A painting of a child walking underneath a trellis with flowers blooming around her.

A painting of a girl standing at the door of a cottage on a spring day with flowers blooming.

A painting of an older woman watering a flower garden beside a cottage.

A painting of a flowering pathway beside a pond in springtime.

"Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"

"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth," said Mary.

—The Secret Garden

🎨 Peder Mørk Mønsted

An illustration of a snow-covered town at nighttime, where the ghost-like Snow Queen flies through the air above the roofs.

"Many a winter's night she flies through the streets and peeps in at the windows, and then the ice freezes on the panes into wonderful patterns like flowers."

—The Snow Queen, Hans Christian Andersen

🎨 Edmund Dulac #fairytale #art #books #winter

A forest covered in freshly fallen snow, where every branch and twig is trimmed with white.

I can't quite believe this isn't a photograph! "Winter" by Russian painter Ivan Shishkin, 1890
#winter #painting #art #TraditionalArt

Winnie the Pooh holding a steaming mug and wrapped in a blanket.

Me with my cuppa earl grey on a cold winter morning

I do, too! The two friends and all of those shop windows give it such a cozy feeling ❄️

An illustration from The Wind and the Willows where Rat and Mole stroll together on a snowy village street.

"No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter."

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

🎨 Inga Moore

A painting of ice skaters on a frozen lake beside a village blanketed with snow, surrounded by rocky mountains and illuminated by a full moon.

"Skaters on a Frozen Lake by Moonlight" by Danish painter Niels H. Christiansen, late Victorian Era 🌙❄️ #art #winter

A painting of snow-covered mountains at nighttime, with a single star above them.

"Winter Night in the Mountains" by Norwegian painter Harald Sohlberg, 1914. I've always thought this looked like an image from a winter fairy tale ❄️✨ #art

Some of my favorite illustrations in children's literature 💙

The clouds look like a giant blanket!

A sea landscape with dappled moonlit clouds.

"Northern Sea in the Moonlight" by Caspar David Friedrich
#sea #clouds #moon #landscape #painting #art #TraditionalArt

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I would be looking down at my hands all day and questioning whether or not I was actually a mermaid!

A brightly-colored painting of a road curving along tree-lined river in wintertime.

"The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination." —Terri Guillemets

🎨 "In the Heart of the Ozarks" by Thomas P. Barnett, 1925

I have a jar of earl gray tea on my desk and the lid isn't quite snug so occasionally I catch the scent of it and it's the nicest thing I've accidentally done for myself in a long time

Just found a grammatical error in the first sentence of a short story I published online three years ago and has since been read by thousands of people 🙃

A painting of a stream running through a forest.

A painting of a mountain landscape with pines.

A painting of a wooded pathway where an artist sits painting her surroundings.

A painting of a mountain stream with a path beside it.

Is it too much to ask, to want to know all the trees by name? 🍃

🎨 Peder Mørk Mønsted #nature #art #TraditionalArt

Photo of a skipper butterfly sitting on a tiny white daisy sipping nectar, perfectly content with the world

Hello new friends, I'm a writer and illustrator who likes talking about books, bugs, comics, animation, and the creative process. I take a lot of nature photos, you've been warned. 🌱🐝🌿🦋

A photo of the sunset through treetops and broken clouds.

The sky is ablaze 🔥

Oh hey, I recognize you from Mastodon! Very evocative painting! 👏

A soft pastel landscape of marshland and a river at dawn, grey light and a low sun with two birds flying overhead. Soft pastel on sanded paper.

🔴I have always been most pleased with landscapes where I have managed to strip down all the details just to enough to create atmospheric effects. It's the hardest thing to paint.
#Landscape #LandscapeArtist #PastelPainting #PastelArt #OriginalArt #Painting #TraditionalArtist #ScottishArtist

Good morning.

Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

A busy, bucolic autumn scene looking down on a village green filled with quiet activity such as walking, playing football and playing conkers

Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Autumn scene’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt

Pink peony flower with green stem and leaves in pale yellow background.

'Peony' - Tanigami Konan, ca. 1910s.
#JapaneseArt #flowers

Fireweed in the Mountains
Grand Teton National Park- Wyoming
8x6” oil on board
Available!
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I love the dimensionality in this!! 👏

Autumn along the Kennebunk River,
Kennebunk, ME
9x12” oil on board
Available!

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I love this one! So bright and gorgeous!

Beautiful sky!

The low-lying clouds make me think of giant sheep grazing on those hills!