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dkatiepowellart
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AKA kate powell / debbie beck, artist, watercolor, gouache, oil, sketchbooks, former architect, hollywoodbaby, beachgirl, cowgirl, lover of mik & cats, PDX My art copyright DKatiePowell https://dkatiepowellart.me/
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If every person who has a Republican Representative called them and told them they won't vote for them next term unless they stop supporting the regime they might shift to sanity.... Just saying. I'm a Dem and have Democratic reps.

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Just a reminder that Republicans in Congress could put a stop to this at any time.
And if every single person in every single state who has a Republican rep in Congress write and told them they would not VOTE for them unless they abandon this regime we might get somewhere....
Alex Lawson, executive director of the Social Security Works advocacy group, said the data removals “hide how much they’ve destroyed the system’s customer service.”
“If they think this lack of transparency will fool the American people, they’re in for a surprise,” Lawson said.
Social Security stops reporting call wait times and other metrics
The changes are the latest sign of the agency’s struggle with website crashes, overloaded servers and long lines at field offices amid Trump cutbacks.
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They should, being that they moved many many families out of their homes yers ago to make way for Dodger Stadium... They owe them.
#ProudBlue

It’s interesting to hear how the rest of the world sees the US right now.

Here is an American living in Germany sharing some of the information from German magazines.

The US is not looking so good right now.

Link to video: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8rfpjwQ/
RIGHT NOW I should be taking my rare day off to make art and am following the protests... Gads.
Impressive, and I love that you will write the names on the quilt....
And the looseness carried over, in a sketch of my finish room. A Chinese bench, three large tables, and more. dkatiepowellart.me/2025/06/01/t...
#watercolor #penandink #mpfconservation #finishstudio #hahnemuhle #Nostalgiesketchbook
For my friends struggling with hopelessness & depression about the USA, an offering, and a story about a friend, Eliska, and how she changed my downward spiral by suggesting I look at Hockney's watercolors.
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#stuck #watercolors #hopeless #depression #arttherapy
It was from a fabric piece...
Trying to get better at portraits; means I screw up a lot while learning. President Carter is not bad, but Rosalynn is SO BAD. Oh well, moving on to the next. Birmingham Pen Companys Gunpowder. I am a sucker for a great Gray! #grayink #greyink #birminghampencompany #penandink #sketchbook
Not what I expected, a @netflix.com documentary, the Quilters. Thanks to BadAss Quilter for the referral. Excellent about the power of transformation using a creative process...
Being sidetracked for so long with this surgery was a shocker. I literally stopped mid-stroke and set everything aside.
Below, just to keep my hand in a drawing-a-day, a sketch of the various shellacs and alcohol and dyes which I was working with. Sketched in a grey ink.
A word about yelp from a businessperson's perspective...
Read below, and also the reason WE DO NOT GIVE ADVERTISING $$ TO YELP, EVER. #advertising #yelp #behonest
On the last day of 2024 I sketched palms to lift my spirits because of where our country was headed in 2025. Read blog for process:
dkatiepowellart.me/2025/05/03/v...
#artjournal #beach #danielsmithwatercolors #deatramentisdocumentink #HahnemühleNostalgie #ocean #palms #PlatinumCarbonPen #vietnam