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Fluffie Sheepie
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Mom, musician, family historian, cook, gardener, perpetual learner of French. The middle of the ocean is my happy place. One of my sons asked me to play SOT w/him on his birthday & I’ve been hooked ever since.
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Fluffie Sheepie @fluffiesheepie.bsky.social · Mar 28
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'Shimmering Symphony' quilt by Karlee Porter, contemporary US quilter and textile artist #womensart
Quilt with music as a thene with images of piano keys, musical notes and instruments such as a guitar abd violin
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A fashion illustration by René Gruau.
January 25, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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Taras Loboda
December 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Courtesan at a Writing Desk (Parody of Guan Yu)
by Isoda Koryûsai
1772–89, Japan
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection, MFA
Courtesan at a Writing Desk by Isoda Koryūsai This elegant silk scroll painting from the late Edo period (1772–1789) is a "mitate-e" or parody, cleverly casting a beautiful courtesan in the role of the Chinese warrior-hero Guan Yu. The central figure is shown seated at a low, red lacquer writing desk, her long, ink-black hair flowing over her shoulder as she examines a calligraphic scroll. She wears an exquisite layered kimono; the outer robe is a deep indigo decorated with white net patterns and golden floral motifs, while the inner layers reveal a striking crimson border. Standing behind her, an attendant in a striped brown and gold robe adjusts a garment hanging on a rack, while a small vase of cherry blossoms rests on the desk, adding a touch of seasonal "New Beauty" to the scholarly scene.
February 11, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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American poet Sylvia Plath died on this day 1963. Her grave is at Heptonstall, west Yorkshire.
February 11, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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Manchester Free Reference Library opened on this day 1878 in the old Town Hall, King Street. Demolished early 20th century, colonnade can still be seen in Heaton Park.
February 11, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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Cathedral of St Nicholas,
Newcastle, Tyne & Wear

“You can almost hear the music” 🎶🎶🎶

Choir stalls & misericords by cathedral architect R J Johnson & carved by Ralph Hadley -1882.

#Woodensday
#WoodcarvingWednesday
Carved wooden figures playing a harp & cymbals.
February 11, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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A wooden box (1610) decorated with a lion and a unicorn, animals associated with the arms of James VI & I, possibly a writing casket (Burrell Collection, Glasgow) #woodensday
February 11, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Stanley Rayfield (American, born 1987)
Potential, 2017
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
February 11, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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Enjoying the feeling of depth and peacefulness in this painting of the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, by US impressionist Daniel Garber ~ Tohickon (1920), Smithsonian American Art Museum
Forked tree in foreground, and a view across the river to a slightly misty, steep, verdant hillside with a few buildings
February 11, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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Still Life of Flowers in a Vase (1943-44) by British writer and artist Denton Welch (1915-1948)

Oil on panel

50 x 34 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
February 11, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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Reading through the Night (2025) by Ellen Fasthuber-Huemer.
Oil on canvas.
February 11, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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#BOTD 1941. Remembering Brazilian musician, composer, songwriter, arranger and bandleader Sérgio Mendes. (d.2024)
February 11, 2026 at 6:32 AM
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Book Cover of the Day:
Green cover with angel scattering poppies held in her gown, gold decoration and lettering, gold border. ‘Lullabies of Many Lands’
February 11, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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Daffodils, Edward H. Mitchell, 1981.
Painting of two daffodils against cream background.
February 11, 2026 at 7:07 AM
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Remembering Whitney Houston who left us #OTD 2012.
February 11, 2026 at 7:31 AM
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Margaret Olley (Australian painter) 1923 - 2011
Dresser In The Blue Kitchen, 1990
oil on board
75.0 x 59.5 cm.

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
February 11, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Good morning all! Rise and shine, it's breakfast time.

🎨Paolo Terdich - Prima Colazione

#art #food #cafetière
February 11, 2026 at 5:57 AM
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Welcome, new blueskiers, to a safer harbour.
Aerial photograph (my own) of the twin harbours of Mevagissey, Cornwall, UK. December 2023. The water is azure and a few fishing boats shelter in the outer harbour, smaller boats in the older inner harbour. A 19th century cast iron lighthouse marks the entrance.
January 11, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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Rare 1823 £1 bank note from Mevagissey Bank to be auctioned off

https://www.europesays.com/2729860/

The £1 note was issued in 1823 a year before the bank went bust in an era when…
Rare 1823 £1 bank note from Mevagissey Bank to be auctioned off - EUROPE SAYS
This rare 1823 £1 bank note from the Mevagissey Bank will be auctioned off by Stanley Gibbons Baldwin at its January 23, 2026 British & World Banknotes
www.europesays.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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Re-purposed and recycled glass artwork, by stained glass artist Alison Fox #womensart
A wooden window frame with image of a stylised tree inside created with different coloured and patterned circular pieces of glass
February 11, 2026 at 5:29 AM
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“Hieu, Congai of Phu-Vang” by Jean Despujols (French) - Oil / 1936–1938 - Meadows Museum of Art (Shreveport, Louisiana) #WomenInArt #MeadowsMuseumofArt #JeanDespujols #Despujols #PortraitofaGirl #VietnamArt #art #artText #artwork #arte #BlueskyArt #Portrait #FrenchArtist #MeadowsMuseum #AsianArt
Painted during 1936–1938, this portrait comes from French artist Jean Despujols’ time documenting life in French Indochina. It is shaped by the unequal structures of colonial travel and commissioning, but also by the artist’s insistence on close observation. The title keeps the sitter’s identity tethered to place (“congai” meaning “girl/daughter” in Vietnamese), suggesting a lived geography rather than an anonymous exoticism. Yet the most enduring “story” here is carried by her gaze that is direct, unembellished, and self-possessed. With no distracting props, she becomes the center of meaning with her presence, not the setting, doing the work. She is Hiếu (Hieu), a young Vietnamese woman sitting close to the picture plane against a quiet, warm beige background. Her posture is upright but relaxed, shoulders angled slightly as her head turns toward us. She has a warm medium-light brown complexion and dark brown eyes that meet us with a steady, searching calm. Her black hair is parted at the center and smoothed back into a low, tidy style. Small pearl-like stud earrings catch a pinprick of light. She wears a crisp white, high-collared top that fastens with dark buttons at the neck and shoulder. The fabric is painted with careful shifts of shadow that makes it feel cool and lightly starched. The lighting is soft and even, brightening the bridge of her nose and cheekbones while leaving gentle shadows beneath her chin and along the collar. Her lips are slightly parted, and the overall effect is intimate so it feels less a posed “type” than a person paused mid-thought. Collected by Algur H. Meadows and preserved within the founding Indochina holdings of the Meadows Museum of Art, the painting invites a double reading: as a record produced within its era’s power dynamics, and as a quietly resistant image of individual dignity that still asks us to carefully and ethically look back.
February 11, 2026 at 5:40 AM
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This Day in #History 1897
NY Times begins using its slogan:

(certainly not true anymore, if it ever was...)
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February 10, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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"All music is folk music; I ain't never heard no horse sing a song."

- Louis Armstrong
February 11, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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Sigmund Sinding (Norwegian,1875-1936)
"Interior with Reading Girl,"
Oil on plate
61 x 49 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
February 11, 2026 at 4:47 AM
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'The painter in a flower garden with his model, or 'Study from Nature,' by Marie Bracquemond, 1880
February 11, 2026 at 4:53 AM