The framers never considered that a party or congress could be hijacked and bent to the will of their worst nightmare.

Our public lands are not for sale.

Facts spoken by an ex-trumper...

Thank you 😊 🌻🌻🌻

cropped view of sunflower oil painting showing two open sunflowers and a tiger swallowtail butterfly (drawn in graphite) in the upper right.

full botanical style oil painting of three sunflower stems arranged in a pyramid shape. The leaves draping down. Several insects, drawn in graphite populate the composition. A bumblebee flies in from the left, and a tiger swallowtail butterfly from the upper right. A daddy longs legs sits atop a leaf, stalking a nearby ant.

Grateful for American Women Artists. “If Summer was a Flower” is a conversation filled with joy and love and awe. Thankful for this award. SOLD by Red Raven Art Co at my ‘Joy in the Garden’ show last spring.

#sunflowers #floralpainting #art #sciart

HTF someone needs to turn on parental controls on his phone.

It’s worth it though. I’ve had shingles 10 times, they’re horrible.

The shingles shot was rough. First shot was the worst though. I was down for 3 days, but I’m very sensitive to vaccines.

I kind of like that that take on it 🙃

Thank you, I thought that too. If it wasn’t part of a larger work I would have left it!

My daughter would have loved that at that age!!

Close up of work in progress white zinnia flowers on a gray toned background. Oil on aluminum composite material.

Sunday. Painting and resetting to brace for another week of batshit newsfeed of happenings.

#art #painting #flowers #floralart #zinnias #sciart

WTLF is wrong with these peole

Can we please standardize narrating asinine hand gestures to punctuate the absurdity of these idiotic statements. (I say while making a hand chop motion)

Photo of artists easel with a small botanical style oil panel in progress of white and burgundy cosmos. Overlaid text reads: *inside voice* Just keep painting, Just keep painting. (Me trying to manage my anxiety after waking up and scrolling the news feed for the 404th day)

Soon the gray of winter will be replaced with saturated colors. Thank goodness.

For now, I’m #painting #flowers—because there is joy in each delicate petal—and we do need that, right?

#floralpaintings #findingjoy #botanicalartist

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Need a doomscrolling break? Let me introduce you to Max, an American Kestrel, I recently painted from life. He’s a terrifying falcon (no he’s not, he’s adorable).
#art #kestrel #bird #painting #sciart

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Cropped image of a blooming blush peony and bud with a bee approaching from the upper right

Two white cosmo flowers and one burgundy cosmo bud. A bee is approaching from the left and an ant crawls up the middle stem

An oil painting of five magnolia flowers. One is fully open. The other four are buds in various stages of blooming. A bee, center, approaches the wide open blossom.

A painting of Three arching tulip stems in various stages of blooming. One wide open pink tulip hangs low in the center, above, a half open tulip bends toward the center as a bee approaches

“All we can control
In this silly
and wildly perfect
life,
is the love
that we
choose to give out
without any regard
to ever
getting it back
in return.”
~ Tyler Knott Gregson

Four floral paintings that feel like love.

#love #flowers #floralpainting #sciart #botanicalart

Of Mark & Meaning | American Women Artists — Christine Mercer-Vernon Fine Art Of Mark & Meaning: American Women Artists  will be exhibited in Clarksville, TN from February 13, 2026 – April 26, 2026.

4/4 I’ve put more information on my website. There may be no flowers outside right now, but there is still beauty, spend a little time out in nature to remind yourself it’s there. www.mercer-vernon.com/art-exhibiti...

Opening tomorrow, February 13th, the show will run through April 26th. Spending time with art reduces anxiety, depression, and stress. This exhibition is absolutely beautiful and filled with work that will inspire and renew your spirit. 3/4 #joy #findingjoy #nature

Which makes me all the more grateful that this celebration of spring has traveled all the way to the Customs House Museum & Cultural Center, in Tennessee, for the American Women Artists “Of Mark & Meaning” exhibition. 2/4 #floralpainting #botanicalart

photo of the artist holding a painting of 3 white daffodils and 3 snowdrops painted in a botanical style in a black floater frame.

photo of a botanical style oil painting of three white daffodils and three snowdrops. There are three daffodil buds that have not opened. Crawling up two stems are small black ants. A cabbage butterfly is resting on a closed bud in the upper left and from the right a bumble bee is approaching the tallest center flower. The insects are all draw in graphite.

There’s a lot that feels heavy right now and to be honest, I’ve found it difficult to step up to the easel without feeling guilty. But these past two weeks I’ve been planning flowers for the summer and thinking about what I wanted to paint, and feeling the need to create.. 🧵 1/4 #art #sciart

Looking across the artist’s drawing table, in the foreground is a small sketchbook with a tiger swallowtail butterfly drawn in graphite. The actual butterfly lies in a green dish center of image. Above cropped and extended out of frame is a painting of yellow sunflowers that the butterfly will be added to. To the right, cropped and extended out of a frame is a small craft container with multiple compartments holding the artist’s bug collection.

“Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world…” — Robin Wall Kimmerer

🦋 A quiet moment in the studio from last summer. Observing, drawing, paying attention.

#art #sciart #floralpainting #flowers #sunflowers #butterfly #joy

Love feathers and bones. This is lovely!

Folks, please don’t tell artists they shouldn’t be making or selling their art right now. For many, it’s how they pay the bills. Art is vital during times like this. ALL ART. Whether it’s a protest sign or a book cover or just a beautiful drawing. It’s part of the heart of humanity.

As an artist who has been struggling to work or even post, I really needed to hear this. 🤍

The Trump regime is smearing this man - Alex Pretti - as a “domestic terrorist.” We can’t let them get away with it.

Alex Pretti was a patriotic American - far more so than the ICE agent who murdered him on the streets of Minneapolis today. Far more so than Trump, Stephen Miller, or any of them.

Things we need right now —->

January 2026, Group Themed Show, Taking Chances - Red Raven Art Company

If you don't live near Lancaster,PA, the painting and entire show can be viewed online: redravenartcompany.com/january-2026...

Photo of an art panel with the artist using a ruler and charcoal pencil to draw the lines of the harmonic armature directly on to the panel. There is a text panel overlay that reads “It’s been a long time since I covered an entire panel with paint, so I decided to start like I normally would and drew out the harmonic armature.”

Photo of the art panel on the easel with orange lines of the drawing for a painting partially sketched out over the harmonic armature. The artist’s hand and paintbrush are in motion sketching directly on to the panel. The text panel overlay reads “My brain needs structure, and the armature allows me to create dynamic compositions that don’t feel as predictable as the rule of thirds.”

Close up of the painting, further along in the process. The large center of a sunflower can be seen and some of the outer panels. The artist’s hand can be seen entering the frame, upper right, holding a paintbrush and painting final details on a bee. The text panel overlay reads “Pushing paint around was fun, but the most surreal moment for me was painting a bee since I normally draw my insects in graphite.”

Image of the artist holding the completed painting that is framed in black floater frame. She is mostly cropped out of frame so the focus is on the painting. The painting is of a large sunflower with a smaller sunflower behind it to the left. The centers are a muted yellow ochre with pale off white petals. The text overlay reads “This painting is so different from my other work, but it felt good and I had a lot of fun.”

Need a doomscrolling break? This was painted for a thematic group show called Taking Chances. It was a lovely change of pace to be a little freer with paint! See it in person through end of January at Red Raven Art Co. in Lancaster, PA.

#art #sciart #floralart #painting #flowers #sunflowers #joy

Christine is standing at the easel painting a large floral oil painting of purple irises. Her palette of mixed oil colors and brushes can be seen in the foreground.

Why does a new year always feel so good? I've reorganized & cleaned the studio, updated my #Notion workspace, & I'm finalizing my 1st quarter painting plan. What all do you do to start off a new year?

(looked at this #iris #painting yesterday, and I can’t wait for irises to bloom again)