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Do any of you use Dropbox for storing personal files in the "cloud"? Do you like it, fear it, what are your thoughts about it?

I'm putting this in Mixed Media because it involves a road trip, digital photography, photoshop editing, ball point pen, ink brushes, graphite and colored pencils and computer paper. First, the picture I finished this morning: And the original photo: So why and how did I make a mess out of...

Another experiment with alcohol markers... Mixed media: common ballpoint pen, Pigma Micron pen, colored pencils, Brea Reese alcohol makers, photoshop. No reference, imagination. The leafing was done with alcohol markers, not crazy about how it turned out, too blocked up. The rest was...

Watched this movie a week ago on a DVD from netflix. It's really quite good. Here's a preview...

My first real experiment with alcohol markers in a 6x9 inch sketchbook. Referenced from my original photo, below, taken during a boat trip in 2010 on the Hudson River, New York. I started with a light blue Prismacolor Col-Erase pencil to get the basic elements laid down. Then I began inking...

Wind surfing on Lake Champlain, New York Nikon digital single lens reflex camera, variable zoom lens.

Abandoned iron ore processing machinery at the closed iron mine at Lyon Mountain, NY: Digital photo taken with Canon PowerShot A630 pocket camera. Tweaked in photoshop for color balance and contrast. Originally owned by the Chateuguay Iron and Steel Company, later Republic Steel...

Acrylics on 9x12 inch canvas board, knife and brush. Referenced from my own old digital photo below. C&C welcome.

Acrylics on 16x20inch stretched canvas. Plastic card, brush, Sharpie marker, photoshop. First time I've used white as a background, and compartmented colors with a black border. C&C welcome as always.

My local arts council has come up with this gem for their fall adult education schedule: Poetry & Pinot Wednesday, September 21st | 5:30 - 7:30pm Join us for an evening of poetry-no prior experience required! Find joy in the creative writing process while sipping on a glass of pinot. You will...

Another miniature, acrylics on 4x6 inch canvas board, brush, knife, photoshop. C&C welcome.

A new experiment for me, painting small. Acrylics on 4x6 inch canvas board, brush and photoshop. C&C welcome.

Last Christmas I gifted myself yet another sketchbook to go with the five or six I already have that I haven't touched. I was stuck on my last painting, Windows, and decided to sharpen my drawing skills. I'm doing the usual practice stuff for faces, figures, eyes, noses, lips, hands, feet...

This is a blind cross contour drawing, done decades ago in a life drawing class with a male model. The original drawing is at the bottom, this is a colored-in version finished today. The idea was to keep eyes on the model, following body contours, while the drawing hand tried to follow along...

Calling it done. Inspired by The Doors song "People Are Strange" (link below). Acrylics on 16x20 inch stretched canvas, brush, knife and photoshop. C&C welcome as always, thanks for looking.

Under an almost full moon, I give you this: Old Sol pouring down sunlight; the Black Watcher looking on; Kokopelli the Humpbacked Flute Player making music, and Aphrodite Herself dancing in from right stage in her birthday suit. This is really about Kokopelli, one of my favorite characters...

More cartoon symbolism, and gratuitous nudity to make people nervous. In the growing twilight, Mr. Satan Snake is talking trash to Eve, who views him very skeptically. Looking on is a beckoning tree offering her forbidden fruit. What will happen next?! Acrylic on 9x12 canvas board. C&C...

A Great Blue Heron and American Crow, photographed along Lake Champlain, New York. The Herons are common around here, there's a small island rookery nearby. I caught this guy taking off from an icy pond. I like the awkward form, reminds me of a Japanese crane. In the next second those legs...

Cartoon symbolism. Sol, The Important One, delivering a line of scripture. Looking on are Mercury, Venus and Gaia, who are flat. The awakening She-Moon Luna exposes an upper horn. Three white comets are incoming from The Expanse. 12-28-2020. Acrylic on 9x12 canvas board. Enjoy, thanks for...

My wife likes dragons so I made this for her. Experimenting with materials: the support is a heavy plastic eye chart 11x22 in. that I had on hand and wanted to repurpose - the dragon is a clipart download from the net. I used rubber cement to glue the two together. Then I used Liquitex...