3D

Life Drawing

Materials exploration ~ wire figure

Style

Irreverent 

admiration

respect

Taping edges

outside the line

painterly

Shapes & color

what's important

that matters

Open Carry

Compelled. Again.

Maybe the only way I can let the paint dry between applications is to write. Other options are... overwork the piece, or eat?

So... step one:

Technique

Make pink 

From a photo

Draw inside the lines

But first apply water

No, mix color first

Then apply water 

Before step one:

Shop. 

decompress in art store. wander aimlessly looking at stuff I don't need. acclimate. get the big picture. ignore music. crowd. 

Take out list. move towards water color paints...

Keep going down list. Ask for help. Interact with friendly customers. Chill. Enjoy. 

Remember to breath at check out, even after the discount. 

Possible to enjoy the process. Breath.

In CLASS:

Demo, notes, took pics.

Got back to my desk. Tune in, while tuning out.

Put MORE paint in the wells, it's ok.

'Trace' photo of P I N K rose. aaaarg.

Review step ONE. 

Ok, so I can't follow ALL the directions at one time...

Ok. I think I got it out of my system...

Nope. Eat something.

Now...

Try without line

Try mixing paint IN pallet

Try lines

OK, now try a rose shape...oops.

CLASS OVER!

At HOME:

Saturday ~ set up at home

Sunday ~ draw rose freehand, paint inside the lines with mixed paints... write, repeat.

Feb 1, 2015

Two things

Memory 

Future

Three

Who cares

Four

Does it matter

Five

Why

The present comprises both yet I do not know how to coexist with either

Winter Light

I woke up with Richard again

all month, the light

Angling into the winter window

Less than three years

non sensical 

Reality

Life settles

then the remembering

Cells start blasting

the Sound of what 

is not there

but was

What matters

rainbows on the picture frame

candle sticks on the kitchen table

Stars reflecting 

on a Bodega shoreline

Dawn

Winter light travels

in his footsteps

past his lens

going forward backwards

difficult to be still

there but a blur

Going back

to art,

drawing,

painting,

hurts.

I didn't expect it. 

yet again. 

I see even when I am not picking up a pencil, pen, brush, camera.