@acottagewitch.bsky.social
From my apartment-shaped hobbit hole on the prairie with books, plants, crafts, tea, & baking. #readaroundtheworld Gardener, herbalist, forager, animist • Data Analyst, MLIS • Autistic • 🩷💜💙 • Canadian in Mohkinstsis https://linktr.ee/NicoleACottageWitch
Abstract painting
Abstract painting
Abstract painting
3 Abstract paintings on a drop cloth
Had fun making a mess this week playing with texture and transparency.
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Women of Abstract Expressionism book
Gesture drawing
Gesture drawing
Negative space gesture drawing
Work was bananas this week, so the rest of my time was spent reading (and being infuriated by how these women were treated and inspired by their determination) and doing some 5 min doodles. Sometimes taking my frustrations with the world out on the pencil. It's managing fine though.
#art #drawings
Daniel Smith gouache in a speedball notebook
I popped into a local art shop for some oil pastels and found some gouache in the sale section. I can’t ever seem to manage a proper swatch page so here’s me getting carried away with my first ever attempt with gouache. I love it already.
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Green and pale yellow oil pastels and swatches
A graphtint gesture drawing
Charcoal gesture drawings
Aefisdottir stack of books
My week in art projects and Nordic Noir. In search of better greens. Oil pastels, charcoal, and snowy mysteries are ideal for a November night in.
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Prairie landscape with graphitint block.
Prairie landscape with graphitint block.
Prairie landscape with graphite crayon.
Prairie landscape with acrylic and oil pastels
Landscape and shape. The Canadian prairie.
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A stack of books
5 min pencil portrait of Malalai Joya
2 min gesture sketches with brush pens
2 min gesture sketches with brush pens
My week in books and doodling. #art #gesturedrawing #portraits #books 📚 🎨
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Abstract prairie landscape in blues and oranges
Abstract with the same blues and oranges
Prairie landscape with a large snowberry patch
Inspired by some snowberries on what should be a bison pasture but is about to be suburbs.
Oil pastels are my coping mechanism these days. 🎨
Sunflowers on an apartment roof with a blue sky
A purple sunset in. Oil pastel
A Kandinsky inspired circle piece in oil pastel colours I don’t usually use. Yellows oranges pinks and blues.
A prairie landscape sketch with oil pastels inspired by Scottish painter Joan Eardley
Sunflowers on a roof and some recent art projects. 🎨
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The reference photo: plants from my balcony.
The reference photo: plants from my balcony.
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Crushed marigold
Marigold seed pod and seeds
Purple peas
Calendula and seeds
More good mess, this time smooshed seed pods from marigolds, purple peas, and calendula. Soft oil pastels are my new coping mechanism, I guess. Thanks to @art.prof and their monthly art dare for the inspiration.
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Late summer prairie landscape. Mixed media.
Late summer prairie landscape. Mixed media.
Late summer prairie landscape. Oil pastels
I got some oil pastels a couple weeks ago and have been making quite a lot of mess since.
🎨 #art #oilpastels #mixedmedia #landscape
Sockeye salmon sketch with oil pastels
I thought I didn’t like oil pastels but it turns out I only ever used hard ones. Soft ones are so much fun to make a mess with. #art #oilpastel
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Photo of crowberry bush
Doodle of crowberries and leaves
Close up of some red clover
Sketch of the same clover
Also, some crowberry and red clover.
#art #sketching #fineliner #plantsmakepeoplehappy #icelandsflora
Photo of Icelandic waterfalls
Drawing of those waterfalls
Photo of an Icelandic black beach. Very moody.
Fineliner drawing of the same beach
Today’s doodling from Iceland.
#art #sketching #fineliner
#tarotreadathon #booksky #tarotsky 💙📚 📚🌍
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World map with countries coloured in if I’ve read books from them.
So far this year, l've read books from Panama, Bermuda, Malawi, and Paraguay which gets me to 70% of the countries in the world! #readaroundtheworld 💙📚 🌏📚
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Bit of fun (and stereotype busting).
#booksky #books #literature 📚🌍 📚💙 #PersianLiterature #IranianLiterature #readaroundtheworld
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My week in tarot, books, and art.
#tarotsky #booksky #artsky
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Here’s a prancing magpie friend for the chubby pigeon.
#artsky #art #drawing. #sketching 🎨🖌️
My week in tarot, books, and art. Plus garden update.
#artsky #drawing #sketching #booksky #tarotsky 📚💙 📚🌍 🎨 🌱 #gardensky
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A chubby pigeon in ink
Wild rose, lilac (questionable), willow, and dandelion with wonky grass shadows in ink
Saskatoon berries, black poplar, and burdock leaves in ink
And also sketching plants and animals outdoors.
#artsky #art 🎨🖌️ #drawing
Sunset from purple to pink orange then yellow
Pink orange and yellow sunset over dark purple foreground
Abstracts playing with mixing shades of green
Abstracts playing with mixing shades of green
My midlife crisis is just getting back into acrylic paints.
#artsky #art #acrylicpaint 🎨 #painting
#booksky #tarotsky #witchsky #art #artists #artsupplies #sketchbook #littlejoys
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#booksky 📚💙 #tarotsky #artsky #craftsky #art #collage #weaving
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Gaza's malnourished children cannot wait. They need food now | Haaretz Editorial
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One collaged purple case and one with a yellow and orange building with a sunset and with galaxy cutout.
I collaged myself a couple of phone case inserts today (I have a clear case) with leftover bits from other projects and I love how they turned out.
#art #collage #artsky #craftsky
#booksky 📚💙 #tarotsky #artsky #craftsky
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The fact that you have to double check whether a headline is satire or reality these days. 😢
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Nanking cherry blossoms
Johnny jump ups
White lilac blossoms with tinges of pink and strangely pointy petals.
Nanking cherry blossoms are gorgeous. I don't know what variety of lilac this is, but it's fancy.
And this family of Johnny Jump-Ups would like to say hello.
#Photography #plantsplantsplants #plantsmakepeoplehappy #flowerlover