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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 04, 2022 – Finished My 1st SilverSneakers’ Online Live 45 Minute Yoga Class!
Earlier today ( Sunday ) I fully completed my 1st 45 minute class anywhere since I somehow brought on a now 4 month running case of planters fasciitis! Even if their 15 stretch classes are still my best bet for now, lol! I’ve progressed from store bought orthotics ( 2 variations ) to….
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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 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 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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March 12, 2022 – Adan’s #ArtPoems / #PhotoPoems : Dome of Light
Dome of Light Amid the waves of gold speckled blues cresting foam and dancing white –
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March 11, 2022 – New 12×24 Inch #Acrylic #PaletteKnife #AbstractArt Upload @FineArtAmerica – Turquoise Impressionist Abstract 1
I love this color between blue and green, and am so glad I finally produced a fairly colorful ( considering the general monotone ) rendition with “lots” of density and textural variation.
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March 10, 2022 – The Drought is Broken : 12×18 Lou Neff Austin Signed Print Sold at The Old Bakery and Emporium (across from the State Capital) Austin, Texas
Sometimes, like when recovering from an illness, and one feels a lifting of a debilitating fever, with a coolness that refreshes and not overwhelms, the sale of one print, after months of nothing, provides a lift to one’s spirits and steps as good as selling a painting when all seems it’ll always be thus 🙏…
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March 09, 2022 – Art Review / Reblog : 2 Women Artists I Know ( virtually ) Having Live Shows Right Now, in England ( Margaret Hall ) and California ( Tiffany Arp Daleo )
Sure, it’da been nicer posting this on March 08, 2022, on International Women’s Day – but, if I can’t atone just because I’m late, well…my momma didn’t teach me that’d be a good enough excuse not to celebrate a little late anyway ❤️ 😊 Margaret Hall and Tiffany Arp Daleo are long time innovators and…
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All physical & other locations where a viewer can see my work live, with sample paintings included, are listed below and updated regularly.
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March 07, 2022 – 2nd Week in a Row, My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, Blue with Gold Twilight – #Panorama
2nd 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 also means free shipping within the Continental US 😊
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March 06, 2022 – Art Fun! Yesterday @ Austin’s Art for the People Gallery!
Though no immediate sales, I came away from yesterday’s 2 hour Art Fun event at Art for the People Gallery here in Austin convinced I’m not only on the right track personally for myself as an artist, but for attracting the type attention that might very well lead to sales. For my 1st foray into…
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March 05, 2022 – At Art for the People Gallery Today 2-4pm! !
Blasting through many chores, I’ll simply post my 4 paintings below I’ll have available to show and talk about and offer for sale at Art for the People gallery here in Austin today. This post will be listed on both Instagram & Facebook. I should also mention Twitter & Pinterest, but I do that so…
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March 04, 2022 – Where Can You See and Buy My Art? Update, Mother and Child, at Cypress Grill, Extended Into Early April!
Where Can You See and Buy My Art? Update, Mother and Child, at Cypress Grill, Extended Into Early April!
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March 03, 2022 – Where Can You See and Buy My Art? Update, Added New Images for Old Bakery & Emporium
Where Can You See and Buy My Art? Update, Added: Added New Images for Old Bakery & Emporium
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March 02, 2022 – Where Can You See and Buy My Art? Update, Added: Art for the People Gallery + Creative Arts Society 2022 Online Spring Market
Where Can You See and Buy My Art? Update, Added: Art for the People Gallery + Creative Arts Society 2022 Online Spring Market
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March 01, 2022 – Proofing My Info for Creative Art Society’s 2022 Spring Online Market
Received my confirmation ( and request to confirm info ) from Austin’s Creative Arts Society, along with some neat PR material and preview look 😊 Looks like there’ll be about….
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February 28, 2022 – Where Can You See and Buy My Art? : I’m Setting Up a New Page!
I’ve tinkered and tankered how to best accomplish where and what and how interested folks can see and buy my original art work, and this is the beginning prototype. I’ll be adding ( hopefully ) almost daily, until I have the format and listings I want – then, I’ll ( also hopefully 😊) copy my…
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February 27, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, Blue with Gold Twilight – New 10×20 #Panoramic #Abstract #AcrylicPainting
I rushed getting Blue with Gold Twilight uploaded to Fine Art America because I’d also submitted it to Creative Art Society here in Austin for their online market. Considering I’d just painted it, I guess it was all a rush, lol! But I hadn’t painted it with the above online market in mind, it just…
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February 26, 2022 – Adan’s #ArtPoems / #PhotoPoems : The Wings of Life Form From the Sky
Pink with Maroon Landscape and Bird is a rare painted-in-one-go art work. There was nothing I felt I could add, including fill in the upper 2/3s right. I saw the mountain-like peak in the middle top right away, then the bird’s head to its right. Then gradually, I began to see the….










































