When we seek sanctuary, for refuge from stress and anxiety, we generally seek quiet places, ones in which there are no quickly moving pictures, flashing graphics, and voices intoning prophetic doom.

Mountain Refuge art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/mountain-refuge-steve-henderson.html

#mountains #wilderness #landscape #peaceful #art #artist #artwork #stevehenderson #mastodon #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #nature #outside #outdoors #hiking #camping #freedom #trees #forest #painting #oilpainting

Catching some fresh air in the mountains? Well, who can blame her for sneaking out and going up there: it's a lovely place, "The Mountain Side Seat", as beautifully depicted by Charles Courtney Curran. 🙂

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #flowers #beautifullandscape

TFW you're typing up a blog post at a window looking directly at an office building full of software developers...who are also typing up something.

Painting is Edmund Blair Leighton's "The Letter".

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #thoughts #blogging #blogger #self

Morning all, as the weather can't really decide what to do this morning I thought I'd have a little fun and try to create a little #art - my first attempt is that of a young #woman walking towards #bigben in a #foggy #London

Hope you like it! #mastoart #oilpainting #creating

William McGregor Paxton's "Girl Combing Her Hair" is such a delightful vision, looking so subtly like she loves her reflection but wonders if she's too vain, knowing all the while that no, she won't be able to resist...and wondering if she even should want to resist...

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #vanity #feminine

People look on ballet dancers as almost superhuman, otherworldly, much like a certain companion species of ours, so perhaps the darling in Pierre Carrier-Belleuse's "Young Ballerina Holding A Black Cat" has good reason to be drawn to her little friend...

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“The Catastrophe”
by Eduard von Grützner
1892, oil

#art #eduardvongrutzner #oilpainting #funny