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cartoon life: Looking back on Vernazza 2
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Continue readingcartoon life: Mr Tuxedo looks out
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Continue readingcartoon life: Fixing the World’s problems
I’ve discovered what ‘sardonic’ means. I mean this is a perfectly workable plan isn’t it? And after all, Carbon Dioxide isn’t strictly speaking a chemical weapon or poisonous gas. Plants love it! Not like Sarin or Chlorine. Best of all, nobody suffers. They just fall asleep. Filed under: art Tagged:
Continue readingcartoon life: Looking back 1 v.2
I think I fixed the composition problems from the first version. Looking back on Vernazza in the Parco Nazionalle de Cinque Terre, Italy. Filed under: art Tagged: art, Cinque Terre, good stuff, italy, landscape, light, mountains, seascape
Continue readingcartoon life: Ghost trees of #ldnont
Pen Equity, a developer from Toronto has completely bypassed the usual, legal, agreed-upon provincial environmental approval process and won approval from the job hungry, sprawl friendly city council of London to build a mall on the 401 highway interchange outside the city, on environmentally significant woodland and wetland. A few
Continue readingcartoon life: S Basilio Harbour, Venice
Some interesting treatment in the buildings. The space isn’t too awful, but the surface of the piece itself is a mix of styles. There is that 3D space from the bottom edge to the horizon played against the flat abstract of the buildings. The sky is not too bad, it’s
Continue readingcartoon life: Another look back #2
Hmmm… Some bad Impressionism, a poor Group of Seven… A mountain in the north of Italy near Piossasco, from a photo out the train window. More than just a little overworked for my tastes and quite conventional. Filed under: art
Continue readingcartoon life: Another look back
Somewhere. The south of France, near the border with Italy, perhaps even in north west Italy? Likely, from the time stamps. No GPS data in the photograph here. Working over the photo with the charcoal brush as colored chalk in Procreate. Fussed and fretted in the detail for a while,
Continue readingcartoon life: Looking back
Now, this… This is based on a photo grabbed in a glimpse of a second, looking back out of the car window. I tried working over the photo. But it was dead. Thankfully, deleted into oblivion. But redrawn fresh, and stretched into a memory, a quick remembrance of the Parco
Continue readingcartoon life: The Swerve
2500 years ago Lucretius gave us the modern world. We ignored him. Listen to The Swerve In 1417, a Renaissance scribe and book hunter discovered an ancient manuscript in a monastery. That book was the Roman poet Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things. Renowned scholar Stephen Greenblatt tells us how that discovery
Continue readingcartoon life: Filter madness
Where to start? What a mess this is. First, a photo shot through the window, a glance backward, from a train speeding through the south of Fance to Italy. The GPS puts this as Isère. Too fast to sketch live. Now working from the photograph, drawing over the mountain with
Continue readingcartoon life: Traffic signals
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Continue readingPostArctica: Friedlander’s Car Windows
A good friend of mine recently showed me some photographs she took from an airplane window and the window frame was included in many shots and it, of course, reminded me of Lee Friedlander’s Hassleblad pictures from inside his car. This last one is particularly devastating. A sculpted cactus, in
Continue readingcartoon life: Shoes, Paris airport
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Continue readingcartoon life: Maillot, Torso du Printemps
At the D’Orsey, I found a quiet corner bench about 3:30 behind this torso. I drew her, meditatively, for my time of day. She really was lovely, and when I went round to read the credits, I laughed. Maillol again. Maybe the second time I’ve met and fallen in love
Continue readingcartoon life: Degas at D’Orsey
Drawn from memory. This is one time I should have sketched her briefly on the iPad and finished later. Once again,the room was hot and crowded. Filed under: art
Continue readingcartoon life: Morning, Paris, July 26
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Continue readingcartoon life: Artichoke busy blooming in Paris
This flower was extremely popular that day, in the Jardin des plantes. There was a lineup of photographers, like it was a celebrity or something. Filed under: art
Continue readingcartoon life: So serious, so fierce.
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