Monthly Archives: February 2020
Survey Marker 100
Layers of Frustration
Brush strokes are sometimes guided by intellect, for example to methodically carry out a preconceived plan; sometimes, the intellect comes to bear by deciding subsequent brush strokes based on previous ones. Today’s experiment was not based on thinking. The marks I made came from emotions. The blue layer, the first one, resulted from the strongest […]
Late ‘Pink Sheet’
Everyone in a waiting room has a story. Sometimes stories play out in acts. Prior to the arrival of this gentleman, a half-dozen people holding pink pieces of paper were seated in the waiting area. They were all called into another area. I was the only one aware of the dramatic situation when this man, […]
I Need Coffee
This was a rushed drawing. Another in my ‘Waiting Room’ series. The gentleman, in conversation with a fellow waiter, mentioned that he really missed having coffee.
Blackboard Musing After a Conic Solid
I began with scribbles (as usual), but then concentrated on creating a basic solid shape. I used to practice my pencil-shading technique. with basic solids; cubes, cones and spheres, for example. The idea of ‘basics’ set me thinking about classrooms and blackboards. When I was in school there used to be large expanses of matte-finished […]
Color Threads
I’m beginning to realize that I have a modus operandi in my approach to painting abstract watercolors. I start with a jumble of brush strokes. I then see what the mess suggests. If nothing visual strikes my eye, I look at it intellectually. For example, I could use my mind’s eye to imagine complimentary colors […]
