September
2007
09/18/07
Update: Been having difficulties [@$#%!1!] with the
mailing list-thingy, so I've installed an RSS
feed-thingy on the blog
that you can subscribe to -- should make things a bit easier and less weepy
for both of us.
09/11/07
Update: Here's a detail
of that grisaille WIP, and the latest
blog entry.
Yeah,
I re-did the site, yet again. It's a long-ish story:
Y'see,
I'm working on a series of grisailles in oils -- and I'm really, really
[!] enjoying this, playing with nothing but lights, shadows, and textures.
[And it's really making me nostalgic for a black-n-white darkroom, and
endless reels of Tri-X Pan.]
One
of these new grisailles is nearly done, so I took a couple of digital snapshots
of it and put them on some test pages to get an idea of how it would look
on the website -- and the pix frakkin' vanished.
Poof.
Gone.
They
just went and blended in with the neutral middle-grey background like a
bunch of little grey-scale chameleons. I cannot even begin to tell
you how very little I felt like dinking around in the editor to create
a more hospitable environment for the graphite drawings, line art, and
now, grisailles.
Gads.
I have a serious case of mouse-hand, now. Not fun.
April 2007
Once
again playing catch-up -- moved my blog
from Blogspot to WordPress, and got some new figure studies, and wrangling
to get the pix online. Hang loose.
September
2006
Last
update for the month: watercolor sketch
of another male torso.
Website
update: just finished a bit of hierarchy dinkage to ease up the navigation,
complete with a "master list" of originals
displayed on this site.
A small
head
study in watercolors and acrylics.
Another
small figure study, in acrylics.
Some straight guys give me grief over doing compositions with male nudes,
but I figure the world - especially the 'net - is already drowning in images
of nekkid wimmin. Just consider it 'equal time', boys.
Another
watercolor doodle, . . .
Lotsa
new ideas in the sketchbooks for paintings, some of them truly bizarre.
[what has my Muse been smoking??]
August 2006
A
couple of new
figure doodles in
watercolors, of a statue I'd photographed in the British Museum [?] a few
years back - a Grecian [?] girl crouching with a water jug, in two different
angles.
"Change
is not only inevitable -- it is necessary."
--
Frank Zappa
"The last
of human freedoms:
the ability
to chose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances."
-- Victor Frankl (1905-1997)
Psychiatrist
and philosopher
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