GENTLENESS (1997) Acrylic on Canvas - 11" x 13" Not a classical Virtue, but based on observing my young son with our aging family cat. It's how I hope we'll care for all the earth's creatures. www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/ge... - ThreadSky

michaelwhelan.bsky.social • 34 days ago

GENTLENESS (1997)
Acrylic on Canvas - 11" x 13"

Not a classical Virtue, but based on observing my young son with our aging family cat. It's how I hope we'll care for all the earth's creatures.

https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/gentleness/

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troopofechos.bsky.social•34 days ago

Lovely painting and beautiful sentiment thank you for sharing this personal work

shiolasabra.bsky.social•34 days ago

A beautifully tender moment 💛. What I envision in a more empathetic world of my utopian ideal❣️

magus-smillsoid.bsky.social•30 days ago

That's beautiful.

❤️❤️❤️

disasterqueer.bsky.social•34 days ago

I discovered your art long ago through your cover for C S Friedman's Crown of Shadows, but everything I'm learning about you through your posts here just makes me love you and your art even more. 😭❤️

michaelwhelan.bsky.social•33 days ago

🥰🙏

voiceless.bsky.social•34 days ago

This is one of my favourite pictures.

carlhdesign.bsky.social•34 days ago

It must be very satisfying & fun to establish the pattern of the ridges in the shell fossil and then break the pattern by painting it decayed, cracked, broken

Finding satisfaction in riding a bike on a straight line and more satisfaction by swerving like a madman

droppedmike.bsky.social•34 days ago

Beautiful on so many levels ❤️

douglasdangermanley.com•31 days ago

📌

rcloenenruiz.bsky.social•30 days ago

I love your work and this one speaks so much. <3

pearwoodphoto.bsky.social•33 days ago

Classic? Perhaps not, but caring for animals is certainly a biblical virtue. Proverbs has lots to say about it.

artgeek.biz•33 days ago

Galatians 5:22-23 (NRSVue)
By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.

amradio.bsky.social•34 days ago

Always loved this piece!

chipnyman.bsky.social•34 days ago

Very compelling, very surreal.

jdrake3b.bsky.social•34 days ago

The thoughtfulness here is awe inducing.

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