Think about it: It’s taken him only seven weeks to fuck up our economy and turn us into an enemy of the free world.

Pretty impressive.

Small glimpses of life on the coast.
All 8”x8” oils

#traditionalart #landscape #coast

A landscape painting of patchy sunlight breaking through storm clouds on Hebridean moorland. Made after a six week winter wild camping and cycle journey the length of the Outer Hebrides.

March storm light on South Uist. A biggish studio painting from notes and memory after six weeks full winter immersion in the Outer Hebrides

Acrylic glaze on Arches paper
1000x750mm
#landscapeart #outerhebrides #landscapepainting #art

After 1,000 National Park Service employees were abruptly fired on February 14, staff banded together to signal “dire distress” by draping an upside-down American flag from the 3,000-foot summit of Yosemite’s iconic El Capitan monolith.

DOGE = Department of Gross Errors

“sacred”
14”x18” oil on canvas

Even on gilligan's island they listened to professor, not the millionaire

Never before has there been such a gang of Republican politicians so willing to sell their souls for their own reelection at the expense of the rule of law and the health, safety, security and freedom of their children, grandchildren, constituents and country.

Hey, here’s some of what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today 👋🏽

Recent completed paintings.
1- Walking In The Pines - 24x18 oil on panel.
2- Sunny Spot - 48x36 acrylic on canvas.

Some people saw how beautiful this world is and decided to descrate it anyways.

We'll never stop fighting for wildlife and wild places. No matter who is in office. No matter what the odds are. The stakes are just too high to surrender. Our world is worth protecting.

Join us ➡️ biodiv.us/40njtik

Opinion | Tenderness as an Act of Resistance (Gift Article) They are trying to overwhelm us and force us to look away. But we must not.

It’s only been three weeks, but already I am exhausted by my own fury. I emailed Kate DiCamillo and asked for help. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

Thank you 😊

My latest.. “Mad World” 16x20 oil on paper..

“warmth”
30”x 40” oil on canvas
#art #traditionalart

Meet the Women Rescuing Whales in California A Monterey nonprofit’s "whale ambulance" helps entangled whales

Big fan of this headline: Meet the Women Rescuing Whales in California 🐋

Thank you!!

Protest Paintings “Don’t fight the darkness.

Protest Paintings
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On the Far Side of Revenge Or how to hold a candle while the fire wants to burn

On the Far Side of Revenge
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The live oaks on Georgia’s barrier islands have an ancient calming spirit about them.
“the elders”
40”x40” oil on canvas
#art

Opinion | Let’s Hear It for the Coyote in Chicago Hiding in the Produce Aisle (Gift Article) The wild creatures who have adapted to our ways are adept at remaining out of sight. But they are here, and they will always be with us.

If we won’t make room for the wildness we live within, how can we possibly hope to save the wilderness? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/o...

A painting of three young children dressed up in fancy 17th-century Dutch outfits in an ancient-style carriage pulled by goats and accompanied by dancing putti

Ferdinand Bol, Portrait Aristocratic Children in a Carriage Drawn by Goats, 1654, oil on canvas. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France. (Possibly the Trip family, formerly thought to be William-Henry of Nassau, the Future William II, King of the Netherlands) #arthistory #earlymodern #skystorians

Little Egret Pond, 7" x 4", acrylic on wood panel. Message for purchase
Thanks for looking 👀 🩵

Just imagine.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

Auschwitz is liberated | January 27, 1945 | HISTORY The Soviet Red Army enters Auschwitz, Poland, and liberates the survivors of the network of concentration camps—and finally reveals to the world the depth of the horrors perpetrated there.

A grim but essential memory: 80 years ago today Auschwitz was liberated. That there was an Auschwitz to liberate is unspeakably tragic. . .
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Something’s up at the beach!
A new start. Acrylic on board 24x36.

Tybee Beach south end still covered in snow!
@dtlart.bsky.social