Garden of Defiant Resiliency

Pieces of hand painted paper cut into purple and yellow flower blossoms, leaves and stem shapes. They are on top of an orange background.

Close up of a recent piece in progress. Layered pieces of handpainted paper.

#artyear #sensoryart #shadow #workinprogress

Jean-Paul Jérôme, contemporary Canadian painter, designer and sculptor who was a co-founder of Les Plasticiens, a group of painters who founded the pictorial movement in Quebec in 1955.

Feu sacré, 1978
(oil on canvas)

#Jean-PaulJérôme #ContemporaryArt

Photo of a variety of hand-painted papers stacked on top of each other. They have a variety of colors, and are filled with organic, abstract shapes.

This week's we're serving up visual chaos for #wackywednesdayart.

#illustration #abstractart #doodles

A hand painted paper, featuring organic shapes in a few colors. Sections are split by pink organic lines. Each section typically features a blue or teal background, with a smaller alternating teal of blue blob lined in purple.

Image of a sketchbook with hand painted paper, featuring organic shapes in a few colors. Sections are split by pink organic lines. Each section typically features a blue or teal background, with a smaller alternating teal of blue blob lined in purple.

How about both blue and cyan today? Is this teal or cyan?

#bluetue #cyantue #coloraday #illustration #abstractart

Colorful lines, purples, blues alternating with yellows and oranges, around the cutout leaf shapes of a piece of scrap paper.

Happy #wackywednesday: have some color doodles along the edge of a piece of scrap paper.

#abstractart #illustration #tactileart #sensoryart

Photo of a canvas board partially painted in orange, purple, pink and yellow, and a sketches of flowers and plant shapes.

Working on some flower and plant designs for this orange background.

#coloraday #orangesun #illustration #workinprogress

Photo of a drawing/painting on paper. The bottom right half of the image features an exploited, polluted earth. The moon sits in the bottom left, with Mars in the top center. Standing on the top left most edge of the earth is a human, dreaming about a lush, green, biodiversity-filled earth that has everything humans need for survival.

Close up of a photo of a drawing/painting on paper. The bottom right half of the image features an exploited, polluted earth. Standing on the top left most edge of the earth is a human, dreaming about a lush, green, biodiversity-filled earth that has everything humans need for survival.

No One Survives a Scorched Earth.

#BlueSkyArtShow #home #visualart #paintmarkers #art

Diptych of a flowering Golden Thryallis. Yellow flowers along an upward j-curve branch, against a background of blurry greenery.

A favorite set of images from earlier this year for #yellowthu.

#coloraday #bloomscrolling #GoldenThryallis #diptych

Photo of pieces of brightly painted paper cut into a variety of shapes on a black background.

Tonight's #wackywednesday playground: painted stripes of paper, cut into shapes and layered.

#abstractart #sensoryart #tactileart

Photo of bright yellow and pink painted pieces of paper, cut into basic shapes and layered on top of each other, against a black background.

Happy #wackywednesday, may your paint markers never run dry and may your shapes always be interesting.

#abstractart #tactileart #sensoryart

Photo of a sketchbook against white paper. The sketchbook is covered in lines of greens and blues, creating a variety of shapes across the page. The colors are organized to create areas of heavier visual weight, and areas of lighter visual weight. Materials: Paint marker and paper.

Photo of a sketchbook page against covered in lines of greens and blues, creating a variety of shapes across the page. The colors are organized to create areas of heavier visual weight, and areas of lighter visual weight. Materials: Paint marker and paper.

Photo of a sketchbook against white paper. The sketchbook is covered in lines of greens and blues, creating a variety of shapes across the page. The colors are organized to create areas of heavier visual weight, and areas of lighter visual weight. Materials: Paint marker and paper.

A brief distraction from your Monday blues.

#blueskymonday #sensoryart #abstractart

Close up of a hot pink zinnia flower against a blurry, broken background of blues, purples, and spots of yellow.

Image of a pink, blue and purple metal flower tealight holder shaped like a water Lilly blossom. A little tealight, with melted dark reflective wax, sits in the middle. The tealight holder rests on a painted, but scuffed wooden surface painted with pinks, blues and purples.

Hot pink zinnia flower against a blurry, broken background of blues, purples, and spots of yellow.

Purple, pink and blue are a favorite pallete of mine.

#stunday #sensoryart #backyardart

Photo of a sketchbook against white paper. The sketchbook is covered in lines of yellows, oranges, and some red, creating a variety of shapes across the page. The colors are organized to create areas of heavier visual weight, and areas of lighter visual weight. Materials: Paint marker and paper.

Photo of a sketchbook covered in lines of yellows, oranges, and some red, creating a variety of shapes across the page. The colors are organized to create areas of heavier visual weight, and areas of lighter visual weight. Materials: Paint marker and paper.

Playing with space, visual weight, and some new colors.

#coloraday #orangesun #sensoryart #abstractart

Diptych containing two similar images of the same scene, rotated differently. The scene contains bright yellow and bright pink painted pieces of paper, cut into different shapes, and organized in an abstract manner against a black background.

What a #summer it's been. Escaping the heat has led to a lot of art exploration, including this #abstract #collage. It feels like a fitting image to share for this week's #blueskyartshow.

Paint markers on paper, cut into shapes and layered on each other, and photographed back into 2D art again.

An image of six soft purple Mexican petunia flower blossoms against a dark background. Only the bottom. Two flowers are in focus.

A stacking of purple Mexican petunias for your weekend #bloomscrolling

Photograph of pieces of pink and yellow painted paper, on a painted black background.

This is a behind-the-scenes snapshot of the last few months: painted paper cut into shapes, and photographed back into a 2D medium.

I enjoy the interaction between surrealism and reality. Overlapping the two, blending them, and exploring their relationship.

Monotypes and drawing

Drawings/paintings/sketches/prints

#landscapeart #landscape #drawing #sketch #art #cornishart #abstractlandscape #womenartists #landscapepainting #watercolour #gouache #mixedmedia #art #westpenwith #cornwall #collage #monotype #printmaking

“A Wolf in Shepherd’s Clothing,” oil on panel, 11” x 14.” The original oil was sold to a collector, but Studio prints are available in 2 sizes.

"Sheep will always be sheep. and a wolf, no matter how he’s dressed, will always be a wolf.” —SG

www.scottgustafson.com/misc-animals...

Image of purple and green hues. In focus, near the center, is a delicate purple Mexican petunia flower blossom in soft light. Below it, and out of focus, are two others. Across the top of the image is the purple blur of a 4th flower, all set against a sea of green leaves.

Hello humans 🖐 I am starting to emerge from social media hibernation. I have been making a lot of art, very excited to share some, and have new plant photos for your eyeballs.

Today: some lovely Mexican petunias for those #bloomscrolling

Image of similar artworks made from paint marker on paper, hanging on a white pegboard. The three paintings have a black background, though the majority of the image is filled with organic pink shapes with darker cutouts, overall slightly leaf shaped. In between the pink areas are yellow lines with occasional dots, similar to the spacing of outdoor string lights. Subtle blue dots add dimension through the rest of the background.

Connections with great people, and healing experiences really have a lot of power in these chaotic, stressful and oppressive times.

I'm taking this week's #blueskyartshow theme of #gratitude as a reminder to focus and prioritize these connections, without losing sight of the changing battlefield.

Image of pink bougainvillea flowers and leaves spilling over the edge of a planter box.

Hot pink bougainvillea petals catching the sunlight for #stunday.

#bloomscrolling #naturephotography

An array of pink and orange zinnia nia blossoms against a mostly green background. The background of the center of the image is darker, letting the center light pink zinnia stand out.

Happy Wednesday to everyone else #bloomscrolling our way to the long weekend.

#naturephotography #zinnia #flowersofbluesky

Image of a purple and white passionflower against a green leafy and viney background.

A happy little passionflower for your Tuesday #bloomscrolling. These are the cutest curly vines, and this blossom will turn into red fruit you can eat.

Close ups of bright pink bougainvillea leaves with water drops on them.

Have a #diptych of raindrops drops on bougainvillea flowers to brighten your Monday 🌧

#bloomscrolling #naturephotography

Small yellow flower amidst other purple and white flowering ground cover plants

Met this little cutie, nestled in with friends, while on a walk this morning.

Diptych, image with two photos, focused on curly green passionflower vines amidst other leaves.

Passionflower vines have the cutest little vine curls. I love how they look amidst the other greenery.

#naturephotography

Top down image of smaller white rocks, with some green ground cover growing up between them. The right third of the image has a larger, tan and brown, rock in a triangle pointed upwards.

Trying to hold everything going on feels impossible, so I study the ground.

And even (/especially) in the ground, there is much change, and a lot of complex systems continue to compound open each other.

#naturephotography #abstractphotography #geometricphotography

The word "no" breaking apart and gold crown, on a background of blue, red, and grey dots and lines.

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#nokings #resistanceart #protestart

"We, the people, do not consent". No kings.

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#nokings #protestart #resistanceart

No Kings Day 6/14/2025

#art#abstractart#nokingsday#fdt#america#consitution#freedom #nooneisillegalonstolenland #cryptic #resist #abstract