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Eli~The Craft Roam
@eliharlan.bsky.social
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Sharing bsky art joy daily🍇 mixed media 🩷 art journaling ⭐ zentangle czt 💦 travel ✳️ thrifting ⚜️ LGBTQ+ally ☮️ retired in France 🇫🇷 nearly always waiting for paint to dry...
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eliharlan.bsky.social
Santa?
Put this on my list!
(pleeeeeeeease)
#repost3aday #supportartists #shopsmall #acrylicart #paint #sparkly #shiny #gifts #santaslist #handmade #artjournal #yesplease #onlybeautifulthings
kiridescence.bsky.social Kiridescence @kiridescence.bsky.social · 11d
New sampler gift set has all 6 colors of Peek-A-Hue™ special effects color shift paints & acrylic inks.enjoy the ✨ Find it at the link in my bio #acrylicpainting #art #painting #crafts #color #colorful #colortheory #handpainted #multichrome #colorshift #iridescent #opal #craftsky #giftideas
December 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
eliharlan.bsky.social
It was a pleasure to visit the reconstructed Notre Dame. I created this #artjournal entry to feature my sketch, surrounded by collage, photos, and inks.
#Artadventcalendar #mixedmedia #mixedmediaart #photos #journaling #sketch #ink #draw #doodle #Paris #notredame #onlybeautifulthings
Art journal spread with a background collaged with papers in neutral tones. The focal image is my hand-drawn illustration of Notre Dame's facade. 4 photos are on the spread that were taken inside. The design is enhanced by ink, decorative papers and journaling.
December 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
eliharlan.bsky.social
The feels of this cat... LOL
#repost3aday #supportartists #shopsmall #mixedmedia #mixedmediaart #red #black #turquoise #cat #expressive #onlybeautifulthings
riisgriffen.bsky.social Riis Griffen @riisgriffen.bsky.social · 2d
Very happy the #ArtAdventCalendar is happening again!

Steven
Mixed media on 11 x 14” canvas
2024
Available
#art #painting #artist #ArtLover #CatLover #CatArt #ArtYear #Creativity #PdxArt #BskyArt #ArtOnBluesky #BskyArtists
Mixed media painting of an abstract cat painted in black and teal. The cat has a long tail and a mischievous expression.
December 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
eliharlan.bsky.social
Dramatic and I love it!!!
#repost3aday #supportartists #illustration #poetry #moon #cat #stars #forest #tree #blackcat #onlybeautifulthings
may-lillie.bsky.social Coffee Daily 🌷🌱☕👁️‍🗨️🀄📸 @may-lillie.bsky.social · 23h
THE cat went here and there. And the Moon spun round like a top. And the nearest kin of the Moon, the creeping cat, looked up. #Caturday #Night
Cat looking at Full Moon Photo by <a href="https://stockcake.com/i/moonlit-cat-silhouette_1360302_804861">Stockcake</a>
December 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
eliharlan.bsky.social
One of my happy places!! Beautifully done!
#repost3aday #supportartists #mixedmedia #watercolor #watercolour #ink #seaside #blue #yellow #green #sailboat #onlybeautifulthings
larrysart.bsky.social larrysart.bsky.social @larrysart.bsky.social · 2d
Yellow Therapy Chairs, 12/4/2025.

Watercolor and ink.
December 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
eliharlan.bsky.social
Art journal spread... Thoroughly enjoyed the process of creating this wild garden of delight!
#artadventcalendar #artjournal #artyear #artsky #eomensary #mixedmedia #acrylicart #collage #expressive #flowers #grass #purple #pink #yellowochre #green #onlybeautifulthings
Art journal page featuring mixed media harden with pink- purple flowers, green leaves and grass, yellow buds. The garden was painted over collaged and white gesso.
December 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
eliharlan.bsky.social
Process over product! & look how beautiful!
#repost3aday #supportartists #abstract #makeartthatmakesyouhappy #flow #losetrackoftime #enjoytheprocess #createdaily #onlybeautifulthings
moss-demon.bsky.social Krista A. Leemhuis 🎨 @moss-demon.bsky.social · 2d
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 4
“Light in the Darkness”

Nice to roll abstract just to Feel and be expressive and focus on rhythm and composition and less on specifics. It’s freeing.

Also helpful for getting a feel for brushes in #procreate :)

Painted by a human. 💚

#abstractart #digitalpainting
An abstract painting in black on yellow of swirls of black overlapping swirls of yellow, with some scale- or petal-like textures that seem to emerge from the swirls of each color. It feels like energy and struggle and whirlpools and smoke and strife, but also life and freedom. (To me.) (You feel what you feel!)
December 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
eliharlan.bsky.social
First glance?
I thought it was a painting...
nope...

QUILT!
Amazeballs!

And such a profound gift.
#repost3aday #supportartists #quilt #paperpiecing #catsonquilts #blue #yellow #green #gray #artquilt #sewing #fabric #fiberarts #handmade #gift #decor #humanart #onlybeautifulthings
nicolecowie.bsky.social Nicole Cowie 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦🪡 @nicolecowie.bsky.social · 2d
#ArtAdventCalendar 4
Wall quilt 22”x24”
Foundation paper piecing. Made for my dad’s wife soon after he had passed this Spring. I combined elements of two patterns and made the cat to look like her beloved cat, ItsyBitsy whom has since passed as well. ❤️
Quilt is the image of a dark brown and back cat sitting on a ledge beside a row of three small potted plants. Sharp green leaves and stems in varying greens and purples, in white pots with colourful prints. The two tiered ledge spans the width of the bottom. Top layer is being on top of a grey concrete coloured ledge. Cat is looking off to the left at a small orange butterfly in the darkish blue sky with appearance of small light clouds. On the top right quarter, the quilting creates the outline of a sun and gently waving beams radiating out.
December 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
eliharlan.bsky.social
This the season, indeed!
#repost3aday #supportartists #christmas #holidays #christmastree #ornaments #decorations #artyear #illustration #onlybeautifulthings
December 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
eliharlan.bsky.social
Fête des Lumiere! Dress rehearsal night. #holiday #Lyon #onlylyon #placedesterraux #lightshow #christmas #lights #fetdeslumieres #celebrate #food #ravioli #broccoli #tomato #fdl2025 #onlybeautifulthings
December 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
eliharlan.bsky.social
Love me some mixed media!!! Fabulous colors for a moody storm.
#repost3aday #supportartists #artonpaper #mixedmediaart #paint #acrylicart #collage #gouache #softpastels
#intuitiveart #green #orange #turquoise #artyear #onlybeautifulthings
julia-laing.bsky.social Julia Laing @julia-laing.bsky.social · 3d
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 3
Being on the coast, looking out to sea always calms me down, even in stormy weather.

From the Shore is a small painting on heavy card, using #mixedmedia including collage, gouache, coloured pastels, acrylic paint and house paint.

#art #paintings #seascape #expressiveart
December 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
eliharlan.bsky.social
Love the lovelies
in watercolor washes
#repost3aday #supportartists #shopsmall #smallbusiness #artprint #holidaygifts #humanart #artyear #watercolour #paint #onlybeautifulthings
karenkaspar.bsky.social Karen Kaspar @karenkaspar.bsky.social · 3d
Daisies don't just bloom in spring - they delight our hearts all year round - either in nature or on the wall...

Daisy duet watercolor painting - art print: karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/dai...

#daisy #art #painting #watercolor #flowers #nature #wildflower #wildflowers #aquarell
Daisy Duet is a watercolour painting in portrait format painted by the artist Karen Kaspar. Two white daisies are blooming in a green meadow. They dance merrily in the summer wind.
December 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
eliharlan.bsky.social
These are FABULOUS!
#repost3aday #supportartists #shopsmall #etsyuk #fiberarts #bead #ribbon #colorful #gifts #broach #jewelry #handmade #onlybeautifulthings
December 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
eliharlan.bsky.social
So fun, whimsical and festive.
#repost3aday #supportartists #mixedmediaart #watercolours #acrylicart #paint #holiday #festive #Christmas #cats #illustration #draw #smile #green #red
#sketch #sketchbook #onlybeautifulthings
moonbeamjellyfish.bsky.social Em @moonbeamjellyfish.bsky.social · 4d
Holiday kitties I've been working on. They make me smile. The left is painted with #watercolors the other is mixed media, painted with acrylics. What do ya think?
#mixedmedia #art #artist #moonbeamjellyfish
December 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
eliharlan.bsky.social
Just adorable. I've always loved chickadees.
#repost3aday #supportartists #shopsmall #friends #teacup #giftexchange #chickadee #blue #cream #black #yellow #womensart #onlybeautifulthings
December 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
eliharlan.bsky.social
Just, yes!
#repost3aday #supportartists #humour #draw #illustrate #personification #thefunnies #laugh #lighthearted #selfcare #onlybeautifulthings
December 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
eliharlan.bsky.social
Christmas brilliance!
#repost3aday #supportartists #makersgonnamake #knitting #knit #colorwork #red #green #white #christmas #holidays #artyear #handmade #onlybeautifulthings
sams-sew-scrappy.bsky.social Sam’s Sew Scrappy @sams-sew-scrappy.bsky.social · 6d
Not too shabby, if I say so myself. My first time doing colour work and on a sock, to boot! Many boo-boos (a few “words” were used), it required surgery, and a heel re-do, but I’m quite happy with it.

My favourite thing in this process was watching Arne and Carlos everyday💕

#knitsky #igaveitatry
Arne and Carlos 2025 Christmas Stocking in red, green, mustard, and steel grey, on a white background. Motifs of half crowns, flowers, acorns, candles, hearts, elves, snowflakes, more flowers from the toe up.
December 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
eliharlan.bsky.social
Don't these just bring a smile... Or even a giggle!
#repost3aday #supportartists #quilting #quilter #sew #handmade
#whimsical #playful #colorful #artyear #onlybeautifulthings
gsew.bsky.social Gina Kellogg @gsew.bsky.social · 13d
Just a few Sunday morning quilted funky fish.

#artquilts #fiberart #fish #womensart #quiltsky #whimsy
Yellow and black funky fish Orange and green funky fish Multicolored rainbow, funky fish Red funky, fish and blue jellyfish
December 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
eliharlan.bsky.social
Such lovely details!
#repost3aday #supportartists #draw #sketch #thingswithwings #butterfly #sketchbook #Ithaca #creatures #artyear #onlybeautifulthings
mikehendley.com Mike Hendley 🎨 ✍️ 🇨🇦 @mikehendley.com · 5d
Sketched these Polyommatus butterflies at a Barnes & Noble in Ithaca from a reference. Graphgear 1000 (.3 & .5, 2B + 4B), Blu Tack, and a few mins of stillness. Some of their caterpillars team up with ants, who guard them in exchange for sugar. #sciart #pencil #art
Pencil sketch of two polyommatus butterflies perched on wheat-like grasses, drawn with fine detail and soft shading in a sketchbook.
November 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
eliharlan.bsky.social
Its like the happiness of summer exploded here. Love it!
#repost3aday #supportartists #painting #painter #expressive
#colorful #artyear #womensart #onlybeautifulthings
November 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
eliharlan.bsky.social
There are not enough wows!!!!!
Book tracker, patterned by genre, all different colors... AMAZING!
#repost3aday #supportartists #booktracker #genre #handmade #stitching #needlework #dedicated #inspiration #artyear #books #quiltsquares #colorful #100 #onlybeautifulthings
sirithre.bsky.social Siri @sirithre.bsky.social · 24d
This took FOREVERRRRRR. Or y'know, something like 150 hours to stitch. I started back in Feb and have been working it in the background while stitching all the other designs I've released this year. 😅

Something I've been wanting to do for a whiiile. It's a book tracker! But with quilt squares!
A cross stitch of a bunch of different quilt squares, each one denoting a book I read this year. What my cross stitch quilt would've looked like if I hadn't used the colors from the book covers.
November 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
eliharlan.bsky.social
Something quite magical about this.
#repost3aday #supportartists #artyear #drawing #illustration #womensart #expressive #onlybeautifulthings
November 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
eliharlan.bsky.social
Words to remember. Super fun art.
#repost3aday #supportartists #mixedmedia #doodling #draw #drawing #sketch #artyear #artjournaling #journal #colorful #patterns #onlybeautifulthings
November 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
eliharlan.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving weekend! Love this!
#repost3aday #supportartists #quilter #quilting #humor #craft #colorful #turkey #thanksgiving #givethanksfor #givethanksto #onlybeautifulthings
November 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
eliharlan.bsky.social
This resonates with me. So beautiful...
#repost3aday #supportartists #photo #eastcoastkin #artsky #artyear #lumine #sacred #flames #onlybeautifulthings
November 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM