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A text from my uni-aged daughter today:

If we sent a poet to look at the moon, I would be incapacitated for a week. Thank god we send scientists and engineers 😂

I'm already mildly incapacitated by their descriptions 🥹💖
#artemisII

NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

I don't know if there's ever been a time in human history when the whole world is able to be right on the bleeding edge of scientific discovery. This is awesome.

www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

Last Kingdom, the series, is about a character from there and trying to reclaim it, in case that's of interest 💚

Orders of friars do not appear to have overlapped with the Viking age afaict from Wikipedia.

I hate that I looked this up 😂

Congratulations! That's amazing!!! And this is a gorgeous piece. 💚

When I say sugars, I mean carbohydrates

As in carbon and hydrogen

Plants put carbon into the soil, and microbes keep it there

Soil is your very own carbon sync, if you protect it! ✨

Soil food web - Wikipedia

Protect soil life!

Keep soil covered
Minimize digging
Avoid chemical inputs
Keep living roots feeding the soil
Plant variety--different plants have different root depths and need different nutrients
Protect ALL life in your garden!

Everything has a role to play!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_fo...

A reminder for those doing #springplanting and #gardening

🌞All energy comes from the sun
🌱Plants harvest that energy, turn it into sugars
🦠Soil microbes exchange nutrients with plants for sugars, and along with the soil food web, create soil

🧪Fertilizer kills microbes and collapses this system

Oh my god THIS feeling. 🫠

*like and subscribe* for whenever someone offers a name for it.

Art tips from ez to hard?

subliminal msg

A painting of a tree trunk, wet from rain, shining wetly with overcast ambient light and dappled with moss.

Another out-the-window painting on a rainy day.

Practice, practice.

Painted by a human. 💚

#artstudy #treepainting #pleinair #rainyday #digitalpainting

Stars
6”x8” Oil on cradled wood panel
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Available on my website

Fffff...this is glorious. 🥹

You know...? Same 😂💚

A painting of a stone retaining wall under overcast lighting conditions. Snow dots a mossy basin, and ferns grow above and out of the rock wall. A waterfall spillway, though not pouring water, shines damply over the basin.

A painting of a street on which a car is parked beneath tall conifers. Snow has begun to collect on branches of the trees, and flurries dot the image. A plum tree is in bloom off to the side, and a dark mossy branch arcs and webs through the foreground.

A painting from the edge of a lake beneath overcast skies. The grass is green in the foreground, and a tree with hanging wispy clumps of yellow flowers grows out of the grass, dominating the image.

A painting of a juniper bush and a fern beneath a dark tree trunk and branches beneath overcast skies.

A few more out-the-window studies. Some day it will be warm and not raining and I can sit outside for these!

Painted by a human. 💚

Each painting took about 40-60 minutes.

#artstudy #digitalpainting #pleinair #procreate #digitalart

I love how you captured the weight & draping--it tells so much about what they're "made of" and how they move. Lovely work!

I love the palette for this! Such mood!

This is just...really neat. I'm sure it would be even cooler in person! Congratulations on the win!

A painting of a plum tree in bloom beneath an overcast sky, rendered in wispy greens, browns, reds, pinks, and lavenders. The tree hangs over a street, and in the background some large pine trees loom.

Today's out-the-window study!

Trying to be intentional with my mark-making and hopefully capture how the current light conditions are affecting the colors here. (Same subject as my last one if you wanna compare the light!🌞)

Painted by a human. 💚

#pleinair #procreate #paintingstudy #artstudy #Tree

I love how you captured the sand in the waves and the wet sand on the beach. Lovely subtlety as always. 💚

Ohh I did not know about Artist and Craftsman--I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the tip!
(Apparently it exists in many other cities too!)

Thank you! ☺️

This is so much fun. I especially love the transition through the window to the book--felt fresh! Fun stuff!

A painting depicting a sunny morning view of a plum tree in bloom, rendered in sweeping brush strokes. Sunlight hits the top of the tree, illuminating some of the green buds on the branches.

Another out-the-window painting. Spring is starting! 🌸 (It's still quite cold though.)

Painted by a human. 💚

#pleinair #artstudy #procreate

The first sunset of daylight saving time. 6”x6” oil

Like a stained glass window! Always gorgeous work. 😍

These are lovely!

A painting of a fern growing atop a retaining wall, next to a tree trunk, in moody overcast light.

Today's daily "out the window" study.

(Too cold & rainy for actual plein air still 😅)

Painted by a human 💚

#dailyart #painting #paintingstudy #pleinair