Here’s a gouache sketch for a new painting.

5 minute poses at figure group today followed by 10-15 minute poses.

Still playing with this one.

A little gouache sketch before everyone woke up this morning. ​

I continued playing with this plein air sketch ​in my basement. It’s just a struggle between the strange shapes I love in the farm fields and trying to make “a picture” or scene. I don’t have an interest in painting little tree branches but feel like I’m supposed to.

It was frosty when I went out this morning. I hadn’t painted outside in a long time. It clouded over before I was half way finished and then it started raining. Of course by the time I got back to my car the sun was back out. This is why I’ve been painting inside more lately.

A little watercolor practice today on wrinkly sketchbook paper.

This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.

I have paintings that I’m never happy with. I can pull them off my pile at any time and continue to play with them. This is one of them. This morning I changed it for the third time.

Some drawings from figure group yesterday.

As of November 4, 2025, estimates indicate that President Donald Trump's golfing in 2025 has cost U.S. taxpayers approximately $68.6 million.

The MSNBC montage played clip after clip of Patel demanding accountability from past FBI directors for what he called “private jet joyrides.”

A couple more sketches.

I’m experimenting with gouache in a small sketchbook of toned paper. The paper is lightweight and designed for drawing and sketching with dry media. A little water with watercolor makes it buckle. ​Hopefully using gouache thicker will reduce the warping.

I’m having trouble choosing which Halloween costume for tomorrow.

It was another beautiful evening here. I had to get out and paint. It was either that or do yard work. Tough choice. ​

I liked the atmosphere at the edge of this meadow on a rainy morning a few weeks ago. Acrylic on canvas mounted on panel, 9x16”

If I paint outside I can’t eat all the Halloween candy.

Thicker paint on board. Just having fun. Not sure about that shadow in the foreground.

A squishy version of a recent landscape. The thicker paint creates some visual vibration that I like.

I could no longer tolerate my last figure painting continuing to exist in this world. I cut it in half and this is the top half. I may use the bottom half to try this scene again. This was just supposed to be the underpainting to map out the shapes, but I feel like it concluded prematurely.

Another small, fast one before breakfast. Acrylic on paper. ​5.5x7”

Is anybody actually here or is it all bots and fake accounts?

I’m glad I’m not the only one. I think my brain too quickly crosses wires with viridian.

I skipped my pre-breakfast physical workout today to do a little painting workout instead. Many of my views are from a road. I usually omit signs and telephone poles and electric lines. Putting them into the painting once in a while creates a tension that provides some interest.

Just a small and quick cloud study after lunch today. Acrylic on paper.

This is the point where I decide to either leave it alone or start adding the texture and leaves to the trees and grasses. I’m gonna pin it to my wall and live with it the way it is for a while. For now it’s done. Acrylic on paper, 7x11” #acrylic #acrylicpainting #landscape #painting #pennsylvania

Trump wiped out $1.3 Billion owed by fraudsters... but remember forgiving the student loans is bad socialism. Liz Oyer (@lizoyer) is a former Pardon Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice and a former Federal Public Defender, fired by Trump six moths ago. Follow her here:

Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.

I finished that plein air sketch from Sunday morning. #pleinair #landscape #painting #acrylic #acrylicpainting

I hadn’t painted outside in a while so it was nice to get out this morning. ​I think I might work on this more in the studio this week. #pleinair #landscape #painting #acrylic #acrylicpainting

This one is as small as the recent landscapes but a little slower. I’ve had bad eyesight most of my life and it’s only getting worse with age. I wonder if that contributes to me being more attracted to blurrier paintings. ​ #acrylic #acrylicpainting #selfie #portrait

Not to brag but I didn’t even know who Charlie Kirk was until somebody shot him.

So Trump ends nonprofit, charitable aid that feeds the hungry. Ivanka Trump swoops in to buy the food from the farmers for a song and sells it though her FOR PROFIT business Planet Harvest. And out tax money goes to bail out the farmers for their losses.

And I did another quick, little landscape today. #landscape #painting #acrylic #acrylicpainting #worksonpaper

Much more careful drawing this time. I’m not used to starting with a finished drawing and filling in the shapes being careful to stay within the lines. I’m more accustomed to it being improvisational. The drawing happens as part of the process rather than a blueprint starting point. #watercolor

Two more today. Acrylic on paper. #landscape #painting #acrylics #acrylicpainting

Acrylic on paper. 15 minutes. #landscape #painting #acrylic #acrylicpaint #worksonpaper

5 hour pose today. Acrylics on paper. ​ #art #painting #sketch #acrylic #acrylicpaint #nudemodel #figurepainting #figuredrawing

Figure group today #figuredrawing #drawing #charcoal #charcoaldrawing #pencil #pencildrawing #nudemodel #sketch #sketchbook

My painting interests lately haven’t involved plein air painting, but this evening the weather here was so amazing I just had to get outside. Just a little sketch in my sketchbook. Nothing fancy. Just enjoying the beautiful day. ​#pleinair #watercolor #sketchbook

Trump added a new door in the White House.

If the government under republicans can take 10% of Intel then government under democrats should be able to take the bribes, grift, and profits Trump has made while in office. That money belongs to the citizens of the United States.

Watercolor on toned paper. I always squish heads. Too narrow. Tried to fix with gouache. Quit. Gonna try again with different paper. #watercolor #watercolour #gouache #selfie #portrait #artist

It’s AMAZING to watch CNBC everyday and lately watch Trumper after Trumper applaud the government taking share of corporations. Brad Gerstner today, “Listen, this is unconventional.” Unconventional? If Biden had done it he’d be screaming about socialism.

I did a light Googling and wind got $4.9 billion in tax credits in 2020. The highly profitable oil industry gets $20.5 billion per year in subsidies.

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