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Blue Bottle Gardens
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Two women: A chemist, a gardener, and a small farm in Missouri. 🏳️‍🌈 ⚗️ 🦆 🥬

#womeninstem #gardening #missouri #homestead #ducks #lesbiansky #lgbtfarmers
Inspired by nature is the prompt for #mARTch today. Cumberland Island National Seashore offered this and of course I painted it. 11 x 14 in oils.

#cumberlandisland #nationalparks #georgia #wildhorses #horses #painting #oilpainting #artonbluesky #artsky
March 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
My domination of the national egg market has begun. With this egg I shall CRUSH MY ENEMIES! Or have it for breakfast tomorrow whichever comes first. 🦆

#eggs #duckeggs #marketmanipulation #crushingenemies #breakfast
March 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Jewel is the prompt for #mARTch today. Here's the finest #jewelry in all the land heaped on this queen. 9 x 12 in. Oils.

#fashion #tiara #painting #artonbluesky #artsky #oilpainting
March 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Based downtown Kansas City mural.

#kansascity #missouri #strongwomen #based
March 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Shades of green for #mARTch today. This is the view from the parking lot of Saltwater Cowboys, a restaurant outside St. Augustine, FL. 11 x 14 in. Oils.

#staugustine #florida #intracoastalwaterway #saltmarsh #oilpainting #painting
March 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is how the #chemistry department rolls on the top floor of the W. C. Morris building. Chemistry wasn't placed there for safety reasons per usual but to lord over the much larger #biology department.

#universityofcentralmissouri #ucm #gomules #womeninstem #professors #academicsky
March 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
First day of #Martch is #selfportrait. This is me trying to illustrate #hyperfocus, one of the ways my neurodivergence manifests itself. As exhilarating as it is exhausting. 11 x 14 in. Oils.

#oilpainting #painting #neurodivergent #artonbluesky #artsky
March 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Took advantage of the warm weather to clear out last year's weeds and stalks. Turn around and there's a crew of supervisors. Unnecessary in my opinion. 🌱🦆

#gardening #zone6 #ducks #duckpics #hugelkultur #permaculture
February 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Sharing this #drawing I did a few years ago to see if I could render smoke and fog with #markers. 5 x 7 in.

#trains #steamengine #engine #artshare #artonbluesky #artsky
February 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Magenta for the #Februarty prompt today. Here's my one artwork with #magenta in it. #Markers 5 x 7 in.

#lilypad #powellgardens
February 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Just my weekly friendly reminder that #writing #Wikipedia articles can be a positive way to help defend facts. I wrote both of these and about 50 others. Ask me anything about getting started.

#libraries #sayamensomebody #raycharles #blackhistorymonth #blacksky
February 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
#Februarty and #artyear. Here's the reading room at the Katy Depot in #Sedalia, MO. 12 x 16 in. oils.

#katydepot #libraries #readingroom #oilpainting #painting
February 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Daily #drawing #markers and #microns 5 x 7 in. Would you rather go in, exit, or remain outside eating a sandwich?

#doors #doorway #arch #sandwiches
February 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
#Februarty is pointing out all the things I don't do in art. The prompt today is socks. I have zero artworks with socks in them. But here's this. Reference shot taken in #antiques shop near Clinton, MO. 11 x 14 in. Oils.

#painting #artonbluesky #oilpainting #artsky #kettle #vintage #missouri
February 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
February 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Rough... again? as a prompt for #Februarty? I painted this
#tobacco #barn and remember taking great pains to make sure the boards looked rough and weathered. 9 x 12 in oils. Reference shot taken in #Amherst MA.

#oilpainting #painting #artonbluesky #artyear
February 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Daily #drawing #markers and #microns 5 x 7 in. Birds aren't real. Nor trees or physical structures.

#artonbluesky #turret #birdsarentreal #birds #autumn #fallcolors
February 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
#Farmland divided into plots all divided by a river, for #Februarty today. 5 x 7 in, #markers. A visual representation of a flyover state.

#missouri #farmland #aerialview #flyoverstate
February 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Daily #drawing of great #architecture. This is an urban wizard's house being held together by #wishes and #magic.

#diy #shanty #corrugatedmetal
February 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
#Februarty fish, water, I don't know. Here's a sea turtle. I wish I was with it underwater. Oils, 30 x 40 in.

#painting #artonbluesky #seaturtle #turts #squishinturts #perchance
February 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
#Turquoise is the prompt for #Februarty. Here's an alligator lizard I drew a few years ago. #Markers 5 x 7 in.

#alligatorlizard #reptiles #eldorado #cityofgold #drawing #artonbluesky
February 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
#Februarty pick of the day with #artyear. No theme, so here's Forest Park in St. Louis. Spent an afternoon there and got great pics. 12 x 16 in. Oils.

#stlouis #forestpark #missouri #painting #bandstand
February 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
My weekly PSA. If you want to do something positive, consider #writing #Wikipedia articles. I've written 50 total including these 2. Facts need defending. Ask me anything about getting started.

#blackhistorymonth #blacksky #libraries #florida #rosewood #hbcu
February 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Daily #drawing #markers and #microns, 5 x 7 in. Maybe it's a transportation center so people in rural #Missouri can #travel quickly to 7 predetermined destinations. And maybe that's in a #foggy #marsh. I don't know. I just draw things.

#interdimensional #artonbluesky
February 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Daily #drawing #markers and #microns, 5 x 7 in. Certified fact my art is way better with my glasses off. Those of you with perfect vision, I don't know if you're getting the full experience.

#gothic #crypt #trees #spring
February 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM