Bad easel
I listened to songs by PJ Harvey during this morning's painting session (actually drawing session). Her songs are filled with the kind of poetry that tears you up--just what I like. Many of her songs…
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Spring? You bet!
Those aren't whitecaps on Lake Erie but ice flows loosened from the thawing ice--but I'll take it! We knew spring was finally arriving when we were able to keep the bedroom door open to last…
About yesterday’s rant
Yesterday's rant started as the preamble to a much longer post about painting techniques and the craft of painting. The soon-to-be-published post is already too long so I removed the preamble. By itself, the preamble…
Rant
I was taught nothing of practical use about painting when I was a student. Worse than the daily dose of esoteric BS was the relentless, sneering attack on the subjects of technique and history, which…
Studio mess
As this photograph demonstrates, I need more studio space. Not shown are the larger--5' x 6'-- paintings that are precariously stacked on one another. My separate storage area is overflowing with even larger paintings, like…
Storm clobbered
Yesterday's storm highlighted--as if it was necessary--once again that this is the Winter From Hell. Our furnace stopped working during the wee hours and the high today is in the low teens. It could have…
Confirmation at the Holy Rosary Cathedral in Toledo Ohio
We drove through the snow to the magnificent Holy Rosary Cathedral in Toledo for my son's confirmation. The eighth-grade class from Keith's school--St. Paul's in Norwalk--along with several other schools were confirmed together in solemn…
In the studio March 2, 2014
Here is some work from this morning. The bulk of the day was given over to removing three rooms of carpet from our basement. We got water in the basement during that sudden thaw 10…