
My Yesterday in Pictures Format
Iāve simply built my daily walking & painting up to the point where I need the time for these two vital parts of keeping me healthy and/or sane, lol!
Plus, instead of having to work images into the My Day Ahead series posts, this new series will enable me to keep those as pure text, and supplement with images from a variety of possibilities here. Itās an experiment of course, so weāll see š
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Wish Iād taken a shot of the display of carnival squash before theyād been sold, lol! But there was still a really nice variety Sunday morning. I got one of the last of the carnival variety though! Maybe more next week š
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Experimenting with Acrylic Paints

Continuing my acrylic experimental painting (previous stages chronicled in recent My Yesterday in Pictures posts), I took one of the blooms in basic lay-in of being in light (vs the shadowed background) and micro-sized my shadow-light lay-in to the upper right bloom. Itās still very basic, but Iām pleased with the way I can shade (or lighten) an area w/acrylic, just simply touch-coloring over the dried previous color.
Luckily, my more textured initial lay-in shaping of the blooms using marble dust in my paint has left wonderful ridges of guidelines for my edges!

Blending vs using oils, for me anyway, is totally different w/acrylic, as I can āmixā a wet color into a dry one, but, I can stumble it, which I like anyway for itās effect of uneven dappled-like light.
Here again, my Fredrix marble dust paint mixture for the center of the blooms really helped me in my color-dabbing to simulate the real flowerās texture.
Itāll be interesting too ā way later on it seems, the speed Iām developing this painting, lol! ā to see how varnish will bring it the color nuances and sense of depth. Iāll definitely be using my recently purchased oil/acrylic-use Gambling Gamvar if I do varnish it ācause itās removable! Didnāt think thatād even be important to me til now, lol!
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Walking with Max

Max & family were back from a visit to the other grandparents and when we went by to say hello, Sheila & Iād just eaten so, yes, I needed to walk, lol! Max was raring to join me, probably cause it was such a gorgeous 1st day of December! It reminded me (I told my Vermont born wife) of a perfect gentle summer day back in her home state. That gave her a good laugh š She, way more than me, is aware how brutal their weather is there already, even compared to our unusually cold winter start here in Central Texas!

Even stopping for a rest, a six year old – if not konked out tired & asleep š – little ones are go go go! ā¤ļø
ps 1 – I did look up ākonked out vs conked outā & looks like theyāre both acceptable, sorta š Also found an interesting post re the termās origins! Fun stuff!
ps 2 – my afternoon walk w/Max was instrumental in my reaching 7500+ steps Sunday 1st time in a few days. I initially blamed the weather for the lapse, then the holidays, then my schedule of things to do (combo of desired & necessary), and finally settled on the need for recovery; the latter probably being the actual determining reason āŗļø
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Evening Walk

And finally, becoming one of my fav framed views from our balcony is the view down and through the upper hallway across from us. I had some great pics through there of the last of the fall colors, and now this, a beautifully lit night view almost as if done by an artist! Maybe it was ā„ļø
Hereās a little cleaner view below ā

Take care everyone! Watch out for beauty everywhere! š
Adan
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Love that photo of the squash!
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They really have lovely produce at Central Market ā¤ļø Thanks, Tiffany! š
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