I took these stills from an 8mm movie my Dad must have made of this three boys playing Ring-Around-the-Rosie. We were on a camping trip and us kids were having a great time playing. I was helping Mike when it came to the “all fall down” part.
That’s me in the top row; Mike is in the second row; a friend of the family is in the first two frames of the third row. Mom is in the last frame.
This sequence of photos is from a home movie. Mom is trying to get my brother Mike to wave to Dad without success.
Before Mike went away, Mom and Dad took us, Mike, Dave and me, on camping trips. I have mostly good memories of them. I think it was Dad who took the 8mm home movies of us kids playing Ring-Around-the-Rosie. When we got to the ‘all fall down’ part, Mike didn’t understand, so I good-naturedly jumped […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I sidetracked myself from reading Kandinsky. I am a slow but thorough reader and Kandinsky requires slow going. I was itching to actually paint something, so I revisited my effort to depict reading of a contact sheet. After attaching watercolor paper to my drawing board, I drew a 6×6 grid of rectangles […]
