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Book of Creative Knowledge
A.D. Cook

Disasters and Recovery – Part 3

The experts and teachers aren t always right My high school art teacher wasn t right about my future And my broken thumb convinced my doctor that my right hand would impede my art career Yet today I create art that I am proud of despite my high school art

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Lightning Storm over Phoenix, Arizona
A.D. Cook

Disasters and Recovery – Part 2

Few people know that my INDIAN SUMMER motorcycle painting experienced a colossal disaster halfway through creating it So did BACKDRAFT one of my better known life size fine art nudes

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Luster Exhibition U.S. Museum Tour 2023-2025
A.D. Cook

Coming Up For LUSTER 2023-2025

June 2 2023 The LUSTER collection has arrived at The Dennos Museum Center in spectacularly beautiful Traverse Bay Michigan made famous by Ernest Hemmingway in the Nick Adams Stories in which he chronicled the early years he spent in the area

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A.D.'s Creative Time Vault
A.D. Cook

Creative Time Capsule

Have you ever experienced the melancholy feeling of packing away a lifetime s worth of art and memories only to store them for an entire decade If the answer is yes then you will undoubtedly be able to relate to my recent experience

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ETERNAL metal artwork in progress 031523
A.D. Cook

The Eternal Update

It s been a while since I posted anything about my current artwork on the easel ETERNAL my lifesize metal fine art nude that I started over a year ago has quite a story and she s not even finished

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Indian Summer by A.D. Cook
A.D. Cook

The End Of The Road

January 15 marks the end of the road for my painting INDIAN SUMMER which I created in the Fall of 2000 for a step by step article and cover for Airbrush Action magazine in April 2001 I had no idea at the time that I was creating what would be

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