I’m having a milestone birthday today. It’s not like it used to be. Nobody knows what I was like when I was a kid any more. They’re all gone. I won’t have to listen to Dad’s yearly reminiscence that I made him miss breakfast the day I was born; I won’t get a call from […]
One person, one vote, right? That’s what I thought. But who knows nowadays… Perhaps my news fast* went on for too long, and I missed something. This was the occupancy sign notifying us of the lawful limit of people who could occupy the dining area where we had lunch today. I enlarged it for readability: […]
The fan brush came in handy today. Loaded with paint, it makes a nice splat when jammed onto the page. Splashes are common with this technique. The plan was to glaze the surface with yellow pigment, so to make sure my ocher splats were preserved, I outlined them with my dip pen using sepia ink. […]
Here is the companion to the bench I discovered at the kid’s ice cream store the other day. Like the other bench, it is low to the ground. It is a bit more colorful though, with painted wooden animals dancing, where the slats for the back supports would normally be.
I was reading about Matisse and the ornamentation he used in many of his paintings. The half-moon figures in the composition below ornament the painting below.
The paint disintegrates in an interesting way. Chips of the blue pigment disappear in bigger chunks than those of the white. The bare pavement shows through the pocked blue area. The smaller chips from the white area reveal black.
I bought a book by Henry Bergson a couple of months back: The Creative Mind. I wanted to supplement my reading about particular creative artists (Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Richard Diebenkorn, Willem de Kooning), with some of the philosophical underpinnings of the concept of creativity. However, I was stopped within the first few pages of […]
I took this photo a couple of weeks ago. The scene was visually compelling. But, paired with my other post of the day (Art Inspired by Bergsonian Time), it reminds me of the introduction to an old TV program, The Time Tunnel.
The other day I was in an ice cream shop which caters to kids. There wasn’t a waiting area for them per se, but there was a place for them to sit so their little legs wouldn’t have to swing in the air.
Below is the abstract I painted today. It began as a scribble that I didn’t even like. However, I didn’t change anything about it. I started with red and painted the spaces bounded by lines. The shapes I painted were discontinuous. I created a pathway for the red. I did the same for the green […]
