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New Decoration 7/25:
             When we were in Taos, last week, we picked up a new annimated decoration for our front stoop.



Click on the Birds to See the Movie
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Back From Colorado 7/23:
             My bride and I spent a wonderful week in Colorado with our youngest son Buddy, his wife Shari and their two beautiful daughters.

    
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Happy Birthday to ME:
             My bride took me to Pei Wei for my birthday dinner.


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Art Show in Overland Park, KS 7/12:
             To all my friends in the Kansas City area - You are invited to view an art exhibit in Overland Park. I have three watercolors in this juried show. There will not be an opening reception - so you can stop by whenever it fits your schedule. The hours are 5:30 am till 10 pm Mon - Fri, 7 am till 8 pm on Saturday and 10 am till 8 pm on Sundays.


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My Bride's Smile 7/11:
             Some of my best memories of our recent cruise were the smiles on my bride's face. Her are photos of her in Rome and in Gibraltar. That's our cruise ship below in the harbor. We were in Gibraltar twice on the cruise. Our last port was Rome - were were there three days.


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Check out this link about our stop in Gibraltar: https://spark.adobe.com/page/TVNT3/
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Friday Painters Show 7/10:
             Saturday morning, before we drove to Santa Fe, I dropped off my two paintings for our Friday Painters exhibition. Our groups exhibition will be on display at the Unitarian Church at Carlisle and Comanche until August 27. Our group gets together every Friday to paint at the church.


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Santa Fe Folk Art Market 7/9:
             We drove up to the Santa Fe Folk Art Market this morning. Interested in seeing the hundreds of artisians from around the world showing off their creations. It was a warm but comfortable day in Santa Fe. As usual the crowd was hugh making it difficult to see everything we wanted to. This was the day to really mess up my diet. We started a Dunkin Donuts on the drive up. After the market we ate at Tomasita's in the Railyard district. Fantastic Classic Northere New Mexican food.
    

Check Out My Bride's Cool Blue Shades
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Painting Progress Today 7/8:
             I got far enough in painting today to take off the liquid mask from two new watercolors. Now that the whites are exposed I can study them and decide what to do next.

      

Painting Progress Today
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New Watercolor 7/7:
             I'm starting a new "Whitewater" painting today. I've got a new bottle of liquid mask and this composition will use a lot of it. I'm painting on 300 lb Arches rough - actually it's the back side of a failed painting. Isn't it great that watercolor paper has two sides.


Applying liquid mask to protect the whites in my painting
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"Whitewater - Solo"
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"Reggae Reflections" 7/6:
                I just finished framing "Reggae Reflections" for whichever show it might get into - NWS or NMWS. Of course I won't enter it into the second show till it gets rejected from the first. I should hear from NWS around August 15th - it time to roll over my entry into the NMWS Fall show. It's in my biggest frame 30 x 37 inches - it's in a simple 4 inch white mat.
             My subject was a street musician in Curaçao (photo from one of our cruises) - the reflections in his glasses are Frani and I. Sad to say that his dreadlocks are not real - you can buy a hat with them attached. I realized that later after looking closely at my photos because I had bought one of the hats while we were there. But then, viewers can make up their own stories.


"Reggae Reflections"
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Cactus in Bloom 7/5:
             My cactus finally decided to bloom.








Friday Painters Group 7/4:
             I selected my two paintings to hang at the Unitarian Church this Saturday. I picked two that were already framed to make life easier on me. The exhibit is for artists who gather each Friday to paint together at the church.

Entries for the NMWS Fall Exhibition:
I framed two paintings to enter into the NMWS Fall Exhibition.
I plan to enter a third one - but I'm waiting for it to be rejected
from the NWS show in San Pedro.

 





Painting Flowers 7/3:
            I'm getting back to paintings of flowers - they are so much more forgiving than painting people. These are white Iris that I saw at the Sagebrush Inn in Taos last month.

"White Iris"                           
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White Peonies 7/1:
             This morning, I finished my newest watercolor of "White Peonies". I took photos at various stages of my painting. It's painted on a 1/2 sheet of 300 lb Arches Rough. It feels right to be painting flowers again. I preserved the whites with liquid mask until the backgroung was complete.


"White Peonies"
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Waterproof Camera:
             Yesterday morning I tested out my new "water proof" camera in the back yard to see how it works. Of course the real test will be in water. I wanted one I could take on a float trip and not worry about it gerring ruined.

NWS:
            I decided to enter the National Watercolor Societies International Exhibition - I know it's a long shot but then I buy lottery tickets too. The entry deadline isn't until July 15 - the exhibit runs Oct 22 - Dec 18 in San Pedro , CA
























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