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Maximum Sunshine
@maximum-sunshine.bsky.social
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Begginer artist at the fantastic age of 40 something, cancer survivor, cat and human mom, friend, lover, queer. Struggles with SAD led to me deciding to be my own fucking sunshine one day and I haven't looked back. You can consider that a promise & threat.
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Maximum Sunshine @maximum-sunshine.bsky.social · Nov 16
Time for a new pinned post! I'm Max and I'm here to bring a moment of peace to your dash. Art, cats, links to good news that isn't political, and all sorts of stuff! While I'm a devoted democratic socialist, I'm not here for that. I read it all, but i pass along the calm in the chaos.
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I sometimes despair that the camera can never really capture just how amazing the natural world can be. But sometimes, just sometimes, the winter light hits those reeds and all those reflections pop... #birds #birdphotography #birding #photooftheday #photography #NatureIsAmazing
January 30, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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Played around with a #watercolor pencil. Made a piece, once again, inspired by the minimalist cat drawings of Shou Xin who makes incredible art! Mine on the left theirs (have zero bio info) on the right!

#beginnerartist #beginnerart #watercolorpencils #catart
Minimalist drawing of a black cat going zoom. The use of watercolor pencil allowed for me to use water to create motion blur. The original art piece by Shou Xin used as inspiration. The artist uses graphite pencil to create incredibly minimalist art of cats. It's best described as an incredibly controlled and precise scribble sketch.
January 25, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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Experimenting with clouds

#beginnerartist #beginnerart #watercolor
Watercolor bookmark of a blue sky with blank space clouds. 3 very simplistic black birds are flying in the sky.
January 20, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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lots of emotions in this one created interesting landscape of sorts
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#ArtistsOnBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #AbstractArt #AbstractExpressionism #Painter #Art #Artist #WomensArtBlueSky #AbstractArtist #BlueSkyArt  #OregonArtist #Oregon
Abstracting painting with bright green, pink, red, blue, black with sweeping horizontal lines., on recycled cardboard box .
January 14, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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One of my favorite pacific sunsets I’ve witnessed. Sky just kept getting crazier and crazier and it really did feel like I won something.
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Lady Luck II
12”x12” Oil on cradled wood panel
January 13, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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Happy days
January 14, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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Watercolour of Iris (I think this one was sold)
#art #watercolour #flowers
Watercolour of Iris
January 9, 2026 at 6:34 AM
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Pastel of freesia, anenome and ivy (sold some while ago)
#art #pastel #flowers
Pastel of freesia, anenome and ivy
January 9, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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Summer flowers, oil on board, cone flowers, poppies, nasturtiums and other flowers in two glass containers (sold)
#art #botanical #oilpainting
Summer flowers, oil on board, cone flowers, poppies, nasturtiums and other flowers in two glass containers
January 9, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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Mostly anenomes, large pastel on Ingres paper (sold)
Mostly anenomes, large pastel on Ingres paper
January 9, 2026 at 6:48 AM
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Just one more pastel flower painting for now. A carnation and freesia painting with a couple of anenomes and some ivy plus a shell that has been in several artworks. This one dates from the millenium and is on someone else's wall. See alt txt.
#pastel #flowers #millenium
I never know whether to call a work in pastel a painting or a drawing. I suppose it's a painting if it has broad areas of colour and a drawing if it is mainly linear (I tend to use Conté sticks for line work). I have used pastel since I was a child so that's a long time!
January 9, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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Pinting of my garden with sheds and plants in containers.
#art #gouache #ink #sheds
Painting of outbuildings in my garden, mostly gouache and ink on a fairly large piece of card lightly primed with dilute gesso.
January 9, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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Garden pastel with lilac tree, a wooden painted sun with a face, a metal candle lamp and petunias in a hanging basket. I do like setting up an easel and just drawing or painting what's in front of me. It takes on a life of its own.
#art #paintoutdoors
A garden pastel showing items hanging from a lilac tree
January 9, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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Pastel of M who popped round one day and was persuaded to sit for a portrait. I used to draw people all the time but the world closed up somewhat during and after the pandemic. I draw quickly.
#portrait #pastel
This lady is a good subject for a drawing and I've done several portraits of her (just informally: I no longer do commissions.
January 9, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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bakerart.bsky.social
Perhaps I'll have a look for some flower studies on this gloomy day so starting with a pastel sketch of alstroemeria.
#pastel #flowers #botanical #art
pastel sketch of alstroemeria and ivy
January 9, 2026 at 6:24 AM
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Painted a #sunset with #watercolor and a touch of a golden #oilpastel with a job paint couldn't achieve. I was mostly playing with my first sample a friend sent me of cotton coldpress,which i love, and some different brushes and techniques. Still, for being experimental i love this piece! #abstract
Abstract watercolor painting of a very colorful sunset. Different shades of purple near the top into blues, which are the sky, then a line of yellow for the golden sun filling the horizon. A little golden yellow oil pastel is used hete in the center to represent the sun itself with a bold brightness i can't yet pull off with watercolors. Then below the yellow is orange. There is a spot or orange top near the left corner in with the purples. And where the yellow and blue meet color theory proves true i made green. Opps. But it kinda works. There are clear lines but they are blurred best i could, not well defined nor straight. These lines are very gay.
January 9, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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My garden is a paradise, have you ever seen something more beautiful
Gorgeous photo of a blue tongue skink in my garden, looking directly at me
January 6, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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As long as there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. - Eugene Debs

Pic of the day

#photography
A view of the majestic Grand Tetons from the Snake River overlook. The jagged mountains are glowing pink from a sunrise. I got my ass up 4 days in a row at 0 dark:30 for this pic and am still not pleased there were no clouds in the sky. Other days there was nothing but clouds obscuring the view. The best thing about getting up that early in a national park is all the wildlife you see at that time of day. That was magical for 4 days. This park is overshadowed by Yellowstone which is a mere hour north, but I personally enjoyed it far more. Floated down the Snake River one day and that was simply glorious.
January 5, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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Tropical Hibiscus 🌺
Moiliili Community Garden, O’ahu
#art
#photography
#macro
#flowers
Macro photograph of a tropical hibiscus
January 4, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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Tonight’s sunset. One of the best I’ve ever seen. Ocean Beach, San Diego, California

#SanDiego #sunset #OceanBeach #landscapelovers #surfing
Silhouette of a surfer carrying a surfboard along wet sand at low tide, with a long pier stretching across the horizon. A dense red cloud layer fills most of the sky, breaking into blue near the right edge, while orange light glows near the horizon and reflects in the shallow water.
December 30, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Fiddle players in the pub, mixed media on lightly primed card
#art #pubmusic #fiddles #violins #Irishmusic #guinness
December 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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some crystals studies, each took approximately 30 minutes

#art
December 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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more irl watercolor birb
December 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Lovely afternoon in the Highlands. Looking towards the Five Sisters of Kintail.
December 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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NGC-7380 Wizard Nebula in Narrowband, 2021-08-06 - From Ryan Kinnett (rkinnett.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2mgfzXa
Imaged with APM 140mm doublet, 0.8x reducer, asi1600mm mono camera, and ZWO Ha, Sii, and Oiii filters. Custom blend.
December 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM