Old Castle Clean Out
I’ve seen enough sewer caps but the photo below is the first ‘Clean Out’ cap I’ve ever seen. It’s a good thing.
Monthly Archives: October 2017
Layers
My wife’s birthday was the other day. The layers below are in honor of her. Happy Birthday, Joy!!
Rest in the Clouds
I’m always thinking about how to portray abstract figures that tell stories. I continually think of Paul Klee’s work and try to imagine placing rounded heads with geometric features; angular, querying block heads among tweeting birds; or stick figures in some kind of Rube Goldberg invention, in a variegated, muted, textured background. Of course I […]
Light Cover
I saw this metal plate on the sidewalk the other day. The oblong cut-out covered a light bulb. I didn’t look closely, but there must have been a reflector or a lens to focus or direct the light to its intended target. I must make a point to go back at night, when it is […]
Parking Lot Lines at Night
Light at night is not natural. Photographing incandescent, fluorescent, mercury vapor, neon and other kinds of lamps at night, leave a multitude of different colors on film. The subject of today’s photo is illuminated by artificial lights of the night. The night lighting reflected off the subject result in a flat, dull uniformly lit pattern. The […]
Design – After ‘Flag of an Unknown Country’
I remembered one of my sidewalk pictures (Flag of an Unknown Country), and composed a watercolor study based on that memory. I used yellows and yellow-reds in rectangles surrounding a purple triangle. I used the crutch of masking tape to create clean crisp edges of these shapes. I could have anchored my watercolor paper to […]
Night Light
The distant parking lot sun gives us information about the sun on our own pole that illuminates our space and the weeds that grow nearby. The light is so different here.
S-Car
Today’s free form began as a pencil sketch. The colors are muted and variable because there are layers of pigments. At first, the colors were bold, some of them less so, depending the properties of the pigments themselves. For example, the earth tone pigments (warm sepia in particular) are subdued and absorb more light than […]
Tilt
I spend a lot of time framing a photo in my viewfinder (or on my screen, as is the case when I shoot with my phone). Sometimes it is difficult to know what to align parallel with the sides of the frame. Today’s photo contains a white line at an angle and a horizontal blue […]
Balance
The mass of color in this composition is concentrated at dead center. It is surrounded by elaborated parentheses that separate the blues from the outer reds. Surrounding the dark outlines is a virtually concentric lighter outline. The dark line protruding from the bottom of the central figure is also a balance point. Normally, I like […]
