Thursday, November 15, 2007

Saturday, November 3, 2007

fooling aroung with a clumsy photo program, working on somr colored pencil portraits
























































Pencil portraits colored on the computer











My coloring program is a clumsy version of what i suspect Adobe photoshop is. But it's fun and interesting to try to begin to try to figure out.

Saturday, October 20, 2007

fixerupper



This strange thing is a collageish portrait of three paintings I did in the past. An attempt at digital collage. The hair is from a portrait I did of hemmingway, the right side is the talking heads guyand left side from a pic in the NYT a few years ago..

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Postcards







I made these postcards to advertise my work, but they (the postcards) seem like graphic images from a different world.
I thought that my work seemed a little tame next to them-- even though they are my work.. just a little cut and pasted.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Diary of a Country Priest


A few weeks ago I didn't know that these movies by Robert Bresson existed. Now, happily I've watched three. Pickpocket, The Diary of a Country Priest, and au Hasard Bathezar.

Friday, September 21, 2007

Drawings of and sewn and paper puppets





























Puppets are fun! The drawing (colored pencil) is of four puppets in a story I told to my grandchildren. I made the dragon and the purple person. The photos of the three hand puppets (I made) are inspired by Steinberg. The three pantins (jumping jacks), all the rage in the court of Louis IVX, are inspired by Leger, Austin English and Fifties fashion illustration. is there such a word as sewn?

Monday, August 27, 2007

Theater with red car


Found while cleaning

Doodles are, I guess, an expression, when one's mind or attention is occupied with something else. Then does (?) the mind go on uncensored or unchecked into doodling- the auto-pilot genre of art? At any rate, doodles interest me.
I found this one, from I don't know when, during a cleaning up of papers moment.

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Friday, August 24, 2007

More Oakland drawings




Pencil and ink first and then colored pencil rendering. And a hamberger joint.