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March 26, 2021 – We Received Our 2nd Covid Shots Yesterday!
It’s been a very long day, and a very long Covid year so to speak, but yesterday, Sheila and I drove to the north eastern hinterlands of Austin and got our 2nd Moderna Covid-19 vaccinations!
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March 25, 2021 – My Most Viewed Image This Week @FineArtAmerica, Gift Writing, “Jogger”
Jogger is my newest “most viewed” for a one week period at Fine Art America!
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The Brokenwood Mysteries Series, Music I Like – Tami Neilsen
3 YouTube videos of songs by Tami Neilson on AcornTV’s The Brokenwood Mysteries
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The Brokenwood Mysteries Series (Season) 7 World Premiere on Acorn TV is this Monday, March 29, 2021!
My wife, a decades long reader of TV Guide, saw something about a Series 7 (season 7 to us here in the US) premiering soon, very soon! In fact barely a week from now – March 29, 2021 (new episodes each Monday)!
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March 22, 2021 – Developing 2 New Art Projects, One a Butterfly Watercolor on Paper, the Other a Digital Gift Item Combo of Poetry, Line Art and Wash for #Jogger – Update 4 : “Sky on Fire Butterfly” Completed!
Final rendition for 2nd of 2 projects in this series of posts – Sky on Fire Butterfly #watercolor
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March 20, 2021 – Happy 1st Day of Spring! I Slept Late, Fed the Birds ( or Did They Feed Me? ), Pandemic Lunch with a Friend, Visited Family, oh, and Painted!
The Time Change and my wife and I have not started speaking yet. We don’t like the time change thing. And it’s not which 1/2 year version we prefer; no, just pick one….
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March 19, 2021 – Developing 2 New Art Projects, One a Butterfly Watercolor on Paper, the Other a Digital Gift Item Combo of Poetry, Line Art and Wash for #Jogger – Update 3 : Sky on Fire Butterfly “Almost” Finished!
I’m working on 2 projects back and forth, finding that right now I need the switch from one art form (digital) to another (watercolor). It helps me reset myself creatively, at least in this time frame….
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March 19, 2021 – My Most Viewed Image This Week @FineArtAmerica, Gift Writing, “Little Dancer”
It’s a particularly nice treat for me when something new I’m trying is the most viewed image on Fine Art America that week, and Little Dancer pranced its way to the top! ♥️
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March 18, 2021 – Developing 2 New Art Projects, One a Butterfly Watercolor on Paper, the Other a Digital Gift Item Combo of Poetry, Line Art and Wash for #Jogger – Update 2 : Jogger Completed!
I’m working on 2 projects back and forth, finding that right now I need the switch from one art form (digital) to another (watercolor). It helps me reset myself creatively, at least in this time frame….
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March 17, 2021 – Happy #StPatricksDay! My Father-in-Law’s Favorite Holiday!!
Though deceased, my wife’s dad happily live large in her heart and those who knew him ♥️
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March 17, 2021 – Developing 2 New Art Projects, One a Butterfly Watercolor on Paper, the Other a Digital Gift Item Combo of Poetry, Line Art and Wash for #Jogger – Update 1
I’m working on 2 projects back and forth, finding that right now I need the switch from one art form (digital) to another (watercolor). It helps me reset myself creatively, at least in this time frame….
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March 16, 2021 – Developing 2 New Art Projects, One a Butterfly Watercolor on Paper, the Other a Digital Gift Item Combo of Poetry, Line Art and Wash for #Jogger
I’m working on 2 projects back and forth, finding that right now I need the switch from one art form (digital) to another (watercolor). It helps me reset myself creatively, at least in this time frame….
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March 15, 2021 – Some Left Over Pi(e) #PiDay
Continuing on from yesterday’s post on having my Pi(e) and eating it too, some fun Pi tweets I saw last night before bed 😊
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March 14, 2021 – Can I Have My Pi(e) and Eat it Too! Yes I Can! On Happy #PiDay!
Besides also be Daylight Savings Day, jumping forward, sideways or such 😏 – it’s also Happy Pi Day!
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March 12, 2021 – Little Dancer Poster : Poetry, Line Art and Digital Wash
This is my 1st attempt combining these three elements in one digital file, creating a digital poster, and though I messed some things up and took longer than I expected, I’m very pleased with the result!
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March 11, 2021 – Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 26 – Rock Point North View, Uploaded 04.17.16
this stretch of blue beauty very near to where my wife grew up in Burlington was there, smiling, waiting for me to accept the fact it’s there. Calm. Reflective, variegated. And blessed with interest from foreground to background.
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March 10, 2021 – Confusion and Weariness With Mask Anarchy, LOL!
It’s barely 4 in the afternoon here in Austin but I feel like I’ve lived another week of another mass confusion and whiplash.
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March 09, 2021 – Spring is a Lady, My Newest Upload @FineArtAmerica
Like, A Blush of Spring, Spring is a Lady is painted with Arteza’s watercolor Real Brush Pens on Canson 140 lb watercolor paper. But Spring is a Lady is also like Floating Butterfly in that it’s a pen and ink with watercolor wash, the pen and ink coming via my Faber Castell Pitt Artist pens,…
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March 08, 2021 – New (Interim) CDC Guidelines for People Fully Vaccinated
This is an important update from the CDC today detailing their guidelines for fully vaccinated people – March 08, 2021
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March 08, 2021 – My Most Viewed Image This Week @FineArtAmerica, Watercolor, “A Blush of Spring”
Painted with Arteza’s watercolor Real Brush Pens on Canson 140 lb watercolor paper, this is a rare work where I followed my instincts, pressed too far, messed it, then trusted my instincts to “see what would happen” – and A Blush of Spring resulted!
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March 07, 2021 – Woke to This! Masks Now To Be Required to Grocery Shop at HEB, Randalls – Opinion, It’s the Right Thing To Do
Sheila came rushing in to the kitchen to ask me to guess who reversed their no-masks-required decision, and I jokingly “guessed” at several of our state’s leadership, but I was wrong anyway, lol! No, it’s more important than that actually – it’s where we shop to buy our food!
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March 07, 2021 – Dispatcher – Gift Writing / Poetry by Adan
Seeing how folks seemed to really like both previous posts, I’m following up with another well received work, Dispatcher.
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March 06, 2021 – A Yoga Teacher – Gift Writing / Poetry by Adan
Yesterday I posted about another of my gift writings, one that sold just recently, Volleyball Setter, and I thought I’d post a short note about another I’ve always liked – A Yoga Teacher.
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March 05, 2021 – Volleyball Setter Gallery Wrap Canvas Print SOLD @FineArtAmerica
“…pleased to say I’ve sold a gallery wrapped canvas print featured in one of my most viewed posts on my site, Volleyball Setter – Original Sports Poetry Back in Stock, to a buyer in Sturgis, Michigan!”
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March 04, 2021 – Masks in Grocery Stores in Austin – Back to Mask/Mass Confusion
All I feel I can really do is wish and pray for the safety of everyone in those stores without mandates, whether pro or con re the masks. If we’re in this together, we really need to act like we’re are in this together ♥️
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March 03, 2021 – Why We’re Only Shopping at Sprouts For Groceries (and a few others) Here in Austin For Now, Hint: Covid-19
“… for us to choose to voluntarily restrict ourselves to Sprouts, and a few other stores I’ll highlight hopefully tomorrow, is a big deal. Fixed incomes of the qualifying-for-most-any-level of stimulus cut-off-money work that way 😊 ”
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March 01, 2021 – Floating Butterfly 1 Pen and Ink with Watercolor – circa 2021 Watercolor – Adan’s PhotoPoems
“…wings spotted like the sun’s own face….”
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February 28, 2021 – My Most Viewed Image This Week @FineArtAmerica, Watercolor, “Charcoal Mountain”
Using one of Arteza’s black brush pens, it shows the pen’s exceptional ability to lay down thick and wash pigment (see image below). The thick nicely textured Canson XL watercolor paper of course helps too 😊
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February 24, 2021 – The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number I.2.1 – with Commentary
I’ve no real idea if this is common, a little common, or just plain uncommon, lol, to other artists.
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February 23, 2021 – Texas Hill Country November – circa 2021 Watercolor – Adan’s PhotoPoems
Though an abstract, I think one of the things I like best about Texas Hill Country November, is it captures a little of the sense of the authentic the Texas landscaped outside….
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February 16, 2021 – The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number I.1.2 – with Commentary
Already, at the beginning of the story, I shift from the contemplative metaphysical musings in my prev post to a suggestion of how the artist blends the language and methods of art with his love for this one woman 😊
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February 15, 2021 – The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number I.1.1 – with Commentary
“Maybe now, in my sixties, he thought, my days are like weeks now….”
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February 15, 2021 – Rowing With the Sun – circa 2021 Watercolor – Adan’s PhotoPoems
“The land itself rose on fire with the sun….”
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February 14, 2021 – The Weather in Austin May Affect My Posting, Just Not Sure How Yet 😏
Temperatures here in Austin are predicted to drop and stay around the temps Sheila and I experience in ’89 when we moved here from Galveston, ie, mid to low single digits. Records in this area going back to the 1800s put that at #4 on the all time lows list!
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February 10, 2021 – Reblog, Dr Mirkin’s “Can You Exercise Too Much?”
Dr Mirkin, “You recover by going at a slow pace for as long as it takes for your muscles to feel fresh again. There is no advantage to time-limiting your recoveries.”
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February 09, 2021 – Excuse My Mess, I’m Sprucing Up Posts While “Trying” My Hand at Aging Gracefully, ie, I Need to Rest a Bit
Okay, I’m finally gonna admit, I’ve been trying to do too much 😊
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February 08, 2021 – Surprise Weekend Visit from the Youngest Grandchild, Pics and Video!
It’s difficult indeed to describe how wonderful a silver lining it is that our remote schooled youngest grandchild (via Zoom etc) is realistically safest visiting and staying with us a couple days than so many other options!
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February 07, 2021 – Reblog: When Mittens United the World (hint: Bernie Sanders) via Be Kitschig
Well, honestly, Be Kitschig’s title and sample image speak it all – we know what my reblog of her blog post’s about, lol! Except that she’s got the best overall collection I’ve come across yet!
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 25 – Festival Night Land and Shore, Uploaded 04.16.16
“This view, this scene of celebratory calmness amid nature, is an enduring memory of many moments over many years of visiting and living in my wife’s home state 💕 Fuzziness and all 😊 ”
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February 05, 2021 – New Excerpt Series Starting Soon, The Old American Artist, with Commentary
Looking back at older work, like my 80s acrylics or 2000s water soluble oils, can be lots of things : sobering 😂 and, when I spot patterns of motifs or preferences in my work, very helpful for me, enabling me to see enduring patterns of interests. The same, it turns out, even with its own…
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February 04, 2021 – The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number I.10.3, with Commentary
“ …at the far end of the table, across from the side he had chosen to go down….”
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February 03, 2021 – Glimpses of Valentine Red in Austin
“A surprise sunrise yesterday, Tuesday morning, in Austin. If Sheila hadn’t alerted me I’d missed the whole thing, lol!”
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.21.2
“Closer, they realized the woman and child by their door must be Anna and her mother Nicolette, waiting for them…..”
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February 02, 2021 – Tweets That Caught My Eye on Twitter – Valentyna Holloway @ValentyneDreams #PianistPoet
“Valentyna tweets a wide variety of intriguing to interesting tweets – and yes, I did consciously choose to list intriguing as overriding interesting…intrigue, in this case, creating the interest.
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.21.1
“Sloping down, closer to the sea, the dusty road brought their converted fisherman’s hut into easy view under the stars and bright moonlight.”
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February 01, 2021 – Glimpses of Spring Before the Freeze Next Week
“Temps are supposed to possibly drop into some hard freezes this coming week, but this little guy, and a slew of others evidently with him (not shown), are sure glad to gulp down the water and chow – I don’t blame them! ❤️ ”
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.20.3
“Signora and Anna, they go to your house,” said Santino, rocking. “Why?” asked Arturo….
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January 31, 2021 – My Most Viewed Images This Week @FineArtAmerica, Watercolors, Austin and Paris
Newer work almost always has a nice jump on the most viewed count among my images on Fine Art America, but it’s especially nice both my newest watercolors not only topped the list this past week, but with resoundingly good numbers 🙏 On top of that, like a reminder cushion, two of my oldest uploads,…
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January 30, 2021 – Painting My First Watercolor Painting on Paper Printed with My Own Original Pen and Ink Sketch
“There is so much potential in this line of art creativity for me, emotionally and creatively, I felt I really needed to get all this out. If for nothing else, to remind myself later on ☺️ ”
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January 29, 2021 – New Upload to Fine Art America, My First Watercolor Painting on Paper with My Own Printed Pen and Ink, Floating Butterfly 1
“my newest image, Floating Butterfly 1, Pen and Ink with Watercolor”
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