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A bit of a #bird this week, playing with real and #surreal ; flattening the background. We’ll see. For @islesstudio show in September.

Finally done enough to take off the #easel . What a week of self-doubt. Now it’s time for the #painting , and for me, to breathe. 52 x 42 For my show in September @islesstudio

Delivered this #landscape (sort of landscapey, no?) to the @natureconservancy in #minneapolis last month. 36 x 48. Here it is in place. (at Minneapolis, Minnesota)

My lovely son Jacob, and his #beautiful #bride, Christine. They were wedded yesterday, and our hearts are brimming with #happiness. #Love is even better than painting. (this is a candid photo!). #marriage #wedding #family #ceremony (at Denver, Colorado)

Theodore Waddell; extraordinary #painter. Cows in a snowfield in Colorado. What whites! What blacks! #denverartmuseum

Done, and on the wall! Both 40 by 30: a successful struggle. #color

Big cartoon on Watercolor #paper for an even bigger #triptych on three #refugee photos. I hope to #paint them starting sometime this year.

A #sketch for locusts, from my 10 plagues series. #wip

This little #abstraction started by my cleaning off my #palette on a small canvas. It just grew, and grew some more, and the technical issues became more clear, and then more pressing, and now I’m painting it. Who knows how it will end up. #wip

A fast #sketch of my father a day after his surgery. This is prep for a #painting, finding the #figure that will be hidden by #abstraction.

More work on the plagues series. This is a #sketch using black gesso on yupo #paper, and prismacolor crayon. #deathofthefirstborn .

#Bands on every corner in New Orleans French quarter . Here are two of them. It’s a noisy place! #Music #NewOrleans #Jazz #Brass #Urban #Life #frenchquarter #louisiana (at FrenchQuarter NewOrleans)

A lovely period #Dress from the decorative arts Museum in #Berlin, #Germany. Anyone wearing it would turn eyes, truly. #Classic #Fashion #Women (at Berlin, Germany)

Another great, forgotten, #German #Painter#vonzugël it is incandescent, and my photo does not do it justice. Reflected light is actually light blue violet in the piece. What an eye, and what brush strokes!. It is an eye popper! #Painting #berlin #Figure #cow #Classic #color (at Alte Nationalgalerie)

A real genius, who could paint with the likes of Cézanne, and even Francis bacon. But who knows Carl Schuch today? He didn’t care. With an independent income, he sold only one painting in his lifetime and was content to live and paint. #Art #Painting #Beauty #Unknown #Germany #Berlin #19Century #fruit #game #carlschuch (at Alte Nationalgalerie)

A marvelous #goya. Here too, the light is too dim to really bring out the structure and colors. Oh you curators, have pity on our tired eyes! #art #Spain #Painting #Landscape #19Century #berlin #Germany #Museum #Masterpiece (at Alte Nationalgalerie)

AGorgeous #corot, hidden away in a room in a room without enough light to properly appreciate it. these German museum curators may be just a bit too overly concerned. #barbizon #painting #landscape #Art #classic #19thcentury #berlin #germany (at Alte Nationalgalerie)