Arts
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May 12, 2022 – Updated My #Twitter Header Image and Pinned Tweet
Though Twitter’s future is up in the air, or ether, or virtual landscape; and my own “footprint” there and social media in general is micro-whatever, lol! — it’s still my micro existence, and I want to care for it best I can 😊
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May 11, 2022 – Reblog / Review : Joan Mitchell, “I carry my landscapes around with me” – #Polyptychs
…my reading of Joan Mitchell’s work – while often including much of that same connection, speaks more directly to me about the impact of the canvas before me in that process. Especially most specifically in regard to Joan’s work with multi-panel / multi-canvas works of art – ie, polyptychs!
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May 10, 2022 – BW Impressionist Abstract 1, Completed!
A few posts back, about a new diptych in-progress, Freedom, in the 2nd 1/2 of the post, I mentioned having another in-progress work, BW Impressionist Abstract 1, that the 9 year old ( our youngest grandchild ) said he really liked, but wanted more “gold” in it, and pointed out where & how much more…
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May 09, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, 2nd Time This Year My Top 3 Most Viewed Images Are Photographs!
Part of what I find fascinating about this posting’s top 3 viewed of my images at Fine Art America, is that all 3 are BW, or mostly so! As fascinating is I’ve also had a series of intermittent paintings of featuring mostly dark tones, even some with gold tones, like as seen in Bridge into…
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May 07, 2022 – New Diptych : Freedom, 1st Inlay
Continuing yesterday’s them of simplicity – some days simple being good 😊 – I decided to try a simplified polyptych, a two panel diptych with minimal over-all imagery, though of course open to extended nuancing of some or any portion of the the color fields.
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May 05, 2022 – New 22×28 Inch #Acrylic #AbstractArt Upload @FineArtAmerica – “Spring Rising”
At 22×28 inches, canvas on stretcher bars, Spring Rising is one of my relatively larger abstract works so far, not counting my multi-canvas panel abstracts, or polyptychs as I’ve found out they’re also called.
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May 04, 2022 – “Spring Begins” 22×28 #AcrylicPainting, Touched Up, Signed & Finished!
Feeling a bit better again today ( Tues, May 03, 2022 ) I finished touching up a new 22×28 acrylic on stretched canvas – Spring Begins, even if it did feel like 1st day of Summer! 😊
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May 03, 2022 – New Pinned Tweet #Twitter, Image: #Dawn @PrimalGallery
‘Tween naps and 1 exercise set today, did update my Twitter pinned tweet. Hopefully update the image for Primal Gallery’s Grand Opening May 21st with other of my images there ❤️😊
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May 02, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, Walking With the Stars, #FigureArt #Surreal
Walking With the Stars has been a slow journey of discovery and development since early January this year ( 2022 )
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May 01, 2022 – Slept a Lot, Painted a Little, Getting Better! #AgingGracefully
A sleepy multi-nap afternoon, one 15 minute exercise early, and a touch of painting was my day, lol!
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April 29, 2022 – 3rd Lay-in for New #AcrylicDiptych, Formerly Titled “Seeing” and Now Titled “Eyes of the Universe”
I like to read biographies of artists – Joan Mitchell Lady Painter, Helen Frankenthaler Fierce Pose, Monet – not so much for techniques any more, but for how they thought creatively. What they struggled with, what excited them and meant something dear to them.
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April 28, 2022 – Sometimes It’s Great To Come Across Another Artist’s Thoughts On Art When Worrying ’bout My Own, #Monet
I like to read biographies of artists – Joan Mitchell Lady Painter, Helen Frankenthaler Fierce Pose, Monet – not so much for techniques any more, but for how they thought creatively. What they struggled with, what excited them and meant something dear to them.
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April 27, 2022 – Aging Gracefully : Finding a Blogging Solution When My Days Are ( mostly ) Spent Exercising, Painting and Relaxing with Sheila
When I was younger, say even a 11 years ago when I started this blog, I had enough energy there really wasn’t a question of “enough time” or “energy” – I simply, correctly, assumed I’d be able to squeeze in the time to do all the things I wanted or felt I needed to do.
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April 25, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, A Blush of Spring, #Watercolor
There’s a reason A Blush of Spring is my most viewed again, even after just over a year since last “most viewed” on Fine Art America. Once it reappeared as prints at a variety of locations, it has once again captured the attention of viewers & buyers 🙏 ☺️
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April 23, 2022 – Updated My “See and Buy My Art” Page to Include Primal Gallery in Dripping Springs, Texas
Today ( Friday, April 22 ) has been a long day of chores, but I did do a lay-in for a potential new yellow abstract ( I say potential ’cause I’m not as sure as usual where this one’s going, lol! ) – and – updated my See and Buy My Art page / post…
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April 22, 2022 – Delivering More New Art to Primal Gallery in Dripping Springs (west of Austin) – a New Diptych ( #Dawn ) + Prints
Joe ( Joseph Lednicky ), the owner (who is evidently literally building this gallery from the ground up, expressed interest in also seeing / carrying some of my prints, plus seeing my newest multi-panel work, Dawn, live – so I very happily obliged 😊
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April 21, 2022 – Delivering New Art to Primal Gallery in Dripping Springs (west of Austin)
An artist friend of mine who worked in The Old Bakery & Emporium for a long time and recently retired to do more art, Kay Hughes, told me about this new gallery opening up in the near Hill Country west of Austin – Primal Gallery!
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April 20, 2022 – Started a New Diptych : Dawn, Declaring It Done
Working on this painting this morning, adding varying depths of blue and black, here and there, in crevices and ridges and along the edges of textured matte expanses, I felt very strongly trying to force in any degree of red, or even pink, would just not work for me.
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April 19, 2022 – Started a New Diptych : Dawn ( or Desire at Dawn ), 1st 2 In-lays
…about this new in-progress work : It’s tentatively titled Dawn, or Desire at Dawn – if I figure out how to work in some red or pink in a way I’d like, with the feeling of the beginnings of something, like embers; maybe suggestive of those kindling moments before one is fully aware – then…
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April 18, 2022 – Birth of an Atom, New Acrylic Diptych, Part 2 ( now finished! )
I debated strengthening the dark passages on the left side panel to more closely match the right panel, but decided an arbitrary balancing, vs an asymetrical wave motion across the 2 pieces, would hurt the full image more than help. As a libra I tend to want to balance, over-balance at times, everything, lol!
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April 17, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, a Tie! #Photography & #Watercolor : Austin Pink Sunset & Mother and Child!
So very different, my top 2, one dark & one light, photo & acrylic, yet – with their soft pinks and sense of rest and peaceful nurturing, so very much alike! Plus, I think this is only my 2nd or so tie for most viewed among my top 12….
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April 16, 2022 – New & Re-Stock Prints at The Old Bakery and Emporium (across from the State Capital) Austin, Texas
While the signed print is an impressive 12×18 ( $22 ), the 6×9 original ( $99 ) on 300 lb paper is a sparkle beyond imagination I’m very blessed to have created 🙏
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April 15, 2022 – “A Day Within a Mountain Road of Days” : #NationalPoetryMonth
Wasn’t much a different day than many recent days surrounding me like fog filling both my ears from hearing past or future.
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April 14, 2022 – Birth of an Atom, New Acrylic Diptych ( almost finished! )
Using my last pair ( I think I have one black gesso panel left ) I had on / off fun between chores working up Birth of an Atom. Paint is slashed here and there across between the 2, sometimes seamlessly, sometimes….
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April 13, 2022 – Neon Lady Accepted at #ArtForThePeopleGallery for New Show!
I’m very pleased to have a new work available at Art for the People Gallery here in Austin! Neon Lady has a funky yet very sensuous aura that speaks to the joy we can feel and express through movement….
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April 12, 2022 – New 16×20 Inch #Acrylic #FigureArt Upload @FineArtAmerica – Neon Lady
16×20, acrylic on stretched canvas, here shown framed, Neon Lady, a work started late last year ( 2021 ) took me awhile to refine the edges of the figure, then develop / decide the colors expanding outward toward the edges.
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April 11, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, #Watercolor : Texas Hill Country November, circa 2020
What a treat to see one of my watercolors from late 2020 make it as most viewed at Fine Art America. As seen by my image below, quite a mix….
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April 10, 2022 – Dragon Dawn, New Acrylic Diptych
In yesterday’s post about my latest, if infrequent, ( print ) sale, I mentioned finishing up another polyptych, this a two-panel piece entitled, Dragon Dawn.
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April 09, 2022 – 12×18 Floating Butterfly Austin Signed Print Sold at The Old Bakery and Emporium (across from the State Capital) Austin, Texas
A small thing, but the kind of small thing that keeps hope afloat! 🙏 I’m very grateful the City of Austin has a place like the Old Bakery and Emporium, an 1800s preserved & renovated historical site that displaces the work of Austin area artists 50+ years young 😊
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April 07, 2022 – I Found This For My Mother’s Birthday : National Poetry Month
On what would have been my mom’s birthday today, I became aware of it also being National Poetry Month, and I thought – this fits. Feels right 💕
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April 05, 2022 – Experimenting With Polyptychs, Part 3 – Black Panel Diptychs
Though not able yet to paint ( time wise ) at the level I was working before ( chores, obligations, etc ) – I did squeak out a couple of new polyptychs, both diptych 2-panel pieces, each panel a 16×20 black canvas work.
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April 03, 2022 – 1st Time in a Long Time, My 3 Most Viewed Images this Past Week @FineArtAmerica are Photography!
A short stunned post for my most viewed this week on Fine Art America! My top 3 most viewed images are all photography, with only 5 of my top 12 paintings! So I’m left with a weird question….
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April 02, 2022 – Aging Gracefully : Flipping a Too-Full Day Into a Happy Ending
…a strangely continuing set of week long days overbrimming into each other….
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March 30, 2022 – Experimenting With Polyptychs, Part 2 – Separating, or Joining Panels While Painting : How Does it Affect My Creativity? Detail View : Cut and UnCut Panel Edges
Whether I’ll end up preferring single full canvas works, or multi-panel polyptychs, I honestly don’t know right now. My guess is, I’m gonna like keeping on doing both 😊
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March 29, 2022 – Experimenting With Polyptychs, Part 1 – Separating, or Joining Panels While Painting : How Does it Affect My Creativity?
I don’t have an answer for the title question yet, but I realized, if I wanted to explore that idea/question, I needed to start a blog post thread separate from my initiating blog post series when I 1st started exploring working with multiple canvas panels. I’m calling this new thread – Experimenting With Polyptychs, and…
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March 28, 2022 – Rearranging My “Art Room” at Home for a New Endeavor : Polyptychs, Part 7 – “Migration”
Evidently there’s many mysteries still lurking, glimmering, teasing, from the long shadows of our senior years ❤️ And if you’re a young’un, then just go with the flow & don’t worry about it. You’ll slow down enough one day to begin to catch glimpses of the magic we’re truly all made of 💕
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March 27, 2022 – 5th Week in a Row! My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, Blue with Gold Twilight – #Panorama
Blue with Gold Twilight — my small 10×20 lyrically abstract, now has an unprecedented 5th week straight as my most viewed image on my Fine Art America site!
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March 26, 2022 – Aging Gracefully : A Moment of Creativity ♥️
Blessed are the children, for they are us remembered, reminding us – we are still children also…. 💕
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March 25, 2022 – Another Difference Between Multi-Panel Art ( Polyptychs ) and Single Canvas Work : Working the Edges, on In-Progress “Red Blue on White”
Depending on which side by side panels you glance at, top before before I painted a change, and below being after, you can count at least 4-5 transition edges —
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March 23, 2022 – Reblog, Tiffany Arp-Daleo’s “Playing With Crimson” Juried Into Ashton Gallery’s Art Show “LIPSTICK & ROUGE” in San Diego, California!
Tiffany has a great post with lots of pics of the gallery, her husband and, of course, her art! Curious, I looked up Ashton Gallery and was very impressed with their space and approach to their local area original-art artists — “Buying art is like falling in love,” says Ashton….
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March 22, 2022 – Rearranging My “Art Room” at Home for a New Endeavor : Polyptychs, ie, Art on 2 or More Panels, Part 6 – Detail Texture Shots of Panel 1of4 ; Full Image Title “Mountains Clouds and Waves”
You can see in the above shot a mix of absorbent ground covered canvas showing through, plus numerous layers mostly palette knifed onto, into and around each other 😊
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March 21, 2022 – Rearranging My “Art Room” at Home for a New Endeavor : Polyptychs, ie, Art on 2 or More Panels, Part 5 – Signing the Backs of Each of 4 Panels
A reader recently commented they looked forward to seeing how I’d sign this new work, there being 4 panels 😊 This part of my signing, and the post about it, is the easier for me to do 1st because this is how I’ve signed the back of each of the 4 polyptych pieces. Signing the…
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March 20, 2022 – 4th Week in a Row! My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, Blue with Gold Twilight – #Panorama
Blue with Gold Twilight — a possibly unprecedented ( for me ) 4th week running as my most viewed image on my Fine Art America site! Blue with Gold Twilight is also available via Creative Art Society (CAS) here in Austin on their online art market. Purchasing through CAS also means free shipping within the…
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March 19, 2022 – SXSW – 2008 and 2014 Memories : Pictures and Poem
Well, we were definitely younger then, lol! But I think if we went to the right events nowadays, we’d have just as much fun 😊
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March 18, 2022 – Rearranging My “Art Room” at Home for a New Endeavor : Polyptychs, ie, Art on 2 or More Panels, Part 4 – Something New I Didn’t Expect Painting Across 4 Panels!
I think I’ve finished my new painting – “Mountains, Clouds and Waves” – except for the placement(s) of my signature(s) and I’ll do that in probably the next (and final) post (I think, lol!) in this mini series. What I do want to speak to just a bit – because it now seems so obvious…
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March 17, 2022 – Spinning My Wheels and Getting a Few Things Done Anyways, lol!
Worked on my 4th inlay for my most recent experiment, painting a 4 panel polyptych, but didn’t catch an image while the light was good. Spent over an hour trying to “adjust” the various dull-light captures to better match the painting and failed. Did though, update my….
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March 16, 2022 – Rearranging My “Art Room” at Home for a New Endeavor : Polyptychs, ie, Art on 2 or More Panels, Part 3 – Getting Some Answers
Still a bit more to go, but I’m clarifying to myself 😊 the direction and feeling I want this new more-complex-abstract-than-usual work to go. I’ve definitely chosen to rebalance the 4 panels in favor of the left 2 panels’ lighter balance of swooshes of colors.
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March 15, 2022 – Rearranging My “Art Room” at Home for a New Endeavor : Polyptychs, ie, Art on 2 or More Panels, Part 2
You might be able to tell some of the changes so far on this 4 panel piece painting from the previous day’s shot of the same work from a distance in my still-emerging new set up for my art room, lol!
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March 14, 2022 – Rearranging My “Art Room” at Home for a New Endeavor : Polyptychs, ie, Art on 2 or More Panels, Part 1
I seem to be on an unintended rush to catch up with an equally unintended rash of new paintings I’ve been creating since late last year, and decided, under pressure of not being able to move in the smaller 2nd bedroom in our apartment I call my “art room” 😊
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March 13, 2022 – 3rd Week in a Row! My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, Blue with Gold Twilight – #Panorama
3rd week running, most viewed on my Fine Art America page, Blue with Gold Twilight is also available via Creative Art Society (CAS) here in Austin on their online art market. Purchasing through CAS also means free shipping within the Continental US 😊
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