When people talk about making art that's archival, they are generally talking about art that will look relatively unchanged after a hundred years. But what if you want to make art that lasts THOUSANDS of years? There's not much good advice on how to do that.

6x8" oil #painting, on Fredrix canvas. I tried to use the limited palette from the previous painting plus ultramarine blue, but wound up adding phthalo green and purple. Switched to mars black, which was a mistake; lamp black mixes better greens. #traditionalart #art #oilpainting #landscapepainting

6x8" oil painting, on Fredrix canvas. I took way too long with the last painting, so I forced my self to start and finish this the same day. I used a limited Zorn-type palette to simplify the color mixing. #traditionalart #art #oilpainting #landscapepainting

9x12" oil painting, on canvas paper. Another Florida landscape. #traditionalart #art #oilpainting #landscapepainting

9x12" oil painting, on canvas paper, of a Florida landscape, with palm trees. Can't believe it has been almost four years since I moved to Florida. #traditionalart #art #oilpainting #landscapepainting

Hi Bluesky! Here's another 9x12" oil painting on canvas that I just finished. This time, going for a Florida vibe. #art #oilpainting #landscapepainting

Hi Bluesky! Here's a 9x12" oil painting on canvas that I just finished. A while ago I decided I should try painting Florida scenes, but I backslid because I really like mountains. #art #oilpainting #landscapepainting

Hi Bluesky! I haven't posted here in a while. Here's a 6x8" oil painting that I just finished. I decided I wanted to experiment with doing landscapes in vertical (aka portrait) orientation. What do you think? #art #oilpainting #landscapepainting

12x16" oil #painting on canvas panel Florida landscape This one was hanging around only half finished for a long time. #art #oilpainting #landscapepainting

9x9" oil #painting on canvas paper Florida landscape VII 9x9 is kind of a weird size, but if you have a 9x12" sheet of canvas paper, and you cut it into a square, that's what you get. #art #oilpainting #landscapepainting

This is a cheap 6x6" frame from from Amazon, with an oil #painting on Canson Canva-Paper. Canvas paper is very easy and inexpensive to frame if you go this route. Just stick it into the frame in FRONT of the plexiglass. You don't have to mount it or anything like that. #traditionalart #oilpainting

6x6" oil #painting on Ampersand Gessobord Florida landscape VI Zorn palette + phthalo blue (red shade) I finally caught up with posting everything I painted during the last 6 months, and have nothing new to post. But there's a half-done painting on my easel. #art #oilpainting #landscapepainting

6x8" oil #painting on canvas paper Florida landscape V Painted alla-prima style using the Zorn palette + phthalo blue (red shade). Nobody on the internet (as far as I know) has ever talked about adding phthalo blue to the Zorn palette. I'm the first! #art #oilpainting #landscapepainting

6x8" oil #painting on canvas paper Florida landscape IV Zorn palette + phthalo blue (red shade). What's not to love about phthalo blue? Especially the red shade which is better for skies. It makes the limited Zorn palette a lot less limited. #art #oilpainting #landscapepainting

6x8" oil #painting on canvas paper Florida landscape III Zorn palette plus cobalt blue. Cobalt blue turns out to be a very overrated color. People think because it's expensive it must be really awesome, but it's not even as good as ultramarine. #art #oilpainting #landscapepainting

6x8" oil #painting on canvas Modified Zorn palette I replaced the yellow ochre with Winsor & Newton Chrome Yellow Hue (a Hansa yellow type of color). Don't think this worked. Yellow ochre is an essential color for both landscapes and Zorn-style paintings. #oilpainting #landscapepainting

6x8" oil painting on canvas Alla prima Zorn palette study I got artist block trying to paint a 12x16" Florida landscape, so I thought that doing this small study using only one paintbrush would help. Note that for the red I used pyrrole red (PR254). #painting #oilpainting #landscapepainting

I tried to like Mac, because there's a perception that people who use Macs are way cooler than people who use Windows, but I just couldn't learn to like MacOS. Even the way the mouse cursor moves on a Mac drove me nuts. I'm afraid I will forever be a Windows PC guy.

12x16" oil painting on canvas panel Savanna in southern Africa After this painting, I got artist block trying to complete my next 12x16" painting. (I was trying to follow the advice of YouTube art influencer Stefan Baumann who says you shouldn't paint smaller than 12x16".) #painting #oilpainting

My elderly parents spend all day watching news. How do I get them to watch something more interesting, or maybe even read a book? Or at least turn off the TV and read the news online?

12x16" oil painting on canvas paper Philippines landscape I like the Philippines because it's tropical, there are dirt roads (which are a lot prettier than concrete), and mountains. 12x16" because I was trying to level up to larger sized paintings. #painting #oilpainting #landscapepainting

Over the last 15 years, the images we see online have become more and more fake. The "photos" with the most likes on social media are so heavily edited in Photoshop that they no longer represent any type of reality. AI image generation and editing is just a cherry on top of that.

9x12" oil painting on canvas paper Idaho winter landscape II The palette for this painting uses phthalo blue and yellow ochre, unlike the previous painting which used ultramarine blue (green shade) and chrome antimony titanium yellow. #painting #oilpainting #landscapepainting

6x8" oil painting Idaho winter landscape Painted during the first week of January, to celebrate the winter season, using a limited palette of ultramarine blue, chrome antimony titanium yellow, quinacridone magenta, mars black, and titanium white. #painting #oilpainting #landscapepainting

Some of my paintings have French titles. It's kind of a joke. I think it's kind of pretentious to name paintings in the first place when they are just run-of-the-mill paintings and not like The Mona Lisa. So why not be extra pretentious and give it a French name?

My 6x6 inch oil painting on canvas Title: Le champ de citrouilles le plus sincère According to Linus van Pelt from the Peanuts comic strip, each Halloween the Great Pumpkin rises up out of the most sincere pumpkin patch. Any Peanuts fans out there? #painting #oilpainting #landscapepainting

What I like about Bluesky is that (it seems) you can just post still pictures of your paintings. Instagram won't show your art to a wide audience unless you make a video of it. Which is a stupid way of sharing paintings, plus I don't really want to become a videographer or an actor.

6x6" oil painting on canvas (from a Fredrix canvas pad) Title: L'automne dans les Catskills A painting I did in October to celebrate the season. Looks like I went heavy on the cadmium yellow. #painting #oilpainting #landscapepainting

4x4" oil painting on Canson Canva-Paper Idaho landscape This is the best of my tiny 4x4" oil paintings. I love the colors. It's sad that such a nice painting is so small. I stopped doing tiny paintings after this.

I had this idea to simultaneously do multiple 4x4" paintings. I now think that it wasn't a great idea, that size is just too small, and it took me longer than anticipated to paint them all. But at least this photo is proof that I'm doing REAL PAINTINGS and not digital creations. #traditionalart

8x8" oil painting on canvas paper Western canyons landscape I was trying to paint different kinds of landscapes. I remember that this one took me too long to paint for a small painting. #painting #oilpainting #landscapepainting

12x12" oil painting on canvas Title: Les zones humides tropicales #painting #oilpainting #landscapepainting

So, if anybody is reading this, I created this Bluesky account today. To fill it up with some content so that it's not totally empty, I'm going to post all the paintings I created during the last 6 months, one per day. I'm not very prolific, so don't worry, I'll catch up in 2 weeks or so.

6x6" oil painting on Ampersand Gessobord. I really like the look I got painting on the Gessobord, but I haven't been using it because it's expensive and I don't think my art is worthy. And it doens't fit into cheap Amazon picture frames. #painting #oilpainting #landscapepainting