Susan Cushing

#ForestFriday #nature #EastCoastKin Door County, Wisconsin

#FoodOnFriday #EastCoastKin

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Hi, Tim! Yes, there’s a cup of joe here with your name on it!
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I hope you have an amazing day too!

My pleasure, Dwight! You are an amazing artist with that camera! 👌

Good morning, Dwight! Happy to see you, and to share a cup of #BlueBrew with you!
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I hope you continue to have a wonderful day!

Hello anyway, dear Janet! Thanks for checking in and have a lovely day!

#Renoir
Roses, (1919)

#MCEscher

White Cat

#HerbertBehrensHangeler,
Charlie Chaplin , (1931)

My pleasure, Loretta!

Edward Steichen (1920-61) :
Sunflowers from Seed to Seed,
n.d.

Gelatin silver print
9-15/16 × 7-7/8 in | 25.2 × 20 cm

The Museum of Modern Art

#IngridSmuling
Cornflowers for Van Gogh (2018)

A 2-foot-tall specimen of the Pongapong flower (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius) in full bloom during the rainy season. It looks like a witch's hat and is one of the rarest plants found in the Masungi georeserve, the Philippines.

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Norway
📸 Mark Denney
#LandscapePhotography, #WinterscapePhotography

Iceland
📸 Mark Denney
#LandscapePhotography

Green Moose
Alan Syliboy ~ Mi'kmaq
n.d.

A stunning photo I somehow missed yesterday, by Dwight @dwightreads.bsky.social

Theophrastos Triantafyllidis
Vue de Paraportiani, Mykonos

Felix Vallotton
The Church of Souain in Sihlouette

A dew coated spider web along the river has the view of a new day pushing through the mist and trees along the waters edge.

Awaiting a new generation to arrive 📷🕊️ …

Agostino Brunias, born in Rome around 1730, spent much of his career in the British Caribbean (especially Dominica) after traveling there in the 1760s. His paintings frequently depict the complex societies of the Lesser Antilles, where African, Caribbean, and European cultures intersected. His canvases depicted daily activities such as washing clothes, trading in markets, or walking through town. He often highlighted the clothing and social identities of free women of color within colonial society. While Brunias’s paintings can provide visual records of Caribbean fashion and community life, they also present an idealized vision of colonial harmony that softens the realities of plantation slavery and colonial hierarchy. The painting’s calm tone reflects both careful observation and the expectations of European collectors. Two Caribbean women walk together along a path after leaving a market, their bodies angled slightly toward one another as if in relaxed conversation. Each balances bundles and baskets likely filled with produce or textiles and carried with practiced ease. Their clothing is vivid and layered with long skirts with aprons, fitted bodices, and colorful headwraps tied high. One woman turns her head toward the other as she gestures gently with her hand, suggesting companionship and familiarity. The tropical landscape is warm earth tones and soft vegetation that frame the figures rather than dominate the scene. The women’s clothing likely carries social meaning within the colonial Caribbean context. Free women of African descent frequently participated in local markets as vendors, traders, and small-scale entrepreneurs, and their dress became an important marker of identity and status. The brightly colored skirts, fitted bodices, jewelry, and carefully tied headwraps seen correspond to historical descriptions of Caribbean fashion among these women, who used clothing both to express cultural identity and to signal respectability or prosperity.

“Dos mujeres antillanas viniendo del mercado” (Two Caribbean Women Returning from the Market) by Agostino Brunias (Italian) – Oil on canvas / c. 1770–1780 – Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga (Málaga, Spain) #WomenInArt #AgostinoBrunias #Brunias #MuseoCarmenThyssen #CaribbeanArt #ColonialArt #art #artText

"Blue Door”
Credits: Margaret Merry British Painter
Born 1944
Watercolor - 39 x 27 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Jessica Eggers (South African Artist, born 1995)
"Atlantic Puffins", 2026.

Pen and Ink, Watercolor and Gouache on 200gsm heavyweight Paper.

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

A. A. Duff (Canadian, b. 1947)

"A String, a Letter, and a Nap by the Window" 2021

Oil on canvas

32x32 in (81x81 cm)

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Ota Janeček (Czech, 1919–1996)
"Swallows", 1961.
Oil on Canvas, 46 × 37 cm.
Illustration.

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Nina Torr (South African Artist, born 1987)
"Here We Go Again", 2019.
Six Color Lithograph, 40.7 × 31 cm.
Private Collection.

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890–1918)
"Sailing Boat with Reflection in the Water", 1908.
Oil on Cardboard, 24.1 × 17.8 cm.
Private Collection.

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

"La miniera di Van Gogh"
2019

Matteo Massagrande
Italian Artist1959)

Mixed media on board
cm. 150x150

Courtesy Galleria Nino Sindoni

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

You as well, Deborah!