There is so much stuff out there that one can’t possibly keep up with it all. I saw a short segment yesterday morning on television about a sort-0f aesthetic movement that I had completely missed in my regular sweeps through popular culture. It’s steampunk, based loosely on the early science fiction of the Victorian Era of the 19th [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Steampunk
Posted in Neat Stuff, tagged HG Wells, Jules Verne, Steampunk on October 31, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Colors
Posted in Music, Painting, Technique/History, Video, tagged Amos Lee, Norah Jones on October 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been back in the studio for several days now after a period where I was engaged in doing some maintenance projects around here. I have been progressively worse at compartmentalizing the tasks in my life so that when I work on something outside the studio I find it difficult to work for short periods [...]
Other Failures
Posted in Technique/History on October 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Back in March, I wrote a blog entry titled Failure where I discussed briefly how I deal with different aspects of failure as an artist. One aspect I failed to mention was the possibility of failure due to things I have little control over. For instance, the failure of materials that I use. I mention [...]
Comeback Cards!
Posted in Favorite Things, tagged World Series on October 28, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Up late last night watching one of the greater games you’ll ever see in the World Series. The St. Louis Cardinals made an improbable comeback not once, but twice, both times down to their last strike to end the game. The game stretched into extra innings and ended after a towering walk-off home run from [...]
David Levine’s Wagner
Posted in Favorite Things, Neat Stuff, tagged David Levine, Richard Wagner, Thomas Buechner on October 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This is a caricature of famed German composer Richard Wagner drawn by the great David Levine. It was one of the many,many caricatures that he created in an illustrious career for the New York Review of Books and other major magazines. Levine was considered the king of caricature and, according to John Updike, was ”one of America’s assets.” I recently [...]
Another Take
Posted in Recent Paintings, Technique/History, tagged Baucis and Philemon on October 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last year on this blog, I talked about a piece that I was commissioned to paint translating the Greek myth of Baucis and Philemon, the couple that were spared by the Zeus because of the deep love they shared and the humility and generosity they displayed. They lived on in eternity as a pair of trees growing from [...]
Xavier Mellery
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, tagged Xavier Mellery on October 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
‘He who will manage to have us forget colour and form at the price of emotion will achieve the highest goal of all.’ —Xavier Mellery (1841-1925) *************************** I’ve been spending the last several days putting a new roof on part of my home, so haven’t been as productive in the studio as I would like. [...]
Hidden Pasts
Posted in Biographical, Favorite Things, Personal Mythology, tagged Wellsboro Agitator on October 24, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I’ve written here before about the joys of digging through one’s genealogy and finding little bits about your family that have been hidden for generations. Before I started, I knew next to nothing about my family’s history. There had been practically nothing handed down and there seemed to be little interest in its past. For [...]
Soundies
Posted in At the Movies, Neat Stuff, tagged Eric Krasner, Panoram on October 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I heard from the filmmaker, Eric Krasner, who made the video, Yiddish Hillbillies, that I used in Friday’s blogpost. I will write more about Mr. Krasner’s work in another post but while looking through some of the oddities that he shows on his CineGraphic Studios’s YouTube channel, I came across something that was off my radar [...]
Hogback Heaven
Posted in Early Paintings, Music, Video, tagged Joel Grey, Mickey Katz on October 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Looking through some old work, most of which was done early on while I was still forming my technique and style and before I showed my work publicly, I came across this oddity that I noted as Hogback Heaven. It’s a goofy little scene of a rough hewn home and yard somewhere out on a [...]
