The start of a new painting 🐈 #wip #sketch #cat #art

Every witchy girl’s natural ally: the little black cat. 5x5 inches, acrylic on canvas in a repurposed vintage mirror frame. #blackcat #catart #canadianartist #art #acrylicpainting

Some little cherry tomatoes as I cling to the last of summer 🍅 5x7 inches, acrylic on canvas in a wood frame. #art #acrylicpainting #tomatoes #cherrytomatoes #canadianartist

A little house finch study in acrylic. 5x7in, in a wood frame. #birdart #housefinch #canadianartist #acrylicpainting

Can’t stop thinking about the cutaway scene in PrimeTime of a cop, in the middle of a pedophile investigation, stops to order the “Jared special” at Subway in front of a life sized cardboard cutout of the sandwich pervert.

Merit Weaver is fantastic in PrimeTime and I hope we get to see her in more big roles soon

A Girl’s Best Friend. 8x12in, acrylic on canvas, vintage rosewood frame. #blackcat #art #acrylicpainting #painting #canadianartist #petportrait #cat

Thrift store find: a vintage 35mm photographic slide transparency featuring what appears to be a 1959 Chevrolet Impala convertible. #chevrolet #foundmedia #foundphotography

Found these technicolor photos at the thrift store. My guess is these are from a trip to Utah 📷 #foundmedia #technicolor #foundphotogrpahy

It’s tomato season 🍅 8x10 inch painting in a 16x19 inch maple frame. #art #acrylicpainting #tomato #heirloomtomato #canadianartist #stilllife

Oddly, they don’t include photos of the cat and dog. Here’s ΖΜΑΡΑΓΔΙΝ (Zmaragdin, ‘Emerald’) the cat (who is appropriately on its own luxe pillow), and a leaping ΩΚΕΑΝΟΣ (Okeanos, ‘Ocean’) the dog. 📸 Anatolian Archaeology

The Roman Society@theromansoc.bsky.social · 4w ago

'Roman man’s tribute to beloved pet cat and dog found in 1,800-year-old mosaic' www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Survives somehow

Garden photo shoot. From a glass plate negative in my collection, no date/info.

A fun colour study to start harvest season with, in a thrifted frame. 8x8inches. #painting #art #stilllife #pears #acrylicpainting

New investigation from me. The 23 websites are designed to influence the answers that AI chatbots give to voters in Alberta, targeting farmers, young people, veterans, mothers and oil industry workers. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/i...

A US-linked network of fake websites is promoting Alberta separatism to AI chatbots

The websites present crude, AI-generated slop disguised as the voice of real Albertans. But they're made in Florida — and they're not even targeting Albertans directly.

nationalobserver.com

I have beaten the emails that were in my inbox & which you were probably hoping I'd answer Forgive me there were so many received & so old

Rabab Nemr (Egyptian, 1939-2025). Untitled (2006, ink on paper).

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

This diva is Chiquita, inspired by Josephine Baker’s pet cheetah of the same name. It was a super fun project to work while I was stuck at home on call over the weekend. #acrylicpainting #art #dog #petportrait #canadianartist

A little ram, painted for a thrifted vintage frame. 10x15 cm, acrylic on canvas. #art #acrylicpainting #aries #ram

Finished and framed this little goldfinch painting in a thrifted wood frame. #art #acrylicpainting #painting #goldfinch #birdart #canadianartist

People don’t believe in climate change and yet Ottawa, Ontario, is suddenly in the middle of tornado alley. Tornadoes were unheard of here for the first 25 years of my life, and now they’re so frequent I just got my 3rd emergency alert of the summer for a tornado in my area.

A little goldfinch underpainting for a work in progress. #goldfinch #birdart #wip #art #acrylicpainting #painting

A little eastern bluebird study from earlier this week. 4.5x5.5in, acrylic on canvas, thrifted frame. #canadianartist #sciart #acrylicpainting #art #easternbluebird

Do other cities have Amphibuses with a tragic past that continue to flirt with death every day or is that just an Ottawa thing?

Still life with oranges and stoneware dog, 1906 by German Expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker #WomensArt

Gabriele Münter Still life with vase. c. 1930 Expressionist painter #Womensart

Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.

I’m having a pomegranate summer. 8x10 inches, acrylic on canvas. #acrylicpainting #art #painting #pomegranate #canadianartist

Put down the AI and pick up the paint brush. Make something you can be proud of. #art #painting #acrylicpainting #canadianartist #pomegranate