Yesterday’s blog was a graphic metaphor about the terrible day on Friday. So here’s the story. My wife and I moved from our shared home of six years to a new place this past Saturday. Friday morning we had no idea we’d be moving, by Saturday we were loading suitcases in the car for new quarters, […]
Today was a really bad day… not something I want to get in to. Suffice it to say that the picture below reflects how crummy I feel. This was the grungiest photo I could find. I remember that when I took it I was intrigued by the topological checkerboard pattern. Now all I can see are […]
“The world is one’s oyster” is a saying that means a person feels like he or she can do anything. That being said, I thought I would try a still life of an oyster shell I found on the beach. First I drew a pen and ink sketch: Since the subject has two basic tones, yellow […]
Walk softly …and carry a telephoto lens. That was my motto when I used to take my camera for walks during my off time in New York City. A corollary to this motto is, “Be sure to look where nobody else is looking.” I took my own advice during one of my walks. I was on […]
There are identity shifts and there are shifts in ways of thinking… not all for the better. As an example of this, let me walk you through a bit of what I’ve been thinking over the past day or so. Those of you who have followed me for a while know that I am very […]
My watercolor experiment today is a combination of yesterday’s more-or-less free form style and the the hypo-realistic bookstore painting from a few days ago. The opportunity presented itself as I was looking though some of the photographs I took years ago when I lived in Brooklyn, NY. I used to go on wandering photo walks. […]
A few posts ago I tried slowing down my painting process. I went back to the drawing board, figuratively and literally to paint a very detailed watercolor of one of the bookstores I photographed. (I like to call this my hyporealistic painting style, as it almost looks like a photograph.) Although I was pleased with […]
My anti-colorization attempt yesterday, met with limited success, so I thought I would get back on the horse, so to speak, with another try today. My parents had this wonderful bronze statue of a tiger. It is probably from the 1930s, since I saw the very same statue in an episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, a […]
When I lived in New York City, I would roam the streets looking for classic photographic shots. I even tried to find the same door that Walker Evans photographed – a masterful shot – but someone must have torn it down, along with the building. One day I was walking up Lexington Avenue and saw a […]
I can’t resist an interesting fire hydrant. Maybe I have some canine blood in me, or I was a dog in a past life. I found this yellow wonder in Los Gatos, California. I’m not sure if it was the angle of the light (I’m a sucker for oblique lighting), the embossed letters or the yellow […]
