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"Phil" (Chuck Close)

Paul Gauguin

This is big...we used it originally to board up a window for band practice and keep the sound down lol...

A young Rembrandt...

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. Words of wisdom...

:) The Revivalists - Wish I Knew You https://youtu.be/o0Pt7M0weUI

lol Some kind of bizarre Van Gogh :dizzy:

St. Jermome from a Durer study (a drawing he did for a subsequent painting of St. Jermone)

A painting I'm working on of my second daughter. I'm not quite as behind on that one. She's only 7! hahaha.

I also had hair! lol

This was a drawing I did at idk...I think 19 or 20. I was a pretty big and strong guy in high school. A captain of our football team. I threw shotput and discus. I sucked at those but at that time I could bench 305. So...you know, big beefy southern guy. I weighed 240 and change, though...and was terribly unhappy about my…

This is a gum arabic print created from the charcoal drawing above. It's an interesting process. You take a photocopy (like a regular photocopy) of something. There's something about the toner which has a chemical reaction/entanglement...something...with this stuff gum arabic which you treat the resulting printed…

A study after a Da Vinci drawing...

An acrylic painting of my first daughter...now she's 9, and this painting still needs work!

I will! I'm actually feeling really dumb that I deleted my MFP account. However, MFP is also dumb and for some reason it still lets me post here hahahaha. idk...maybe I was going too hard and just weightloss and stress got to me. MFP is actually the single greatest tool in my weightloss efforts and I raged at the *kitten*…

I am as well Ash! You're a great drafstman! Great eye. Your portraits in here are awesome!

Good job! It's a good place to target in your diet...booze is great, makes you feel great. Everybody loves it because it's awesome. But yeah, it's really not the best on your diet and your body. I think 2000 to 1200 is too big of a jump...don't forget, you don't have to be perfect! You just need progress. Time marches on,…

Meh. No Key lime pie no care...

I have an elderly neighbor on one side...she and her husband, who recently passed, constantly working outside. They actually have a perfect yard, beautiful landscape...they are insane and will pick up every last pine needle and leaf BY HAND. That's...after their lawn service lol. I'm not every planning on being at that…

I do my own lawncare...I like doing, actually...I love being outside. It's pretty good exercise, too. It's really like getting in a nice walk. What I don't like as much is doing certain things like trimming bushes and chainsaw stuff when trees fall...I still have another one I need to finish. I just don't like power tools…

Nah, I deleted Facebook. I eventually recreated it but only added my three best friends...just to make sure I wouldn't lose their contact. I personally think MFP works way better specifically because you have no idea who any of these people actually are! On Facebook, people wanted to portray a picturesque facade...perfect…

Powerful

I'm nearing 50 lbs lost this year and have come down in sizes...it's pretty nice, tbh. You look in the mirror every day, and your like...am I different? Aren't I different? Sometimes it's kind of hard to know. But...when your belt no longer works...it's true. You're different. You need a new belt. I just bought a smaller…

I really loathe the idea that I would ever have to date again...ughh. It was brutal enough the first time. Now...internet, text, etc...just shoot me, really. lol. I don't know if I could survive.

90's music definitely does it for me...instant nostalgia, as I'm 40 and Pearl Jam, Dinosaur Jr., etc...can immediately bring me back to those days. All of the 90's hip-hop stuff...too...but not quite as much because it doesn't really seem to be AS dated as my cohorts 'rock music'... idk. I love music. I've always been…

Super sour and tart sweets and candies are probably my favorites... But...any kind of breakfasty carbs will also do nicely :)

George Ezra - Cassy O' https://youtu.be/ubztYMkI3fY

If you have a lot of weight to lose then tbh there's no good jump-starting afaik. Just do something that you're mentally into and gets you excited. If you go say...low carb and drop like 10 pounds of water it'll crush you in a month when you finally have some carbs and you gain 5 lbs of water and you'll spend weeks coming…

U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing - official video https://youtu.be/Yrch66gdjjk

The Meters - Yeah, you're right! https://youtu.be/eVtl5Myj__c