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10/16/2016 9:14:28 AM

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Facebook.  There I said it and I am on it.

 

I joined Facebook several years ago, then cancelled because I got too many requests for game information or something else that I didn't understand.  Then when I created this website I was told that I should tie it into several other social media activities.  I was ten years later than I should have been getting a website in the first place, then another few years before using Facebook.  I don't take to these new (really not so new) ventures easily.  My wife says that I should have been born in the 1800's.

 

Recently however, I am learning that one social media actually does support another.  I posted an image of a new painting on Facebook and got many likes and shares but more importantly, I got a lot of visits to my website.  This is all quite new and I begrudgingly say ... interesting to me.


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3 Responses to Facebook

Congratulations David! You are braver than I am... but already, as you can see, you have had interested persons checking out your website. As a poet, I am most negligent in acquiring, at base, even a website.

Why I am writing is in response to your new egg tempra "Night Ripples," which is not only beautiful, but reminds me of similar sunsets at Farm Point on Magaguadavic Lake. Also love your October snow flurries... though interestingly today I am writing this on an October day slated to reach 27 Celsius!

Clearly autumn is your inspiration; perhaps we love it so because it is so brief... so 'mortal?'

Dina.

Posted by Dina E Cox · via davidmckayartist.com · 120 months ago

Dina,

Now it is November. I have completed four new small watercolours of a very scenic stretch of the Saint John River near Florenceville-Bristol. Surprisingly, they all show the autumn foliage of October. Autumn has not been my inspiration in the past and the new work looks quite bright alongside the older landscapes in my studio. I am not sure why this interests me at this stage of my life. I remember at one time, I rarely painted the heavy green foliage of summer. We get older, and we change.

Thanks for your thoughts Dina.

Posted by David McKay · via davidmckayartist.com · 119 months ago

Just peeked, David, and love the Road up from Simonds as it gives exactly the view one has as one drives along, kind of a looking-ahead-sidewise-view. These are lovely vignettes, capturing those intense moments of autumn foliage and experience. The one of low water reminds me of the St John River where it branches to become the Washademoak Lake... where I spent many childhood summers. Lovely. Isn't it interesting how or why one chooses to (re)create the essence of a particular scene? We may change as we get older, but generally speaking, Nature doesn't... perhaps it is our priorities that change, or the eyes through which we are seeing things... or the urgency with which we see them.

Dina.

Posted by Dina E Cox · via davidmckayartist.com · 119 months ago

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