Arts Area
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October 10, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, 2nd Week Running, “Walking With the Stars Poster” : circa 2022
Wow! My poster version of “Walking with the Stars” appeared as my most viewed image of the week at Fine Art America for the 2nd week in a row!! 😊
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October 02, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Walking With the Stars Poster” : circa 2022
Especially nice for to see my poster version of “Walking with the Stars” appear as my most viewed image of the week at Fine Art America 😊
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September 28, 2022 – Working Texture and Figures into Compositions I Like, Part 6 : Adding a 5th ( scumbled ) Layer to Danseur en Bleu ( formerly Dancing Turquoise )
I don’t want to forget, souls and spirits that we may be, we are also of and from the Earth we stand upon ❤️
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September 25, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Walk Among the Wildflowers” : circa 2020
I’m hoping to catch the deadline to submit it to a new-to-me Austin venue, Bee Caves Arts Foundation. Do wish me luck. It’d be a great add-on to its being my most viewed on Fine Art America this past week 😊🙏
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September 21, 2022 – Working Texture and Figures into Compositions I Like, Part 5 : Adding a 4th ( textured ) Layer to Danseur en Bleu ( formerly Dancing Turquoise )
Much enhanced less subtle, but more vibrant, the current stage of development for Danseur en Bleu is nearing a finish.
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September 19, 2022 – Working Texture and Figures into Compositions I Like, Part 4 : Adding a 3rd ( pink ) Layer to Danseur en Bleu ( formerly Dancing Turquoise )
I only painted a few minutes, ten or so, after mixing matte gel medium and a touch of acrylic rose, and I could only do it because I’m hopeful!
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September 18, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Time at the Musee d’Orsay ” : circa 2012
Just a month ago Time at the Musee d’Orsay suddenly popped up as my most viewed, and here it is again! Maybe that means we’ll make it back to Paris eventually after all, lol!
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September 16, 2022 – “Blue with Gold Twilight” and “Pink with Maroon Landscape and Bird” in New #CreativeArtsSociety Juried Art Show at Riverbend Church!
Just got word today two of my 10×20 gallery wrap acrylics have been juried into a show I’ve never done with Creative Arts Society before, at Riverbend Church’s “Inspirational Gallery” in Austin’s western side – yes, hills! 😊
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September 14, 2022 – Adan’s #ArtPoems / #PhotoPoems : Faith in a Safe Return
Sometimes when i haven’t been able to paint or photo shoot, or even exercise enough to forget I haven’t been creative, a beguilingly simple poem to one of my own art works does the trick 🙏☺️
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September 11, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “SRV Statue Night” : circa 2017
Such a surprise! I didn’t even have “SRV Statue BW with Austin Skyline” in my media photos here on Wordpress, but now I do! 😊
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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 12, 2022 – Texas TOD ( Tourist Orientated Designation ) Sign Go-Fund-Me for #PrimalGalleryDS
Expanding on yesterday’s post, there’s a well-deserved much-needed Go Fund Me for a gallery I’m showing in – Primal Gallery! Joe the owner literally built his gallery from the ground up….
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August 11, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Riding the Tide of a Busy Day
Had wanted to write about a well-deserved much-needed Go Fund Me for a gallery I’m showing in ( Primal Gallery ), but….
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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 11, 2022 – Austin Texas Heat Wave Continues
I realize there are worse heat affected places in the world, with folks with less resources than Sheila and I are ( for now ) fortunate to have at this point, but if anyone is thinking of visiting or moving here, you gotta consider the heat.
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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 04, 2022 – Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸
Very little to say and so much to feel and think about this great country of ours.
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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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July 01, 2022 – Our First Pigeon at Our New Place Shows Up for Food, Atop Our New Ivy Screen
Sheila and I’ve gotten to experience several 1st’s since moving into The LadyBird here in Austin, so it was specially nice when two 1st’s joined to make a memorable image through our window –
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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 29, 2022 – Someone Very Glad to See Us Today!
As per yesterday, still very exhausted feeling, but Sheila & I both beginning to also feel the move-fatigue to our new place is slowly being replaced by relief fatigue….
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June 28, 2022 – Record # of 100 Degree Days in June. Then it Rained….
This evening ( Monday, June 27, 2022 ) here in Austin, we broke the all-time record for number of days 100 degrees or more – and – the clouds and rain and cooler air swept through and we dared open the blinds and step outside before 10 pm, lol!
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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 26, 2022 – Sending Me Memories : A Grandchild in #Paris
I know that look, I know that stance, and I know that view 💕 Our youngest grandchild and his mom are spending a few days in Paris, and who can’t resist making a stop at the Louvre? I know Sheila and I couldn’t when we were there, lol!
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June 25, 2022 – Aging Gracefully : A Spot of Oasis in My Life From the Heat Outside
Though we again went out in the morning for chores, and held them down to groceries and some exercise, the heat finally got to me today.
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June 24, 2022 – Aging Gracefully : Doing Chores, Exercises, Eating Well and Hanging in There in 100+ Degree Heat
It’s a minute to ten, past my bedtime for all practical purposes, lol! But had to get this short post out so ya’ll will know us 70+ year olds ( wife & I ) are – so far – successfully pacing through a 2nd month of all time record high temps here in Austin.
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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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