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Tom Hudson

What could be better than lingering over lunch with a beautiful young lady? My daughter Jane and I had lunch in a cozy restaurant near the Baldwin Wallace campus. Jane started her second semester there this week. Over Philly-cheese steaks and fries, she described her courses for the semester: religion, philosophy, psychology (taught by her roommate’s uncle, nonetheless), music, and English. The class sizes are small (which is one of the reasons we picked BW), and she is enthusiastic all about all of them.

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Tom Hudson

For Christmas, my son and I built new computers. For ease of maintenance, both computers have the same specs. We used Haswell-type motherboards (Asus Z87-A) and, of course, Intel processors–Core i5 4670 (4670K for my son). I’ve had good results with Asus products in the past, and I love my Nexus 7 tablet (Google brand but manufactured by Asus). We’ve built our own computers before, and it’s a great father-son project.

Poem: Why do I remember this?

Why do I remember?
I’ve carried this,
and now–see?–here it is.

Guided by a compulsion (that has never left me)
I painted the walls of my mother’s house
the entire length of the hallway;
floating above the floor–I was light.

You’ll laugh, but it was art.
That’s the simple truth.

My mother didn’t see it that way,
in fact, she was outraged.
Again you’ll laugh, but I was flabbergasted.
I didn’t understand her.

WWWinter

This winter is shaping up to be brutal. We took advantage of Sunday’s sunshine by taking a trip to the Brandywine ski resort. Brandywine is just an hour from our house in Vermilion. We all had a wonderful time, especially our two sons. But the weather has taken a dramatic turn for the worse since…

Cold beauty of frozen Lake Erie

The long shadows from the afternoon sun transforms Lake Erie into an otherworldly landscape. During the winter the sun is in the southwestern sky. In the summer it moves over the lake; by June it would be visible in the photo’s left edge. The predicted high temperate for next Tuesday is -3–that’s not windchill, either.…

Winter 2014

Snow-covered Lake Erie 1/2/14

For us winter really starts when Lake Erie freezes. The snow-covered expanse beyond my backyard is the lake. Yesterday, believe it or not, there was no snow or ice out there. This all happened overnight. Extended cold weather makes the lake sluggish as the surface begins to freeze. The lake behaves bizarrely at those times;…

In the studio 1/1/2014

What better way to start the new year than in the studio, eh? I was up at 5:00 as usual (no late night revelry for me!) and pitched right in. ‘Main Street #2’ is part of a small series. ‘Main Street #1,’ subtitled ‘The Antique Shop’ is slightly smaller and has 5 figures compared to…

Aside

I hope you and yours had the best Christmas and Santa brought you everything you wanted! Children at home always makes Christmas memorable.

Robert Blackburn

During my weekly visit to the Cleveland Museum of Art I was pleasantly surprised to see a newly-hung lithograph titled Blackburn. In the lithograph by Ron Adams (an artist heretofore unknown to me) I instantly recognized my former mentor Robert Blackburn. Adams portrays Robert doing what he was always doing: working a printing press. I…

In the studio 12-1-2013

I spent the last week doing nothing but drawing. Here is ‘Main Street # 2.’ I finished the drawing and covered it with a rag-applied ground. The varnish-based ground is intended to seal the surface rather than provide a neutral tone, which is why it’s light. When I prepare a canvas, I draw the deign…