Cat McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️

You’re welcome! Definitely give it a try! I found it reminded me a little of my days messing around in darkrooms - very enjoyable. I’m hoping to do a bit more of it when I get a chance on a bright sunny day (probably in spring/summer) 🌞

Cyanotype print, with the negative image of a decorative scalloped lace fabric pattern.

A photo showing the process of creating a cyanotype print, with photosensitive paper, lace fabric and a piece of glass with bulldog clips used to hold everything in place while the print is created by exposure to bright sunlight.

I made this cyanotype print with #two pieces of lace. Fun technique to experiment with! 💙 Historically interesting too - a botanist named Anna Atkins was a pioneer of this early form of photography & published the first book with (her) photographic illustrations in 1843.

#BlueskyArtShow #Cyanotype

Chilling.

Well deserved!

I agree that fundamentally, good design should be effortless to use, and feel “invisible” - my dad worked as a telecoms engineer for decades said one of his bosses withheld user manuals for mobile phone handsets they wanted to test, saying it should be so intuitive that they aren’t needed at all.

Yay! 📚

Ooof that’s rough. Take it easy 💜

It’s so lazy, isn’t it!

So true! Hope you’re being gentle with yourself. ❤️

I fully appreciate how precious a resource the rain is - without it, things would be v different! As they say, if you want rainbows, you have to put up with a little rain… 🌈

It was noticably hotter & drier in the summer here, so at least our reservoirs have a chance to refill now.

Pros & cons!

It does make for moody pics, yeah! But it’s nice to see a bit of blue sky now and again 🩵

View from a window with fresh snow fall gathering at the bottom and some melting. All you can see are some indistinct houses, trees and mostly just a thick white wall of snow clouds.

I could barely see the other side the the valley I live in on Friday! 😶‍🌫️

It’s a thought! 😂

We’ve had almost wall-to-wall grey clouds for *weeks* in my little corner of the south of Scotland! 😭 ☁️🌧️☁️🌧️☁️

(Brief appearance of the ☀️ today & on Sat though, yay!)

Love these!

Beautiful piece, and what a lovely way to remember your friend. ❤️

They are a lovely thing to encounter and always bring a wee smile. 🥰

Precious indeed! It was quite a meditative walk for sure. 🤍

Overhead view of a “lock-up”, with type set for letterpress printing. There is a mix of two styles: smaller, metal (cast) type in a gothic blackletter font and large (carved) wooden type with more contemporary, rounded letterforms. The type is set in mirror image, so that when printed, it will read: “create music art dance”

Hand-printed letterpress typographic poster. The design has a mix of two styles: a gothic blackletter font and a chunkier, more contemporary font with a 1960s/70s vibe. The type reads: “create music art dance”

I had a lot of fun playing with this chunky vintage wooden type at a letterpress workshop hosted by Robert Smail’s Printing Works, a Victorian-era industrial heritage museum run by @n-t-s.bsky.social in Innerleithen in the Scottish Borders.

#WoodType #Letterpress #Typography #BlueskyArtShow #Wood

Can’t say for sure… but there was definitely some wintery magic in the air! ❄️ The wee red door tucked away in the tree roots really charmed me. I was walking on a section of the Southern Upland Way in Galashiels (in the south of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿). There are quite a few spots with fairy doors around here.

A tiny wooden door painted red is nestled into an alcove in the base of a snow-dusted tree trunk.

A tiny wooden door painted cornflower blue is mysteriously mounted high up on a tree trunk.

I found some fairy doors while out walking today ✨

#BlueskyArtShow #Wood #Scotland

A row of trees along the banks of the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders, with winter sunlight filtering through them.

From my walk along the River Tweed on the edge of Galashiels today. Paths that my ancestors no doubt walked too, as my great-grandfather’s childhood home was just a little bit along the river at Galafoot.

#BlueskyArtShow #Wood #ScottishBorders

Image with a dark background and white text, plus a decorative purple chevron line art design. The text reads “No alcohol, started on 17 March 2025. 333 Days (sober).”

I lived with an alcoholic. It ended *badly*. 😔 That in turn made me question my own relationship w/ alcohol. I had been gradually reducing my intake over the years as a result, then last year I did Dry January, & (mostly) just kept going. All of 2025 I had 1️⃣ drink! Today I’m exactly 333 days sober.

How and Why I Wrote 'City of Heroes' What role can artists play in the struggle against the forces of oppression?

Some thoughts on the role of the artist in the struggle against oppression

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For sure! 🌧️ Bon appetit!

Comfort food needed! (Pizza in my case 🍕

Muppets… and giant crumpets. Does life get any better? 😎

Good to know! 🌞

A pretty light pink rose in full flower is beautifully illuminated by dappled summer sunlight, in the background are green leaves and some rosebuds getting ready to open.

I had intended to post this yesterday but got a wee bit sidetracked (story of my life!). I remember the day I took the picture on a walk with my Canon DSLR in Leith Links, and thinking the light was so perfect on this beautiful rose by the allotments. 🌹

#Bloomscrolling #Sunlight #BlueskyArtShow

Thanks Robin! I think I need to go play with film again soon… (well, maybe when the sun makes an appearance, that is!!)