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Bird Head Bobbing (Why?): Meadowlark Translation
Meadowlarks head bobbing and puffing up Have you ever noticed the weird way birds walk, bobbing their heads back and forth? Watching the birds in the video below about the return of meadowlarks to my...
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Strange Light, Weird Palette
Experimental Palette Portrait, gouache, 10×7” What was I thinking? The reference photo1 had strange lighting. From the left was a cold, greenish light, and from the right a very red light. To make the...
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Daylight Savings End Eve=Xmas Eve
Daylight Savings Eve, 5×8” Ink, Neocolor II, Inktense pencils The end of Daylight Savings is my favorite day of the year! It’s like Christmas Eve—I love knowing I get a free hour to use as a “Do-Over”...
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Goat Self Portrait, Because Bouc & Caprine
“Le Bouc Caprine” Colored pencil and Neocolor II in Stillman & Birn Epsilon sketchbook, 10×8” Yesterday, while reading The Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors, I came across a word I didn’t know:...
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The Hawaiian?
The Hawaiian, Oil on paper, 10”x7” When I saw a photo of this guy, I loved his funny rooster-tail man bun and made him my next portrait victim. I decided he was Hawaiian, gave him a tan and put him in...
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Freckles Minus Freckles
Freckles Minus Freckles, oil on gessoed Arches Oil paper, Zorn palette, 9×7” Her nose! That interesting shape is why I wanted to paint her when I saw her photo (see below) on Pinterest. In the photo...
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If I Were an Animal (self-portrait?)
Coatimundi, 8×5”, colored pencils and Neocolor II I’ve been doing a daily self-portrait in my journal since June. Today’s self-portrait took a detour—I drew an animal I’d like to be instead, because,...
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Sketching Saved the Day
Happy Guy Sketch from a photo on Sktchy App I had a terrible, scary day that included a near poisoning of my dog and other misfortunes, that left me a nervous wreck. Finally, in the evening, I spent...
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Why I’m Not There Anymore: Goodbye Facebook and Instagram
I knew that Mark Zuckerberg was a terrible person, but after I read Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams, I knew I had to leave his Meta...
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Gouache Portrait of Taylor Kinney from Chicago Fire
Taylor Kinney as Kelly Severide from Chicago Fire on TV, Gouache on paper 9×7” I know, this was a silly project. But there’s something about this guy on this show that I find intriguing in an odd sort...
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My Bestie B Being Silly: Portrait in Gouache
B Being Silly, gouache on paper, 9×6” My bestie B was giving away an arm chair and my sister asked for a photo of her sitting in it to get an idea of its size. So she perched in the chair, made a face...
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Brian from Police IT Department: Gouache Portrait
Brian from IT, Gouache on paper 9×12” His name isn’t really Brian. I took a photo of him from the TV screen when I watching a European detective show on BritBox because I found the colors mesmerizing....
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Grumpy Old Brit Character Actor
Old Brit Character Actor, Gouache, 10×7” My last painting of 2024 is this gouache painting of a British or Irish character actor from one of the great detective shows on BritBox (but I forget which...
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The Hawaiian?
The Hawaiian, Oil on paper, 10”x7” When I saw a photo of this guy, I loved his funny rooster-tail man bun and made him my next portrait victim. I decided he was Hawaiian, gave him a tan and put him in...
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Freckles Minus Freckles
Freckles Minus Freckles, oil on gessoed Arches Oil paper, Zorn palette, 9×7” Her nose! That interesting shape is why I wanted to paint her when I saw her photo (see below) on Pinterest. In the photo...
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Fallen Star: Portrait of Justin Timberlake after DWI
Justin Timberlake After DUI Bust, Zorn palette, oil on paper, 11×7’ There was something so poignant about the news photo of Justin Timberlake after his bust for Driving While Intoxicated and I wanted...
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Portrait of Ilhan Omar’s Daughter
Isra Hirsi, daughter of Ilhan Omar, oil on paper, 8×7.5” I was so struck by the photo (see below) of Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Representative Ilhan Omar, when I saw it in the New York Times. She was...
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Shellac Under Oil Painting on Paper (and Summer Haircut Selfie)
Summer Selfie, Oil on Shellacked Arches Oil Paper, 9”x 6.5” After the wig experiment I got even braver and cut my hair very short for the first time since I was about 12. I was going for something...
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Getting Wiggy
Selfie with Wig, oil on paper, 10×7“ My social media feeds kept showing me wigs (how do they know my formerly boisterously curly hair was getting thin, grey and wimpy?) The influencers looked so cute...
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Have a Cow
Have a Cow, oil on paper, 9.5 x 9.5” This calf was in a photo on my Vermont friend Ruth’s Strava page and I thought it was so cute I took a break from the people portraits I’ve been working on to do a...
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