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Nathaniel Mellor
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Writer. Also, travel writer. Lots of snarky political comments.
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Headed to Rome this summer?
Stay hydrated, validate your ticket, and eat good gelato.
June 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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New episode: Honest Downsides To Living In Italy! We’ve talked about beautiful destinations and how to get visas, but we want to give you a full picture. Here are some of the pitfalls of living in Italy.

#travel #travelpodcast #podcast #podcasts #travelblog #traveltips #italytravel #worldtravel
Text reads, “New episode! Honest Downsides To Living In Italy.” Under the text is an image of Italian buildings in Florence lit by later afternoon Sun.
May 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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New episode! Want to live in Italy? Let’s talk about the Golden Visa, Elective Residency Visa, and Birthright Citizenship. Check out all of our episodes about visiting and living in Italy wherever you listen to podcasts!

#podcasts #italy #italytrip #traveltips #travel #travelpodcast #italytravel
An image overlaid with text. The text reads “How to live in Italy: golden visa, elective residency visa, birthright citizenship.” The image in the background is an Italian olive grove on a sunny day.
April 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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I painted this #limegreen vase last spring, when the weather was still chilly, but the days were getting sunnier. Happy as ever to be seeing the first signs of spring again! Also loving all the nature I’m seeing today in #acoloradaypril! 🌞💛

#oilpainting #oilpainter #stilllife #art #painting #spring
A painting of a large lime green vase with a handle. Inside the vase are several sprigs with green leaves. The vase sits on a wood table and the wall is a gray-blue. A gray shadow of the vase is cast on the wall.
April 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Love this!
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Little milk pitcher for today’s color #gray for #acoloradaypril 🩶

Oil on wood panel
8x10 in
2024

#oilpainting #oilpainter #painting #blueskyartists #art #stilllifeart #stillifepainting #art
Oil painting of a milk pitcher. The pitcher as well as the background are shades of white and gray. The pitcher sits on a white table and has a bright highlight on it’s right side near the handle.
April 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Everything we could fit in one episode about this incredible 7,000 year old cave city, Matera!
Listen now wherever you listen to podcasts!

#travel #traveling #italy #travelitaly #podcast #podcasts #travelshows #travelpodast #travellovers #traveltips #travelblog #travelblogger #italy #italia
Text over an image of the city of Matera, Italy. The image is of the Sassi di Matera which is made of 7,000 year old cave dwellings. The text reads “the most beautiful city in Italy you might not have heard of: Matera.”
April 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Little milk pitcher for today’s color #gray for #acoloradaypril 🩶

Oil on wood panel
8x10 in
2024

#oilpainting #oilpainter #painting #blueskyartists #art #stilllifeart #stillifepainting #art
Oil painting of a milk pitcher. The pitcher as well as the background are shades of white and gray. The pitcher sits on a white table and has a bright highlight on it’s right side near the handle.
April 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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It’s a two-parter!!! How to travel with someone else: a partner, a friend, family, new friends on solo trips, the list goes on. We’ve got all the tips on communication and setting expectations for your trip!

#travel #solotravel #podcast #italy #italytravel #travelpodcast #travelgoals #traveltips
Two Caucasian people (a woman and man) pose smiling for a photo. To the right of the image is an orange graphic with lighter text that reads “Tips for traveling with someone else.”
April 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Check out our new episode! This was a fun one and it was so long it became a two-parter! ✈️ ➡️ 🇮🇹🍝
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It’s a two-parter!!! How to travel with someone else: a partner, a friend, family, new friends on solo trips, the list goes on. We’ve got all the tips on communication and setting expectations for your trip!

#travel #solotravel #podcast #italy #italytravel #travelpodcast #travelgoals #traveltips
Two Caucasian people (a woman and man) pose smiling for a photo. To the right of the image is an orange graphic with lighter text that reads “Tips for traveling with someone else.”
April 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Another marsh-scape for the #grass theme for #smArtist 🌾 Love the marshes and rivers of my hometown #savannahga

#scape #savannah #savannahartists #savannahart #landscapepainting #marshpainting #oilpainting #oilpainter #painting #blueskyartists
A landscape oil painting of marsh and a river running through it in Savannah, Georgia.
April 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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So excited to find two new art feeds on Bluesky and today I have a piece that fits both themes! Day 5 #grass for #smartist and #blue for #acoloradaypril

Love meeting fellow #blueskyartists 💛

#art #blueskyart #oilpainting #oilpainters #landscapepainting #marsh #landscapepainters #painting
An oil painting of a March with a river running through it.
April 5, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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First pass on this beautiful cabbage!

Oil on panel
20x30 cm

#oilpainting #oilpaintings #oilpainter
#painting #paintings #painters #bskyart #art #contemporaryart #traditionalart
On the left is a painting of a cabbage on an artist’s easel. To the right is a real cabbage on a white stand.
April 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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This is my first #blueskyartshow! I hope this piece, featuring an #arch detail, is appropriate for the theme today. This piece, called “Farfalla” 🦋, recently sold at a local art gallery in #savannahga!

#oilpainting #portraitpainting #artist #artists #blue #painting #paintings #art
An oil painting of a blonde Caucasian man wearing a white shirt and blue sash. The painting is square and the figure is visible from the shoulders up, he is turned at a quarter angle looking to the right of the painting. The background is a deep blue arch with a light blue frame around it. There are four orange butterflies in the painting, three resting on the figure and one clinging to the underside of the arch.
March 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Finishing touches on this limited palette still-life! It was fun, but challenging to get back to my artistic roots using only 4 colors: ultramarine blue, burnt Siena, cadmium yellow, and titanium white!

#oilpainting #stilllifepainting #art #artist #artofbluesky #bskyart #painting #painter
March 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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I’m stoked with how this quick study came out! I like the background unfinished with the orange-red tone showing, but I can’t decide if it’s too distracting.

What do y’all think? Keep the orange-red or paint the background neutral/gray to unify it?

#oilpainting #oilpaintings #painting #art
A small 6x8 inch still-life painting in oil of an apple with a slice cut out and an apple slice. A slice of green apple sits to the left of the rest of the apple which is to the right. The background is modeled tones of blue and gray over a bright orange-red underpainting. A detail of the apple slice from the previous image. A detail from the first image, an apple with a slice taken out.
April 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Is tap water safe to drink in Italy?
What's the deal with tipping?
Do they expect me to use the bidet in a public bathroom? 😂

We answer those questions and more in our latest episode!

Find us wherever you listen to podcasts!

#travelpodcast #travel #italy #tripplanning #travelitaly #podcasts
Text reads “New episode! Tap water, tipping, and toilets.” To the right of the text is an image of a public drinking fountain in Rome, Italy.
March 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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New episode: Travel Tips You Didn’t Know You Needed

We’ll address questions like: “Can you be fined for sitting in the wrong seat on a train” and “what to do if you get separated while traveling?” +much more!

#podcast #travel #travelpodcast #italytravel #podcasters #applepodcasts
Text reads “Travel tips you didn’t know you needed.” The background of the image is a view of the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy.
March 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Detail from a piece that I just submitted to Figurativas! Recently, I set goals for myself to submit to more competitions. I know I won’t get into everything, but it feels good to put myself out there.

Do you submit to art competitons?

#art #artist #figurepainting #oilpainting #artgoals #artists
This detail from a painting shows the hand of a Caucasian woman, fingers gently outstretched. The forearm is resting on the subject’s knee.
March 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Finally getting a little color on this piece! It’s giving me vibes of the gray spell being lifted in Halloweentown 2 ✨
#oilpainting #artistsofbluesky #art #figurepainting #portrait #painting #artists #womensart #90skids
An unfinished painting sits on an easel. The figure in the painting is a woman seated on a chair with her hand to her head. She is wearing a black top and light green pants, but the rest of the painting is in gray scale.
March 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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I’m hoping to finish the grisaille on this piece today with a good 6+ hours in the studio.
I find it hard to get myself in the studio before noon. What is your most productive work time?

#oilpainting #art #inthestudio #figurepainting #artistsofbluesky #artists #artoftheday
A large painting sits on an easel on the corner of an artist’s studio. It’s an unfinished painting of a woman seated in a chair with a hand to her forehead. The figure is painted in grayscale on a red background.
March 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Plodding along with this painting and resisting the urge to stop and snack on some potato chips.
Do you eat and paint at the same time or do you resist the urge?
#art #artists #painting #oilpainting #artistsofbluesky
An unfinished oil painting. A partially painted face of a woman with a hand to her head. The figure is in white and black on a red background.
February 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Loving the new @chillsubs.bsky.social writer profiles—though it's making me realize just how empty mine is 😂

If there were ever a form of external validation that works for me, it's staring at a blank section that reads: Nothing here yet...".

For real though, writers, go make one!
February 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Combed through magazines accepting submissions right now and these calls caught my eye 👀

All the info you need to submit listed (for free) on our database : www.chillsubs.com/browse
13 Excellent Places to Submit Your Writing This Week 02.18.2025 1 Crow & Cross Keys 2 Inscape Journal Stonecoast Review Southern Indiana Review Frozen Sea 6 Welter Journal 7 new words 8 Spark to Flame Fourteen Hills 10 Stand Magazine 11 Gradaran Literary Magazine 12 EcoTheo Review 13 Forevermore
February 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Emerging poets! A reminder that our poetry contest is open for submissions through June 1. The winning entry receives $1000! Check out the guidelines and submit at www.boulevardmagazine.org/poetry-contest
poetry contest — Boulevard
$1,000 and publication awarded for the winning group of three poems by a poet who has not yet published a book of poetry with a nationally distributed press. 
www.boulevardmagazine.org
February 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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My studio is a place to process when the world seems to be falling apart around us. #oilpainting #painting #inthestudio #artstudio #art
A corner of an artist’s studio. A large unfinished painting with only part of a figure dressed in black is visible on a red background. Around the easel is the artists palette, chair, a cabinet, and cup of coffee.
February 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM