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Johanna Pack
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Artist, mostly watercolor, but I'll try anything. Based in Sacramento, CA, US.
Website www.johannapack.com
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#BlueSkyArtShow #FavoriteThings
This is my favorite drawing of one of my favorite people. My daughter as a young child.
Loose sketch of a child's face in blue and red marker
December 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Tomorrow I will be at Tahoe Elementary in Sacramento at their second annual Makers Market from 10AM-3PM.

And it's indoors. Thought I'd mention that in case you haven't been enjoying the foggy, cold days.
Seven paper bookmarks featuring different artwork by me, fanned out.
December 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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It's too late for #BlueSkyArtShow this weekend, but I thought I would post this #Sky picture anyway.
I called it California Hills in Winter.
A watercolor painting of low, rounded hills with grass and small shrubs receding into the distance. From the right, low clouds stretch over the hilltops, trying to get inland, but the rest of the sky is blue.
December 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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This is my Firebubbles painting for #BlueSkyArtShow #Warmth
This was more of an experiment with materials than anything else.
Abstract watercolor with flames at the bottom reaching towards the top right, where there are blue and purple bubbles.
November 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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malmseyy.com
Here's your reminder to draw in a sketchbook!!!!!
Draw ugly!! Draw weird!!!!
DRAW WITH NOTHING BUT PEN OR PAINT MARKERS
LET YOURSELF MAKE MISTAKES

it's part of the process~
A sketchbook is being held open to messy doodles on both pages. The left page has a bunch of paint marker doodles and blobs of color on it while the right page is all lining pen and highlighter.
November 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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The Black Friday Sale is here! ✨ I'm offering up to 20% off items that are ready to ship 📦

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November 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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The era we are living in offers too many illustrations of greed, narcissism, and hatefulness. But I still believe we can recommit ourselves to serving the common good of all Americans. [Artwork by Jennifer Bloomer]
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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lauren-oujiri.bsky.social
this turned out unexpectedly fascinating. I hope you’re doing/making things that make you curious and delighted.
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#artistsonbluesky #blueskyartshow #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #painter #art #artist #womensartbluesky #abstractartist #blueskyart #oregonartist #oregon
two abstract paintings side by side with a multiple colors, horizontal lines, circles.
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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For this week's #BlueSkyArtShow I would like to share a photo of my tiny watercolor landscapes in a mini art gallery in my neighborhood.
#Small
Six watercolor landscape paintings in a lighted box with the interior painted white. Two hang vertically from the top and four sit horizontally on little easels.
November 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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I think this painting at China Bar in the Auburn State Recreation Area captures the #Bright light of that summer morning. Why was I choosing to paint while squinting into the sunlight when it was already over 90 degrees Fahrenheit at 9AM? The world may never know. #BlueSkyArtShow
Watercolor painting showing a creek with sunlight sparkling on the ripples flowing from lower left to middle right. There's a small cluster of rocks on the right with some small plants. On the other side, bushes line the bank in front of a steep hill with dried grass and a few backlit trees casting long shadows on the left. On the right is a more distant hill covered in trees. The blue sky shows a pale area where the sunlight is strongest, although the sun is out of the picture, higher in the sky.
November 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I am pretty happy with this orchid painting.
Watercolor of a pink and white orchid with abstracted foliage from a mottled green background with ink lines drawn over it in black. There's also a small amount of metallic gold watercolor around the flower.
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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For #BlueSkyArtShow this week, I am sharing a quick painting from quite a while ago that was inspired by grasses growing near a pile of fallen leaves in the sun.
This week's theme is #Autumn.
Watercolor painting of a rounded orange area with a yellow background and long grass stems backlit by the sun in front, with leaf intersections causing shadows.
November 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow
I was trying to figure out what art I have that would showcase the theme for today, #inside

And then I realized, this skull used to be inside of a wildcat.

This was done in carbon dust, a typical medium for medical illustration.
A carbon dust painting of a feline skull of unidentified species on white paper.
October 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Vertical
Photo of a green alligator sculpture in a vertical pose, standing on its front legs with its tail straight up in the air. Its mouth is slightly open in a smile.
October 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow
Today's theme is #vertical which makes me realize I focus on horizontal quite a bit.
Anyway, these sunflowers have strong vertical stalks.
Watercolor painting of a sunflower in bloom in a field of sunflowers, against a cloudless sky.
October 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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The Oatmeal made a great comic about AI:
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_ar...

It doesn't cover the massive environmental costs, but it's a pretty good statement on the necessity of human creativity.
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
theoatmeal.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Artists Meeting Artists
June 16, 2023 at 9:11 PM
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We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.
October 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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My new book Designing Imaginative Environments is coming soon! Jump to the Kickstarter page to be notified at launch: www.kickstarter.com/projects/190...
October 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow
Today I am sharing this painting of Grassnut flowers, also known as Ithuriel's Spear, with the glow of sunshine coming through the petals.
Watercolor painting of pale purple flowers with sunlight shining through the petals, on black paper.
October 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM