Mel - The Penny Drops
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Mel - The Penny Drops
@thepennydropsart.bsky.social
🎨 NZ Artist - oil painter of bokeh
🌏 Award-winning prints & originals ➡️ worldwide
📲 https://www.thepennydropsart.co.nz
We‘ve gotta stop looking as ourselves so critically - with such hyper focus. Time to soften our gaze and get on with enjoying the beauty we already have.
Yours faithfully,
A Bokeh Artist (who smiles with her mouth closed because she hates her teeth 🫣)
December 16, 2024 at 3:13 AM
Thanks for inviting us along for the challenge - Autumn is far and away my favourite season 🍂👌🏼
November 25, 2024 at 12:09 AM
3/ the value and beauty of softness, one ‘Bokeh ball’ of light at a time.
November 24, 2024 at 9:07 PM
2/ It softened a source of #anxiety into a fun ritual each day.
This morning the kid behind him joined in.

We don’t always know who needs a bit of extra #softness in their day, which is why I’ll always put softness on a pedestal. Through my art, I’m celebrating and reminding us all of…
November 24, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Realised I never named the podcast! I was Ep. 270 of the Art Juice podcast with Alice Sheridan and Louise Fletcher - I’m sure most artists will know it well 👌🏼
November 24, 2024 at 3:39 AM
Chicago is top of my list of US cities to visit and subsequently paint in my bokeh style 🤩
November 23, 2024 at 9:28 PM
And when you look in the mirror, say to yourself the same soft words you’d tell your bestie - see the beauty in yourself as you do in them.

Softness applies equally to yourself as it does to others.

Which is why I elevate softness in my art: a metaphor & reminder to you - you deserve it too 🤗
November 23, 2024 at 9:21 PM