Roberta Murray

Damn it. Edit button now please! Pillows=Illos.

But don’t worry, there will be free art & bookmarks in time. 😉😉

Photo of a little free library cabinet with a cute illustration and lettering which says Books & Biscuits with a dog paw print.

Side view of a little free library with an illustration of a young girl sitting under a tree and a quote about reading helping a person learn empathy.

The other side of the little free library with an illustration of a poodle reading Animal Farm to its friends; the fox and hare.

Just in time for #bannedbooksweek my little free library is open for business. The 2 @margaretatwood.bsky.social books have already been claimed.

Yes, I changed 1 of the pillows after reading about libraries with political messaging being vandalized.

I am surprised they aren't well over the amount needed. But now I'm worried they won't get there in time. Fingers are crossed hard.

But I think he was happy to entertain that group for his own ambitions, but they bite him in the ass and now he’s pissed off at them, so is calling them out. If he hadn’t of entertained them in the first place we wouldn’t be here right now.

Ink sketches to be placed on the sides of a free library featuring controversial books. One sketch is a young girl sitting under a tree reading a book, with the Malorie Blackman quote: “Reading is an exercise in empathy, an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for awhile.”. The other sketch shows soldiers & children by a pile of burning books. A poodle is pulling a book out of the fire. A quote by Heinrich Heine in 1821 is written on a ribbon banner: “Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well.” #sketch #resistenceart

So I posted my sketches I’ll be using for my free library to Insta, & said I’m doing it because of governments attacks on literature. I guess they must be suppressing the post because no one is seeing it. What a bunch of fucking Nazi’s.

On February 2nd I ceased shipping any of my work to the US. I just refused to have anything associated with me contributing the coffers of this corrupt administration. This latest move is a hostile attack directed at Canadian businesses.

I am glad I made that decision when I did.

The US has ended the $800 exemption, but now is also requiring Canadians to prepay the tariffs.

"Starting August 29, 2025, every package shipped from Canada to the U.S. must show proof that duties have been prepaid before the shipment can be accepted for delivery."

I lived in the country for 30 years. We never had anyone door knock ever. I get that it’s tough. Distances, dogs, safety, etc. but find a way to reach people.

BTW: I was rural folk & those comments are rude, wrong & only further the division. Same for all the disparaging Alberta comments.

There was a line in a show we were watching that said “power is only gained by making people hate something”. It was in reference to rise of Nazis before WW2. But how profound is it for the times we’re living through. PP can’t get power thru good policy, so he tries to do it thru hate.

Etching style illustration of a young girl in a blue frock with a straw hat looking in wonder at a bluebird in a simple garden. “Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visits paid, And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed: Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, where every sport could please, How often have I loitered o’er your green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene; How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made; How often have I blessed the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree.” - Oliver Goldsmith

Innocence - Digital illustration
Read a passage of Oliver Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village in alt tag.
#Bookcoverillustration #illustration #womenwhodraw #artlicensing

A painterly digital illustration of a woman with long red wavy hair. She is wearing an off the shoulder white gown and a fancy floral headpiece. #figurativeart #digitalart #redhead #bookcoverart

Red Princess - Digital painting

I have returned to doing bookcover illustrations. This piece is available for #licensing from Arcangel licensing.arcangel.com/asset-manage...

I think (as long as cons aren’t in power) a federally run program would see huge cost savings. No need for every province to have their own health authority management for 1.

True. I’m advocating for the federal government to take over healthcare period. The provinces are screwing it up and wasting too much money, while provincially appointed overseers are walking away with huge windfalls/salaries.

I’m ambiguous about it because I have other outlets. It was paintings that were sold more to US than Canada or elsewhere. But I still have income from illustration and photography through licensing. So I just paint less and do more illustration.

I hope you aren’t impacted as much by it.

I stopped shipping to US in February. The majority of my work sold there so it wasn’t without consequences, but no way is 1 penny of my work going to the convicted sex offender or his goons.

I wonder if we can pay to get a vaccine in another province? I may try phoning an out of province pharmacy to ask.

A painterly impressionist photograph of a floral bouquet with pink peonies. #photography #painterlyphoto #floralphotography

Painterly Peonies.

Thanks for repost.

Digital illustration of a red head woman swimming underwater with red bathing suit and turquoise background. #limitededition #canadianart #illustration

“Underwater Red” will be 1 of the limited edition illustrations newly arrived at Art Interiors. Museum quality pigments print on velvet fine art paper Edition 2 of 5. Grab it while you can!

Not listed on website yet but you can call/email the gallery.

www.artinteriors.ca/artists/robe...

Thanks for the share.

Thanks Karen.

You can view the current pieces at the gallery now, and in a week or so the new works will be available.

www.artinteriors.ca/artists/robe...

A whimsical figurative oil painting of a woman in a red bikini with a yellow swim cap swinging on a rope over the ocean. #oilpainting #canadianart #figurativeart #whimsicalpainting

A fresh new shipment of paintings & illustrations are winging their way to Art Interiors in Toronto. Including the whimsical 8x10” figurative oil painting titled Rope Swing.

We need non-serious art for these heavy times.

Texture layered painterly photograph of a pink magnolia blossom. #photography #floral #flower

Sing Soft And Low

I feel like artists of quality don’t get the attention they deserve here. This is terrific!

Romantic impressionist photograph of white Magnolia blossoms in spring. #photography #floralphotography #CanadianArt

I'm on a 48 hour no activity rest, so catching up on photo processing. This was a Magnolia tree from our spring trip to Sidney, BC.

I bit the bullet and enrolled in the floral design class. Wish me luck in being able to find the supplies needed to do it!

"Our Strength Is Softness"

A Delicate Bloom - macro photograph of a pink Hollyhock flower with a slice of sunlight on the bottom petals. #floralphotography #photography #flowers

A lot of my previous photography subjects have kind of dried up since moving to the city. I no longer have the diversity of birds & wildlife we did living in the country. But flowers are better.

I am considering taking some floral design classes for my photography.

Yes and yes. But don’t know how many I could collect. A couple hundred likely. Maybe a lot more.

A large black bear standing in a mountain meadow. #photography #canadianwildlife #blackbear

We sure do!