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A Walk Among the WildFlowers – New Watercolor on Absorbent Ground, May 2020
As one can tell by my photo below, I took a few liberties, but to some extent, that happens whether I plan it or not, lol 😂 But I like the result too much to alter anything on it. Another version, another time, will elicit a different response, and I do think this is one…
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 20, 2020 – Legal Struggles About the Right to Vote
A bit of news out of my home state of Texas. For the past decade, the two main political parties of that state have battled in and out of court in regard to things vote related. Actually seemingly everything vote related, lol!
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Covid-19 Visit to Lady Bird Wildflower Center May 2020 💐
First trip I can think of for Sheila & myself, much less with Max, since maybe pre-Covid! 💕 Short, less than 2 hours, and less than 15 minutes from home, but what a treat! 😊
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 18, 2020 – Article Review of Risk Levels of Everyday Activities
A superb article, mostly for two reasons. One, it covers a huge range of our everyday activities. Two, it differentiates into most the activities, delineating what makes it risky or less so, in general.
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 17, 2020 – Sunday Rest with Review of Art Pieces to Improve
The current work, for now titled Dancing Free, below the Paris painting, shows how the transparent ground “clouds up”, creating the soft streaking across the black gesso.
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 16, 2020 – New Paris Watercolor Art
I think if I had to name one important goal I accomplished with this small Paris work, it’s that I stopped much shorter than usual in re to feeling I overdid the image. Some may say I “way” stopped short of overdoing 😂 but I truly like the white & lighter negative spaces.
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 14, 2020 – New Watercolor Abstract Impressionist Art
“… there was a point, decades ago, I finally realized I had this tug-a-war going on within me : translate an image to paint (realistically faithful to the photo or plein air scene), or go abstract, usually way abstract 😊 ”
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 12, 2020 – Social Distancing
Besides painting and finalizing details for renewing our current rental lease into early spring, we also got to spend a truly lovely afternoon social distant visiting with the youngest girl, her husband, and of course the 7 year old ❤️
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 09, 2020 – New Watercolor Impressionist Landscape Art
Well, I was gonna do a short piece about pollution and Covid-19, but was working on my 2nd watercolor on white absorbent ground yesterday and today and decided it was well enough done to post it and talk a little ‘bout that, lol! 😊
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 07, 2020 – New Watercolor Dancer Art
Dancing Between the Lines…It doesn’t have the sparse clean contrast of my previous 3 watercolors on black absorbent ground. This also is on white absorbent ground and my challenges are very different.
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 05, 2020 – New Watercolor Dancer Figure Art
Dancer in Moonlight is similar, created with M. Graham white gouache, and applied in varying intensities t create shape and form, and of course, ultimately, effect!
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 04, 2020 – New Watercolor Figure Art
Yesterday’s post, with the 1st of 3 new watercolor gouache paintings on black absorbent ground, Moonlight Goblet, continues with my 2nd piece, experimenting using M. Graham white watercolor gouache (vs acrylic gouache) is Nude with Robe Night.
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 03, 2020 – Watercolor Still Life Painting Updated
I debated whether to share some more +/- Covid related articles, or put up some of my more recent watercolors on absorbent ground paintings, and considering I was picked as May Artist of the Month by Creative Arts Society in Austin, I chose the latter 😊
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 02, 2020 – 109 Year Old Texas Survivor of the 1918 Pandemic Remembers
…a remarkable pandemic survivor’s story! Only, she’s a survivor of the 1918 Flu Pandemic!
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 01, 2020 – Wedding Anniversary and More
Full Day – 39th Wedding Anniversary, May Artist of the Month w/Creative Arts Society, Saw Youngest Grandchild and Daughter.
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 30, 2020 – Tuition Free College for Health Frontline Workers
A breath of fresh air and hope, via the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, for her state ❤️
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 29, 2020 – Stay at Home Entropy
Had planned a short post explaining why I haven’t written a post for several days and it’s morphed into a long hopefully important post of things I’ve come to conclusions about re what Covid-19 is beginning to mean to me beyond any one of us could get ill and/or die.
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 25, 2020 – Tiffany Arp-Daleo RePosting
easiest fun thing for me to do today is share a link to a very creative visual artist who, in these often trying times, has turned to including creating visual art not with her husband, but rather on her husband! 😂
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 24, 2020 – 1st Butterfly Spotting
Butterfly spotting! It was only one, one tiny one, but it was heart warmingly welcome, even the near 100 degree heat today. All records highs fell in the various weather stations.
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 23, 2020 – Chinese White Art Paint
The short post packs a lot of interesting history about its development as a color, including an impressive list of artists “way” back who 1st starting using it 😊
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 22, 2020 – Earth Day
The day itself was mostly drizzly-rainy but nice cool vs 90+ degrees a few days ago (90s coming again very soon), but then the sky semi-cleared with gorgeous breaks, almost fissures, among the clouds.
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 21, 2020 – Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall – “Without hope there’s no point in continuing on. If the nurses didn’t hope they could save COVID-19 patients, they wouldn’t be risking their lives….”
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 20, 2020 – Downtown Austin During Closures
Here’s a link and sample of my son Philip’s pictures of downtown Austin taken very recently. He used to live in a high rise downtown but has a nice place nearby now.
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My Most Viewed Images @FineArtAmerica 2nd Week April 2020 😊
There’s a few thing especially nice about this past week’s most viewed images on Fine Art America, probably the variety styles and date range (when uploaded or from what year originally) being the most satisfying — Volleyball Setter, Little Step Poster, Good Morning Bird Poster 😊
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 19, 2020 – Staying Fit with Walking, Protein and Sleep
Within the growing info getting my attention re the value of walking and stretching and sleep, three pieces of the puzzle have merged into more concrete actionable time on my part —
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 18, 2020 – Sold a Vermont Image on Fine Art America
Sold a print on Fine Art America! 😊 My sincere thanks to my buyer in Buffalo, New York! It’s a small but big welcome bit of news ❤️ And, this purchase benefited from my new one dollar markup on all size prints and gift items, on ALL my images on Fine Art America – yes!
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 17, 2020 – Free Will Astrology
Sheltering in place and shaking up my thinking — I like to read Rob Brezsny‘s Free Will Astrology. Have for years! It’s fun, positive, always encouraging, sometimes with a sly sense of humor that catches me off guard 😂
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Thoughts On My New One Dollar Markup Pricing @FineArtAmerica 💵 😊
Earlier this week I posted about new pricing for both all my prints and gift items plus two of my licensing tiers for my images, both at Fine Art America! 😊 Virtual friends left comments and contacted me and offered a gamut of encouragements, alternative suggestions, and general goodwill for a fellow artist struggling during…
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 16, 2020 – New Watercolor Still Life
More 6×6 watercolor with gouache painting, still life 🎨 Had thought I’d just be doing a hi-bye quick post tonight, Sheila’s been have one of her rare vertigo days, and we took it real easy through out the day. But I did touch up the other small watercolor with gouache I mentioned in yesterdays post…
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 15, 2020 – New Watercolor Figure Art
“… this is my 1st completed work on black absorbent ground, and, using white gouache, which is water based like watercolors, and I’ve several things I “think” I’m seeing using both, especially against the dark background.”
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Updating My Pricing @FineArtAmerica Includes My Licensing Offers 💵 😊
I’ve now also adjusted my licensing pricing, switching from the more expensive Getty model to the less pricey Shutterstock model. These cover both one time use and extended use licensing.
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 14, 2020 – Wearing Masks
Wearing masks in Austin starts (officially) today Just a few days after seeing close to 90% of the folks at a local supermarket not wearing masks, not donning gloves, and generally putting their phones and other items on the fresh produce, the City of Austin has issued an order for all folks to wear masks…
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 13, 2020 – Social Distancing with Grandson
Shaking up my art offers 🎨 Today, the first full day not taking antibiotics in two weeks – I changed my pricing on all my prints and gift items, plus my licensing offers – all the items I have control over at Fine Art America!!!
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Today @FineArtAmerica I Priced My Portion of Each Sale of Any of My Prints and Gift Items to One Dollar 💵 😊
Yesterday, in my newest blog series, Aging Through Covid-19, I mentioned I’d gotten a strange notion about repricing all my art and photography, in prints, framed or gift items. I slept on it, and woke convinced I wanted to do this.
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 12, 2020 – Easter Sunday
A strange thing that came to me in the morning, before going for the distancing egg hunt with our grandchild, was about my prints and gift items available via FAA (Fine Art America). I’d begun listing each of my hundreds of image uploads, photos and digital and original art before the virus crisis began and…
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 11, 2020 – Ruminations on a Slow Saturday
Ruminations for a slow Saturday Well, I’ve been wanting to slow down, and today I did (slow as I already was going, lol! 😂)
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 10, 2020 – Good Friday
Blessings to all of any persuasion, religious or otherwise 💕
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 09, 2020 – New Watercolor Figure Art
it was a really good opportunity to find an image I liked, and reproduce it in my own style, picking up pointers so to speak by virtue of simply studying the image to be able to transcribe it!
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 08, 2020 – FaceTime Fun With Grandson
Sometimes the remedy a long day alone at home for myself and Sheila is just a little something special. Here’s our 7 year old after reading a chapter from comic novel Dog Man to us 💕
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 07, 2020 – Happy Birthday, Mom!
“A team of University of Vermont scientists, engineers and doctors has created an inexpensive and quick-to-manufacture ventilator intended to help patients suffering from serious cases…“
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 06, 2020 – Delivering Food to Children
This one’s straight from here in the United States, in Mississippi. We’ve friends from that nearby part of the world, and I had interesting drive-through experience while in the Air Force driving from NW Florida to home, but that’s another story 😊
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 05, 2020 – A Day of Rest
Sunday morning at home during Covid-19 Didn’t realize what day it was til Sheila made our usual Sunday morning omelette breakfast, lol! Used to be I had to remind myself to take it easy, relax for once, though only after going for the Sunday paper, at least one grocery store, then gas for the car.…
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 04, 2020 – Stretching for Fitness
Typically, most lists include 3 types of stretching (other more!) and up til recently I usually started my morning with light dynamic stretches (overheads, etc). But the last few mornings I’ve switched to static held stretches, more commonly used to cool down from a vigorous session or walk. I’ve needed that!
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 03, 2020 – New Watercolor Figure Art
Hi everyone! Further below I finally got the time to take a quick pic of some new 6×6 watercolor work I’m doing I’m liking very much, especially in terms of establishing a new direction.
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 02, 2020 – FaceTime With Grandson
With a skipped day in-between, both wife and I and the 7 year old were pretty ready for a little FaceTime together, lol! He tried on superhero costumes for us and we asked him if he could resume reading his graphic novel-comic, Dog Man, with us —
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 01, 2020 – Social Distancing
Line to the register had the now familiar blue tape line social distancing markers for the mandate Austin put in weeks ago – back way back, early March, when SXSW was cancelled amid mixed (but now grateful) reviews. And, no one in line! Lucky us – by the time we were barely half way checked…
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Aging Through Covid-19, March 31, 2020 – Getting My Bearings
My walking, which was beginning to suffer because of pain in my legs, esp at night, has been incredibly helped by some simple shin splits stretches. The hardest part is holding the stretch for 30 seconds, lol!
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Aging Through Covid-19, March 30, 2020 – Series Intro Post
Though generally healthy, but in the target age group for most vulnerable, Sheila and I had early on began practicing social distancing. We also ate well, better even. More veggies. More sleep – can’t tell you what a blessing that’s been for me, lol! 😊
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New SilverSneakers Exercise Streaming Opportunity on Facebook Monday 03.23.20 10:30 CST
I’m glad SilverSneakers has already added/scheduled a followup to this week’s initial live class stream – very much looking forward to it! 💕
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Update / Review : SilverSneakers Exercise Streaming Opportunity on Facebook Thursday 03.19.20
Jenny, the instructor, carried all the energy and humor and relatedness that can only be found in a live class, and only surpassed by a live class of the same caliber teacher but with equally real time feedback to the participants in the class.
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