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On March 6th, I went back to the scene of the crime. Yes, I went back to Dallas for a weekend visit. It was too quick, but I packed a lot of great things in. First, I met up with several folks from the old gang at Sal's. Back when Dave Brown and Steve Armes hosted the infamous Friday Night Group at Synapse Studios, we ate at Sal's every Friday night after the drawings session. The first time I visited the group, way back in 1996, we went to Sal's. And again 9 out of 10 Fridays for the next decade. So it was the perfect way to start out my reunion tour.

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For several months, I've wanted to paint this scene out in the backyard of my apartment complex. It is a late afternoon view where a building from downtown is a nice distant blue behind an large old tree on a hill. The other day I was grilling out back and I did this watercolor. This color blue is perhaps my favorite color. Usually, I like it best on a distant mountain. But the way the light hits this building, it creates this color very nicely. It's so nice to have a paintable scene like this at home.

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You see, last Friday I went to Atlanta's High Art Museum for the Friday Jazz night, which occurs once a month. In addition to great live music and drinks, they also setup a model and offer free life drawing. I got there late, but below are a few sketches I did. And in this post, I came up with dozens of bad puns incorporating the word 'high'. But I resisted. I'm not going to do it. I do encourage others to post comments with puns.  The drawing was a lot of fun. There were about a dozen or so people there, most of them working in pencil.

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