Kathy Brinkley and her son, Jared Brinkley, have never seen a field of bluebonnets in bloom. Nor did they know that bluebonnet paintings were a thing. That’s right, they’re not from Texas. (Apologies ...

Warming March weather and Texas sunshine mean one thing for scores of amateur oil painters in Central Texas: It’s time for a dab of ultramarine blue mixed with cerulean blue, topped off with a dot of ...

Bluebonnet paintings offer a sweetly fractured view of Texas history. Just for example: When legislators were deciding whether the cactus flower, the cotton boll or the bluebonnet should be the state ...