Dear artists, nice to meet you! Please go follow @paeartforacause.bsky.social and join me for the 2026 postcard art exhibit!

I'm honored to be working behind the scenes with @tessawm-artist.bsky.social and @davidsandum.bsky.social on this Exhibition. Hope you will join me in participating!

Feeling grateful to that my painting “Before the Storm” won Best Plein Air Landscape in Plein Air Magazine’s 15th Annual Salon Show. My sincere thanks to #PleinAirMagazine . I’m grateful for the opportunity to be part of such a supportive and passionate community of plein air painters.

1. Art is not a competition 2. Sentimentality is not art 3. The camera removed the goal of art being realistic looking & set it free 4. Art is honest authentic emotion - that’s why a great Rembrandt & your child’s drawing, for you, are equally important. 5. Art lifts us out of ourselves

Guernica (1937) knocks Korea into a cocked hat! Why? Well his Korea is cerebral & draws on Picasso’s anti-war Communist politics. Guernica is his native Spain, his people, his homeland attacked. It’s authentic emotion - not logical exposition.

Art is not censorship, BlueSky! FFS!

Love this. [At the heart of the distinction is the recognition that those fruits are offered to the world not as a service or a transaction but as a gift — “the gift we long for, the gift that, when it comes, speaks commandingly to the soul and irresistibly moves us.”]

The Coast of Bellangenay, 1890 #paulgauguin #gauguin

"One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow mountaineers."

We are in! Economic blackout on Friday.

Radical students from the Glasgow School of Art who dubbed themselves 'The Immortals' (c.1894) including artists (back :) Frances MacDonald, (middle L-R :) Margaret Macdonald, Katharine Cameron, Janet Aitken, Agnes Raeburn and Jessie Keppie #womensart

❤️ "When we approach one another with curiosity and care without the expectation of curing each other, something paradoxical and miraculous may happen — the care may become the cure."

Impact. Drama. Less is more. Just love this.

Poet Diane Ackerman on what working at a suicide prevention hotline taught her about loneliness and resilience

Woman sewing in an interior (1891) Bertha Wegmann (1847-1926) #art #quote #painting #arts #finearts #luizsantosarts

I hope those who are on the fence about going to #PACE25 make the leap today before the price goes up. I'm honored to be on faculty again this year. I hope to see some familiar faces and meet other plein air painters on the same path.

Lovely color harmony.

A painting from Washington Square Park! @katerado.bsky.social have a class on gouache painting coming up with Sketchboard. First day is inside learning about gouache and observation, and the second day is Plein air painting in Washington Square Park! There are very few spots left.

APEXART OPEN CALLS International Deadline: March 1, 2025 – New York's Apexart offers exhibition opportunities for anyone, anywhere, to turn their idea into an exhibition. Creative exhibition ideas sought, $10,000+ budget, honorariums… Visit artdeadline.com/ops/apexart-2/

FEBRUARY PLEINAIR SALON ONLINE ART COMPETITION International Deadline: February 28, 2025 – PleinAir Magazine Salon Online Art Competition. 23 monthly winners with $50,000 in prizes, exhibition, publication. Paintings need not be completed in plein air… Visit pleinairsalon.com/deadline for details

Hi all! My painting, "Reflections", will be exhibited at the Salmagundi Club New Members Invitational Exhibition Feb 18-Mar 14, 2025. Opening reception is Feb 27. salmagundi.org/2025-scny-ne... to RSVP. I'm not attending, but hope some of my #EastCoastKin are able to. #salmagundi #art #painting

"Like Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, can we be brave? Can we open ourselves up and see the connections between us, like we do with the stars?"

My painting for the #LPAPAstrong Painted Postcard Auction is now open for bidding until Feb 6th 8pm PST. Head to www.32auctions.com/organization... to bid or reshare to spread some #LPAPA love. #painting #art #artauction

The #BlueSkyArtShow is open all day Saturday on the theme of #Light. All are welcome to post photos, drawings, paintings, poems, or anything else that fits til it's not Saturday anymore. Tell someone you like their post. Maybe have a conversation. Who knows what connections might be made!

Just painted this tiny 5x7in painting to auction off in the LPAPA Strong Painted Postcard Auction taking place here lpapa.org/020325-lpapa... Auction begins on Feb 3rd, 8pm PST. Bidding starts at $50. Hope you take a look. I paint #Light & color. #painting #wetpaint #art #oilpainting #BlueSkyArtShow

Christiana Figueres—a beacon of wise hope. Informed, inspired, celebrated for all that she offers this planet. Join her this Sun, Feb. 2, for the next session of Awareness in Action: CLIMATE with Roshi Joan, Senseis Dainin, Kozan. Register for FREE, donation, online www.upaya.org/program/enga...

A #birddivination for today. Available as a print at https://bit.ly/flamingodivination and as part of the deck of 100 (along with the story behind this labor of love and my process) at https://almanacofbirds.org

A bird divination for today. Available as a stand-alone print at https://bit.ly/magpiedivination, and as part of the deck of 100 (along with the story and process behind this labor of love) at https://almanacofbirds.org

Dedicating many moments. 🙏

Artists! If we want BlueSky to be our thing, we need to rally to support each other: follow, like, comment, post! We are better together 💙🦋 Comment with your green paintings! I wanna see your art 💚 Fieldstones in the Rain, oil on aluminum, 6x9in, painted en plein air in the rain 🌧️

How to be a good creature – naturalist Sy Montgomery on what 13 animals taught her about otherness, love, and being fully human

I am so happy to read these beautiful reviews coming out of Sundance of Shoshannah Stern's documentary about Marlee Matlin www.thewrap.com/marlee-matli... I had the privilege to design and write the open captions for the film.

🎉🎊🥳🌈 After 5+yrs in the making, my 3rd 📖📕“Last Artist Standing: Living & Sustaining a Creative Life over 50” is off to the printer! These essays are deeply meaningful: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... 🙏🏼🙏🏼 @intellectbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social 🔜we will tour this book…stay tuned!🛫🚘🚌🌆

via pwlanier comes one of John Henry Twachtman's fourteen+ atmospheric depictions of Niagara Falls, for sale at Christie's. Christie's sold another one last fall, which, ngl, looks like it had been left out in the sun too long. greg.org/archive/2025...

Full series upaya.org/program/awareness-in-action-meeting-the-world-with-life-giving-hands-actualizing-unfaltering-engaged-practice-in-our-time-2025-online-special-series-hosted-by-sensei-kozan-palevsky-wendy-dainin-lau-and-r/

Feb 2 AWARENESS IN ACTION: Climate Christiana Figueres, climate diplomat upaya.org/program/engaged-buddhism-online-february-2025/ A voice we need to hear now. free, online

I'm thrilled to be exhibiting this piece in the upcoming AIS 9th Annual Small Works Showcase at Fallbrook Art, CA. The frame is by Mayen Olson. The exhibition will be from Feb 14 - Mar 29, 2025. Please head to www.americanimpressionistsociety.org for info. #modernimpressionism #mayenolson #pleinair

Can artists hope to make a difference in this crazy, seemingly doomed, world? Come hear an artist/Princeton lecturer/non-profit activist discuss this subject at #ThirdActCreatives’s meet-up this Tues., Jan. 21. Speaker’s bio: www.thinaar.com/bio/) Sign up here: thirdact-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We are enjoying some down time between events. We wrapped up #postcardartexhibit24 in Texas last Oct and we now look forward to hosting #postcardartexhibit26 in the Netherlands! It will be ways off before we open registration, but we're happy to be keeping up with the happenings of our artists.

My newly finished painting, "Before the Storm", Oil - 12 x 16" - will be heading to the Annual American Impressionist Society Small Works show next month. Will post details soon.