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Round and Round

  • Posted 28th February 2025, 1:22 pm
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Round and Round

My holding pattern has not gotten better in the last month. That round and round feeling is still here.

I did pick up my brushes and work full on a persnickety detailed painting. So I know I can still do it. Even though I was wearing my old prescription glasses which I only need for reading and close up seeing, and by the time you read this, I will have had my vision
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New Eyes

  • Posted 30th January 2025, 10:22 pm
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New Eyes

This is where I should have inserted the next installment of "My Artistic Journey (part 5)".

I feel like I'm in a bit of a holding pattern. At times it seems like something between the bumper to bumper on the freeway and the round and round circle that you see before all the water drains out in the bathtub!

Life gets like that sometimes. You know you are moving… but where to?…

My Artistic Journey (part 4)

  • Posted 21st October 2024, 10:33 pm
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My Artistic Journey
(Part 4)

(continued from part 3)

The year is 2012 and I have decided to make my artistic interest, a business. About a year before I had found a helpful website forum called, "Wetcanvas". There I enjoyed being amongst other artists who were sharing both their art and artistic processes. At this time I was working in oil paint and spending a lot of online time
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My Artistic Journey (part 3)

  • Posted 22nd September 2024, 10:45 pm
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My Artistic Journey
(Part 3)

(continued from part 2)

If you read the last episode, you will remember the 2007/2008 recession had just hit… and lucky for me at that time, I had a good job, wait, what am I saying? I had a great job!

I'm sure I've never worked for a better boss or been paid as well as in my old job. But as I found out… nothing on earth lasts forever. My job was working…