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• Post #3036128

  TIL I'm part of the "hidden homeless" population. Could probably get a lease if I set my mind to it, but alternating between checking into Hilton and hitting the road is just a much better deal than a crummy apartment? #housing #self #thoughts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_homeless

• Post #3036127

  "Hand of God, Take Me Home", I dubbed this shot, a summer vista from Portugal's capes, the beams pointing the way back toward America as I gazed westward. It was cool to experience, but I can't help but wonder if I should have returned at all... #art #photography #landscape #beautifullandscape #sea #ocean #AtlanticOcean #sky #skyscape #clouds #cloudscape #Europe #summer

• Post #3036126

  Always as gorgeous as it is haunting. William-Adolphe Bouguereau's "Nymphs and Satyr". #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl

• Post #3036125

  I wonder how many outsiders have any idea how huge California is: if DC was San Diego, LA would be as far as Philadelphia; Sonoma would be all the way in *Maine*. And Crescent City would be all the way in *Nova Scotia*. #geography #California #thoughts

• Post #3036124

  A painting that makes you feel like you were there with her, but also like you're gazing into memories of summers long, long ago. From William-Adolphe Bouguereau: "During the Storm". #art #traditionalart #painting #summer #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #oilpainting

• Post #3036123

  It might seem like some fantastical caprice, but in the twilight semi-consciousness of the overnight hours on something like SpaceX Starship...this might really happen closer in the future than we think. But for now, 'tis but a rendering..."A dreamy girls' night out at Saturn", by me. #art #digitalart #digitalpainting #spaceart #scifi #sciencefictioon #scifiart #sciencefictionart #painting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #planet #Saturn #spaceship #spaceflight...

• Post #3036122

  The decline and fall of the Empire might have been apocalyptic, but Edmund Blair Leighton had a talent for making the medieval look like the best time ever...or at least the most stylish. An aesthetic that would be the envy of any century, in his "My Fair Lady". #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #flowers #fashion #dress

• Post #3036121

  I want to be out there..."Sailing into the Sunset". Captured off the Florida Keys by me on a little cruise I did once. #art #photography #sailing #sunset #sea #ocean #AtlanticOcean #Florida #FloridaStrait #sky #skyscape #boat

• Post #3036120

  Going to vote in California's big election today, and I'm of a mind to use one of these nifty ballot dropboxes...which would be my first time *not* voting in-person at a polling place (er, "vote center", as they call them here). #elections #thoughts #self

• Post #3036119

  People are talking about ChatGPT's sudden obsession with gremlins, but mine seems to be much more fixated on *dragons*, for god knows what reason. Art is by Frank C. Pape. #AI #LLM #ChatGPT #thoughts #self #technology #dragons #art #traditionalart #illustration

• Post #3036118

  When the calender turns from spring to the next season, and the world feels so, *so* languid. A feeling captured by the incomparable Alfons Mucha, in this vision of "Summer". #art #traditionalart #summer #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #painting #oilpainting

• Post #3036117

  The air always feels heavier when the sail's aflutter, doesn't it? Captured one evening off the coast of Florida by me: "Twilit Canvas". #art #photography #sailing #sailboat #sunset #sea #ocean #AtlanticOcean #Florida #FloridaStrait #sky #skyscape

• Post #3036116

  Just thinking about the countries I've visited (shown in red) and where I might like to go next. I *would* love to stargaze in the southern sky, but the easiest place to reach from Los Angeles where you can do that seems to be Polynesia (!). #geography #travel #dreams #goals

• Post #3036115

  Among my earliest artworks from when I first got my old tablet, but I honestly really like these rocket plumes, even if there's an unnervingly huge number of rockets launching at once. 👀 From me: "Let's light these candles". #art #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #scifi #spaceart #scifiart #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #rockets #rocketlaunch #nebula #spaceflight

• Post #3036114

  I hope she sees just the good things...the present is too upsetting as it is, even without gazing into a dark future. 🤞 "The Crystal Ball", by John William Waterhouse. #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwooman #beautifulgirl

• Post #2471910

  Lest you think "materialism" is some kind of new vice... "The New Perfume", by John William Godward. #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl

• Post #2471909

  When the snow melts and the glaciers give us their summer visage, the waters of this magical place seem not quite of this earth...yet they're there, right by the side of the road. Taken by me in the North Cascades, "The Color of Summer". #art #photography #landscape #water #stream #river #AmericanWest #Cascadia #WashingtonState #summer

• Post #2471908

  All too often "real life" disappoints; oh, it's not like we'd want to not be here, but how much better it would be if the only intruder into the world of imagination was the rhythmic sound of the surf... William Etty's vision of "Daydreams". #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl

• Post #2471907

  These stars are giving me Capella vibes...only in this close-up view, they're being visited by explorers. Our descendants in the not-so-distant future, or perhaps aliens today, imagining what secrets are waiting to be revealed on a small rocky planet 40 light-years beyond their reach... From yours truly, "Reach for the suns". #art #spaceart #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #stars #suns #sun #scifiart #solarsail #spacecradt #sciencefiction #sciencefi...

• Post #2471906

  "Storybook City", I call this shot...because in a place like this, right outside the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam really does look like the sort of town that would be in a little kid's picture book. Won't be long until the long days of summer make a canal cruise all the more enticing... #art #photography #cityscape #streetscape #canal #city #Amsterdam #Netherlands #Europe #summer

• Post #2471905

  Try as we might have, Western culture has never *quite* topped the aura of its classical period. A painting so fine it makes me feel like the neoclassical aesthetic was onto something: from Jacques-Louis David, "The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis". #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #aesthetics

• Post #2471904

  Taking in the stars is the best pastime, now or in the future, when we'll be able to ride a starship and experience something like this, a "Girls' night out at swirling dark nebula in red", as painted by me. #art #digitalart #painting #digitalpainting #spaceart #nebula #beautifulwoman #beaut

• Post #2471902

  A small reminder that spring hasn't *quite* passed into the realm of dream and memory...but then again, perhaps we should welcome that: after all, we only truly enjoy the real world when it's like the dream world, don't we? Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach's "A Girl with a Flower". #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #spring #flowers

• Post #2471901

  Even the bleakest of places can warm the heart when the sky clears out, the sun rises, and the world comes back to life... Taken by me: "Green leaves on spring branches". #art #photography #spring #leaves #trees

• Post #2471900

  A spirit we ought to apply to life with the utmost ferocity: from Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, "Youth Conquers Age". #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting

• Post #2471899

  Someday I'll dance again...perhaps even with the enthusiasm of this darling blessed to be in the space age... From yours truly, "Dance into the pink heart nebula". #art #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #nebula #spaceart #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #dance #dancer #dancing

• Post #2471898

  Why is Jackson, Wyoming almost the only town I visit that I even *like*? On one hand, I'm blessed with good taste — there's a reason the Federal Reserve goes there... — but why couldn't I have been blessed with more money!? You need eight digits in the bank to live there. 😶 #life #thoughts #lifestyle #geography #self

• Post #2381070

  It looks simple, even unremarkable, but it's the sort of scene that spawns a whole little adventure novel in the imagination... Charles Burton Barber's capture of a vibe: "No Ride Today". #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting

• Post #2177687

  A reminder that in some parts of our world, May is a month where it's getting seriously bright. This is May 30 in Nordkapp...at *midnight*. The sun doesn't get lower than this; it just rises higher again. Captured by me on my 2024 road trip, "Midnight sun shining on the water at North Cape, Norway". #art #photography #sun #sky #midnightsun #ocean #sea #AtlanticOcean #ArcticOcean #clouds #cloudscape #Norway #Europe #Arctic #summer

• Post #2097061

  Wholesome vibes from when emulating our classical ancestors was all the rage...I've long hoped I'll live to see the day when it'll all come back into style. But for the nonce, enjoy Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun's self-portrait of herself with her little daughter. #art #traditionalart #painting #motherhood #fashion #motherandchild #children #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl