Karen Akers Art
@k-akersart.bsky.social
Art and Textiles tutor working in Cumbria
#BlueSkyArtShow painting clear #glass isn’t always easy but I’m pleased with the vase in this. I started with a background of tiles that I transferred to the watercolour paper. This really helps the illusion of transparency. #WatercolourAndMixedMedia #MixedMedia
Some more vivid late spring coloured mixed media studies. Just loving the mix of green, yellow, blue and violet #MixedMedia
I’ve been trying to capture the #edge that’s created when the sun shines from behind and illuminates hillsides and dark clouds #BlueSkyArtShow #Watercolour #MixedMedia
The #background to my lunch break between classes last week; Bardsea beach and Morecambe bay beyond. #BlueSkyArtShow #LandscapeArt #Watercolour
Celebrating the return of Barbara Hepworth’s sculpture; Oval Form (Trezion) to Abbot Hall Gallery. Charcoal sketches, paper models and drawings of #Flowing lines #BlueSkyArtShow #BarbaraHepworth
Apple Acrylic background, neocolor crayons and artgraf
Snowdrops for Imbolc. Spring is close, the light returns. simple embroidery and appliqué on a base of Manx Patchwork #TextileArt #Imbolc #Snowdrops #Embroidery
My obsession with painting light is related to my love for #clouds, for the effect they have on light. Here's a peaceful one for you. Tisha Mark ©2025, A Day to Remember, oil on linen, 16"x20" Original is available: tishamark.com/product/a-da... #BlueSkyArtShow #art #painting #SciArt #bsnm
Storm #Clouds over Calf Top, Cumbria. Acrylic on canvas #BlueSkyArtShow #AcrylicPainting #landscape #cloudscape
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When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...
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The Public Accountability Bill Amendment
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A somewhat #Vibrant representation of a winter sunset through birch trees. Painted as an example for an exercise in gouache painting that I’m planning for my class next week. I got carried away with the colour - oops! #BlueSkyArtShow #Gouache
Barbara Hepworth (1903-75), sculptor and artist, was born on this day in Wakefield. One of the foremost modernists of the 20th century.
2025 in 67 pages from this years nature sketchbook #ArtYear #sketchbook #nature
@jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social thanks for the repost x
Two of one hundred metal sculptures, part of Anthony Gormley’s Another Place. A 3km installation but taken in isolation each sculpture feels so #Small and alone when faced with nature, the sea and the sky. #BlueSkyArtShow #gouache
@katherinemancuso.bsky.social thank you for the re-post 😊
