Blue Sky Art Show, theme 'Sharp'

photographyJun 14, 2026692,529

The Blue Sky Art Show is a weekly open-call exhibit, and this week's prompt is 'Sharp'. Entries favor literal and figurative sharpness across photography, sculpture, and painting, with many high-contrast black-and-white silhouettes, geometric urban compositions, and tight nature studies. Standouts include bird portraits that emphasize hooked bills and silhouettes, plant and landscape close-ups like cholla spines, backlit thistle, and hoar frost on hawthorn, plus a glass sculpture titled "Lynx" made of knife-like shards and a long-exposure lightning shot. Tag work with #BlueSkyArtShow to join the gallery.

Manel Vinuesa

@mvinuesa.bsky.social

Sunset Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah #BlueSkyArtShow #sharp #photograohy #travel #nature

89346d ago

Hune 🇪🇺 🇩🇪3

glad there is no coal or oil phantastic shot

lacastellana.bsky.social2

Great shot from a great place:-)

jazzrat2000 AKA Bonsai anonymous2

Not the best place to practice your parachuting skills

Ken2

A virtual time machine. Why is there such desire to corrupt other worlds with our carless ways, when right here before us, in this world we have such beauty. That with the correct management it might would last many generations to come. Humankind these days, seems so self-centered, so uncaring.🥺

Bob-Parker542

"Hell of a place to lose a cow!"

concerningmema.bsky.social2

The colors are so mesmerizing

Luis Cordoba Photographer2

Have a great weekend! @mvinuesa.bsky.social

still RAPTORfan2

Beautiful place💙💙💙 IF you visit OFF season. Its VERY crowded spring through summer. 😏

rapscallion8-32.bsky.social2

Bryce is my happy place!

Hiker girl2

It's like if the Manhattan skyline had a soul

Robyn

@handcranked.bsky.social

Cholla On the trail to Echo Amphitheater in New Mexico #BlueSkyArtShow #sharp #ColorADay #GreenSat #EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotographersUnited #Photography #ArtYear

A close-up of a cholla cactus with yellow flower on the left most branch of it. The cactus is made up of several long arms covered in spines. There's another cholla on the left side. The background is a blur of green from other cacti with a bit of tan. There are a few strands of something blurred in front as well.

12846d ago

Kevin Wertman

@kevin.wertman.org

Here's an anhinga preening with its #sharp bill that I saw out at the wetlands on Thursday, for both #BirdOfTheDay themes and the #BlueSkyArtShow 😀 #Preeners&Scratchers #Black&White #Photography #Birds #Anhinga

A black and whit anhinga is perched in a tree with bright green needles all around. It is scratching its neck with its long bill, its neck stretching up and then curling straight back down.

12045d ago

Janet 💙⭐️🌲📷

@bluemoon3143.bsky.social

#Sharp #BlueSkyArtShow #ClassicMono #Silhouette #ECK #Photography #Heron #Birds

A stark mono image of a Great Blue Heron perched on a bare branch of a spruce tree. Its sharp beak clearly visible with its head turned toward the right. The tree and bird are sharply silhouetted against a white sky.

11246d ago

Mstreefrog

@mstreefrog.bsky.social

I think this juvenile Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus) a is repost, but it seemed to fit several themes well with its look of silent reproach that all those birds at my feeders flew away. #BlueSkyArtShow #Sharp #BirdOfTheDay #SilentPresence 📷🪶

A young Sharpie. Immature birds are characterized by brown streaking on the breast rather than the reddish bars of an adult. Key identification features include its small head, yellow eyes, and yellow legs.These hawks are specialized predators that commonly hunt small birds at backyard feeders.

8045d ago

𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜

@churchstreetimages.com

How about this sharp dressed man? #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Sharp all day Saturday. Link to the feed in comments. #photography #ClassicMono #BnW #armor #museums

Black and white photo of a highly polished suit of armor in a museum. The face guard comes to a sharp point in front.

8346d ago

Chris Clough

@chrisclougholy.bsky.social

Future Blackberries On A Sunny Saturday #Olympia l #CapitolLake #BuddInlet l #OnARun #Flowers l #Bloomscrolling #ColorADay l #GreenSat #BlueSkyArtShow l #Sharp #WeekWForWater l #Blue #ECK l #WestCoastKin

A blackberry bush along my running trail above Capitol Lake in Olympia. The bush has pink blossoms and yet to open green buds.

The blue waters of the lake and Budd inlet are in the background.

7545d ago

Chris Clough10

Juxtaposition — Purely By Chance I went for a run yesterday. A summerlike Saturday. Took 📷s of a blackberry plant. With my dying cellphone. Cracked screen & covered with black blobs. It was Point, Click & Hope. A few inches completely changed the 📷 focus. #Olympia l #Stunday l #Scape l #ECK

Art Chamberlain2

Good ole bluesky algorithm. I replied to a post about blackberries, yesterday. Now it's going to be All Blackberries, All The Time.

Dan2

When my kids were still in school, we used to wade along the river bank, picking Blackberries, stuffing our faces, staining our hands + cheeks. Then we'd go home + make a Bisquick Cobbler. My babies are all around 50 now but I can still see their Cherry Cheeks + goofy smiles. Sweet image.

Andy 📷

@longlonghandle.bsky.social

More pictures about fire escapes and shadows. #photography #photo #blueskyartshow #sharp #bnw #classicmono

7345d ago

Katherine Mancuso

@katherinemancuso.bsky.social

#Sharp spiky plants in the garden 💚 #BlueSkyArtShow #ColorADay #GreenSat

A backyard garden with tropical plants and trees.
Concertina wire in the background on the wall is also sharp.

6246d ago

layla victoria

@laylavictoria.bsky.social

#BlueSkyArtShow #sharp #Obama #ObamaAppreciationDay When I think of a sharp dressed man, President Obama is in my Top 5, possibly Number 1. #ARealPresident #BNW June 14, 2026.. #ObamaDay 💙

A B&W image of my favorite President Barack Obama, a very sharp dressed man.

4945d ago

Jeff

@jskinder.bsky.social

Owls #StunDay #EastCoastKin #perspective #BlueSkyArtShow #GetOutside #PhotographersofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited

6045d ago

Ehko

@ehkoart.bsky.social

#perspective #acrylics #abstractart #acrylicart #art #blueskyartshow

4445d ago

andrew solmaler

@andrewsolmaler.bsky.social

BACKLIT THISTLE #Photography #Nature #Wildflowers #ColorADay #Green #PhotographersUnited #ArtinNature #BlueskyArtShow #Sharp #EastCoastkin #PhotogralersOfBluesky andrewsolmaler.com www.saatchiart.com/andrewsolmaler