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Beth, freeeli
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Serene Joy. Newly back in Bend, OR. Sometime architect, hypnotist-coach, designer. Full time human, nature, fascinations.
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Weird tic I’m just now, today, 100% conscious of: when I click and drag highlights when reading web articles (aware of this tic already) - I’m trying to match the line lengths to finger lengths. I find it very satisfying, and having realized it - I’ve been doing it forever. 🤷‍♀️
Left hand held horizontally over screen with 5 lines of highlighted text. Length of highlighted lines matches hand, with three progressively longer lines - pinky to middle finger - then a slightly shorter line, pointer - then shortest like the thumb.
February 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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An excessive number of excellent toe beans and supermodel long legs. ❤️
#dogsofbluesky #dogsarelove #notjustadogaccount #butihavetheenergyforonlythis
A light colored german shepherd dog laying on the couch with all four feet hanging off in a jumble.
February 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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This dog is a relaxing, unbothered inspiration for us all 😍.
German Shepherd slouched back against her human and the couch and falling asleep.
January 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Glad I didn’t number these - still posted a lot for a whirlwind of a month! New job, partner’s new business, and a new home/first owned home mostly acquired 🥰. Happy to post this and wish you all the loveliest hope in this dark of the year.
Green and brown-black shades of watercolor form an open abstract background structure. Three areas of red pen patterning emerge from the watercolor strokes.
December 25, 2024 at 3:22 AM
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I did over a hundred of these self-portraits from the Linda Barry syllabus/books. So fun! And this one Christmas-y 🎄 #ArtAdventCalendar #comics
Sketched comic, topic “unfortunately caught under the mistletoe”, date 2/26/22. Comic shows reluctant woman next to grimacing robot (diesel sweeties inspired!) under mistletoe in front of of a darkened door.
December 20, 2024 at 5:33 AM
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#ArtAdventCaendar I’ve constrained the art advent to non-photography for no particular reason, but today I felt just like this photo. It was a stretch! Good things are happening 💛.
A close up profile of a hawk, the sun behind lights the top of beak and head vividly. The intent dark eye is in shadow. Bokeh trees behind accent sharpness of the hawk.
December 19, 2024 at 5:27 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Playing with a new style and new (tiny!) Wacom, long before iPad magic. This was magic enough!
4 black and white portraits, simple lines. Each with varying line widths and levels of control.
December 16, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Live sketchy painting of my man, Willy Nelson. (Not that huge a fan, or I would have been dancing!)
A light watercolor and scribbled pen portrait of a man in a hat. Edges of notepad visible on folded legs with a right hand holding pen + wristband shading the notepad from bright sun.
December 16, 2024 at 4:50 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar a competition submission. Didn’t win, still love the concept and that squirrel! Digital.
On an irregular shape like a National Forest sign background, a cartoon squirrel with a rainbow tail reaches out to touch a glowing acorn. Text: electric forest / conscious alliance / art that feeds.
December 15, 2024 at 2:25 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Still from an animation; is quite widescreen and I’m not sure Bluesky is showing the whole thing. Maybe on click-through? Experiments!
3 landscapes collaged together with a white silhouetted figure in each, overall golden glow. L to R: a brushy hillside with a meditating figure in foreground; a pastoral scene with church and man w walking stick; a gravel path through plains leading to mountains with a contemplative figure.
December 14, 2024 at 5:41 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar (100) 18x18 square, symmetrical horizontal and vertical, half-square triangles or solid squares only (quilt rules). AutoCAD - Doodles to keep me engaged at work (is the polite way to put it!) 2017ish
10x10 grid of black and white square mandala doodles.
December 13, 2024 at 3:04 AM
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Happy cozy winter vibes❤️.
#dogsofbluesky
POV shot of the corner of a very large book on my lap and hand petting a dog laying down beside me on the couch.
December 12, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar I drew this alongside an Aaron Blaise video, not quite a tutorial - still proud of how it turned out, and really want to finish the drawing course. Someday!
Charcoal-sketched relaxing female lion. Black and white in grey paper.
December 12, 2024 at 4:14 AM
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My joy when counting #ArtAdventCalendar posts and I have unfilled ~slots for something I’m playing with today!

#pixelart or cross-stitch - disappearing bear claw quilt pattern, layout/colors based on a Carolyn Manning pattern. Not sold on [a lot] - not done! - but it’s fun enough to share!
Colorful chaotic geometric pixel art / cross stitch pattern. There are flaws in this rough draft and a questionably large amount going on.
December 11, 2024 at 6:10 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar A less rigid mandala with spirals interacting from the center. A favorite from the series.
Circular mandala shading from bright red at the center to nearly black. Thin white lines spiral out and white overlays dance. White 3/4 circle outlines around the outer third.
December 10, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar This was about as far as I got with calligraphy - it was a fun obsession for a little while. ❤️
White semi-bouncy calligraphy quote on black paper. Quote: I promise if you keep searching for everything beautiful in this world, you will eventually become it. -Tyler Kent White
December 9, 2024 at 4:17 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar I ❤️ these inexplicable diagrams.
Two 4x4 grids of individual units of overlapping transparent shapes connected to points of a cube. Each is labeled with two numbers.
December 8, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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Lots of internal rules to create this, somewhat quilt like. Kind of wish I’d worked it into generative programming at the time - but nope, it was manually-digitally created, reflected, colored, and shaded. 2017ish, digital art. #ArtAdventCalendar
Quilt-like pattern. Horizontally and vertically symmetrical - grid points connected, shapes brightly colored or white, shading to make shapes pop.
December 7, 2024 at 8:50 AM
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Pantone can say what they want about their color of the year 2025; I see it as the color of the incoming US government. www.pantone.com/color-of-the...

(We’re about to be 💩 on)
Tinted brown glass surrounds a low glass of brown chocolate mousse. Yummy but could easily be seen as a pile of shit. Pantone’s official color of the year 2025: Mocha Mousse promo photo.
December 6, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar A gallbladder/flower digital condolence card. Still makes me giggle.
A flower shape with petals created from a medical illustration of a gallbladder. Perched on a bulb root base. Text reads “the flower, colecystus gallbladderous, while a unique specimen rarely seen in open air, is widely regarded as a weed properly to be pulled out.”
December 6, 2024 at 4:48 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar way back to 2006. Hagia Sophia, sketched in place in Istanbul. Fun fact: A random man sincerely proposed to me while I was drawing this (for green card reasons). 🤷‍♀️ still one of my very favorites.
Ink drawing of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. The lower portion of the building fades to white.
December 4, 2024 at 6:27 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar 2023, digital collage. I’ve made quite a few of these and most are basically doodles… this one feels closer to art. ❤️
A digital collage with an anatomical heart half overlaid with a contented sun. A crown of plants behind and haloing, white flower and ruffle underneath. Background of waves from above and a galaxy.
December 3, 2024 at 12:51 AM
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I love this idea! And fun to practice sharing…. #ArtAdventCalendar sketchbook marker quilt or cross-stitch brainstorming last Friday… not quite art yet but something at hand!
3x5 grid of bear claw quilt block 4-patches, sketched on dot grid paper with vivid colors. A different two-tone arrangement in each 4-patch.
December 1, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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Finished my cross-stitch on Thanksgiving 🥳 My first project since… the 90s? Oof. High school anyway. I love how it turned out!

Pattern by Carolyn Manning
Geometric cross stitch pattern on black cloth in varied rainbow colors. Pattern is 9 bear claw squares with areas between claws filled in. A single row of white at the outside.
December 1, 2024 at 3:41 AM
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Happy little walk, happy huge pondo 🤩
A centered ponderosa canopy brightly lit from behind and a bright blue sky. Other pondos and larches poke into the frame.
November 30, 2024 at 12:42 AM