JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁

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Apparently my "Freedom 55" will be dying in the Canadian insurgency. Did not have that on my life bingo card. Forever a Bluenoser. GenX. Divorced. Buddhist. Etsy Shop: Buy Me a Coffee?: www.buymeacoffee.com/nereid71hi

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JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· 12d

A primitive attempt at the planters from 2 years ago. (2024) It didnt turn out the way I pictured in my head but it was the most ambitious painting I had ever attempted at that time. Black planter full of bright and dark green potato leaves, red and purple flowers and tall striped leaves green grass and a red brick wall are backdrop

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· 12d

#Fredericton City Hall Planter, 2026 #watercolour I'll put the planter painting I did two years ago in the comments to show my progress. #blueskyart #newbrunswick #containergarden #floral #flower

Black plant bursting with pale and dark green leaves, vibrant magenta flowers and a spray of purplish-brown leaves and grasses at the top. The backdrop is a mottled tight terra cotta.

Reference photo of Black planter bursting with pale and dark green leaves, vibrant magenta flowers and a spray of purplish-brown leaves and grasses at the top. The backdrop is a brick sidewalk and a beige stone wall

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· 18d

Let's prove how much smarter we collectively are than #AI. I have some brain issues. I recognize this actor, I know theyre famous. I can't recall name. I've asked 4 different models. Not one can identify him nor even correctly identify the movie its ripped from. Help! I need this film in my life!

A television is stopped at 4:34 of a Boards of Canada video showing a famous actor from an obvious 1960s B sci-fi film but I cant for the life of me remember his name.

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· 20d

Bear on the Cross, 2026 #watercolour Part of an ongoing Diary at the End of the World personal project where I process all the stories that bother me. Blasphemous but the irony was screaming at me. #blueskyart #collapse #environment #nature #bear

A bear is stranded at the top of a power pole, hugging it, its mouth open in a cry. A blue sky with some clouds also feature prominently. Similar to old school iconography a gold circle lays behind the bear and a gold line frames the picture. The caption reads "bear electrocuted trying to evade onlookers. "BEAR DIES on a cross for our environmental and social media sins."

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· 21d

The Cap 2026 #watercolour Way overworked capture of local #Fredericton favourite #bar / #music venue. #blueskyart #urbansketching #newbrunswick #urban #streetscene

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· 23d

Claude 9000, 2006, #acrylic #watercolour Wanting to document our current insanity first hand, I've been trying all the major #AI. Touted as a panacea, with all but one so far, the results have yet to be spectacular. I get told no, no, no. Claude gets the public shame because I stupidly paid for it.

Hal 9000 with the Claude icon super imposed over it's red light. A sampling of this week's simple inquiries to Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot that one would expect they could do like "Claude, would you organize my photos, please?" "Can you add an entry in the Ledger you created for me?" "Can you save this link for me?". Underneath Hal's glowing eye is the universal reply "I'm sorry, Jacqueline. I can't do that."

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· 25d

A new-to-me bedroom almost done. Painted the stormy colour of my beloved Atlantic. Wine dark Sea. Can't wait to read, do yoga, and watch TV in here and, of course, sleep.

A bedroom freshly painted in a deep teal with crisp white trim. Letting it dry overnight and will do any touch ups overnight.

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· 25d

Homer frequently in both the ILLIAD and the Odyssey describes the "wine dark sea" - to me this richness of colour is what he was talking about

Sad yellow walls are getting deep teal therapy. First up, the trim.

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· Jul 4

Neighbours Across the Way, #watercolour and #ink in paper Having a very unsuccessful yardsale but its give me time to contemplate how lovely the neighbours yard is. My first #pleinair painting and probably the loosest #urbansketch I've done yet. #blueskyart #fredericton #newbrunswick

A sideend of little beige minihome fronted by lush greenery, lawn shrubs, and yellow flowers. The sky is a beautiful blue.

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· Jun 30

None of these pictures are mine, but I really hope someone shares these with Trump. May not have even been Canadians either, tons of international visitors here for #FIFA and the list of countries Trump is insulting is mighty long. This is the damage on the #American image Trump is causing.

A placard that reads "Dear Beaver Questers, Due to circumstances beyone (sic) our control, the USA beaver has had to be permanently removed. Please scan the QR code below and continue to play the Great Beaver Quest." And there's a Qzr code, a picture of said Beaver and American flag.

A side picture of beaver statue wearing Team USA shirt with right foot on a soccer ball and a USA flag painted on check.

Team USA beaver on ground on its right side, its head has been smashed in, sand pours out its shattered remains.

Some genius has pasted the image of the broken beaver into a "Canadian Heritage Moments" advertisement meme. Canadian Heritage Moments are very popular short advertisements put out by the Canadian Government highlight interesting canadian facts or history. Interestingly, these ads also act to debunk Americanisms like the origin of basketball and insulin.

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· Jun 27

Lobster, 2026 #watercolour and #ink A summertime favourite in these parts. Painted for a friend. #lobster #newbrunswick #blueskyart #art

A lobster, bright orange-red, mottled with tiny reddish dots, a silvery green circle underneath it

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· Jun 14

Cavok Brewing Co. Truck, 2026, #watercolour and #ink on #paper. Another sketch from my recent trip to #Moncton #NewBrunswick I thought this would be a challenge and was it ever! #blueskyart #urbansketching #craftbrewing

A watercolour sketch of a robins egg blue delivery van with bold black graphs (sun like rays and black shields that say "Cavok Brewing Co.") against a orange background.

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· Jun 13

#ElonMusk, The #Trillionaire, 2026 #watercolour #humaninjustice #blueskyart #currentevents #capitalism #MAGA

A watercolour portrait of young Elon Musk, with balding hair against a light green backdrop with dark green dollars signs. Surrounding him are some modified lyrics of "If I Were a Rich Man" which itself was a riff on a soliloquey "If I Were A Rothschild"

"Oh, Lord, you made many, many poor people
I realize, of course, it's no shame to be poor
But it's no great honor either
So, what would have been so terrible if I had a small fortune?
If I were a rich man
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum ...
I see my wives, my *, looking like a rich man's wives
With a proper double-chins
Supervising meals to they're heart's delight
I see them putting on airs and strutting like a peacock
Oy, what a happy mood they're in
Screaming at the servants, day and night
The most important men in town would come to fawn on me
They would ask me to advise them like a Solomon the Wise ...
And it won't make one bit of difference if I answer right or wrong
When you're rich, they think you really know"

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· Jun 7

Riverfront Park, #Moncton #NewBrunswick another little scene from my work trip, this time from the park behind the motel #urbansketching #blueskyart #watercolour

A stone cenotaph and various stone memorials stand in a field of green grass with a very muddy Petitcodiac River behind it. On the otherside of the river, wooded hills rise to the blue sky, sheltering a few buildings

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· Jun 6

Gallagher's Irish Pub House, #Moncton, #NewBrunswick #watercolour and #ink Work trip this week, pub across from my hotel, sorry for the smearing - trip took a lot out of me and hands are crazy shaking #urbansketching #blueskyart

A bright red building with lots of black decorative trim. A giant circular window divided into quarters is in the top half on the giant arched door. The roof is black and is the top third of the building. Gallagher's is written in gold across the roof and a shield hangs besides the name and two red ovals flank the name. Below in three rectangles of black trim is the words Irish Pub House. On the opposite page Ive put the sticker that came with my dinner. It is a piece of plain white tape with "Food For The Body - Drink for the Spirit - Music For the Soul"

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· May 27

Mama got some new art supplies. #ink lots of ink. This but of ugly art also turned out to be a great excuse on what materials work as resists. #blueskyart #art #nbart

A red and orange ink background. Metallic green swirls cover all over and patterns of white dots repeat throughout. Areas of white space are marked with black topographical lines. Black outlines cover all forming a repeating pattern of circles and flowers.

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· May 27

Vermillion Flycatcher, 2026 #watercolour #birdwhisperer May challenge. #birds #blueskyart #nature #nbartist #art #painting

A red bellied and brownish black winged and capped bird oriented to the right but looking to the left sits on a brown branch. Being it is a tan background mottled with green and blue circles.

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· May 24

Fredericton Quilt Show part 3

A green quilted and embroidered picture of a yellow dog chewing an orange blue ball

A black circular quilt featuring the feet and flowery skirts of four girls in blue, pink, teal, and green. Teddy bear, skipping rope crayons, and bottled bubbles are scattered amongst the feet

A small quilt in a rainbow of plain colours, are quilted with supimposed printed fabrics in the same colours below.

A black quilt with a black and white border, with black and white pieces makung snowflakes

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· May 24

Fredericton Quilt Show part 2

A quilt in grey to black ombre with white squares and triangles forming a partial snow flake on the edge

Pink, yellow, blue, and black triangles forming a vibrant maple leaf quilt

A baby blue quilt with many brown and grey triangles creating a formation of flying Canada Geese

A green yellow and blue quilt with cirlce and diamond pieces in yellows pinks blues and greens creating vibrant sunflowers

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· May 24

Own Friday, I took my mom, a former quilter, to the #Fredericton #quilt show, these were the standouts, more pics in separate comments...

While a traditional style, this purple based quilt features pictures of ekectricak insulators in blue, prpkes and yelliw that that had been transferred to yellowish material rectangles

This blue and yellow quilt features many beige, grey and black triangles makng an elephant walking towards the viewer

This patchwork quilt of blue, purple, and orange sqaures and rectangles features white squares with black and white animal motifs - owl, rabbit, criw, bear and fox

A mainly white quilt with many brown red and pink maple leafs and evergreen trees trees and Canada and New Brunswick Flags with the words The Maple Leaf Forever

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· May 19

Inspired by the movie Together, with Alison Brie and Dave Franco #watercolour #filmsky #horror #cult #folkhorror

A watercolour painting inspired by the movie Together. A man and woman pull apart from a kiss, their bottom lip fused together. A green patina bell is behind them, and the overall background is black

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· May 16

Klimt's Birches, #watercolour a rough attempt, gonna try this again. #klimt #blueskyart #nbartist #fredericton #landscape #forest #wald #forêt

Birch trees (white trunks with black stripes) with yellow green and brown leaves stand against a blue autumn sky. The ground is littered with brown leaves.

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· May 16

"Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it" George Santayana (yes, I know #hantavirus isn't that contagious... the point being more about how these things are a glorious petrie dish perfect for percolating and delivering exotic diseases) #covid #cruiseship #watercolour

Watercolour rough sketch of the Diamond Princess, an early day covid death cruiseship. White cruiseship against a blue sky. Clouds spell out Covid . First part of a quote under the boat "Those who cannot remember the past ..."

Rough watercolour sketch of the MV Hondius, current Hantavirus carrier. White and blue boat against a blue backdrop. The waves spell Hantavirus. The remainder of the quote "... are condemned to repeat it" George Santayana

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· May 16

Last Four watched for May 9 2026 to May 15 2026 What you watch when someone you love who has waaaay better cinema taste comes to visit. A day late because guests. #LetterboxedFriday #lastfourwatched #Letterboxd #FilmSky #Films #movies

Thumbnails nails of my last four movies watched, Coyote Ugly, Save The Green Planet, Putney Swope, Down By Law

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· May 9

Expensive but my #MothersDay gift to myself is I'm-to-tired-to-cook charcuterie. Happy Mothers Day to all the mom's out there.

A charcuterie spread of popcorn, bean spread, various pickles, baguettes, brie, two boursins, green grapes chips, two salaries, two hard cheeses, crackers, rye breads and olives

A charcuterie plate of popcorn, bean spread, various pickles, baguettes, brie, two boursins, green grapes chips, two salaries, two hard cheeses, crackers, rye breads and olives

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· May 9

Flower basket - tradition i get for my mother every year.

Flower basket with salmon colour bugonias (?), mystery but pretty white and yellow flowers, and ornamental grasses.

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· May 9

My son is moving out (💔) and gave me this book. Apparently he thrifted it because I had told him that the film adaptation was one of my favourite #Hitchcock movies. Check out this #coverart! I can guarantee that he or the previous owner never read it. #booksky #book #reading

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· May 9

Gabi, The #Buddist Monk, 2026 #watercolour Now the AI robots are coming for our #nirvana #dystopia #blueskyart #art #nbartist

A watercolour sketch of a humanoid robot, black face with green light where the eyes should be black legs and brown shoes and wearing the orange and white robes of a Buddhist monk. It stands before a backdrop of orange and yellow flowers

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· May 9

Last Four watched for May 1 2026 to May 8 2026 #LetterboxedFriday #lastfourwatched #Letterboxd #FilmSky #Films #movies

Thumbnails for the last four films I have watched. 1 Mother Mary 2 The Severed Sun 3 Rufus 4 Hamnet

JVL Art 🇨🇦🍁@jvlart· May 8

It's a #BEE! 2026 #watercolour #nature #blueskyart #honey