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Isabel Caves
@isabelcaves.bsky.social
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Writer, poet, and serial daydreamer. Author of Strange Beings and Witch Doctors Inc. Hobbyist photographer, graphic designer and digital artist.

(No AI in my work)

Blog: https://isabelcaves.wordpress.com/
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Isabel Caves @isabelcaves.bsky.social · 19d
I'm a fiction writer, poet, photographer and digital artist who's here on BlueSky for creative vibes and genuine interaction. I'm looking for creative mutuals to share and discuss art with (all kinds). I don't do DMS, but I'm always happy to have a conversation in the comments section.
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New blog post is up! I talk about failing and succeeding with art. If you have a second or two, it's free to read 👇

#blogs #WordPress #art #digitalart #EastCoastKin #artistsofbluesky #bloggers #artsky

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If at first you don’t succeed, fail,fail,fail again (then succeed)
What could you do less of? I could do less of failing. I just don’t enjoy it very much. Thing is, it keeps happening. And every time it does, I write myself off as hopeless. If I don’t …
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December 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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"Dance the Night Away"

Digital watercolour.

(Btw are we going by a particular time zone for #ArtAdventCalendar? Here at the bottom of the world I'm usually out of sync with everyone)

#art #digitalart #EastCoastKin #watercolor #abstractart #artyear #artsky
An abstract digital watercolour pour painting showing two figures dancing away without a care in the world. The figure on the left is in pink and orange and resembles a goat, and the right is in blue and purple and resembles a horse. In the background are swirls of red, blue, green, purple and yellow.
December 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Reposted by Isabel Caves
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Barred owl. Day 7 #ArtAdventCalendar
A maybe unfinished drawing from last winter. We see and hear these owls all the time. Last summer we had babies squawking around the yard!
#birds #natureart #wildlifeart #owls
Drawing of a barred owl flying through starry blue woods. A ghostly rabbit is fleeing below.
December 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Reposted by Isabel Caves
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 7!
Robin among flowers with LED lights.

This is a 3D acrylic painting using 3-4 layers on 2 plexiglass sheets. The frame is real stained wood.
It's been looking for a home the whole year, I hope it can find one eventually 💜

🪲🦐 🪶
An acrylic painting on transparent plexiglass of a robin surrounded by white flowers with pink centers. The stamen of the flowers are made with LEDs.
December 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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"Paper Boat on the Sea"

Medium: Digital gouache, painted in Procreate on the iPad mini with Apple Pencil (2nd gen).

#ArtAdventCalendar #EastCoastKin #art #artsky #artyear #smartist #digitalart #Procreate #abstractart #painting #gouache #artistsonbluesky #boats #ocean
A white paper boat navigates a glowing green sea. The sky is a deep pink, dotted with a few spots of green bokeh. Where the sky almost meets the sea, it lifts, revealing a different sky behind it. This sky is black and sprinkled with green stars.
December 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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My second (and last) post for my first day of #ArtAdventCalendar. I call this one "I Believe". Because sometimes I let myself believe in magic.

Medium: Digital (Procreate)

#art #artsky #artyear #digitalart #EastCoastKin #magic #onlybeautifulthings
A row of pink trees stands below a glimmering green and pink sky. Two luminous full moons, haloed in pink, shine above. The undergrowth is in shades of yellow and red. The trees and undergrowth are painted in the pointillism style.
December 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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I love foxes! They are beautiful, cute, and smart. This fox artwork is everything I like about them.

#foxes
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Day 5 of #ArtAdventCalendar - this is exactly how I'm feeling today
Drawing of a fox rolled up in a patch of high grass, dozing peacefully. The fox is drawn in an abstract way, split into triangles so that no two adjacent areas are coloured in the same hues. Polychromos coloured pencils and black fine liner on light green paper, 10x15cm
December 6, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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This is pretty cool!
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For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 5, a friendly but very shy bog dweller.

Finished today and made from paper mache, wood, dyed hemp fibre and mulberry bark. 🐌
A gremlin or goblin figure with huge ears and a curious expression. He is draped in a cloak made from coarse mulberry bark, and bits of muted green hemp fibre that resemble seaweed functioning as a scarf. He has duck-like orange webbed feet, and carries a bucket in one hand and a fishing rod in the other. He is standing against a soft white background decorated with pieces of driftwood and some dried grass.
December 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Don't you just love this artwork? I do.
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Day 3 of #artadventcalendar!

Featuring the ever so complex Griffon Vulture - these birds are super social, I suppose it’s because you can’t dine on decaying carcass without your buddies.

Mixed media on paper.
#birding #birdart
Vulture sketch on a purple abstract background
December 6, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Why am I only just finding out about #ArtAdventCalendar? I've already missed five days 😭 I took this shot in Feb 2025 in my backyard.

#photography #flowers #flowerphotography #bloomscrolling #flowerpower #onlybeautifulthings #macrophotography
Close-up photograph of a Coreopsis grandiflora flower. The flower is mainly a deep wine red, but its petals are tinged with a sunny yellow. In the background are other flowers of the same type and greenery.
December 6, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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I have apologized to the goose on my blog. You can read my shame-faced apology at the link below (free, no subscription or sign-up required)

#photography #photographersofbluesky #wildlifephotography #birdphotography #photographyblogs #wordpress

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He was wild, but beautiful
Do you ever see wild animals? I don’t see wild animals anywhere near as much as I’d like to. Living in the city, the wildest it usually gets is that grumpy cat from down the road who gl…
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December 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Experimenting with pointillism today. Hmm. Too many dots, too few dots...? Something about the texture of the cherry tree doesn't seem quite right 🤔

#art #digitalart #EastCoastKin #artsky #artyear #pointillism #impressionism #abstractart #cherryblossoms #Procreate #nature #cherrytree
A cherry tree against a clear blue sky, painted in Procreate using the pointillism style and the medium airbrush.
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Vespertine shadows clung to the tulips, even when the sun was high. At first they thought it was the witch. She was buried there, after all. Only when the lake grew opaque did they understand. The magic was never in the witch. It was in the water.

#vss365
December 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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A daffodil pin for #ColorADay #YellowThu.

#photography #icm #EastCoastKin #icmphotography #macrophotography #daffodil #flowers #flowerphotography #creativephotography #photographersofbluesky #thephotohour #photographersunited #onlybeautifulthings
A faux daffodil against a black background. Intentional camera movement gives the daffodil a "shadow".
December 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Another one for my paper boat series. (I wasn't 100% on the first piece, so now it's a series). Digital gouache using complementary colours.

#art #digitalart #artsky #artyear #abstractart #ocean #boats #Procreate #gouache #Stunday
A paper boat sails on a luminous green-blue ocean. Above it is a deep pink sky, black swirls accentuated with green lights, and green bokeh.
November 30, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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I set my DSLR to pick up less blue light when I shot this. It gave the image warm tones.

#BlueSkyArtShow #warmth #EastCoastKin #photography #flowers #flowerphotography #bloomscrolling #thephotohour #photographersunited #macrophotography #photographersofbluesky
A pink dahlia with delicately curling petals. In the background are more dahlias, an unopened dahlia bud, and greenery.
November 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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There's a sad story behind this painting, but I still enjoyed painting it. Here's to the ones we've loved and lost.

#art #digitalart #EastCoastKin #artyear #artsky #smArtist #watercolor #watercolour #abstractart #Procreate #boats #ocean #sunset
A digital watercolour painting showing a paper boat floating on the ocean beneath the sunset.
November 29, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Last night's experiment with impression. I liked the way this turned out when I painted it, but today I kind of hate it. Who knows how I'll feel tomorrow.

#art #digitalart #impressionism #rain #umbrellas #painting #oilpainting #artsky #artyear #abstractart #Procreate
Women, children and a dog walk through the rain. The figure in the middle holds a pink umbrella.
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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"Falling"

A is for Abstract 🎨

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels #WackyWednesdayArt #EastCoastKin #art #artyear #artsky #smArtist #digitalart #abstractart
A colourful abstract digital charcoal painting showing figures falling.
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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"In This Chaos"

Creatives with day jobs will know all about chaos 😉

#art #artsky #artyear #digitalart #abstractart #Procreate #artistsofbluesky #chaos #fire #smArtist #expressionism
Abstract digital painting showing a red figure navigating a fire-like background.
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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As an artist I enjoy fusing and blending different ideas. This was inspired by watercolour drip paintings. I aimed to create the #photography equivalent using sequins, fabric and #icm.

#macrophotography #EastCoastKin #abstractart #artyear #photographersofbluesky
Icm photograph of sequins on red fabric. The sequins appear as dribbles of light, imitating a watercolour drip painting.
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all"

-Emily Dickinson

📸 by me

#ImageandVerse #photography #EastCoastKin #icm #photographersofbluesky #macrophotography #flowers #onlybeautifulthings
Photograph of a faux daffodil taken with ICM (intentional camera movement". The background is black. Paired with one of my favourite quotes.
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Time is outside my window
in watercolour sunrises
leaves that orange away
moon music
lifting notes from blinking minds

Outside my window
it goes on
solar lunacy
lunar apologies
a glaze of humanity
outside a pyramid of bones

#poetry #writesky #poetrysky #poetrycommunity
November 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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I drew from 2 methods for this piece: fluid art for the flower and pointillism for the background.

#art #digitalart #flower #fluidart #pointillism #artsky #artyear #abstractart #starrysky #dots #Procreate #painting #watercolour
A red and pink watercolour pour flower against a starry sky. Digital artwork painted in Procreate.
November 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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"Beach". This is a photograph! I put dozens of #small sequins on fabric, then turned the composition into an "artwork" with intentional camera movement.

#photography #BlueSkyArtShow #art #icm #macro #EastCoastKin #beach #abstractart #sequins #creativephotography #artyear
An abstract ICM photography "artwork" of a beach with golden sand, turquoise waters, and white clouds in a black sky. Created by taking a photograph of sequins laid out on black muslin cloth with a macro lens, soft focus filter, and some intentional camera movement.
November 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM