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I Don’t Like It

Phooey! Dammit, damn, damn and damn, again! I really don’t like the way this turned out. It was supposed to be carefree…..but to me, it looks sloppy and lazy. The piece of fecal matter I mentioned before. I really had wanted it to come out like this: This: Or even this! Here I’ve done…

July 16, 2019

I Make Good on My Promises

I finished the rose garden, but I plan on giving it a better name. My thought is it’s either a piece of genius, or a piece of fecal matter. My good friend assures me that it is neither, but she really likes it. So, here you go! A drawing of a rose garden that my…

July 15, 2019

Blackout !

“I’ve seen the lights go out on Broadway, I’ve seen the Empire State laid low.” – Billy Joel Right now, Rose Garden is going slowly. It’s through no fault of my own, but pet owners will understand. Pumpkin has taken up a new sleeping spot, right behind my easel. It’s a choice between letting…

July 14, 2019

A Rose by Any Other Name

Still looks good in a picture with a cat. Okay, enough about cats. Do I hear a collective sigh of relief? I’ve been working on Rose Garden. I was working on the first version while tired and sick, and it came out awful. Put it away to look at later, maybe it would look…

July 13, 2019

I Promise You a Rose Garden

Spoiler Alert! It will look something like this, but hopefully (there’s that word again, hopefully) much better. This, of course, is the preliminary sketch, Speaking of roses, I just sent a batch of note cards to a long lost friend. This of course which I know I have posted before. The detail and control…

July 6, 2019

Questionable Quandary

Hurray for spell check! Otherwise, I would have misspelled quandary. Thank God for the blessings of our digital world. Some of those blessings I’m not so fond of, however. But I digress. This blog is about art, not the information age. So, now the quandary. My latest drawing came out very well, in my opinion. …

July 2, 2019

Missed the Boat…

Every so often, I do something that, to me, is unacceptable. In other words I….fail. Usually I don’t redo the ones that miss the mark, but this time I will. The featured picture is probably the best of the tries I made of this idea. I did it when I was painting with acrylic, rhinestones…

June 26, 2019

One More Piece

First of all, I should say a little about this lady. She also made being ol….a senior, seem less dreary. She was my partner’s grandmother and lived until nearly 113 years old. (Yeah, I bet you thought I was going to say 113 years young, Fooled you! Also, I’m sick to death of that cute…

June 24, 2019

Found it!

THIS was the picture of the Jungle Jim I was looking for! Actually drew it many, many many years ago. As a more mature person with a more mature eye, I see a lot wrong with it. Happily, I also see a lot good with it. Maybe I’ll do a redo, when I have time. …

June 23, 2019