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Brian ☀️🌏🌘

@balail.bsky.social

Red-shouldered Hawk
#photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #thelittlethings

December 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM

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Cindy Swoveland 🍁

@cpswoveland.bsky.social

DIdn’t make too many quilts this year so digging into my photos..this was taken at VanDusen Gardens in Vancouver where I used to be a guide. Gingko leaves on snow. Snow came early that year #ArtAdventCalendar

Gingko leaves on snow. The leaves are yellow

December 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM

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Harold von Drehle

@haroldvondrehle.bsky.social

#ArtAdventCalendar
#BlueTuesday
#FlowerReport:

From San Jose, California, Sunday.

A close-up photo of a blue Viola flower. There is a fuzzy whitish V-shape pointing up at the center, down from which flows a bit of orange shading. There are also darker blue streams reaching out into the 4 to 6 big floppy petals, and smaller veins of lighter hues cascading into the petals as well. The background has some darkness and several large olive green leaves.

December 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM

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June Flanagan

@juneflanagan.bsky.social

Lovely piece

PJE @creativitysilver.bsky.social · 21h

Day 2 Medieval style panel designed to look like fragments being reused. Pieces were hand painted using traditional glass paint and a dip pen with silverstain added to the reverse to colour the flowers yellow. Then kiln fired before leading up.
#ArtAdventCalendar
#StainedGlass

A diamond shaped leaded glass panel with a recreated medieval style fragment in the centre painted showing yellow flowers with a patterned border. The panel is photographed against a countryside view with a stream.

December 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM

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June Flanagan

@juneflanagan.bsky.social

Day 2 #ArtAdventCalendar
Every November, I plant an amaryllis bulb indoors, just to observe its spear-shaped stalk slowly emerge from the bulb, tipped with a bud that eventually swells and reveals a cluster of magnificent trumpet-shaped blossoms during the depths of winter.

a clump of brilliant red trumpet-shaped amaryllis blossoms and unopened red buds on pale green tubular stems with flat strap new leaves emerging between the blooming stems

December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM

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JayIsPainting 🍁

@jayispainting.earthskyart.ca

Are You Ready???

#ArtAdventCalendar

#ArtAdventCalendar Guidelines
Art can be almost anything. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography, digital. If you think it's art and it beautifies the timeline then post it. No NFTs or Al art please
PLEASE USE ALT TEXT
It does not matter if you "posted it last year".
You don't need to be a "professional" artist. If you make art at any experience level and want to show it off and make others happy, this is the event
Art must be original and it must be yours or from a family member with permission. Please don’t post works from other artists, old masters etc
Art does NOT have to be seasonal. It can be pretty much any subject, but please keep it family friendly-ish
Please don't cross post with just links to other platforms. Most links to other social media sites don't show with images at all and if they do they are usually thumbnails
Please do not post prices or use BUY NOW kinds of posts. We are bombarded with hard sell at this time of year and that's not what this is about. This is not meant to be a sales pitch. You can post links to your website if you like
Please share posts and follow participating artists. This is both an exercise to build a following of art lovers and to build a supportive community of fellow artists. If you like someone else's work, let them know!
As "organizer" I do my best to share all art during the month but if I miss a post, please don't take it as an insult or commentary on your work. There are a lot of posts and I will miss a few. Note that I won't share posts that contain prices or buy now content
Post daily or as much as you can with the hashtag #ArtAdvent Calendar There is no specified time to post. It's a worldwide event so time you post isn't that important
Don't worry if you miss a day or two. Post even if you only have 1 thing to show off that makes the timeline brighter
While the event dates are the 1st to the 24th, feel free to continue to post until the end of the month if you like

November 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM

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Moonchylde

@moonchild1117.bsky.social

I am resurrecting this Storm Shelter Daylily for today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme of #warmth. The glowing center looks like a fire, and since we're expecting a winter storm today & tomorrow, this image hits just right. 🔥🧡💛

#EastCoastKin #Photography

November 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM

Cathey

@cathey.bsky.social

A red-bellied woodpecker showing his #Stripes for #BirdOfTheDay. #Birds #EastCoastKin #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography

A large bird with a black beak, a red head and nape, a white chest, black and white striped wings, and large gnarled feet (a male red-bellied woodpecker), hangs on a green suet cage containing a yellow sunflower-seed-filled suet block. The background is mottled green lawn and spots of bokeh.

December 3, 2025 at 3:11 AM

Cathey

@cathey.bsky.social

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 2
Japanese maple ready for the season! 🍁
#NaturePhotography #ArtYear#EastCoastKin #Trees

Stunningly bright red Japanese maple leaves glow against a blurred background of red, green, white, and yellow.

December 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM

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𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜

@churchstreetimages.com

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday December 6, 2025
The theme is #Sky

Any art, any interpretation
Use both tags to be
included in our feed.
Multiple entries welcome

More details in the comments

#photography #drawing #painting #sketching #poetry

Photo of a summer sky full of puffy clouds with text over it reading:
Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday December 6, 2025
The theme is #Sky

Any art, any interpretation
Use both tags to be
included in our feed.
Multiple entries welcome.

December 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM

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JayIsPainting 🍁

@jayispainting.earthskyart.ca

And let's get December going!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 1

Nightwatch 22x44in 56x112cm
Oil on Canvas
2023

#Art #Painting

Abstract landscape of a storm front at night with lightning in the distance

December 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM

Cathey

@cathey.bsky.social

Thought I'd inspire myself with this amazing dahlia for Day 1 of #ArtAdventCalendar. It's called Peppermint Swirl - so apropos for the season, don't you think? Happy December! ❤️🤍🌿
#Flowers #Garden #EastCoastKin #NaturePhotography #Bloomscrolling

A stunning red and white dahlia with its profusion of bi-colored petals and gold disk florets at center lights up against a mottled background of golds, greens, and pops of red.

December 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM

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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦

@glengrambo.bsky.social

#ArtAdventCalendar
Dec.1
A male white-winged crossbill with his spruce cone on a frosty winter day.
#Birds #photography #wildlife

A male White-winged crossbill in a frosty and snowy spruce tree with a spruce cone in his beak. He has a red head and a mottled brown body with a white wing stripe. He will use his crossed bill to extract the spruce seeds from the cone.

December 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM

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Robyn

@handcranked.bsky.social

Your art challenge cheat sheet for Dec 1–7!

NEW: #ArtAdventCalendar and #XtraXmas

Host list in the comments

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#dailyart #art #traditionalart #painting #drawing #onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #artprompt

Art Challenges: December 1–7

Monday, December 1
#BlueSkyMonday (anything blue)
#MacroMonday (any macro)
#MountainMonday (mountains)
#MinimalMonday (minimalism)
#ColorADay (#PinkMon)
#XtraXmas (#PartridgePeartree)

Tuesday, December 2
#RockinTuesday (rocks)
#TidesOutTuesday
#TagTuesday (graffiti/street art)
#AnimalArtTuesday
#ColorADay (#BlueTue or #CyanTue)
#XtraXmas (#TurtleDoves)

Wednesday, December 3
#WaterfallWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday
#WackyWednesdayArt (odd/unusual)
#ColorADay (#RedWed)
#XtraXmas (#FrenchHens)

Thursday, December 4
#HumansOfBlueSky (people)
#UrbanGaze (anything urban)
#PalacesAndGardens (#RedGreenGold)
#ColorADay (#YellowThu)
#XtraXmas (#CallingBirds)

Friday, December 5
#scape (any kind of scape)
#FishyFriday
#ForestFriday
#FoodOnFriday
#FlyDay (critters that fly)
#ColorADay (#BWFri)
#XtraXmas (#GoldRings)

Saturday, December 6
#BNWmacro
#ColorADay (#GreenSat)
#BlueSkyArtShow (#sky)
#XtraXmas (#geese)

Sunday, December 7
#Stunday (stunning)
#ImageAndVerse (photos with
poems written by you or anyone)
#BNWmacro
#ColorADay (#OrangeSun)
#SelfPortraitSunday (#LinesAndGeometry)
#XtraXmas (#swans)

ALL WEEK
#ArtAdventCalendar (any original non-AI art daily through Dec 24)
#ArtYear (any art)
#ArtOfSelfPortraiture
#BirdOfTheDay (see Alan H or Rob Crank for daily prompt)
#ClassicMono (monochrome)
#FestiveDailyRobin (robins through December 31)
#smArtist (purposeful art)
#AlphabetChallenge (#WeekWForWindows)
#SensoryArt (#seasons)

November 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM

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The Washington Post

@washingtonpost.com

The intense focus on Citizens United has obscured a less-recognized campaign finance case, one that never made it to the Supreme Court: a case that actually paved the way for the super PACs frequently used by billionaires like Elon Musk.

Case that lets billionaires spend big on elections never reached Supreme Court

A less-recognized campaign finance case from 2010 paved the way for the super PACs frequently used by billionaires such as Elon Musk to spend big on elections.

www.washingtonpost.com

December 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM

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𝑨 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒚 𝑺𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒂

@sheena-mck.bsky.social

Attention Alphabetters!
Mon 1 Dec is the start of Week W and the theme for the #AlphabetChallenge is Windows. Shop windows, plane windows, car windows, house windows, big windows, small windows, is your choice - but windows! They’re not just for Wednesdays you know 😁
Use the # below and have fun😊