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Adventures of a military officer turned artist turned program manager turned artist again ... wondering what he'll be when he grows up ...
Artists I Like
- Adam Miller - Mythology
- C.W. Mundy - Old-school American painter
- Genie Maples - abstract paintings
- Helen Gotlib - figure drawings
- Janet Hamlin - courtroom artist
- Jerome Witkin - Story paintings
- Mark Demsteader - Figures
- Nick Alm - Figurative painter
- Nina Berman - documentary photography
- Peter Howson - narrative paintings
- Robert Liberace: Portraits and Figures
- Stuart Roper - plein air painter
- Terpsicorps Dance Company
- Valerie Patterson - politically conscious paintings
- Victor Juhasz - Rolling Stone caricaturist
- Virginia Derryberry - Figurative painter
Blog Archive
Labels
- "After the Conflict"
- "Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green"
- "The Gatekeepers"
- "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"
- 16 Patton Gallery
- 20 Feet from Stardom
- 30 in 30
- A Boring Life
- Abu Ghraib
- Adam Miller
- Addison's disease
- Addison's disease in a Shih Tzu
- Addison's disease in a smart little dog
- Admiral Fallon
- adrenal failure
- advice
- Afghanistan
- Afghanistan injury
- AI art
- AirPort
- Al Gore
- Al Qaeda
- Al Sharpton
- Alberto Gonzalez
- Alex Kanevsky
- Alfa Romeo
- Ali Al Salem
- Alice Neel
- Alice Tan Riddley
- Altitude Fine Art
- Alzheimer's
- Amelia Stamps
- America's Got Talent
- American Sniper
- and even older friends
- and pigeons
- Anders Zorn
- Anderson Nissan
- Andy Farkas
- Animal Hospital of Reems Creek
- Ann Coulter
- Ann Strassman
- Anna Kournikova
- Anne Magill
- anti-American
- anti-Semitism
- Aperture magazine
- Apple
- Apple Store
- Arghandab
- army
- Army of Dude
- art
- art about war
- art center
- art class
- art commission
- Art Cries Out
- art demonstration
- art education
- art exhibitions
- art gallery
- Art in America
- Art Lien
- Art marketing
- art notes
- art sales
- art studio
- artist
- artist model
- artist website
- artwork titles
- artworks
- Asheville
- Asheville and kids
- Asheville Arts Council
- Asheville Event Paintings
- Asheville Mural Project
- Asheville Urban Landscape Project
- At Home in Baghdad
- Attack on Iran
- Attorney General
- Avis
- baby picture
- Bad Company
- Baghdad
- Baghdad Anne
- Baghdad photos
- Baltimore Museum of Art
- Banksy
- Barack Obama
- BB King
- bears
- Beer and beards
- Bele Chere
- Bella Vista Art Gallery
- Ben Steele
- Bill Hester Fine Art
- Bill Robles
- Billy Ray Cyrus
- Billy Shire
- Biltmore wedding
- black lives matter
- Blackwater
- blockchains
- Blue Spiral 1
- blues
- Bob Vincent
- Bobby Medford
- Bose
- Bosnia
- Botero
- boycott BP
- boycott CITGO
- BREXIT
- Brian Vasilik
- budget
- Bullman Heating and Air
- Bush
- but somebody's gotta do it.
- C W Mundy
- C-130
- calls for help
- Capture Me Candid
- car cleaning
- career
- caricatures
- Carolina's Got Art
- cars
- CBS Sunday Morning
- CD
- CD's
- celebrity
- cell phone
- ceremony
- challenging art
- changing times
- Chapel Hill
- charcoal
- Chart House Restaurant
- Chavez
- Cheney
- Chiefs
- children
- Christy Lee Rogers
- Chromatic Black
- CHUs
- CIA
- Civil War
- Claire Klarewicz-Okser
- climate change
- Clinton
- clouds
- Collateral Murder
- college degree
- color
- color charts
- color mixing
- color perception
- color vision
- combat art
- combat artist
- comic book art
- composition
- computers
- Confederate flag
- Connor Doran
- Constance Bosworth
- Constance Humphries
- contractors
- coronavirus
- Corps of Engineers
- Country Club of Asheville
- courtroom artist
- courtroom drawings
- crashes
- creativity
- cricket cheerleaders
- Crimea
- crowdsourcing
- crypto currencies
- Curras
- cyclops
- Dana Verkouteren
- David Eberhart
- David Rohde
- David Shevlino
- Daytona
- death
- deer
- Defense
- deficit
- Dell
- dementia
- Democrats
- Derek Overfield
- desert
- development of a painting
- dfac
- DFN Gallery
- diesel locomotive
- Disney is an asshole
- Disneyworld
- distortion
- doggie dementia
- dogs
- Donald Trump
- Donna Polseno
- Dr. Ryan Hammond
- drawing
- drawings
- drivers
- drypoint
- earmarks
- Edward Hopper
- Elder Gallery
- Elizabeth Herman
- Embody project
- environment
- Ephphatha Poetry
- Erica Mueller
- Esquire article
- etsy
- European trip
- Excursions in dust storms
- experiments
- expressions
- Fabulous Thunderbirds
- Faces of Afghanistan
- Falluja
- fame
- family
- family history
- FARC hostages
- Fayetteville
- FBI
- Fighting Gravity
- figurative paintings
- figure drawing
- figure painting
- figures
- fire
- firefight
- FISA
- FL3TCH3R Exhibit
- Flags of Our Fathers
- Florence
- Forum Gallery
- fox news
- Frank Lombardo
- Friends
- funeral
- gallery
- Gallery Henoch
- Gallery Underground
- Gamblin
- gas prices
- Genealogy
- Genie Maples
- Geoffrey Laurence
- geology
- George Bush
- Georges Mazilu
- Gettysburg
- Ghostery
- Giacobbe-Fritz FIne Art
- Goblin Market Restaurant
- Going Home
- Golden Paints
- Gonzales
- Gonzalez
- government
- graffitti
- Grand Canyon
- grid system
- gross stupidity on an international scale
- groundhog day
- Guillermo Munoz Vera
- Hanukah
- Hassan Musa
- heat pump
- Helen Gotlib
- Hillary Clinton
- history
- hookahs
- horse drawing
- horse painting
- hospital
- Huckabee
- Huffington Post
- Hung Liu
- Hunter Stamps
- Ian Wilkinson
- ichat and skype
- Il Silenzio
- iMac
- imagination
- immigrants
- Imus
- Indian wedding
- inspector general
- intaglio
- intelligence
- interpreters
- interview
- Intrigue Gallery
- inventory
- investigation
- iPhone
- iPhoto
- iPod
- Iran
- Iraq
- Iraq reconstruction
- Iraq training
- Iraqi elections
- Israel
- It's a new job
- Italy
- Jack Vettriano
- Jackie Evancho
- Jackson pictures
- James McNeill Whistler
- Janet Hamlin
- Janis Ian
- Japan
- Jason Porath
- Jeremy Lipking
- Jeremy Van Schoonhoven
- Jerome Witkin
- Jesse Jackson
- JMW Turner
- Job hunting
- Job pains
- job search
- Joe Sorren
- John Kerry
- John McCain
- John Prine
- Jon Voight
- journalism
- Judge Thomas Ellis
- Julianne Moore
- July 4th
- K.T. Oslin
- Kabul
- Kandahar
- Karen Waters
- Karl Rove
- Kent State
- Khaled Hosseini
- kids
- Kim Cogan
- Kim Jones
- Kindle
- kittens
- Kodak photo printer
- Korengal
- Kris Battles
- Kristina Havens
- Kyle Carpenter
- Land Rover Discovery
- landscape
- landscape paintings
- languages
- Laura Buxton
- Laura Chenicek
- Lees-McRae art exhibit
- Leonard Dufresne
- Libby
- Lieberman
- life drawing
- life in the fast lane
- life painting
- limited palette
- Lincoln
- live event painting
- live painting
- live wedding painting
- London
- Lost
- Lubeznik Center
- Lucian Freud
- Lucien Freud
- Mac
- MacBook
- Macs
- Madison County
- Madonna
- Maged Hussein
- Maiwand
- Marilyn Church
- Marine Corps
- Marines
- Mark Demsteader
- Mark Meadows
- marketing
- Mars Hill College
- Mars Hill University
- Mars Landing Galleries
- Marshall High Studios
- Martin Mull
- Marwencol
- Mary Chaney
- Maryland Institute College of Art
- Mase Lucas
- Mayhem
- Mazda
- McCain
- McConnell
- meaning
- media
- medical
- Medicare/Medicaid
- Meditation on War
- memorial day
- Michael Grimm
- Microsoft
- military
- Mini Cooper
- Miraculous wonderful amazing computer cable
- Mitchell Albala
- models
- Mojave
- Mona Edwards
- Mostar
- movies
- Mt. Dora
- mural
- Muscatatuck
- music
- Naples Yellow
- narrative painting
- national competition
- National Gallery of Art
- National Intelligence Estimate
- Navy
- Navy officers behaving badly
- Navy steaming
- Netherlands
- New Year
- New York Times
- news
- NFTs
- Nick
- Nick Alm
- Nissan Altima
- Nissan USA
- Nixon
- No Bad Wine
- Norman Rockwell
- Now and Then
- NSA
- Nuart Gallery
- Obama
- Odd Nerdrum
- Ohio University Zanesville
- oil painting
- oil sketch
- old dog
- Old friends
- Old Times
- Olympia
- Organizational reshuffle
- Osama bin Laden
- P F Chang
- painter
- Painter's Keys
- painting
- painting class
- painting colors
- painting knife
- painting of a horse
- Painting Perceptions blog
- painting process
- painting series
- paintings
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- palette
- Pamela Franken Fiedler
- Pandora
- party
- passwords
- pastel
- Patrick Flynn
- Paul Krugman
- Paul Newman
- Paul Wolfowitz
- Paulette Frankl
- PCs
- Peggy Root
- Pelosi
- pen and ink
- pet portraits
- Peter Howson
- phony soldier
- photographing art
- photography
- photos
- photos of people of China
- Photoshop Elements
- Pictures of a Palace
- Pisa
- pizza
- Plame
- plan
- Pleasantville
- plein-air painting
- podcasts
- political art
- politics
- Politics one more time
- pollution
- polyester canvas
- Portland
- Portrait
- Portraits
- Portraits from Iraq
- posthumous portrait
- posts
- Prague
- President
- presidential campaign
- presidential elections
- Prince Poppycock
- prints
- protest art
- Purple Ball
- quality
- Quang Ho
- race relations
- Radio
- Radovan Karadzic
- rap
- Ratko Mladic
- Razr
- reference photos
- Rejected Princesses
- Rembrandt
- Remote Sites of War
- Republican Palace
- Republicans
- restaurant
- revisions
- Rhino runs
- Richard Johnson
- River Arts District
- Riverside Business Park
- Rob Amberg
- Robert Gates
- Robert Genn
- Robert Hagan
- Robert Liberace
- Robert Selwyn
- Robert Winkler
- rocks
- Romney
- Rory Alan MacLean
- Rove
- Ruby Sparks
- Rush
- Saatchi Art
- Samsung
- San Diego
- Santa Fe galleries
- Santiago Perez
- Sarajevo
- Sather AFB
- satire
- Saturday Night Live
- Saul Alinsky
- say their names
- Scooter Libby
- Selfie
- Serbia
- sewage treatment
- Seymour Hersch
- Shelagh Forrest
- sheriff
- Shih Tzu
- Shirley Sherrod
- SIGIR
- signing statements
- Sikhs
- sketches
- sketching
- skin colors
- Sleep ... all I want is sleep ...
- Smithsonian Museum
- snow
- soccer
- social media
- Social Security
- soldier
- soldiers
- Soldiers' Angels Germany
- Sophos
- spam
- Speaking of Travel
- Spielberg
- Spin Boldak
- spring
- St. Augustine
- State Department
- state fair
- Stefan Stux
- Steve Huston
- Steve Werblun
- Still Alice
- stinkbugs
- stomach virus
- stream of conscious writing
- student
- Studio
- studio business
- studio closeout
- studio open house
- studio publicity
- Studio Stroll
- stylish shades
- suicide
- Survivor series
- Survivors
- Susan Schary
- Syria
- taboret
- Taliban
- Tamie Beldue
- Taylor Mathews
- Tea Party
- Tea Party Terrorists
- technology
- television
- Tenet
- Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church
- tennis elbow
- Teresa Oaxaca
- Terry Barnich
- Thanksgiving
- The Kite Runner
- The Ridge
- The Sandbox
- The Telling Well
- Thomas Hart Benton
- Tianbing Li
- Tipton Gallery
- titles
- Tom Richmond
- tornado
- torture
- training
- trauma
- treason
- trial
- Tripletts of Belleville
- truth and lies
- Turner Carroll Gallery
- turntable
- TV news team
- TVA
- Twickenham House
- Ugandans
- Ukraine
- Ulysses Grant
- UNCA
- USO
- USS Worden
- Ute Rathmann
- Valerie Plame
- Van Dyke
- Venezuela
- Verizon
- Vermeer
- vestibular disease
- veterans
- Veterans Artist Program
- Veterans Day
- Vicki Behringer
- victory
- Victory Base
- visas
- vitreous detachment
- Volvo
- Walter Reed
- war
- war movies
- Warrior
- Warrior's Canvas
- wasps
- watercolor
- web
- wedding
- wedding painter
- wedding painting
- wedding photography
- wedding planner
- weddings
- Weebly
- Wei Dong
- Weizenblatt Gallery
- Whitney Biennial
- Wikileaks video
- wildlife
- Windows 8
- WLOS
- Word of Faith
- work in progress
- workshop
- WZGM
- Xenia Hausner
- Yang Shewai
- yellowjackets
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