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April 19, 2021 – My Most Viewed Image This Week @FineArtAmerica, Abstract Detail 2 Faith in a Safe Return
“…it’s kinda nice Abstract Detail 2 Faith in a Safe Return turned out to be my most viewed image on Fine Art America last week! ♥️ The title itself is apropos – suggesting faith in safely, happily completing our new move! 😊 ”
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April 18, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid – Stragglers Needing Packing
“I have most my images, prints and originals, paper/canvas/panels, mostly packed now…Somehow I’ve ended up with several stragglers, lol!”
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April 17, 2021 – Reblog/Review : Keeping Colors Crisp and Clean via Dianne Mize
“…though I’ve almost finally finished Lady in Paris 1889 and even got a 1/2 decent photo pic of it this morning, I’ve since added a few more touches – actually applying some of the 4 common sense tips in today’s newsletter tip from Dianne Mize.”
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April 16, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid – Boxing It Up
Stay well everyone, and wish us continued good luck w/our move!
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April 15, 2021 – Abstract Detail 2 Faith in a Safe Return, My Newest #DigitalArt Upload @FineArtAmerica
“Though not a detail abstract, where the originating image is otherwise unknown, this is a tight cropping round the female figure in the original small 5×7 watercolor on canvas panel”
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April 14, 2021 – The Unintended Sculpture
Attractive as it is – the modeled plastic cup/drink container – it was an accidental sculpture courtesy of our dishwasher, lol!
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April 13, 2021 – Moving in Our 70s During Covid – Removing Pictures from the Walls
Yesterday was a small but significant day in our move-prep days, I took down the remainder of our paintings and pictures from the walls.
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April 11, 2021 – Poetry Titles and Covers That Caught my Eye on Amazon
I was tweeting some poetry titles I’d found & liked on Amazon and thought, a short tweet string of some of these might be interesting….
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April 10, 2021 – Interesting Tweets This Week
Below are random tweets I liked for some reason – uplifting, funny, inspiring, informative, hopeful, pretty..something good or encouraging at the least 😊
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April 09, 2021 – Volleyball Blocker Poster, My Newest #Sports Gift Upload @FineArtAmerica
Quick post to let folks know the 3rd of my seven Volleyball theme posters, Volleyball Blocker, is now available on Fine Art America as both prints and gift items!
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April 09, 2021 – Reading “How to Paint Like Turner” – Stirring Vestiges Inside Me I’d Almost Forgotten or Thrown Away
I bought this book because it has good reviews re seeing “how” JMW Turner evolved – his whole artistic life it appears – as an artist absorbed in the creative process.
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April 08, 2021 – Volleyball Poster, My Newest #Sports Gift Upload @FineArtAmerica
After only having Volleyball Setter Poster available for a long time, I’ve finally begun uploading my full Volleyball sports poetry series, beginning with Volleyball Poster, onto Fine Art America! Additional Volleyball titles….
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April 07, 2021 – Volleyball Setter Poster 2 : Poetry, Line Art and Digital Wash
It had to happen, lol! I had to finally apply my new line art with wash coloring style to one of my writings and I figured, well, my volleyball poem series has about seven titles, so they’d be a good one to create alternative choice imaging for! 😊
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April 05, 2021 – Aging Gracefully – Through Covid-19 – Shout Out to Office Depot: Free Laminating of Our CDC Vaccination Record; Plus Playtime with Grandchild; and New Volleyball Image Upload
Stay well everyone! Good-night! Work and play as able / as needed – it’s our juggling game of life ♥️
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April 05, 2021 – Interesting Tweets This Morning
Below are random tweets I liked for some reason – uplifting, funny, inspiring, informative, hopeful, pretty..something good or encouraging at the least 😊
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April 03, 2021 – Abstract Detail 1 Sun Spot Flower, My Newest #DigitalArt Upload @FineArtAmerica
It’s more like an accidental find. That’s ok of course, lol! But I sure can’t claim other than creating something with a “find” within it – and that’s ok too 😊
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April 03, 2021 – Reblog/Review : Quick Tip 315 #Watercolor Glazing via Dianne Mize
“…not only does she explain drying times, how to lightly and evenly rewet to paint again each time (after a layer has dried), but takes the colors on the paper from their (near) opposites to the golden yellows in the photo beside her in-progress watercolor.”
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April 02, 2021 – Sun Spot Flower, My Newest #Watercolor Upload @FineArtAmerica
Sun Spot Flower..I finished it in one sitting early last week, unsure of myself about, propped it up near the dining table by a lamp, and watched myself watch over it til I decided, yeah, I like it the way it is 😊
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April 01, 2021 – Aging Gracefully – Through Covid-19 – Paris Painting In-Progress: Lady in Paris 1889, Nearly One Year Later
“…finally, I sat down to paint again. Like I did the day before.”
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April 01, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid is No April Fool’s Day
“…finally, I sat down to paint again. Like I did the day before.”
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March 31, 2021 – Changes in My Blogging Pattern
“…we are preparing for a new day in a new location much nearer town (close to the above pic where we lived before for a long time, but a little more west, closer to Zilker Botanical Garden) and family (grandchildren and children).”
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March 31, 2021 – My Most Viewed Image This Week @FineArtAmerica, Gift Writing, “Volleyball Setter”
Volleyball setter is my newest “most viewed” for a one week period at Fine Art America! 😊
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March 30, 2021 – Interesting Tweets This Morning
Below are random tweets I liked for some reason – uplifting, funny, inspiring, informative, hopeful, pretty..something good or encouraging at the least 😊
Arts, Buitengebieden @buitengebieden_, Charemaine Seet @seetdance, Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris, Inspirational, Interesting Tweets This Morning, Laurie Shanholtzer @laurieshan, PeggyAnnThompsonArt @pegntony_h, Scott @Havenlust, Teuta Metra @Teuta_Metra, The3NinesArts / XDaniel @xavierdaniel999, Twitter -
March 30, 2021 – First Look at The Brokenwood Mysteries Series (Season) 7 Opener!
First Look at The Brokenwood Mysteries Series (Season) 7 Opener!
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March 29, 2021 – Interesting Tweets This Morning
Below are random tweets I liked for some reason – uplifting, funny, inspiring, informative, hopeful, pretty..something good or encouraging at the least 😊
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March 29, 2021 – Radiology Technologist : Poetry, Line Art and Digital Wash
I’d teased in one of my previous posts, with the 4 layer image below, re developing the image work for my newest gift post, Radiology Technologist – 1st written & sold in the 90s, and now reincarnating as a spiffy image/poster/poem, available in prints and gifts like t-shirts, bags & more! 😊
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March 28, 2021 – Interesting Tweets This Morning
Below are random tweets I liked for some reason – uplifting, funny, inspiring, informative, hopeful, pretty..something good or encouraging at the least 😊
Alchemy of Spiritual Transformation @IranLawrence, Arts, Auguste Renoir @artist_renoir, 🌸_ @rebeca6169, Inspirational, Interesting Tweets This Morning, Lee Zimmerman @zim2918, Paname Paris @ParisAMDParis, Pascale Vincent-Victor @victor-pascale, Richard Bernabe @bernabephoto, Soul @Solymasdanza, Twitter, V Atasoy @vahaphan44 -
March 28, 2021 – Second Day After Our 2nd Covid Shots – Grandchildren, the Best Medicine
Fatigue plus shortness of breath, more than the aches and pains after our 1st Covid shot, seem to be the main symptoms this time around..Meanwhile, Sheila and I benefited from the best medicine known, family and kindness and love ♥️
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March 27, 2021 – First Day After Our 2nd Covid Shots – Very Weary, But With a Huge Thank-You to Austin Public Health (APH)!
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 26, 2021 – Interesting Tweets This Morning
Below are random tweets I liked for some reason – uplifting, funny, inspiring, informative, hopeful, pretty..something good or encouraging at the least 😊
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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 – Interesting Tweets This Morning
Below are random tweets I liked for some reason – uplifting, funny, inspiring, informative, hopeful, pretty..something good or encouraging at the least 😊
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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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March 24, 2021 – Interesting Tweets This Morning
Below are random tweets I liked for some reason – uplifting, funny, inspiring, informative, hopeful, pretty..something good or encouraging at the least 😊
Abhay K @theabhayk, Arts, Dance Music NW @DanceMusicNW, Dancer on Film @DancerOnFilm, DJ Scholarship @lynneedenise, Gabriela Marie Milton @shortprose1, Inspirational, Interesting Tweets This Morning, Tami Neilson @tamineilson, The Poetry Society @PoetrySociety, Twitter, U-M School of Music Theatre & Dance @umichsmtd -
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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March 23, 2021 – Interesting Tweets This Morning
Below are random tweets I liked for some reason – uplifting, funny, inspiring, informative, hopeful, pretty..something good or encouraging at the least 😊
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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 – Interesting Tweets This Morning
Below are random tweets I liked for some reason – uplifting, funny, inspiring, informative, hopeful, pretty..something good or encouraging at the least 😊
Amy Romine @AmyJRomine, Arts, Francisco Bravo Cabrera @euskadi_bakero, Helen Warlow @HWarlow, Inspirational, Interesting Tweets This Morning, Jon Winokur @AdviceToWriters, jorge molina baudou @jorgemolina28, PeggyAnnThompsonArt @pegntony_h, Steve Henderson @SHendersonArt, Tiffany Arp-Daleo @taaduh, Twitter -
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 21, 2021 – Interesting Tweets This Morning
Below are random tweets I liked for some reason – uplifting, funny, inspiring, informative, hopeful, pretty..something good or encouraging at the least 😊
Arts, Enzo Christopher @halpern_claude, Fevziye Bokhari @BokhariFevziye, Inspirational, Interesting Tweets This Morning, Kaelah Mickelle @KaelahMickelle, Lee Zimmerman @zim2918, Ramblings @ramblingsloa, Richard Bernabe @bernabephoto, Silk Dharma @SilkDarmaArt, The3NinesArts / XDaniel @xavierdaniel999, Twitter -
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 20, 2021 – Interesting Tweets This Morning
Below are random tweets I liked for some reason – uplifting, funny, inspiring, informative, hopeful, pretty..something good or encouraging at the least 😊
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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 19, 2021 – Interesting Tweets This Morning
Below are random tweets I liked for some reason – uplifting, funny, inspiring, informative, hopeful, pretty..something good or encouraging at the least 😊
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March 18, 2021 – Interesting Tweets This Morning
Below are random tweets I liked for some reason – uplifting, funny, inspiring, informative, hopeful, pretty..something good or encouraging at the least 😊










































