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Alana

@alanamar-arts.bsky.social

Multidisciplinary artist and educator with a love for painting and ceramics.🇨🇦 https://linktr.ee/alanamar.arts

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11.07.2025 22:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Process video for my art installation:

Interconnected Isolation, Series 1

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#30secondreel #creative #slipcasting #processvideo #ceramics #clay #decorating #underglazes #blackline #interconnectedisolation #lovepottery #series #exhibition #artsofinstagram #alanamar_arts

08.06.2025 22:50 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The lighting in a space is always interesting. The beauty of seeing art in person: it shifts with the light, the space, the moment. Each viewing offers a new experience.

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#exhibition #art #canadianartist #canadianart #ceramics #colour #connection

03.06.2025 23:30 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you for the reposts @cutdna.bsky.social and @danalemaster.com

03.06.2025 11:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@danalemaster.com thank you for the repost! Much appreciated ☺️

01.06.2025 20:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Abstract colourful lines following the order of the rainbow. This was painted on the inside of a bowl and the picture is a close up of the line work.

Abstract colourful lines following the order of the rainbow. This was painted on the inside of a bowl and the picture is a close up of the line work.

Happy Pride!

#pride #rainbow #diversity #inclusion #equity #closeupshot #bowlinterior #linedesign

01.06.2025 19:13 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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ART COMP by ART COMP Inc. @100 Kellogg Lane

The voting is now open, here is the link to register:
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01.06.2025 19:00 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Hi Alana,

Welcome to the crew! Please continue to post your beautiful art…check in here and follow whomever you wish and please SHARE this link

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01.06.2025 18:03 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Hi Lorraine, Thank you so much for adding me and to this pack! Honoured to be part of the crew!

01.06.2025 18:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
I'm standing behind a sculptural representation of the Art Comp logo.

I'm standing behind a sculptural representation of the Art Comp logo.

A selfie of me standing in front of my artwork - Interconnected Isolation, Series #1. It's a set of 12 wall tiles made in ceramics and hand painted with an abstract design. The ceramics look like squares of fabric.

A selfie of me standing in front of my artwork - Interconnected Isolation, Series #1. It's a set of 12 wall tiles made in ceramics and hand painted with an abstract design. The ceramics look like squares of fabric.

I'm facing my artwork and speaking with 2 viewers. My hand is pointing to the work as I speak.

I'm facing my artwork and speaking with 2 viewers. My hand is pointing to the work as I speak.

Side view of the art work

Side view of the art work

I'm truly honoured to be included among 100 talented artists in this amazing show.

If you feel inspired, I’d be so grateful if you shared this link and cast a vote for me. Your support means the world. Thank you!

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#canadianartist #art #ceramics #exhibition #peopleschoice

31.05.2025 23:48 — 👍 23    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Excited to share that my artwork, Interconnected Isolation, Series 1, has been selected for Art Comp 2025 starting May 30 and running for 100 days! I'm honoured to be one of 100 chosen for this show. 100 Kellogg Lane, London ON

#interconnectedisolation #clay #ceramic #sculptural #art #canadian

30.04.2025 12:12 — 👍 22    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Thank you so much!

13.03.2025 13:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

21.02.2025 11:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Photograph of the landscape that inspired the 3 paintings in this post. It shows wispy cloud formations as the sun sets.

Photograph of the landscape that inspired the 3 paintings in this post. It shows wispy cloud formations as the sun sets.

Cherryhill #1 Abstract expressionist painting with varying lines and brushstrokes overlapping each other to create the landscape and to capture the movement in the sky.

Cherryhill #1 Abstract expressionist painting with varying lines and brushstrokes overlapping each other to create the landscape and to capture the movement in the sky.

Cherryhill #2 Abstract expressionist painting with a combination of brushstrokes and palette knife to capture movement and textures.

Cherryhill #2 Abstract expressionist painting with a combination of brushstrokes and palette knife to capture movement and textures.

Cherryhill #3 Abstract expressionist painting created only using a palette knife. This also captured movement and textures.

Cherryhill #3 Abstract expressionist painting created only using a palette knife. This also captured movement and textures.

Here is the landscape photo that I took that inspired the 3 Cherryhill paintings. Do you have a preference on the style of painting 1, 2 or 3?

#painting #art #artist #canadian #landscape #inspiration #abstract #expressionism #brushstrokes #textures #paletteknife #ArtYear

19.02.2025 13:14 — 👍 73    🔁 5    💬 14    📌 0
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Palette knife painting process video.

Cherryhill #3

#painting #processvideo #hyperlapse #paletteknife #art #artist #canadian #landscape #abstract #expressionism #BlueskyArtShow #ArtYear #FebruARTy

17.02.2025 17:33 — 👍 64    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Abstract landscape painting. It was painted only with a palette knife. The sky has blues, purples, white and small bits of yellow. The mid ground has yellow and reds to represent the sun setting. And the foreground is brown and darker shades.

Abstract landscape painting. It was painted only with a palette knife. The sky has blues, purples, white and small bits of yellow. The mid ground has yellow and reds to represent the sun setting. And the foreground is brown and darker shades.

Close up of the sky

Close up of the sky

Close up of the midground.

Close up of the midground.

Here is the 3rd painting inspired by the same landscape as Cherryhill #1 and #2. This one was done only with a palette knife.

Cherryhill #3

#painting #art #artist #canadian #landscape #inspired #abstract #oiloncanvas #paletteknife #FebruARTy #ArtYear #BlueskyArtShow #BlueskyArtNightMarket

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Thank you! And thanks for reposting!!

16.02.2025 18:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

16.02.2025 15:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Landscape painting in an expressionist way. With a mix of textured brushstrokes and palette knife painting. The sky at a sun set, the foreground textured and shadowed as the light is from behind. The sky filled with clouds and streaks of clouds. The colours are blue, purple and white with the midground showing some yellows, oranges and purples.

Landscape painting in an expressionist way. With a mix of textured brushstrokes and palette knife painting. The sky at a sun set, the foreground textured and shadowed as the light is from behind. The sky filled with clouds and streaks of clouds. The colours are blue, purple and white with the midground showing some yellows, oranges and purples.

Close up to show the brush textures.

Close up to show the brush textures.

Another close up of the mid and foreground to show the palette knife textures.

Another close up of the mid and foreground to show the palette knife textures.

The painting in it's new home after being purchased. It is on a wall by itself with a gallery light over it. It's in a small hallway of a condo. Take from the living room, you see shelving with other items, picture frames, bowls and sculptures. The sculpture on the third shelf and the 2 small vessels on the second shelf and pieces that I made.

The painting in it's new home after being purchased. It is on a wall by itself with a gallery light over it. It's in a small hallway of a condo. Take from the living room, you see shelving with other items, picture frames, bowls and sculptures. The sculpture on the third shelf and the 2 small vessels on the second shelf and pieces that I made.

After a very long hiatus of not painting or creating. I wanted to rediscover my creative process and style. Inspired by the same landscape as Cherryhill #1, here is another version.

Cherryhill #2

#painting #landscape #artist #art #canadian #BlueSkyArtNightMarket #ArtYear #FebruArty #oil #canvas

16.02.2025 13:51 — 👍 73    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

Thank you so much! 😊

16.02.2025 12:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

16.02.2025 11:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I love the line work!

16.02.2025 11:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

16.02.2025 03:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you for sharing! 🥰

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Thank you for sharing! 🥰

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Thank you so much!

16.02.2025 00:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's beautiful!

15.02.2025 23:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

15.02.2025 18:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Small bowl (top view) made in porcelain. Hand painted with varying shades of turquoise underglaze using a watercolour technique. Then a black line design intertwines the turquoise.

Small bowl (top view) made in porcelain. Hand painted with varying shades of turquoise underglaze using a watercolour technique. Then a black line design intertwines the turquoise.

Small bowl made in porcelain. Hand painted with varying shades of turquoise underglaze using a watercolour technique. Then a black line design intertwines the turquoise

Small bowl made in porcelain. Hand painted with varying shades of turquoise underglaze using a watercolour technique. Then a black line design intertwines the turquoise

Small bowl (angle shows the design on exterior and interior) made in porcelain. Hand painted with varying shades of turquoise underglaze using a watercolour technique. Then a black line design intertwines the turquoise

Small bowl (angle shows the design on exterior and interior) made in porcelain. Hand painted with varying shades of turquoise underglaze using a watercolour technique. Then a black line design intertwines the turquoise

Small bowl (close up view of the side) made in porcelain. Hand painted with varying shades of turquoise underglaze using a watercolour technique. Then a black line design intertwines the turquoise

Small bowl (close up view of the side) made in porcelain. Hand painted with varying shades of turquoise underglaze using a watercolour technique. Then a black line design intertwines the turquoise

#BlueSkyArtShow the theme is #monochrome

Small hand painted bowl

#pottery #ceramics #turquiose #amacovelvetunderglaze #porcelain #smallbowl #linedesign #pottersofbluesky #ArtYear #artist #art #canadian

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