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Sydney's Service

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  Sydney's Service A few days before the 1960 election I was a volunteer usher at at a John F. Kennedy speech and rally at San Francisco's Cow Palace convention center. In his speech Kennedy announced his plan for the Peace Corps.  At the end of the event I salvaged two Kennedy campaign posters adorning the walls.  Years later our granddaughter Sydney served three years in service in the Peace Corps.  When she returned I gave her one of the posters with a note recording its provenance. Earlier this week I did a painting imagining Sydney with the framed poster behind her.  The logo on her laptop is my signature monogram.  
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A Walk in the Park

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   A Walk in the Park A Walk in the Park  looks under the Van  Buren Street Bridge in Wilmington's Brandywine Park.  Acrylic and pastel on canvas, completed yesterday.
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Treasure Hunt 2025

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 Treasure Hunt 2025 Yesterday we continued our tradition of grandkid treasure hunts with great-grand daughter  Alaina.  Last year it involved "invisible Ink" (UV fluorescent}.  This year "Clue Keys" and a "Clue Lock." The Clue Keys (popsicle sticks) were numbered, and had color coded letter cells.  She had to insert then to the Clue Lock, made from foamcore, by number align by colors in the Clue Lock window, then read the clues.  Alaina solved it and found the treasure.               
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Cranes in the Mist

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Cranes in the Mist    
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Bison

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  Bison This morning   I finished  Bison , 8 x 10 inches, acrylic on canvasboard.  He was influenced by my 2009 painting,  Armadillo , both using line work and false color. (The figures across the bottom depict him rolling up into a protective ball.)   Both paintings mimic elements of Albrecht Dürer's 1515 print  Rhinocerus .  
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Quartet

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  Quartet Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Basso Four framed 8x8 panels The gulls are self-plagiarized from my earlier "Frenzy," but now individually presented on a copper-toned ground.  
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"If You're Happy and You Know It..."

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"If You're Happy and You Know It..."     "If You're Happy and You Know It..." completed yesterday. Acrylic and pastels, 11 x 14 in, on canvas. Referenced to photos of our great grandson, but pose details and clothing are made up. He does clap enthusiastically.    
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