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Today was mostly stuck in bed (stupid chronic illness) but did make a little progress on the new bejewelled hare, so that will have to count as productivity.

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Quote this post with a picture of the airplane you'll accept as a bribe

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New on the easel, matching up this planned painting with something appropriately grand from my frame hoard. Hare sketched in, developing the background colour.

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Quote this post with a picture of the airplane you’ll accept as a bribe

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The Treasure Hunter. Acrylic, 30x40 cm. An older painting getting some adjustments before the show in June.

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ME/CFS is a strange thing. If you try to fight it, the chains get tighter. With every step, your reach shrinks. The more you move, the smaller your world becomes. Posted for @openmedf.bsky.social's #MECFSis campaign. #MECFS #MEAwarenessMonth #WorldMEDay

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The Treasure Hunter. Acrylic, 30x40 cm. An older painting getting some adjustments before the show in June.

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The band is playing but the cat is sleeping through it…

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The Astronomers, acrylic, 40x40 cm. For me, this is a BIG painting.

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For those that need a wee break from news, here's a little stop-motion animated film about making, knitting as a means of coping through stress and grief. It's short- about 9 minutes; worth it. The voices are wonderful. #uplift #craftsky #knitsky #visiblemending vimeo.com/827066711

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Reasons not to place a Tillinghast camera trap under your bed. You don’t want to know. Seriously. #whistpr #tentacle

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#Criptopia

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The stone lady at our doorstep always looks a bit exposed this time of year with the dead grasses cleared away and the fresh just starting to grow in.

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Coffee in the garden, some resting, some painting, some more resting…. Warm sunny day, but put the heating pad on for the old cat anyway to his approval.

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Cloudy sunset

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Happy Saturday! This painting from my unfinished pile is one of my projects for the weekend, along with resting in a sunbeam. The Astronomers, acrylic, 40x40cm panel with integral frame.

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Spotted in a shady part of the garden at lunchtime.

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And here’s Mr Socks telling me it’s bedtime by silently entering the studio and falling asleep beside my chair. He really is a weirdly polite old cat.

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Flypast of Europa. Current WIP on the easel. I suspect the stars need to be toned down a bit, but am provisionally content with the paper airplane and the ice moon.

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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

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Dozed off to this already for my afternoon nap. Highly recommended.

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7 May 1945 / Utrecht, Netherlands. Credit: Alexander M. Stirton/Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada/PA-134377

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Truth. Walking sticks are also ideal for dislodging cat toys from under the sofa…

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Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social

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After every art show I sort my paintings into three categories: 1: keep and show again 2: rethink and rework 3: start over. This little painting went into pile 3, and the panel is now ready to be gessoed again.

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Sunbeam Sunday!

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When the squirrel figures out the new bird feeder…✨

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Proof of cat

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Current WIP. Acrylic, 20x25 cm.

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A post on some of the national security challenge posed by the Trump Administration for Canada (and other Western countries) after the first 100 days. stephaniecarvin.substack.com/p/100-days-o...

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Today in “does what it says on the tin”. Spotted outside my local pharmacy.

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First coffee in the garden this year! Seagulls crying overhead and a squabble of house sparrows in a clump of leafless vines. Green shoots of chives, daffodils, and Solomon’s Seal. Trilliums starting to bloom.

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It truly was a local wonder. Reminiscent of some of some of Chris Burden’s more alarming art installations.

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Makes me think of @celestineandthehare.com and their Dance Like a Weasel Day!

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This is such a beautiful piece of writing. I want to quote so many of the bits that I think you should just take a couple of minutes to read it all. From Ukraine to Canada, on the occasion of our election. viktorkravchuk.substack.com/p/the-nation...

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Grisaille for a current wip coming along nicely. Only 9x25 cm, but I’ll take that on a day that included a migraine and a major storm.

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If you see this, post a robot.

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