All joking aside, I’m pleased to share the following from the National Association of Digital Artists (naDA):
Black Belt in Defensive and Offensive Digital Art
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O’Betty’s in Athens, OH
According to O’Betty’s website, the eatery is located in the Cameron building, the smallest building in Uptown Athens. Originally built as a barber shop, the venue has been the home of other restaurants, such as Seven Sauces, The Strawberry Patch, The Korean Restaurant, DV8, The Redbud Cafe, and finally and lastly, O’Betty’s. I fondly remember Redbud Cafe; but, whenever I bite into one of O’Betty’s delicious hot dogs, I’m overcome with amnesia, euphoria, and dejavú.
O’Betty’s in Uptown Athens, OH
Technical: I used my own reference photo to make this quirky iPad painting in Sketch Club with an Apple Pencil. The composition took me about 3 hours over the span of several days and consists of 6,486 brush strokes on 3 layers. I then tweaked the image in iColorama.
Our Annual Christmas Letter: A
As you well know, we here at portfoliolongo.com have a holiday tradition that goes back all the way to 2013, yes, our Annual Christmas Letter! (Please continue reading below.)
At our annual retreat in early December the Board of Directors and Senior Management – both of us – meet and, after a self-facilitated process that incorporated large sheets of adhesive, butcher-block paper and color-coded stickies, decided ultimately that the 2024 letter would be A, mainly because of our new facility in Canaan Township, Athens County, Ohio. Please click here to view posts previous years’ letters.
PATSCH AUTO BUS CO. INC.
Several years ago I saw an awesome photo on Flickr taken by David Wilson, I believe in 1969, of one of the old buses that I would see almost every day of my childhood growing up in Canonsburg, PA. Click here to see that photo. I’d been so taken by that photo that I decided to use it as a reference for a freehand, digital painting on my iPad Pro in the Sketch Club app. The image brings back fond memories, and I can almost hear and smell that bus going through this intersection in Houston, PA, a neighboring town.
Click HERE to see a Patsch Auto Bus Co. token.
(click on image to enlarge)
Pardon me, my mind was wandering
“Impermanent record,” occurred to me as a vague notion. When I mentioned it to Annyth, she suggested that I do a cartoon, and the notion remained a velleity until now.
The title of this post can be attributed to the late Dr. Owen Dukelow, Professor of Philosophy at Washington and Jefferson College. As an undergrad in the mid to late 1970s I took a couple of his classes. I also worked in the college library all four years, and Professor Dukelow would show up now and then and place a stack of his newsletters/bulletins on the front desk for people to take away and read for free. The informal series was entitled, Pardon Me, My Mind Was Wandering. I remember finding his short essays amusing, but I wasn’t mature enough to recognize the themes of equanimity and impermanence. I do now, at least to some extent.
11 years here (wherever here is)!
…a collection of images – mostly digital – and other impressions…
Survey Says:
I’ll have what they’re drinking.
survey says
National Peach Tree Dish Day
Let’s leave it at that.
Sketch Club App (iPad Art) Stats:
Night Time at Hidden Drive Hollow
Annyth took a nighttime photo of our new place at “Hidden Drive Hollow” that I loved so much that I thought I’d sketch it out on my iPad. Why that name? Well, as you approach our place on this county road from both directions, there are yellow signs that say, “Hidden Drive.” So, Hidden Drive Hollow, all 1.83 acres of it.
I don’t want to boast, but we had a bidet installed in the primary bath.
No Idea…(but does Guzzell’s Hardware ring a bell?)
a bird flying while carrying a suitcase with a Blue Eagle Guitars sticker on it
I have no idea what this image means, a bird flying while carrying a suitcase with a Blue Eagle Guitars sticker on it? But I do know this, that some people of a certain age from Canonsburg, PA would easily “get” the Blue Eagle Guitar Shop based on their experience at Guzzell’s Hardware Store. If Stanley Guzzell catered to Western Pennsylvanian musicians, his shop would be like Blue Eagle Guitars. Everybody knows places like this. They’re not neat. If it’s not there, you really didn’t need it.
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