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jrmaddin
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Some drawings, paintings and photos. Some old, some new.
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird enjoying the nectar from a Salvia plant.
September 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Light cast from the back lane. #LightAndShadow for #BlueSkyArtShow #artyear #photography
Light cast from the back lane on a concrete wall. The back s of wo patio chairs in front and the silhouette of a car behind.
May 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Farmyard gossips #sketch #artyear #drawing
May 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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After nearly three years hidden from view by hoarding and scaffolds the Palm House at Allan Gardens is finally open to the public again. Some salmon swam by for a look-see. #Toronto
Blue salmon sculptures painted with indigenous artwork appear to be swimming toward a glass-domed building Blue salmon sculptures painted with indigenous artwork appear to be swimming toward a glass-domed building
May 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Imaginary landscape charcoal drawing. #artyear #sketch
April 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Sun Betrayed. Quick sketch from Sense8.

#artyear #sketchbooks #drawing #sketching #dailysketch #inkdrawing #ink
March 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Late Winter sunlight, Metropolitan United Church in downtown Toronto.

#blueskyartshow #sunlight #ArtYear #photography #toronto
Late afternoon sunlight hitting a church steeple, gnarled trees are silhouetted in the foreground
March 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Bone dry. Day 10 of #MarchIntoLandscapes #arid #artyear #photography
March 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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A loose pen sketch
#sketch #drawing #artyear #februarty
pen sketch of a couple walking, wiewed from behind
February 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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We had a lot of snow in Toronto this week. This is the building across the street, drawn from my lobby. #urbansketching #artyear #watercolor
February 17, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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This is funny. A 15th century version of cut and paste.
I'm going to have to find a way to bootleg this idea. #graphicdesign #typography
medmilmedicine.bsky.social Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · Feb 16
Medieval scribes used a number of different methods to correct mistakes and omissions. This one used the figure of a man pulling the omitted portion of the text towards the place it belonged - 1st half of the 15th century, Brit. Lib, Arundel 38, f. 65r
February 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Gotta be this tall to ride -
#BlueSkyArtShow Sat theme #Monochrome
#photography #blackandwhite #artyear
A young boy wearing a white cowboy hat stands in a corral watching three men on horseback
February 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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HIgh heels stepping out. #FebruArty #shoes #photography
Low angle photo of a woman in high heels on the sidewalk, bright light reflects off of the wet concrete.
February 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Saturday #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Light.

Late night street food, Toronto. Are the ghosts in the window hungry, or are they trying to warn them?

#photography #Toronto #FebruArty #streetfood #muchmusic
Late night street food, Toronto. Three people silhouetted againgst the light cast by a hot dog cart.
February 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Last prompt for #JanuArty is: angle
Banker's hours downtown Toronto

#Angle #CityScape #photography #toronto
Moody low angle night photo of older buildings in shadow with modern tower lit up in the background
January 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Thursday #PortraitChallenge

reference: Self portrait, painted in 1947 by Raymond Sheppard

#artyear #penandink #illustration #dailysketch
Pen drawing of a pensive young man looking over his left shoulder towards the viewer.
January 30, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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#BirdWhisperer art project for January - Common loon.
Pencil on paper 9x12
Pencil sketch of a common loon in water
January 30, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekEforEvents
The Roundup

#photography #ranching
Children watching activity in a corral from a metal rail fence
January 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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#JanuArty Day 29: Curve
- Citadelle de Québec #photography #QuebecCity
January 29, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Gentleman farmer. Pencil drawing 7"x10"
#artyear #pencil #dailysketch
Pencil portrait Gentleman farmer in a wearing a button-up shirt and cardigan, with straw hat tipped back on his head.
January 29, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Hmm... Good trouble or bad trouble? Bit of both?

#sketchbooks #drawing #sketching #dailysketch #inkdrawing #ink
ink drawing of two soldiers in 18th century uniforms. Theone one the right has a musket over his shoulder the othe is holding a shovel.
January 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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#Januarty Day 19: liquid
Ripples of ancient waves being slowly eroded by the waves of today.
January 20, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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#JanuArty - Day 20: Primary
This is from a photo that I took last year of tulips in a city planter with the low sun hitting from behind. Obviously with a "small" digital assist to pull up the blues. I kind of like it.
red and yellow tulips in a background of blue stems and leaves
January 20, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Muskoka chairs in the snow. Definitely not designed with old knees in mind. IYKYN.
#JanuArty2025 #photography
Day 17: furniture
Two Muskoka chairs in the snow. On white and one red, with a round table between them.
January 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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#Januarty Day 16: Clothing - 80s style
Pencil on paper, 9x12 #illustration
January 16, 2025 at 7:46 AM