BREAKING — More than 130 conservation groups, outfitters and rural Texas businesses urged Congress today to block federal funding for border wall construction in Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park.
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President Trump wants to build a wall through Big Bend National Park.
One of the most sacred places in Texas.
Texans have a message for him: Come and take it.
Not to mention a total waste of taxpayer money!
Destruction of our public lands should have all of us concerned. Border crossings are at historic lows and walls and razor wire don’t work. It will just be needless destruction and obstruction for wildlife seeking water and migration pathways. Please take a moment to sign the petition.
BREAKING: DHS waives dozens of laws to rush border wall construction through Big Bend State Park.
They want to rob this iconic western landscape from all of us, locking away our fishing holes & campsites behind concrete and steel. It's a grotesque act of political vandalism.
A peaceful place for the eye on this January Monday. It’s raining out here in the desert today and we like it.
May There Be Peace, 2025
Oil painting with monotype on stretched paper
12 x 17 inches
#oilpainting #contemporarylandscape #monotype #artcollector #desertpainting #artistsonbluesky
New oil painting on monotype by Diana Simard. 12 by 17 inches. Color and light gradient with clouds floating over sparse grassland horizon
New work
The Lineup, 2022
Oil with mica dust on wood
6 x 6 in.
#oilpainting #painting #landscape #moonrise #westtexas
The warm, orange light of the day blends into the darkness blue hues of the night sky in a gradient. On the horizon is a light blue mountain ridge, below that is a warm and earthy ground. A thin, sliver of the moon is visible in the sky above, and above the moon there is the small dot of light from a visible planet.
Dissolving View 26 Revisited, 2022-2024
Oil painting with monotype and mica dust on paper, mounted
12 x 17.5 inches
#painting #traditionalart #oilpainting #monotype #landscape #moon
A painting of a red snake with its squiggly body up into the corner of a warmly lit room. The walls are covered in squiggly cracks.
Here’s an older one for the lunar new year
Red Racer (at Fort D.A. Russel)
Oil with mica dust on wood, 2018
4 x 4 inches
#painting #oilpainting #snake
#lunarnewyear
So tragic! Hopefully they’ve finally moved on to a new spot
Any sightings of the great-horned owls that like to nest in that rain gutter?
Thanks, Tom!
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Allow yourself three deep breaths and a one minute break in mantis time.
NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER GOING ICE SKATING? YEP- - - SO IS MY CAT- - - SHE LOVES TO ICE SKATE WHAT DOES SHE USE FOR SKATES? FOUR BOTTLE CAPS
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
January 24,1966
There is a gradient of glowing, cool blues and purple hues, with semi-vertical blue wispy marks in the foreground and soft, white, time-worn mountains along a distant horizon.
Artwork photographed installed on a wall at an angle. There’s a gradient of glowing, cool blues and purple hues, with semi-vertical blue wispy marks in the foreground and soft, white, time-worn mountains along a distant horizon.
“Puertacitas -Little Portals”, 2024
Oil painting with monotype and mica dust, on paper, mounted
6 x 8 inches
#painting #printmaking #oilpainting #art #landscape
Photo featuring five large oval pebbles viewed from above in different shades of brown and grey with neat and complex knots tied around then with orande or cream twine, all on a cream surface
'Tied rocks' by California based artist Shizu Okino, using traditional Japanese knotting techniques #WomensArt
Blanketed Twins, 2024
Oil painting with monotype and mica dust on paper, mounted
6 x 8 inches
#art #painting #monotype #landscapepainting #artistsonbluesky #artmuseum
Thank you, Rowdy! You are one of my favorite photographers!!!!
Hmmm fishy
Blanketed, 2024
Oil painting with monotype and mica dust on paper, mounted on wood
9 x 12 inches
#painting #art #oilpainting #printmaking #artistsonbluesky #contemporaryart #landscape
Ancient Magmatism, 2024
Oil painting with monotype and mica dust, on paper mounted on wood
9 x 12 inches
#art #oilpainting #monotype #artistsonbluesky #landscapepainting #originalart
The Dialogue Between Mountains and Clouds, 2024
Oil Painting with monotype and mica dust, on paper mounted on wood
9 x 12 inches
Fade into Light Monotype with direct painting, paper mounted on wood 12 x 17.5 inches A serene original artwork depicting a glowing light and a distant mountain range on an open plain. By Diana Simard
Fade into Light
Monotype with direct painting, paper mounted on wood
12 x 17.5 inches
If you have a cool idea you’re working on, today’s the day to get productive.
There will be time to get mad later.
