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The Seventh Seal #rockymountainnationalpark #photography #photo

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"Cheshire Grin on the Road to Serfdom" Graphite sketch, at IH35 and Hancock shopping center. Pllaying woth flattened plane and stacked perspective, not feeling much like making art, so doing some simple graphite drawing anyway. I always need to when I don't really want to. #drawing #sketching #art

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"Self-portrait with Beard and Reading Glasses". Fresh off a new art rejection I felt like some comfort work so sat down to do a hyper-realistic graphite rendering to flex a little or something, but the face in the mirror didn't go that way, and I didn't force it. #drawing #graphite #portrait

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Snagged these 2 books at a local thrift store. I had never read the Autobiography & it was laid on a shelf near the checkout so I took it as a sign and promptly corrected that. The other book I saw on a shelf and bought due to the fact @iwriteok.bsky.social wrote the forward. Great finds

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"Camp Conflagration Aftermath Behind Gas Station Grocery" gouache on paper sketchbook 2025 #art #drawing #painting #gouache #infrastructureproject #atxartist #austinart

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"Discount Cigarettes" gouache on paper 2025 #art #gouache #painting #sketching #sketch #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting

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I found an old sketchbook from 2001, just a year or so after my BFA and working a tech job, hungry for life drawing but without models I'd go to the park across the street from work in Albuquerque and draw trees, sometimes realistic, sometimes more and more abstract. #sketchbook #art #drawing

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Bus Stop on 7th, gouache on paper 3 by 4 inches, 2025 #painting #art #contemporaryart #impressionism #realism

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"Highway Interchange near Wal-Mart" 3 by 4 inch gouache on paper, 2025 #art #painting #contemporaryart #landscape

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"Hancock Feeder Road" 3 by 4 inch gouache on paper, 2025 #art #painting #realism #landscape

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Today my oldest girl turned 21. I'm glad I took some time to sketch her and my wife before and shortly after she was born. I got photos too but the drawing and human visual record just brinks it all back like it was yesterday. #art #drawing #life #humanity

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"Woman and Event Parking Sign at 7th and Neches, Capitol of Texas" oil pastel on Japanese rice paper. Lots of billionaires in and around this town. #art #drawing #pastel #howtheotherhalflives

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A couple weeks ago I attended an opening of a Contemporary Art Survey show at the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins, Co. I was really honored to be included and my two pieces looked good together there in great company. It's up through mid June if you are in the area #art #painting #contemporaryart

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23 years ago we were living in New Caney Texas, and I was out of work and health care, sketching the house we lived in and other's. Thinking of Edward Hopper and going to the Menil. did some weird sketch carvings on acrylic. Found them in storage this week. Wherever you go, there you are. #ink #art

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Finally got back to my WIP big oil #painting #art #oilpaint #oiloncanvas #contemporaryart #landscape #wip

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"Apartments Under Construction Near Bus Stop at 7th and Pleasant Valley" another really loose and simple oil pastel. Out of my comfort zone. #pastel #drawing #sketch #sketchbook

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"Men Sleeping, Grayling Still on Patrol, Sloan Lake, Denver Colorado" I have avoided oil pastels since high school but thought they might prove useful in quick sketches, so I recently got some water soluble oil pastels. Definitely loose. #pastel #sketch #drawing #travel #sketchbook

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"Horsetooth Falls Abstractions". These two sketches are so loose I kind of went for a linear abstraction vibe. The left one implys the trickle of water that runs down the rocks in the gap. The right one is large rocks in front of a small cave in the cliff. #sketching #drawing #abstract #landscape

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Horsetooth Mountain Meadow, Fort Collins Co." Was exhausted and working faster than I'm used to, so I barely more than a sketch implying things. It sure was a beautiful spot #art #landscape #pleinaire #painting #sketching

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"View of Longs Peak From Ravine Somewhere Between Sprague and Bear Lake, Rocky Mountain National Forest, Co." Had to work faster than I'm used to, so I kept it pretty impressionistic on this. Ironically got sunburn to go along with mild altitude woozy #art #landscape #pleinaire #painting #sketching

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The Needles Viewed from Fall River, Estes Park Co." I didn't get a much outdoor painting done as desired due to some rain snow and fog, and had to work faster than I'm used to, so I kept it pretty impressionistic on these. #art #landscape #pleinaire #painting #sketching

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Getting ready to come back from a trip to an art opening and some hiking and sketching. My on site sketches could use work but I also have plenty of reference photos I took if I want to flesh them out or do more. #art #landscape #gouache #pleinaire

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Took a break from my hometown to get some mountain air. Doing some quick sketches on site. Wasn't happy with my sketch in the mountain so went simpler with the second outside my cabin in more of a Cezzane vibe #art #enpleinaire #landscape #sketching #gouache

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Morning Fog at Onion Creek Looking Toward Sewer Treatment Plant, and Tesla Factory. Last quick practice sketch preparing for a trip, this time on warm tone paper. #gouache #painting #art #sketching #sketchbook #drawing #landscape

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Translucent Easter Basket With Empty Plastic Eggs Inside. Another practice fast direct sketch from life. #gouache #watercolor #painting #sketching #sketchbook #art

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Early Morning Light, Camp at Koenig Lane and Airport Blvd. Another practice sketch with set of dry pan gouache with limited palette for some upcoming travel. #infrastructureproject #gouache #watercolor #painting #sketching #landscape #art

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Very quick late afternoon sketch in backyard to practice catching light as it fades, readying for a trip. #gouache #painting #art #pleinaire #landscape

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Practice sketch with a set of dry pan gouache with limited palette for some upcoming travel so I can fly with them. The subject matter is not quite the same, but I do plan on doing some landscape sketching. In the mountains and plains #gouache #watercolor #painting #sketching #landscape #art

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"Slide Rules (or Trombone Shotty)" I felt like re-imagining some of my old sketches with my digital tablet, maybe for stickers or something. Creating things as an antidote to destruction and dissolution. #drawing #digitaldrawing #art #surrealism

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A.B.C. Always Be Composing (sketches). Gotta draw even if I don't feel like it, have no subject in mind, and eyes are blurry with allergies. #art #sketching #drawing

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Putting in more thin layers of undertones and slowly tightening the painting. Worked on some warm color today. #painting #art #oilpaint #oiloncanvas #contemporaryart #landscape

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At an antique store in the town over I found the vinyl LP soundtrack for the Ralph Bakshi Lord of the Rings Movie. I've always loved @ralphbakshi.bsky.social movies and art style and this and the Hobbit got me into LotR and fantasy in general, not to mention the Wizards and Fire and Ice. Had to get

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This little one "Airport and 290 Near Quality Seafood", gouache on paper, 3 x 4", 2024, which I was quite fond of, sold at a show in MD. I flipped a portion of the dinero into a trusted local unhoused outreach proj. Making the point to my oldest kid art can make a difference, even if small

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"Conference Under 7th and IH-35", 9 x 12 in gouache on @ampersandartsupply.bsky.social wood panel #art #painting #contemporaryart

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"Untitled Abstract 1998" ~5.5 ft by 5 ft. I was recently reminded of it seeing it in a photo of the house it now resides in. I did it for a capstone painting class ~27 yrs ago. Was inspired by a weather map and the concept of fences crossing the western plains under blue sky #art #abstract #painting

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"It Makes a Joyful Noise". I reworked in digital an old sketch I did of a small series of guns with horns coming out of various parts. I think I was just free associating. Thought it might look neat cleaned up. Maybe as a vinyl sticker or something. #art #digitalart #drawing #sketch

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Port View of a Boat Filled with Garbage in an Abandoned Lot Near the F1 Racetrack Down the Road. Sketch in my watercolor (gouache) sketchbook getting loose for a trip with sketching in Colorado. #painting #sketching #landscape #art #realism #impressionism

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Preparing for a trip to a show opening in Colorado in a month or so & I plan to spend a few days in the Rocky Mountain National Park sketching & painting so I'm practicing loose quick things with limited palette for travel. #art #painting #landscape #ralism #impressionism #sketch #draw

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We rescued some opossums from the street after their mother got hit by a car. Dropped off at the wildlife rescue earlier today. #ink #drawing #sketch #art #sketchbook

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These two 9 x 12 in gouache paintings are going to a show in Fort Collins, CO. With these guys there that will make 4 pieces in shows in 3 different states at the same time. I might go to this opening, I haven't been to Colorado in over 20 yrs. #art #infrastructureproject #paint #landscape

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"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man with Swollen Shut Eye From Hereditary Angioedema" found this old self-portrait sketch from early 2000s back when my pre-existing condition kept me from getting healthcare, just living or dying day by day. Proportion & vision off w/a swole eye #art #selfportrait

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Sketches at the Capitol Mall today. "Flags at Half-Mast Tangled Around White Poles with Texas Star" and "Kind of Blue Emergency Call Box with Half-Mast Flag" #sketch #sketchbook #art #graphite #ink #pencil #drawing

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