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Techina #12 ink on paper 2023. I love art history. It is such an important thing to know that you can create anything you want to create in the way you want to create it.  It has taken me soooooooooooooooooooooooooo long to realize this. It is so is important to know why you create or maybe not. For me I had no choice I felt to the drag of a pencil lead on paper and I was just hooked.     

Techina - Tek-chee-nah

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Techina   Techina #01 | Sketch, ink on paper, 4x4, 2023 Don DeLeva red drawing Techina. As they feel it in the cold the smooth plastic tic tic of water that corrodes the soft milk jug in to  tiny particles. She is the The Techina of plastic corrosion.  Techina #02 | Sketch, ink on paper 4x5, 2023 Don DeLeva drawing, Techina #02, ink on paper, I say this as a witness NOT as a judge. Sometimes I just count the squares of pavement when I walk until I remember that this concrete is sidewalk, in the city, on 45th street in Seattle, walking east to eighth street, with passing cars, plastic tents, free way over pass, with only East or West access, floating cars underneath and shrieking left side currant. Let's forget the count because I see movement ahead of me. Then pass the tents, plastic rain and hollow white-claw cans, shoes and shredded fabric and street cams and street paint and refrigerator doors and the binary silver boxes that are rain safe and feed off of 24 hour force fed fissi

Work in progress

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 This painting is 24" x 60" x 1.5", Oil on board. 

She Hums 24/7

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  She Hums 24/7 : Drawing, graphite and Stablio on toned paper. 6.5" x 8" 5/ 2022 It's true, she does stare at the sky all day. Maybe looking for saucers, a ghost or two but most of the time it is the Ravens, Crows, Coyotes and Jackrabbits that offer opportunity to not feel so insignificant in her blind state. I would assume that carrying a current of 1s and 0s, 24/7 can be electrifying but that means you have to step outside yourself to see it. But who has time to see the truth when there is money to be made and another facebook post that proves you did have a bite of "The" 12 foot long chilly Frankfurter at Fudgefest. I know, RIGHT? 

Fire from 2 stones.

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Eventually it will get to appoint where we need electricity to keep our bodies animate and conscience. I say this because how many people know how to make a fire from 2 stones?   
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Drawing on red money envelope.  

DeLeva: Dreaming Coyote Drawing

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Dreaming Coyote  I have started drawing. It is much more immediate. This drawing was created on Strathmore Toned paper with graphite and Derwent Inktense blocks / pencils, 9"x12".  I think it is still a work in progress, we will see how it progresses.  02.09.2022: Up date to this drawing, it will be showing in the Biophilia Show ,  April 30, 2022,   in Twisp Washington . I  am extremely excited to start to sell my drawings. You can also see more drawings and paintings at:   https://opensesamegallerybooks.com/portfolio/don-deleva    
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Kitter Kat, graphite on scratch paper 2.5"x 3"  

Always open 24-7

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  Always open 24-7 , graphite on hot-press water color paper, 4"x6", 60$ framed. Currently, this drawing is hanging in a show at the Artist Craftsmen in Seattle. The theme of this show was food. My first thought was how much electricity mining cryptocurrency devours for each transaction.  My second thought was how the average American home has some 75 outlets that feed lights and appliances.
 134- Painted from 5:15 am to 7:50 am. Though about building html site from code in an a 1990s style. 
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  NOVEMBER 7, 2020 Guy Genis Designs I am honored and excited to be a listed artist at Guy Genis Designs. Guy’s 30-year design career has spanned events, interiors and exhibits all over the world. “Your home should speak to your lifestyle, emotions and sense of beauty. Each client is different. My goal is to amplify memories in a space that is truly lived in and functional, not just a showcase or museum piece. Your home is a place where personal style is relational to comfort and design.” - Guy Genis Guy has an innate ability to listen to his clients and mix comfort with interior and architectural design while blending in your personal style, to create a space that is organic, rejuvenating and an extension of who you are. Visit Guy Genis Design and talk with them about how they can help you design your dream home.
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  NOVEMBER 27, 2020 Hundred & Under Art Show, Retrofit Home, Seattle I am excited and honored to be in the Hundred & Under show December through January. Where? At the Retrofit Home, 1103 East Pike Street, Seattle, WA. 98122 Open every day 11am to 7 or call Lori: 206-227-7825 or Jon: 206-227-7826 Here is a chance to start gifting and collecting my art . All of the artist in this show have set prices under one hundred dollars. All of these works ready to hang. My paintings are showing with Creature Panic, Greg Pergament, Jeff Farnam, Cludio Durant and many other artists of Seattle’s street urban culture. Retrofit Home is located on Capitol Hill , noted by the big orange chair outside, providing a fun place to buy gifts, cards, candles, and stylish home furnishings. Retrofit Home is more than just a furniture store, it’s a mini-department store with a sophisticated, fun, and edgy aesthetic. So come see and shop beguiling art from some of Seattle's street urban culture.
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  NOVEMBER 27, 2020 Ghost Gallery, Seattle Click logo to visit show page. My paintings are around the middle of the page. The 14th Annual Holiday Mini Art Exhibit! Dec. 3rd, 2020 through Jan. 31st 2021 This show features work that is 10" x 10" and smaller, from artists all over the US, affordably priced for gifting and collecting. More pieces will be added leading up to 12/3. All work will be ready to pick up and/or ship starting Thursday, Dec. 3rd! Let Laurie know if you need your order earlier. Place online orders by Dec. 14th to receive in time for Christmas Eve . INFO: Located at 1111 E. Pike St, Ste B, Seattle, WA 98122 curator@ghostgalleryshop.com Wed-Sun 12-5pm. And by appointment
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March 25 2021 In The Company of Crows & Ravens March 13 - May 1, 2021 In the Main Gallery Curators’ Statement The family Corvidae embraces Crows, Jays, Magpies and Nutcrackers. Members of this family are wonderfully intelligent, mysterious and magical. Corvids are social, noisy, aggressive, playful and mischievous. They eat anything from fruit and eggs, to nuts and carrion. We see them playfully completing aerial maneuvers, in the company of eagles at a deer carcass feast, or being mobbed by small birds after raiding a nest. They will follow hunters, coyotes, or wolves and alert other scavengers to help open up a carcass; some cache seeds that if forgotten will become future trees. They mimic, they teach, they learn. They are iridescent and striking, and provide a rich source of inspiration to create art. ~ Curators Jennifer Molesworth & Caryl Campbell Thank you Jennifer, Sarah Jo and Caryl Recently, I had 2 paintings accepted in to the "In The Company of Crows & Rave

It's a state in mind

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  50% might be best It's always the way of the pendulum swing, back and forth like a smack that stings.  One way which and when the next direction then offends, affected by polls and dollars you spend.  Both extremes seem detrimental to all, and when we only allow one society falls.  It is not my place to tell you what is right, I am just standing back and watching the fight... 
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Oil paintings by Don DeLeva at the Retrofit Home gallery in Seattle Wa.

She is what she says

 As if it weren't deep enough i have been told that it is real. I mean i saw it for my own eyes. You know in the city where you are sold and bought like aviators on your preexisting phone plan. It is here in the organization of the logical soup of ones and zeros mixed with electric calculations on the seventh layer of code we all move in a non-gravity world .   Yes starlet you truly are hard your, jeans and studded belt tell me so.  "Smart patrol, no where to go. Suburban robots that monitor reality. Common stock, we work around the clock. We shove the pole in the holes." ~ Mark Mothersbaugh.
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In the dust of the New Now her face slowly rises. And ...CUT!  Here they see her cold and confused, which just adds to her sex appeal.  "Which do I choose my darling?"  Then she finishes off her double tall non-fat mocha late, re-applies her MAC lipstick, flips her hair and clacks off into her fade screen with Jordash jeans and Minolo heels.
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