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The US Postal Service

I am going to ask you all to do a small but important thing. When you go to the post office to mail a package or buy stamps or shipping supplies, get a receipt.

At the bottom of the receipt is a link and a QR code to fill out a short survey about your "customer satisfaction" with the post office. You are going to fill out that (it takes less than two minutes) and you are going to give them a glowing review each time!

Why? Because they are looking for reasons to make budget cuts despite the USPS being in the constitution and a valuable public service. So we are going to make it unequivocal that we like the postal service.

Because we do!

They send medicine cheaply, they take ballots for voting (which Republicans hate). They are the only shipping service in many rural areas. AND they are basically all that is keeping UPS, FedEx etc's prices down. Privatization means everything will be more expensive.

The post office is ours. It's our right. And the workers there are also being treated like shit right now. So support them in this very simple, easy way. And do this every single time you go there. Please. (And please reblog this. Let's overwhelmingly flood the system with positive feedback.)

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Drought of creativity

Been struggling with a bit of creative burnout. Not much in the way of new art happening so far this year, just playing around in the sketchbook.

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April's Flight 24" x 24" Oil on Canvas

This piece certainly came together fast. I've been staring at an old painting for couple months thinking that I can breathe new life into it. Once I put on the easel and started painting, this image came to life. It's been a long time since a painting took only a day to come together and I'm very pleased with how this turned out. I just love the energy and the movement in brushwork and marks.

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The Painted Lady 24" x 24" Oil on Canvas

This piece took a bit of a journey, like most of my work. I traveled with it and chose a different color palette than I'm use to. This was a fun trip to take and I think the piece turned out well. The best part is that one of my kids helped me out with the composition and offered some really interesting insights to what they actually saw in the painting. It was great to have that moment, listen and to incorporate their insights into this piece.

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Lunar Reflections 24" x 24" Oil on Canvas

Another reclaimed canvas gets a new life. This one was challenging in many regards. One of my challenges was working with differing greens and limiting my color palette choices. Also, I tried not to put too much paint on the canvas or work with the palette knife a lot, but my muscle memory really just hit with all the textures. I'm pleased with where this piece went, but I know I could have improved on it and pushed it further. I'm calling it done as the painting was beginning to get over worked and losing all the wonderful under paint I had going on.

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Azure Signals 24"x24" Oil on Canvas

Took another reclaimed canvas and breathed new life into it. I'm wanting to get more loose with my work and not lay the paint down so thick. Hopefully, I achieved that some with this piece. I really like the glow and the colors that I got on this piece. Very pleased with it. ­

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Look 20"x20" Oil on Canvas

Another painting that took me forever to complete. This one was on my easel…mocking me. Definitely tried something different with this one. I tried to capture the mystery of a rare black barn owl.

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Silent Shore 20"x30" Oil on Canvas

This painting is on a reclaimed canvas. I believe this is now the third painting on this canvas. Hopefully, this latest image is more lively than the previous image. This took me a while as I am still struggling with a bit of a creative funk. This should not have taken me 3 months.

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Finally had sometime to update my Etsy shop with a bunch of stickers that I've designed over the years!

Check it out: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cogwurx?section_id=18451473

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I spent the last few weeks updating my POD stores and my Etsy store. I have a bit more to add to my Etsy shop, though all my available original oil paintings are up.

You can find my work on Etsy, Zazzle, Saatchi, FineArt America, Threadless, and Teepublic.

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Red Grasshawk 24" x 24" Oil on Canvas

This was a fun piece to work on because of the challenging line work and movement. It was great to try a different color palette than I'm used to.

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Priamus

24"x24" Oil On Canvas

The butterfly motif has been something that's been really speaking to me lately. Their movement and the lines of their forms have an energy that I want to capture and share. This one feels like it is about to take off.

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City on the Hills 12"x18" Oil on Canvas

I am happy with they way this turned out, though not really happy with the picture that I took of this piece. My biggest struggle is that I am a horrible photographer. Anyway, this is a reclaimed canvas. The original painting just never quite felt finished until now. I am pretty sure that I have a lot more paintings in storage that will get a second life as I believe a few of them were never quite finished either.

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Verdes Blue 24" x 24" Oil on Canvas

I really wanted to capture the softness and color of the Palos Verdes Butterfly in this piece. The butterfly has some really beautiful markings under their wings that I wanting to play with. 

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Beacon 16"x20" Oil on Canvas Breathed new life into an old painting from 2015. I have been looking at some of my old pieces and getting the sense that they were never really finished. I have another older piece that will likely get reworked. ©cogwurx

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Aporia 24" x 24" Oil on Canvas

This one sat on my easel for a quiet sometime. I wasn't necessarily stuck on the painting, as I was not truly motivated to paint. This fall has been a bit odd to say the least. Regardless of life, I was able to just sit and take my time with this one as I went with a more minimal approach and focusing on the line movement.

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