Author: Arnica Grace

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Port A Art Center Auction for Scholarships!

Hello to my midwinter visitors! A bright spot of color to cheer us all through the cold and sometimes dreary months.

Now that it is raining, next year’s flowers are just about to sprout.
Painting ‘Heavenly Bluebonnets’ to be auctioned at Port A Art Center for their scholarship fundraiser! Come down and make a bid, y’all, it will be up for bids From Dec 12, 2025 until March 6 of 2026 when the winner takes all.

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‘Heavenly Bluebonnets’ valued $2400.00 Original oil painting 24″x36″

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Oil Painting Solutions Workshop Dec 10

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Click the link to sign up! Come paint with us in the beautiful Port Aransas Art Center and have some fun.

Oil Painting Solutions! A Fun Solvent Free workshop with Arnica Grace December 10, 2025

$80.00

Curious about oil painting, but never had a chance to try it? Join us for a fun workshop where you can minimize toxic exposure and speed up drying times!

All materials are provided, so you can focus on creating an 11″x14″ beach-themed painting while making new friends!

Enjoy art in a cool environment from 12:30 to 3:30 PM in the Art Center classroom. Bring your own lunch if needed.

* Children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

Arnica will guide you in preparing your paint palette and mixing colors. Your painting will be dry to the touch in 24-48 hours, depending on thickness of paint applied, compared to the typical 6 months for traditional oil paintings, with no unpleasant fumes in your home or vacation home! Yay!

Join us for some creative fun!

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Thank You!

Hopeful Horizons

     As a painter, I love my supporters more than any of you can know. You keep me going, you are the stream that floats my boat. My desire is to keep creating things to draw our love and attention to what is good and right in the world. When my work is purchased and taken out to your world, the love goes both ways.

Thank you, dear patron, you who purchased this large work from the Port A Art Center this week. I am eternally grateful for the moral and financial support!

36″x48″ Oil Panting ‘Hopeful Horizons’
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Splashdown I is now live and available!

The moment of splashdown is captured. Water rolls away from this adult brown pelican in impasto waves that beckon the viewer closer. On closer look, the fine darker plumage glows in its transparencies of many shades of mahogany. Light reflects off of the wings, expressing the freedom of the sky in it’s echoes of color taken from the background of a colorful horizon.

Beast and environment are one, just as we all yearn to be one within our own environs and communities. Harmony in the work as in the wild.

Traditional oil techniques, including the use of marble dust in the impasto. Framed in a white wooden frame, hanging wire attached and ready to grace your wall!

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Bluebonnet Springs Sunrise

Newest Work for the San Marcos Art Center!

Bluebonnet Springs at Sunrise

This spring brought us all a wonderful display of bluebonnets. It is always a joy to see them all show their happy faces again after a long, cold winter. Although this painting is of Bluebonnet Springs, Bluebonnet Springs does not actually exist. It is utopia, happiness, a dream and a pleasure to imagine seeing the morning dew on the flowers that are so fully alive on the banks of a stream that is being fed by a spring nearby.

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It is Done. It Begins.

Since graduating this December, I have had great good fortune.

I am a Texas Licensed Paramedic.

San Marcos Hays County EMS has decided to let me help out. Yay!

In the meantime, before my new job starts Monday after next, I have painted in joy and with great enthusiasm.

Below are new original oil paintings ‘Rising Together,’ 12″x16″,  and ‘Anticipation’ 12″x36″.

Love to you all,

‘Rising Together’ Original Oil Painting 12″x16″

 

‘Anticipation’ Original Oil Painting 12″x36″
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King of the Hill!

Daydreams of ease and comfort. The pelican finds a place to survey his kingdom. A full belly and a cool breeze, a place in the sun. Peace and contentment are palpable here for this king of the hill reigns supreme. Be your own king or queen. Own your hill or boulder, even if just for this one moment. The world can be beautiful.