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Signs of spring around here: The butterflies are buttering: The beetles are beetling: The wild lilies are in bloom: And free gum arabic is dripping from the thorn trees:

The sound quality here is also good - with this work, the louder passages have a tendency to distort, but not here.

Rather nice performance of this uplifting piece... :-)

Fruit bats - with their dog-like faces they tend to be far cuter than insect-eating bats, which can look downright sinister. :-)

It occurred to me there may be a way to test her ideas: get a large number of paintings, and see if she can tell which ones were done by women, and which by men. If she can, it might give some credence to her theory.

Sunday morning walk around the block...

Controversy of the day:

Well, there it works now - very nice pictures! :-)

I have a feeling all those patterns will appeal to StLukes as well. I tried to go check out your Instagram, but the link doesn't work...

Frances Featherstone: Away With The Fairies’, Oil on canvas, 90 x 70cm. Epicurean Pleasures. Oil on canvas,100 x 90cm. Splendid Isolation. Oil on canvas 80 x 60cm. The Talking Cloth. Oil on canvas, 100 x 75cm.

Being an omniphile is all very well if you're not an artist yourself. My problem is that I like so many different things at different times, that I have found it pretty much impossible to settle on any clearly recognizable thing for myself. Perhaps it is better for an artist not to like too many...

Chad Little: Emotional Support Valise. Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 in With Both Hands. Oil on Linen, 30 x 40 in.

Artwork looted by Nazis 80 years ago spotted in estate agent ad https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq68dze2l71o

AI is pretty good at writing some kinds of pop and country songs. I have yet to see an AI come anywhere close to writing something like, say, Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, or Billy Joel's Italian Restaurant. Same goes with classical music: AI can often make up pastiches of typical Beethoven or...

Here in the southern hemisphere we've had the coldest frickin' winter ever, or at least it feels that way. We'll probably soon have our turn at the heat waves. Can't help with the neocolor gold, but perhaps it's best to switch to the Zorn palette - the fewer colors we have, the fewer that can...