Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Paintography.... Thinking It Through .... What Is It





February 23, 2011 inbox email .... "I agree with you that everyone involved in this project can feel a sense of pride in being a part of it. Hopefully, the artwork created as a result will have the distinction of its historical significance."
(Brenda Meir, Arizona Veterinary Medical Association)

February 24, 2011 inbox email ... "I so proud that your painting was juried into the show. What a great forum to show off your talent!"
(from Dr. Svoboda
"Medicine is a Science...Caring is an Art." Sent from my Sprint®BlackBerry®)


To My Friends in Phoenix Artist Guild ... I give many thanks to the Board, the members, and the meetings that inspired me and others to actively participate in art shows, learning more about creating art, and improving my social skills while meeting and making friends. I want to thank you sincerely for being so generous with your time and caring to share what you know with others.  Your souls are surely sweetened by your spiritual giving.
http://ymmartin.com/ART-awards-shows.html This is a web page on my web site where I keep a record of all the art awards and shows I have entered ..... This morning, I added the 2 entries that were accepted into the 250th Anniversary Veterinarian Show ... Once the paintings are hung in the gallery and the artist’s info cards beside them, I will create a YouTube video using photos I take of all the entered paintings.

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Friday, February 11, 2011

A painting of mine was juried into the Phoenix Artists Guild Art Show hosted by the Arizona Artists Guild Gallery, 9011 East Indian Bend Road, Scottsdale, Arizona, Feb 2-13, 2011. So pleased with the exhibit, I created a photo cyber tour video of the 26 PAG member paintings with their info cards and uploaded it to YouTube so participating artists could extend their audience of appreciation. This is my painting which you will see is now on display and shown in the video.




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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Dog Art and Dog Lovers Web Sites ....

Dog Art Sites


Dog Lover Sites

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Monday, February 7, 2011

My Song Music Man, 9 weeks old weighs 1 3/4 lbs

My Song Music Man, 9 weeks old weighs 1 3/4 lbs

 

My Song Music Man is really adorable, fluffy, playful, with very expressive beautiful eyes... I clipped all 12 feet toenails, 3 puppies, and weighed and groomed Sonata's 2 puppies from Dec 6, 2010 whelping (Holly weighs 2 1/2 lbs and Music Man weighs 1 3/4 lbs).  Music Man really is vocal and musical.... yes, and he dances too!
 
My Song Music Man is so precious to me since I snatched him from death's clutches 2 or 3 times literally having to resuscitate him and rubbing him warm again. He weighed 8 oz at 6 weeks birth weight 6 oz .... simply had a terribly tough infancy (understated) .... I fed him with an eye dropper every 2-3 hours round the clock until he was 6 weeks old, and then one morning, there he was full body lapping away happily in the baby formula food bowl, his sister's weaning formula .... he lost the hair off his tail and it was stark skin naked like a mouse tail. I was reconciled to his never having a Pekingese tail and still loving him with his naked tail embarrassingly abnormal, but now he has hair growing back and it is really thick too... at 9 weeks of age he is the size of 4-5 week old Pekingese puppy (Sonata's) ....  "My Song of Survival" .... that should be his name.... and perhaps will be the way I always will think of him from now on.
 
Faith.....I never gave up hope despite how sick looking and frail he was.... I am convinced he survived only because he knew he was loved and valued highly in my heart and life... The more effort you put into nurturing puppies, the closer you are drawn to them... Goodness knows I don't need to add any more Pekingese to add to my many keepers, but how can I part with him now.... or his sister? ... the 3 puppies (1 is the parti puppy from Christina Greene) are all very close to one another and it would be unnatural to separate them now or ever ... I have so many puppy and Pekingese strings to me, it is like a harp that plays when I am with them.
 
Soooooooooooooooooo that's my story, and I am proud of it!
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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Pekingese

Pekingese are beautiful.
They have more coat colors,
coat textures,
and spiritual senses
in their long history
than any other breed I know of. 

I have elevated their status above
an inadequate common designation,
thought by others as “dogs” ...
so much more than mere “pets”.....
to being my caring friends of a different species ....
my comparative psychology research individuals....
my photographic models....
my subjects of literature and poetry....
and my primary way of meeting new friends....
those who share in common...
a love for the Pekingese dog breed ....
they are not my whole world....
but they do make my world complete....
very satisfying ....
they cost me a small fortune....
since one then another is never enough....
they are the luxury I allow myself....
they're my family home companions....
keeping me safe, secure, and spiritually sensitive.
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Love.... A Valentine Greeting

It is not too early to think of February 14, th 2011, Valentines’ Day .... a day celebrating and focusing on LOVE.
 
I made this animation this afternoon inspired by other traditional valentines often simply bounded and limited to human to human emotional feelings of love and affection .... Love crosses all of life’s boundaries and I hope this graphic conveys that meaning and feeling... One can love another so deeply it permeates through other life forms to its destination  ... and other universes.... that is God’s love and the power of love a soul can communicate. Love empowers all life where ever and however it exists.  I believe Love is what saved my frail, tiny puppy Pekingese and gave him the will and power to survived, allowed him to live.
 

Yolanda ..... for all she has ever loved and been loved in return.
 
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Sunday, December 26, 2010

When Right Is Wrong, And Wrong Is Right

It was Christmas morning, and I had self gifted myself a Laguna Power Clean Cordless Pond Cleaner to keep my 4 Koi above ground pools clean, no sludge or debris on the bottom and sides of the pools ....

I had wanted this tool for a long time but its price was beyond my budget until Ocean Floor offerred me a
40% discount on any single item in their store.... It was retailed at $346.49 and 40% brought it down enough
that I could go ahead and give it to myself for Christmas only a few days away. 

I enthusiastically opened the 5 ft long box and began assembling the tool.  I was a little dismayed that the Laguna Operation and Maintenance Guide didn't have any instructions on how to put it together, but that has happened before with other products so I did the best I could by looking at the pictures of the cleaner on the box.  It didn't take very long to assemble, but then I noticed that the instruction booklet said to charge the battery 4 hours before using.  Ok, I thought to myself, but then read "IMPORTANT CHARGING NOTES", "When the battery is charging the light on the plug will be green.  When the battery is fully charged, the light will turn to red."  Well,.... this is certainly contrary to convention, I thought to myself.  I put the battery into the charger and the light was red. Hmmm, something is strange, must already be charged.  So I put the battery in my pond cleaner and it was working okay enough for me to try cleaning my largest pool. I finished cleaning the pool and was very happy with my new pond cleaner but still puzzled by the red versus green light indicators.  I removed the battery from the tool and inserted it into the charger, the light was red.  Okay, I thought to myself, we'll leave it in for the required 4 hours and see if it turns to green. The instructions said vice versa, but we all know documentation sometimes has errors, and in this case, the suspected erroneous instruction was consistent in three different languages of the documentation.  I couldn't call their customer service because it was Christmas day, perhaps they might not know either.

After 4 hours charging time, the light turned green.  The instructions were wrong.  Maybe that is why they didn't provide any assembly instructions either since that would have really fouled things up if they too were similarly wrong. 

When Right is Wrong, And Wrong is Right.... I learned that actually the light is red when charging, and it is green when finished and fully charged..... contrary to what their instruction and operation manual stated in 3 different languages.

When Truth is False, And False is Truth, verifiable by reality and life itself, we learn to ignore what normally should be accurate since we know emperically it isn't.  Little by little misleading and false statements erode confidence, safety, and security in our economy, its goods and services that should have integrity and quality; it creates distrust both in the product, in the supporting documentation of the product, and discredits its vendor.

Red versus Green indicator lights. Imagine what would happen if this error occurred in our traffic stop lights! Christmas lights, red and green colors, it is all very pretty, but what is real? When Right is Wrong, And Wrong is Right.....who is accountable for the errors in the confounded, crazy confusion consequences?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!
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