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Sen tropisk natt får mitt bohemiska sovrum sällskap av något slags tusenfoting. Dras väl till lampan. Det är något med hetta och underliga sällskap som går hand i hand... Den gör ingen förnär, är förmodligen lika vilsen som mig, nästan trevligt med sällskap. Ska släppa ut den om jag får tag i den.

There! Finished the Martagon Lily an sich after four gruelsomely early mornings before the heat went tropical. It now has to dry for a week or two, while I'm pondering what to do with the blue sides. Perhaps the "surr" in Surrealism waits for me. #wip #lily #oilpainting #miniature #bskyart

Heart shaped canvas on the improvised workbench, with the flowering stem of the Martagon cutting through the middle, dividing the background into a dark and a light field.

Making of the buds: I wanted to capture all of the strange fowering process this plant has, from buds to folding the petsls upwards into full "Turkish Cap", as it is also called. It's really quick, a matter of days! First, as you see, I am sparing out the negative space where the bud is to be... (I generally have no patience for underpainting)... (See next image!)

(from the previous image alt-text) ...and then I fill the bud into the shape – zoom in and look at the little dots on the petals, like freckles! – and enclose it all.

The Martagon Lily in real life – photo from a very unkept garden – the bumblebees and butterflies love it. (It's a sort of compensation for the sterile green deserts of some of our neighbours, no names mentioned.) Come, everything that says hum and buzz! You're safe here. Nectar is served.

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Joakim Ceder@j-ceder.bsky.social · last yr.

This time in oil. Martagon Lily, work in progress. It gtows just beside the withered one of yesteryear. Painted very early before the heat set in. (🇸🇪: Krollilja.) bsky.app/profile/j-ce... #wip #lily #oilpainting #miniature #bskyart

The flower mentioned above. It is also called Turkish Cap due to its semblance with a turban. Detail painted in oil.

(English in alt-txt) Min stackars krollilja fick inte leva så länge, den är nere på sista blomman efter senaste tidens väder. Men humlor hann besöka den och jag hann måla den. Bläck och akvarell (mycket vitt!) på kartong. (Den mörkare blomman var i skugga: Grafiskt intressant så behöll denna ton.)

Detail of my short-lived Martagon Lily; ink, watercolour (lots of white) on cardboard. The bumble bees got to visit it, though, and I got to paint it in time.

Joakim Ceder @j-ceder.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Plan för dagen / today's chores

Old fashioned park bench, a very ornamented, green painted iron one, in a lush park with pond under a nice shadowing tree. Photo by me.

Sort of mesmerizing: ”This site plays a note every time someone edits a Wikipedia article. The larger the edit, the deeper the note.” listen.hatnote.com#en

Hatnote Listen to Wikipedia

Listen to recent changes on Wikipedia

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Joakim Ceder @j-ceder.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Glad Midsommar! Voilà; "Midsummer Madness." paintstakingly.blogspot.com/2026/06/mids... #surrealart #chesire #midsummer #mixedmedia #bskyart #collage #madness #tagetes

It is jolly difficult to write Alt texts when your calling is to make images that really mess with the eyes. But let's try. Under pastel skies, on a green field with Tagetes, there is some sort of cello with a bow that is also a paintbrush. The neck of the instrument looks more like piano keys and on the top, as a head, there's the Chesire Cat grinning, as we're all mad here. Digital painting with tweaked photography by me collaged in for structure. Signed Joakim Ceder, 2026, and the title is "Midsummer Madness"

Joakim Ceder @j-ceder.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Gud giv mig en lugn stund, hur fan det nu ska gå till.

Joakim Ceder @j-ceder.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Uprooted." #surrealism #collage #loss #bskyart #mixedmedia

Barren trees with roots of heavy blood are taking to the sky above a field with somewhat dry grass and pink, semi-transparent flowers of false promises. In the middle of it all there's a little creek running, which turns into a poor, tattered person, also in blue. It is seen from behind, but its sorrow about it all is still obvious.

Joakim Ceder @j-ceder.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Grönt, grönt, grönt! (📷: moi.) #lönn #maple

Ett lönnträd som tänker spricka ut i blom vilket sekund som helst nu. Små blomsterknoppar och små gröna kantiga blad i förgrunden, i bakgrunden en värld som blivit grön.

Joakim Ceder @j-ceder.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sakura, #sakura ! A bit old but new #pianomusic to you! As my neighbour's tree is blooming again. I don't think you have seen this piece before. youtu.be/tEyX1KuRHmM

Sakura, sakura!

YouTube video by Joakim Ceder

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Löftet@inomtullarna.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Kvällens ord: Capricciosasnubbe.

Nu kom det in en capricciosasnubbe och störde friden.

Sad Hen Boat. #surrealism #symbolism #floating #mixedmedia #aquarelle #oddity — how much for tags.

Painting in ink and aquarelle of a little boat which is also a crying hen, with a little alder tree with catkins and all standing in for a sail; it also has elements of a red sail in it, as well as a red pennant on top. All of this is reflecting nicely in the water — and reflecting Lord Knows What feelings inside the artist. Signed Joakim Ceder, 2026.

The original little boat with red sails in harbour. The foresail is up.

The red sails at sea from the sailor's point of view, billowing in the irregular winds.

Instead of the work I should be doing — #inking a bit on something #surreal in progress, stealing time for my real profession (or one of them).

A steel pen replacing pencil sketchmarks with ink, without making anything any less unintelligible: There's a round bird-shaped boat in the water, about to get a sail of sorts inked, or sail by proxy, and we might even now suspect that it'll turn out just as strange.

Movies Silently@moviessilently.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The confusion! (from a Californian in Scotland)

Okay, I have Britishisms and Americanisms worked out Fries are chips, chips are crisps, cookies are biscuits, biscuits are plain scones… and partly cloudy is sunny

In this time and age, slow careful writing, afterthought — and yes, blogging — still has value, perhaps more than ever. Look! @silentbeauties.bsky.social writes fine words of resistance here, I intend to follow: magnacarta10.wordpress.com/2026/02/23/w... #blog #writing #humanism

Why blogs are better than social media – The importance of reading and writing

It has been a while since social medias and smartphones took over. We are already aware of the political manipulation, the shady algorithms and all the so-called “influencer’s mentality”. Those who…

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Nasrin 🐿️ 💚🤍❤️ ✊🏼@nasrins.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Lördag, och jag saknar fortfarande dig. Vissa delar av dig. De delar som var rent maniskt kärleksfulla. Den delen som var min vän, den enda som riktigt förstår. Andra, som den sadistiska, hatiska delen, full av helvetesrök, saknar jag inte. Jag förstår att den hör till. Lev i frid.

Detta. Ibland är krig kanske inte fred, men åtminstone slutet på en demoniskt ond så kallad fred. www.facebook.com/share/v/18GL...

Fresh from my infernal oven, a digital painting+collage. Enjoy. =^_^= #artsky #surrealism #juxtaposition #staring #telephone #enigmatic #jumble #bskyartist #newart #impossible #toxicrelationships

A small wanderer is coming through the canvas-ish dunes, reaching a huge thingamagic vaguely resembling an old telephone, but it has two huge eyes staring down on her (her?) and more strange things thrown in than I can describe. Tempting hands hanging in barbed wire. Suggestive forms. A gap through which a train might be coming on its way towards a sea of blood, and so on. In the background, there's a sort of muddy WWI no-man's-land with poles where fleshy, perhaps heart-like shapes are impaled, but there's a faint rainbow in the sky behind. Digital painting plus collage signed Joakim Ceder, 2026.

Zeth Gogman🖤🚩@zethgogman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Helvetet är en plats där man, för maximal effekt, låter dig komma till himmelen först.

Säger som min terapeut sa om det här med toxiska relationer som ändå är "bra ibland": att vara full är också "bra ibland"... tills man är bakfull.