Karen Akers Art

Charcoal sketch of an abstract sculpture of intertwined and rounded shapes

A loose charcoal sketch of oval lines surrounding a circular centre

Charcoal and pastel sketch of abstract, twisted, linear shapes

A portion of a small paper sculpture of twisted lines, held to create shadows behind

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

Original coastal marsh oil painting by Tisha Mark, "A Day to Remember" 16"x20" oil on linen (2025). This vibrant Cape Cod inspired painting has a summery light blue sky with atmospheric pink cloud formations over a peaceful coastal marsh. The textured marsh grasses are green and a calm ocean is visible in the distance.

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

A mixed media painting on wood of a clouded sky, highlighted in yellow ochre. Blue and muted viridian green mountains rise into the sky. Hazelnut trees and spruce in the foreground.

#BlueskyArtShow #Clouds mixed media painting of clouds over mountains.

Art quilt landscape with green and brown land and gray heavily quilted sky.

#blueskyartshow #clouds

Art quilt landscape.

#artquilt #quiltsky #landscape

A painting of towering, dark storm clouds. The clouds take up 3/4 of the composition, looming over dark hills with lit from the left side by a patch of sunlight.

Storm #Clouds over Calf Top, Cumbria. Acrylic on canvas #BlueSkyArtShow #AcrylicPainting #landscape #cloudscape

Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party 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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…but it won’t pass unless we push it

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A painting of a woodland scene. 4 slender, leafless trees, a loosely painted green woodland floor and behind the trees, à vivid representation of a sunset in reds, pinks and yellows.

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.

A winter sunset over hillside fields. Painted in tones of blue and violet with the cool yellow sun peeking out from behind the clouds.

Winter sunset. Gouache sketch on paper #gouache #Landscape

2025 in 67 pages from this years nature sketchbook #ArtYear #sketchbook #nature

Four orange and brown autumn leaves, hanging from a thin branch, against a frosty looking background of blues and greens.

The #Warmth of frosty winter light on the last of the autumn leaves #BlueSkyArtShow #Watercolour

@jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social thanks for the repost x

A beach at low tide, a lone figure, a sculpture of a man, stares out to the distant sea. Another tiny figure stands in the distance on the waters edge. On the horizon to the left are some distant hills and on the right a row of wind turbines

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 😊

A watercolour painting of stone built Provençal buildings in the evening. The walls illuminated by the yellow glow of street lights.

#Evening in Seillans, Provence. A watercolour study from my holiday sketchbook. #BlueSkyArtShow

A watercolour painting of an autumn tree with long grasses in the foreground and loosely painted hills and drystone walls in the background.

Autumn in north west England, watercolour. #BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn #WatercolourArt

A painting of 2 orange halves against a quickly painted blue background

A painting of half a fig with a red centre and bright green skin against a brownish red background

Sketchbook studies in gouache #inside #BlueSkyArtShow #gouache #painting #sketchbook

A painting of bare winter trees standing either side of a winding path

This is a work in progress but I thought it fitted with the #BlueSkyArtShow theme #vertical so here you go.
My work seems to have been somewhat preoccupied with trees lately.
#watercolour #Mixedmedia #Painting #art

A charcoal collage of drawings of rocks and plant life.

An artist adds details to a large charcoal collage

An artist adds a collage pice to a large charcoal drawing collage

2 artists add work to a large charcoal collage

So proud of this
collaborative charcoal collage. Made this morning at Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal and inspired by the Simon Starling Boat Works exhibition.
This is our floating island. #CollaborativeArt #Collage #Charcoal #ArtYear

A painting of washing drying on a line under a thick canopy of green and yellow leaves

Lazy summer days under a canopy of green #Relax #BlueSkyArtShow gouache sketchbook study. #gouache #painting

A watercolour sketch of leafy plane trees either side of a narrow lane. The trees follow two lines of perspective, disappearing towards the centre of the painting.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Angles Rows of plane trees #WatercolourSketch #SketchbookStudy #PenAndWash #ArtYear

A watercolour sketch of grassy fields in autumnal tones of green and brown, leading towards distant blue toned hills. All beneath a sky with patches of blue between white and grey clouds.

#Home The landscape of Cumbria and The Lake District. This is the view from the field near our house, a view I never grow tired of. #BlueSkyArtShow #ArtYear

Three trees in full leaf in my a row, dappled summer light shines behind the trunks

Dappled light through leafy trees, watercolour. #BlueSkyArtShow #Summer #ArtYear

6 pages from a sketchbook showing colour sketches in pen and paint of insects, plants, flowers, fruit and birds

August, captured in pen and paint. So much early fruit this year! #NatureJournal #ArtDiary #ArtYear

A bientôt Provence.
My family are not early risers so each morning, armed with a cup of coffee, a pain au raisin, the view or photos taken the day before, I spend an indulgent hour recording memories.

A table outdoors in dappled sunlight. On it sits an open sketchbook showing a pen and watercolour sketch of a narrow street of shops with many pink umbrellas strung above between the buildings to provide shade. Also on the table is a paint palette, brush, a black book cover, 2 pens, a yogurt pot used as a water pot and a half drink mug of coffee

Le Ciel et Rose - Grasse. I’m working from photographs taken the previous day - ain’t no way I’m drawing en plein air in this heat! Il fait très chaud! 🥵 #holidaysketchbook #penandwash #provence #ArtYear

On a table lays a sketchbook, a palette of watercolour paints, a paintbrush and a pot of water. In the sketchbook is a painting of an evening landscape. Under pink and great clouds sits some green foliage in the foreground, in front of a line of cypress trees. The landscape stretches on to some distant hills.

My little Provençal sketchbook #ArtYear #HolidaySketching