Today’s watercolor experiment: Today is another sketch in my ‘brain series’ (Brain Teasers, Memory Fades, Untitled). In keeping with tradition (that I started yesterday), I did not assign a meaningful name to this sketch. It qualifies as part of the brain series because it was inspired by a structure in the brain called the hippocampus. The […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: This watercolor is another in my ‘brain series’. However, it seems to lack a skull or any other narrative that would associate it with the brain. I began with wet paper and playful arcs mainly using blue tones (indanthrone, Prussian and ultramarine blues). Before rewetting the paper, I added a diagonal streak […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: This is the third watercolor study in my ‘brain series’. (Previous studies: Compartmentalization and Brain Teasers.) I began by taking my pencil point for a walk (thank you, Paul Klee, for that metaphor). I made a continuous line beginning at the upper right side of the picture plane, stylizing the contours of half the […]
Today’s watercolor study: Below is the second study in my ‘brain series’. I have some knowledge of brain anatomy, with which I inform some of the entries in this group of sketches. I am fascinated by the idea that the very arrangement and function of cells in the most important organ of the central nervous […]
Before I begin today’s post, I have an update on the Baby Kiwi Leaf picture. I changed the background, added some details in the Mommy leaf and worked a bit on the Baby Leaf too. All that remains is to glaze the Mommy leaf so it becomes more integrated. Today’s watercolor experiment: I started a […]
Did you ever try to rotate a California King mattress in a 10×12 foot room? Reminds me of the painting by Jean Dubuffet, Cow. It wouldn’t be so bad if the bed were the only item of furniture in the room. Suffice it to say, wrestling is an apt metaphor, especially if the box springs […]
Joy and I visited her cousin the other day. They have wonderful vegetation: red trumpet flowers that attract hummingbirds, huge ferns, some of which are coiled up ready to unfurl at some later time, and this tremendous vine. The vine must weigh a ton because the horizontal lumber on which it rests, creating an underpass for […]
I was on the way to a bookstore, listening to the radio in the car. I heard a man reading to an audience. It was Billy Collins, former poet laureate of the United States. His poems were conversational and really funny. For example, he read the title, Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep a Gun at […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: Today’s watercolor sketch is called Abstract 9214 because, unlike other my other nonrepresentational studies, the blots, glazes and latex-resist-formed shapes did not bring any coherent idea to mind. Maybe it was just an off day. Process: I began by pouring masking fluid on the paper. After drying, I wet the entire paper […]
A picture is worth a thousand words. Is it fair to say a sentence is worth a thousand pictures? A paragraph? Surely a story is worth a thousand pictures. If you are a visual person like me, you see a movie in your head. At 60 frames per second, and me being a slow reader, […]
