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Quarantine Portrait Series: Brother Dave from More Than 50 Years Ago

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This was a very difficult portrait to make. This is my first attempt, and it looks pretty good, but look at the ears. They are down by brother Dave’s chin.  I show the original photograph below to show their true position.  And yet the photo looks natural. The drawing does too, except when one looks […]

Another Leaf

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I think The Healing Garden gardener is correct: Arthur, my pet avocado sapling is irretrievable. I’m going to probably chronicle Arthur’s demise, since I did all I could to revive him. Is that wrong? It probably isn’t for a plant.  The animal kingdom is probably different. Some would say it is definitively wrong to chronicle the […]