Kari Westphal, peaceful paintings in wax

2 person show up at Seattle Sunshine Coffee - now!

Sunday Art Market
SEVEN Cafe
Ravenna neighborhood, Seattle

Hope to see you there!
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all about the soft moments
soft shift of colors

new tiny peaceful escape 4”x 4”
working on more of these“fit where you need them” sizes…let me know if one calls to you.
😊❤️✌️
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16 years ago today, the federal minimum wage was raised to $7.25 per hour — and it hasn’t changed since.

That’s because the system is rigged against working people and for billionaires like Donald Trump.

Americans deserve better. It’s time to raise the wage.

a few seaside paintings
for that moment of pause
gentle breeze
gentle breath

peaceful escape paintings in wax
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#encaustic #beach #inspiredbynature #pnw #peacefulpaintings #waxpainting #seattleartist #art #blueskyart#peace

3 tinies in a row
little triptych for your peaceful pause ☀️

4” x 4” each, 4”x 12” all together encaustic on birch

✌️❤️
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Stop the Everglades Detention Camp! Everglades National Park is in a High-Velocity Hurricane Zone—meaning buildings should be constructed to withstand winds of 180 miles per hour. But the Everglades Detention Camp is made up of flimsy t...

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“”seeking”
encaustic on birch 12”x 4”
Newly finished 😊

Have a restorative weekend ~ ❀

#encaustic #beach #trees #dusk #stars #inspiredbynature #pnw #peacefulpaintings #waxpainting #seattleartist #art #blueskyart

Top F.D.A. Official Overrode Scientists on Covid Shots

Politicians, not scientists, making public health decisions will not make America healthier www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/h...

tiny escape
4”x4” encaustic painting

Have a good day ~ ❀
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A couple of new encaustic paintings to share 😊

they are each 6” square

Have a restorative weekend ~ ❀

#encaustic #beach #inspiredbynature #pnw #peacefulpaintings #waxpainting #seattleartist #art

If this bill passes, our public lands will fall into the hands of fossil fuel interests.

Today, a United States Senator was arrested for asking a question of a federal official, in a federal building, as was his right.

If it can happen to a sitting U.S. Senator, it can happen to anyone.

Silence is complicity. We are at a crossroads. We must speak up.

@alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social‬

Federal agents handcuffing US Senator Alex Padilla at a DHS Secretary Noem press conference today. The right wing spin machine is suggesting Senator Padilla barged into the room, lunged at Noem, and didn’t identify himself. There is no gray area, it’s all lies.

😊 thanks!

just put these up on my blue wall upstairs…. hoping they help provide a calming breath.

peaceful escapes
20”x 20” & 12”x 12” encaustic paintings, by me, when I’m seeking balance ~ ❀

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Don’t forget to breathe.

Breathe in for 4, hold for 7, exhale for 8. It signals safety to your nervous system and helps bring you back to centre.

No matter the situation, we need to be regulated to think, to act, to not freeze.

Statement from Democratic Governors on Donald Trump’s Use of California's National Guard - DGA Statement from Democratic Governors on Donald Trump’s Use of California’s National Guard DGA Chair Governor Laura Kelly, DGA Vice Chair Governor Andy Beshear, Governor Tony Evers, Governor Bob Ferguso...

How very ironic that GOP Governors aren’t standing up for states’ rights here. I guess that only matters if you’re denying women or transgender people access to medical care. democraticgovernors.org/updates/stat...

Kennedy guts CDC's vaccine panel of independent experts The Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices helps the agency make recommendations on who should get certain vaccines.

RFK Jr. — a vaccine conspiracy theorist — just fired the entire independent vaccine advisory committee of the CDC.

This is incredibly dangerous and will result in more Americans dying of preventable diseases. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts

This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

We're getting coal, whether we want it or not The Trump administration is committed to the fiction that coal is the future, and if it costs consumers more money and kills more miners, oh well. That’s just the price of energy freedom.� On the ...

Imagine waging a holy war against wind power, gutting mine safety, and forcing Americans to foot the coal bill—all while tweeting job openings for black lung gigs.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Trump’s Budget Axes Program That Keeps Poor People From Freezing To Death At Home His HHS budget request would cut all funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which millions of people rely on to help pay energy bills.

LIHEAP has helped poor Americans keep their heat or air conditioning running for decades.

Now, Trump wants to axe this program. The cruelty is the point.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

Trump, Musk, and Republicans’ efforts to dismantle our Social Security means families have to wonder how they will pay for loved ones' housing.

People pay into Social Security their ENTIRE lives — and it needs to be there for us when we retire.

The Democrat’s top line ad theme for the midterms…

Big Bird Fights Back This is the second night in a row that I’ve had a piece run longer than usual.

Lots of legal news this week, so easy to miss that NPR has filed a lawsuit against Trump. Protecting the 1st Am & the balance of power among the 3 branches of gov't is a big deal right now & it's all happening here. joycevance.substack.com/p/big-bird-f...

Donald Trump has been lying to you. He said his immigration crackdowns would only go after the “worst of the worst,” but he’s deporting people with legal status and even U.S. citizen children with cancer.

Hands off our immigrant families. We won’t back down.

Alabama worker says ICE dragged him from job despite being US citizen: ‘Color of our skin has become a crime’ He said when he tried to record the incident, the agents knocked his phone out of his hand.

“A construction worker in south Alabama says he was forcibly detained Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who claimed his proof of U.S. citizenship was fake.” www.al.com/news/mobile/...