This is like saying people at Diddy parties BEFORE his trial didn’t know what a Diddy party was. Like, only the publicity now makes it what it always was. Anyone who raped children before 2008 will just claim they had no idea what went on. “Oh, sure, I was there, but I had no idea about the raping.”

I can’t imagine being a billionaire and needing to go to Rape Island to get laid.

After shoveling snow all day I’m wishing there was a warm, blue state.

Legitimate law enforcement officers not speaking out against this undermines public trust and calls into question EVERY shooting by police.

The Right: “Everyone should have a gun.” ICE: “Alex Pretti had a gun.” The Right: “He shouldn’t have had a gun.”

Still trying to figure out how to paint a foreground. I like painting what’s in the distance, but the mess of what’s at my feet doesn’t interest me. It just seems necessary sometimes. Greens and Blues (Chicory), oil on panel, 16×20”

If the ICE murderer is allowed to keep his $1 million GoFundMe that only encourages the other goons to murder for profit.

An ear in oil paint at figure group today.

5 minute poses and 10 minute poses.

Snow on Whiskey Hill, acrylic, 12×16”

1/2 Congressman Dan Meuser on X "… Nicolás Maduro has presided over a regime marked by arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture, extrajudicial killings, disappearances, repression of dissent, and serious restrictions on freedom of expression and political opposition. …

This is the painting done from the recent watercolor sketch I posted. I’m not sure if this is done. The clouds are deliberately old fashioned (Rococo maybe?) so it feels like it needs some cherubs. But instead of cherubs I’m thinking about adding some birds. Nelson Pond, oil on canvas, 15x30”

That time of year again.

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