Happy Beltane! Build a bonfire! Thank a flower! Reclaim your time from capitalism! Take loud-sigh-full-body breath! Divest from corporations & invest in community! Throw a welcome party for the birds! Light candles & take a bath! Dance badly! Touch dirt! Love is all around! Everything is a circle!

pastel + color pencil on paper

Many of the people announcing they are happy to pay more for American-made products are the same people telling artisans their prices are too high and complaining that a meal at a diner doesn’t cost what it did in 1996

Got pretty fed up with Bluesky after it flagged one of my illustrations last month… but trying to give it another chance. New 💌 went out yesterday open.substack.com/pub/coyotewe...

Always coming home〰️ (Or, dreaming about the swallows) Color pencil and pastel on paper

Somewhere along the way〰️ Pastel + color pencil on paper. New show opening at Commerce Gallery in Lockhart, TX tomorrow night 𓃗

Did you forget you are a river? Did you forget how the rain cuts stone?

One more sad song… [color pencil and pastel on paper, 10x10”]

it will be full of dancing. color pencil and pastel on paper.

Studio scene〰️ [not romantic] Mostly spent this week framing and crying.

𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴. Color pencil and wax pastel on paper, 10x10”. Opening March 7th at Commerce Gallery in Lockhart, TX〰️

happy love day

𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒐 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈? Color pencil, gouache, and wax pastel on paper, 36x48” Opening at Commerce Gallery in Lockhart, TX March 7th

soft as flowers 〰️ strong as pine Pastel + color pencil on paper

Studio scenes from the past 6 months. Wrapping up for my next show at Commerce Gallery in Lockhart, TX opening March 7th〰️

Glacier〰️ Color pencil on paper

Grand Canyon NP〰️ The February illustration from my calendar collab with Parks Project

Made it through the three years that was January…

a sunny January day in the studio with a new work that never looks as big in a photo as when it won’t fit in my car… And new substack dispatch out〰️ open.substack.com/pub/coyotewe...

yr of the snake〰️

Sunny studio day. (Ft. The best, but completely unhelpful assistant)

〰️grief is a portal〰️ Thinking about Lama Rod Owen’s words recently about needing to “grieve on the go“ and how community and connection can make the difference between the weight of grief becoming momentum fueling rather than an anchor…

Today I’m thinking about the song “I heard it through the grapevine” the 1968 version by Marvin Gaye.

It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you.

I’ve been dusting off some reminders-to-self from the archives.. How many times in my life I’ve felt the world was ending, and it did not. The sun still rises.