From a Magazine

I normally post a sketch or watercolor every day. Yesterday’s post, however was a photograph from my archives. I miss photography, especially those days when I had a darkroom. Sometimes I would hole up for an entire weekend of developing film and making prints.  I remember taking a course in New York City at the […]

Follow-up on a Theme

Yesterday I was thinking about texture. It began when I noticed the sunlit bark of a tree. I said at the end of yesterday’s post, how I was hoping for a textural year in 2015. Texture has a range, just like tonal values of photographs and paintings. Texture is a multimodal concept. There is texture in sound, […]

Texture

I write this in the waning hours of 2014 (~7PM Pacific Standard Time). For most of you, it is already 2015 right now. It was really sunny here today, but cold (for California). I took a walk to stock up on some refreshments for later tonight and, as I usually do, I looked around for […]