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Z J
@zslettersandart.bsky.social
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Opinionated sassy pants who occasionally does something artsy.
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Too beautiful not to paint!
Watercolor painting of the male Snowcap based on the original photo posted
May 28, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Paint what you feel like painting, unrestrained from reality.

#watercolor #painting
An abstract watercolor painting with a sky that goes from blue to pink to orange (top to bottom), with a big planet that is purple on the top left 1/4 of the circle and yellow-orange the rest of the circle, with a gold highlight on the right edge. There is a dark purple mountain in the foreground that goes from the middle of the right side of the paper down towards the bottom left corner.
April 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Galaxy time!

#watercolor #watercolorspace #painting
Painting of a spiral galaxy of burnt orange and yellow with bright stars to the right and dark blue-black space. There are watercolor brushes around the painting, a heart pan with burnt orange paint to the upper left corner and a tube of white Windsor Newton designer gouache above the painting. Photo of a spiral galaxy in burnt orange with yellow stars scattered throughout and a few bright white stars on the right side of the photo.
April 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Just over here drawing portraits of the current US administration.

#drawing #art #demonsamongus
Drawing of a monster demon with skinny arms and legs, a hairy tail, very long ears that look like wings, and fangs over a small mouth. Calligraphy caption says "demon from the second planet circling Sirius"
April 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Because I needed a break from it all.

#watercolor
April 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Do you think MAGA have Men's and Women's only bathrooms in their homes, or are they All Gender?

Happy Trans Day of Visibility!
March 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Weird name for a creature, but this was fun to draw.

Don't know why, but this keeps making me think about a group of a**holes in DC ... Maybe they're all these things wearing human forms.
Drawing of a creature with wide ears but skinny arms and legs. Calligraphy to the right reads "demon from the second planet circling Sirius"
March 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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@dazza1639.bsky.social posted this spiral galaxy awhile ago, and I wanted to paint it...but spiral galaxies are weirdly hard to paint.

Anyway...I finally painted it!

#watercolorspacescape #watercolorgalaxy #watercolor #painting
A watercolor painting of a spiral galaxy with a bright white center and lavender, blue, and reddish brown spiraling out from the center. On the left, a reddish brown arm travels to the top where there is another bright area of mostly light lavender. Spiral galaxy with a bright white center, and light lavender, blue, and reddish brown arms spiraling from the center. On the left, the reddish brown goes up into another white centered galaxy with a light lavender-pink hue. There are stars around in the darkness of the space surround the galaxy. Photo by Darren Carver.
March 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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It's #spacescape time!

Painted this while listening to On Freedom by Timothy Snyder as my contribution to #BookSkyClub today.

Though I'm about to switch it up and go read more of The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind. 😂 I have eclectic tastes.

#watercolor #painting
A watercolor painting laying on a wooden desk surface. The painting has a pink sky with dark clouds around the edges and two blue planets. There is a small blue planet in the upper left quadrant of the painting, and a large blue planet that takes up most of the right half of the paper. It appears like there is a light source coming from the top left, as there is a highlight on both spheres on the left side, with the planets darker on the right side.
March 9, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Bugg O' Neer.

Lisilinka watercolors used for the metallic elements - her metallics are the absolute best I've found. The white dots are done with white watercolor layered until it was opaque enough.

#watercolor #painting #drawing #watercolorpirate #watercolorsketch #lisilinka
Watercolor painting being held up. Pirate with what look like hypnotized eyes, a red and white polkadot bandana on his head, tan skin, darker tan stubble under his nose and on his chin, wrinkles on his neck, wearing a blue shirt, and holding a short, thin dagger in his mouth. He has a long nose, and very bushy unibrow. The blade of the dagger and metallic parts of the dagger are done in metallic watercolor. Watercolor painting on a light blue surface with a trio of metallic watercolors to the bottom right (these are watercolors by Lisilinka). The painting is a pirate with what look like hypnotized eyes, a red and white polkadot bandana on his head, tan skin, darker tan stubble under his nose and on his chin, wrinkles on his neck, wearing a blue shirt, and holding a short, thin dagger in his mouth. He has a long nose, and a very bushy unibrow. The blade of the dagger and metallic parts of the dagger are done in metallic watercolor. There is a bit of a watercolor paintbrush visible in the upper right corner of the photo.
March 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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I might be kind of obsessed with the Eastern Bluebird. He's a very delightful subject to paint.

#watercolor #painting
A photo of a watercolor painting. An Eastern Bluebird looks to the right while his body faces left. His head is a lighter blue than his back feathers, and his upper chest is a lighter rusty color than his lower chest. He is surrounded by a dark purple color with little circles of paint that have been removed, making it look a bit like bubbles or like a photo effect. There is the edge of a porcelain paint palette in the top right of the photo, and the painting is sitting on top of a light blue surface which is on a light colored desk.
February 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Bugg-O-Neer, from a "how to draw" book I bought ages ago and now finally feel like I can follow!

How to improve painting? Draw!

Also a chance to do some Copperplate calligraphy with the pencil and practice some flourishes. 😍

#drawing #calligraphy
Pencil drawing of a pirate's head wearing a polkadot bandana covering his head. He has a bushy unibrow, a large nose, what look like hypnotized eyes with black and white alternating rings. He has stubble where a mustache and beard would be and is holding a slim knife in his mouth which has drops coming off the end of it (the end is pointed to the right of the image). On the right, in pencil Copperplate calligraphy is written "Bugg-O-Neer."
February 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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My first attempt at painting a bird up close.

Eastern Bluebird. He's a bit chonky. I keep seeing photos of these on Bluesky and loving them! I need to lighten the blue, though. Time to break out the sketchbook!

#watercolor #painting
Watercolor painting of a chunky Eastern Bluebird's left profile with bold blue back feathers, an orange-brown belly, and a cream underbelly. There is a cream colored background with tiny splatters of blue and orange. The bird is facing the left side of the paper.
February 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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I saw images of the Elephant's Nebula the other day and did an incredibly terrible job of painting it here. 🤣

So, this is an abstract watercolor painting *inspired* by the nebula, because we need more rainbows everywhere.

#watercolorpride #watercolor #abstractwatercolor #painting
From upper left corner to bottom right corner, there are sections of color starting with purple, then blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. These are broken up with bands of dark, some black like space and other looking like dark clouds. There is a spot of orange shaped like a large tear drop in the upper right corner.
February 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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First attempt at a recreation of @sailgirldesign.bsky.social 's #StunDay photo from a few weeks ago!

I'm trying this again, because the fade up into the clouds didn't quite work as I'd hoped.

If you couldn't tell from my last few paintings, I LOVE bright color! 😂

#watercolor #watercolorsunset
Water color painting of a sunset of bright yellow, orange, reddish orange, up to dark blue clouds against a light blue sky with the red and orange reflected in the water. There is a dark shore at the bottom with black rocks lining the very bottom of the image. sunset of bright yellow, orange, reddish orange, up to dark blue clouds against a light blue sky with the red and orange reflected in the water. There is a dark shore at the bottom with black rocks lining the very bottom of the image.
February 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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This executive order gives POTUS power to direct the actions of the *Federal Election Commission.*

"officials who wield vast executive power must be supervised and controlled by the people’s elected President."

Of all the EOs, this may be the worst by far. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Sec. 3. OIRA Review of Agency Regulations. (a) Section 3(b) of Executive Order 12866 of September 30, 1993 (“Regulatory Planning and Review”), as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:   “(b) “Agency,” unless otherwise indicated, means any authority of the United States that is an “agency” under 44 U.S.C. 3502(1), and shall also include the Federal Election Commission.
February 19, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Original photo: @billmontei.bsky.social - stunning colors!

Attempt at recreation: me. Thanks for letting me take a swing at this, Bill!

#watercolor #watercolorsunset
Bright pink, orange, and dark yellow clouds against a light blue sky with a little purple towards the top. There are palm trees in black against the bright sky colors. Bright pink and orange clouds against a light blue sky with palm trees in black against the colors. Copyright Montei in the bottom left corner in reddish orange.
February 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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I mean, this doesn't look like an update on what the"office" is doing.
February 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Inspo: astrophotography by @dazza1639.bsky.social of the California Nebula.

#watercolor #watercolorspace
A painting of a nebula that's reddish orange, yellow, and white in two bands diagonally across the page from top left to bottom right. There is dark coloring around and between the bands, providing a stark contrast to the reddish orange color. The nebula is a watercolor rendition of the California Nebula. California Nebula astrophotography by Darren Carver. This appears as two bands of dark orange, yellow, and cream going diagonally from top left to bottom right. There is the darkness of space between and around the bands.
February 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Bunnyman Bridge - astrophotography by @rockfish-gap.bsky.social who did an INCREDIBLE job capturing this over 50 hours with his telescope!

Admittedly, my version looks like a cartoon, but it was fun to paint!

#watercolor
Watercolor painting of "Bunnyman Bridge" in space. It's a pink river running from the top left corner and getting progressively larger to the bottom right corner, with red on both sides tapering into little red tendrils against black space. There is a small horseshoe shaped set of maybe clouds of pink, red, and white in the bottom left corner, and a little white cloud in the upper right corner. There are stars scattered across the black. "Bunnyman Bridge" in space. It looks like a bright pink center river flowing from the top left corner to the bottom right corner, with red on both sides of the river than ends in red tendrils. There is a horseshoe shaped pink and red cloud in the bottom left corner and what looks like white clouds in the upper right corner. This is all set against black space with bright stars scattered throughout.
February 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Photo inspiration from Matthew Nichols via @thedeerwhisperer.bsky.social

I haven't done a landscape in forever, but the colors in this photo were too stunning to pass up!

It's nice to be shocked by something beautiful.

#watercolor
Photo from Matthew Nichols of a cloudy foreground with misty, purple clouds. There are groups of trees peeking out from the purple mist. Above that is a black outline of mountains, covered by a bright orange and red cloud cover with a tan tinted sky peeking through between the clouds and the mountain.
February 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Pinwheel galaxy!

Inspiration image to the right, again, don't know who to attribute it to. 😕

#watercolorspace
#watercolorspacescape
#watercolorgalaxy
#pinwheelgalaxy
#watercolor
Pinwheel with a white center, red and blue lines curling out from center, and a white ring around the pinwheel. This is set against a black background splattered with tiny white spots as stars. An image of space with three galaxies. On the left is a small white swirly galaxy and, above it, a red swirly galaxy with a white center. To the right is a large pinwheel galaxy with a white center, red and blue lines curling out from the center, and a white and red set of stars circling the pinwheel.
February 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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The inspiration image - can someone tell me whose it is so I can properly attribute it? - and the painting I created using Neocolor 2 watercolor crayons on cotton sketchbook paper for something a little different.

#watercolor #watercolorspace #watercolorspacescapes #neocolor2crayons
Swirl of colors painted on white paper sketchbook and Caran d'Ache Neo color 2 crayons next to the painting with the tin for the crayons above the sketchbook, all on a desk. Dark center, pink, orange, yellow, green, and blue emanating from the center with stars throughout as though an explosion swirling in space.
February 3, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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A little paint on paper, some of it really shiny. 😂

Because I needed something distracting.

#watercolor #watercolorspacescape #watercolorescape #shinywatercolor
February 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Shiny!

No, the black space encroaching on the planet has nothing to do with this week. At all.

#watercolor #painting #spacescape
Yellow planet with white curly wisps and a shiny edge, with a black, orange, red, and dark red sky away from the planet. There is a golden comet in the foreground. A yellow planet with black clouds coming over the top from the top right, a shiny edge, and black, orange, red, and dark red sky around and working away from the planet. The stars in the black space around the planet are shiny.
January 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM