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Ray S
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Artist, Software Developer, and late diagnosed Autistic with general anxiety disorder. BFA.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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How often can you say that you've seen a kantharos-rhyton? This cup has a bridled donkey head attachment, usually seen only on rhyta. It mirrors the donkey seen on the reverse of the cup, ridden by Dionysos. When you drank from this vessel, you looked like an ass! 🏺 1/

Greek, 520-500 BCE. 📸 me
This black-figure terracotta kantharos-rhyton has a sculpted donkey-head attachment and Dionysian figures around the body of the vessel. In fact, on the rear of the cup Dionysos is shown riding on an ithyphallic mule or donkey, so the head on the cup is Dionysos' own steed. The fun part is that when you grasp the cup by both handles and raise it to your mouth to drink, you look like you’re wearing a donkey mask, providing a great deal of chuckles from your fellow symposiasts. This appears to be the earliest preserved Attic rhyton (a vessel for wine, frequently with animal head pouring spouts), and this rhyton-kantharos as a whole is a rare preserved example of an Athenian plastic vase with black-figure decoration. In design, the donkey's tall, outward-flaring ears are echoed by the kantharos' tall looping strap handles. In order to assemble this vase, the potter cut a hole in the kantharos' bowl and precisely inserted the donkey's head, thereby forming a dual-chambered wine vessel with a large capacity. But the resulting rhyton-kantharos is overweighted toward the donkey's head, which extends down so far that the donkey's lips set the vessel off kilter, and it rests unstably on the kantharos' foot. Greek, Attic, about 520-500 BCE, possibly found in Athens. Black-figure terracotta with some pigments (purple on the Dionysian figures and red inside the donkey's mouth). Height: 21.59 cm (8.50 in.) Diameter: 13.65 cm (5.37 in.) British Museum, London (1876,0328.5)
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Right Along the Hilltop.
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8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, ink and watercolor in sketchbook

#watercolor #inkinsketchbook #cow
November 5, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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My sculpture:

Yes (?)
Petrified-wood, obsidian, broken elastic.
2025
Size: 20 1/2” H

~The title asks you to listen closely to the nuances & often unsaid narratives of women.

#sculpture #sculpturesky
#stonesculpture #figurativeart
#art #fineart #womensartsky #artcritics #oc #news #FF
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Parfum 2025
Charcoal collage on paper, 6x51/2 in
The artwork is an abstract charcoal collagedominated by a muted gray and black palette with touches of white and hints of yellow. It features layered textures and torn paper effects, creating a sense of depth and fragmentation. Broad, uneven brushstrokes blend with more defined linear marks, including curved and angular shapes, adding dynamic movement to the piece. The interplay between light and dark areas forms a complex, fractured visual structure that evokes an atmosphere of mystery and tension. The overall impression is one of raw, expressive energy and layered meaning.
November 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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“Hermitage”
Oils, 60” x 36”
#artyear #artshare #architecture #oilpainting #painting #museums #galleries #kunst #spirituality
November 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Nikoletta Király
Born (1978) Hungarain
“October in Brooklyn” 2025
Oil, wood, 50 x 40 cm
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Figure of Vajrapani and Mamaki, Tashi Lhunpo, Central Tibet, 18th Century, parcel gilt copper alloy, 32 cm, private collection
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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November 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Black Eyed Peas.
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8 x 5 1/4 inches, mixed media collage on board

#drawing #mixedmedia #fall #blackeyedpeas
November 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Something lovely for the weekend!

Magical amber animals from the Mesolithic. Carved between 10,000-7,000 years ago.

Amber can generate static electricity⚡️ For their ancient owners, these small animals could give off sparks in the dark and make hair stand on end, as if by magic✨
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#Archaeology
My photo collage shows four images of small animal figurines carved from amber during the Danish Mesolithic period. Top left: profile photo of the head, neck, and part of the front torso of an animal (bear?) facing left. Carved from deep orange amber. Found at Bølling Sø (lake) Central Jutland, Denmark. Top right: small almost complete figurine of an amber bear seen in profile facing right. The lower legs are incomplete. The ears, muzzle and mouth are defined. Carved from translucent orange amber. Washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark. Bottom left: small figurine in the shape of a bear(?) carved from dark orange amber. It is known asvthe Resen Bear. There is fine incised geometric ornamentation on the body. Found in a bog at Resen, Denmark. Bottom left: bright orange amber animal head shown in profile facing left. Found in 1952 at Egemarke in Denmark, it is known as the Egemarke Elk. It is decorated with incised bands of closely aligned parallel zig-zag lines. There are two circular perforations at the bottom of the neck. All on display at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.
November 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Anubis and Me in the Land of the Dead

acrylic on canvas

24x36 inches

from the 2025 series Divinity Within

#contemporaryart #shaman
A swirly grey background with a line drawing of a large white canoe type boat. In the boat is a line drawing of Anubis in yellow ochre, a person in the boat in red ochre and ghostly figures below the boat in white.
October 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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My Work 2025:
“Woman With A Heavy Load”
assembled desert stone
30” H
Sculptor, Sherburn LaBelle

#sculpture #sculpturesky #art #womenartists
#fineart #contemporaryart #womensartsky #artcritics #abstractsculpture
#blueskyart
#oc
October 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Mia Bergeron (American Artist, born 1980)
"The Empty Room", 2016. ❤️
Oil on Canvas, Palette Knife, 50.8 × 40.6 cm.
October 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Red boat
#art #artwork #contemporaryart #fineart #artlover #modernart #illustration #hockenheim #clemenspsuter#kuenstler #austellung #kunst #exhibit #museum #museum #mastoartist
October 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Jewel Form

Gouache on paper 12 x 9 inches
October 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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This 40x60” acrylic abstract painting is now available through @canvasgalleryto! They just received 3 new 40x40” pieces too stop by and see my newest work along with art from other incredible Canadian artists.

#abstractart #acrylicpainting #abstractartist #canadianartist  #canvasgallery
October 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Though my soul may set in darkness,
it shall rise in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly
to be fearful of the night.
Sylvia Plath #poetry #booksky #quotes

Hermann Nitsch #art #artist #painting #contemporaryart #acrylicpainting
October 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled , 1968
Acrylic on watercolor paper mounted on hardboard
33 3/8 x 25 3/4 in. (84.8 x 65.4 cm)
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
𝚂𝚒𝚐𝚗 𝚞𝚙 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚁𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚔𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚠𝚜 𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚝𝚊𝚡 𝚍𝚎𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘
October 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Fall Begins II.
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5 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches, oil pastel on board

#expression #fall #oilpastel #nature
October 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Criselda Vasquez (contemporary American artist)
"The New American Gothic," 2017
Oil on canvas
72 x 48 in
October 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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In progress: "You'll be okay, everything is gonna be fine", oil on canvas, 12x12" #art #wip
A painting, just begun, of a twig & leaf strewn forest floor. In the top right corner are a pill & a capsule. Eventually there will be more spilled pills & some cigarette butts.
October 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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“Modern Petroglyph 3”
Dave Newhouse © 2022
Acrylic on paper
18” X 24”
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
October 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Printer’s #Drawing, redrawn. My process when working in a series is to revisit themes and formal structures that generated earlier drawings.

ARCHIVE 14
Graphite, conte & mixed media on paper
15” x 10.5”
Lines of text, mapping location and documentation. Script, inverted: 98 Cranberry Fulton (street) Rome (overlaid & obscured) Stenciled, reversed: ROME Script, reversed : preface Script, repeated and erased (proper alignment): 12 pages, 10 pt Script, reversed : poems Script, repeated and erased (proper alignment): 83 pages, 12 pt Watermark (script) G. Poggi - Roma
October 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM