Foreground tide pool in the sand reflecting the damp bluffs behind. The ocean stretches into the distance upper left of the frame.

Low tide and jagged coastal bluffs. Mid coast California reflection. #blueskyartshow #jagged #beach

A yellow Mullein flower close up, a Bee flying just to the right of the flower center of the picture. Green shrubs and trees middle distance with a lake and mountain in the background.

Bee and a Mullein flower. My eye and iPhone. #yellowThursday #flowers #lake

A moment of wave splashing on dark rocks foreground. The sky is dotted with clouds

A moment later the wave splash curls over dark brown rocks, the sky is a deep morning blue with clouds 

Last moment the wave’s splash begins to flow over wet rocks the sea is a dark teal color in the morning light that filters through clouds in a blue sky.

Can you feel the vibrant energy when cold Pacific Ocean waves hit the rocks and the spray Cools your face? #blueskyartshow #vibrant

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A green landscape with a barbed wire fence in the foreground. Mountains and trees in the distance. The sky is an intense blue with clouds casting a shadow on the board ground. 

Friday. #photography #fencepostfriday #scape #westcoast

Somebody is acting completely innocent while perched on my loom, underneath my weaving.

#BlueSkyArtShow #underneath #caturday

A deer stands at attention underneath oak trees. There is a space in between the trees that allow a view of a lake and shore line with hills in the distance center upper part of the photo. Blue sky in the upper right.

Underneath the oaks. #blueskyartshow #underneath #northercalifornia

Large white poppies with orange centers, the lower part of the plant still in shadow while the sunrise illuminates the upper half.

Just as the sun rises. Matilija Poppies, a lake county California wild flower. #blueskyartshow #lightandshadow #flowers

Purple plumes on thin green stalks and minty leaves foreground, a jumble of tree trunks and splashes of light on the ground under oak trees.  reflected light from a distant lake shines through the branches and back lights the flowers.

Coyote Mint under shady oaks on a hill overlooking Clearlake in Northern California. Backlit by a bright sunny day reflecting off lake water. #blueskyartshow #lightandshadow #nature #flowers #NorthernCalifornia

A cave with layers of colorful rocks, green moss and a floor of sand.

Flat smooth rocks in layers in beige and blue, Sandy cave floor lower right.

Rough layers of rock angling down toward the cave floor. The colors are dark to light gray, rust and light blue.

A Sea cave only accessible at low tide. Central Coast California. #blueskyartshow #texture

A large rock with rust colored veins sitting in the sand at the beach.

Rock and sand Mid Coast California. #blueskyartshow #texture

The colors are reds grays and blue teen woven with a golden weft. On the loom.

The pattern is lines of zigzags. Woven cotton cloth on the loom.

Finished red and multi colored fabrics on a table a trinket box sits upper right of the photo.

The art of multi shaft loom weaving is in the color and fiber selection, the yarn makes straight line while the pattern creates shapes and curves and texture. #blueskyartshow #lines #8shaftweaving

Wavy lines in the sand in the foreground of this photo, there are rocks and a small bluff in the background and the blue sky.

Lines in the sand driven by the wind. Mid coast California. My phone and my eye. #blueskyartshow #lines

This photo in amber hues, features a herd of zebras on a hill of dry grass in the foreground. There are power lines at the top of the hill and a smoky sky.

Power lines zebras and wildfire smoke, August 18, 2020 San Simeon California. My phone and my eye. #blueskyartshow #lines

Golden light on the sand in the foreground with rocks that are dark shadow side to the camera. Surf line dominates the picture with wind swept waves and some light clouds in a blue sky.

Sunrise and a stiff breeze, Central Coast California. #Blueskyartshow #Earth #sunrise #waves

Ducks in the foreground, the sand reflects the filtered sunlight from a cloudy sky. Seagulls in flight over a sea just lighting up for the day. A spit of land in the distance stretches halfway across the Horizon. San Simeon California. 

Ducks and Seagulls at Sunrise. #BlueSkyArtShow #Silhouette #Sunrise

A crow walking across a gravel road center for ground. Low shrubbery and rocky tide pools stretch back to a dark blue sea with a sharp horizon line under a storm clouded sky. Rain can be seen in the center of the Image in the distance.

One little step at a time. #BlueSkyArtShow #Leftcoast #stormyweather

Photo of tide pools in the morning sun. The water in the for ground is clear with just a little sand in front, there are rocks under the surface. The water trickling out to sea, rocks and ocean with waves in the distance.

The ocean breathing sunlight in and out. iPhone photo nature gets the credit. Low tide Old San Simeon ca. #Blueskyartshow #leftcoast #sunlight #morningwalk

A path through an old grove of Monterey Cypress trees Patches of sunlight on the soft duff forest floor and light in the distance center of the photo.

#blueskyartshow #sunlight #sansimeon #leftcoast I take my photos with my phone, and my eye, nature get full credit.

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Photo of three deer early spring with grass just turning green center right. Old truck next to a brown house golden in the early morning sun, blue lake in background.

#blueskyartshow #spring

A photo of a shaded trail in the woods. Lots of bare branches and leaning trunks. Bright rays of sun make their way through the canopy to light the soft duff forest floor. The trail begins in the foreground and disappears center of the picture. 

Trail in the woods. The rays of sun lift the mood. #blueskyArtShow #monochrome #blackandwhite

Two pieces of handwoven cloth displayed on a Persian rug the pattern is a herringbone plaid in red yellow gray and white. 

The artist holding a palette with colors typical to Rembrandt‘s set of colors white to black, yellow, red and brown earth.

Inspiration from old masters pallet colors. Broken Twill 187 from Carol Strickler’s 8-Shaft Patterns. The long piece is 70” long to use as a table scarf. 10/2 perle cotton warp and weft for the scarf, then the sample from the end of the warp I wove with 8/4 mop cotton. #multi-shaftloomweaving

A piece about the dodge of Venice from Wikipedia There is a picture of the last Doge upper right

Thank you so much Madi.

An iPad showing a Persian rug upper left. Porcelain trinket box in gold tan and gray with men and women dressed in traditional Japanese clothing, in red orange turquoise and pink. Behind the figures are buildings and trees. The box sits on a weaving still on the loom. the yarn colors are wine red, shades of gray blue pink orange and turquoise for the warp the weft is a golden yellow.

The pattern draft reads 256 manifold twill.wif Persian rug, located upper left. There are numbers on a grid of 8 Vertical lines. there is a diamond shape centered in the multi colored pattern. The colors are light green dark green navy blue dark gray medium gray wine red pink light green medium blue and beige gold.

A red gray and gold striped runner sits on a heavy oak table the floor is light wood color there is a Persian rug showing on the right the colors are red blue gold on a dark blue background there is a black trunk with a mat in the same colors but lighter As the golden weft in mop cotton is dominant . there is a trinket box on the table some candles a lamp another trinket box and a small chair in the corner of the room with golden curtains and eggshell yellow walls. The light in the room is filtered through Horizontal blinds.

Two pieces of fabric shown close up on a table with a trinket box on the oak wood of the table. One fabric woven in 10/2 perle cotton Is lighter and Has a finer pattern on the left of the picture and sits on top of the second fabric center foreground. This fabric was woven on the same draft but using gold mop cotton 8/4 And create a much larger pattern and thicker fabric The Golden color of the weft is more dominant than in the lighter weight fabric on the left. The colors are shades of gray red pink blue green and turquoise with gold throughout.

A project in 10/2 Perle cotton from Maurice Brassard. I used 17 colors to coordinate with my grandmother’s rug and a Satsuma trinket box. A table scarf woven 70 inches long in10/2 for the weft then I wove a shorter piece with 8/4 mop cotton to make a small Matt.

I’m new I’ll try to figure that out.

A sample from Strickler 417. I am using some apps to plan a new color way. Color.adobe and a photo I took then I match up the colors in organic cottolin. Last I use iWeaveIt to play with color possibilities. #multi-shaftloomweaving #handwoven #8shaft

A wrap in 10/2 Perle cotton. Eva Stossel’s huck lace. #weaving #multi-shaftloomweaving #8shaft

A small rug. Mop cotton, pattern draft Strickler 611 Atwater Dogwood. #multi-shaftloomweaving #8shaft #handwoven