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Glen reaching a high note on Falling Slowly
Update (Late August, 2026, a few weeks after Glen’s tragic and fatal motorcycle accident): The particular “high note” I’ve tried to capture Glen Hansard reaching is curiously referred to as an “appoggiature” by Doug Helvering in the YouTube video I’ve inserted below. Please check it out because he expresses the grief and deep appreciation in a remarkably technical and sensitive manner. I’ll leave it at that.
This freehand iPad painting done in Sketch Club with an Apple Pencil, uses a screenshot of Irish musician Glen Hansard and, although not depicted, Czech singer and pianist Markéta Irglová, from the folk rock duo, the Swell Season, as they perform Falling Slowly on YouTube.
Glen Hansard (click on image to enlarge)
Updated insert: The Appoggiatura that won Glen Hansard an Oscar | Falling Slowly | RIP Glen
Roughly Nov. 2022 – Nov. 2023 (CA to OH)
Here’s a video summary of many (not all) of the digital images and smaller videos that I’ve composed on my iPad Pro using an Apple Pencil from November 2022 to part way through November 2023. The time period happens to correspond to our corporate move from California to Ohio. As usual some of the images are cartoonish, some are a little more serious; there are a few dogs, a few airbnbs, some political figures, and some psychopaths, I’m doing an inventory so that I can pick out one, maybe two or three for a “call for entry.” Feel free to leave a comment or ask a question in the space provided below, and thanks for visiting.
Primo and his Blankie
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My Nuts
Nuff said? What’s FAITH got to do with it? Click here to find out.
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Kick back
I was looking at videos on O Coruña (La Coruña), España, and when I saw this sculpture of Galician novelist, poet, playwright, and journalist, Álvaro Cunqueiro Mora, my mind wandered, and I felt like executing a rendition of it in Sketch Club on an iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil.: CLICK HERE to see the statue.
Another guy
My wife recently reconnected over Zoom with a colleague whom she hadn’t seen for over 30 years. She mentioned that I paint on an iPad, and he expressed curiosity. So she caught an animated screenshot, and I spent 1 hour, 48 minutes in Sketch Club trying to render his image using a total of 5,644 brush strokes (Brush – 3,295; Blur – 37; Eraser – 54; Sketchy, my favorite tool – 264; and Smudge – 1994) on 2 layers with 78 undos. I’d say I came pretty close to capturing his expressive essence. Close enough for me. I’ve mentioned it before, when you spend time with someone’s features, you get to know them in a different sort of way. It might be that I get to know and maybe even broaden a certain empathetic part of me. Not completely sure.
Lay Over
We trained from CA to Chicago on the Californian Zephyr, spent the night to catch the Capitol Limited to Pgh. Here’s where we finalized our trifecta and more! The Chicago hot dog, no ketchup of course, coupled with polish sausage, at the Chicago Brewery along the Riverwalk! Last night we had deep dish pizza, and for lunch today, an Italian Beef!!!! Amen!
Jim Foote Senior, AA 1284, DFW to FAT
On our flight from Dallas/Fort Worth to Fresno I asked Mr. Foote, who will turn 90 soon, if I could draw him, and he said, sure. While I sketched, he told me stories. I learned a lot! I found out he’s an author, an illustrator, and a retired educator. Check him out on Amazon by clicking here. What a blessing, especially after a such a blessed reunion with my sister and brother and their loved ones!
Hold Still, Rudy
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