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Oneness and Chaos

@brookscapestudio.bsky.social

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Julie Brooks, Artist working in encaustic, mosaic, gel printing, air dry clay, metal, and paint. Lives on beautiful Cape Cod. Tests positive for progressive leftism ☮️, feminism♀️, Buddhism🕉️, and recovery. Chronic, incurable and joyful creativity.

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Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · Sep 19

A dangerous thought in the nail salon.
Acrylic and oil, 2025.

The latest in my blue crow series.

Two women share a subversive idea: “What if we didn’t have to take care of anything or anyone?", capturing that dangerous, liberating fantasy that unites us all.

Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · Aug 26

Just a little R & R - Rust & Resin.
After oxidizing some cut metal pieces, the next level is applying resin to really pop out the beautiful patterns of the rust.

#rustart
#metalart
#resinartist
#capecodartist

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Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · Aug 24

Nerd alert! I have a new toy: a digital microscope.
In this reel:

- a thingy I made with a 3D pen
- a dried leaf
- a rock
- a gel print I made
- an encaustic I made

Especially meta and 🤯: looking at actual artwork pieces I've made under the microscope: pure chaos ❤️

#microscopy
#scienceart

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Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · Aug 7

"Imagine if you didn't have to take care of anything or anyone"

4" x 4"

watercolor & ink

#womanartist
#artistsofbluesky
#watercolor

Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · Aug 5

Sold to a lovely home ❤️
"Blue Matrix"
Resined cyanotype collage
12" x 12"

9 mini journeys in one.

#cyanotype
#resin
#artistsofbluesky

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Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · Jul 21

"Lucie Scrolling"
16" x 20"
Acrylic and oil on canvas

First in my blue crow series.
Will be showing at the Creative Arts Center in Chatham, MA through the end of the month.

#painting
#artistsofbluesky
#birdart
#crowart
#coastalinteriors

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Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · Jul 15

Zen Orbs.
Embellished fragments of gel prints.
They will be resined.

I can see myself cranking out more than a few of these...so blissful to just cut out shapes and stack them.

#gelprinting
#gelliplate
#resinart
#womanartist
#atistsofbluesky

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Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · Jul 8

13 sold! Here are 4 of them. I love sacrifice art sales - gives me a chance to put a bunch of stuff out there and see what sticks. The Creative Arts Center in Chatham MA has 2 of these sales per year. Definitely gotta get back in the studio.
#artsale
#capecodart
#chathamma

Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · Jun 28

Sold!
"4 Windows, No Door"

Encaustic mixed media.

Castle Hill Center for the Arts. Truro, MA

#encaustic
#artistsofbluesky
#capecoddartist

Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · May 26

"Rust Tide"
8" x 8" framed
Oxidized steel & distressed wood

Chemicals, metal, tin snips, pliers, bending, abusing wood, shellacking, turquoise. A real good time.

#artmetal
#rust
#rustart
#distressedwood
#mosaic
#blueskyartshow
#metalsculpture

Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · May 22

"Varve"
Diptych
10" x 18"

Joint compound, acrylic, and charcoal on foam blocks.

Got these styrofoam blocks in a shipment months ago.

Glad I held onto them.

Who doesn't love a free, chunky, light substrate?

#artistsofbluesky
#texturedart
#mixedmedia
#abstractart
#painting

Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · May 14

WIP called "Listen"
Air dry clay groutless mosaic.
On top of polymer clay pieces about to go in the oven.

#crowart
#mosaic
#airdryclay
#polymerclay
#artprocess
#mosaicart
#artistsofbluesky

Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · May 9

Wow! So glittery and sumptuous. Go big or go home! Very ambitious. Thanks for sharing.

So.muxh.work

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Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · May 9

An array of force rusted fender washers. After rusting, some are embellished with a spritz of paint and then all are sealed with gloss Rustoleum to prevent further oxidation.

They are destined to become parts of 3D grid pieces currently in progress, or jewelry.

#artmetal
#rust
#patina

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Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · May 7

Play of the Day:
Painting with forced rust runoff!

I forced rusted some steel nails in a solution, then painted with the rusty liquid.

It dries with a slight metallic sheen and is also nicely gritty.

So many shades.

#artmetal
#rusticmetal
#rust
#painting
#patina
#steelart

Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · May 6

Delicious details of a force rusted and patinated steel piece WIP.
Embracing the unpredictability.

#rust
#rusticmetal
#artmetal
#metalwallart
#patina
#steelart

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Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · Apr 29

Cut steel sheet patinated & rusted with various chemicals.

Also some encaustic wax and alcohol ink.

I love both sides.

Always fun to goggle up and play with dangerous stuff.

#metalart
#patina
#patination
#scrapmetal
#rusticmetal
#rustysteel

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Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · Apr 22

Chick Haiku:
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I'm running for Pope!
Can I get on the ballot?
Nope! I have no dick.
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#feminism
#patriarchy
#pope
#sexism

Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · Apr 22

bare branches
blue sky

looks like stained glass
just draw the sky shapes
warped repetitious polygons each unique as a snowflake

slow spring in my area
quick, take pics of the branches before the leaves come

#abstactnature
#natureart
#stainedglass
#abstractart
#artistsofbluesky

Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · Apr 17

Mother Nature's weirdly sinister splotches remind me that beauty is not perfection, or orderliness, or purity. Beauty just is. Thanks, Mom 😍
Makes me wanna fire up the wax griddle and try to make something half as interesting.

#natureart
#lichen
#natureislit
#encausticart

Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · Apr 6

Food, costumes, wigs, singing, dancing, music, yelling, noise making, bubbles = FUN 🥳 LET'S GOOOOO

Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · Apr 6

Tile mosaic diptych commission.
Made from tiles used in shower.
Giving a geode vibe.
Bathrooms should be beautiful.

#mosaicart
#bathroomart
#mosaic
#geode
#artistsofbluesky

Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · Apr 5

Great turnout in Hyannis MA today for #handsoff

There were so many different messages! Because 47 has f***ed up so so many things!

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Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · Apr 2

"Oceania #21"
Encaustic
6" x 6"

The shellac burns on this ended up looking quite seaweedy. 👍

#encaustic
#painting
#artistsofbluesky

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Oneness and Chaos @brookscapestudio.bsky.social · Apr 1

Omg I can't wait