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Alice McPlan
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Having fun with digital art, traditional art in my sketchbook and organization in my planner! I don't know what I am doing and I am doing it anyway :)
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Every Friday I post my #AlphabetSuperDECK #WeeklyChallenge
❤️ Theme: a playing card illustration inspired by my favorite artists
🤩 Featured today: Amanda Rach Lee (@amandarachlee.bsky.social)
#AlphabetSuperset #AlphabetSupersetArt #ArtChallenge #ArtYear #Watercolor #JanuArty
In a frame of R of flowers playing card a cute green frog with pink cheeks and a flower on her belly is drawn twice, mirrored on the playing card.
February 6, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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Every Friday I post my #AlphabetSuperDECK #WeeklyChallenge
❤️ Theme: a playing card illustration inspired by my favorite artists
🤩 Featured today: Qi Han
#AlphabetSuperset #AlphabetSupersetArt #ArtChallenge #ArtYear #Watercolor #JanuArty
In a frame of M of hearts playing card a smiling mouse holding a flower and dressed with a pink blouse, brown pants and red shoes. In a frame of N of flowers playing card a pensive cowboy wearing a green hat and outfit is drawn twice, mirrored on the playing card. In a frame of O of diamonds playing card a girl with blue long hair wearing a striped shirt and a pink overall is drawn twice mirrored on the playing card. In a frame of P of spade playing card a girl with brown long hair wearing a blue blouse and green shirt is drawn twice mirrored on the playing card. In a frame of Q of hearts playing card bunch of three tomatoes with a strong shadow is drawn on the playing card.
January 30, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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Every Friday I post my #AlphabetSuperDECK #WeeklyChallenge
❤️ Theme: a playing card illustration inspired by my favorite artists
🤩 Featured today: Laura Price (@lulusketches.bsky.social)
#AlphabetSuperset #AlphabetSupersetArt #ArtChallenge #ArtYear #Watercolor #JanuArty
In a frame of M of hearts playing card a smiling mouse holding a flower and dressed with a pink blouse, brown pants and red shoes. In a frame of N of flowers playing card a pensive cowboy wearing a green hat and outfit is drawn twice, mirrored on the playing card. In a frame of O of diamonds playing card a girl with blue long hair wearing a striped shirt and a pink overall is drawn twice mirrored on the playing card. In a frame of P of spade playing card a girl with brown long hair wearing a blue blouse and green shirt is drawn twice mirrored on the playing card.
January 23, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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I love the consistency #The100DayProject brings to my creativity, so I will work on three projects, sharing the progress weekly. #MealPlanning on Sundays, #Watercolor on Mondays and #CrossStich on Wednesdays. Are you planning to take on the 100 day challenge? #ArtYear #JanuArty
Image split into three section, showing the logo of the challenge next to the description of the three 100 day projects: - 100 daily drawings of meals planned following the guidance of my workbook (posting progress on Sundays) - 100 daily drawings of Color Cube cards in my sketchbook to practice color mixing and find fun color combos! (posting progress on Mondays) - 100 daily 10 x 10 cross stitch sections of Van Gogh's "Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun" (posting progress on Wednesday)
January 22, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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Every Friday I post my #AlphabetSuperDECK #WeeklyChallenge
❤️ Theme: a playing card illustration inspired by my favorite artists
🤩 Featured today: Kati Ors
#AlphabetSuperset #AlphabetSupersetArt #ArtChallenge #ArtYear #Watercolor #JanuArty
In a frame of M of hearts playing card a smiling mouse holding a flower and dressed with a pink blouse, brown pants and red shoes. In a frame of N of flowers playing card a pensive cowboy wearing a green hat and outfit is drawn twice, mirrored on the playing card. In a frame of O of diamonds playing card a girl with blue long hair wearing a striped shirt and a pink overall is drawn twice mirrored on the playing card.
January 16, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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Every Friday I post my #AlphabetSuperDECK #WeeklyChallenge
❤️ Theme: a playing card illustration inspired by my favorite artists
🤩 Featured today: Shay Nichols (Sketches of Shay)
#AlphabetSuperset #AlphabetSupersetArt #ArtChallenge #ArtYear #Watercolor #JanuArty
In a frame of M of hearts playing card a smiling mouse holding a flower and dressed with a pink blouse, brown pants and red shoes. In a frame of N of flowers playing card a pensive cowboy wearing a green hat and outfit is drawn twice, mirrored on the playing card.
January 9, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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Every Friday I post my #AlphabetSuperDECK #WeeklyChallenge
❤️ Theme: a playing card illustration inspired by my favorite artists
🤩 Featured today: Mimi (Mimimoo Illustration)
#AlphabetSuperset #AlphabetSupersetArt #ArtChallenge #ArtYear #Watercolor #JanuArty
In a frame of M of hearts playing card a smiling mouse holding a flower and dressed with a pink blouse, brown pants and red shoes. The drawing is mirrored and matching.
January 2, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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Closing my #YearInReview with my #ArtVsArtist #ArtVsArtist2025. I had fun creating in various styles, media and themes. I learned a lot and I continue to enjoy seeing improvement in my creations.
Nine squares with art from 2025. Cut out of 8 anime eyes; US map colored with native tribal symbols (by Jaune Quick-To-See Smith); einiosaurus; Ghibli food; blue zentangle; pigeons; Bertha Parker; and purple sketches of mouths. The central square says "Artist reveal when I reach 1k followers"
December 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Many years ago I discovered the power of a consistent morning routine that includes 4 minutes of meditation. 4 minutes may not seem much but they add up! Here the stats in my #InsightTimer app. Are there tasks that you do every single day to bring you joy and peace? #Meditation #YearInReview
A watercolor drawing on black background and white laurel pieces surrounding the text. 2404 consecutive days, 185 hours and 35 minutes. 2749 total days, 18 thousand total minutes and 413 milestones.
December 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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In the #AntiPlanner book @danidonovan.com introduced me to the Finch app last year: a virtual self-care pet friend. I used it consistently and it is helpful! Here is Magic my cute owl adventuring with a friend! Do you have any apps or habits to cultivate self-care? #FinchApp #YearInReview
A watercolor pencil drawing of a cute owl character, wearing fancy red suit with cape and large hat, holding a rainbow red rose. The owl is sitting in front of a few monuments from Chicago with one friend: a red masked cute frog. The drawing celebrates the 604 day streak of using the Finch app!
December 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Closing the year with some #YearInReview.
Here the books I read in 2025. Only one 5 stars for me: Unseen by Molly Burke.
Any 5 stars recommendations for my 2026 TBR? #2025InBooks #YearInBooks
Top of the page: Watercolor sketches of my Storygraph stats for 2025. Pie charts showing I read 93% nonfiction, 7% fiction, 47% less than 300 pages long books, 53% books pages 300-499 pages long. Line plot showing the number of books and pages broken down by month. Total books read: 15, Total pages read: 4652. Bottom of the page: Watercolor sketches of the 15 books I read in 2025, size by my rating (higher rated = larger cover, lower rated = smaller cover) - Unseen (Molly Burke) - Thinner (Stephen King) - All the beauty in the world (Patrick Bringley) - From here to eternity (Caitlin Doughty) - Unconfortable conversations with a Jew (Emmanuel Acho, Noa Tishby) - How minds change (David McRaney) - The Undying (Anne Boyer) - Doom and Bloom (Campbell Walker) - This I believe II (edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman) - Just my type (Simon Garfield) - The Alignment Problem (Brian Christian) - High Conflict (Amanda Ripley) - Cheap speech (Richard L. Hasen) - Zero (Charles Seifes) - Stumbling on Happiness (Daniel Gilbert)
December 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Every Friday I post my #AlphabetSuperDECK #WeeklyChallenge
❤️ Theme: a playing card illustration inspired by my favorite artists
🤩 Featured today: Loish @loish.bsky.social
#AlphabetSuperset #AlphabetSupersetArt #ArtChallenge #ArtYear #Watercolor #ArtAdventCalendar
In a frame of I of hearts playing card a smiling girl with blond hair and large round glasses is drawn twice as mirrored image on the playing card. In a frame of J of flowers playing card a smiling girl with brown hair and a colorful parrot next to her is drawn twice as mirrored image on the playing card. In a frame of K of diamonds playing card a lady with grey hair and rectangular glasses is drawn twice as mirrored image on the playing card. In a frame of L of spades playing card a young lady with brown hair in a high pony-tail is drawn twice as mirrored image on the playing card.
December 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Last year I embraced my passion for #MealPlanning to write the book "Questioning Meal Planning, 100 questions, and zero recipes to help with 365 days of 'What's for dinner?' "
Here some small watercolors in my #sketchbook with an answer from the book! #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear
Fourteen small watercolor drawings of various dishes answering specific questions from my book "which meals did you like between ages 7 - 15?" Fusilli al burro, bacon omelette, and bruschetta. "What are meals that start with s, t, v, w, x, y or z?" Spaghetti with mussels, white bean soup, yellow curry, zuppa alla Xavier. "In the mood for something rich and smoky: what would you cook or eat?" One-pot miso mushroom pasta, crispy tofu stir fry, smoky chicken salad stuffed avocados. "You had a great success at a big event exam or performance: what would you eat to celebrate?" Creamy vegan mushroom pasta, seared scallops, mushroom bourguignon, tapas spread.
December 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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#365daysofFeelGoodArt is a book with many interesting prompts to quickly jumpstart a few minutes (or a few hours) of creativity!
So relaxing and fun! #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear
A page of the book "365 Days of Feel-Good Art" completed with bright colors Arrtx acrylic markers. Drawing of a light blue Bluetooth speaker holder on a pink and red background, and a couple of tangerines on a yellow and magenta background. Prompt 123: Think about how you can bring more colour to your art by adding bright backgrounds. While drawing from life, try putting colours behind what you see.
December 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Learning about dinosaurs and experimenting with limited colors of Arrtx markers was so fun! I love how this double page spread turned out! #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear
Drawing of five dinosaurs: one large spiky, one skinny striped with long blue head and orange wattle; one large and green with tiny brown spikes; one light brown with large head with frill and grey curvy horn, and one dark brown with fluffy hands and tail. The fourth dinosaur is drawn with a set of gray and browns Arrtx markers arranged around the page and around the 2025 Dinovember logo. Dinovember 2025 is also written in braille
December 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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#Zentangle has always fascinated me and I wanted to test if I can play with the 3D effect. The four patterns together look cool, and I learned that I prefer regular 2D patterns...
#ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear
A page with four different 3D like zentangles patterns: a purple checkerboard pattern with a warped like sphere shape; a blue and white Celtic knot like pattern with shadow; a green and white interwoven square with one side raising as a tower; a black and white square grids with some of the square raised as different height towers.
December 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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The Color Meditation Deck by @lisasolomon.bsky.social is a fun and relaxing way to spend time thinking of simple colors and shapes... and I really enjoy the final outcome on the page!
#ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear
The outside cover of the Color Meditation Deck box (by Lisa Solomon) next to a page filled with three patters from the deck: a section filled with colorful dots; a section filled with green, blue and grey interlocking grid patterns; and a section of a maze like pattern colored with yellows, oranges, reds and browns.
December 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Every Friday I post my #AlphabetSuperDECK #WeeklyChallenge
❤️ Theme: a playing card illustration inspired by my favorite artists
🤩 Featured today: Koosje Koene @koosjekoene.bsky.social
#AlphabetSuperset #AlphabetSupersetArt #ArtChallenge #ArtYear #Watercolor #ArtAdventCalendar
In a frame of I of hearts playing card a smiling girl with blond hair and large round glasses is drawn twice as mirrored image on the playing card. In a frame of J of flowers playing card a smiling girl with brown hair and a colorful parrot next to her is drawn twice as mirrored image on the playing card. In a frame of K of diamonds playing card a lady with grey hair and rectangular glasses is drawn twice as mirrored image on the playing card.
December 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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#ThrowbackThursday to a massive #ArtChallenge COMPLETED! Every Monday from January I posted my #AlphabetSuperset #WeeklyChallenge with the theme of Powerful and inspiring women in science, art and other endeavors. #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #AlphabetSupersetArt. Here my creations from A to Z.
In a black and white frames with the head letters from A to Z in the corner, two page spreads of various elements related to the amazing women featured every week. Details on what each double spread contains can be found in the ALT of the individual post day. In the collage: - Maya Angelou - Louise Bourgeois - Marie Sklodowska Curie - Grazia Deledda - Lili Elbe - Rosalind Franklin - Amanda Gorman - Helen Hardin - Marbella Ibarra - Annie Jump Cannon - Yayoi Kusama - Tamara de Lempicka - Mary Eliza Mahoney - Shirin Neshat - Georgia O'Keeffe - Bertha Parker - Jaune Quick-to-See Smith - Vera Rubin - Camille Seaman - Harriet Tubman - Aguri Uchida - Jeannette Villepreux-Power - Desiré Wilson - Xie Xide - Malala Yousafzai - Marguerite Zorach
December 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Last year I embraced my passion for #MealPlanning to write the book "Questioning Meal Planning, 100 questions, and zero recipes to help with 365 days of 'What's for dinner?' "
Here some small watercolors in my #sketchbook with an answer from the book! #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear
Ten small watercolor drawings of various dishes answering specific questions from my book "which meals did you like between ages 7 - 15?" Fusilli al burro, bacon omelette, and bruschetta. "What are meals that start with s, t, v, w, x, y or z?" Spaghetti with mussels, white bean soup, yellow curry, zuppa alla Xavier. "In the mood for something rich and smoky: what would you cook or eat?" One-pot miso mushroom pasta, crispy tofu stir fry, smoky chicken salad stuffed avocados.
December 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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#365daysofFeelGoodArt is a book with many interesting prompts to quickly jumpstart a few minutes (or a few hours) of creativity! So relaxing and fun! #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear
A page of the book "365 Days of Feel-Good Art" completed with bright colors Arrtx acrylic markers and black pen. Prompt 116: Draw a bunch of flowers and enjoy making marks to show the petals and leaves. Have fun with the shapes and don't worry too much about the end result - just let your mind relax as you draw.
December 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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The challenge of drawing very small with the few Arrtx acrylic markers I own has been great! I learned a lot about putting colors next to each other and about feeling loose and free! #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #Arrtx #AcrylicMarkers
A group of sixteen small drawings made with Arrtx markers: blue bubbles, dory the blue and yellow fish from finding nemo, a boat rotor, a field of seaweeds, two hands drawing each other, captain hook, a pin, and seven different colorful flowers
December 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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#Zentangle has always fascinated me and I wanted to test if I can play with the 3D effect. This second pattern turned out better than the one from last week, so I am happy about my growth.
#ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear
A blue and white Celtic knot like pattern with shadow that covey its 3D shape.
December 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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The Color Meditation Deck by @lisasolomon.bsky.social is a fun and relaxing way to spend time thinking of simple colors and shapes... and I really enjoy the final outcome on the page!
#ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear
The outside cover of the Color Meditation Deck box (by Lisa Solomon) next to a third of a page filled with colorful green, blue and grey interlocking grid patterns.
December 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Every Friday I post my #AlphabetSuperDECK #WeeklyChallenge
❤️ Theme: a playing card illustration inspired by my favorite artists
🤩 Featured today: Jaiden Animations (jaidenanimations on YT)
#AlphabetSuperset #AlphabetSupersetArt #ArtChallenge #ArtYear #Watercolor #ArtAdventCalendar
In a frame of I of hearts playing card a smiling girl with blond hair and large round glasses is drawn twice as mirrored image on the playing card. In a frame of J of flowers playing card a smiling girl with brown hair and a colorful parrot next to her is drawn twice as mirrored image on the playing card.
December 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM