The Muse Smiles

Raul Malo, frontman of band the Mavericks, dies aged 60 The musician, who led the Grammy-winning band, had been receiving treatment for colon cancer

R.I.P 🥃

A luminous and heartfelt picture book that explores how the people and things we love never truly leave us—they live on in our memories."

Enter to win a copy Suria Scapin & Lumina Pirilampus' "Never Forgotten," trans. by Maria Carolina Reichmann Rodrigues, from Catavento Press #💙📚 #Booksky

Acrylic painting of a stag beetle sitting on top of a chrysanthemum flower. The beetle's body is covered in a lace pattern.

Another oldie while I wrap up new paintings for my January show at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans.

"Delicate"
2018
Acrylic on canvas
5" x 5"

#art #painting #insects #beetle #contemporaryart #nature

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Image of a woman with crossed hands sitting in a chair next to a table with a potted plant placed on it. One colour print. Brown ink on handmade paper. Natural colour paper

Day 9 of #ArtAdventCalendar
“The Conversation”
#Woodcut

Woodcut on handmade paper

@jayispainting.earthskyart.ca

RIP Persian poet Saʿdī, died this day 1291.

"Human beings are members of a whole,
In creation of one essence and soul.
If one member is afflicted with pain,
Other members uneasy will remain.
If you have no sympathy for human pain,
The name of human you cannot retain."

A beautiful blue skyscape from Saturday afternoon.
#ColorADay
#BlueTue

Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

Abstract landscape: storm clouds and mothership lit from below over hills leading up to a mesa

Day 8 is 1/3 the way through #ArtAdventCalendar!

Close Encounter
40×48in 101x122cm
Oil on Canvas
2021

#art #painting

Vertical strips of paper in multicolors side-by-side. Ticket stubs, yellow map of Brooklyn, New York on the bottom horizontally. Black-and-white image of Nathan’s hotdog stand. Red and gold squares stencil across image.

Day 8 of #ArtAdventCalendar
“Coney Island”
#Collage
Analog collage on canvas
Vintage image transfer, tickets, art paper, maps, acrylic paint

@jayispainting.earthskyart.ca

Thanks
Often times we are too close to our own work to describe it accurately.
Thanks for your kind words

G is for Gehry Frank Owen Gehry (born Frank Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect and designer based in Los Angeles, California. As the most celebrated architect working today, Frank Gehry has single-handedly changed conventional ideas about architecture. Recent masterpieces include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Disney Concert hall in Los Angeles

Wiggle Chair design by Frank Gehry (1972)

Released 7 Dec 1973, the album Tales from Topographic Oceans by Yes. The band decided to produce a double album containing four side-long tracks, based on the 4 bodies of Hindu shastras text, ranging between 18 and 21 minutes. It made No.1 in the UK and No.6 in the US & was certified gold. #Yes

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How to help an author? Read us, review us, put us on your wishlists, in your carts, heart us, add us to your Goodreads TBR, pop into your local bookstore and have them place an order, make a library request.

Day 7 of #ArtAdventCalendar
“Synchronicity”
#Collage
Analog collage. Tea Bags, Art paper, newspaper, Vintage image, acrylic paint, embroidery floss

@jayispainting.earthskyart.ca

A sunflower under the sun.

It's #SundayYellow

Thank you to @henryholtbooks.bsky.social for offering this one through our Early Reviewers program!

Day 6 of #ArtAdventCalendar
“Enchantment ”
#Collage
Analog collage. Art paper, newspaper, Vintage image, acrylic paint
A page from an altered book

@jayispainting.earthskyart.ca

1967

'

I've lived the white life
Behind the veil, tried others',
Still, my life prevails

'

#SciFiFri #amwriting #scifi #haiku #mystic #poetry

This amazing Art Nouveau building on 6 Rue du Lac in Brussels was designed by Ernest Delune in 1902.

Never cared for that name
But the biscuit are terrific 😊

"A love letter to Miami and a meditation on fatherhood... paints a vivid portrait of contemporary South Florida in all its contradictions and beauty."

Enter to win a copy of @cunningpscott.bsky.social's "Self-Portrait as the "i" in Florida" from @autumnhousepress.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky

Garibaldi...or squashed fly biscuits
One of my all time favourites!!!!!!

Here, kitty…
Porto, Portugal
#Photography #StreetArt #Mural #Porto 📷

A capture of the sunrise, an old oak tree stands to the left of the image. To the right an old shepherds hut in shadow.

Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
-Vladimir Nabokov

The weekend is almost here warriors, time is finite, don’t waste a second of it.💛

#Sunrise #Bluesky #Sunrisephotography #Quotes #Photography #Nature

Have a lovely day!

👋Good Morning Friends☕️
We made it😃Happy Finally Friday everyone💙🦋🤗🫶

Incredible atmosphere, I can almost feel the mist on my face. A beautiful piece with beautiful meaning.