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Tammy Capstick
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Realist painter from the east coast of Canada.

https://tcapstickartwork.weebly.com/

https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/TCapstickFineArt
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Happy Halloween! 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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So, I answered an open call for a juried exhibition in March—the first time I’d ever done anything like that. I was thrilled to find out I’d been accepted, and even more thrilled to learn my painting won an honourable mention, and sold opening night.
#OilPainting #ArtShow #Summer&GraceGallery
An oil painting in square format showing an open jar of honey in front of a window. A spiral honey dipper balances on the edge of the jar with one drop of honey suspended, shining in the light from the window. At the other end of the dipper rests a honey bee, providing a counterbalance for the drop. The jar of honey glows with light in shades of white, lemon yellow, gold, orange and ochre. This is a screenshot from the Instagram stories of the Summer & Grace Gallery showing the Award of Honourable Mention for the painting described in the previous image.
May 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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A little sketchbook tour this evening.

#sketchbook #drawings
April 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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I did a little sketch of my handsome fellow last night.
#Art #Sketchbook #Drawing #Cats
A pencil sketch of a cat’s face that fills up the majority of the page. The only colour is the yellow/green of the cat’s eyes.
April 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Anyone else absolutely addicted to this show? My husband and I finished the latest season and days later he said, “Well, do you want to start at the beginning?” It was an enthusiastic yes from me! Who should I draw next?
#Sketchbook #Severance #PencilSketch #Art
A pencil sketch of Innie Mark holding a bunch of blue balloons, looking confused or concerned, or both. The balloons and blue card on a lanyard around his neck are the only source of colour in the drawing.
April 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Happy Friday! Here’s a Berry Fairy for you.
#BSkyArt #Sketchbook #PencilCrayons #Fairies
A pink and blue fairy feeds a blueberry to a little mouse perched on top of the tallest of two yellow mushrooms. Blueberries hang on branches overhead and red clover flowers spring up around the mushrooms’ bases. A larger mouse crouches in the lower left hand corner of the page, munching away on his own tasty berry.
April 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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I’ve been doing some long neglected website updating and found a few old paintings that I had completely forgotten lurking in the photo archives. Hello again little fellow.

#BSkyArt #OilPainting #TraditionalArt #CowArt
A small painting of a white faced cow with reddish brown neck and ears. The head and ears occupy most of the canvas, with a bit of green grass and shrubs in the background. There is warm white light on the left side of the cow’s head with pale purple shadow on the right.
April 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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A sketch of my son from the sketchbook this week.
#BSkyArt #Drawing #Sketchbook #Portrait
A pencil sketch of a young man with dark hair and eyes and a touch of a moustache and chin scruff. He’s wearing an old fashioned, wide collared shirt (that he sewed himself) and a pendant.
March 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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What a show!

#Severance #Sketchbook #SeveranceFanArt
A pencil crayon sketch of a woman in dark blue traditional dress holding a white baby goat in her arms. The woman has a braid crown in her hair and blood on her face and hands. There is a golden halo behind her head. Her expression is one of hollowed out exhaustion. This is the same image as the previous, but tilted to show the shine of the golden halo.
March 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling clementine. 🎶 An unfinished drawing from the sketchbook.

#sketch #drawing #PencilCrayons #BSkyArt
A soft, pencil crayon sketch of three sections of clementine, peeled and arranged on a white plate, casting purple shadows out behind them. The colours are soft, almost pastel, and the light shines through making some sections of the clementine translucent.
March 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Spring is here, it’s official! 🌷 Now I just have to convince our 7 day weather forecast to get on board…

#BSkyArt #OilPainting #TraditionalArt #FineArt #Daffodils
An oil painting of a cluster of sunlit daffodils with white petals and small orange trumpets, bright against a warm, dark background.
March 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.
—W. B. Yeats

A page from the sketchbook. For those days when you’d rather be in Fairyland.
A sketchbook page showing an old, twisted tree rippling with colour: blues and greens, pinks and lavenders and golden yellow. There are luminescent mushrooms at the base of the tree and along the trunk. There is a lighted doorway with steps leading into the tree, and a lantern hanging by the door. Fern fronds and moss cover the forest floor around the tree. The sketch is in pencil crayon.
March 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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A page from the sketchbook this evening. A couple of queens.

#BskyArt #Sketchbook #Drawing
A pencil sketch showing a honey bee queen perched atop a wooden chess piece—also a queen.
March 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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A sketch of my son.

#Artwork #Drawing #Sketchbook #Portrait
A pencil sketch of a young man in a collared shirt, tie and blazer wearing a pensive expression and a moustache for maximum ‘old timey vibes’.
March 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Happy #InternationalWomensDay!

#Portrait #FineArt #OilPainting #StrongWomen #WomenArtists
March 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I sketched a bunny while watching a show with my husband last night. Not gonna lie, I kind of love him. And the bunny is pretty cute, too.

#bskyart #Sketchbook #drawing #PencilCrayons
A little pencil crayon sketch of a white rabbit with purple morning glories around its feet and green grass fading off to the left of the page. The bunny is very colourful despite the fact that he’s white.
March 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Congratulations on 9k followers! And thanks for the #ArtShare!

I’m a Canadian artist working in oil and watercolour. Here are some recent favourites.
A Holstein cow grazes in a bright green field. A small, square oil painting showing a grey cat curled up in a chair underneath a window, licking his paw as the light falls on his soft fur. There is a copper watering can on a cabinet to the left. A small grey chicken lays in the hay next to a barn door and wall. A shaft of sunlight falls across her, causing her feathers to glow, and the straw glows white and gold around her. A painting of white Irises in a garden. The flowers are largely in shadow and appear in shades of blue and mauve. A few ribbons of sunlight ripple through the shadowy mass of petals, stems, and leaves.
March 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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I’ll absolutely get on board…

Quote post a photo of something you have made in yellow and blue to show your support for Ukraine.
#YellowAndBlue #Ukraine
A pencil crayon sketch of two lemon halves, one angled forward, the other angled back, casting shadows behind them. There are many shades of yellow in the lemon and it is complimented by a soft blue background.
March 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Here’s the painting I’m working on this week.
#Art #BSkyArt #OilPainting #TraditionalArt #Landscape #Ocean #CanadianArtist
A long oil painting shows a little square house on a rocky shoreline at twilight. The ocean recedes into the distance and the house, lavender in the dusk has a few lights shining from the upstairs window and the porch. There is a small boat anchored in an inlet to the right of the house.
February 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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If you see this, post a horse 🎠
A charcoal drawing of two horses. It is close cropped on the face of the horse on the right and the neck and shoulders are all that’s visible of the horse on the left.
February 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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“Well, it’s a marvellous night for a moondance”…
A page from my ‘fancy’ sketchbook, just because.
#Art #Drawing #LunaMoth #Moon #BskyArt
A sketchbook page showing a pale green Luna Moth with a pink moon behind, surrounded by a ‘frame’ twined with green tendrils and large white moonflowers in a purple field of colour that darkens as it moves down the page. There is another ‘frame’ around this section with embellished corners and a green band at the bottom that reads “La Bella Luna”.
February 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Here’s an oil portrait commission from a few years ago. I remember that it was wild trying to figure out those waves.
18x24 inches, oil on canvas.
#Art #OilPainting #Portrait #TraditionalArt
An old man sits in a fishing boat, holding up a fish in each hand. He is smiling, wearing a red ball cap and a red and black checked shirt over dark pants. There is a red gas can, a fishing creel, a rod and two oars placed around the boat. The water behind the fishermen is dark and choppy.
February 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Here’s a February birch in oil. Can’t you just feel the chill in that wintry blue sky? This one has sold.
#Art #BSkyArt #TraditionalArt #Painting #OilPainting
A birch tree catches sunlight against a cool blue winter sky. There are long, blue shadows on the snow in the foreground and fields of snowy, ochre coloured grass leading back to a ruddy tree line, a church steeple, and some distant buildings.
February 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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I had to have another go at the unsuccessful still life from a few weeks back. This time I went with a more dramatic, natural light and I think it’s made all the difference.
5x5 inches, oil on canvas.
#Art #StillLife #OilPainting #TraditionalArt #Realism #WomenArtists
Sunlight catches on the light pink flowers of a miniature orchid in a white pot which sits next to a pale green candlestick on a warm wooden surface. Behind the orchid is a ceramic bowl which, in shadow, appears to be of deep turquoise blue. Two small paintings lay side by side. The left one shows a small, pink orchid in a white pot placed in front of a large, pale turquoise bowl with a circular handle and swirling embellishments. A gold fabric hangs down the right hand side of this painting. On the right is a similar painting, but the pink flowers, lit by the sun, stand out against the deep turquoise of the dish which is in shadow. The bright light also catches a pale green candlestick on the right side of the painting.
February 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Heyyyoooo! I hit 12k! 🥳 Let's do an #ArtShare, this time with WINGS! 🦋 Angel wings, butterfly wings, bat wings, space craft wings... All wings are valid!

Rules:
🦋 Repost this!
🦋 Add alt text to your images
🦋 INTERACT! Don't drop and go
🦋 No NFT, No AI
🦋 Invite friends if you want! (Optional)
Image of a man with bird wings in black and white, crouching on the ground, pulling arrows out of them. Text over top reads: 12k Art share. Theme: Wings. Share your wing art... All wings allowed! Rules: • Repost this post for visibility. • Add alt. Posts with no alt will be ignored • Posts not on theme will be ignored. • Interact. Do not drop your stuff and leave. I can see when you do/don’t. If you don’t, your post will be ignored. • No NFT, No AI. Human made stuff only. • Writing, “crafts”, etc... Those are art, share them too!
February 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM