Tag: chair
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INto YOUR LIFE It Will Creep
I may not have that right….the 1960’s was a long time ago. The song was “What It’s Worth”, by the Buffalo Springfield. What “It” was, was paranoia. In my rewording…into your life it will creep is………….BOREDOM! A lot less sinister than paranoia, but they both can end up doing strange things. Like questionable art. Once,…
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After My Tirade About Dogs
Why am I suddenly drawing so many bicycles? Is it some kind of Freudian thing? So, there have been two recent drawing of bicycles. The last drawing I made, and this one: Is it a wish fulfillment of my unfinished application to the Rhode Island School of Design? As I think I mentioned, part of…
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I’m about to do it, again.
Yes, indeed. Once was not enough. Actually, three times was not enough. I’m amazed at artists who don’t get bored doing the same subject, or the same motif, without being bored. Not envious, mind you, just amazed. Confession: I looked through my old drawings earlier and found a lot of repeat subjects. Lots of landscapes,…
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An Idea that Didn’t Make the Cut
Or if you’d rather..an idea that crashed and burned. It was to be entitled, “One Person’s Trash”. I saw it sitting, discarded, by the side of the road. I found it to be cute and interesting. Obviously, someone”s daughter outgrew it. So far, so good. But then I started thinking about that little girl,…
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Still Life Does Not Mean Dead Life..
Whenever I’ve gone to an art show, I’ve always found the obligatory displays of painting and fruit to be pretty boring. Yes, I realize there’s a matter of technique, but I’ve always thought of such things as elementary lessons in drawing and painting, an exercise, until you are skilled enough to do more ambitious subject…
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Riddle Me This:
What do this kitten: This old drawing of mine: This geranium: And this scene I photographed while visiting friends have in common? I’m going to weave them all into a very complex drawing..something that’s been on my mind since I was young…but was always a little timid to try. So, there are…
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Stick a fork in it
Sometimes, the hardest thing in art is calling it quits. I don’t mean art totally, but each piece has to have an ending, and it’s usually far short of the perfection that you intended. So it is with Sunny Chair Paradise. I like it, but it doesn’t live up to what I’d like it to…
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The Comfort Zone, and taking risks
I get the impression that many artists from experience know pretty well what each pencil or brushstroke will do. They’ve mastered their particular medium, and they can create without too many surprises. Every so often,in the artist forum, I read about artists talking about the Comfort Zone. This mastery is what I think they mean…
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Boooooring
A lot of the work of an artist doesn’t make for particularly good blog posts. For instance, yesterday, I dropped off two pictures at an art show, and put together an application for Percent for Art. Just boring stuff I gotta do. In the online forum I go to, they say an artist has to…
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