vickie.bird

It’s an absolutely beautiful foggy Fall morning.

#fall #nature #fog #leaves #trees

Hari Ren

Overhelmed by everything everywhere. And not in a good way.

I’ve told more than a few cult members they might want to wipe the orange makeup off their lips, nethers and assholes. They don’t like it, lol.

Three old wooden spools of black thread, painted on a crumpled tag from a bolt of fabric. Mixed media (paint, pastel, india ink, pencil).

wee little seamstress
length of fabric, colored thread
tiny stitches sewn.

#haiku #dailyhaiku #micropoetry

Spools of thread on an old fabric tag. Mixed media.

#mixedmedia #foundmaterialsart #worksonpaper #womensart #bskyart

Oil painting of a serious young woman, with rosy cheeks and blue eyes, in a ruffled white dress. She has a golden halo and large wings sprouting from her shoulder blades.

Understand me.
I'm not like an ordinary world.
I have my madness,
I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

Charles Bukowski

Abbott Handerson Thayer, Seated Angel (detail). Oil on wood, begun 1899, completed 1921. Photo taken Hartford, Connecticut, May 2018.

Death. Little dogs. Dark chocolate.

Double exposed photograph of an oak tree leaf, laying in the green grass, with several raindrops on its surface. There is a soft blurry sheen all over the photo caused by the double exposure.

- after the rain, before the sun -

My painting BLACK EYED SUSAN

A woman lays on a porch swing in a white summer dress, one leg and booted foot dangling down to push the swing.

The same woman’s legs and booted feet, seen dancing in close-up on the same porch, empty swing in the background.

People take pictures of the summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to prove that it really existed.

Ray Davies

#porch #porchswing #summer #dancing #thekinks

Standing beneath enormously tall pines, I took a photo looking straight up at them; the sky peeking from between their branches.

I want to find myself lost here (again). Dizzy with looking up, and dancing, always dancing, among the trees.

Taken by me, in a forest somewhere in New England.

An old wooden spool of black thread, painted on a crumpled tag from a bolt of fabric. Mixed media (paint, pastel, india ink, pencil).

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart!

Charlotte Brönte

Spool of thread on an old fabric tag. Mixed media.

#mixedmedia #foundmaterialsart #worksonpaper #womensart #bskyart

A pastel and graphite sketchbook study of three fat red pears. They’re vividly colored and painted in a very loose, scribbly manner. The photo is taken at an awkward and low angle to the page and the late afternoon sun dapples the far end of the photo.

Will it ever be winter and cold again? My god, I hate summer.

Sketch of pears in the late afternoon sun. A quick and scribbly moleskine study of three pears in soft pastel + graphite.

#stilllife #study #fruit #pears #pastel #graphite #mixedmedia #moleskine #sketchbook #sketch #womensart #bskyart

Detail of a green and amber eye, looking directly at the viewer. Light is reflected in the vividly colored iris. The painting is mixed media: watercolor, graphite and ink.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

Sketchbook study of an eye. Mixed media (watercolor, graphite, ink).

#painting #mixedmedia #sketchbook #womensart #bskyart

A very realistic giant plastic t-rex, mouth open and teeth bared, hovers over two delicate white plastic deer at Brimfield Antiques Fair.

I used to feel like the t-rex,
but now I’m just the frightened deer.

Brimfield, Massachusetts.

#bwphotography #brimfieldantiques #trex

tattered soul and a
broken heart, you ripped apart
my love and my self.

#haiku #dailyhaiku #micropoetry #betrayal

Mixed media painting of a chihuahua, portraying a close up of half his face and chest. Pops of vivid blues, greens and neon pinks highlight the painting. The little dog stares at his audience, head tilted up and nose lifted high.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

Emily Dickinson

Moleskine painting of Bram (detail). Mixed media.

#dog #chihuahua #portrait #mixedmedia #moleskine #sketchbook #womensart #oskyart

Food shortages, long lines and oh yeah, starvation- incoming!

Vertical photograph of what must be cow parsley, captured in a forest against the setting sun. Only one strand is in focus, while the background is all blurry.

the gentle light,
in a cruel world.

I SO freakin’ needed this right now. Thank you, BJ and Judy, for refocusing my mind from its perpetual cycle of rage and terror long enough to enjoy some baby goat warm and fuzzies. 💗💗💗

Sharply focused close up of a single dandelion seed head ready to blow away; delicate, fluffy and white. The green of a lawn, along with some large bushes and trees, blurs the background.

you may think I’m strong,
but my appearance deceives.
in truth I’m fragile.

Me, today.

Photo of a dandelion, seed head ready to take flight on a summer afternoon, taken in my back yard somewhere in Massachusetts.

#haiku #dailyhaiku #micropoetry #fragile #dandelion #seedhead #blowball #summer

If you voted for anyone in this regime, including any of spineless toadstool-sucking orange-lipped lawmakers, then the blood is on your hands, too. And trust me, you will never again be able to wash them clean.

I also hate the people who voted for him in 2016 and set all this shit in motion in the first place. Don’t forget those assholes. I haven’t.

I fucking hate this guy with the intensity of a thousand burning suns.

Pencil self-portrait of the artist gazing off toward’s the viewer’s left. She looks pensive and a little sad. The text of the book that this was drawn in is fully visible behind and through the portrait.

I am a victim of introspection.

Sylvia Plath

Self portrait in an old Jane Eyre Cliff's Notes.

#portrait #selfportrait #graphite #pencil #artbook #foundmaterialsart #worksonpaper #womensart #bskyart

I do that too! Half-awake in the middle of the night it seems profound. In the morning, total crap! It’s always entertaining, though. 🌸

I’d be perfectly happy never bathing properly ever again if I could fill my bathtub with colorful koi and lily pads.

Close up portrait of a woman’s face. She has full lips, a strong stare and a defiant tilt of her chin. This pencil and charcoal portrait is splattered with color and light, predominantly in blues and pinks.

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

Carly Simon

Sketchbook portrait. Mixed media.

#portrait #mixedmedia #sketchbook #womensart #bskyart

I’m STILL being called an alarmist and my response is to always shout, “Are you fucking INSANE???”