton West Ontario

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Rebecca, House of Ogg @earthlingnoreally.bsky.social · 13h

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