I just started reading a biography of Leonardo daVinci. It is very interesting but, in conjunction with my goal of experimenting with watercolor every day, it is intimidating. I began today’s experiment with dry brush strokes of quinacridone rust on paper with rough texture. I proceeded with short, choppy brushstrokes, blending with yellow and blue, […]
It rained today. We went out anyway. Below is a photograph of one of those annoying, bumpy, no-slip mats in action. Not one of us slipped as we traversed its surface even though it was wet.
Here are some elements of a job similar to those which many people will be working this holiday season. I just finished a biography of Benjamin Franklin and, although I wouldn’t characterize warehouse receiving job pictured below as ‘leather apron’* work, it can describe the class of work of that many people of today’s working […]
This photo is the third in my zen series of photographs of the same red-curved corner abutting the parking lot where I work (see Deep Sea Curb and Curb at Night Lit by a Headlamp). The time change away from daylight savings has added the element of darkness to my curb photography, as I now […]
Below is another watercolor that I began with a curve that reminded me of a skull (see It Happened So Fast). I built the rest of the figure from there. The swatches in the background toward which the runner proceeds were inspired by Paul Klee’s work. I’m afraid his influence stops there. The trailing edge of […]
I took several shots of this nighttime curb. In yesterday’s photo I caught it just as a car’s headlight lit up its rim. The camera flash illuminated the scene below. This could be a photograph of the deep sea floor, pitch darkness except for the spotlight of the robotic camera. The otherworldly nature of this […]
I don’t like Standard Time. It is dark when my work shift is over. The only good thing about that is the opportunity to shoot night-time parking lot scenes. The scene below was lit by the headlamp of a car. It added white to the convexity of the red curb.
I used my thumb as the pivot of a compass and drew the brush loaded with blue in an arc. I added water with a spray bottle and watched as the blue tunneled across to the other side of the curve. With two more strokes of the blue brush, I completed the skull. The red […]
Here is my rendition of line segments that could be found on the surface of a parking lot. I’ve seen red lines that delineate fire zones, or on curbs that interface between sidewalk and parking lot; blue lines that are usually found in handicapped spaces. yellow lines that divide one lane of traffic from another. […]
Sometimes, when there are no cars coming the other way, I veer out of the way of speed bumps in the parking lot. Other times (when my wife isn’t in the car), I just go over them at normal speed (15 miles per hour, of course). I’ve rarely stopped to look at the speed bumps […]
