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Karen Akers Art
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Art and Textiles tutor working in Cumbria
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The #Warmth of frosty winter light on the last of the autumn leaves #BlueSkyArtShow #Watercolour
Four orange and brown autumn leaves, hanging from a thin branch, against a frosty looking background of blues and greens.
November 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Two of one hundred metal sculptures, part of Anthony Gormley’s Another Place. A 3km installation but taken in isolation each sculpture feels so #Small and alone when faced with nature, the sea and the sky. #BlueSkyArtShow #gouache
A beach at low tide, a lone figure, a sculpture of a man, stares out to the distant sea. Another tiny figure stands in the distance on the waters edge. On the horizon to the left are some distant hills and on the right a row of wind turbines
November 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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#Evening in Seillans, Provence. A watercolour study from my holiday sketchbook. #BlueSkyArtShow
A watercolour painting of stone built Provençal buildings in the evening. The walls illuminated by the yellow glow of street lights.
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Autumn in north west England, watercolour. #BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn #WatercolourArt
A watercolour painting of an autumn tree with long grasses in the foreground and loosely painted hills and drystone walls in the background.
November 1, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Sketchbook studies in gouache #inside #BlueSkyArtShow #gouache #painting #sketchbook
A painting of 2 orange halves against a quickly painted blue background A painting of half a fig with a red centre and bright green skin against a brownish red background
October 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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This is a work in progress but I thought it fitted with the #BlueSkyArtShow theme #vertical so here you go.
My work seems to have been somewhat preoccupied with trees lately.
#watercolour #Mixedmedia #Painting #art
A painting of bare winter trees standing either side of a winding path
October 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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So proud of this
collaborative charcoal collage. Made this morning at Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal and inspired by the Simon Starling Boat Works exhibition.
This is our floating island. #CollaborativeArt #Collage #Charcoal #ArtYear
A charcoal collage of drawings of rocks and plant life. An artist adds details to a large charcoal collage An artist adds a collage pice to a large charcoal drawing collage 2 artists add work to a large charcoal collage
October 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Lazy summer days under a canopy of green #Relax #BlueSkyArtShow gouache sketchbook study. #gouache #painting
A painting of washing drying on a line under a thick canopy of green and yellow leaves
October 4, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Angles Rows of plane trees #WatercolourSketch #SketchbookStudy #PenAndWash #ArtYear
A watercolour sketch of leafy plane trees either side of a narrow lane. The trees follow two lines of perspective, disappearing towards the centre of the painting.
September 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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#Home The landscape of Cumbria and The Lake District. This is the view from the field near our house, a view I never grow tired of. #BlueSkyArtShow #ArtYear
A watercolour sketch of grassy fields in autumnal tones of green and brown, leading towards distant blue toned hills. All beneath a sky with patches of blue between white and grey clouds.
September 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Dappled light through leafy trees, watercolour. #BlueSkyArtShow #Summer #ArtYear
Three trees in full leaf in my a row, dappled summer light shines behind the trunks
September 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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August, captured in pen and paint. So much early fruit this year! #NatureJournal #ArtDiary #ArtYear
6 pages from a sketchbook showing colour sketches in pen and paint of insects, plants, flowers, fruit and birds
September 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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A bientôt Provence.
My family are not early risers so each morning, armed with a cup of coffee, a pain au raisin, the view or photos taken the day before, I spend an indulgent hour recording memories.
August 27, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Le Ciel et Rose - Grasse. I’m working from photographs taken the previous day - ain’t no way I’m drawing en plein air in this heat! Il fait très chaud! 🥵 #holidaysketchbook #penandwash #provence #ArtYear
A table outdoors in dappled sunlight. On it sits an open sketchbook showing a pen and watercolour sketch of a narrow street of shops with many pink umbrellas strung above between the buildings to provide shade. Also on the table is a paint palette, brush, a black book cover, 2 pens, a yogurt pot used as a water pot and a half drink mug of coffee
August 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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My little Provençal sketchbook #ArtYear #HolidaySketching
On a table lays a sketchbook, a palette of watercolour paints, a paintbrush and a pot of water. In the sketchbook is a painting of an evening landscape. Under pink and great clouds sits some green foliage in the foreground, in front of a line of cypress trees. The landscape stretches on to some distant hills.
August 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Some studies made on Saturday at Abbot Hall Gallery.
Sound drawings made outside in the grounds and then two pieces influenced by Thistles by Frederick Cuming and the sounds of the gallery. #ArtYear #SketchBook
Marks and scribbles made in red pencil - a response to sounds heard. Scribbles, marks, smudges and lines drawn in pencil and charcoal- a response to sounds heard. An abstract colour landscape - an oblong frame contains the centre of the image. A more colourful version of the previous abstract landscape- again a frame contains the centre of the image.
August 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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July in six pages from my #NatureSketchbook #ArtYear #NatureDiary
Six landscape format sketchbook pages containing studies of a variety of plants, insects and birds. Drawn and painted in colour.
August 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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I spent a long time on this. It’s a 60th birthday present for a special friend. Her favourite place, Trevone Bay in Cornwall. #ArtYear #Scape #AcrylicPainting
A path through shrubs and orange flowers leads to a seaside bay in the dawn light.
July 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Kendal on a very cloudy day.
It’s a mish mash of watercolour on gessoed collage, pen and a hefty blend of experimentation, mistakes, changes of direction, “oh no’s!” And “what’s?!”
I’m pleased with the outcome and definitely wouldn’t have got here if I hadn’t enjoyed the process. #ArtYear
A watercolour,mixed media painting. Part of a metal bridge and a stone wall sits in the foreground along with loose greenery. A church is on the left and building emerge from behind a row of trees. The sky is grey, gloomy and cloudy. A lone swift flies on the left side
July 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Channeling my inner Percy Kelly. Sketchbook studies from today’s Sketch and Stroll session at Abbot Hall Gallery. Colours tones and mood greatly affected by the drizzly grey weather. #ArtYear #sketchbook
A colour sketch of a view through a six panel window towards trees and grass. A charcoal sketch of apples The name Percy Kelly written bellow A loose, scribbled sketch of plant stems in a vase A colour study in tones of blue and Green. A cream coloured shape that looks like a pathway disappearing into the distance cuts through the middle
July 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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June pages from my nature sketchbook #ArtYear #Sketchbook
Five pages from. Sketchbook containing colour studies of foxgloves, elderflower, cornflowers, small lawn mushrooms, grasses, a brown moth, a bullfinch, greenfinch and swifts
July 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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A Cumbrian field of Yorkshire fog (holcus lanatus).
#mixedmedia watercolour on collage and gesso coated board. #BlueSkyArtShow #GetOutside #ArtYear
A landscape painting showing a field of grass in tones of green and pink, leading to a horizontal row of trees in full leaf. Beyond the trees hills are visible beneath a cloudy sky.
June 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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The streets of Menerbes in Provence #Narrow to shield the inhabitants from the Mistral.
Pen and wash sketchbook study #BlueSkyArtShow
A pen and wash watercolour study of a street in Provence. The narrow street disappears around a corner. The house walls are a pale yellow sandstone
June 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Geraniums.
All the media flung at this #MixedMedia sketchbook mess about.
#ArtYear #Flowers
A sketchbook page featuring seven pink flower heads against and abstract green collages and pained background
June 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Summer Swallow.
Drypoint using a TetraPak juice carton with just a dab of watercolour for that flash of red. #ArtYear #printmaking #swallow
A black, white and grey printed image of a swallow, wings open, white breast facing and its neck coloured red.
June 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM