Lynda ArtMystic
@artmystics.bsky.social
Art magicks, mystics and musings.
Intuitive mixed media paintings and art journals.
Intuitive mixed media paintings and art journals.
I am reawakening the socials like a hibiscus blooming in winter.
Before anyone tells me it is not winter. I live in Australia. And yes, the hibiscus blooms improbably.
Things GROW here in winter. Summer is the death season.
So I grow. I've been tending a THING. It is still in bud ... slow bloom 🌸
Before anyone tells me it is not winter. I live in Australia. And yes, the hibiscus blooms improbably.
Things GROW here in winter. Summer is the death season.
So I grow. I've been tending a THING. It is still in bud ... slow bloom 🌸
June 20, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I am reawakening the socials like a hibiscus blooming in winter.
Before anyone tells me it is not winter. I live in Australia. And yes, the hibiscus blooms improbably.
Things GROW here in winter. Summer is the death season.
So I grow. I've been tending a THING. It is still in bud ... slow bloom 🌸
Before anyone tells me it is not winter. I live in Australia. And yes, the hibiscus blooms improbably.
Things GROW here in winter. Summer is the death season.
So I grow. I've been tending a THING. It is still in bud ... slow bloom 🌸
Work in spiral progress. Tinkering a paintover, and my daughter "Why are you ruining my favourite painting?😡" ... so it spirals back to the old story ... and you can not step in the same river twice, but you can run upstream and catch a leaf. And she was right.
#intuitiveart #artyear #painting
#intuitiveart #artyear #painting
June 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Work in spiral progress. Tinkering a paintover, and my daughter "Why are you ruining my favourite painting?😡" ... so it spirals back to the old story ... and you can not step in the same river twice, but you can run upstream and catch a leaf. And she was right.
#intuitiveart #artyear #painting
#intuitiveart #artyear #painting
How to spell cacophony.
#artlesson
😅
Why is spelling so hard when lettering???
Finishing old art journals because I yearn for a sense of completion.
One day I hope someone will look at this and think - "how fascinating", and not "that's not how you spell cacophony".
#artjournal
#collage
#alteredbook
#artlesson
😅
Why is spelling so hard when lettering???
Finishing old art journals because I yearn for a sense of completion.
One day I hope someone will look at this and think - "how fascinating", and not "that's not how you spell cacophony".
#artjournal
#collage
#alteredbook
May 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
How to spell cacophony.
#artlesson
😅
Why is spelling so hard when lettering???
Finishing old art journals because I yearn for a sense of completion.
One day I hope someone will look at this and think - "how fascinating", and not "that's not how you spell cacophony".
#artjournal
#collage
#alteredbook
#artlesson
😅
Why is spelling so hard when lettering???
Finishing old art journals because I yearn for a sense of completion.
One day I hope someone will look at this and think - "how fascinating", and not "that's not how you spell cacophony".
#artjournal
#collage
#alteredbook
Finding quiet amidst the cacophony.
I finally found time for arting and fixed an #artjournal
spread that went awry ... in 2013.
There was so much cacophony, I couldn't spell cacophony.
Less cacophony now.
Amended my signature to just Lynda - no more family names claiming me in my #art.
#artyear
I finally found time for arting and fixed an #artjournal
spread that went awry ... in 2013.
There was so much cacophony, I couldn't spell cacophony.
Less cacophony now.
Amended my signature to just Lynda - no more family names claiming me in my #art.
#artyear
May 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Finding quiet amidst the cacophony.
I finally found time for arting and fixed an #artjournal
spread that went awry ... in 2013.
There was so much cacophony, I couldn't spell cacophony.
Less cacophony now.
Amended my signature to just Lynda - no more family names claiming me in my #art.
#artyear
I finally found time for arting and fixed an #artjournal
spread that went awry ... in 2013.
There was so much cacophony, I couldn't spell cacophony.
Less cacophony now.
Amended my signature to just Lynda - no more family names claiming me in my #art.
#artyear
I do not need any more books or picture frames, and yet ...
I have an obsession with velvet and the colour purple, so when I saw a $2 frame at the charity store with purple velvet 💜
Also, if the internet goes down, I have a library to keep me amused and educated for 100 years.
#books
#thrifting
I have an obsession with velvet and the colour purple, so when I saw a $2 frame at the charity store with purple velvet 💜
Also, if the internet goes down, I have a library to keep me amused and educated for 100 years.
#books
#thrifting
April 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I do not need any more books or picture frames, and yet ...
I have an obsession with velvet and the colour purple, so when I saw a $2 frame at the charity store with purple velvet 💜
Also, if the internet goes down, I have a library to keep me amused and educated for 100 years.
#books
#thrifting
I have an obsession with velvet and the colour purple, so when I saw a $2 frame at the charity store with purple velvet 💜
Also, if the internet goes down, I have a library to keep me amused and educated for 100 years.
#books
#thrifting
I've been avoiding painting, so last Sunday I went in my arty studio and said "you will paint". After about 5hrs of rearranging paint brushes and paints, browsing art books, starting up a painting class video, journaling about not painting, a nausea spinning panic attack ... painted. #artyear
April 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I've been avoiding painting, so last Sunday I went in my arty studio and said "you will paint". After about 5hrs of rearranging paint brushes and paints, browsing art books, starting up a painting class video, journaling about not painting, a nausea spinning panic attack ... painted. #artyear
Day 16 prompt Collage for #MakersmARTch
although it is actually the 17th here but 'Thimble'?
🤔🤷♀️ nothing
Collage - where to start?!
I love using collage when I feel stuck. From there it is #mixedmedia mayhem
#artyear
#artjournal
although it is actually the 17th here but 'Thimble'?
🤔🤷♀️ nothing
Collage - where to start?!
I love using collage when I feel stuck. From there it is #mixedmedia mayhem
#artyear
#artjournal
March 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Day 16 prompt Collage for #MakersmARTch
although it is actually the 17th here but 'Thimble'?
🤔🤷♀️ nothing
Collage - where to start?!
I love using collage when I feel stuck. From there it is #mixedmedia mayhem
#artyear
#artjournal
although it is actually the 17th here but 'Thimble'?
🤔🤷♀️ nothing
Collage - where to start?!
I love using collage when I feel stuck. From there it is #mixedmedia mayhem
#artyear
#artjournal
There is something delightfully decisive about #drawing directly in #ink. No erasure. It is what it is.
Day 12 Ink #MakersmARTch
#artyear
Day 12 Ink #MakersmARTch
#artyear
March 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
There is something delightfully decisive about #drawing directly in #ink. No erasure. It is what it is.
Day 12 Ink #MakersmARTch
#artyear
Day 12 Ink #MakersmARTch
#artyear
Work in progress intuitive painting.
This painting embodies sadness, which I feel a lot of when I ponder the state of the world.
#MakersMartch #painting
This painting embodies sadness, which I feel a lot of when I ponder the state of the world.
#MakersMartch #painting
March 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Work in progress intuitive painting.
This painting embodies sadness, which I feel a lot of when I ponder the state of the world.
#MakersMartch #painting
This painting embodies sadness, which I feel a lot of when I ponder the state of the world.
#MakersMartch #painting
Parked at the local train station recently and thought ... damn, when did the horses disappear?
When I grew up, everyone had a friend or a neighbour who owned a horse.
Just memories and old road signs now. Time marches on.
When I grew up, everyone had a friend or a neighbour who owned a horse.
Just memories and old road signs now. Time marches on.
March 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Parked at the local train station recently and thought ... damn, when did the horses disappear?
When I grew up, everyone had a friend or a neighbour who owned a horse.
Just memories and old road signs now. Time marches on.
When I grew up, everyone had a friend or a neighbour who owned a horse.
Just memories and old road signs now. Time marches on.
Day 6 of #MakersMartch
Glue ❤️
My favourite glue is gel medium. I love integrating #collage into my #art - words, texture, objects, images, colour, shape. Glue it down!
Many feathers because I live surrounded by flocks of birds that gift me feathers 🪶
#artjournal #artyear #alteredbooks
Glue ❤️
My favourite glue is gel medium. I love integrating #collage into my #art - words, texture, objects, images, colour, shape. Glue it down!
Many feathers because I live surrounded by flocks of birds that gift me feathers 🪶
#artjournal #artyear #alteredbooks
March 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Day 6 of #MakersMartch
Glue ❤️
My favourite glue is gel medium. I love integrating #collage into my #art - words, texture, objects, images, colour, shape. Glue it down!
Many feathers because I live surrounded by flocks of birds that gift me feathers 🪶
#artjournal #artyear #alteredbooks
Glue ❤️
My favourite glue is gel medium. I love integrating #collage into my #art - words, texture, objects, images, colour, shape. Glue it down!
Many feathers because I live surrounded by flocks of birds that gift me feathers 🪶
#artjournal #artyear #alteredbooks
I've been in denial that it is March, but here goes ... a combo deal of woven, button, bead, and soft ...
#artjournal cover
Most of my journals have stiff board covers layered in collage. Something different - a soft stitched cover! Not bound pages in yet.
#artjournal cover
Most of my journals have stiff board covers layered in collage. Something different - a soft stitched cover! Not bound pages in yet.
March 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I've been in denial that it is March, but here goes ... a combo deal of woven, button, bead, and soft ...
#artjournal cover
Most of my journals have stiff board covers layered in collage. Something different - a soft stitched cover! Not bound pages in yet.
#artjournal cover
Most of my journals have stiff board covers layered in collage. Something different - a soft stitched cover! Not bound pages in yet.
Quote repost with wings
Phoenix
Phoenix
March 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Quote repost with wings
Phoenix
Phoenix
Thinking on new beginnings, a fresh canvas or art journal, to start a personal journey, but there is unfinished business in old stories, so we spiral back. Incomplete journals and paintings wag fingers at us.
100 day project- to work on what we have abandoned, gathering up our parts.
#artjournal
100 day project- to work on what we have abandoned, gathering up our parts.
#artjournal
March 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Thinking on new beginnings, a fresh canvas or art journal, to start a personal journey, but there is unfinished business in old stories, so we spiral back. Incomplete journals and paintings wag fingers at us.
100 day project- to work on what we have abandoned, gathering up our parts.
#artjournal
100 day project- to work on what we have abandoned, gathering up our parts.
#artjournal
I've lost track of art challenge prompts - so something random from my arty vault. 💙
#artyear
#artshare
#artjournal
#painting
#artyear
#artshare
#artjournal
#painting
February 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I've lost track of art challenge prompts - so something random from my arty vault. 💙
#artyear
#artshare
#artjournal
#painting
#artyear
#artshare
#artjournal
#painting
More #februARTy magenta #artjournal
For anyone who has ever got tongue-tied telling a truth that proved far more complex and unbelieveable than a lie.
For anyone who has ever got tongue-tied telling a truth that proved far more complex and unbelieveable than a lie.
February 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
More #februARTy magenta #artjournal
For anyone who has ever got tongue-tied telling a truth that proved far more complex and unbelieveable than a lie.
For anyone who has ever got tongue-tied telling a truth that proved far more complex and unbelieveable than a lie.
February 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Recent arty play.
One of the many reasons I love creating art journals from old books is the magicks of using books as an oracle of wisdom words.
"The magic is assembled here
A deep wisdom about life
A work of art
And
Many hours of enchantment"
#ArtYear #artjournal #alteredbook #artwitchery
One of the many reasons I love creating art journals from old books is the magicks of using books as an oracle of wisdom words.
"The magic is assembled here
A deep wisdom about life
A work of art
And
Many hours of enchantment"
#ArtYear #artjournal #alteredbook #artwitchery
February 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Recent arty play.
One of the many reasons I love creating art journals from old books is the magicks of using books as an oracle of wisdom words.
"The magic is assembled here
A deep wisdom about life
A work of art
And
Many hours of enchantment"
#ArtYear #artjournal #alteredbook #artwitchery
One of the many reasons I love creating art journals from old books is the magicks of using books as an oracle of wisdom words.
"The magic is assembled here
A deep wisdom about life
A work of art
And
Many hours of enchantment"
#ArtYear #artjournal #alteredbook #artwitchery
"Rough" for Day 17 #FebruArty #sensoryart is a bare tree collaged from twigs in an altered book #artjournal.
February 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"Rough" for Day 17 #FebruArty #sensoryart is a bare tree collaged from twigs in an altered book #artjournal.
Affirming that I do indeed live in Australia ...
1. Walked past a cockatoo sitting on someone's bicycle handlebars in the middle of the city today
2. Jumped out of my skin at the sight of a huge kangaroo on my back lawn
3. My back lawn is crispy brown
Some rain would be nice.
1. Walked past a cockatoo sitting on someone's bicycle handlebars in the middle of the city today
2. Jumped out of my skin at the sight of a huge kangaroo on my back lawn
3. My back lawn is crispy brown
Some rain would be nice.
February 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Affirming that I do indeed live in Australia ...
1. Walked past a cockatoo sitting on someone's bicycle handlebars in the middle of the city today
2. Jumped out of my skin at the sight of a huge kangaroo on my back lawn
3. My back lawn is crispy brown
Some rain would be nice.
1. Walked past a cockatoo sitting on someone's bicycle handlebars in the middle of the city today
2. Jumped out of my skin at the sight of a huge kangaroo on my back lawn
3. My back lawn is crispy brown
Some rain would be nice.
Big and small #FebruARTy ... shared this one before but it fitted the theme so well.
#artjournal #art
#artjournal #art
February 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Big and small #FebruARTy ... shared this one before but it fitted the theme so well.
#artjournal #art
#artjournal #art
February 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A pair of birds for Day 14 #FebruArty ... before I ponder Day 15.
Intuitive watercolour art journal spread. Strange things fall out of my paintbrush when I paint without a plan.
Inner child mysteries.
#artjournal #watercolor #art
Intuitive watercolour art journal spread. Strange things fall out of my paintbrush when I paint without a plan.
Inner child mysteries.
#artjournal #watercolor #art
February 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
A pair of birds for Day 14 #FebruArty ... before I ponder Day 15.
Intuitive watercolour art journal spread. Strange things fall out of my paintbrush when I paint without a plan.
Inner child mysteries.
#artjournal #watercolor #art
Intuitive watercolour art journal spread. Strange things fall out of my paintbrush when I paint without a plan.
Inner child mysteries.
#artjournal #watercolor #art
Art miracle - I completed some art today - art journal page #museme
Magic words ...
"Fate and Magic
The Beautiful and The Ugly
The Teacher and the Fairy"
St Valentine snuck in a rose. 🎶 I can give myself flowers 🌹 🎶
#artjournal #alteredbook #artyear #art #faces #poetry #bskyart
Magic words ...
"Fate and Magic
The Beautiful and The Ugly
The Teacher and the Fairy"
St Valentine snuck in a rose. 🎶 I can give myself flowers 🌹 🎶
#artjournal #alteredbook #artyear #art #faces #poetry #bskyart
February 15, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Art miracle - I completed some art today - art journal page #museme
Magic words ...
"Fate and Magic
The Beautiful and The Ugly
The Teacher and the Fairy"
St Valentine snuck in a rose. 🎶 I can give myself flowers 🌹 🎶
#artjournal #alteredbook #artyear #art #faces #poetry #bskyart
Magic words ...
"Fate and Magic
The Beautiful and The Ugly
The Teacher and the Fairy"
St Valentine snuck in a rose. 🎶 I can give myself flowers 🌹 🎶
#artjournal #alteredbook #artyear #art #faces #poetry #bskyart
Day 12 of #FebruArty is orange.
Another found words art journal page -
transforming paint with words and words with paint. A poem emerges about itself ...
"Painters and writers
the hunting and
the zestful pursuit
transfigured and powerful"
#art #artjournal #poetry
Another found words art journal page -
transforming paint with words and words with paint. A poem emerges about itself ...
"Painters and writers
the hunting and
the zestful pursuit
transfigured and powerful"
#art #artjournal #poetry
February 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Day 12 of #FebruArty is orange.
Another found words art journal page -
transforming paint with words and words with paint. A poem emerges about itself ...
"Painters and writers
the hunting and
the zestful pursuit
transfigured and powerful"
#art #artjournal #poetry
Another found words art journal page -
transforming paint with words and words with paint. A poem emerges about itself ...
"Painters and writers
the hunting and
the zestful pursuit
transfigured and powerful"
#art #artjournal #poetry