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…
Art
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…
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…
Traffic signals
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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…
Shoes, Paris airport
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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…
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
Morning, Paris, July 26
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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
So serious, so fierce.
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Lemonade in Paris
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Monet at Musée Marmotton
Two for one Monet day. Once again, you can get so close to these things. You can’t photograph them, but you can look: you can look and draw. Filed under:…
Artists Better Protected Against Cognitive Decline
People who engage in music or visual arts are better protected against dementia and other cognitive decline issues. Nows the time to pick up that instrument you keep meaning to…
Laundry in Venice
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Ice cream in Paris
“Hell is riding, endlessly, a bus through different parts of the city, looking all the same, indistinguishable one from another, for the best ice cream, near the house of Victor…
Orvieto
If you get a chance to bop around Italy, don’t overlook the villages and towns outside the major well known ones. Orvieto was on our route, so we planned a…
At the Trevi Fountain
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The heat, the cake, the Cappucino.
The cappuccinos, the dehydration, the heat and the crowds make you very dizzy. To top that off, the church facades are all sweet cakery decoration. Stop putting crap on your…
The foot of Fortitude, by Botticelli
No one lingered to worship at the feet of this masterpiece, but all rushed on to gawk at the Birth Of Venus, roped off from at least 6 ft away.…