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elle-a-bee-ess.bsky.social
Elle (also Lori)
@elle-a-bee-ess.bsky.social
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Learning to live as a creative.
Psychologist.
Visual artist.
Keen on self-discovery and championing the beauty others make 🌟
All artwork posted here is mine, unless otherwise stated.
WanderingLightStudio.com
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“You don’t go into a painting with an idea. Green with yellow is not an idea. It’s a kind of drive.” Amy Sillman, artist. Excerpt from The Work of Art” by Adam Moss.
November 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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gsew.bsky.social
Learning from Detail

A sliver of hope.
A tiny turtle making its way across a busy road.
Against all odds, we persist.

#quiltsky #artsky #fiberart #artyear #parts #hope #againstallodds
Gray and black rocks with a sliver of orange. Detail of a larger piece. Tiny colorful turtle amongst gray and black rocks.
September 11, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Nasturtium, #quilt by #JungsunJung

#art #artsky #quiltsky
July 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Weekend makes 🤩
Acrylic image transfer on canvas board, 9x12”
And loose sketch of a night out at Lemp Mansion, STL

Begin today, child.
Offerings complete and free
I have paid your way.
(06.17.25)

#madeinSTL #acrylic #printmaking
#watercolor #urbansketch
#lempmansion
A 9”x12” image of the Fountain Angel at Missouri Botanical Garden in black, surrounded by gold and yellow ochre colors. Artist’s haiku stamped in ink surrounds the statue “begin today, child. Offerings complete and free. I have paid your way” Sketchbook page open to show loose sketch of the wall painting at Lemp Mansion, with watercolors, fountain pen and brush along the side. A photo of the wall painting at Lemp Mansion lit by a nighttime sky.
July 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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July 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Gifts of summer ❤️☀️🌺🌈☔️ Part II

#pollinators #backyardgarden #dailyart #rainbow
Photo of a view from a paddle board while coasting on a lake. Blue sky with fluffy white clouds meet the green horizon of trees and lake shore. A bumble bee sleeps on a basil plant for the night. Photo of a sketchbook open to two pages of watercolors. In the background, there is green grass and a backyard fence. Photo of double rainbows in the grey sky after a storm, which meets the tree-lined green horizon.
July 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Gifts of summer ❤️☀️🌺🌈☔️ Part I

#summerrain #peace
July 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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July 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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When my heart is full, some of its contents are…
#artdaily #analogart #collage
#printmaking #gifts
#hummingbirds #mothernature
#studiocat
A paper collage with muted colors of green and orange lead the eye across the page, along with mixed media elements like collage papers and tea bags. Small print of found words “say “something” hover within circular elements. 5” circular watercolor paper with printmaking image of the fountain angel at Missouri botanical garden in black paint, surrounded by soft naples yellow. Long time friend, Trixie the cat, poses in the grass as the sun disappears on a summer evening. A new hummingbird visitor visits a backyard feeder.
July 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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"Bloom Within" gouache studies 🌸
Love this double exposure style - silhouettes holding flower gardens within them. Going straight to paint without sketching was challenging with these tiny faces!

#gouache #gouacheart #floralart #portrait #painting #sketchbook #sketchbookart #artprocess #originalart
July 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Plein air watercolor sketch 🌳
Travel palette by Art Toolkit
And hummingbird friend 🪶🪺❣️

#lineandwash #watercolor #pleinair #landscapes #dailylife #artwork #loosesketching
#beampaintstones
#schminckefan #sketchbookjournal #sketchbookdrawing #schminckesupergranulating #twsbi
#escodabrushes
Sketchbook is opened to a page showing a loose sketch of pine trees, colored with blues, greens, yellows. There is a bush and pen close by, as well as the watercolor pans used in the sketch. Photo of the tops of two pine trees, vivid green leaves and needles contrasted with blue sky. Photo of Ruby throated hummingbird hovering close to a sugar water feeder.
July 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️

Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
July 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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kittenstrudel.bsky.social
Christina Sealey, Pathway, oil on canvas, n.d.
June 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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“Migrations” and her macros

Season driven now,
To a strange new home out there
Yet… familiar.

#analogart #haiku #artjournaling #sketchbook #printmaking #collage #alteredprint #mixedmedia #mixedmediaartjournal #spiritualconnection #creativeprocess #create #joy #calm
#sensoryprocessingsensitivity
A page to an art journal sketchbook is open to display a paper collage with watercolor elements, with colors of blue, gold, green and magenta. Central element is a bird perched, facing east and a written haiku below that reads: Season driven now, To a strange new home out there Yet… familiar. A macro photo of previous collage, highlighting green circular lines contrasted with unbroken black straight lines. A macro photo of previous collage, highlighting the front of the bird in blue and a halo of gold around it. A macro photo of previous collage, highlighting circular shapes contrasted with red, magenta and grey.
June 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Collage inspired by recent photo I captured at #mobot in #STL 🖤🩵
14”x11” on heavy duty mixed media paper

#stlartists #STLmade #analogart
#printmaking #collage #imagetransfer #alteredprint #mixedmedia #spiritualconnection #creativeprocess #create #joy #calm
#sensoryprocessingsensitivity
A collage shows background of dried tea bag papers for color variation. An image transfer of a personal photo taken of an allium plant at the Missouri Botanical Garden in 2025, is central to the piece and it was created using teal and cadmium red acrylic paint. It is layered with elements of handmade collage papers, acrylic paint, watercolor paint, and tea grinds. Bright pops of fluorescent pin, and tones of yellow for contrast. Black and white photo of a single allium plant in bloom.
June 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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jimmusilpainter.bsky.social
My painting DARK STORM
June 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Warning: ICE is planning 30 days of immigration raids across Los Angeles County. If you or someone you know may be impacted, now is the time to set up a support system, identify a safe place, and stay alert.
June 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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June 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Mixed Media on a 15 x 20 canvas board. The largest piece I have ever attempted. “Summer Afternoon” consists of layers of vintage and painted papers, wallpaper, tissue paper, fabrics c, acrylic paint and ink.

#Art #ArtYear #ArtShare #bsky.art #MixedMedia #Collage
A mixed media art work with blues and greens, black and white botanicals, and splashes of sepia and indigo ink.
June 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Today’s joy in #dailyart 💙❤️💛💚
#collage #analogart #alteredprint #imagetransfer #mixedmedia #sketchbook #artjournal
Macro excerpt from a collage, displaying the words “you from around here?” And the artist’s handwriting in marker replies “Nope.” A photo of an art journal opened to display a collage of red, blue, green, and yellow with paper collage elements layered throughout.
June 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Recent #STL weekend moments… some will make great image transfers :)
•Bethlehem Mission
•Fountain angel
•Flowering Onion
•Lucas School House

#blackandwhite #photography #mobot
B&W photo taken at the corner of an abandoned church in Soulard neighborhood in St Louis. B&W photo taken of a sculpture in the shape of an angel with her arms and wings stretched wide at the Missouri Botanical Garden. B&W photo taken of a single Allium plant (flowering onion) at the Missouri Botanical Garden. B&W photo taken of an urban scene in Soulard, St Louis: a gothic style window on a brick building with a 1950s style pickup truck and streetlight in the foreground.
June 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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First art sale ever 🤩 what a feeling!

#acrylic #abstractart #printmaking #imagetransfer #mixedmedia
Photo of art piece and thank you card about to be packaged after a sale and sent to its buyer. A photo of staged art of 10”x8” mixed media piece featuring image transfer in black of a crow atop a tree with faded colors of blue and bronze in the background. Postage label stating “Fragile, please do not bend, handle with care”.
June 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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“Streetlight” and her macros :)
18x22in acrylic and collage elements on Bristol.

#analog #acrylic #abstractart #collage #mixedmedia #artistsofbluesky
Abstract painting in acrylic varies warm colors like magenta, gold, and red contrasted with dark marks and collage elements. Macro view of Abstract painting in acrylic varies warm colors like magenta, gold, and red contrasted with dark marks and collage elements. Macro perspective of Abstract painting in acrylic varies warm colors like magenta, gold, and red contrasted with dark marks and collage elements. Macro perspective of Abstract painting in acrylic varies warm colors like magenta, gold, and red contrasted with dark marks and collage elements.
June 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Theodora Allen, Life Thread (Asclepius) No.2, oil on linen, 2019
June 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM