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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyart #art #painting

Portrait of Pope Julius II. Raphael, 1511–1512.

Day 9
The ageing pontiff painted seated - unusually - at an angle.
March 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyart #art #painting

Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky. Emily Carr, 1935.
Painting of a single tree standing against a bright sky.
March 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyart #art #painting

Composition 8. Wassily Kandinsky, 1923.
Multicoloured shapes making up a print.
February 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyart #art #painting

Square Dance. Sarni Pootoogook, 2000.

Day 6
Lithograph of seals dancing in squares, with one lone seal unpartnered in the top left corner. Seals are various shades of brown set against a blue background.
February 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyart #art #painting

North Shore Lake Superior. Lawren Harris, 1926.

Day 5
Sunbeams strike a shattered tree in Lawren Harris's painting North Shore Lake Superior.
February 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyart #art #painting
Day 4

The Dove of Peace. Pablo Picasso, 1945.
Picasso's Dove of Peace. Signed by the artist.
February 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyart #art #painting
Day 3

The Garden of Earthly Delights - Hell. Hieronymus Bosch, between 1490 and 1510.
One panel of the triptych The Panel of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.
February 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyart #art #painting
Day 2

Mark Rothko, Untitled (Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red). 1949
A painting showing blocks of violet, black, orange and yellow on a white and red background.
February 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
#blueskyart #art #painting
Day 1

Forest British Columbia, Emily Carr. 1931-32
Painting of trees deep in the woods.
February 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (20/20)

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

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Cover if Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin.
February 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Sunlight through autumn leaves. A blue sky seen through an array of yellow, amber, gold and shadows.
February 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (19/20)

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

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Cover of Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond.
February 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (18/20)

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Cover of The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.
February 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (17/20)

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Cover of Hawkmoon: The History of the Runestaff by Michael Moorcock.
February 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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While we're at it, this is pretty fantastic too. Astonishing to think this is up the road from where I now live.

Raymond Depardon Glasgow. Scotland. 1980. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos

More info at: www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture...
Raymond Depardon Glasgow. Scotland. 1980. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos
February 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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This is a truly fabulous photograph: Whiteout by Michel d'Oultremont

It takes a while but it really is a photo. More info at www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A white stoat virtually invisible against a snowy background.
February 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (16/20)

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

#20daybookchallenge
Cover of The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson.
February 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (15/20)

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Cover of A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K Le Guin.
February 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (14/20)

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Cover of What's the Matter With Kansas by Thomas Frank.
February 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (13/20)

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Cover of How to Travel with a Salmon by Umberto Eco.
February 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (12/20)

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Cover of Books v. cigarettes by George Orwell.
February 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (11/20)

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Cover of Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr, by Emily Carr.
February 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (10/20)

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Cover of the Penguin Books edition of Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.
January 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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I don't know why this made me giggle quite as much as it did, but it did. Hope it raises a smile for you too.
A white duck or possibly a goose wearing a beret and smoking, while saying, 'Honque'.
January 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (9/20)

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

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The cover of Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett.
January 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM