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Colin Mackey
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Making silly little paintings
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Instilling childlike wonder and amazement into my chat support agent
May 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Did a little oil sketch!
May 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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My work put this out today with the genuine belief that this is something literally anybody would want to read
May 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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I wasn't concerned about sodium cyanide being on the ship before, but after reading this headline I am 100% convinced there is sodium cyanide on board
BBC news headline titled: "Cargo ship still on fire after collision as owners say no sodium cyanide on board"
March 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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It is the year of oil painting
February 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Had a lot of fun with this piece! First time gilding and excited to try it out on new pieces!

40x40 cm, gilded acrylic

#art #artwork #painting
January 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Small 5x7 inch piece to get started with this year!
January 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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I hope they're ok
Several decorations thrown out in the communal bins cage for the building. A sign reads "live well, laugh often, love much". Another reads "laugh, love, always". There is a print of a sleeping dog on its back on a white background with the words "namast'ay in bed" written on it. Other items include candlestick holders and candles, a wire umbrella stand, a doorstop shaped like a horse and an orange atlas print in the style of an older drawn map that does not yet include the northwestern reaches Canada or Russia/Asia on the other side of it as discovered territories.
December 10, 2024 at 10:46 AM
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Done fiddling with this, it’s done! 8x8 acrylic on canvas board
A painting of a rubbing bowl with a pentagram decoration on its side, lit warmly from the left and cool on the right against a warm, dark background
December 7, 2024 at 12:22 PM
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rachel reeves criticised in the budget for proposing to sell stone to buy wood when there is no mining camp constructed nearby and the stone mining tech hasn't been unlocked
November 4, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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Quick sketch today!
Painting of a man of the shoulders and head in an earthy red tone in minimal detail
November 2, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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Went to a black tie dinner which means I get to put this guy on
A man taking a photo of himself in a formal Scottish kilt outfit
October 29, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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Going to start posting my paintings on here again, here’s a self portrait I did recently! Acrylic on cotton canvas 35x45cm
A self portrait of a man with black medium length hair on a dark background wearing black clothes. The painting is cropped to his collar and he looks directly at the viewer with soft, warm lighting from the right side. His expression is neutral.
October 27, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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Ahoy! The scammers are here! I woke up to this old chestnut, and since Bluesky is pretty new, I thought it might be helpful to show y'all how this one works. A scammer will reach out for work, and it'll be really vague - a piece of his kid, or suddenly four, it doesn't matter, he doesn't care.
October 24, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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I've made a follow starter pack for active Scottish FGC members. If you'd like to be on, or know someone who should be on, dm me or comment down below!

Let's make BlueSky the best place for the Scotland's FGC!

go.bsky.app/JvLXuQg
October 25, 2024 at 5:41 AM
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tishamark.com
Hi #PortfolioDay
I’m Tisha, an independent artist telling stories about light and atmosphere with oil paint. My originals are available on my website, large paintings are on sale this summer.

Shop: tishamark.com/shop
Current projects: tishamark.com/current-proj...
More: tishamark.com/links

#art
Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Storm Light" 8"x8" oil on Arches oil paper (2024). Textured, atmospheric seascape painting with an orange-toned sky with white and bluish-gray cloud formations over a sea with a rocky coast. Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "After the Storm" 30"x30" oil on cradled gessobord (2024). Moody seascape with an orange-toned sky with big dramatic textured light yellow light breaking through after a storm. Subtle light is reflected in the textured rocky waters below the sky. Original landscape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Woodland Dreams" 4"x4" oil on gessobord (2024). Moody, dreamy landscape painting, painted in a limited palette of greens. Painted loosely to suggest a woodland scene at the edge of a body of water. Original oil painting by Tisha Mark, "To Breathe Again" 24"x18" oil on Canvas (2023). Vertically oriented abstract-leaning foggy landscape painting, painted in a limited palette of blues and whites.
July 9, 2024 at 2:18 PM
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Scaled up a 15xcm piece I enjoyed doing up to 35x45cm, this is my biggest piece
February 20, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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Bluesky is officially “open” now (no more invites). So just a reminder to not engage with trolls and bad actors, there is no algorithm here to promote or spread them, replying to them is what puts them on everybody’s timelines. So block and give no oxygen.
February 6, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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did a small palette knife painting and thought it would be mildly funny to do an edgy alt version but I ended up genuinely liking it
A painting of a sunny day viewing a mountain in the distance with a lake and trees in the lower half A painting of black mountains in the distance under a red sky, the lake is also red and it is flanked by two dead black trees
February 7, 2024 at 9:49 AM
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New piece, acrylics on gessobord
February 5, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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Impressionist sunflowers in class today
February 4, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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New favourite piece, quite hard to photograph the colour the first photo is more accurate
February 2, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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Couple landscapes I did at my first painting class
February 2, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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Some still lifes I’ve been doing (lemons are watercolour)
February 2, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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A lil shading practice, the dark green background darkened as the paint dried, something I’ll have to watch out for with cold colours in acrylic
Acrylic painting of an apple and an egg still life
December 30, 2023 at 7:39 AM