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evidence based space-case petal pusher, idea shover, scribble maker she/her dual 🌉/🍁 #spousedup #celiac #ALTtextOnlyReposter 🚫AI Avatar: (b&w) tiny me digging for gold. Banner: three flower-painted oyster shells on a sill.

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Rebecca, House of Ogg @earthlingnoreally.bsky.social · 11d

🎨Oct Art Challenges w/ daily prompts!
#31DaysOfFungi - @malinadowling
#ArchInk - @blacktrowel
#Invertober - @fossilforager
#Epochtober - @romanlandry
#Paleoctober - @djigr.bsky
#Sharktober - @requinoesis
#Spacetober - @morgandenman
#Spooktober - @wealiearts
#streamink - @streamink

List update soon!

Rebecca, House of Ogg @earthlingnoreally.bsky.social · Sep 2

🎉September update to the #BlueSkyArtShowsss list has arrived!

A comprehensive list of art challenges on Bluesky. Save for easy reference

Comment below for errors or omissions - or if you have a challenge to add (*Include the host name if you know it), thanks!

Make with the art already!
✨✨🎨✏️🗿🪡🧶📸✨✨

#BlueSkyArtShowsss
All challenges are 📸+🎨 unless otherwise specified. 🚫 AI / Original Art Only
Use of [ALT text] strongly encouraged for equal accessibility for the visually challenged/impaired, legally blind
(*ECK = East Coast Kin Arts Collective host)

Monthly Current & upcoming - (for previous months this year go to the end of the list)

Hosted on BlueSky
September -
🎨 #LillasStylePlay2025 - @makeartthatsells
🎨 #SciArtSeptember - @lizlagomorph + @LucyGemArt
#SleepySep - @wealiearts
‬October -
‬🎨 #ArchInk - @blacktrowel
🎨 #Invertober - @fossilforager
🎨 #Epochtober - @romanlandry
🎨 #Paleoctober - @djigr.bsky
‬🎨 #Sharktober - @requinoesis
🎨 #Spacetober - @morgandenman
#Spooktober - @wealiearts
🎨 #streamink - @streamink
‬November -
🎨 #Dinovember - @kaseysnow
‬#NightmareNov - @wealiearts
🎨 #Nudivember - @nudibranch
🎨 #Temnovember - @batmanelvisigodo
December -
#ArtAdventCalendar -@jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
#XtraXmas - @wealiearts

One Day per Month
#BirdWhisperer - @birdwhisperers
#TheCampfire (1st Tuesday)- ECK - @pmgibbs

Monthly theme
Hosted on BlueSky
🎨#ENDANGART - @nollthere
Unhosted, Unidentified Host,
Not Hosted on Bluesky
(for previous months this year go to the end of the list)
- 🎨 #Birdtober, #Entober, #Mathober
mathober.com, #Sciartober, #SciCommInk
@scicommlexicon.com
- 🎨 #Neighvember
- 🎨 brrrdcember, #Decembird,
#Dinocember,#DinoDecember

Other Not originating on Bluesky 🎨
#AnimalDayCal2025 –
http://tinyurl.com/3vh22kn6
#The100DayProject – https://the100dayproject.substack.com/about

Weekly (year-round) New theme each week
#AlphabetChallenge - ECK - @sheena-mck
#SensoryArt - ECK - @subicrn

September 2025

#BlueSkyArtShowsss

Daily posting (year-round) - No theme
#ArtShow
#ArtYear - @annalarssonstudio
#onlybeautifulthings
#SciArt🐡- @flyingtrilobite.com
#urbansketchers - @urbansketchers
#ClassicMono - ECK - (📸 monochrome) - @fotonstudio, @clcart, @victorbz, @fotodefer, @wolfgangwhyte, @dmimaging, @starlitwaltz, @mclellandphotography.com

Specific Days (year-round) - Hosted
Mondays
#BlueSkyMonday - ECK - @arminausejo.com @rina2012
📸 #MacroMonday - ECK - @genypher @elaschneider43 @freyasnowball
📸 #MountainMonday - ECK - @rouxroamer
Tuesdays
#AnimalArtTuesday - @mikecoffeyart
📸 #RockinTuesday - @xobreex3‬
📸 #TagTuesday - @richardbcolon.com
📸 #TidesOutTuesday - @runningpast
Wednesdays
#WackyWednesdayArt - @itsmtntime
Thursdays
📸 #humansOfBlueSky - ECK - @luiscordoba
#PalacesandGardens - ECK - @sabineshutterbug
📸 #UrbanGaze - ECK - @rnantel

#ColourADay / #ColorADay - @wealiearts
#MagentaMon or #PinkMon
#CyanTue or #BlueTue
#RedWed
#YellowThu or #GoldThu
#BWFri or #BlackFri or #WhiteFri
#GreenSat
#OrangeSun

Fridays
#FishyFriday - @victoriapfeiffer
#FiveMinFriday - @captzerp
#FoodOnFriday - @lorettarobinson
#ForestFriday - ECK - @chrisclougholy
📸 #MacroFeatherFriday - @marjoriemcdonald
📸 #macrophotofriday - @macrophotofriday
#Scape - ECK - @jaycee-visionlogic, @rina2012
Saturdays
#BlueSkyArtShow - ECK - @churchstreetimages.com
📸#bnw_macro - ECK - @geraldmfoto
Sundays
#bnw_macro - ECK - @geraldmfoto
📸 #SelfPortraitSunday - ECK - @selfportraiture, @lotuscarroll, @eustace.link
#ShotsInSlots - @kerrieneet
#Stunday - ECK - @handcranked, @alinagrafik, @skarabara
🎨 #SundayFishSketch🐡- ‪@lampichthys ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

September 2025

#BlueSkyArtShowsss
Specific Days Year-Round
Unhosted 📸 # Challenges

Mondays
#AllMetalMonday
#Market Monday
#MinimalMonday
#MosaicMonday

Tuesdays
#TelephoneBox #Twosday
#TerraceTuesday
#TextureTuesday
#ThickTrunkTuesday
#TilesOnTuesday
#TinyWindowTuesday
#TulipTuesday

Wednesdays
#RoseWednesday
#WallsOnWednesday
#WaterfallWednesday
#WeirdBirdWednesday
#WhiteFlowerWednesday
#WindowWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday
#WordlessWednesday

Thursdays
#AdoorableThursday
#ThrowbackThursday
#ThursdayBins
#ThursdayChairs
#Thursgate
#PubSignThursday

Fridays
#FerrousFriday
#FloralFriday
#FlowersonFriday
#FontsonFriday
#PubfrontFriday
#ShopfrontFriday

Saturdays (#Caturday)
#PostBoxSaturday
#SatARTday
#SaturdayStairs
#SteepleSaturday
#StripesonSaturday

Sundays
#FlowersonSunday
#SignsonSunday
#SilentSunday
#SundaySkies
#SundayYellow

***@saveredlandlibr has tons of suggestions for other daily hashtag challenges to participate in.

September 2025

#BlueSkyArtShowsss

Completed This Year, Monthly with a Daily Theme (May return next year – 2026)

Challenges Hosted on Bluesky

January
#Birbfest2025 - @monkeymintaka
#JanuArty/#JanuArty2025 - @whitneyyoh
#Creaturanuary - @spectralashwood
February
#FebruArty - @whitneyyoh
#FebArt/#FebArt25 - @elunajewelry
#FebruaryElemental - @omegamom
#Februllage - @missprinted @rhedfawell @edincollagecoll
#FishyFeb - @victoriapfeiffer
March
#MakersmARTch - @whitneyyoh
#MarchOfTheMammals - @shunosaurus
#MarchIntoLandscapes - @victoriapfeiffer
#mARTch - @elunajewelry
#MathArtMarch - @ayliean
#MutationMarch - @galusaurus ‬
#smARTist - @kac-art.bsky.social
April
#4Art25 - @elunajewelry
#acoloraDAYpril - @whitneyyoh
#AprilColors - @faunwood
#smARTist - @kac-art
May
#streamink2025/#doodleawaymay2025 - @streamink
#MayBlooms/MayLeaves - @birdsinboughs
#MayJewels25 - @elunajewelry
#Maysozoic - @paleorex
#MothMay - @loadofolbobbins
#shrknd0petography - @shrknd0
June
#dyicad2025/#daisyyellowart - @tammy999
#JuneSea - @birdsinboughs
#smARTist - @kac-art

July -
#dyicad2025/#daisyyellowart - @tammy999
#JuliArty - @whitneyyoh
#smARTist - @kac-art
#USkJulyPrompts2025 - @urbansketchers
August -
#AbstractAug - @wealiearts
#AuGhost2025 - @therealaughost
#AugustAdventures2025 - @byjessicaelena
#AvianAugust - @cookiedoves
#smARTist - @kelseycarnellart
#USkAugustPrompts2025 - @urbansketchers

Challenges Unhosted, Unidentified Host, Not Hosted on Bluesky
#Figuary, #frogfebruary
#Marchitecture
#Plein Airpril
#MerMay (mermains/mercreatures)
#DrawEverythingJune2025 @adorkastock.com, #Junicorn (unicorns),#Kaijune

September 2025

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Lyn Maccallum @lynmac.bsky.social · 1d

Treasure flowers in a kerb island, from last week as today is overcast and now windy

#SundayYellow #SensoryArt #shadows #bloomscrolling #flowers #photography

Several yellow flowers, some in focus and fully visible, some not. They are spilling over the white edge of a kerb island from where (which?) they are growing, as seen from an angle above. There are shadows of the flowers and leaves on the edge.

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Soph0571 @soph0517.bsky.social · 1d

#SundaySharing #SundayYellow #BloomScrolling #macro #photography #stunday #EastCoastKin

So yellow
So mellow 😊

Have a lovely Sunday wherever you find yourself today

A close-up macro photograph of a vibrant flower bud partially open, revealing rich yellow and orange petals with delicate textures and veins. Tiny water droplets rest on the petals, reflecting light and adding a fresh, dewy look. The outer petal edges show a soft gradient from coral-pink to golden yellow, while the background is softly blurred with green foliage, emphasizing the vivid bloom in sharp focus.

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M Frost @mfrostwords.bsky.social · 18h

#bloomscrolling #photography #dahlia

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 16h

one perfect poppy anemone #flowerreport #bloomscrolling

A poppy anemone with white petals and a blue-black center and green leaves below.

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JBC @johnbcaddell.bsky.social · 15h

here's my favorite fancy floating #flower, the #waterlily from Huntington Gardens in San Marino, CA for #SundayYellow
🌱

#JBCFlowers #blooms #garden #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #DailyFlower

a yellow waterlily floats next to 3 green lily pads at Huntington Gardens n San Marino, CA

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charlie @lonelyeyecharlie.bsky.social · 15h

dawn peace
august '25
📷: nikon fe
🎞️: arista edu 200

#grass #botanical #bloomscrolling #filmphotography #photography #eastcoastkin #classicmono

close black and white photo of flowering grass, bent in the wind

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ione blue @ioneblue.bsky.social · 15h

flashes of light
#photography
#macrophotography
#photographersofbluesky
#eastcoastkin
#imageandverse
#stunday
#flowers
#art
#bloomscrolling

loving that new [to me] hashtag.

always keep a diamond in your mind.
—lyrics, tom waits

macrophotograph of a dark pink gerbera daisy that fills the frame. my favorite line from tom waits' song, Always Keep a Diamond in Your MInd. For eastcoastkin's #imageandverse.

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Bob @bobsegel.com · 14h

Bob's Picture of the Day
#Photography, #Rose, #Charmglo, #Flower, #BloomScrolling, #PhotoOfTheDay, #DailyPhoto, #iPhone

This is a picture of a Charmglo rose. ©️BobSegel

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Jacqueline @justjacque.bsky.social · 8h

Flower of the day.

#Flowers
#BloomScrolling
#DailyFlowers

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pyratestacy.bsky.social @pyratestacy.bsky.social · 8h

#roses
#flowers
#bloomscrolling
#photography

Pink and white roses, fully opened to show centers.

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Denise Goldberg @denisegoldberg.bsky.social · 12h

A tulip wearing orange from spring of 2025

For #ColorADay #OrangeSun
#bloomscrolling #flowers

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Juju Bee! @fireflyfox5.bsky.social · 8h

Sunday Dailha
#ColorADay #OrangeSun #Stunday

A close up color photo of a large flower with many orange petals. Photo by me

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RaphMikeyTurtle @raphmikey.bsky.social · 11h

#Alphabetchallenge #WeekPforPink
#photography
#mobilephotography

Hibiscus

A large hot pink Hibiscus bloom within surrounding foliage

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Jenny @jenneke1961.bsky.social · 22h

Priceless breath of dawn.

#WeekOForOpulent
#AlpabetChallenge
#StunDay
My last one for this week. As always, thanks Sheena 🤗

Breathtaking pink, red in blue sky sunrise. Dotted clouds all over. Reflection in calm water. Silhouettes of windmill and trees on the horizon. Jetty stretched out in the foreground.

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Rebecca, House of Ogg @earthlingnoreally.bsky.social · 5h

#NatureIsArt

Chrysanthemum crystals - captured Monday

#Phonetography
(Straddling two #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOpulent #WeekPforPink / #ColorADay #OrangeSun #PinkMon) #FlowersOnSunday #flowers #bloomscrolling #onlybeautifulthings #dewytip #sparkly

Close-up of a salmon pink and pale yellow chrysanthemum with dew drops on the tips of the petals that look like crystals

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photoblair.bsky.social @photoblair.bsky.social · 7h

Red.

#SibbaldPoint #Autumn #Photography

Red leaves cover the ground at Sibbald Point Provincial Park in Sutton Ontario

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Rebecca, House of Ogg @earthlingnoreally.bsky.social · 7h

It's a day of giving thanks in Canada, so it's my duty (heh) as a Canadian citizen to say thanks. So thanks! Whether you're in Canada or not, please accept this token of my gratitude 🪙. No reason. Good for 1 virtual free hug, on me 🤗. Hey now— I know that's a lot, but don't thank me. Pay it forward.

A scratched chalkboard under a window with the words "Thank you" written on it. There's a heart in the letter a and an asterisk in the letter o. Six hearts frame the words. There's dappled light on the chalkboard.

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photoblair.bsky.social @photoblair.bsky.social · 15h

Sticks.

#SibbaldPoint #MonoSunday #ForestSunday #ThinTrunkSunday #TreesOfBlueskySunday #SundayImInTransit #BlackAndWhite #Photography

Trees and stuff at Sibbald Point Provincial Park in Sutton Ontario

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Standing Mountain @standingmountain.bsky.social · 16h

To rise in consciousness without love is to stretch into abstraction —
a sky vast yet cold, where light travels without warmth.

To love without consciousness is to burn without form —
a fire fierce but blind, consuming without understanding.

The full bloom of being, presence entwine.

#Andean

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5151photography.bsky.social @5151photography.bsky.social · 16h

Well seasoned Salt and Pepper Shakers at Jax's Chip Truck in Virginia, Ontario

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Rebecca, House of Ogg @earthlingnoreally.bsky.social · 15h

#SensoryArt #Shadow #31DaysOfHalloween #SignsonSunday

Private members only - 2025

#Phonetography
#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #climbagainstwallforentry #viney #veiny

A lush greem vine drowning across a concrete fence with a metal sign on it that reads, "PRIVATE"

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Felicity amelia @felicityamelia.bsky.social · 20h

#31DaysofHalloween
Day 12 #Shapeshifter
"Storyhour" charcoal on Fabriano
#Spooktober #drawing #traditionalart #portrait #faun #eastcoastkin

Two young girls look back at the viewer, girl view left is in a chair, slightly out of focus, girl in right foreground is in focus, in a pinafore, with goat horns emerging from the top of her head.

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Rüm Hart @luvundlee.bsky.social · 1d

'Farbe: Orange' #FotoVorschlag
Ringelblumen 🐝
The color orange marigolds.
#eastcoastkin #coloraday #orangesun #flowersonsunday

Eine Ringelblume in Nahaufnahme, auf der eine Hosenbiene sitzt. Weitere Ringelblumen sind im Hintergrund unscharf.

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Andrea Peterson @andreapeterson.bsky.social · 18h

Some turban squash at a local farmer’s market 🧡

#ColorADay #OrangeSun #Orange #FreshProduce #Farmers #BuyLocal #Photography #PNW #Edmonds

A cluster of turban squash in colors of bright orange, white, green, and yellow

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Cat’s Eyes @catseyelens.bsky.social · 18h

An decorative autumn harvest display at the apple orchard.

#ColorADay #OrangeSun #31DaysOfHalloween #pumpkin #autumn #harvest #display #photography #EastCoastKin

For Color A Day Orange Sun and 31DaysOfHalloween, a colour photograph, taken on a sunny day at an apple Orchard, of an outside autumnal display with four pumpkins, two curly yellow and green gourds and one red apple, placed decoratively on wooden pallets.

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