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vickie.bird
@vickiebird.bsky.social
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Boston based artist. Occasional poet. Chronic illness warrior. Noisy & nervous. Empathic & odd. Drawn to shiny little objects, like a crow. Renowned recluse. Afraid of almost everything. World’s worst ukulele player.

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One Fat Fig. Oil on canvas.

#art #fineart #oilpainting #stilllife #fig #worksoncanvas #bskyart #blueskyartist #artistsonbluesky #womensart #womensartbluesky
Close up painting of one very chubby purplish-red fig, with bright yellow light behind it.
February 6, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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Sketchbook study of an eye. Mixed media.

#art #fineart #sketchbook #mixedmedia #bskyart #blueskyartist #artistsonbluesky #womensart #womensartbluesky
Close-up study of a green eye, with light reflected in the iris.
February 5, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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These bitter cold days when the snow lies deep on the ground, and I need travel but little way from the town to get to a Nova Zembla solitude.

Thoreau, journal entry.
10 January 1856
February 5, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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Loose sketch of a dead songbird (from a photo l'd taken earlier) drawn in a doctor's waiting room on the back of some paperwork they gave me. Ink and wash.

#art #fineart #sketch #inkandwash #songbird #deadbird #bskyart #blueskyartist #artistsonbluesky #womensart #womensartbluesky
Loose ink and wash sketch of a dead songbird on the back of a sheet of printed paper.
January 25, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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Running headlong into the storm.

Kodachrome slide, March 1963.

#winter #snowstorm #newengland #sleddogs #mushing #kodachrome
A kodachrome slide from 1963 shows a wintry scene of sled dogs mushing through a snowy landscape.
January 25, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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“It is not our job to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves
Like the trees, and be born again,
Drawing up from the great roots.”

Robert Bly. With gratitude to Whiskey River.

Vincent van Gogh, Trunk of an Old Yew Tree (1888), oil on canvas. Collection of Helly Nahmad Gallery, London, UK.
January 25, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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dianaf.bsky.social
the madman turns everything into shit.
January 19, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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ukulady.bsky.social
Bee at peace with the world. My personal antidote to doomscrolling. #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Sunflowers #Dailyflower
A sunflower fills the page and bees are doing their thing.
January 16, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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Sketchbook study of an eye. Grayscale. Mixed media.

#art #fineart #sketchbook #mixedmedia #bskyart #blueskyartist #artistsonbluesky #womensart #womensartbluesky
Close up grayscale study of an eye.
January 14, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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Sometimes I make art and sometimes I look at other people’s art.

#artist #artstudio #artgallery #oilpainting #landscape
A woman stands with her back to the camera as she looks at a large oil painting of a river scene.
January 14, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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Landscape with five cows | Piet Mondrian
January 14, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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Macro of butterfly wing- this one in a museum collection by Margaret Fountaine(1862-1940). The Fountaine-Neimy collection was left to Norwich Castle Museum when Margaret died.
Part of the wing of a butterfly showing iridescent scales.
January 12, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.

Jack Kerouac

Boy. Charcoal on paper. 10 x 8 inches.

#fineart #portrait #charcoal #worksonpaper #jackkerouac #womensart #bskyart
Charcoal portrait of a young teenage boy. He looks over his left shoulder at the viewer, sly smile on his lips, knit cap tilted at a jaunty angle.
January 6, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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These sudden ends of time must give us pause.
We fray into the future, rarely wrought
Save in the tapestries of afterthought.
More time, more time. Barrages of applause
Come muffled from a buried radio.
The New-year bells are wrangling with the snow.

Richard Wilbur, Year’s End (excerpt). 1948
December 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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thekentacorn.bsky.social
Dance like nobody's watching;
love like you've never been hurt;
sing like nobody's listening;
live like it's heaven on Earth
A curly oak
December 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Another bit of bright color on a (slightly less dreary) winter day. Still more apples from that particular point in time when I was painting a LOT of apples.

Three Apples II. Oil on canvas.

#stillife #oilpainting #fruit #apples #greenapples #womensart #bskyart
A contemporary oil painting of three vividly colored green apples, bunched together in an extreme close-up on a square canvas. One apple is barely visible, but all three sit in dramatic light, throwing long shadows.
December 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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shuddering winds, a
grim sky and cruelly cold,
but my heart is snug.

Me, this evening.

Drone photo taken over the woods behind our house.

#haiku #dailyhaiku #micropoetry #winter
An aerial photo of snow covered trees and a stream of frozen water.
December 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of bright color on a dreary winter day. I painted this during an all-consuming apple phase I was going through at the time.

Three Apples I. Oil on canvas.

#stilllife #oilpainting #fruit #apples #greenapples #womensart #bskyart
A contemporary oil painting of three vividly colored green apples, bunched together in an extreme close-up on a square canvas.
December 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
vickiebird.bsky.social
melancholy heart,
not quite healed from losing you,
sad, but not as sad.

Me, recently.

#haiku #dailyhaiku #micropoetry #death #loss #pain #cairn #grave #dog #dogs
A cairn built upon the grave of my beloved old dog who recently passed away. The last of my two boys to leave me. Come spring there will be a carpet of flowering ground cover planted around this sweet boy. A cairn built upon the grave of a beloved old dog who passed away. The first of my two sweet old men to leave us. Come spring there will be a carpet of flowering ground cover planted around this dear boy.
December 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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It’s an absolutely beautiful foggy Fall morning.

#fall #nature #fog #leaves #trees
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Hari Ren
October 18, 2025 at 4:43 AM
vickiebird.bsky.social
Overhelmed by everything everywhere. And not in a good way.
October 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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wee little seamstress
length of fabric, colored thread
tiny stitches sewn.

#haiku #dailyhaiku #micropoetry

Spools of thread on an old fabric tag. Mixed media.

#mixedmedia #foundmaterialsart #worksonpaper #womensart #bskyart
Three old wooden spools of black thread, painted on a crumpled tag from a bolt of fabric. Mixed media (paint, pastel, india ink, pencil).
August 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Understand me.
I'm not like an ordinary world.
I have my madness,
I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

Charles Bukowski

Abbott Handerson Thayer, Seated Angel (detail). Oil on wood, begun 1899, completed 1921. Photo taken Hartford, Connecticut, May 2018.
Oil painting of a serious young woman, with rosy cheeks and blue eyes, in a ruffled white dress. She has a golden halo and large wings sprouting from her shoulder blades.
August 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Death. Little dogs. Dark chocolate.
August 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM