I wonder how many of you remember when the television images were delivered over the air. Some TV sets had antennae called ‘rabbit ears’, two telescoping rods emerging from a moveable base which, when moved around the top of the set and twisted to the right position, would catch the best signal and transform it to […]
I loved doing the graffiti sketches of the past couple of months, and I’m sure I will return to more draftsman-like subjects, but for now I want to challenge myself in a different arena. Here is the basis for the art to follow: My Analog Past Everything is digital these days. These days? How about for the […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I am still in the midst of my huge project of digitizing all my film negatives from the 1980s through the end of the last century. It is a chore. The only joy I feel now is when I come across a photo that works. This happens about 10 percent of the time (in […]
Birthdays are bittersweet. I love watching children who express utter delight at the attention and excitement on their own birthdays. I observed this with my grandson at his second birthday a few months ago. We dimmed the lights to show off the cake and its bright candles. William was focused on the cake and the […]
Today’s experiment: I had such fun with yesterday’s trip down memory lane (also known as Lexington Avenue in Manhattan), that I looked for a photograph I took inside the Sutton Clock Shop. I found one: If I could have a wall of clocks of my own, it would look something like this. I would probably […]
A few weeks ago (in my post, Nostalgia), I mentioned purchasing a slide scanner. I have been taking photographs for a very long time, nearly all of them on film. I was able to go back in time to 1988 and 89, though my photographs and relive some of my experiences. It was painful to see my photos […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: Yesterday I did not take my eyes of the plant I was drawing. I did not look at the paper. Today I did the opposite. I closed my eyes and did not look at the paper or the subject. The subject was my mother’s face. I used to practice drawing her face […]
My wife, Joy and I just started watching Mad Men. Frankly I was a little bit leery about rehashing the 1950s and its prevailing attitudes. Drinking, smoking, antisemitism, treating women badly was the norm back then. The protagonist, Don Draper, is a mysterious, emotionally empty Madison Avenue ad agency creative director. Little by little we […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: Yesterday, after our visit to Big Basin State Park, I composed a watercolor of an interesting collection of fallen and half-fallen trees. The trails were damp and moss was everywhere. I would have taken dozens of photos, but I restrained myself. There was something about the transient observation that I enjoyed. It was […]
One of the reasons I wanted to draw and sketch was to be able to remember. I wanted to be able to have an image in my head and faithfully transcribe it to paper so other people could see was I saw. I wanted to be able to sketch in case I didn’t have a […]
