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ROAD WORK - Which Way Are You Heading? (And Good Luck With That!)

ROAD WORK - Which Way Are You Heading? (And Good Luck With That!) Seeing a Roadrunner is said to bring good fortune your way

Roadrunners, two-foot long, toothpick skinny birds traverse the desert southwest on four-toed feet that leave X-marks in the sand to mark their passage. Made famous by their starring role in Wiley Coyote cartoons, these comical critters are faster than greased lightning and meaner than junk-yard dogs, but nobody gets everything in life, and roadrunners can’t stay aloft very long. Hence their…

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Moving On

My Big Bend Artist blog, as well as my Outlaw Pastelist blog have moved to my website. The word press blogs will still be here for a few more weeks, but to keep following me, you’ll need to travel to https://www.lindycookseverns.com/blog/

Sorry for the inconvenience, but I couldn’t keep managing so many different venues, and I think you’ll enjoy the simplicity of the new location.

Thanks for…

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Sunset on Land Untamed

Sunset on Land Untamed

SUNSET ON LAND UNTAMED  36″x24″ oil on rough linen  © Lindy Cook Severns 2017  

In the Texas borderlands, we tread vast landscapes under immense skies.  The farther from towns and highways and power lines you go, the larger the land; the farther you go from city lights and pollution, the broader the sky.  Drive a few miles from any Far West Texas community and you find yourself alone with…

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Dawn Bloom and Ghostly West Texas Enchantments

Dawn Bloom and Ghostly West Texas Enchantments

DAWN  BLOOM  18″ x 38″ pastel  Lindy Cook Severns

The Chisos Mountains of Big Bend National Park rise without warning from the harsh Texas borderlands. No other mountains in the continental USA dare extend so far south, so deeply into the Chihuahuan Desert. Few other Texas peaks so boldly pierce the sky.

Some say the name “Chisos” comes from a Native American word for “ghost”; others insist the…

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Untamed Texas Sky

UNTAMED TEXAS SKY is a new pastel skyscape

UNTAMED TEXAS SKY  16″ x  20″ pastel  Lindy Cook Severns 2017

Spend any time in West Texas, and the sky will become a character in your life story. In the remote ranch country of the Texas mountains, even a clear blue sky is larger than life, and its vast sweep over the vast land can overwhelm you.  So when thunderstorms build and billow and rumble over the mountains, the wild sky is impossible…

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Dancing in Pinon

  Hummingbirds begin arriving in the Davis Mountains of Far West Texas in early spring, after their annual winterfest down south. These early birds are often solo acts, so we get excited when we spot one. The feeder gets streaked with algae and mold long before these scattered travelers empty the sugar water my husband so thoughtfully provides them. Jim obediently cleans their feeder for them, so…

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Sunset's Mountain Majesty

Sunset’s Mountain Majesty

Visual familiarity breeds complacency in artists, as well as in “normal” people. We see, we appreciate, then we go forth in search of something new to see. I’m often as guilty of doing that as anyone else. I have a chronic case of wanderlust.

The difference, in my case, is that I live in a scenic canyon in one of the most stunningly dramatic parts of America. (People travel from foreign countries…

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     THE EARTH, THE SKY AND THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN  12″ x 16″ pastel                                     Lindy Cook Severns 2016

  THE EARTH, THE SKY AND THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN

Mitre Peak rises from semi-arid ranchland outside Alpine, Texas. The landmark mountain, which is shaped more than less like a child’s drawing of a mountain, gives its name to the popular  camp beneath it. My sister attended…

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An Untold Story

AN UNTOLD STORY      7″ x 14″ pastel landscape painting copyright Lindy Cook Severns | on this winter morning in the Texas desert we explored adobe ruins and watched fog creep across the Chisos Mountains   On a foggy winter morning years ago, we came upon adobe ruins outside Big Bend National Park. As ruins go, they weren’t the Parthenon. Even back then, not much remained of the weather-worn…

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Lighting the Desert Night

Lighting the Desert Night

“Lighting the Desert Night” is a soft pastel on archival sanded paper measures a whopping 5.5″ x 10″ of pure color from a genuine Terlingua, Texas sunset. Lindy Cook Severns 2016, inspired artist and happy traveler. Color has always been a sidekick of mine. As a preschooler, the most splendid gift I could receive was a box of crayons, and the bigger the assortment, the better. No wonder I’m now a…

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At My Easel Before Artwalk Alpine 2015

At My Easel Before Artwalk Alpine 2015

Most days this fall, I’ve stood at my easel, painting, painting. Painting! I spend much of my time alone at my easel. Exhibits like Artwalk afford me a chance to share the stories behind my paintings and to hear how viewers relate to my art. I paint steadily year ’round, but as the year winds down, I always feel compelled to finish just one more painting, to create one more piece to round out…

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Fort Davis, Texas in Days Gone By

Fort Davis is a tiny, unincorporated town tucked beneath a small, remote chain of mountains deep in Far West Texas. Most Texans don’t even know where Fort Davis is. That’s how small it is, how remote. That’s one of the things that makes it a special place. Also, it’s quaint. The bank has bars on the windows, kids play on the courthouse lawn, and it isn’t uncommon to see someone moseying down…

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Snowy Peaks on the Rio Grande

Snowy Peaks on the Rio Grande, a new painting by Lindy Cook Severns

“Snowy Peaks on the Rio Grande” by Lindy Cook Severns 2015, 14″ x 20″ pastel on archival paper. This landscape painting of winter along the lower Rio Grande is a studio painting inspired by being there and being cold. West Texans brag “If you don’t like the weather, just stick around awhile—it’ll change.” That’s especially true of the borderlands, where every crevasse, every peak, every riverbank…

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Scents of the Desert

A sense of place implies knowing a landscape so intimately, you can see through its skin and into its bones.

Creatives feel compelled share this sense of place with others. (Why? I have no idea. It’s just what we do. ) Great photographers (Jim Bones comes to mind when I think of Big Bend National Park and the Rio Grande; Marathon’s Carol Townsend , Terlingua’s Tim McKenna all capture this essence…

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10 Tips for Painlessly Acquiring a Piece of Fine Art

10 Tips from an Artist for Painlessly Acquiring a Piece of Fine Art

Ramon Gonzales, owner of Midland Framing and Fine Arts not only custom frames my paintings but also features and sells my fine art. 1028 Andrews Hwy Suite A, Midland, Texas 79705

You appreciate paintings. If you didn’t, you wouldn’t be reading this. Someday, you hope to have the time and/or money to collect art. (Fine art, not those framed prints leftover from your first apartment.) Someday, you…

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Solitude

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Solitude isn’t the same thing as loneliness. Loneliness brings an ache to the soul, a longing for companionship. Solitudeinvokes introspection, a soul-soothing awareness of self and others. Here in Far West Texas, solitude is a way of life, where even the most gregarious souls must be able to befriend themselves without feeling lonely. Those who can’t carry on a rich inner conversation throughout…

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Infinitely Texas

An artist explores inspiration from Big Bend National Park at ground level