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| April 30 - John Salminen Workshop: One day into John Salminen's workshop - everyone worked on adding details to their drawings. Our instructor began a demo on values in a watercolor.    ... |
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| April 29 - John Salminen Demo: John Salminen did a great demo at the NMWS meeting tonight. I'm looking forward to taking his workshop for the next four days.    ... |
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| April 28 - Fifty Years of Watercolor: This mornings Albuquerque Journal ran an artical on the NMWS Spring Exhibition.   ... |
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| April 27 - "Practice" Finished: I finished the portrait of my grand daughter Tess practcing her flute in our back yard.  ... |
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| April 26 - Progress: This morning, I made good progress on my portrait of Tess - Tomorrow, I'll remove the Drawing Gum before finishing the portrait. It's important that the portrait look like my grand daughter - but, it's also important that I get the finger positioning correct on her flute.   ... |
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| April 25 - Tess: This weekend, I'm starting a new music watercolor - this time it's of our beautiful grand daughter Tess. I took the reference photo when she was practicing in our back yard in Albuquerque.  ... |
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| April 24 - Salminen Workshop: I just finished my drawing for next weeks John Salminen workshop. I hope I'm not taking on more than I can handel. It's a full sheet of Arches 300 lb rough.   ... |
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| April 21 - TOPES WIN!: We took in our first baseball game of the season today. The Isotopes squeeze by the Rainiers this afternoon, 23-2. The Isotopes 23 runs tie a franchise record for most runs scored in a game (previous 7/30/07 vs. Oklahoma City) The 21-run margin of victory also ties the largest in franchise history.   ... |
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| April 20 - Full Moon: Last night we enjoyed a relaxing soak in the hot tub as we watched the full moon rise over our mountain - life is good in New Mexico.  ... |
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| April 19 - "Artist at Work": Starting a new watercolor, "Artist at Work" about artist Karl Hofmann working on his instalation at the Albuquerque Museum   ... |
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| April 18 - Smaller Paintings: I'm getting ready for the ABQ Art Showcase in August. My booth will have a Jazz Music theme. I thought smaller paintings would sell better so I'm framing smaller pieces for the show. Of course I'll have several of my normal larger paintings on display. By small I mean 20 x 16 inches and a few at 24 x 18.   ... |
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| April 17 - Paintings Framed: I framed my two paintings for the NMWS Spring Exhibition. We have to take them to the show on April 30th.  ... |
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| April 16 - Starry Night: I finally framed my brides beautiful counted cross stitch of Van Gogh's Starry Night. She worked a long time on this one. In fact, it took two long ocean cruises to finish it.  ... |
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| April 15 - New Mexico Art League: Here are my three entries into the New Mexico Art League's "Flower as Still Life" exhibition  ... |
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| April 14 - More Progress: I removed the Drawing Gum, this morning, to expose the lightest areas of my painting.  ... |
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| April 13 - Painting Koi: I decided to branch out and try to paint looser. I'm working from a reference photo that I took at "Joy Wok" restaurant in Kansas City. This is just a start - the blue areas are mask out with Drawing Gum - later I'll remove it to expose the whites.  ... |
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| April 11 - Two Good Movies: My bride picked out two great movies (Greta & Green Book) - we saw both at the dollar show this week.   ... |
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| April 10 - New Lights: I decided to get new lights for our back yard. Very soon the alien space craft will know where to safely land.  ... |
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| April 8 - San Diego Entries: I might as well try - the San Diego International is a really tough show to get into - but, here are my three entries. I would think that my watercolor "Holy Mudder" has a chance. It deserves to be seen by a larger audience.  ... |
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| April 7 - MasterWorks: This years MasterWorks Open House was a great sucess. High school students learned new techniques, Elementary students learned wire cculpture and Nicholas Tesluk was our model.  ... |
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| April 6 - Watercolor Critique: This morning, Susan Weeks and Bud Edmondson did a friendly critique of members paintings at the NMWS April meeting.   ... |
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| April 5 - Painting Again: After traveling to Boston for the NAEA conference, and then to Kansas to visit family - I have not been painting. So, this morning I got out an old unfinished portrait to work on.  ... |
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| April 4 - Signature Exhibit: I plan to enter these two watercolors into the NMWS Signature Exhibition in Los Lunas this July (if they will accept two paintings)  ... |
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| April 2 - Creativity Fair: Once each year, docents at the Albuquerque Museum can display their art and crafts during a museum luncheon. Here are the paintings I displayed last Monday.   ... |
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