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Kae
@thesilentstars.bsky.social
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🎨 painting sky things and sea things with watercolors
💙 making cyanotypes when there's sun
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I made some cyanotypes for Everything Is Tuberculosis! @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social wrote a beautiful book about a terrible thing!

It's a bestseller already, and I hope that means more people read it and remember that our future hasn't been finalized.

#EITB #Cyanotype #Art @bsky.art 🎨
A dark blue background with the silhouettes of gingko leaves and a fern and the words 'we can choose a different world' in white letters. A medium blue background with the silhouettes of the same gingko leaves and some other plants with the words 'this is the middle of the story' in white letters. I don't think this quote is actually in the book but John has been saying a version of it on the book tour.
March 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Here's the last of the sea cyanotypes - this one is a line from a weird little trad song called "Brian O Lynn".

Most versions don't have this specific lyric, but I've been listening to Gadan's version and I liked it!

#Art #Cyanotype #Cyanotypes #NatureArt 🎨 @bsky.art
A dark blue background with the silhouettes of plants and bubbles and the words 'we'll go home with the current' in white letters with shadows behind them.
March 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Here's the fourth of the sea cyanotypes - this is a line from the song Paddy West, which is a trad tune about lying on your resume.

I've been listening to the version by @thelongestjohns.bsky.social a lot and I wanted to make it into art!

#Art #Cyanotype #Cyanotypes #NatureArt 🎨 @bsky.art
A dark blue background with the silhouettes of plants and blobs of bubbles and the words 'if they ever ask were you ever at sea you can say you've crossed the line' in white letters.
March 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Here's the second of the sea cyanotypes - this one is a line from the book Turtles All The Way Down by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social !

#Art #Cyanotype #Cyanotypes #NatureArt #DFTBA #Nerdfighter 🎨 @bsky.art
A dark blue background with silhouettes of plants and the words 'and you go on too, when the current is with you and when it isn't' in white letters.
March 4, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Here's the second of the sea cyanotypes - this one is from the song Man On The Moon by Kingfishr!

The bubbles kind of turned into splotches, but I think it looks interesting anyway!

#Art #Cyanotype #Cyanotypes #NatureArt 🎨
A dark blue background with imprints of plants and bubbles and the lyrics 'those tides just kept on rising' in white.
February 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Here's the first of a little series of cyanotypes with watery lyrics!

This is a line from the song Bright Sadness by @sleepingatlast.com

Next month I'll have been listening to SAL for 21 years (!!!) and his music makes me want to make stuff

#Art #Cyanotype #NatureArt #LyricArt @bsky.art 🎨
A dark blue background with the silhouettes of a fern and an evergreen branch with the lyrics 'we return to the ocean one more time' in white letters.
February 21, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Today is the beginning of the @projectforawesome.bsky.social , one of my favorite times of the year! I donated art for the first time, so people that get the art perk might end up with one of my cyanotypes!

#P4A2025 #Cyanotype #Cyanotypes #Art #ProjectForAwesome 🎨
Three cyanotypes sitting on a minty green background, all with the silhouettes of plants on them. The first says 'the light-soaked days are coming', the second says 'DFTBA', and the third says 'we're here because we're here'.
February 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Here's the last of the heart planets!

#Art #Painting #Watercolor #Watercolors #SpaceArt @bsky.art 🎨
A round watercolor painting with red on one side and pink on the other. The separation line between them sort of looks like a puzzle piece to connect them together, and there's a pale heart on the pink side.
February 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Here's another of the heart planets I'm posting leading up to Valentine's Day (even though I'm not a Valentine's person)!

#Art #Painting #Watercolor #Watercolors #SpaceArt @bsky.art 🎨
A round watercolor painting with different shades of orange and the outline of a heart near the bottom.
February 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Here's the third of a few heart planets I'm posting leading up to Valentine's Day even though I'm not a Valentine's person!

#Art #Painting #Watercolor #Watercolors #SpaceArt @bsky.art 🎨
A round watercolor painting with different shades of purple blending into each other, some flecks of dark purple, and a pale heart near the top.
February 9, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Here's the second of a few heart planets I painted!

#Art #Painting #Watercolor #Watercolors #SpaceArt @bsky.art 🎨
A round watercolor painting with different shades of blue blending into each other and a little pale blue heart near the bottom.
February 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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I'm not a Valentine's Day person but I love a little heart! This is the first of a few heart planets I painted 💚

#Art #Painting #Watercolor #Watercolors #SpaceArt @bsky.art
A circle of green watercolors with a dark blue vaguely heart shape on the left side
February 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Here's another cyanotype before I switch back to posting some watercolors!

The sun is still so low in the sky that it makes a shadow and it distorts things (like the sun / moon in the corner) so it's always interesting to see how they turn out!

#Art #Artist #Cyanotype #NatureArt 🎨
A dark blue background with the silhouette of a plant, some parts brighter than others, and a little roundish shape in the corner.
January 31, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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I'm still working on figuring out the timing of when to move things so the first layer shows up enough, and this one turned out kinda cool!

(I've been slacking on posting here - there are just so many things going on that my brain ran out of space!)

#Art #Cyanotype #Cyanotypes 🎨
A dark blue background with the silhouettes of two ferns, each with some faint areas and some brighter white areas.
January 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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At some point I'll try to post things in a series but for now it's gonna be a little chaotic, so here's another cyanotype! This one kinda looks a little spooky but I really like how it turned out! It's like a weird little alien landscape

#Art #Cyanotype #NatureArt @bsky.art
a dark blue background with a little outline of a circle that kind of looks like a moon above wispy grasses branching out towards it
November 22, 2024 at 3:29 AM
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If the last planet wasn't your style then here's another one you can hang out on to escape Earth

#Art #Watercolors #SpaceArt @bsky.art 🎨
a round watercolor painting with shade of pink and purple blending into each other and a splotch of light pink fanning out in the middle
November 21, 2024 at 3:22 AM
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hi I made you a planet in case you're tired of living on this one

#Art #Watercolors #SpaceArt
a round watercolor painting with different shades of browns blending into each other and small crater-like spots dotted around
November 20, 2024 at 3:17 AM
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I learned how to make cyanotypes this summer and I got totally smitten! This one was made with leaves, dish soap bubbles, and cinnamon

#Art #NatureArt #Cyanotype @bsky.art 🎨
a background with different shades of dark blue and the pale blue imprints of leaves with some little light spots made from bubbles and cinnamon
November 19, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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Hello! I made this account months ago and then didn't use it, but now it's time! I paint sky and sea things and I got into cyanotypes this summer! Here's an ocean for you!

#Art #Watercolors @bsky.art 🎨
a watercolor painting with visible brush strokes that start out lighter at the top and get darker near the bottom
November 18, 2024 at 3:24 AM