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Starting the New Year off right 🙂 Took my PaintCycle for another spin this morning and sketched a Live Oak that has intrigued me for years. Finally down on paper!! It was sunny when I started out a little after 9 a.m., and the angle of the winter sun was perfect for seeing all the […]
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click to enlarge This morning was my maiden voyage on my new ‘PaintCycle’ – A hearty thank you to my in-laws for gift money to purchase a cruiser bicycle with a basket perfect for hauling art supplies 🙂 A tad chilly, make that a cold 33 degrees at 6:45 a.m., but I had to capture […]
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It wouldn’t be Christmas if I wasn’t last minute with creating special things. I thought for sure I wouldn’t get a calendar produced for 2013 but somehow I’ve pulled it off. I need your help though, as I using a different provider and it’s not a print-on-demand service. So….. if you would like to own […]
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I have a childhood memory of a family friend’s treasure box that was filled with interesting organic items she’d found during her travels. I remember exotic shells, all types of stones and a sprig of cotton. A week ago, I had my first one-on-one experience with a field of cotton. What a delight to the […]
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The Stillman & Birn journal I’ve dedicated to water studies finally has another entry. Saturday, I conducted a workshop entitled “Working Small”. The morning was spent in the classroom honing quick sketching skills, learning to how to capture a scene in 4 values and last but not least, putting skills learned into practice by sketching […]
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Now for the rest of the story… On my iPhone, I have a couple of neat Apps: 1) for viewing the sky, sun, moon, stars and even satellites – whether during the day or night. It’s called….. Night Sky, and 2) MoonPhase…. which provides information like rise and set times, a calendar showing the different […]
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