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#CampFire survivor, gardener, doodler, meditator, psychonaut. Politically progressive, philosophically Stoic, perennially grateful.
~Amor Fati
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smileycreek @smileycreek.bsky.social · Dec 7
Sharing a bit of doodle art for
#ArtAdventCalendar #doodle
Doodle art with path to the sun
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A black #pen and #ink #doodle with two non-human beings creating with the fabric of their universe, containing stars, stardust, spirals, and spheres.
#Inktober #BlueSkyArt
#DoodleArt
#BlueSkyArt
Pen and ink doodle of two non-human beings rearing their universe their universe using stars, spirals, stardust and globes.
October 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Poke berry bouquet from a volunteer garden plant, the humble pokeweed, aka Phytolacca Americana.

Don’t “poke” the bear!
#photography
#BlueSkyArtShow
#weeds
Bouquet of purple pokeweed berries on hot pink stems
October 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Gravillea flowers from my garden , about the size of my thumbnail
#NatureIsArt #flowers #ArtYear #iPhonePhotography #spirals
#BeautyIsEverywhere
Close-up photo of tiny Gravillea flowers in my garden with spiral shapes and fuzzy tendrils
September 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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It had to be #blue 🎶

First attempt at a hand drawn #mandala doodle. Pleased with all the little imperfections.

#BlueSkyMonday
#doodle
Hand drawn mandala doodle in shades of blue.
August 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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In #gratitude for #summer flowers
#blueSkyArtShow
#doodles
#sunflower
Bright summers flowers doodled in ink and gel pens including orange and yellow sunflower, tiger lily and blanket flower with blue droplets and background.
August 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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#doodle drawn in #sketchbook with #ink and #coloredmarkers, inspired by #ShadowWork. A much older and wiser self wraps an innocent younger self in a purple cloak of love and protection, surrounded by symbols of growth and resilience.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#triskelion
#FiveBuddhaEyes
#doodleart
Two female figures inspired by shadow work are doodled in colored markers. A wise older self wraps a younger self in a purple cloak covered in symbols of female strength and resilience against the backdrop of an orange moon.
July 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Playing with colored marking pens lately for more #vibrant #doodles.
#BlueSkyArtShow
Feather-like swirls of color doodled with marking pens, ranging from blue to green to yellow to orange.
June 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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My husband may be red/green #colorblind, but he somehow has a comprehensive understanding of color. I asked him to choose the colored markers to fill in my #ink #doodle and he picked these shades of #green.
(Our first collaboration!)
#BlueSkyArtShow
My “colorblind” husband chose the perfectly coordinated shades of green for this ink doodle of abstract shapes radiating out from a central core.
May 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Your Moment of Zen with Smiley Creek tumbling over lava cap. We cleared the creek yesterday to prep the property for sale. #Paradise continues to recover from the #CampFire, evidenced by the regrowth of the #WaterMaples. I’ll miss the musical sounds of the #creek.
April 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Caught in the act
Spring is sexy

#photography #nature #bloomscrolling #bees #flowers #pollination
A pollen-coated bee burrows deep into a Weigela flower.
April 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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A man strapped a giant stuffed penguin to his back at the local #HandsOff #protest with a sign reading “Don’t tariff me Bro!”

Amazing turnout, big energy. Let’s keep it up!
A man at a Hands Off progest strapped a giant stuffed penguin on his back with a sign that reads “Don’t tariff me Bro!”
April 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Don’t we all need a lift today? I’m grateful for #acoloradAyPRIL and offer a combined #orange for yesterday and #yellow for today. Still playing with using color to my #doodles.

Black #ink with colored markers.
Doodle with ink and colored markers showing a yellow orb with white streamers and little yellow and orange stones spreading outwards.
April 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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A black ink doodle of various human, animal, and alien faces for today’s #makersmARTch and #draw prompts.
Black ink doodle of imaginary human, animal and alien faces.
March 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I made my first birthday card for a friend from a #doodle done in blue #ink with a tiny sea snail, whose spiral shell represents spiritual progress.
#MakersMartch
#doodleart
Doodle of kelp and a tiny sea snail,whose spiral shell represents spiritual progress, drawn in blue ink with a blue border and made into a birthday card.
March 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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#FebruARTy #orange #mushrooms #fungi #photography

Chicken of the Woods mushrooms that grew on an old oak tree in Paradise. They’re said to be edible, but I never ed ‘em!
Bright orange and yellow striped Chicken of the Woods mushrooms that came back every year at the base of an old dying oak tree.
February 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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#FebruArty #eyes #doodle
Doodle of the sun with lightning eyes.
Black ink doodle of a sun with variously patterned rays and lightning for irises.
February 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Just got my new canvas print! Seashore Dreams by @juleezart.bsky.social

Love the brilliant colors.
To me it represents the ever-flowing cycle of the five elements.
#art #painting #artsky
Seashore Dreams, painted by juleezart.bsky.social The elements of water, wood, earth, wind, and fire are evoked in this 26x26” stunningly colorful abstract canvas print.
February 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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#JanuArty Day 30 #green With thanks to zeldalin.bsky.social who suggested coloring in my doodles. Here’s my first attempt with marking pens.
Doodle with green petals surrounding a red heart. Black ink and colored markers.
January 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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#JanuArty Day 27 #red

Hoodoo-condos made from the little red rocks and pebbles we found while swimming in the Feather River canyon.
Photograph of small pink and reddish rocks built into hoodoo condominiums at the Feather River.
January 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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#JanuArty Day 26 Broken

Broken kitchen crockery amidst the ash and debris after the #CampFire. I’ve saved the colorful bits in hopes of making a mosaic some day.
Broken bits of kitchen dishes and crockery after the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise Ca.
January 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Instead of doom scrolling I now spend mornings soaking up art and wonderment.
#JanuArty #art
lorraineturnerart.bsky.social Lorraine Turner calicohorses @lorraineturnerart.bsky.social · Dec 2
Meditation brought me this image of the Calico Horses of the Calico mountains in Nevada. #textileillustration #art @bsky.app
January 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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#JanuArty Day 22 Monochrome #doodle

Doodling repetitive patterns calms my mind during troubled times. Drawn on election night 2024 as my hopes faded.
Black ink bouquet of doodled flowers in a repetitive pattern from election night 2024.
January 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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#JanuArty Day 20 Primary

Photo from inside a seafood restaurant in Ajijic, Mexico, a town washed in primary colors and with street art everywhere.
Artwork in primary colors displayed in a seafood restaurant in Ajijic, Mexico.
January 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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I’ve been considering my role in the next 4 years of chaos and upheaval, and this speaks clearly to my path.

We will need healers and warriors, both.
dovetail-ink.bsky.social Monica Welch @dovetail-ink.bsky.social · Jan 18
#JanuArty Day 18: Yellow

Drew this in 2013. Still timely. Let's love/take care of ALL our neighbors. 💛

"There can be no perfect virtue, none that bears fruit, unless it be executed by means of our neighbors."
--St Catherine of Siena, mid-1300s

(Prints/cards: dovetailink.etsy.com/listing/2085...)
Contemporary drawing with two overlapping hands, one reaching down from the left and one reaching up from the right. Upper hand is decorated with a central heart, sun, rain, flowers and grass. Lower hand has central earth, stars, houses, desert - it is more full of life at the top, and the wrist is more desert-like. The areas where the fingers overlap are filled with tiny red hearts. The background is bright yellow, and along the top and bottom and along the hands is hand-lettered text in a curly style, where the O's and dots of the i's are red hearts. The text is: "There can be no perfect virtue, none that bears fruit, unless it be executed by means of our neighbors. Saint Catherine of Siena"
January 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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#JanuArty #animal #AluminArt

AluminArt is what we dubbed the shapes of metals that melted in the #CampFire.

This is my Camp Fire Critter, with its little unicorn-like horn.
Aluminum that melted during the Camp Fire forms a whimsical creature with a unicorn-like spike on its head.
January 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM