Leach Botanical Map Sign

The wayfinding sign in the upper garden at Leach Botanical Garden, #PortlandOregon.

Trillium flower

A single trillium flower at #LeachBotanicalGarden in #PortlandOregon

More Leach photos to come

mesa drawn in watercolor pencils

Tonight I drew a mesa.

Caran d'Ache watercolor pencils
Prismacolor colored penciles

a bit of country road and barn near the ferry to Westport, Oregon, on Puget Island, Washington

#Watercolor
#ArtistsOfBlueSky

Druski has been accused of doing 'whiteface' by performatively offended conservatives about his impersonating Erika Kirk for a parody video.

Here's the thing about 'whiteface'; thats the technical term for the white basecoat in clown makeup.

We white people can't stop telling on ourselves, can we?

Rascunhos de segunda.

Watercolor painting of a daffodil

A Daffodil.

Koi watercolors on watercolor sketchbook paper

#Watercolor
#ArtistsOfBluesky

JOHN LITHGOW: When I learned of JKR's bigotry I almost turned down the role of Dumbledore. We good?

WE: No.

So we have to live with the fact that #KristiNoem got replaced by #MarkwayneMullen.

On the other hand ... so does she.

The funniest thing about #HillaryClinton taking the conservatives behind the backhouse for a spanking is that they demanded this. They wanted it. They insisted. They inflicted it on themselves.

You know for people who are in love with private property they sure do embrace being publicly owned

Hey, folks, I don't make the rules.
And that's the problem, is what I'm saying.

Needs way fewer Republicans (preferably none) and different (braver) Democrats.

The man who invented the 1950s passed today.
Goodbye #NeilSedaka.

Trans rights ARE human rights. This is what Niemoeller was trying to tell you all

Because you can't know unless you investigate, and all of a sudden there's going to be a lot of probable cause out there.
Do you now see why you have to protect the rights of the marginalized? Because if they aren't safe, neither are you.

Any transwoman is going to be a target, and to be honest, every woman is a target, because I don't know about the apparently hyperaware in the amalgamated Kansas gendarmerie, but I imagine a lot of women are going to have even more law enforcement eyes on them, trans or cis. .

Well, that's what happened in #Kansas. Only it's not eye color, but gender ... if you're #transgender.
The law went into effect today.

Picture it: you're living your own life, not hurting anyone so far as you know, happy in your own skin and living the best life you can, and with zero grace period, the state revokes your state-issued ID or driver license because they've decided they don't like the color of your eyes.

A secret book of recipes for food that is guaranteed to please every cat, in Japanese, would be the

NekoNomNomicon

Watercolor sketch of an early evening.

Early evening.
Another Makoccino tutorial.

#Watercolor
#WatercolorSketch
#OnePaintingADay (more or less)

A brown Roman bridge stands over a gentle river. Yellow and green hills in the background are not skilfully portrayed in this Baby’s First Watercolour attempt.

It’s exciting when a little bit of a painting looks like “a real painting”. Here’s my attempt, I was quite pleased with my river, cranky about my unsubtle yellow hill (his hill was really pretty shades).

I had the same issue with the hill, as you can see. But when I stepped bak from it, I liked the fact that it all worked somehow.

I struggled a little because the verbiage is a little cloudy at times and I don't have a 100 per cent grasp of some of the techniques. But it was empowering.

watercolor of an ancient Roman bridge over a creek in the English backcountry

A Paul Clark tutorial. He does lovely instructionals but I found process a bit inscrutableI ... don't look quite like his example but it DOES look like an old Roman bridge over a creek in the English back country, so ... a success.

#Watercolor
#OnePaintingADay (more or less)
#ArtistsOfBluesky

Cartoon: Avoid ultra-processed foods A cartoon by Jack Ohman. Related |� Want to put food up your ass? RFK Jr.'s chatbot can help!

Wow ... "Wacky Packages" really suck now.
(thanks to @jackohman.bsky.social )

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Koi watercolor painting

Another Makoccino tutorial. While I'm not 100% satisfied, I'm 100% thrilled with the way it looks. Good enough grasp on this so I can do it again which I may.

#Watercolor
#ArtistsOfBluesky
#OnePaintingADay (More or less)

Overhead view of red umbrellas on a sunny beach

The beach from above (A Mako tutorial)

#Watercolor
#WatercolorSketchbook
#OnePaintingADay (more or less)

Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn pronounces his last name "co-burn", as many of you may know, but I didn't for an embarrassingly long time.

But one of my cockworkers enlightened me on it.

Alpha Moonbase Commander Koenig remarks on the breakaway while Paul Morrow reminds him it's allright, as the Dow is above 50,000

It takes a special type of resolve to see the bright side of some situations. #Space1999 #Dow50000 #Bondi #Breakaway

The Washington Post masthead with satirical tagline.

Probably not the most original take ... but It just came to me.

#DemocracyDiesInDarkness
#It'sDarkRightNow
#WaPo