Arts
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September 06, 2022 – Pacing Myself to My September 8th Operation on My Breathing Channels – Ordering Meds, Gathering Supplies, Exercising Slowly But Strongly
Yesterday, Labor Day, time got away from us, mixing down time watching Morse, the late 80’s predecessor to Masterpieces’ equally engaging Endeavor, plus finalizing forms for our before-dawn checkin for surgery.
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September 04, 2022 – Pacing Myself to My September 8th Operation on My Breathing Channels
My 2 surgeons are very experienced in reconstructing airways at all levels of complexity ( including my age ) and I’ve been diligent as I can pre-habiltating ( vs only rehabilitating )….
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August 27, 2022 – Adan’s #ArtPoems / #PhotoPoems : Cosmic Pink
Swirls of pinks In spaces deep and shallow Begs the question….
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August 21, 2022 – Working Texture and Figures into Compositions I Like, Part 3 : Finally Adding a 2nd Layer to Danseur en Bleu ( formerly Dancing Turquoise )
It’s been since July 08, 2022 since I first posted about this work-in-progress, and it’s actually was begun late June with the pencil sketch of the woman dancing! Here’s a comparison with the 1st actual painting lay-in from early July —
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August 19, 2022 – “Fantasy Walk” and “Walking in Light” in New Juried Art Show at Inspired Mind Art Center!
The show overall has a great selection! Here’s a small sampling, with photos of the show from fellow Austin artist, Leslie Kell
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August 14, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Time at the Musee d’Orsay” : circa 2012
I would hope Sheila and I get to make at least one more wonderful extended trip to Paris 🙏 ❤️ 🇫🇷
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August 07, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week (again) @FineArtAmerica, “Walking in Light” : circa 2021
Having reappeared last week as my most viewed image on Fine Art America last week – after also being most viewed late last year ( 2021 ) – “Walking in Light” has again surfaced as my most viewed this 1st week of August 2022!
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August 05, 2022 – 2 Paintings Accepted for Juried Show at Inspired Minds Art Center, Buda Texas!!
…the bigger news is I’ve had two paintings, “Fantasy Walk” and “Walking in Light” accepted for a juried show at Inspired Minds At Center, sponsored by Creative Arts Society, opening later this month!
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August 04, 2022 – Delivered “Easy Stroll” to The Old Bakery and Emporium, Plus Poster of “Blue with Gold Twilight”
Yesterday’s post proved a good omen, as I did manage to frame & wire and have my framed original accepted for display at the Old Bakery and Emporium here in downtown Austin across from the State Capital!
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August 03, 2022 – Hoping to Deliver “Easy Stroll” to The Old Bakery and Emporium Tomorrow
Today I delivered the poster of Easy Stroll to the Old Bakery & Emporium, had a nice talk with one of the folks there about the image, and decided maybe I should try the original there too!
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July 31, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Walking in Light” : circa 2021
Immediately popular since completing this work in 2021, Walking in Light is still drawing attention and, at this point, still available, lol!
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July 27, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Fading Sunset #AustinTexas + The #BrokenwoodMysteries!
After watching the latest Brokenwood Mysteries installment out of New Zealand with Sheila, I didn’t have much time for more than a quick shot of the last of today’s sunset, with temps finally just below 90 after another 102 degree day.
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July 24, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “A Yoga Teacher” : circa 2011
Though most of my gift writings / sayings were written with my wife in the early 90s, a few new ones have still come through since, with “A Yoga Teacher” being written in 2011 when I got my certification….
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July 17, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “The Bird Bath” : circa 2004
I’ve long loved this small 8×10 from the early 2000s, much more abstract-y than my then mostly impressionist work, but I do think it combined the two styles in a way that was not as common for me as it’s been the last few years….
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July 16, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Downloading Last Year’s Photos, and Discovering Memories
There’s often a space, often noticed, where life is more like what you’d like it to be ❤️
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July 15, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Finding Peace Under the Crushing Weight of Today’s Times
There’s often a space, often noticed, where life is more like what you’d like it to be ❤️
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July 14, 2022 – Sold! Center Watercolor, Pink Blue Garden circa 2020, at The Old Bakery and Emporium #AustinTexas
I was happy to discover today that one of my 3 floral 8×10 acrylics at The Old Bakery & Emporium had sold! 🙏 😊
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July 13, 2022 – Parial Review : Marry Me, with Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson – 5 Happy Stars and Counting!!!
The trailer had us cracking up laughing, and the movie has us both loving and feeling tender moments for the children involved in the film —
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July 10, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Flowering at Dawn” : circa 2020
One of my earliest and favorite of my 6×6 inch gallery wrap blocks of watercolor on Golden’s Absorbent Ground! Flowering at Dawn is still a mystery to me….
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July 08, 2022 – Working Texture and Figures into Compositions I Like, Part 2 : Comparing Figure Outlines
It’s nearly ten, time for bed, but I want to follow-up on yesterday’s post showing my newest figure work in-progress, and continue the comparison to figure work since late last year and from right before our move beginning of summer ( 2022 ).
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July 07, 2022 – Working Texture and Figures into Compositions I Like, Part 1 : Using a Full Figure Outline
Today I came closest to my full exercise schedule before our move to our new apartment, and yes, it wore me out, lol! But in a good way 😊 Still, it’s past 8:30 pm, and I almost didn’t get any painting in, but thankfully, did do a bit of in-lay texture dabbling ( not shown…
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July 06, 2022 – Nice News! Accepted to the Bethany Lutheran Annual Marketplace Craft Fair in November!
Sheila and I’ve gone to this grand art and craft marketplace in south Austin since the now-9-year old was a toddler….
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July 05, 2022 – Small But Welcome 4th of July Celebrations from Our New Location at #TheLadyBird #AustinTexas
That I’m running late with today’s blog post is a bit of an understatement, it being 1/2 past 11 and nearly Wednesday! But Sheila and I stayed up late a bit, enjoying peeks of fireworks and seeing folks enjoying being able to ( mostly, but not everywhere : Chicago parade shooting ) be out –
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July 03, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “We Are the United States of America” : circa 2016 #DigitalPoster
Ironic, or simply apropos, seeing as tomorrow is the 4th of July, America’s anniversary birthday, my poster from 2016, “We Are the United States of America” was most viewed this past week on Fine Art America ❤️
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July 02, 2022 – #CrescentMoon at Sunset, Austin Texas
I hoped, in yesterday’s post, I might be able to post this sunset off our balcony – a crescent moon floating above the sea of crimson orange air – and am so glad I could 🙏
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June 30, 2022 – My Art and Prints on Special Sale At Primal Gallery 4th of July Weekend!
Primal Gallery 4th of July sale! Including both my art work and posters 😊
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June 27, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Morning Light in Barton Springs Greenbelt, Austin Poster” ( circa 2021 ) #AustinTexas #AustinPhotography
Last week my most viewed image on Fine Art America was an Austin sunset image ( circa 2017 ) and this week a recent 2021 early am summer shot, “Morning Light in Barton Springs Greenbelt, Austin Poster” – an image I captured in the greenbelt on the Violet Crown trail 😊
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June 23, 2022 – El Marisquero Seafood – 1st Time Eating Outside in a Texas Summer in Decades! #FoodTruck #EastAustin
Though I definitely can’t make it a habit, having a great tasting lunch break “outside” in the middle of the day in 100+ degree weather here in Austin was more than bearable – actually a pleasure!
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June 22, 2022 – New! – Walking in Light Poster
With our move to our new apt home done except for the sorting and placements, and Sheila and I are tiptoeing back into doing some exercise sets via SilverSneakers’ live Zoom class options, I’m finally beginning to post the few posters I’d gotten to work on before moving became a full time job, lol!
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June 21, 2022 – New! – Easy Stroll Poster
Today ( Monday ) is our 1st full day in our new apt, and even with all the sorting & choosing of what will go where ( and what really must be stored, chunked or donated ) I eked out enough time to finally upload a poster version of Easy Stroll, one of my favorite…
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June 20, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Butler Park Sunset Silhouette Vertical” ( circa 2017 ) #AustinTexas #AustinPhotography
In-between my original art work, I’ve become used to seeing one of my photos appear as my most viewed for the week on Fine Art America, but “Butler Park Sunset Silhouette” – a detail crop, from a full length shot here in Austin, is from 5 years ago! ( 2017 )
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June 18, 2022 – A Little Art Project While Not Being Able to Paint During Our Move to #TheLadyBird #AustinTexas
Obviously, as per my recent posts about moving to our new locale at The LadyBird, I’ve been stretched for time and energy. Moving in one’s 70s is no fun task, though Sheila and I are relishing our new location more and more as we near completing our transition.
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June 13, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Blue with Gold Twilight Poster”
Barely released to Fine Art America ( FAA ) last week, Blue with Gold Twilight Poster jumped easily to most viewed for the week! Maybe not so surprising, since the original acrylic on stretched canvas itself was most viewed FIVE weeks running when 1st uploaded to FAA!!
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June 08, 2022 – Preparing and Delivering New Poster Prints for #PrimalGalleryDS West of Austin
Here then are some of my posters already available at Primal Gallery, and those already formatted and being prepared for sale there also 😊
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June 05, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Walking With the Stars Poster”
Nice to write this post today ( Saturday ) for tomorrow, showcasing my most viewed image at Fine Art America for a week recently – and – deliver prints of this poster to Primal Gallery near Dripping Springs ( just west of Austin ).
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June 04, 2022 – New Poster Design for “Walking With the Stars” @FineArtAmerica
Tomorrow ( Saturday ) I’ll be taking copies of these, plus some other new posters, to Primal Gallery just west of us here in Austin & gotta go early ’cause of both the weekend traffic and near or above 100 degree temps, whew! 😊
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June 02, 2022 – “Morning’s Promise” : Completed, After 2 Days of Finishing Touches
A different kind of textural experiment for me, as most the painting’s pigments were laid in with generous amounts of either transparent white acrylic, heavy matte gel acrylic or both. With sprinkles of marble dust here and there 😊
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June 01, 2022 – New, My Art With Digital Mat Design Poster @FineArtAmerica – “Blue with Gold Twilight Poster”
It’s in the swirls and mixes that the most of life gains its beauty.
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May 31, 2022 – Working My Art Slowly Since #Uvalde – “Morning’s Promise” Still In-Progress, Feels Close to Finished
There is a persistence in hope, and if we are to live a life worth living, it seems we must persist, we must hope – and – we must act.
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May 29, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, Repeat Most Viewed – “Austin Pink Sunset”
Wonderful, iconic, and a favored memory of rushing down along the banks of Lady Bird Lake between the old railroad bridge and the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge, I captured 3 images all total, from….
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May 28, 2022 – Sheila & I Attended 2 Gallery Openings Saturday! Stop #2 #AustinArtSpace in North Central Austin
…we were ready to ease down to an old familiar location having their 1st open-art-call opening and show since before the pandemic – AVAA’s Austin Art Space!
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May 24, 2022 – Sheila & I Attended 2 Gallery Openings Saturday! Stop #1 #PrimalGalleryDS West of Austin
A from-the-ground-up creation of Primal Gallery owner Joe Lednicky, the atmosphere was hopeful while conversations bubbled and rolled round the large interior.
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May 23, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Walk Among the Wildflowers” #Watercolor #panorama
Painted in 2020 right at the 2 year mark ( A Walk Among the WildFlowers – New Watercolor on Absorbent Ground, May 2020 ), this small panoramic watercolor has returned for another most viewed week; it’s previous most viewed week about a year ago! There must be an anniversary-thing involved in all this, lol!
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May 22, 2022 – Sheila & I Attended 2 Gallery Openings Saturday! #PrimalGalleryDS #AustinArtSpace
Art is definitely a way of life – but it also definitely can make life more fun! 😊
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May 21, 2022 – Sheila & I Are Attending 2 Gallery Openings Today! #PrimalGalleryDS #AustinArtSpace
Sheila and I are off to a busy fun art-openings day that include some of my art at two local galleries today – AVAA’s Austin Art Space, and Primal Gallery in nearby Dripping Springs!
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May 20, 2022 – Will My New #Austin #Photography Poster, Morning Light in Barton Springs Greenbelt, Join My Austin Pink Sunset Photo and Lou Neff Digital Art Poster in Sales?
The question itself, whether Morning Light in Barton Springs Greenbelt will match or join my currently selling best prints, is a question more of hope and companionship for my image of a truly usually bright spot in Austin, the system of greenbelts preserving the water that makes living here even possible ❤️
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May 17, 2022 – I Have a Lot of Happenings ( art & personal ) This Week, But Still Finding Moments To Start a New Painting : Morning’s Promise
It’s nice to dance the surface of my canvas as needed. And able ☺️ And right now, a light step, at an easy pace, may give me the time – and energy – to get more than a handful of other needed things also done this week. Not a bad compromise. For now 😊
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May 16, 2022 – New Diptych : “Freedom” Almost Finished, Panels Need Signing ( front & back )
And what I’ve come across figuring out how to make prints of this that folks can work with, ie, close to or within standard size dimensions, was how to get a 22×28 image convert into – in 2 examples – an 8×10 or 12×18, and I came up with this as a starting prototype….
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May 15, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Spring Rising”
I’d done a lot of deep or darker night-like paintings for a bit, so it felt pretty nice to lighten up my palette for awhile. Working back & forth, from the two approaches – playing the potential good from both approaches seems to suit my Libra middle, lol!
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May 13, 2022 – “Angel” in AVAA’s 1st Austin Art Space Gallery and Studio Group Show in a Long Time!
Just a very quick post to announce that my 18×24 inch acrylic on stretched canvas, Angel – has been accepted into Austin Visual Arts Association’s ( AVAA) 1st group show since ( I believe ) the pandemic. Definitely been a long time coming and feels great to be able to be showing with this long…
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