The link to my website: Claude Lyles Art Works , recently updated. Best view is on your desktop, tablet or laptop; if, however, you view on your phone, the menu is in the "hamburger" in the upper left of the opening screen. It will give you several viewing options.
My only social media is Instagram. I use it to keep track of all the wonderful art being created every day, all around the world. You can see a more current version of my comings and goings, art in progress, friends visiting SW Florida, etc. follow: estudiocieloazul
Reminder that you can click on photos to enlarge and pinch open even further. And, if you are curious about possibly purchasing a piece, contact me and I will quote you a price either framed or unframed. They are surprisingly affordable. I sold another piece last week. It made me happy to make them happy.
New Art:
Other Art:
Art Saint Louis has a new show. As usual, exceptional talent if you are near 1223 Pine. Their website has directions and gallery times. Free admission. Tell Chandler I sent you. Art St Louis website
The next two pieces were in a show at the Punta Gorda Visual Arts Center watercolor show. Not traditional watercolor application but fun stuff.
Punta Gorda Art Center link
The detail on this is amazing.
This was fun. On TV, a portrait contest in England, future challenges were to take place in other parts of GB. Invited artists had 4 hours to complete, they then voted and awarded 3 finalists to compete in the combined GB finale.
Watching:
On the anniversary of D-Day: I was watching an interesting interview with the grand daughter of Eisenhower. She talked about topics I had not heard before. Even today, you could sense the emotion she had for him and the troops. They discussed the letters he wrote in case things did not go well, why he could not communicate with family before the invasion, etc. I try to broaden my perspectives, really do, so I changed channels to CNN and MSNBC...they were covering different impeachment strategies! It is no mystery why their viewership has plummeted. Once the Mueller Report came out, they lost even more credibility and now they keep beating the same dead horse. I used to think, as did many others, that CNN was the place to go, especially for live news. They had superior camera placement and correspondents. Interesting, when I pull up bios on Fox anchors, reporters, most used to work for or started out at CNN. Things change over time. Some learn, some let ideology get in the way.
"I have lived, Sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this Truth, that God governs in the Affairs of Men. And if a Sparrow cannot fall to the Ground without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid?" —Benjamin Franklin (1787)
School:
I have enrolled at Florida Southwestern State College in a drawing class. It is only 3 miles from the house so I can ride my bike. On Wednesday for 3.5 hour class.
Remember when Mizzou had killer schedules based on their opponent skills, not M's lack of ability? From 1983 (a random selection):
Not saying they lack ability this year. I think they will do quite well, in fact.
Baseball (and reading):
Just starting to read...
So, I viewed the 1963 rookie team and noticed that of the ten, three players were on the Chicago White Sox. In 1959 they played in the World Series but I don't remember them making much noise after that, partly because I was a National League kid. I looked up how they did in subsequent years with this talent. In 1964, the missed the AL Championship by 1 game, behind the Yankees...and would have played the...Cardinals! In 1965 they finished 4 games behind the champion Minnesota Twins, then the next year dropped further behind. Another interesting side bar: At random I picked a game to view in '64. This was the second game of a double header - remember 2 games for the price of 1? They won the first game and it took less than 3 hours to play. Look at the time on this one - 2:17. Why can't we complete games today under 3 hours? Maybe too many bullpen insertions, slow batters fixing their batting gloves. I don't know.
Listening To:
Purchased a new and unique sound by Keith Urban: Coming Home featuring Julia Michaels.
Haven't heard this in a long time, remember the excitement you felt the first time Leslie West punched out Mississippi Queen? You know what I mean. So different from what we were hearing. Then came Janis Joplin pleading/pushing back on Take Another Piece of My Heart with Big Brother and the Holding Company's guitar solo climbing up the neck. Then, if you were spinning go for Try A Little Tenderness by OR. Blast it back with Whole Lotta Love, go to campus favorites Down On the Corner/Fortunate Son (your choice) and then sing along with American Woman. Whoa!!! Somebody get me a chair.
Then I heard something that took me back. I personalized it...Remember when we didn't live so far apart, all those kids up and down the street? Too young to drive but we had places to go. Of course, the evening was going to end...
Walk me home (several published songs use the phrase)
I don't want to go all the way alone
Baby, won't you walk me home (I hoped you would ask)
Baby won't you take my hand
(oh, no, I couldn't do that)
Come with me to a special land
Baby, won't you walk me home?
Hot summer nights; winter coats, snowflakes in the streetlight; get there before the spring rain on its way; fall classes, World Series this afternoon, football on Sunday.
Travel:
Colorado trip. I think I will take some art supplies that I can store at Greg's place and try my hand at painting outside, that blue sky, mountain ranges, scrub. Could be fun. We'll see.
Reading:
Not so much reading, but I read the headline, they have since disclosed the killer. This is one of two child abductions, not too far apart in STL in the early 90's that has haunted me. The other is a young girl in Maplewood that was either home alone or babysitting...when her mother came home, I think in the evening, she was gone and has never turned up. Not a likely runaway.
So, Angie Housman got off her school bus in St Ann, Mo where we had rental units. I would call it a lower middle class, blue color neighborhood. Sunny afternoon. Gone. 25 years ago.
They found her later, duct-taped to a tree in St Charles. She was naked. They think she died several hours before they found her. Hypothermia. Well...
His sister lived about a block away from the bus top. 61 years old now, he is in jail for other sex crimes. You'll probably know this by the time this blog is published.
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Caught my eye - this was published right after my birth. I didn't realize he was from NM. the original Art of the Deal? In just two paragraphs, business acumen we seem to have forgotten.
Humor:
Link to The Babylon Bee: Fake News You Can Trust !
And...
Is it true? President awarding Medal of Freedom to Happy Gilmore?
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-awards-medal-of-freedom-to-legendary-golfer-happy-gilmore
I know it is satire, but in today's world...
PORTLAND, OR—A leading New Testament scholar working at Unified Unity Divinity School has published a paper criticizing Jesus for a lack of diversity among the apostles He chose in the gospel accounts.The woman, Dr. Diana T. Manger, pointed out that Jesus only chose Jewish males, refusing to implement diversity quotas for his group of disciples.
"Jesus chose all Jewish, cisgendered, able-bodied males: white supremacy, much?" she said as she presented her paper before a group of progressive scholars who had promised not to disagree with her. "It's obvious that Jesus was a nationalistic, xenophobic, hate-filled fearmonger."
Dr. Manger suggested that Jesus should have chosen more women, more transgender disciples, a disciple in a wheelchair, and at least one woman who is 1/1024th Native American. "The sickeningly homogenous group of disciples should have looked more like the Burger King Kid's Club," she said to applause.
"It really hurts Jesus's witness that he did not enforce 21st-century diversity quotas on his disciples," she said.Manger has called for a ban on all Bible reading until the Lord agrees to revise history to conform to her standards.
New Art:
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| Painting in the sun, Estero Bay bridge. Will finish in studio. |
Other Art:
Art Saint Louis has a new show. As usual, exceptional talent if you are near 1223 Pine. Their website has directions and gallery times. Free admission. Tell Chandler I sent you. Art St Louis website
The next two pieces were in a show at the Punta Gorda Visual Arts Center watercolor show. Not traditional watercolor application but fun stuff.
This was fun. On TV, a portrait contest in England, future challenges were to take place in other parts of GB. Invited artists had 4 hours to complete, they then voted and awarded 3 finalists to compete in the combined GB finale.Watching:
"I have lived, Sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this Truth, that God governs in the Affairs of Men. And if a Sparrow cannot fall to the Ground without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid?" —Benjamin Franklin (1787)
School:
I have enrolled at Florida Southwestern State College in a drawing class. It is only 3 miles from the house so I can ride my bike. On Wednesday for 3.5 hour class.
Remember when Mizzou had killer schedules based on their opponent skills, not M's lack of ability? From 1983 (a random selection):
Not saying they lack ability this year. I think they will do quite well, in fact.
Baseball (and reading):
Just starting to read...
So, I viewed the 1963 rookie team and noticed that of the ten, three players were on the Chicago White Sox. In 1959 they played in the World Series but I don't remember them making much noise after that, partly because I was a National League kid. I looked up how they did in subsequent years with this talent. In 1964, the missed the AL Championship by 1 game, behind the Yankees...and would have played the...Cardinals! In 1965 they finished 4 games behind the champion Minnesota Twins, then the next year dropped further behind. Another interesting side bar: At random I picked a game to view in '64. This was the second game of a double header - remember 2 games for the price of 1? They won the first game and it took less than 3 hours to play. Look at the time on this one - 2:17. Why can't we complete games today under 3 hours? Maybe too many bullpen insertions, slow batters fixing their batting gloves. I don't know.
Listening To:
Purchased a new and unique sound by Keith Urban: Coming Home featuring Julia Michaels.
Haven't heard this in a long time, remember the excitement you felt the first time Leslie West punched out Mississippi Queen? You know what I mean. So different from what we were hearing. Then came Janis Joplin pleading/pushing back on Take Another Piece of My Heart with Big Brother and the Holding Company's guitar solo climbing up the neck. Then, if you were spinning go for Try A Little Tenderness by OR. Blast it back with Whole Lotta Love, go to campus favorites Down On the Corner/Fortunate Son (your choice) and then sing along with American Woman. Whoa!!! Somebody get me a chair.
Then I heard something that took me back. I personalized it...Remember when we didn't live so far apart, all those kids up and down the street? Too young to drive but we had places to go. Of course, the evening was going to end...
Walk me home (several published songs use the phrase)
I don't want to go all the way alone
Baby, won't you walk me home (I hoped you would ask)
Baby won't you take my hand
(oh, no, I couldn't do that)
Come with me to a special land
Baby, won't you walk me home?
Hot summer nights; winter coats, snowflakes in the streetlight; get there before the spring rain on its way; fall classes, World Series this afternoon, football on Sunday.
Travel:
Colorado trip. I think I will take some art supplies that I can store at Greg's place and try my hand at painting outside, that blue sky, mountain ranges, scrub. Could be fun. We'll see.
Reading:
Not so much reading, but I read the headline, they have since disclosed the killer. This is one of two child abductions, not too far apart in STL in the early 90's that has haunted me. The other is a young girl in Maplewood that was either home alone or babysitting...when her mother came home, I think in the evening, she was gone and has never turned up. Not a likely runaway.
So, Angie Housman got off her school bus in St Ann, Mo where we had rental units. I would call it a lower middle class, blue color neighborhood. Sunny afternoon. Gone. 25 years ago.
They found her later, duct-taped to a tree in St Charles. She was naked. They think she died several hours before they found her. Hypothermia. Well...
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .
Humor:
Link to The Babylon Bee: Fake News You Can Trust !
(weak) Art Humor
Is it true? President awarding Medal of Freedom to Happy Gilmore?
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-awards-medal-of-freedom-to-legendary-golfer-happy-gilmore
I know it is satire, but in today's world...
PORTLAND, OR—A leading New Testament scholar working at Unified Unity Divinity School has published a paper criticizing Jesus for a lack of diversity among the apostles He chose in the gospel accounts.The woman, Dr. Diana T. Manger, pointed out that Jesus only chose Jewish males, refusing to implement diversity quotas for his group of disciples.
"Jesus chose all Jewish, cisgendered, able-bodied males: white supremacy, much?" she said as she presented her paper before a group of progressive scholars who had promised not to disagree with her. "It's obvious that Jesus was a nationalistic, xenophobic, hate-filled fearmonger."
Dr. Manger suggested that Jesus should have chosen more women, more transgender disciples, a disciple in a wheelchair, and at least one woman who is 1/1024th Native American. "The sickeningly homogenous group of disciples should have looked more like the Burger King Kid's Club," she said to applause.
"It really hurts Jesus's witness that he did not enforce 21st-century diversity quotas on his disciples," she said.Manger has called for a ban on all Bible reading until the Lord agrees to revise history to conform to her standards.
All in one day on Babylon Bee: Links for a chuckle or two...
Outrage As 'Game Of Thrones' Accidentally Leaves Clothed Woman In Shot This was a take off on the episode where a staffer left a Starbucks-like coffee cup on a table in a scene. When it hit the internet, the producer admitted that "Yes, it was a mistake, the dude actually ordered a cup of hot tea." I have not seen GOT, however I am assured that if a woman appeared fully clothed it was probably another mistake.
Ilhan Omar: 'If Israel Is So Innocent, Then Why Do They Insist On Being Jews?'
Bernie Sanders Campaign To Reach Out To Younger Americans Via Telegraph
And, if you know anything about predertmination...Calvinist Health Insurance Company Declares All Conditions Pre-Existing
Outrage As 'Game Of Thrones' Accidentally Leaves Clothed Woman In Shot This was a take off on the episode where a staffer left a Starbucks-like coffee cup on a table in a scene. When it hit the internet, the producer admitted that "Yes, it was a mistake, the dude actually ordered a cup of hot tea." I have not seen GOT, however I am assured that if a woman appeared fully clothed it was probably another mistake.
Ilhan Omar: 'If Israel Is So Innocent, Then Why Do They Insist On Being Jews?'
Bernie Sanders Campaign To Reach Out To Younger Americans Via Telegraph
And, if you know anything about predertmination...Calvinist Health Insurance Company Declares All Conditions Pre-Existing
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Enter at your own risk
US Customs and Border Protection authorities said they had apprehended 132,887 people at the border between entry points in May, including a record 84,542 traveling in family groups and an additional 11,507 unaccompanied children. Who sends their children across Mexico to the US unaccompanied? How many adults came across that weren't caught? Who are they and what do they want? Authorities recently arrested two ISIS guys who spoke Spanish. Two Chinese nationals coming across this border, wonder what they were up to? Congress does nothing. No one cares.
Remember the rich parents entrance scam? How about this coach/teacher? News item: In one instance, Janke (USC soccer coach) created a bogus profile for the daughter of Toby MacFarlane, a former senior executive at a title insurance company, which described her as a "US Club Soccer All American," prosecutors said. MacFarlane's daughter graduated from USC last year without ever playing at the school. Janke also created a fake athletic profile for MacFarlane's son that described him as over 6 feet tall when he was really 5 feet 5, authorities said. His son didn't play basketball at USC and withdrew from the school last year.
Progress and Courage - Louisiana Democrat (did I read that correctly?) Gov. John Bel Edwards signed the nation's latest pro-life bill Thursday. The bill, authored by Democrat Sen. John Milkovich of Shreveport, bans abortion once a baby's heartbeat can be detected, which usually happens at about six weeks' gestation. Beyond the bipartisan nature of Louisiana's effort to protect life, however, is Edwards' incredible personal pro-life story. Edwards and his wife Donna faced an excruciating choice 28 years ago. CatholicPhilly reported in 2016, "Doctors informed the couple their baby would have spina bifida and strongly advised an abortion, to the point of taking Donna to see a clinic that treated spina bifida children, some seriously impaired and others less so. At the time there was no way to determine what effects it would have on a particular child."
Donna said, "I was devastated — but, John Bel never flinched. He said, 'No, no; we're going to love this baby no matter what.' And, at that moment, I watched the boy I fell in love with become the man I'm still in love with today."
"It was our belief that God has a purpose in everything and we would have this child," Edwards added. "I credit Donna. She is a very courageous person. ... I cannot imagine what our life would be without [our daughter]."
That is exactly the kind of engaging, emotional story of love and sacrifice that would make for a fantastic Hollywood movie.
Comment:
A) Netflix is producing a series in Egypt and Jordan, where abortion is illegal and punishable due to laws far stricter than Georgia's. Yet numerous famous people had the gall to write to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp saying they would "do everything in our power to move our industry to a safer state for women."
Enter at your own risk
US Customs and Border Protection authorities said they had apprehended 132,887 people at the border between entry points in May, including a record 84,542 traveling in family groups and an additional 11,507 unaccompanied children. Who sends their children across Mexico to the US unaccompanied? How many adults came across that weren't caught? Who are they and what do they want? Authorities recently arrested two ISIS guys who spoke Spanish. Two Chinese nationals coming across this border, wonder what they were up to? Congress does nothing. No one cares.
Remember the rich parents entrance scam? How about this coach/teacher? News item: In one instance, Janke (USC soccer coach) created a bogus profile for the daughter of Toby MacFarlane, a former senior executive at a title insurance company, which described her as a "US Club Soccer All American," prosecutors said. MacFarlane's daughter graduated from USC last year without ever playing at the school. Janke also created a fake athletic profile for MacFarlane's son that described him as over 6 feet tall when he was really 5 feet 5, authorities said. His son didn't play basketball at USC and withdrew from the school last year.
Progress and Courage - Louisiana Democrat (did I read that correctly?) Gov. John Bel Edwards signed the nation's latest pro-life bill Thursday. The bill, authored by Democrat Sen. John Milkovich of Shreveport, bans abortion once a baby's heartbeat can be detected, which usually happens at about six weeks' gestation. Beyond the bipartisan nature of Louisiana's effort to protect life, however, is Edwards' incredible personal pro-life story. Edwards and his wife Donna faced an excruciating choice 28 years ago. CatholicPhilly reported in 2016, "Doctors informed the couple their baby would have spina bifida and strongly advised an abortion, to the point of taking Donna to see a clinic that treated spina bifida children, some seriously impaired and others less so. At the time there was no way to determine what effects it would have on a particular child."
Donna said, "I was devastated — but, John Bel never flinched. He said, 'No, no; we're going to love this baby no matter what.' And, at that moment, I watched the boy I fell in love with become the man I'm still in love with today."
"It was our belief that God has a purpose in everything and we would have this child," Edwards added. "I credit Donna. She is a very courageous person. ... I cannot imagine what our life would be without [our daughter]."
That is exactly the kind of engaging, emotional story of love and sacrifice that would make for a fantastic Hollywood movie.
Comment:
A) Netflix is producing a series in Egypt and Jordan, where abortion is illegal and punishable due to laws far stricter than Georgia's. Yet numerous famous people had the gall to write to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp saying they would "do everything in our power to move our industry to a safer state for women."
B) My answer to a female friend who is favoring Cory Booker for President, even after his phony/disingenuous comments/questions during the Kavenaugh Hearings...remember he is an admitted sexual assaulter. Think about that on his Presidential resume.
"Sen. Cory Booker says he would create a 'White House Office of Reproductive Freedom' (WHAT?) if he were elected president and promised a series of executive actions he'd take to protect abortion rights." —Politico
That would be the right of a woman to pay a “doctor” to kill the woman’s daughter in her womb. And, no, the father would have no say whatsoever in the murder.
C) Say that again. Slowly. "[Republicans] do not believe that women should have the right to make the most intimate, personal, life-and-death decisions." —Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ( aka the daily flip-flopper).
There is a young girl in a womb in the back of the room raising her hand...can we get a mic to her so she can let her ask her question?
D) Joe Biden comments...I don't have enough ink to cover all of the goofy/untrue things he has been saying...Marched in the Civil Rights marches, climate change plagiarisms (and much of that info he quoted is flat out inaccurate), others' campaign speeches, caught in the act while attending law school...this guy will run out of juice, won't make it to the finish line.
And this is from someone who knows of what he is discussing (unlike me): China knows Biden plays checkers, while Trump is a chess master. Indeed, Robert Gates, who was an Obama/Biden secretary of defense for three years, says, "I think [Biden] has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades."
E) "Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick warned us 35 years ago about “the Blame America First” crowd that Pete Buttigieg represents. Despite the mayor’s effort to seem moderate and appear quiet and nonthreatening, Buttigieg is as radical as anyone else in the Democratic presidential nominating process. Mayor Buttigieg’s anti-Americanism came out when he said on a radio interview that it was “the right thing to do” to remove former President Thomas Jefferson’s name from Indiana’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner." For further comments by Newt on Jefferson and revisionist history use this link: Newt Gingrich: No, Mayor Pete, Erasing Thomas Jefferson is Not The ‘Right Thing To Do’
F) Did you read about cremation mulching?????
Supporters say the method is an environmentally friendly alternative to cremation, which releases carbon dioxide and particulates into the air, and conventional burial, in which people are drained of their blood, pumped full of formaldehyde and other chemicals that can pollute groundwater, and placed in a nearly indestructible coffin, taking up land.“That’s a serious weight on the earth and the environment as your final farewell,” said Sen. Jamie Pedersen, the Seattle Democrat who sponsored the measure. Wow.
G) I know, you think I am piling on... no-the-gop-tax-cuts-are-not-increasing-the-deficit
No, the GOP Tax Cuts Are Not Increasing the Deficit. Not surprisingly, yet another Democrat claim about tax revenue proves to be false. Lewis Morris.
H) Get this, some members of a non-denominational Christian church are criticizing their pastor for praying for our President, at his request, in his presence, and then he apologized!...read this response:
Leave it to an atheist to get this more correct than Platt (the pastor). Hot Air's Allahpundit writes, "I'm just a simple unfrozen atheist caveman, unqualified to tell Christians how to practice their faith, but I can tell you this: In 12 years of Catholic schooling, not once was it intimated to me that it might be wrong to pray for someone. The very idea of it shocks me even now, decades later. Prayer is never wrong. If anything, it's more righteous when offered for the wicked, that God might turn their hearts and redeem them. ... What are the anti-Trump congregants of this church learning about their faith to make them feel 'hurt' that the pastor would pray for someone whom they deem wicked? And what is the pastor of this church teaching to make them believe it's 'valid' to feel that way?"
That's enough for now. No apology.
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