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Lola Jovan
@lolajovan.com
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Artist, wanderer, rockhound, sparkle-seeker. Married to my soulmate❤️

Democrat! Liberal! Blue 💙
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Art home at www.lolajovan.com
Blog at www.lolajovan.com/blog

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Lola Jovan @lolajovan.com · Dec 7
Hello Bluesky humans! I’m so happy to be here in the friendly place. 😁

Art does not always speak for itself, so you’ll see words with my paintings to help illuminate. Want more words? More art? Subscribe at www.lolajovan.com

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It may be almost the end of the murderous season for paintings in the studio, but it is just the beginning of murder season for crows!

#portland #portlandcrows #crows #murderofcrows
November 29, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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It is the final day for the once-a-year gesso madness murder-your-darlings sale!

Get the art: www.lolajovan.com/store/p781/f...

#art #sale #painting #oilpainting #fantasyart #murderyourdarlings #femalefigurative
A promotional poster for the final day of the once a year sale
November 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Murder season is in full swing in the studio as old paintings are killed and then reborn as the beginnings of something new.

Last chance for the annual sale: www.lolajovan.com/lola-jovan-a...

#art #painting #process #artstudio #startover #murderyourdarlings
November 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Today in war ravaged Portland, we looked.

We looked ahead, we looked behind. We looked all around. And we were grateful to live in a city filled with creative, compassionate, friendly people who support each other.

Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming.

#Portland #NoKings #resist
A sidewalk sign advising us to “look”
November 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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A little animation of a recent drawing - just for fun!

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#animation #art #penandink #drawing #foxart
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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It’s pouring rain in war ravaged Portland today, so let’s lift our spirits with scenes from a recent sun-drenched morning. Ooh la la!

#portland #NoKings #resist #protest #cityscape #photography
Sunbeam on the Willamette River Pretty city in the sun Spectacular reflections A city of gold on the horizon
November 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Spend Hours With The Moon
pen and ink on Yupo
10 x 13

I wake and spend
the last hours
of darkness
with no one
but the moon.
- MARY OLIVER

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#art #penandink #moon #illustration #blackandwhite #femalefigure

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A pen and ink drawing of a woman and the full moon. The poem continues: “She listens to my complaints like the good companion she is and comforts me surely with her light. But she, like everyone, has her own life. So finally I understand that she has turned away, is no longer listening. She wants me to refold myself into my own life. And, bending close, as we all dream of doing, she rows with her white arms through the dark water which she adores.” I read a lot of poets. I return to Mary Oliver again and again - she has a way of grounding things. I will forever imagine the moon rowing with white arms through dark water…
November 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Today in war ravaged Portland, it was cold and rainy and everyone was blue…even the graffiti art along my morning walk.

The horrors of war in the city. Sigh.

#Portland #NoKings #resist #protest #morningwalks #graffiti
A wall of fabulous blue graffiti art in Portland
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Another painting bites the dust during this painter’s murderous season!

Laying down the basic layers of an abstracted landscape over a haughty queen. Oh yes!

#art #doitfortheprocess #paint #artstudio #artprocess #oilpaint
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Just four more days to shop the once-a-year gesso madness murder-your-darlings sale!

Grab this abstracted landscape: www.lolajovan.com/store/p575/t...

#art #artsale #painting #oilpainting #abstractedlandscape
A promotional poster for my annual sale featuring an abstracted landscape painting in oils
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Here in war ravaged Portland, we distract ourselves from mayhem and madness by playing with rocks.

The latest batch from the tumblers will be the blingy-est ammunition should we need to use slingshots against thugs and marauders!

#portland #rockhound #NoKings #resist #agates #rocks #protest
A handful of beautiful rocks from our tumblers More tumbled beauties A large agate mix in my hand Agates and shiny rocks
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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The once-a-year gesso madness murder-your-darlings sale ends Saturday!

Get wild: www.lolajovan.com/store/p634/t...

#art #artsale #murderyourdarlings
A promotional poster for my annual art sale featuring a wildling
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Our Friendship Is Quite Unique
oil on canvas paper
11 x 17

We take it in turns to play 'attack',
While the other rolls onto their back.
To him I've the strength of a flea,
But I'm sure he'd never hurt me.
- STEPHEN KATONA

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#art #fox
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An oil painting of an eagle and a dog i. A boat. The poem continues: “No harm comes from tooth or beak, Our friendship is quite unique. We're a shining example of how kin, May each wear a very different skin.” More travellers in the SS Malarkey sailing across the Sea of Shenanigans as I spend this month exploring the theme of the beautiful pea-green boat. As the poem says, we may each wear a very different skin​ and yet we are still in the same boat, on the same sea, in the same world. There was a heart-melting story of this very thing on the Oregon coast last week. A juvenile humpback whale was beached in a tangle of crab pot line. Humans gathered in droves in the dark, the cold, the waves and the sand and pushed, pulled, comforted, and encouraged the whale. All night, all the next day, and more nights and days following. They did not hesitate to risk their own comfort and safety to help this beings who was so different from themselves Veterinarians administered vitamins, hydration and valium to support the whale. Experts and volunteers worked together in a herculean effort to save it, with the whale blowing and making sounds throughout. With each report and video, I cried. I admit to being teary as I write these words. The people's heroic efforts ultimately failed to save the giant, and local tribes appeared on site afterward to reverently handle the remains. I like to think those final days for the whale were as good as they could have been, in the hands of loving, determined and compassionate humans. And for me personally, this story of helping someone who wears a very different skin touched me to the core.
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Today in war ravaged Portland, a lone protestor clad in black recited a litany of woes…he was relentless and determined, raising his voice over the city soundscape to be sure he was heard.

I am a fan!

#portland #NoKings #resist #protest #NoTroopsInPortland
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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The once-a-year gesso madness murder-your-darlings sale ends Nov 29!

Get the art: www.lolajovan.com/store/p378/w...

#art #annualsale #sale #artsale #murderyourdarlings
A promotional poster for my annual sale, featuring and abstracted landscape painting
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Listen Says Fox
pen and ink on wood panel
8 x 10

Listen says fox it is music to run
over the hills to lick
dew from the leaves to nose along
the edges of the ponds to smell the fat
- MARY OLIVER

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#art #penandink #fox
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A pen and ink drawing of a fox in a nightgown holding a balloon. The poem continues: “ducks in their bright feathers but far out, safe in their rafts of sleep. It is like music to visit the orchard, to find the vole sucking the sweet of the apple, or the rabbit with his fast-beating heart. Death itself is a music. Nobody has ever come close to writing it down, awake or in a dream. It cannot be told. It is flesh and bones changing shape and with good cause, mercy is a little child beside such an invention. It is music to wander the black back roads outside of town no one awake or wondering if anything miraculous is ever going to happen, totally dumb to the fact of every moment's miracle. Don't think I haven't peeked into windows. I see you in all your seasons making love, arguing, talking about God as if he were an idea instead of the grass, instead of the stars, the rabbit caught in one good teeth-whacking hit and brought home to the den. What I am, and I know it, is responsible, joyful, thankful. I would not give my life for a thousand of yours.”
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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A little animation of a pen and ink drawing, just for fun.

#animation #art #penandink #blackandwhite #femalevoices
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Baby it’s cold outside!

Even in the cold, helicopters buzz overhead and ICE raids continue - in our schools, no less! Wonder Mike thinks this is a travesty, and we agree.

#portland #NoKings #resist #protest #abolishICE
Our chihuahua found a high perch to better see out of the window
November 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Another one bites the dust heh heh…

Sometimes the paintings are just obliterated. With this one, I have an abstracted landscape composition in mind, so I put down the underpainting of the new composition. Once this dries I’ll begin the layers of the new piece.

#art #process #murderyourdarlings
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Ho ho ho! The once-a-year gesso madness murder-your-darlings event continues with Santa getting in on the action!

Get some jolly: www.lolajovan.com/store/p748/w...

#art #artsale #santa #penandink #santaArt #holidays #jolly
A pen and ink of Santa in a tutu advertising my annual art sale. Ho ho!
November 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Another crisp, sun-drenched fall day in war ravaged Portland, where leaf piles are growing in the streets (bunkers? Camouflage?), people are wrapped in puffy coats and scarves (hidden flak jackets?) and nearly everyone has a rake (weapon?) in their hands.

#portland #NoKings #protest #resist
A brilliant morning of reflections and clouds Color and clouds in the city The beautiful Willamette River Cloud reflections in the river
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Have your cake at the once-a-year gesso madness murder-your-darlings sale!

Get the art: www.lolajovan.com/store/p624/c...

#art #painting #fantasyart #cakeart #oilpainting #sale #artsale
A promotional poster for mu annual sale featuring a cake bearing human
November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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‘Tis the season for murdering paintings!

Part of my annual process. Keeping this artist from feeling too precious about the work. Destroying the old, making way for the new. I have big plans for this one!

#art #doitfortheprocess #murderyourdarlings #artstudio #process
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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“The Eye of an Astronomer” is now on sale!

Grab your robot here: www.lolajovan.com/store/p780/t...

#robot #penandink #blackandwhite #art #sale
A pen and ink illustration of a robot with a dandelion
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Today in war ravaged Portland, a crisp autumn morning was ideal for watching freight trains race each other…or, well, slowly meander in the same direction. Train choreography is a rare occurrence and one to be savored. 🚊😁

#train #trains #portland #NoKings #resist #protest #NoTroopsInPortland
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM