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Monday, June 28, 2010

New house portrait commission

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I just finished this a few days ago.  I'll spare you the self-critism and just say I'm happy with it.    
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  Why is it that if I nod off two or three times during a meeting, I lose track of time and find it nearly impossible to tell whether I...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Car painting 100% finished

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 I just realized I never put up a photo here of the car at 100% completion.  This picture came out a little too pale and blue, but it's...
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Category change: flower to weed

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Last night I had to declare war on these cute little flowers in my garden.   I don't know where they came from; they might have been p...
Monday, June 14, 2010

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Well, it's been a week, so I guess I better post something before my commercial sponsors desert me.   Art:      I am working on two...
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Monday, June 07, 2010

More paintings that didn't work out

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Article about why so many coin designs are lousy

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http://numismaticnews.net/article/Poor_quality_coin_designs_lamented/     I'm looking at you, Florida and Indiana state quarters.   ...
Sunday, June 06, 2010

Triptych painting - are its days numbered?

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Here is one of the "corner paintings" that I don't know what to do with. It's on canvas, so I could take it apart and re-u...
Thursday, June 03, 2010

painting demolition

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Kim and I have decided to clean out the corner of our living room that includes my not-quite-good-enough paintings. The old paintings in t...

Illustration

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I've had to take an online bloodborne pathogen course for work. This is a page from it that caught my attention.   I'm not so sure ...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

Ant vs. Pistil

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I was out by our mailbox a few days ago, and I noticed that ants really enjoy the primose. Then I noticed this one guy who had his head do...
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Car painting in its nearly (99.8%) complete form

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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

North Korea and the Axe Murder Incident

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You know, I don't often use bad language on this blog, but I just have to make this comment: Craaaaaaazy shit.   http://en.wikipedia....
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

The Car Painting (update)

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  It is nearly done!   I stopped last night around 12:45 (this was my third night in a row of staying up past 1:00 a.m., and I'm starti...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Bad Astronomy

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Bad Astronomer Phil Plaitt wrote an interesting post explaining why the Moon tends to look notably bigger when it is on the horizon:   h...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Painting and stuff

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For a blogger that is supposed to be at least partially blogging about art, I sure haven't put up many photos in a long time.   I'...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

You smell delicious!

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I think I'll invent a line of fragrances called Grill Scents.   They'd probably work equally well for men or women.   The flagship...
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Friday, May 07, 2010

Considering the others

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  Kim and I have failed to locate our Sony digital camera.   It has been missing for more than a week.   We've lost cameras before, but...
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

lunch time detecting

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I metal detected very briefly at lunch today—about 20 minutes.   This time I stopped at a park on the way back from getting my allergy sho...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

lunchtime detecting

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    I detected for a little while at lunch again today.   I was headed for a spot I'd found that had produced a few little interesting...
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My favorite medium is oil paint, and my preferred subject is landscapes. Over the past few years my focus has been on pen & ink, and I've done quite a few commissioned house portraits.
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