Snow with hawk wing imprints and "hop marks" there is blood in the deepest imprint of some unfortunate lil rodent.
We have been watching a hawk this winter, who has been watching our birb feeders and meadow. Brekkers! #snow #hawks #raptors #winter
Red plastic devil-duckie on snowy hood of a car in the parking lot at Harbor Fish Market, Portland, Maine. Waiting for lunch! From a 2012 photo
From a winter shopping trip to Harbor Fish way back in 2012.
Canada geese roosting in a meadow that leads down to a river in Maine. The snow is just beginning ro stick and some of the hunkered down geese are dusted with a layer.
#canadageese with our portion of this early December snow just now arriving, I wonder when their collective will signal it’s time to skeedaddle south outta Maine 🤨
Watercolor portrait of musician Neil Young with piercing blue-eyed gaze directed at viewer. He wears a scruffy woven straw (?) hat, has grizzled gray hair and mutton chop sideburns.
Happy 80th to #NeilYoung Watercolors, Derwent w/c and Inktense pencils, gouache on 140 lb Fabriano Artistico watercolor paper. 14x10" Ref 2019 photo by Rebecca Cabage/Invision/AP #heroesandheels #portraits #watercolors
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
Watercolor portrait of the royal formerly known as Prince Andrew ( I guess they still call him that, huh...) His chubby royal face is on the right side of the paper, he is nervously giving a sideeye to his right. What will come out next about my naughty activities, he must wonder... As recently seen on BBC Newsnight, Andrew Windsor will face the music as a private citizen. Watercolors, Derwent w/c and Inktense pencils and gouache on 140 lb. Fabriano 1264 watercolor paper. 14x9.5" This is a portrait I did in 2022.
The citizen formerly known as a Prince. #princeandrew Reference screengrab from BBC Newsnight, Andrew Windsor now faces more "music." Whew, boy. Watercolor, Derwent Inktense and gouache on 140 lb. Fabriano 1264 watercolor paper. 14x9.5" 2022 #heroesandheels portrait #epsteinfiles #epsteinlist
Rainy Sunday: Canada geese heard splashing and honking like fools on a Maine river
surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity
Dark teal and olive green (weird combo, yeah, but I think it works here!) crochet neck scarf laid out on a periwinkle quilted spread. The scarf is folded over itself so it forms a point that forms over low sternum. Two colorful polyclay spiral buttons hold the scarf in this folded position. I call it a crumb catcher, haha on me. The crochet pattern is "corner to corner" and the yarn is cotton 24/7 and is maybe dm weight.
My new 'crumb-catcher' neck warmer with two buttons from the fabulous stash of polyclay buttons that @mjcrochet.bsky.social made for me. #crochet pattern is corner to corner and the yarn is 24/7 cotton.
The orange voovoo pincushion , sitting on a mirror which shows double the pins thus double the fun. Background to left is an innocent green turtle crocheted pincushion, filled with sharps for convenience.
A bright orange sort-of round, crocheted pin cushion that has two pins (so far) in it on the top. It has scant comb-over style yarn strands for hair, ears that stick out (especially the one on the LEFT) beady eyes under blonde eyebrows, a blobby nose and pink protruding lips/orifice with two rows of "teeth" There is also a long, red tie dangling down. I confess to yelling fond profanities and obscenities at this as I pass by it.
🤭 ❤️ This brilliant pin cushion by @mjcrochet.bsky.social A reserve of straight pins is nearby so I can *precisely* pierce whilst fondly murmuring obscenities and profane wishes for the stinky orange faced rat bastard who this voodoo doll, erm, pin cushion, resembles. #crochet #dolls #voodoodolls
Stone and Irish moss patio with a round plastic screen dehydrator layer. The dehydrator grid is covered with catnip leaves, a few of them are nearly as large as my hand! A stem of catnip off to the side. Note: you can't see them in the photo but I had to battle little ants when snipping leaves from stems, the plants are just beginning to bloom and the ants are v interested in that.
Numerous volunteer catnip plants in my Irish Moss patio; time to dry catnip! Some of the leaves are nearly as big as my hand. Good project for the day before #Caturday
Oil painting study, 8x10", on small wood easel on the right. Reference photo on the left. The reference and study show five people sitting at a pub table, (waiting for family to arrive to order FOOD) fou of us are holding up plates either biting the plate, holding it up, empty, or scraping at the empty plate with a spoon. Beers and iced tea glasses are on the table as well as a plate that previously held chips and salsa. Elderly woman focal point in bkgd, she's turned and speaking to someone who is hidden behind one of the subjects. :)
"Hungry!" 8x10" oil WIP study for a larger version. The reference pic is us sitting at a pub table in NH, USA, waiting on some late fam members so we could order FOOD. #oils #wip #hungry #oilpaintings
This is just perfect
Square painting of a black and white tuxedo cat's face with a woman's eyes, forehead and brown hair waving in the wind visible behind him. She is holding him on her lap. Mr Wonderful, the cat, has big green eyes and is commanding the attention of the viewer. The background is pale aqua. The painting is 8x8"
Mr Wonderful and me. He's been gone for nine years but, oh, my heart still aches for my Mister Mister. Oil on 8x8" canvas panel. #oils #oilpainting #portraits #pets
Smiling gently, a woman with gleaming silver hair and wearing reading glasses is nuzzled on the chin by a fuzzy tabby girl cat named Lexie.
Mom Jane getting nuzzled affectionately by her Lexie girlcat. 10 x 10” oils on canvas #MothersDay #portrait #oilpainting
Chitra, the tabby girlcat, nestling in a crinkly lime green tunnel toy, backlit so she glows. Big green eyes giving me "that look" that said she was the boss of me. (She was)
One month gone, Chitra was with us for twenty years! Sweet ChiChi, I miss you so, SO much. I'll see you again when I 'go the trip.' #cats #RIP #pets #Caturday
"It's a lie to the country."
Four golden baked loaves of ciabatta bread, just out of the oven and resting on a wire baking rack. Blue and white striped towel underneath.
Stress baking #ciabatta today 🤭
The water coming out of any faucet gives a surprisingly wicked static shock at our house.
Winter view of the Presumpscot River, Maine, through a jumble of fallen, big oak trees. A ribbon of snow on the center tree appears as if it is piped on like whipped cream from a canister.
Craving piped-on whipped cream now for some odd reason 🤣 #winter #rivers #snow #iPhonephotography #trees #Maine
Thank you for what you do to make things better. Sending out a thousand kind wishes for you this day.
4x4" scrap of canvas, taped to a board. Painting of a cobbled together tiny repaired figurine of a mouse body with a duck head glued onto it; sits in front of the painting of it and has tiny salt and peppers behind it. Foreground is a neutral tan and background is dark viridian mix.
Two tiny, broken figurines made an exact fit. The duck und the maus (mit seasoning) in oils on a scrap of canvas... a 4x4" study, so eentsy, quick and fun. Oh, what music was on while I was working, you ask? Elliot Smith XO #oilpainting #painting #oils #art
Want a pair of those specs! ❤️👓
I will come see you if you follow me back 😂
I saw a reddit post with a pattern for these… are you a kinittah?!
American tabby cat, Chitra, (20 years old gal), sitting right in front of a jotul fireplace insert with her feets and arms tucked under her. Looking in the direction of the camera, she has a judging look because of the cold.
Chitra, our quite-senior girlcat, is assistant char lady today. She judges and MrrroWs the precise moment when the flames go to glowing coals. 😭 (oh, but that floor level cross-wind in our old New England farmhouse is brutal in this cold snap)
Bette Davis, late in life and looking haggard made up as Baby Jane, quaffing a juice glass of liquor. Desperate look in her eyeliner-ringed eyes. Just like me today
Two snowman busts in a pile of snow with trees behind them. Left, a Snow Buffoon with a cap pulled over his smallish cranium, a huge schnozzola and pursed lips, ready to quaff his tankard of weak ale. Right, Val Kyrie, his dame, ignores him, her nose in the air. Long side braids trail down from her hair.
This pic is from another era, 2011, when Maine reliably got lots and lots of snow. Sigh, yesterday we got mayyybe 3" and the sun is sublimating it steadily. Times change, eh. #climatechange #snowman #snowwoman #winter #maine
Face and hands of the Ivanka character flutters her false eyelashes, shows her porcelain veneer teefs and brandishes a gooey, about-to-explode can of Goya black beans at the camera. (label says they expired in 2021, ha ha little joke) She is wearing a butter yellow blouse, and a big gold colored necklace. Those beans ... who is going to spill them? Watercolors, gouache, Derwent w/c pencils and Inktense pencils on 140 lb. Fabriano 1264 watercolor paper. 12x9.5 inches.
#Ivanka, ever her sire's desire, in 2020 published a photo of herself with a can of beans. My sketch is from 2022, but those beans had expired in '21. That can's got to be so *ripe* by now💥 🫘🫘🫘
#comrade #RodeoClown #shill #HellisEmpty #HeroesandHeels #art #watercolors #sketches #portraits
