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9 x 12 inches .. acrylic on paper .. alla prima .. painted 31/12/25 settled somewhere between the first two .. done deal now. :)

11 x 14 inches .. acrylic on paper .. alla prima .. painted Jan 10/26

https://www.mpg.de/11948095/neandertals-cave-art https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X24005327...

I don't care whether what I make is art, or not. I don't even want to define "art". Perhaps it is a futile endeavour. As long as I feel...

You are referring to final, masterpiece works of art that have been recorded and preserved and luckily survived the ages (not just time...

Prove this. Putting you on ignore. A first here. Congrats.

u·til·i·tar·i·an designed to be useful or practical rather than attractive. I wonder if that first man that made the first marks with...

I tried to get a photo with no wet paint glare, but it wasn't to be. And I may have lost the plot a bit but I'll just adlib as I start...

LOL, Maybe the first caveman would argue with him and deny that it's even art. That he was just doing it for fun. He doesn't know...

It became art for art's sake when the Neanderthals make abstract lines, dots, and hand outlines. Everyone hung out in the caves. It...

Why do you make art? I do it because it's fun. We need to have fun and create. It was the same back then. They would have had some...

Sure it was.

Thank you Terri. Trying to stay away from flowers for a little. 😄

So, a new year, a new excursion. I am going to paint in a response mode and not carry any preconceived notions of the what the finished...

Yup, everything is functional. If it was from pure wonder and creativity that the first man sketched a stick figure in the mud, that...