It's in a quiet way, but this is one girl who looks like she's about to have a seriously fun time, "At the Piano"; painting by Albert Edelfelt. #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #piano #pianist #thearts #music

"Above It All". And not just literally; you could make any number of critiques of how the few who are already privileged get to live life like this, but you know what? This is one of those moments where I feel like I just want to be up there with them. Perhaps, one day... #art

Perhaps neither saint nor god is what we really need to be gazing at us through stained glass, but rather an image like this: one that cuts through the dark psychic force that is modernity and whispers "you can be a fun person too...". From Alfons Mucha: "Dance". #art

November thunderheads are the best... Captured on the road in Wyoming, "Chasing the Storm". #art #photography #thunderstorm #clouds #cloudscape #sky #skyscape #landscape #sublimelandscape #Wyoming #AmericanWest #highway #roadway #road #travel #driving

I know Christmas has conquered everything up until November 1, but spare a thought for the bounty of the harvest, for in America at least it's not even Thanksgiving yet! So many lovely vibes fit in this time of year, such as the one embodied by Alfons Mucha's painting here,

And even in the physical built environment every other city copies our designs from California. The truth is the opposite of what you've heard: LA is real life; it's the rest of you who live on the fake movie set.

Not joking about the "Acceleracers" thing: the sky really does look like that here. Without the perpetual twilight effect, but if you're not from here it's quite a moment when you realize every city on the silver screen is spiritually Los Angeles, over and over.

When I saw "Hot Wheels: Acceleracers", I gazed at the image of the Metro Realm on my screen and thought at the sight of that sky "no way any place in the real world could look like that". Well...there is. Captured in Pacific Palisades: "Pallette of Paradise". #art #photography

Be it ever so late in the fall, I somehow feel like I'd rather be someplace like this... Hans Dahl's painterly vision of the vast, crisp North; "Siste stråle". #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #landscape #beautifullandscape

The deadliest shirt-sleeve environment in the solar system; yet one where you can gaze up at the stars and feel at home. A preview, perhaps, of "Where We're Going". Captured last November at Badwater Basin. #art #photography #sky #skyscape #nightsky #DeathValley #BadwaterBasin

Is it the *best* picture I've taken? I wouldn't say that, necessarily, but it's one of the captures I'm most proud of getting, because it just has a certain fine quality to it. From just inland of Seaside, Oregon, "Sunrise in the Rainforest". #art #photography #Cascadia #forest

A phrase that's never described me, but Lawrence Alma-Tadema makes it look so nice...but then again, doesn't he always? "Fortune's Favourite". #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl

A few still follow the old ways... My capture of what one might fear is a dying culture, at least for those of us bereft of millions. Crescent City, August 2025: "For All We Know, We're All That's Left". #art #photography #sea #ocean #surf #surfing #surfer #PacificOcean

I feel like I've gone to the Mediterranean, yet I've yet to be in an atmosphere like this. I would feel cheated, but the energy in this painting is so beautiful I just don't care...I just sigh and think "maybe...some day..." "A Dance by the Sea" by Charles-Amable Lenoir. #art

What if, when we stroll into California and feel at home, we're reminded not of any paradise of today, but rather Africa in the last ice age? The science, shockingly, checks out... Read more at my #blog: https://t.co/fR2a1fJ1wp This post's featured image is Ice Age Earth, by

A machine that will take us to the stars...and perhaps beyond. From yours truly, "Ignition, full thrust". #art #digitialart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceart #spaceflight #spacecraft #scifi #scifiart #starship #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart

I'm not even sure what's going on here, but I do know one thing: I'd rather be here than...wherever you call the less pampering environment I'm in today. ☺️ "A Foregone Conclusion" by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman

The best nights are made of this... Georg Pauli's capture of a vibe, "Evening Reading". #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl

What must it have been like, to head westward on those trails through that seemingly endless land, only to find it ends...in a place as beautiful as this. No wonder so many of them decided to call Oregon home... Captured by yours truly last July, "Sentinel of the Sea". #art

Sometimes, all you need is a little bit of solace...(or maybe a lot 😊). A vision that could move a heart of stone: Frank Dicksee's "The Mother". #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #dress #fashion #motherhood #mother #feminine