🤝 TEAM-UP TUESDAY! (Official Megathread for March 10, 2026)

I've been working on this floral diptych, and today I overworked it. The little bird just needed some eye detail, but I kept on painting and messed up the body. Who else regrets overworking their paintings? Charlene, Columbus, MT.

Hi I'm @lidiabartlam_art on Instagram and I'm looking for art friends there as I'm having trouble growing! I follow back and I'm very active. I'm from Lisbon Portugal and I do dark surreal drawings and paintings and the occasional Fanart, last one I did was Catwoman from the Tim Burton movie

Hello Everyone! My name is Stacey Campbell and I am a nature, travel, landscape photographer based out of Wisconsin. I began my journey as a photographer to capture family photos when my husband was diagnosed with cancer. I then used it as a way to focus on the good, the majestic and the beautiful when cancer sucked the life out of us. Now, I hope to continue the journey and share my captures with interior decorators, interior designers, folks looking to bring nature into their living and working spaces, and continue learning, growing and figuring out how to make this all work. LOL! There are so many Wonderfully talented folks in this community....I am grateful to be among you. :)

Hi, I'm Denise Dethlefsen, an art photographer based in Colorado Springs, at the foot of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. I started out doing mostly nature and outdoor photography, but I'm finding that I'm leaning more toward artistically documenting abandoned, run-down, or disused places and infrastructure. My goal is to make art that's appreciated in two very different types of venues -- contemporary, minimalist office spaces, and softer, more serene wellness spaces. Is that sort of dichotomy a little split-personality? ;-)

I'm looking for organizations that need/want art for public locations. And I'm looking for other artists to bounce ideas off of, to receive honest critique from, and to nudge me forward when I get stuck.

Hello, I’m Michael. I’m in Southern California.

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What you make and where you're based-I am a Professional Rodeo Photographer-Oklahoma is where I based What kind of connections you're looking for (collaborators, community, feedback, friends, all of the above)-Yes all of the above for me :-) One thing you're working on right now-getting my audience growth larger-so that my Rodeo art is seen by more and not just my Rodeo family

Hi, I’m a photographer from New Hampshire. I like to make photos of back roads, small towns and every day places. I’m recently retired and now have all the time I need to put into my website and marketing. I’ve been hitting some roadblocks but plodding along.

Hi, my name is Nav. I paint with acrylics and currently working on a piece of a Lioness and her cub. I am based in Ontario, Canada. I would love to meet new people, to collaborate and gain constructive feedback on my work. Looking forward to meeting new people on this platform.☺️

Well, I'm late today, but happy to join this thread.

What you make and where you're based:

I'm a photographer from back in the film days, "retired" so I can do it again, I hope! Had to make regular money for a while. I've got the ASF site https://www.chrisboese.photo, which is also called "Boese Galleries," because I have galleries for two other photographers and one painter. I have the boesegalleries.com domain, but I haven't mapped it yet.

I used to be based in the Greater NYC area (NJ the last 7 years), but last year I moved to Massachusetts.

What kind of connections you're looking for (collaborators, community, feedback, friends, all of the above):

I like all kinds of connections, and enjoy the weekly support calls, Copilot calls, all the things. I like Small Wins too, seeing what others are doing. I'm just sort of playing this by ear, but I love it.

Three things I'm working on right now:

I worked until 3am the other night, setting up a special Winter-Spring original art sale for my painter, Janet Dyer (https://www.chrisboese.photo/janet-dyer-studio-originals).

I missed today's 4p call, because I was sneezing out a goofy essay for a new "Team Human" channel in Communities (https://www.arthelper.com/community/teamhuman) to talk about philosophical issues relating to human vs machine creativity and capabilities. I never know when one of those essays is going to show up!

And lastly, I am VERY PROUD of myself for figuring out how to put the new green "Human-Made" badge on my site. Took a little while, but the only way I can currently do it is by pasting the script into each individual page under Head Scripts. Seems to work, tho! Love how it looks!

Good afternoon from New York. I am a photographer that captures the every day things of life in a way that brings them to the forefront in a unique way. You will see lots of flowers. :)
Working on right now: I am going thru lots of pictures that I have captured throughout last year and working on them. Time just flys. I have ideas that I capture and then don't get the time to work on them. So that is my focus right now before it gets warm. Also, getting my work seen more, so reaching out to establishments ; more so libraries at the moment.
The connections looking for: All of the above. :)

I paint in watercolors and soft pastels. I'm wondering if anyone is interested in getting together IRL for a couple of days to co-create new works and then co-market them. I'm based out on the east end of Long Island in NY. I'm thinking a sort of "retreat" for 1-2 days for 2-4 of us. I've got various ideas. If anyone is interested, speak up!

Based in the paradise otherwise known as New Zealand (Auckland specifically). Work in bundle of ways: photography, asemic calligraphy and marking, collage, still life, inks.
I believe we all benefit from connection of any kind as that multiplies the powers that I think the world much needs: creation of beauty, revelation leading to awe and gratitude, celebration of our precious wee planet.
Already, I feel a different vibration in this community that is different from the big social media.
Preparing for new collages in my ReConstructs series.

Hi friends,
- I'm Tracy and am based in California.

-I'm looking for community and artist friends. Maybe feedback.

-I'm working on a Floral collection that is set to release on March 20th.

I create abstract art using color makers, oil pastels and acrylic paint on canvas.

Looking for community which could lead to new friends. Collaboration is always an option.

Currently in a Kandinsky like style.

Hello…fine art photography. Still unsure about this platform. Feed back and follow us greatly appreciated.

What a fun idea! I'm Kelly, and I'm a photographer on the central coast of Oregon (in a tiny town called Waldport). If there are any other nature/wildlife photographers from the central coast area on here, I would love to chat and compare notes. (What I'm currently working on is a booth shot for art fair applications. But that's the least intersting thing I can think of talking about.) Thanks!

I’m working on a couple of pieces I started in Cabo along with finishing my design website where I can also link my art. It’s a lot but patience keeps being the key here.

I'm Kathryn and I have been a working artist from 1968 with some years of just sketching and doing tiny pieces. When i was younger i used junk mail to draw people, and lived on a farm, so i would draw in the dirt, sculpt sand stones and soap. I was not encouraged to enter a creative field, all my siblings were scientists, my dad was a writer and a photographer, (during the depression) and he didn't make a living doing that, he was a construction worker and surveyor.
I went to a small graphic arts school in Philadelphia and worked in advertising, and learned a lot of skills from artists I met. I hungered for freedom to create. During the recession of the early 70's I went to college. Took art courses and found freedom to just create. It was short lived, but i found that that was something i would work towards.
I have had a large studio a couple of times in my life, and today I don't. So even though I love to do large pieces, i have adapted to small pieces. I find that they are more ecologically suited for this time and also for tiny homes. Although selling my art was always the goal, as i am quite productive, I found that the cost of making it, and the time to sell it just was always difficult and challenging. My art hasn't had a wide appeal, but have shown my work in many big and small venues, as well as Syracuse's Everson Museum.

I am 76 today and soon will be 77. I had to get some joints replaced and it took a while to recover from that. During that time, I worked through the most difficult creative period I have ever experienced. 8 years of work that was experimental, and not very aesthetically pleasing. I broke all the rules i had about art and all the color rules and habits i had. Writers block is one thing I could relate to. About a year ago, i felt the embers smolder and the creative energy building. I am incorporating new and old attitudes of how to create art. Still experimenting, and finding joy once again in color.
A year ago, I kept seeing artists pop up with their recommendations of how great it was to have ASF help them with their art business. I reached out last Summer and received info about it, but thought, i can't afford this. In December, I investigated again, signed up and now I've been live for 2 months.

I want to put more originals up and realize I have to take more pictures. I had a friend that helped me with tech work for my website in 2012. He went mad and deleted all of my professionally shot photos of my art. So, I can remedy this and shoot them outside. I am realizing all this is possible. Arduous, but possible.

ASF has given me a lot of courage, to fight the feelings of I'm too old, I have so much to do to get my best work out there; it also has given me hope. I am so impressed with all of the creative's I see and the people that help us grow. I get tired and take some time to paint and wash dishes, vacuum, but no longer think that I will die tomorrow and this is all for naught. Life is so precious. My mom lived to be 98, in good spirits with a sound mind. I hope that I can have another 20 good years or more. What ever the case may be, I am not concerned with anything but-"What's next." A quote from Steve Jobs!

So Taylor, are you intending to post one of these every Tuesday, sort of like Small Wins?

Hi. I’m Donna Renée Turan (Lady Reborn Art) a mixed media painter based in upstate New York. I’m originally from Long Island and moved to a little town in the middle of the woods near Saratoga almost 10 years ago. I spend winter months in the Florida Keys because I can’t function in the cold.

I make “witness art” — animals, human figures, and layered surfaces that hold the weight of survival, identity, and starting over.

I’m here to connect with artists making emotionally honest work — especially around psychology, resilience, myth, nature, or transformation.

Right now I’m working on a small dark piece as a social commentary for the upcoming US birthday this July. I’m also working on an octopus I’m painting on a mirror frame and about 7 other pieces simultaneously. Some may get finished. Some won’t.

If that sounds like you’re kind of thing, I’d love to see what you’re making. I’m open to all types of collabs-so reach out if you think our work might mesh well together 💚

Hello! Glad to be here! I’m in Wimberley Texas, USA

Hi, I’m Diana. I’m a photographer based out of Toronto, Canada. I like to shoot what catches my eye. I also like taking my photographs and creating digital art with them. Currently I’m working on a piece that I am attaching to an AR medium so it can be viewed anywhere in the world. Really excited to be here and looking for friends, community, collabs and feedback!

Hi. I’m Dawn from Upstate NY in the Finger Lakes region. Been painting almost nonstop since I retired a couple years ago. I got serious about 18 months ago and started showing work, set up my website, entered juried shows (won a couple awards). I’m looking to grow my audience, make new friends, sell some art because my house is jammed and there’s no more space. www.dawnemiranda.com

Hi All! I'm working on some expressive abstract paintings of landscapes, and reef for a small art fair in 2 weeks.
I'm looking to connect with people who resonate with this kind of work, and with fellow Australians (because timezones) :)

Hi I'm Terrill, an acrylic painter in Prince George BC. Today I set up my Wildlife Cafe series exhibit at our Studio 2880 gift shop, home of our Community Arts Council. My talk is this Thursday night. Any pointers on how not to be so nervous before the talk would be appreciated.

Hey, very exciting new stuff here! I've created a community called Art From
Nature! Hoping other will join! Indra Castillo (ASF staff) did already!
I'm a mixed media artist and currently did 2 new experimental pieces with driftwood, shells and other beachy collections on one of my recent beach ventures to Rockaway Beach in Oregon. Applied for 2 big art shows in Oregon ...a big step for me!

Hi, I’m Brenda Anderson, retired and living in NW Arkansas. I’ve recently decided to market my art. I had a website built, joined a local art group and have my art in a member exhibit and also joined a gallery. I know this is a slow time of the year, but, I’d love more activity and sales. I post on social media usually twice a week. Get lots of lookers, but no buyers.

Hi. I'm Kim from Texas. I am a long time Musician and new baby Artist (3yrs). I have always been drawn to art - my Great Grandparents were both artists out of the UK. In the past few years, I was diagnosed with Lupus (autoimmune) and had to slow down my musical career - almost to a halt. I was desperate for an artistic outlet - I needed to create. So, I picked up the brush and turned on YouTube so I could learn to paint. Watercolor is my favorite medium, the paint flows just like music and I have really connected with this type of medium. Excited to learn more. Nice to meet everyone. 😊

I'm a watercolour artist who doesn't use a brush. I press botanicals into watery paint from Canada—Vancouver, originally, but now in Moncton, New Brunswick on the opposite coast. I'm looking to make friends, see what others from Art Storefronts are up to (I am so glad we have this now!) and if I could ever get through the admin that I have to do, I'd love to actually be painting! I've only really done colour and back to basics experiments, since 2025 was all about getting ready to offer my paintings for sale.

Right, right now, I'm running a small promotion called Wintering in the Deep on Insta, Facebook, Substack, and email to get the word out about my paintings. It's going pretty well, I think. I am offering a print of choice between the four paintings that are bring us closer to the end of winter and the spring of new beginnings.

I might be the youngest one here 😅.
Soo, hello :⁠)) I'm Stefanija I'm 17 years old and I'm from Bitola.

I enjoy adding a LOT of color in my work and drawing what I see ;).
I would say that I like to experiment with my art and don't like to start out the same way. I prefer to experiment with it.
In a way that every single subject, perspective and line hides a different story that a person can interprete in there own way.

I already post most of my art here, though if you want to see some more feel free to follow me on IG: spookeys.art :))

p.s I promise that my art is not scary ;⁠)))

Thank you for bringing this to my attention I had no Idea I was private.I have been trying to make this public but finding it hard to chant to public as it keeps stating private .Can someone please advise .Many thanks Josie

I might be the youngest one here 😅.
Soo, hello :⁠)) I'm Stefanija I'm 17 years old and I'm from Bitola.

I enjoy adding a LOT of color in my work and drawing what I see ;).
I would say that I like to experiment with my art and don't like to start out the same way. I prefer to experiment with it.
In a way that every single subject, perspective and line hides a different story that a person can interprete in there own way.

I already post most of my art here, though if you want to see some more feel free to follow me on IG: spookeys.art :))

p.s I promise that my art is not scary ;⁠)))

I love drawing! Am based in CA, but have not had the inspo to draw for a looong time😓

Hello everyone — Anne Reid here.

I’m a contemporary abstract painter working primarily with layered glazes and atmospheric light. My work explores themes of presence, spiritual tension, and what I often describe as the “God-colors” in the world. I’m based in Ontario, Canada.

I’m interested in connecting with other artists who are serious about the craft of painting and the deeper questions around art, meaning, and human creativity — especially in a time when AI is changing the landscape.

Right now I’m working on the first piece in a new studio sequence for 2026, a teal-dominant painting focused on light emerging through layered atmosphere.

Looking forward to meeting others in the community and seeing what everyone is working on.

Greetings- I'm Deb from the East Bay in CA. I am a mixed media artist and currently working on 3 different series. An aesthetically pleasing, political crow series, a 1920's inspired crows as jewelry thieves series and a series of fierce woman portraits that I'm painting to all my favorite female singers. First one is "Never was a cornflake girl".
I'm looking for local places to have a show in July and also to bounce ideas off other artists. And I'm always up for for local classes to take especially drawing and painting live models.

Currently in Southern Utah (7 yrs), I grew up in southern California, from Silverlake/LosFeliz/Hollywood to 45 years in Santa Barbara. Retired from 38 years of teaching now, I'm a painter mostly, watercolors my first love, but oils and acrylics too for different reasons. I use whichever medium feels right for the emotions I'm feeling and the subject matter. In addition to several oil paintings going at once (sort of open impressionism I guess), I'm currently working on an illustrated memoir and blog, in which I include my art and some comical illustrations because who says picture books are just for kids, right?! I love this community because I'm rather shy and solitary, and I don't really ever hear feedback on my art. I am inspired by all of you and really do listen and ponder your feedback!

I am Anna at Anna.johansson.art on Instagram and seedsofbhakti.com at Artstorefronts. I am also a Bhaktiyoga practitioner and my art is deeply connected to my spiritual journey and this ancient yoga tradition. I love watercolor art, I also love pencil and ink. I appreciate any art that is sincere and beautifully executed.

Right now I am planning 3 watercolor paintings. Hopefully starting with two of them next week. I will try to record most of my steps with these paintings (a bit nervous) for posting on Instagram and fb. Looking for friends and well wishers in the art community. Can I really do this????

A day late but I was out with my camera yesterday. I am Koral Martin - A nature & wildlife photographer in SW Missouri (Carthage) I love extending my photographer community but enjoy all connections! Seems I've been into waterfalls recently but I'm out everyday with my camera and always hoping for opportunities to capture wildlife. Love hearing about cool places to explore with my camera. I love hiking, camping, kayaking...

Hi my name is Josie I live on the Sunshine Coast of Australia. I have been an artist since 2003 and love it .I practise many mediums I am looking for feedback,Connections community and just get connected to like minded people on ASF.Hoping to hear back all the very best jo-gabe-art

Hi I'm Stephanie , living in S. California. I work a lot from photographs I've taken some are quite vibrant abstracts, I love to paint with various media I also love gelli printing and mixed media collages. I am passionate about wildlife and these are minimalistic mixed media pieces. I also love to knit, crochet and quilt when I get the time. I seem to always find something new to try out I feel I may run out of time LOL

I make art. Mixed media, acrylics, collage, prints, and needle art of various sorts. I have been working on a landscape abstract work of nowhere for a month or two. I think it's finished today. It's in the style of Gareth Edwards based on his book.

I am in Baltimore Maryland and paint in tempura and gold leaf or watercolor. I work in medicine and medical research, and am looking to make art for healing spaces in the home, hospital or clinic. Collaborations, connections, and critiques welcome!

Hi I’m Carol and along with my best friend and husband we make mosaic art and love it we live in south Florida

I'm primarily a watercolor artist based in North Idaho. I'm just back to painting after a very long break. Would like all of the above connections. Currently working on an old rusty padlock on a wooden door (I love old things) and my first still life with a crystal bowl.

Hello! I'm Ron, a painter in La Center, WA, working in acrylic, oil, and mixed media. My work is heavily textured and layered, centered on themes of healing and light.

I’m currently developing a series that traces a path from chaos to calm. I'm currently finishing a self-portrait inspired by Byzantine Iconography, but I’m swapping religious imagery for natural elements—specifically using sunflowers as halos.

I’m here for community and feedback! Does anyone else here use historical art styles to explore modern, personal themes?

Hello, I’m Life Robinson from Texas. I work on abstracted landscapes and cityscapes with my camera. Impressionistic photography. Travel photos essentially- out of focus, intentional camera movement, etc.