Super Moon

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Layers of Things

I have recently been layering and painting. While it is more fun than straight painting, it takes more time. 

  

        Hoppers,  24x18, Mixed Media

                                              

 

                                                        Queen of Beasts, 30x22 , Mixed Media

                                                            
                                                        Space Jump, 24x18, Mixed Media

                                              

                                                          Dancers, 22x30, Mixed Media

Video Art

Looking at a lot of video these days because I'm interested in making some myself.  It looks very complicated but I'm sure it's simple once you know how.  Even more difficult is making choices.  What kind of video to make?.  Straight photography, animation, comedy, documentary, narrative, music????   First thing to do is look at lots of video then choose something fairly simple.  Here are some videos  I like.

This is Monsters by Cristian Guerreschi

Forgetfulness by Billy Collins

Green March by Loretta Markell

Curious Combination Captioned

 Over the past year I saved some pictures that caught my interest for the moment.  I can't remember what I was thinking at the time so I am posting them here with the intention to come back from time to time with some new captions.  Caption suggestions are encouraged.

I've Lost My Head

Playful minds with creative tendencies come up
with cool stuff like this frog tape dispenser.  I would like to have one

for my inner child to think of games to play with it.  I saw it on line
about two months ago and saved the picture.

Nike goddess of victory.  I wonder what she looked like.  What expression she had on her face.  My guess is that she looked ahead without emotion and had the usual classical features.  Maybe she wore a hat or a crown.  She once had arms and hands.  What were they doing.  These are things for contemplation.

At your service

Looking for cartoon characters to use as my profile picture on facebook I came across this old picture of Micky and Minnie dancing.  I didn't use it but saved the picture.  Saving things is in my nature so I end up with a lot of clutter which I hate.  Therefore, I'm never satisfied. 

Who are those Four Guys?

People were always arguing on the web in different chat rooms and comments and sometimes got quite nasty and hostile.   The worst would call the other a Nazi or like Hitler.  That is when there is no more to say.  The argument is ended.

When invoking Hitler or Nazism in any argument.  It's over.

 

Dancing Peasants

The following three artworks couldn't be more different and yet they are all fascinating to me.  The intaglio black and white print of "Dancing Peasants" by Durer has a lusty, awkward feeling to it.  I think of dancing as a happy activity but this image doesn't invoke happiness for me.  Possibly because the people look old, heavy and worn out. It's kind of funny at the same time.  The abstraction is an aboriginal painting  which I'm sorry I don't know the artist's name is a depiction of a funeral ceremony.  It is filled with color and pattern.  It has a musical quality to it.  It's the kind of painting I most admire.  The painting "Wounded Angel" by Hugo Simberg has a sad guilt ridden feeling for me.  Two boys carrying a blind-folded angel on a gurney. The one on the right looks accusingly at the viewer. They are all children so I'm thinking maybe the symbolism is the loss of innocence.

Funeral Ceremony

Wounded Angel

I love this guy

Sorry Can't Hear You

Which Way?

This Way

Too Many Choices!

The following objects are little  monkeys holding their tails, cast in bronze and sterling silver done by my brother Stan K.  Stan carved them from a peach pit.  He learned this from our father.  The eyes are inlaid with rubies and emeralds.

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Want a Banana?

Take Five The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Dave Brubeck turned 90 this year on December 6, 2010.  I  thought I would post this video as a remembrance of times past.  The years go by so quickly.   I wonder was it all a dream?  Dreams have been my inspiration for making paintings and jazz is so like what I have been trying to do recently in painting.  A lot of improvisation and pattern.

Happy Belated Birthday Mr. Brubeck.

Recent Work

These were done this year.  This is a relatively new way of working for me.  Working in this way; painting, collage, layering can be rewarding but slow.  The two horizontals are about a mythical underwater world from my dreams.  The vertical of the running figures is from childhood memories and the abstract can be whatever you like.  It would be interesting to me to get some input about what others see in these works.

Cats, Dogs, People

My whole life is about art and people and animals.  I make no  distinction between them as one being higher or superior to the other.  In my opinion human beings have made a terrible mess of things.  I have been paying more attention to animals in recent years.  I understand that dogs are smart, emotional and if the dog accepts that you are it's person the dog will do anything for you.  Even die for you.  They are loyal and loving to the end.  Cats on the other hand would expect those attributes from you.  I know.  I have had dogs and cats.  I have one cat now and I am her willing slave.

I pay attention to the sounds outside.  For example I just now heard an owl hoot.  A few years ago I would not have noticed.  Age and living in the country makes one more aware of those things.  I am sure it was an owl that left the clump of rabbit fur next to the path, half buried in the snow.  There were no dog or cat or other carnivore tracks.  It must have been a nocturnal bird.  An owl.

When I hear blue jays screech in alarm, I get alarmed and look for the red-tailed hawk.  Now I am not a nature photographer or painter but I am influenced by all of these creatures.  I could go on and on about the deer and raccoon and the red cardinal but I began this because I was thinking about how much I have learned from cats and dogs.  My dog would have been embarrassed if she threw up on the floor and would have tried to clean it up for me.  My cat threw up a fur ball and she knew I would take care of it for her.

I am working on several paintings, almost finished.  I wanted to post one or two new ones but I'm not quite done. So I hope you will forgive me for posting instead photographs of some old friends.