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Celeste Holcomb

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My finished piece "Light on Thomas Creek" for the 2026 Fairport Plein Air Festival

When I arrived I realized I accidentally left the paper at home so I started late and frazzled. But I'm proud that I could recover and lock in!! It was so cool to see how people approached the same conditions and constraints. I'm definitely going to enter more plein air events!

Stolen pic from @stonypointartstudio 😄 taken in Fairport, New York by @pokeberrynotes

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17 days ago

Wonderfully busy fall day at at the Fairport Plein Air Festival! Me and @adipsia had a lot of fun, especially meeting and talking to so many amazing artists. So inspiring! taken in Fairport, New York by @pokeberrynotes

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18 days ago

Chalkboard wall doodles with @adipsia ! Our kitty Modig loves to bat at everything above his head and he'd probably bat at the stars if he thought he could reach them
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Image description: a section of wall is framed and painted black with chalkboard paint and on it there is a silhouette of a cat leaping up to bat at a star in the night sky. There's a UFO in the sky and plants and creepy crawlies at the cat's feet by @pokeberrynotes

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24 days ago

One of my favorite of my tiny wintery rabbit watercolors!
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Image description: a brown and gray rabbit sits in the snow with some brown stalks of grass in the background
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#watercoloranimals #watercolorminiature by @pokeberrynotes

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24 days ago

A sunshiny day painting en plein air under the dappled shade of the big trees in Perinton Park!
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Image description: an unframed pastel painting of the shade and sun pattern of big trees on park grass. There is a little bit of the tree trunks showing at the top. The grass is many colors of green and it ripples in the light
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#pastelart
#chalkpastel
#pleinair taken in Perinton, New York by @pokeberrynotes

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a month ago

A little ghostly bunny with the lightest colored pencils I had by @pokeberrynotes

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a month ago

God, I love gel pens. My favorite one (Sakura pink ink with gold shimmer) recently went through the washer and dryer, oops 🥲

Dogwood blossoms on a tiny note for a friend by @pokeberrynotes

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a month ago

We attended a plein air painting workshop hosted by the wonderful @stonypointartstudio in preparation for the Fairport plein air festival me and @adipsia are competing in on 9/26! by @pokeberrynotes

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a month ago

Oh my gosh this bunny was so tiny 😭😭
It is wild to me how animals just have to stash their babies somewhere and hope for the best. It gives me a lot of optimism about the world but also ahhh I'm worried about the tiny babiees!
I will have to make a painting of this little one A tiny baby rabbit, so round, sitting in some green plants on the ground. by @pokeberrynotes

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2 months ago

In the midst of moving but still working on my pastels. I will be teaching pastel classes soon, with the first workshop(s) being cloud paintings!
Pastel is so fascinating to me. It's so difficult if you don't have the colors you need, but it's so much easier than other mediums when you do have the colors. Fully blending can be incredibly difficult, which is such a wild departure from my usual watercolor painting.
I love the luminous and powdery look of pastel though so it's all worth it by @pokeberrynotes

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2 months ago

A tiny silk scrap patch—an armadillo, one of the animals found in the dappled floor of the Weelaunee Forest
#weelauneeforest #tortuguitavive by @pokeberrynotes

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2 months ago

An ooold drawing. On a bus ride from NYC to Boston I glimpsed a tree blowing in the wind and tried to capture its essence here by @pokeberrynotes

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2 months ago