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June Flanagan
@juneflanagan.bsky.social
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🍁 Botanist, environmental horticulturist, nature photographer, author/coauthor of 5 books for prairie plant enthusiasts and gardeners. Aspiring botanical illustrator.
🇨🇦 www.juneflanagan.ca

Nature inspires my inner artist. 🌿
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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · Feb 2
This is a good year to grow some of your own food. My Edible Plants book has everything you need to know to successfully grow tasty fruits, vegetables and herbs in our Canadian Prairie climate.
Cherries, chard, raspberries, shallots, herbs, salad greens and bean flowers are shown on the book cover of Edible Plants for Prairie Gardens
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This painting shines!
joriginals1.bsky.social Joriginals1 @joriginals1.bsky.social · 8h
Yup late to the party…
#artadventcalendar Day 1 close up of my latest painting “Loose Change”
7 individual round canvases on Velcro substrate.
Close of view of my painting of Canadian coins “Loose Change”
December 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Beautiful piece!
michele207.bsky.social I need a new faux name & I make jewelry @michele207.bsky.social · 5h
For #day3 of #ArtAdventCalendar a few Tahoma Agate pieces. Found near Mount Rainier, the blue, green, brown, and white colors in this agate sometimes create interesting stories.

The stone in this cuff, for example, looks like a storm brewing in a snow covered mountain valley.
Sterling silver cuff bracelet. the cuff is one rectangular wire and wone round wire, attached at the ends and split so there is a gap between them in the middle. In the gap there is a wide and narrow oval stone. The stone is grayish-white along toward the bottom, with a thin band of brown at the edge of the white, so it looks like a valley floor surrounded by mountains and covered in snow. The top part of the stone is the same, but the white is more swirling, so it looks like clouds. In the middle, the colors are pale blue-green and light brown, so they look like storm-filled sky between the snow and clouds.
December 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Winter’s low angle light really makes your sculpture glow here. 🌾✨
slavocech.bsky.social slavo cech @slavocech.bsky.social · 5h
Day 3. Titled. “Bending Still” these abstract “Grasses” in situ at the collectors just outside of Ottawa.
#ArtAdventCalendar
An abstract Grasses sculpture sits in the snow as the sun sets on a a winters day.
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Wonderful theme for your beautiful illustrations!
annieshaoart.bsky.social Annie Shao Art @annieshaoart.bsky.social · 5h
Continuing with upside down birds for #ArtAdventCalendar, a Pygmy Nuthatch for today!

#BirdArt #SciArt #ArtYear #Watercolor #FineArt #AnimalArt
Detailed watercolor painting of a pygmy nuthatch hanging upside down on a ponderosa pinecone.
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Lovely piece
creativitysilver.bsky.social PJE @creativitysilver.bsky.social · 1d
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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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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Did you know that Alberta has many species of carnivorous plants?
December 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Spectacular image ✨
debmaluk.bsky.social debmaluk.bsky.social @debmaluk.bsky.social · 1d
day 1 #ArtAdventCalendar all aboard the posting beautiful things train! Let's make everyone's timelines joyful and inspiring!
A frosty spruce tree on the right with snow all around. There is a pale band of aurora in the dark blue night sky.
December 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Yarrow in black and white.
#bnwphotography #monochrome #wildflowers #photography 📷
Black and white photograph of a Common Yarrow flowerhead consisting of several small white florets.
December 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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My latest wet felt/needle felt piece
for day one of #ArtAdventCalendar
A fantasy landscape of a world I made up, in the colours that make me most happy! 😊
“The Floral Fields Of Lunaria” it is called, and it’s also going into a physical art show for the month of December! 😁☀️
#textileart #felting
A field of vividly colored flowers stretches towards a distant mountain range. Above, a dynamic sky swirls with stars and multiple hues.
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Calling all artists! Pollinator Partnership is seeking an artist to create the 2026 Pollinator Poster titled "Life on a Leaf: Celebrating Host Plants and Caterpillars.” This theme is an opportunity to show the life cycles of butterflies and moths and highlight the plants that support them.
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Day 1. A public art commission honouring Joseph Lewis, he was thought to be the first black fur trader in the Edmonton area. It is titled “The Steersman”.
#ArtAdventCalendar
The unveiling of my public art piece. Titled “The Steersman” an abstract canoe with the silhouette of a paddler.
December 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Today is the first day of #ArtAdventCalendar. It's the brainchild of artist @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca created to blanket social media with art. Artists from around the world are participating, posting daily till Dec 24. Follow the hashtag,share your favourite posts, follow the artists you enjoy.
My painting of a turbulent sky and setting sun over a dark horizon. The sky is full of tufts of white and grey clouds. Streaks of orange and green sky above the horizon and a bright yellow sky. Rough and Tumble 30x30, Oil on wood panel
December 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Beautiful work!
tcorraini.bsky.social Tracey ✌🏼🧡 @tcorraini.bsky.social · 2d
Day 1 - #ArtAdventCalendar

Let’s open the first door this December 1 with:

Doe and Fawn
Etched Glass
24” X 36”

#Art #glassArt
A door with an etched glass window of a doe on guard standing in the forest and a fawn looking at you while it curls up for a peaceful rest
December 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Love these prints and pollinator garden theme
minouette.bsky.social Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 2d
We’ve made it to December so it’s time for #ArtAdventCalendar! I enjoy taking part & just sharing art every day & take the opportunity to go back over new work I made during the year. 🧪🐡

Day 1. I am sharing the pollinator garden work which I made for my show about the future of pollination for
As described this is a my collaged linocut pollinator garden artwork featuring a log, wildflowers and pollinators including: Canada goldenrod, purple coneflower, wild geraniums, wild columbine, common milkweed, black eyed susans, monarch butterflies, red-spotted purple butterfly, white underwing moth, Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly, bumblebee, sweat bee, resin bee, large milkweed bug and milkweed leaf beetle.
December 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 1
‘Bull’s Blood’ beet, watercolour on hot press paper

I grew a clump of heirloom beets from seed, harvested the beautiful leaves as baby greens for salads, then painted this one at the end of the season, and roasted the roots. Delicious!
watercolour illustration of a beet root, with violet red leaves that are surrounded by stubs left from harvesting young leaves for salad greens
December 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Reposted by June Flanagan
jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
Do you make...

Paintings, pots, sculptures, sketches, photographs, quilts, digital art, beading, textiles, mini figs, printmaking & any other visual art...

Whatever skill level you're at, if you made it, it's mostly sfw, and not AI (never AI) I want you to participate!

Starts in 4 days!
#art
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
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November 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Really looking forward to this!
jayispainting.earthskyart.ca JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 16d
Artists & Art lovers!

Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!

Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
earthskyart.ca
November 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Congratulations to Tyee senior editor @akkabah.bsky.social, who won Gold at the 2025 Taste Canada Awards for their book “Hearty”! 🏆🍨💫

On eating joyfully and inclusively, check out our Q&A with the author from September 2024.
‘We Need to Rethink What Healthy Means’ | The Tyee
In ‘Hearty,’ andrea bennett calls for a more inclusive, joyful approach to food and how we eat. A Tyee Q&A.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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If NASA made pottery this would be it.

Born from stardust, raku-fired and galaxy inspired, 30 Doradus Tarantula can find its orbit in your space.

#space #sciart #pottery
A galaxy-inspired raku pottery vase with coppers, reds, violets and blues 30 Doradus in the the Tarantula Nebula. Clouds of stars and star dust in reds, blues, purples and yellow A closeup of a galaxy-inspired raku pottery vase with coppers, reds, violets and blues. A raku-vase being placed into the raku reduction container while flames encompass it.
November 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Sunrise sky over the Oldman River Valley

#nature
golden grassy hills along a river valley that is spanned by a long black trestle bridge and a pale rosy orange sky at sunrise
October 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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It’s that glorious time of year, when the alpine larch trees (Larix lyallii), a deciduous conifer, turn gold before shedding their soft, fine needles.
#nativeplants #photography
An autumn alpine scene with reddish grasses in the foreground, and a forest of golden larch trees against a background of blue mountain peaks in the distance
October 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Good morning, October.
Sunrise over prairie with a band of horizontal reddish clouds topped by golden light near horizon and a large, fluffy bright pink and purple cloud overhead
October 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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You know it’s fall when the seed heads of our native blue grama grass
(Bouteloua gracilis)
curl up like eyelashes and scatter their seeds.

#nativeplants
curled golden blue grama grass seedheads resemble eyelashes against a field of golden prairie grass
September 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Plant day-neutral types of strawberries like this ‘Seascape’ variety and you’ll be picking right up until frost. Our cool September nights produce the sweetest fruit of the season. 🍓

#ediblegarden
A bright red ripe strawberry is nestled among the green leaves of a strawberry plant. Developing green strawberries can be seen just above it on the left. The low-growing plants are mulched with small wood chips.
September 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM