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Art, urban sketching 🎨
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oceansandcoffee.bsky.social
So cool. Love it.
September 19, 2025 at 5:10 AM
oceansandcoffee.bsky.social
I’m learning to draw & watercolor, slowly … love the process. This was the first part I did of a YouTube tutorial from @tobysketchloose.bsky.social.
My watercoloring later was a sort of disaster but it’s all good anyway. #urbansketching
Drawing of cafe exterior on city street.
August 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
oceansandcoffee.bsky.social
So nice. A beautiful, quiet scene with such a sense of energy to it.
bryyyan.bsky.social bryan d 🇨🇦 artist @bryyyan.bsky.social · Jul 31
Was at 10 Dean Cafe on Spadina in #Toronto this morning. Did a quick #urbansketch looking towards the bar. Exceptional coffee! #urbansketching #inkandwash #inkandwatercolour #watercolor #sketchbook #artyear #sketching
An open sketchbook shows a scene of a light, airy cafe into which a curving staircase descends. Someone sits at the bar, and some buildings are visible through the large windows. Did you read this? I spend a fair amount of time and effort on alt-text and want to know if it's reaching anyone. Let me know in the comments? Have a lovely day!
July 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
oceansandcoffee.bsky.social
lovely painting.
valeriea.bsky.social valerie.bsky.social @valeriea.bsky.social · Jul 1
I haven't been doing enough painting recently - planning to change that. River Dee at Llangollen
Watercolour painting showing a river with rocks and grasses in the foreground, and a church with a spire and other buildings in the distance.
July 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
oceansandcoffee.bsky.social
Moment of Zen. Beautiful.
jennycohn.bsky.social Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Jun 23
We went to several really picturesque towns in the South of France, but I have to say that I think Antibes had the most beautiful side streets. I was pretty blown away. 3/
June 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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mlobelart.bsky.social
Romare Bearden, Martin Luther King Jr.—Mountain Top, color screenprint, 1968
A stylized collagelike representation of a figure, seen from behind - a representation of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. - arms outspreadd, between two groups of silhouetted figures at left and right. A hilly landscape is in the background, with the sun and some clouds in the sky above
January 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
oceansandcoffee.bsky.social
A good day is your library hold coming in just ahead of a semi-free weekend. Been wanting to read this for a while.
#booksky
#books
Cover, North Woods by Daniel Mason. Illustration of large brown wild cat (cougar) lying in grassy meadow.
January 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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leahstokes.bsky.social
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."

She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
The cover of the book Parable of the Sower.
January 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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robertbohan.bsky.social
Here’s one of my favourite Christmas paintings. It’s by German artist Gabriele Münter (1877-1962) & was painted circa 1912. Here’s hoping you, your family & your friends have a mellow Christmas break & a lucky new year!
December 21, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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johnconstablera.bsky.social
Good Day!
Primrose Hill by David Gentleman 2009
Watercolour
December 15, 2024 at 11:33 AM
oceansandcoffee.bsky.social
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.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
10/20
Cover for short story The Veldt by Ray Bradbury. Scene shows African Savannah with golden grasses and low dark green trees in front and dark mountain behind. On the right edge, halfway down the cover and embedded in the image is a small brass doorknob.
December 3, 2024 at 1:48 AM
oceansandcoffee.bsky.social
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.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
9/20
Cover of The Scarlet Plague by Jack London. Burgundy background with small distant ruined city in background.
November 30, 2024 at 12:17 AM
oceansandcoffee.bsky.social
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.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 8/20
Cover of West with the Night by Beryl Markham. Blue and white clouds in background. Brown old-fashioned aviator googles in center of image; old propeller fixed wing airplanes are reflected in google lenses. At bottom is quote from Ernest Hemingway: “[Markham] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves writers. … it really is a bloody wonderful ok.”
November 28, 2024 at 5:35 PM
oceansandcoffee.bsky.social
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.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 7/20
Book cover shows hilltop with golden valley below. A man in blue overalls and brown hat, woman sitting in red dress and apron, and boy in brown overalls sitting on rock are in foreground facing away from viewers. They’re looking down into the valley. In mid ground below them is a 1930s open sided truck with luggage/bundles of cloth tied on back. In the background is a line of similar trucks snaking through valley. Beyond are a line of tall blue colored hills.
November 23, 2024 at 3:46 PM
oceansandcoffee.bsky.social
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.
#BookSky
💙📚
Day 6/20
My Antonia by Willa Cather. Illustration of young woman in light blue dress and white apron standing in prairie field with horse and buggy behind her. She’s holding a handful of yellow flowers.
November 22, 2024 at 7:43 AM
oceansandcoffee.bsky.social
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.
#BookSky
💙📚
Day 5/20
Book is Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. Photo shows African-American woman in black shirt silhouetted against a night sky. She holds her hands apart at shoulders width. A tennis-ball sized replica of the earth is hovering in the air in between her hands. Her eyes are closed.
November 21, 2024 at 4:18 PM
oceansandcoffee.bsky.social
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.
#BookSky
💙📚
Day 4/20
Book is Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. Cover shows black hooded figure surrounded by a circular swirl comprised of gold lines and dark green medieval buildings.
November 20, 2024 at 5:15 PM
oceansandcoffee.bsky.social
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.

#booksky
3/20
Book cover of The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. Cover shows English butler standing at window looking out.
November 19, 2024 at 11:06 AM
oceansandcoffee.bsky.social
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.

#booksky
2/20
Boom title is Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. Image shows boy in overalls holding lantern high while surrounded by forest at night. In front of him are two brown dogs.
November 18, 2024 at 6:57 PM
oceansandcoffee.bsky.social
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.

#booksky
1/20
The Secret Horse by Marion Hollland, 1959. 1975 cover shows two teenage girls leading a skinny black horse along a stone wall. Behind the wall is an old abandoned Victorian house set back on a large lawn.
November 18, 2024 at 6:05 AM
oceansandcoffee.bsky.social
Somewhat perfect poem for this rainy Sunday.
Poem by Judith Dowling from Converse Quarterly; “Nothing she did Or said was quite what she meant But still her life Could be called a monument Shaped in a slant Of available light And set to the movement Of possible music”
November 18, 2024 at 5:26 AM