I saw this sign in front of city hall the other day. What is cruising anyway? I could understand the sign if it was located in Venice, Italy. After all, nobody likes unwanted wakes from cruising boats. Would I be in violation if I drove slowly looking at passers by? I suppose if I were […]
I took inspiration for today’s watercolor from yesterday’s photo (Black on Black). The skeleton caught in my self constructed La Brea tar pit is something like a horse. I’m not sure what the white squiggly lines are. Probably they are ancient symbols, or poetry for a long gone sacred animal.
I am a street photographer in the sense that I frequently photograph pavements. Many of my parking lot photographs have been in service of exploring the state of handicapped spaces. Some of these spaces retire from handicapped status to join the ranks of regular parking spots. These are painted over (although usually not completely). I […]
Below is a free form study, executed with no prior conceptions of what the final result should represent. This type of work allows me to relax a bit and just concentrate on how the colors in adjacent areas should interact. In today’s study many areas of adjacent colors are similar tone. Some areas however, abut […]
I began this study as an abstract of the leaves from the same tree whose texture I studied. I began this before I started a new recipe for vegetable lasagna. I cut a lot of Swiss chard. Some of the chard had red stems and veins. I do not usually cook, so the preparation of […]
This was much more difficult than I imagined. The rough and varied structure of the tree was hard to convert to lines and dots. Usually textures extend over an area where at least three parallel lines can convey a tone of grey. These three lines, if wiggled, can give the impression of a rough or […]
I haven’t read much Flannery O’Conner lately. However, one of the central images that can be teased out of the abstract painting below is a masculine finger emerging from a set of knuckles. Manley Pointer, as in ‘finger pointer’ (not a character) came to my mind. I have been painting and sketching hands lately (Portrait […]
There’s a bit of everything in the bark of this tree. It seems to have its own ecosystem. I think I might zoom in on a couple of different areas to create several studies. There is a diversity of textures here just waiting to be sketched.
Yesterday’s vintage photograph of my brother Mike* in bandages was rather dramatic. He was in the midst of one of his stereotypical gestures (elbowing himself in the chest) as I snapped the picture. But, as with most photographs, that one did not tell the whole story about Mike in his bandages. I visited Mike in […]
This watercolor and sketch is the companion piece to my other post today (Bandaged Mike), the subject of which is also my brother Mike*. I photographed him after another resident hurt him. The hand sketches were copied from photos I took of my brother. The delicateness of his hands has always impressed me. *Mike is […]
