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Day 3 of #artAdventCalendar: brand new #fractal #art #artAltText
An abstract fractal in warm tones on a black background. A blurry oval cloud of dark tan and burgundy fills the background, with a hazy trapezoidal shape of softly glowing light in the center. From this shape, a streak moves sharply outward and expands into a long narrow leaf shape. The leaf shape is made of layered bands of color in increasingly narrow vertical folds: dark green and yellow on the outside, then hot pink on one side and bright scarlet on the other, then shiny peach on both sides, then sky blue, and finally pale gold in the center. The folds curve towards each other and the pale gold layers start to spiral. It has a shape reminiscent of a vulva. Title: Galaxy. Signed: Belenen 2025.
December 4, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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November 25, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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I'm way behind but determined to catch up with #ArtAdventCalendar. Number 12 is "Filled With Flowers or With Fish" #abstract #fractal #art #ArtAltText
A fractal made of thin wisps of color over a black background, with three main shapes: one that looks like a sparrow with uplifted wings, one that looks like a whale shark with three small fins on each side, and one that looks like a sail being filled with wind. The sparrow has an orange and yellow head with iridescent turquoise, fuchsia, and lime green wings. It dominates the canvas, being almost as large as the whale shark and twice as bright. The whale shark is lavender with a vivid violet outline, and orange, yellow, and peach markings on its six short side fins. Its tail is merely suggested with two thin, sweeping lines of searing yellow. The two figures seem to be reflected in the billowing sail, which curls around the whale shark in a way that is almost comforting or protective. A thin, wavy line of windswept color connects the tip of the swallow's wing to the sail. You look at me, from close up you look at me, closer and closer and then we play cyclops, we look closer and closer at one another and our eyes get larger, they come closer, they merge into one and the two cylopses look at each other, blending as they breathe, our mouths touch and struggle in gentle warmth, biting each other with their lips, barely holding their tongues on their teeth, playing in corners where a heavy air comes and goes with an old perfume and a silence. Then my hands go to sink into your hair, to cherish slowly the depth of your hair while we kiss as if our mouths were filled with flowers or with fish, with lively movements and dark fragrance. And if we bite each other the pain is sweet, and if we smother each other in a brief and terrible sucking in together of our breaths, that momentary death is beautiful. And there is but one saliva and one flavor of ripe fruit, and I feel you tremble against me like a moon on the water. --Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
December 20, 2024 at 3:12 AM
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lovelycds.bsky.social Corinna @lovelycds.bsky.social · Jan 18
The worlds we’ve seen. ✨ Acrylic paint on canvas, painted with a palette knife, circa 2017 or thereabouts.
~Corinna #artist #art #abstract #expression #JanuArty #blur 🎨
Painting by Corinna of a face up close, on a bright yellow background, the face is painted in an abstract style in marks of blue, black, white, & touches of red- the yellow & blue close together give an impression of green. The expression on the face could be seen as distant/far-away, as one in contemplation, &/or in turmoil. What’s seen is hard to un-see. The earrings, & lights within the eyes, could appear as planets in an abstract way.
January 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
belenen.bsky.social
#JanuArty 16 is clothing. It's been too long since I painted on clothes, so here is some "ear clothing." These are still one of my proudest #jewelry creations.
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A collage of images of a pair of chandelier style beaded earrings. From the ear hook hangs a black wire shape, twisted into a loopy shape containing seven even circles. From each circle drops a length of chain, then a line of spring green seed beads. The line ends in a round crackle glass bead and a loop, with alternating pastel green and kelly green leaf shaped beads hanging from the loops. Spring green, pastel green, and kelly green glimmer in the light. The leaf shapes have a slight iridescence to them, and they are thick and convex, holding the light within like water does. The earrings are each about 4 inches long and 1.5 inches wide.
January 17, 2025 at 4:31 AM
belenen.bsky.social
One of my favorite things to do is share my #artAltText for a piece of my art with my partner before sharing the art itself. 💚
Reading the description was like starting off with a cyan and white snowflake fractal. Then it morphed into a 3D upside down and interior view of a pyramid in my mind. Then the upside down pyramid grew snowflake wings and antenna. So like. It’s nothing like what I expected but also exactly like what I expected.
December 12, 2024 at 4:52 AM
belenen.bsky.social
I'm so happy #JanuArty is happening! Here is my favorite drawing I've done. It lacks any shade or highlight because I ran out of steam after 30+ hours on it but I still love it so. #hdg #artAltText
(This is from my story "Intake Interview")
A large, human-shaped plant alien, Russelia, sits on a couch holding a masc nonbinary human, Dorian, on their lap. Russelia's hands are wrapped around Dorian: one hand cradling their back, and the other palm against their chest with fingers curling over their shoulders. They have two injector blossoms hovering behind Dorian's back, tipped with translucent white flowers. Each of Russelia's palms are the size of half of Dorian's torso, and Russelia's fingers are almost half as thick as Dorian's arm. Russelia is made of thin fuchsia-streaked green vines, and their lap forms a large skirt instead of being twined into the shape of legs. Russelia's vines are covered in soft white spines, and they have grass for hair with vibrantly red trumpet-shaped blooms in it. Their seven multicolor eyes are gazing at Dorian and their extremely fuzzy spring green antennae reach toward Dorian. They smile gently with plum-colored lips, their face vines smooth except for on their chin, where they have a thick fuzz of soft white spines. Dorian is facing Russelia and straddling their lap, with Dorian's hands wrapped around Russelia's huge hand that is against their chest. The pale human looks up with an adoring, trusting expression in their brown eyes. Their brown hair is messy and they wear a nondescript shirt and shorts. The background is desaturated, all in shades of grey. Russelia sits on a couch that has pillows printed with images of their injector flowers, and drapes their skirt-shaped lower half over a footstool. The couch is so large that if Dorian sat with their back against a pillow, their feet would barely reach the edge of the seat cushion.
January 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
belenen.bsky.social
#ArtAltText: An underwater portrait of a small creature that looks like a cross between a cat and an axolotl. It is a pale, pastel blue, with vibrant fuchsia gills extending like whiskers from its face. Its face is cat-like, with large eyes and pointed ear-shapes at the top of its head.
November 27, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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shannonfennellart.bsky.social Shannon Fennell Artist @shannonfennellart.bsky.social · Jan 20
#JanuArty2025 Prompt for Jan 20 is "Primary".

Primary colours: Red apple, Blue water droplet, Yellow bird. All practise with pencil crayons. Don't remember the species of bird.

#JanuArty #Art #Artist #BksyArt #PencilCrayonArt #ColouredPencilArt #BirdArt @bsky.art
A drawing of a red McIntosh apple with brown stem. Background is white. A single oval drop of blue water with shadow, on a white background. A yellow bird with some orange colour on its head, a curved black beak and black eyes. It is sitting on a slender branch that has two narrow leaves coming out of it that pass in front of the bird without blocking it. Background is white.
January 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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sunshyneart.bsky.social ☀️SunshyneArt☀️ @sunshyneart.bsky.social · Jan 12
#JanuArty
Day 12 Pink
"Kaleidoscope Fox" acrylic on canvas
I use pink a lot, so it was hard to pick just one! I have a fascination with foxes. This one showed up in a random background, so I went with it and built a world around her.
😊🦊 💕
#Art #AcrylicPainting #FoxArt #WhimsicalArt
Whimsical fox acrylic painting. A bright pink fox with blue swirls on its body sits in a field of stylized white flowers. In between its body and tail is a scene of swirly green hills with swirly green trees on them. The sky is blue with a swirly design on it. There is a large yellow sun with some green on it, also with a swirly pattern.
January 13, 2025 at 5:28 AM
belenen.bsky.social
Heya, I'd like to be added! I always add alt text and am trying to raise up #ArtAltText as a thing (alt text for art that gives an equivalent experience, not just the bare minimum)
December 4, 2024 at 1:49 AM
belenen.bsky.social
#artAdventCalendar day 5. A #nature photo that I took in 2017 and am still a little baffled by. Never seen anything like it before or since! #art #artAltText
On a forest floor, thin, separated layers of deeply colored reddish brown wood are draped over a solid fallen log. The layers of wood look almost like deli cuts of meat - their original shape and structure is completely gone and what is left is curled over the log in short, narrow, overlapping strips that flow together as if made of fabric. A shaft of light pierces the canopy and falls directly on the brick-red strips, making them stand out even more against the darker green, brown, and tan of surrounding pine needles, fallen leaves, dead twigs, and grass.
December 6, 2024 at 3:22 AM
belenen.bsky.social
My oldest share yet! 2009. For #JanuArty, "angle" -- it's the angle of this shot that makes it for me.

I made this photo the theme of that year when I did a summary post about it.

#art #photography #artAltText
A greenbrier vine stretches across the frame and into the middle distance; green in the section nearest the viewer, then a small length of dark brown, then bright red, and finally ending in a downward curving, dried section of grayish tan. Thorns poke out of the vine at intervals, and at the far end of the red section, a bright yellow leaf is still alive, with a little bit of green still running down its center. The only part in focus is the small dark brown section, where there are multiple spiraling tendrils. One is more robust and reaches off to the side and out of the frame, while two are extremely thin and delicate, spiraling around each other and hanging down. The background is an autumnal blur of orange and brown forest. Signed Belenen, 2009.
January 31, 2025 at 1:36 AM
belenen.bsky.social
For #januArty prompt "flat"

#art #photography #artAltText
A flat trapezoid of aqua glass lies amid sandy, rocky river soil. The sunlight shines through the glass, refracted through the irregular, broken edge more brightly than it reflects off of the top. A thin haze of light brown sand is scattered over the glass, and a single pine needle, still a bright green, lies across it. Next to the glass is a small sprout with just two leaves. The viewing angle is low and so is the angle of the sunlight, nearing sunset.
January 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
belenen.bsky.social
As an #Autistic person, part of the reason I love #artAltText ESPECIALLY when it is written by the original artist is this:

It gives me an answer about things I otherwise couldn't interpret. Unlike others, my brain won't just settle on the "most likely" explanation, so my experience of the art 1/
December 6, 2024 at 4:28 AM
belenen.bsky.social
"What those short trees that hold on to their copper-colored curled dead leaves all winter?" American Beech does this when it is young; it's called marcescence. From November 2012, here are some beech leaves just beginning to curl up. #artAdventCalendar #art #nature #ArtAltText #sciArt #trees
A close-up shot of a beech leaf that is beginning to curl up. The view looks down the length of the leaf from the top, and the veins arch up at intervals, making an almost dizzying perspective. The leaf is backlit by the sun, and it shines a vibrant yellowish green. Three beech leaves attached to the same twig, each one curled up into a funnel shape. They are curled so tightly that even viewed from above, you can't see the ground through the tip of the funnel. They are still green, but the edges are beginning to turn brown, and below them the sunlit ground is littered with brown, yellow, and red leaves. A diptych: two photos of curling beech leaves. Both show the leaves still attached to the twig, above a sunlit forest floor that is littered with multicolored dead leaves. A short sapling below has shockingly bright yellow-green leaves. In the first image, a single beech leaf is curled up, viewed from above so that the green front and the brown back are both visible. In the second, three curled beech leaves are attached to the same twig. Reflected light from the sunlit forest floor highlights the veins on the backs of the leaves.
December 12, 2024 at 3:30 AM
belenen.bsky.social
For day 6 of #artAdventCalendar, a Trillium rugelii. #art #ArtAltText #plants
A three-leaf plant blooms with a three-petaled pink-speckled white blossom. It is viewed from low on the forest floor, with a brightly lit background of trees sprouting with late spring leaves. The blossom points toward the ground, with its three petals curling away from the center so intensely that they circle in on themselves like curled ribbons. Above the blossom, the three large leaves of the plant stretch out horizontally. They are so brightly back-lit that the veins are translucent.
December 7, 2024 at 7:00 AM
belenen.bsky.social
#artAltText and wow this butterfly is beautiful!
fozziefotos.bsky.social fozziefotos.bsky.social @fozziefotos.bsky.social · Jan 30
#Januarty #green #Day30 The Orange-tip butterfly. Orange you say, but this is green day! Ah but this butterfly hides a beautiful, mottled green pattern on its underwings - this one sat beautifully for me in Highnam Woods, Gloucester. #butterflies #nature #woods #wildlife
A close-up of the profile of an Orange-tip butterfly. It's a very small butterfly + its wings are cream with yellow veins and a mottled olive green pattern all over. It has a fluffy head with big olive green eyes and white antennae. It is perched on green leaves with a soft green background
January 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
belenen.bsky.social
And how to write #ArtAltText: bsky.app/profile/bele...
Text reads: Alt text for art is an art in itself. The word art is in a handwritten font in a blue-green gradient with a orange-pink gradient outline. A stylized cat sits next to the word, and a wispy star burst crowns the a in art.
February 23, 2025 at 4:17 AM
belenen.bsky.social
This could easily fit the monochrome theme for #JanuArty! And it's an incredible piece with fantastic #artAltText
complicatedreality.com Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · Jan 22
"City Kids"
Old flam3 fractal.

I grew up surrounded by trees, and that's where I live now too. But I spent a decade living around Seattle, and a big theme in my early art involved thinking about how the identity of a city is shaped and shared by the people who call it home.
This stark fractal design is made up of dark black linework that resembles an ink-pen sketch. The lines make up a series of intersecting pentagram shapes in a messy spiral. From each line, the "ink" appears to be smeared, but the smear is always directed straight up toward the top of the page. The smear is made up of a bunch of densely packed columns of different lengths, giving the impression of a city skyline. There is a round shape in the upper left corner that could be a sun or moon peeking up over the horizon.
January 23, 2025 at 5:26 AM
belenen.bsky.social
For the #JanuArty prompt "shadow" I offer this #forest #photo.

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A brightly lit canopy of trees lines a deeply shaded, wet dirt path leading into the distance. The trees are in full leaf, and the branches look almost heavy with their bounty. The darkness of the path and the deep shading of the base of the trees and bushes makes it all look very mysterious, while the bright sky glimmering through the tops of the trees gives it an exciting, hopeful feel.
January 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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#alphabetChallenge #weekAforAngles #ArtAltText

I took this so long ago but I still love it.
A low view gazing down the twig of a beech sapling. The main line of the branch zigzags back and forth, with the apex of each zigzag ending in a long, thin point, most also having a leaf sprouting from that point. The focus is very narrow on one point that lacks any leaf; it looks sharp as a thorn. The light is stark, falling on the twig so brightly that it creates the impression of a white path blazing forward into a tangle of leaves. The leaves are withered and faded, stripped of color, but for a few greenish leaves nearest the viewer.
December 31, 2024 at 6:36 PM
belenen.bsky.social
For #januArty prompt "space" here is my #fractal "Strange Babies." I've always seen it as a fantasy scene in outer space. #abstract #art #artAltText
A fractal of three fishlike shapes in front of an orb. The fish have salmon colored bodies and flared, neon yellow fins. Small neon yellow orbs float between them. They seem to be swimming in tight formation, protective of each other. The orb behind them is large and half in shadow. The lighted part of the orb, mostly above the line of fish, is made of aqua blue and hot pink overlapping waves, like waves cresting gently on a beach. A small crescent of the same colors below the fish implies the bottom of the orb. The neon yellow of the fish fins is reflected on the orb, making it look glossy and wet.
January 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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colinwoodart.bsky.social Colin Ventura @colinwoodart.bsky.social · Jan 9
Some leaf pendants I've carved. All carved from oak burl, I've allowed the holes and knots to remain in some, to give the texture of a fallen autumnal leaf. www.etsy.com/shop/ColinVe...
#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 #carving #nature #jewellery #jewelry #leaves #leafpendant #woodworking #handmade
A selection of 20 leaf pendants, carved from wood. Some curved convex and some more concave. The veins of each leaf have been made using thin stripes of a contrasting wood veneer, some ebony, some walnut, some maple. Golden brown leaves in a grey slate background.
January 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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This #artAltText is so good it makes me wanna cry!
December 6, 2024 at 3:00 AM