doreyme

had a

episode today...after struggling with oils on a portrait -- used to use acrylic + got that down pat --which was basically like painting with mayo+mustard--+ I'm not using any medium...altho I've gone thru them all...today used cold wax + wow, it's kinda manageable even in this melt down temperature.

hey-la-day-la my muse is back

+ you're gonna be in trouble. She's been gone for such a long time. Hey-la-day-la my muse's back. Now she's back and things'll be fine. Hey-la-day-la my muse's back. You're gonna be sorry you were ever born. Hey-la-day-la my muse's back. Cause she's kinda big and she's awful strong. Hey-la-day-la my muse's back. Look out!

4 "live" watercolours

used a very limited palette this time... ultramarine, cerulean blue+ochre+crimson, burnt sienna...next time will use even less...a blue, 1 red, 1 yellow....+ depend more on tones..

for the last few days...might post some results in morn...Took a book of Sargent watercolours for inspiration, O what an innocent fool!

+ while we're at it...

fireworks are REALLY stupid. http://www.world-wire.com/news/0407050001.html Everything traumatic going on around the world right this minute + Montrealers shower their populace with toxic happiness...

http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=5

http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=5

o the clamour!

for new Elvi! Finally, here's three I did tonight...influenced by Charles Reid but not enuf, actually.

seeing isn't enuf...

"An artist's brain works differently than a nonartist's. Robert Solso put well known Br portrait artist Humphrey Ocean into a magnetic resonance imaging scanner while Ocean drew + then compared his brain activity with that of nonartists who also drew while inside the scanner. Their brains lit up quite differently. That is, while the nonartists seem to exercise the visual areas of their brains in particular, Ocean seemed to exercise areas that barely registered in the nonartists, areas in the front of the brain that have to do with intentionality + focus, with holding goals in mind. The contrasting scans suggest that Ocean was coordinating his brain in ways the nonartists did not. Says Solso, "an artist thinks the painting as much as he sees the painting. With Ocean, the frontal parts of the brain were more active than they were in the non-artists. It's pretty good evidence that a truly oustanding artist is really looking inside..." Okay..."intentionality+focus+holding goals in mind". check.

please, everybody?

draw, mister...

where do we draw the line..? why do we draw? well...I'm going to find out because I'm reading Peter Steinhart's "why we draw" -- "The Undressed Art" .

here's lookin' at me...almost a 30 yr difference

4 plein air Gull Lake watercolours

and I have the bug bites to prove it....oh my, what with the wind,+ wet dog...doing water colours plein air I've discovered is akin to stir fry...tons of ingredients, right bit of spices, everything has to be done really fast, + you can't over do it or it turns to mush...

plein air

lately I have been very

chalk it up to summer, ennui, lacklustre dreams...who knows...but the travel itch is strong. Need to get out there + zap the creative batteries toot sweet.

landscape memory...a departure from landscape reality...

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