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Isabel Caves
@isabelcaves.bsky.social
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Writer, poet, and serial daydreamer. Author of Strange Beings and Witch Doctors Inc. Hobbyist photographer, graphic designer and digital artist.

(No AI in my work)

Blog: https://isabelcaves.wordpress.com/
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Isabel Caves @isabelcaves.bsky.social · Nov 18
I'm a fiction writer, poet, photographer and digital artist who's here on BlueSky for creative vibes and genuine interaction. I'm looking for creative mutuals to share and discuss art with (all kinds). I don't do DMS, but I'm always happy to have a conversation in the comments section.
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Anyone else on Flickr? I joined a few days ago. Thought it would be a good way to organise my favourite shots.

#photography #EastCoastKin #photographers #photographersofbluesky #flickr #albums

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December 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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~ Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set
And blew. "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came." ~

- Robert Browning

📸 by me

#ImageandVerse #EastCoastKin #photography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #abstractphotography #depthoffield #Canon #moody
Gold, pale blue and red bokeh in a misty black setting.
December 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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This #holiday season I've been experimenting with Christmas decorations and ICM. This little ballerina was made to be hung from an Xmas tree, but I turned her into Sailor Moon instead 😉

#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #icm #photography #creativephotography #abstractphotography #Christmas
isabelcaves.bsky.social Isabel Caves @isabelcaves.bsky.social · 9d
Sailor Moon, is that you?!! Took this ICM shot yesterday, and it reminds me of something from a magical girl anime. As usual, no edit.

#photography #EastCoastKin #icm #icmphotography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #macro #ballerina #ballet #anime #abstractart #sailormoon
A ballerina figurine poses with her body leaning down backwards to the left, with her arms outstretched. The background is black. ICM adds streaks and artistic blur to the photo.
December 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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There is zero focus in this bokeh-scape.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZforZero #EastCoastKin #scape #photography #bokeh #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #flashphotography #abstractart #creativephotography #colorful #colourful #onlybeautifulthings #tinsel
Bokeh in bright light green, medium pink, sunshine yellow and light blue. This is a shot of tinsel-like craft sticks taken with a defocused macro lens and in-camera flash.
December 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Sailor Moon, is that you?!! Took this ICM shot yesterday, and it reminds me of something from a magical girl anime. As usual, no edit.

#photography #EastCoastKin #icm #icmphotography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #macro #ballerina #ballet #anime #abstractart #sailormoon
A ballerina figurine poses with her body leaning down backwards to the left, with her arms outstretched. The background is black. ICM adds streaks and artistic blur to the photo.
December 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Creativity is in my blood. I'm anaemic without it.

My latest blog post is up 👇

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#EastCoastKin #blogs #photographers #writingcommunity #artistsofbluesky #creativity #digitalart #bloggers #madness

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Creativity is an Awesome Kind of Madness
How are you creative? Oh my god. Did y’all make this question just for me? Creativity is what I live on. It’s invigorating, intoxicating, energizing. It’s a galaxy exploding and s…
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December 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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When I died, no one mourned me. Anyone can order an AI replacement. The streets hum with metallic lookalikes. They #shoot hoops and eat pizza, just like we did. We haunt the cemetery, we souls who no one cries for. Here, at least, humanity survives.

#vss365 #writesky #writingcommunity #fiction
December 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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"Unsure". Digital watercolour.

Uncertainty is a "negative" experience, but I marvel at its existence all the same. This concept bleeds into much of my art.

#ArtAdventCalendar #EastCoastKin #art #digitalart #watercolor #abstractart #artsky #artyear #Procreate #watercolour #artistsofbluesky
Soft vertical curves of paint in light green, pink, blue, purple and yellow. The use of watercolour and light colours gives the painting a soft glowing feel. A few faint dark purple bubbles embellish the scene.
December 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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It's been an interesting and exciting year for #photography. I've experimented with many techniques and subjects. I have many more ideas, and can't wait to try them out in the year to come.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYearPast #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #macrophotography #photographersunited
A drop of water clings to a flower stalk in the evening light. In the background are the silhouettes of other flowers and their stalks.
December 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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I enjoy painting with my camera. This is an abstract photograph I took this year, using the little blooms in my backyard. Completely unedited (details in Alt)

#ArtAdventCalendar #photography #EastCoastKin #abstractart #photographersofbluesky #flowers #photographersunited #nature #macro
An abstract photograph of Coreopsis grandiflora flowers (yellow-tinged red petals) against a bright blaze of light. The photo was taken by deliberately defocusing a macro lens, giving the resulting shot the look of a watercolour or gouache painting.
December 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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I missed a few days of #ArtAdventCalendar... but here's a digital charcoal painting for today. I call this one "Falling". Painted in Procreate.

#EastCoastKin #art #digitalart #painting #charcoal #Procreate #abstractart #colorful #artyear #artsky #originalart
A digital charcoal painting showing three abstract angel -like figures against a background of colourful brushstrokes. One figure is falling, another looks like it's either falling or reaching down to bless the first figure, and a third watches on from the side.
December 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Love the gentle magic of this 🌈
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 17
A snowy owl from Patreon a few months ago when I was craving winter now its winterish and I'm craving sun so what you gonna do
digital art of a snowy owl in a bright wintery landscape
December 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Wonderful and eclectic 🌟
hravn.bsky.social Hravn @hravn.bsky.social · 18d
Reposting this odd collage of sorts from 7 months ago for Day 17 of #ArtAdventCalendar and #WackyWednesdayArt
I had combined several days of prompts together 😆 #procreate #EastCoastKin
A drawing of plants on sand dunes. A dinosaur stands with a giant moth on its back. The ocean meets the sky on the horizon and on the top right is a sunflower sun. Circles show a dike sheep (standing on a dike), a seahorse, and a moth. Bottle with message in the foreground with Hravn written on the note inside.
December 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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I defeated my mortal enemy. I finished writing a novel. Then I wrote a blog post about it 👇

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#writingcommunity #writesky #writersofbluesky #fantasybooks #procrastination #Wattpad #blogs #writerslife

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My mortal enemy has been defeated. Victory is mine.
Is your life today what you pictured a year ago? Yes, it is! I know, I know…that’s a boring answer. But my biggest goal for the year was to finish my YA dark fantasy series on Wattpad, …
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December 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Painting in Procreate is one of my favourite things to do! I painted this funky fish today, just because I can 🩷

#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #FavoriteThings #ArtAdventCalendar #artsky #artyear #fish #artistsofbluesky #Procreate #art #digitalart
A ghostly gouache fish with multicolored dots embellishing its flowing tail. The background is purple-blue.
December 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Water drops and flowers are two of my favourite things to photograph!

#BlueSkyArtShow #FavoriteThings #ArtAdventCalendar #EastCoastKin #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #nature #macrophotography #thephotohour #photographersunited #photographersofbluesky #onlybeautifulthings
A warerdrop hangs from a red and yellow petal. In the background is a blur of golden summer evening light. The scene is reflected upside down in the water drop.
December 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Christmas is almost upon us! I hope everyone's having a wonderful holiday season. Here is some Christmas photography to add to the mood.

#ArtAdventCalendar #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas #photography #EastCoastKin #macrophotography #MerryChristmas #Christmas
A glittery deep blue Christmas bauble rests in a pile of gold tinsel. The tinsel is highlighted with specks of light.
December 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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"The Future Arrives"

Sometimes I wonder what the future will bring. Other times, I'm glad I don't know 😂

Handpainted digital gouache + light pen (stars) + patterned overlays (checkers, polka dots).

#ArtAdventCalendar #EastCoastKin #art #digitalart #abstractart #artsky #artyear #smArtist
A girl with blonde hair and a blue cat face away from the viewer so only the backs of their heads can be seen. They watch an eclectic rainbowed sky.
December 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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An illicit flash of colour in her otherwise grey day. She blinks. It's gone, as soon as it came. Then - again. What was causing it? She scans the park for the cause of this happiness. Finds it peeking out of a discarded Christmas stocking. She names him Albert. He looks like an Albert.

#vss365
December 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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An abstract photograph of a Christmas tree bauble and tinsel. It reminds me of a strange planet.

#Alphabetchallenge #WeekXforXmas #photography #macrophotography #abstract #Christmas #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #bokeh
A blue sphere on the right, with white bokeh taking up the left of the photo.
December 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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"Mother"

A digital watercolour pour painting I made in Procreate recently.

#ArtAdventCalendar #EastCoastKin #art #artyear #artsky #watercolor #fluidart #digitalart #abstractart #artistsofbluesky #painting #motherhood
A pour of digital watercolour in shades of blue, purple and yellow, is at the bottom if the image. It rises up to form two figures looking at each other, one taller than the other.
December 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Bewitched berries on blue trees. Moons melting into their nights. Birds like sentinels, guarding the trees. Ever since I glimpsed the Other Place, I've wanted to return there. At night it watches me with tin-man eyes. And I know it wants me too.

#vss365
December 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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~ Blessed are the gypsies, the makers of music, the artists, writers, dreamers of dreams, wanderers and vagabonds, children and misfits: For they teach us to see the world through beautiful eyes ~

- Unknown

👇New blog post 👇

#quotes #quoteoftheday #blogs

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Blessed are the Gypsies
What is something others do that sparks your admiration? They create things! Paintings, books, poems, photos, TV shows, podcasts… I admire the creativity that goes into these things, the driv…
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December 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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I found this dahlia reflection hiding in a water drop while I was in the backyard gardening in Jan 2025. A lucky find indeed.

#ArtAdventCalendar #EastCoastKin #photography #flowers #flowerphotography #macrophotography #bloomscrolling #onlybeautifulthings #thephotohour #photographersunited
A water drop hangs from a pink dahlia petal. Reflected in the drop is a pink dahlia flower. The background is an abstraction of pink petals.
December 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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New blog post is up! I talk about failing and succeeding with art. If you have a second or two, it's free to read 👇

#blogs #WordPress #art #digitalart #EastCoastKin #artistsofbluesky #bloggers #artsky

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If at first you don’t succeed, fail,fail,fail again (then succeed)
What could you do less of? I could do less of failing. I just don’t enjoy it very much. Thing is, it keeps happening. And every time it does, I write myself off as hopeless. If I don’t …
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December 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM