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Artist | portraits, marine, botanical paintings | commissions open! www.elizabethwhelan.com
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Don’t gift our work to AI billionaires: Mark Haddon, Michal Rosen and other creatives urge government

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

UK soil breakthrough could cut farm fertiliser use and advance sustainable agriculture

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Hi all, I am doing a demo on painting flowers over at the Cozy Corner Cafe in Edgartown, MA, this afternoon at 4 pm (Tuesday 11th) -- it will be a quick demo of an hour, but I hope to share some tips to make your painting and drawing life a little easier! Drop by if you can!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I love to see sketching encouraged in museums. It The act of visual note-taking with even the roughest sketch will allow you to slow down and see objects and details you might otherwise have missed. It's a way to acknowledge craftsmen and artists who came before us.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Alas, I think that might be 2025's goal too

submitted 50 days ago • 7 comments

Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.

submitted 50 days ago • 74 comments

Here’s something to think about as you kick off 2025: ✨We are all stardust.✨ Every atom of oxygen in our lungs, of carbon in our muscles, of calcium in our bones, of iron in our blood—was created inside a star before Earth was born. Image: NASA Hubble Space Telescope, CC BY 2.0, flickr

submitted 59 days ago • 310 comments

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Some more art... Bluesky is really getting good, isn't it! It's been amazing to watch the audience build up so rapidly. This is one of my favorite landscape paintings, if you can call it that. I felt the trees looked as if they were dancing, so I called it: Jive Talkin' 24 x 18", oil on canvas

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Still not quite sure what to post here! How about a sketch I did last night with the online figure drawing group at Washington Studio School. Feel free to join us -- book your spot through their website! The sessions are Mondays 7-9 pm. #sketch #sandpaper #ElizabethWhelan #drawing #figuredrawing

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

Sharing another recent portrait, and thinking of more peaceful times (like, this summer!) I enjoy painting people in action, particularly involved in favorite activities, contemporary scenes showing how we live our lives. 'Canoeing with a Friend on Edgartown Great Pond' 24 x 30", oil on canvas

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Fabulous time at the unveiling of Jay Wilbur's portrait yesterday! It was lovely to see the crowd that showed up to honor the former harbormaster of Vineyard Haven harbor, and to talk about the years that have gone by on the Island, oh so quickly. Portrait of Jay Wilbur 24 x 20", oil on canvas

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

Looking forward to meeting folks on here -- artists, archeologists, writers, scientists, foreign policy experts, news junkies, I hope to meet you all! And by way of introduction, this is the sort of painting I do: Portrait of Nat Benjamin 28 x 22", oil on canvas

submitted 108 days ago • 3 comments