Plumed Bird
This study is the third ‘bird’ sketch i did in the past couple of days (see Bird Watching and Bird Watching Bird). It could be a bird in the throes of a mating dance (note the curled toes).
Monthly Archives: March 2017
Interim
I am between inspirations at the moment. I had a glancing encounter with some of Diebenkorn’s work. I do not pretend to understand it at this point. All I can say is, I thumbed through a book of his paintings, then I painted this after a morning’s read on the back porch.
Bird Watching Bird
Below is another sketch, whose inspiration came from the pictures on the inside of my eyelids, the other day. (I don’t consider them dream images, since they were in front of me. When I dream, I am immersed in the vision.) I’ve always aspired to create a simple line drawing like those that seemed to flow […]
Bird Watching
Inspiration for today’s study came from some bird watching on the back porch this morning. I did a bit of reading and became very sleepy. I lay down for a brief snooze, but in a pre-unconscious state (I assume), I saw line drawings on my closed eyelids. I was excited, because they looked like Paul […]
Cartoonization
I took a photo many years ago, when I first started taking pictures of Mike, my older brother.* I have never been able to make contact with Mike and pursued a long-term photography project in an attempt to understand him better. He was relaxing in his classroom when I came in. The bulletin board was a […]
Three Squares
Before I started today’s composition, I painted the paper white. Then, intending to draw a hand-like structure, I painted five yellow lines. I began to surround them with blue, then I changed to green. I opposed the green with a reddish earth tone and outlined the shape enclosing the ‘hand’ in black. Within the shape […]
Fifty Lashes
I love opening a new block of watercolor paper. When I opened one today I had a nice surprise. Usually, there is printing all over the black paper that protects the first sheet of paper in the block. Today’s sheet was completely black – no writing at all. It was perfect for my composition. A word […]
Abstract Shapes
I began without any ideas at all today. I just painted a shape here and another shape there. What I had in mind was to surround each shape with a black moat, creating a maze. Paul Klee painted many paintings with this look (such as Intention and Comedians’ Handbill). The shapes in this composition don’t have much meaning. […]
Somewhere On Mars – Or My Head
I started my study today with Earth tones including red iron oxide and quinacridone orange. Since the element iron is found on Mars, I can call them “Mars tones” as well. However, I did not know that my composition could eventually pass as a Martian landscape. After glazing the surface with my colors, I splattered blue pigment […]
Shading Solids
This began as a study in shading. I drew two circles, and (curved) tangents that met at two separate vanishing points. I intended these two triangular constructions to be the sources of light for each of the circles. I shaded the first circle beginning with dark on the outside gradually becoming white in the center; the other I […]
