Three Strikes?

Vignette du Jour

Bayside Dreamin'

i was parked next to this guy today 

who was taking a nap in his truck

by the bay

he woke with a start

and I gave him my art -

he never stopped laughing

as he drove away!

(but first i took a photo with my iPhone)

The Moon and...

...the roof, two chimneys and the porch

...the chimney and the porch

...the roof and the chimney

Aretha on TV Sunday Morning

Shelter Island View Yesterday

Fountain at Red Sails

where I had lunch today.

Tale of the Mermaid

Mermaid Abandonned

Mermaid in Flight

Gran-mer

Ink Buffalo Babies

drawn from TV using paintbrush with non-dominant hand

Da Kine

another drawing exercise

Had lunch outside at the "Da Kine" restaurant in Liberty Station next to an island family (you know da kine).  They obligingly (but unknowingly) sat still for a graphite portrait .  I'm still working on my "one drawing a day" exercise book.   Mo' bettah if you click it biggah!

Following Blind

Here's something I'm trying in acrylic - a new direction, more conceptual, meaning expressing thoughts I didn't know I had rather than trying to paint something.  I wish it were easier to make comments here because I'd like some feedback.  Folks are telling me they are unable to comment.  Other folks with blogspot blogs of their own have no problem.

Peacock Feathers

Jellyfish Revisited (and Jack London)

—Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore

I cannot help remembering a remark of De Casseres. It was over the wine in Mouquin's. Said he: "The profoundest instinct in man is to war against the truth; that is, against the Real. He shuns facts from his infancy. His life is a perpetual evasion. Miracle, chimera and to-morrow keep him alive. He lives on fiction and myth. It is the Lie that makes him free. Animals alone are given the privilege of lifting the veil of Isis; men dare not. The animal, awake, has no fictional escape from the Real because he has no imagination. Man, awake, is compelled to seek a perpetual escape into Hope, Belief, Fable, Art, God, Socialism, Immortality, Alcohol, Love. From Medusa-Truth he makes an appeal to Maya-Lie."

Heart in Hands

mixed media

Night City

Life Drawing

I'm thinking about getting back into Life.  These are huge drawings from a long ago class.

I want to call this "The Egyptian."

Work in Progress

Casa Pool with Sea Lions - 10 min. sketch

At 7:30 this morning I was here for 15 minutes.  Sat on a wet bench. Then went to the dentist for an hour.  Guess where I had the most fun.

Sampans in Stormy Sea

Drawing - Day 3 & 4

 I think I did something right.  You should see the example in the book.  Assignment: Draw someone's hand in ink with a sharpened bamboo stick.  Again, let the blots and blobs become part of the drawing.

OK!

DAY 4 - Charcoal Portrait from TV (Weather Girl)