Day 2379: I hear laughing!

5 kid pony: Aunt Vonda, Aunt Fern, Uncle Pete, Aunt Martha & Aunt Pauline: old photo, collage  & digital

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Click here for Dave Brubeck, Take Five.

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Sleepy, early this morning, I was on my MacPro laptop. 

Apple messaged me my storage was full on my Icloud.

It gave me the option of buying more storage,

(I already pay a monthly fee for extra storage)

or to manage.  I picked manage. I hear laughing.

A couple more clicks and poof, all my photos are gone!

And, everything on the desktop, except the dock!

I remember seeing that it will be stored in archive.

Where is archive? I wanted to cry. but I didn't.

I will call apple support and some kind genius will help me. 

So I just finished a lunch of leftovers and will call soon.

I hear laughing.
A call to 1-800-my apple, and Katrina helped me.
 I upgraded to 2T storage so am safe for a while, 
but now paying $9.99 a month. 
All is good with help. 

I hear laughing.

I have several blogs that I follow faithfully, 

really enjoying their take on art or life.
One is John Arbuckle, Seattle artist & good friend's here. 
Besides his own talented work, he features a video on art.
Today he introduced me to Njideka Akunyili Crosby.
I am now a fan, and really captivated by her work. 

Njideki Akunyili Crosby was born in Nigeria in 1983 

and moved to the United States at the age of sixteen, 

where she has lived and worked ever since. 

Drawing on artistic, historical, political and personal references, Akunyili Crosby creates densely layered figurative compositions that conjure the complexity of contemporary experience. 

Her cultural identity combines strong attachments to the 

country of her birth and to her adopted home, 

a hybrid identity reflected in her work. Winner of the 

 MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as the Genius Grant.

Beautiful Ones: Njideka Akunyili Crosby

5 Umezebi Street, New Haven, Enugu, 2012: Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Wedding Portrait, 2012: Njideka Akunyili Crosby

 

"Mama, Mummy and Mamma": Njideka Akunyili Crosby

"The Beautyful Ones, Series #1c," 2014.: Njideka Akunyili Crosby

In case you too are interested, John's video is here.

And I found another, here.

What do you think?

A smile for Wednesday ...

 

Day 2237: A new approach?

Zoey: acrylic and collage on canvas

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If you checked the earlier blog, here, I was trying 

to decide which dog sketches could work on canvas.

I needed 2 but went with 3 ... typical!

Ink over pencil sketch on canvas. I usually collage now.

But decided to color areas with acrylic, even though it will most likely be covered with collage. A new approach. Mix it up, right?

Working on all three at the same time with acrylics as a base coat.

 

These look kinda flat but I will hope collage will save them.
I started to collage two ... 

Bonnie: work in progress

Zoey: still work in progress

I had finished the Boxer, Zoey, except for some outlining.

Zoey

More of the other dogs in future blogs.

A smile for Monday ...

Day 2229: All Media 2018

Wise one: ball point pen with ink on matt-board

Not in proportion, I see so many mistakes, but

... so much room for improvement, it's encouraging, right?

original ball point pen sketch

Koenji-Awa-Odori festival goer.

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Irvine Fine Art Center is a lovely venue with a great gallery.

One of their annual shows is the 

All Media show, currently running & free.

As always, I only photograph what catches my eye,

so if you can, please see the whole show for yourself.

Andrea Moni, "And Break Free", Natural pigments, egg tempera & oil glaze

I particularly liked this very long painting, 

I am guesstimating probably 2' x 16'!

It took 5 close-ups to share it. Left to right.

I will show some of the award winners, but mostly not.

Kerri Sabine-Wolf, "Butterfly Effect", oil    First Place

Marie Nagy, "Desert in Suburbia", wood and ceramics.

Paul Gardener, "Birth of Cool", Acrylic on canvas     Second Place

Kai Mao, "Superior Animals - Horse Man", Bronze

Rachelle W. Chuang. "End of Summer Fruit Salad", collage wood panel, epoxy resin

Daniela Garcia, "Self-Portrait in Mirror", Charcoal on paper.

Gina M, "I Got This", Assemblage of found objects.

Phung Huynh, "Pretty Hurts", Oil and collage on wood.

Patrick S, Crabb, "Private Dreams",  Clay.

Samuelle Richardson, "Angry Birds", Mixed-media sculpture

Martin Etem, "Ohana", Poplar wood.

The above work was amazing from every angle,

and my photos surely donot do justice.

I goofed! Artist unknown, appeared to be 8'x8', acrylic & graphite on loose canvas.

I apologize that the work above is not credited, my error.

If you go, maybe you'll send me this info and I'll update?

Well I can hope, right?

TMI alert ...

I mentioned the old wives tale ... "troubles come in threes".

Well I have my three, so please mark me done.

None health threatening, or world changing, 

but irritating, big time.

Try a $225.80 water bill, my highest ever was $38.

Yes. I called them, they re-read the meter and said it was right.

Today I will be using tablets in search of the leak?

My trusty scanner is not connecting, no sound on the old Mac.

Both are lifelines for my work. And the case of the 

working but hiding external hard drive?

I remind myself that these are not really important problems ...

rather just annoying, mood altering, hair pulling problems.

That they are solvable, and I will laugh about these later.

Sooner than later, I am hoping.

Thank you for your patience, it helps to verbalize.

A smile for Sunday ...