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Kelsey Carnell Art

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Handmade Treasures VA, USA Haven’t painted since newborn baby… Crocheting a lot! #smArtist host - see feed August posted! #EastCoastKin member Traditional Art ✍🏼 🎨 Crochet 🧶 Art for sale 🖼️🧣 DM with❓ https://ko-fi.com/kelseycarnellart

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Kelsey Carnell Art @kelseycarnellart.bsky.social · Aug 1

Share your purposeful #art in the August: Summer Heat #smArtist challenge! Use daily inspiration words or your own message.

Thank you to all who have participated. I have been a bit preoccupied but I love to see your posts. Great photos, paintings, and drawings with awesome messages!

#smArtist
Hosted by @kelseycarnellart.bsky.social
August 2025 Art Prompts Theme: Summer Heat
Use this hashtag any time for your original art of any medium that has purposeful intention, a meaning, or message behind it. You may consider the OPTIONAL word prompt for each day. Feel free to interpret broadly or abstractly. Mediums include: traditional art, digital art, photography, textile, fiber, sculpture, written word, etc.

Not affiliated with Smartist phone application.

Daily August 2025 Prompts:

1. Orange
2. Hot
3. Arid
4. Desert
5. Endless
6. Intense
7. Sunshine
8. Blinding
9. Permeating
10. Global Warming
11. Unbearable
12. Scorched
13. Solar
14. Melt
15. Baked
16. Fried
17. Sizzle
18. Yellow
19. Warm
20. Brilliant
21. Shock
22. Fire
23. Red
24. Expansion
25. Sweat
26. Fuss
27. Humid
28. Condensation
29. Stifle
30. Exhaustion
31. Revive

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Jason @bloodraynes.bsky.social · Aug 19

Morning #BlueSky ☕️ Taken a while back on a late Summer afternoon beach walk. Have a balanced Tuesday my friends😌 #RockinTuesday #TidesOutTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue #smArtist #warm
#Photography #EastCoastKin #PhotographyOfBlueSky #Coastal #CoastalPhotography #Beach #Golden #Ocean #Balance #Summer

The photograph shows a stack of beach rocks that have been balanced on top of each, going from the biggest at the bottom to smallest at the top.

The stack of rocks is about 2 feet high and itself is balanced on a bigger rock which is sunk into the sand of the shoreline with the ocean behind it. There is sandy pebbles and the lapping shoreline through the middle of the photograph and behind the rock stack.

The ocean is a beautiful aqua blue colour which is lighter at the shoreline but gets progressively darker as you head onto the horizon. Where the sky meets the ocean on the horizon, it is a beautiful radiated blue from top to bottom.

The whole scene is bathed in Golden sunlight of a late summers afternoon. The picture was taken on the shoreline of the Isle of Wight, which is a small island off the south coast of the United Kingdom in late summer of 2016.

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Kelsey Carnell Art @kelseycarnellart.bsky.social · Aug 19

You’re welcome! It is a play on the word “smartest” or “smart artist” — goes along with the purposeful art aspect

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Kelsey Carnell Art @kelseycarnellart.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Kelsey Carnell Art @kelseycarnellart.bsky.social · Aug 1

Kelsey Carnell Art @kelseycarnellart.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hi! #smArtist is a hashtag to use with any purposeful art where you had an intention, goal, or a message to go along with the art. It can be used at any time. I also provide a monthly theme and daily word in case you want a jumping off point / inspiration for your art. The words are optional!

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layla victoria @laylavictoria.bsky.social · Aug 16

The tiny broken pieces of tile and glass come together in a beautiful mosaic of flowers. #BlueSkyArtShow #pieces #ArtYear #smArtist #AbstractAug #Shapes

A gorgeous mosaic of flowers made with broken pieces of tile and glass to form lilacs, pansies, lilies and leafy grasses found on the wall of a building in Miami FL.

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Victoria Pfeiffer @victoriapfeiffer.bsky.social · Aug 16

Ya’ll, I am dead. I made it through the first week of school but my feet are throbbing and I’m falling asleep at 7 these days 😂

Soooo here’s another old favorite, #watercolor and #ink cuties.

#FishyFriday #fish #goldfish #artyear #smartist

A painting of 3 bright orange goldfish swimming over background of green, white, and gold bursts of color.

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Mimi_TlRife💙📸☕️⛰️🍊🏈🐻🏀 🏕️ 🧳 @mimitlrife.bsky.social · Aug 14

#smArtist #melt

The ice has started to #melt on my plant. You can see a reflection of the leaves in the melted water.

#EastCoastKin
#PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #reflection
#ArtYear #MobilePhotography

A red plant in a planter with snow and ice. The snow has turned to ice and has slowly started to melt.

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Ross @fletcher22.bsky.social · Aug 13

#smArtist Purposeful art of any theme... I've been looking at that and asking myself questions about it. It mostly stops me dead. I've been making art for at least 65 years. Why? TO SAVE THE WORLD! Sorry for yelling. No it's not that. So what is the purpose of me making art? ? ?

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Doc C @publichealth-ot.bsky.social · Aug 13

Red Sunset
#ColorADay
#RedWed
#smArtist
#Solar
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#Phonephotography
#Sunset

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Kelsey Carnell Art @kelseycarnellart.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thank you! Only due to a lot of practice!!

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Kelsey Carnell Art @kelseycarnellart.bsky.social · Aug 11

That is so cool! I love it!

Kelsey Carnell Art @kelseycarnellart.bsky.social · Aug 11

Admission: I haven’t attempted to paint in months, and I am worried to try again for the silly “fear of the blank page”

Question: What do you do when irrational anxious fear is the only thing holding you back? How do you ignite the activation energy to let go and just flow?

#smArtist

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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · Aug 9

Like monsters
that could live
deep down in the sea
a line of trees
mask a fiery background

#Jagged #BlueSkyArtShow #Poem #smArtist #Photography #Flower #Nature #NatureLover #GreenSat #satArtday

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Uncanny Salmon @uncannysalmon.bsky.social · Aug 9

Strange feelings...Pulling
Are they dreams or memories?
Different times?...Past lives?

#Haiku #Poetry #Art #AbstractArt #ForestFriday
#smArtist #Dreams #Sleep #Scapes #Nature #Trees #Dreamscape

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Elena Again @elenaagain.bsky.social · Aug 9

#EastCoastKin #photography #loveofbsky #scape #nature #ColorADay #GreenSat #smArtist #saveourlands

Walk with me
Stepping into
Lush green

#permeating the #rainforest

#olympicnationalpark

- Love must triumph

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JBC @johnbcaddell.bsky.social · Aug 8

sometimes the #scape #sunrise scene at #LemaRanch is simply #blinding.

#nature #EastCoastKin #smArtist #ponds #reflections #cloudscapes #waterscapes

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Kelsey Carnell Art @kelseycarnellart.bsky.social · Aug 8

Aw nice! It looks like she is talented and worked hard!! Great painting!!

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Kelsey Carnell Art @kelseycarnellart.bsky.social · Aug 8

Beautiful! Great job!

Kelsey Carnell Art @kelseycarnellart.bsky.social · Aug 8

Love the shadows, light, crisp and the blended aspects, especially love the grassy hill!

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Kelsey Carnell Art @kelseycarnellart.bsky.social · Aug 7

Yes it is beautiful out here!!! Now i live closer to the beach and further from mountains, gotta plan a trip to a nice mountain view soon!

Kelsey Carnell Art @kelseycarnellart.bsky.social · Aug 7

The top tip of virginia — right near both maryland and west virginia.

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Kelsey Carnell Art @kelseycarnellart.bsky.social · Aug 7

Great pic and message!!

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Kelsey Carnell Art @kelseycarnellart.bsky.social · Aug 7

This looks exactly like the view in front of my childhood home! It wasnt on the west coast at all but it looks so similar!

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PickFairy @pickfairy.bsky.social · Aug 7

Latest Artwork ish complete! I'm excited for this print :3
Each month I draw a landscape for my Patrons over on Patreon, and this month I'm drawing two. This one is a 🦌 drinking some water (I added flowers just cuz lol)
#artyear #smartist #artprint #originalartwork

Artwork by moi, tis a deer with flowers along its horns as he drinks some water.

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Jan @mormorjan.bsky.social · Aug 7

Sunflower for #AColorADay #YellowThu #SmArtist #Sunshine #ArtYear #EastCoastKin

An original watercolour offered as greeting cards and prints

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a single glowing yellow sunflower with accents of orange on the petal tips on a green stem with a leaves. on a white background.

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