Art Challenges: April 13–19 Your art challenge cheat sheet for April 6–12 is here! Make art, have fun. See comments for host list. #EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #ArtYear #dailyart #art #traditionalart #painting #drawing #onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #artprompt Tuesday, April 14 #RockinTuesday (rocks) #TidesOutTuesday #TagTuesday (graffiti/street art) #AnimalArtTuesday #ColorADay (#BlueTue or #CyanTue) Wednesday, April 15 #WaterfallWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday #WackyWednesdayArt #ColorADay (#RedWed) Thursday, April 16 #HumansOfBlueSky (people) #UrbanGaze (anything urban) #PalacesAndGardens (#outtakes) #ColorADay (#YellowThu) Friday, April 17 #Scape (any kind of scape) #FishyFriday #ForestFriday #FoodOnFriday #FlyDay (critters that fly) #ColorADay (#BWFri) Saturday, April 18 #BNWmacro #ColorADay (#GreenSat) #SmallBirdSaturday #BlueSkyArtShow (#edge) Sunday, April 19 #Stunday (stunning) #ImageAndVerse (photos with poems written by you or anyone) #BNWmacro #ColorADay (#OrangeSun) ALL WEEK #ArtYear (any art) #BirdOfTheDay (see Alan H or Rob Crank for daily prompt) #ClassicMono (monochrome) #ShowHeart (hearts) #Abstractia (#watercolour) #AlphabetChallenge (#WeekOForOld) #MixedMedia52 (#sweet) #PostProcess (#EraShift)** #SensoryArt (#urban) **Edit the new photo posted by Rock on April 12 to make it feel like it was taken in a different decade or century Compiled by @handcranked.bsky.social Questions? @young-spartacus.bsky.social

Your art challenge cheat sheet for April 13–19 is here! Make art, have fun.

See comments for host list.

#EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#ArtYear #dailyart #art #traditionalart #painting #drawing #onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #artprompt

Thank you so much!

Architectural detail of carved columns on the facade of a Gothic cathedral.

Twisty columns.
Duomo di Orvieto

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #PalacesAndGardens #twisted

Sculpture of nude male sunning on a bench looking up at the sky, twisted wood and metal form the body with half his middle missing

#PalacesandGardens #Twisted Le Rayon de Soeil, Saint-Nexons, France

A bare, no leaves, vine growing against a brick wall in the winter at the Botanical gardens at Riverbanks Zoo.

Riverbanks Zoo Botanical Garden, Columbia, SC
#PalacesandGardens #Twisted #ECK #classicmono #bnw

A close up of the head of a human size metal frog statue against a stucco wall.

A close up of the head of a metal frog statue. #WackyWednesdayArt #ECK

Thank you!

The Smoky Mountains #BlueSkyMonday
#MountainMonday #TheSmokies #ECK

A door in wood panelling opening onto North Front at Cambridge University Library, with a view to a window beyond. The light through the door looks bluish.

Library portal.
#BlueSkyArtShow #Openings 📷 #photography @theul.bsky.social

Once you learn how to walk your path alone, peace follows.
You'll realize that being alone doesn't mean you're lonely.

#ffxivgpose #elezen #alone #gpose

A single Great Crested Grebe looks around as it is surrounded by Black-headed Gulls that fill the frame. Photographed at Hurleston Reservoir in south Cheshire, England.

A solitary Great Crested Grebe amongst thousands of Black-headed Gulls for the #SensoryArt theme #Alone.

#ECK #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #Cheshire #Kodachrome #1990s

Yes! 🙌🏼

😂👏🏼😂👏🏼

A close up of a male lion’s head, side view against a stone wall. Taken at Riverbanks Zoo, Columbia, SC

“Lion King” #weekMforMovies #AlphabetChallenge #ClassicMono #lion #ECK

The top corner of a mansion in downtown Charleston, SC featuring Corinthian columns.

#Abstractia #architecture #ECK

A wooden bench in the sand at the beach with nothing else around

Lonely bench. #MinimalMonday #classicMono #ECK #SensoryArt #Alone

Round black stepping stones along a beach in NC, USA

Stepping Stones #BlueSkyArtShow #stone

A lone tree in the foreground and a group of trees in the distance. The ground is covered in grass and the sky is dark. This is an infrared photo.

Sunshine and a clear black sky.

#infrared #scape #landscape #ClassicMono #BWFri #spring #trees

Tree branches from above {copyright M. Frost}

For #ForestFri x #BWFri #ColorADay, a viewpoint outside #Sedona in #winter #photography

Hard to imagine this will blow down anytime soon. #photography #bw #BWFri #scape #seascape #travel #Ke'eBeach #Nāpali #Kauai #Hawaii

Deux cygnes noirs en parade nuptial, au moment où ils forment un coeur avec leurs cou.

#photography #birds
#ShowHearths

#birdoftheday #marriedcouples

...ou fiancés.

A black and white macro image of a dandelion gone to seed.

#coloraday #BWFri #classicmono #dandelion #macro

Small bird perched on a branch. Yellow on top, white underneath, with black speckles all over and a black mask.

Speckled tanager Costa Rica

#EastCoastKin #photography #PleaseMakeTheSnowGoAway #birds

Straws (2021) #BlueSkyArtShow #round #BNWmacro #classicmono #drinkingstraws #eastcoastkin

This black-and-white photograph captures delicate, frost-covered wildflower seed heads against a soft, gradient sky. The composition emphasizes the intricate textures of the frozen structures, creating a contrast between the sharp details of the ice and the smooth background. The use of monochrome enhances the timeless, ethereal quality of the scene, while the shallow depth of field isolates the subject, drawing attention to the fragile beauty of nature in winter. The framing and balance between light and shadow add a poetic, almost meditative mood. Dieses Schwarz-Weiß-Foto zeigt zarte, von Frost überzogene Samenstände wilder Blumen vor einem sanften, verlaufenden Himmel. Die Komposition betont die filigranen Texturen der vereisten Strukturen und schafft einen Kontrast zwischen den scharfen Details des Eises und dem weichen Hintergrund. Der Einsatz von Monochrom unterstreicht die zeitlose, ätherische Qualität der Szene, während die geringe Schärfentiefe das Motiv isoliert und die Aufmerksamkeit auf die zerbrechliche Schönheit der Natur im Winter lenkt. Die Rahmung und das Spiel von Licht und Schatten verleihen dem Bild eine poetische, fast meditative Stimmung. Alt-Text generated by a LLM, supervised by a human!

Heads in Haze, December 2023

Haze hugs hollow heads,
hoarfrost hardens, heavy, still—
hushed, the hour holds.

#AlphabetChallenge #HForHsWeek #Stunday #ImageAndVerse #BNWmacro #Haiku #FineArt #PhotographersofBluesky #blackandwhitephotography #ClassicMono

Close shot of a white early tulip with a focus on the silk of the petals

#BNWmacro
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#PhotographersofBlueSky

A closeup of the face of a cement angel statue from a cemetery in SC

#BNWMacro #classicmono #EastCoastKin #cemeteries #angels

The jungle area.

Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall.
#Cornwall
#ColorADay
#GreenSat
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekHforHs
#Landscape
#Reflections
#Gardens
#Photography

A circle of stone monuments at Loughcrew in County Meath, Ireland “The Loughcrew Cairns are one of Ireland’s archaeological treasures and can be found just 3km east of Oldcastle, County Meath. The site comprises a group of 5,000-year-old Neolithic passage tombs. The Loughcrew Cairns site is one of the four main passage tomb sites in Ireland, thought to date from about 3300 BC. The sites consist of cruciform chambers covered in most instances by a mound. A unique style of megalithic petroglyphs are seen there, including lozenge shapes, leaf shapes, as well as circles, some surrounded by radiating lines. The site is spread across three hilltops, Carnbane East, Carnbane West, and Patrickstown. The Irish name for the site is Sliabh na Caillí, which means "mountain of the witch". Legend has it that the monuments were created when a giant witch, striding across the land, dropped her cargo of large stones from her apron. The orthostats and structural stones of the monuments tend to be made of local green gritstone, which was soft enough to carve, but also vulnerable to vandalism. Situated just 3km east of Oldcastle in County Meath, the tombs are spread out over three different hills. Cairn T is one of the best preserved and most accessible tombs at Loughcrew and appears to be the central tomb of the whole complex. It faces the rising sun at the vernal (March) and autumnal (September) equinoxes which shines through the passage to illuminate symbols carved into the back wall of the chamber, corbelled roof and stunning examples of Neolithic art.” https://www.discoverireland.ie/meath/loughcrew-cairns

Stone monuments at Loughcrew 5,000 yo megalithic cairn in Ireland
#Round #BlueSkyArtShow
#ColorADay #GreenSat
#EastCoastKin #Photography #Ireland

A little green tree frog sitting vertically on a white post with green grass in the background.

American Green Tree Frog
#coloraday #GreenSat #EastCoastKin #green #frogs