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“Ai, Lady,” as the characters swear in Kate Elliott’s Crown of Stars series: How many years have I been a WordPress user, and I only now figured out that the eyeglass icon leads me to the WordPress reader?!!! Sigh. And thanks to all three of my followers!

I’m once again trying to decide whether or not to upgrade this site and implement my domain. If you have any thoughts on that, let me know. Are the ads on this site irritating? Let me know.

Anyway, here is an older asemic:

:#asemics #analogart #wordpress

Asemic ink painting features a painted blue square with blotchy red lines around it, and asemic writing inside the square in scribbly black ink.
Asemic painting. Ink on paper. Jean Vengua.

California Fires

Fire Season 2016: Soberanes 2. Acrylics on canvas, 20 x 20 x 1 in. (sold).

I’ve been thinking of the “Fire Season” series of paintings I did in 2016. Perhaps I’ll take that up again. I have a different attitude towards wildfires, now, and want to explore that.

2025 Asemic Experiments

I decided to make and post art every day, of any size and quality, and whether I liked them or not. I also want to use up my cache of paper. Of course, straight off, I skipped several days (rolls eyes). Below are two “make-up” pieces:

Two untitled asemic experiments using Derwent Inktense pencils and (in the first one below, only) watercolor:

Failure of Pastels

“Failure of Pastels”. Asemic. India ink and acrylics on Shizen paper, 10 x 10 in., 1/9/2025. This started out as a mild-mannered #asemic on pastel background, but gradually morphed into something completely opposite that. This is what I get for watching the gruesome, gothic video series adaptation of Agatha Christie’s “The ABC Murders”, starring John Malkovich as Poirot.

Oliveira #Asemic

India ink and acrylics on handmade Green Field paper (1/2/2025). I haven’t made anything larger than postcard size for a long time, so decided to make a couple of larger pieces. This is 14 x 14,” and the one in the previous post is 18 x 12.” But I might go even larger–for a change.