Holy Week Pix

Whiskey Falls

A friend of has a nephew in this band. I ripped the clip from TV and edited a bit.

!@#$%^&

This is what I have been doing today. The small painting is a study for the demonstration painting I will be doing tomorrow night at the Folly Beach Arts & Crafts Guild. It is only a 9 x 12 but the demo will be larger.

While doing thepainting I will explain some of the rules of composition, value, color harmony, as well a watercolor painting technique. The video is a part of a DVD I'm making about my artwork. This segment is about my watercolor paintings.

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Sometimes I get back to painting for a creative release. Especially when I'm asked to do a painting demonstration at a local art guild. For my subject mater I naturally chose the southwest. There is something about the landscape representing huge geometric shapes that I like. Watercolor is the medium of choice here. It is the most magic of mediums. I seems to have it's own mind and never ceases to surprise.
This center piece is of course computer generated. I was to be part of a video short. Unfortunately the copy did not show up very well on the screen. There were resolution problems and it was delegated to the scrap heap. This has added to the problem---THE HUGE SCRAP HEAP. In this case: a storage problem. The storage problem for digital is not as critical as hard copy problems. Rarely to I destroy a drawing, painting, or sketch. When you look at over 40 years of stuff the amount is intimidating. But it could be worse. I was not so proliferate in my earlier years.

The photograph is simply that of a space capsule. No more no less.

Aeronautica

Sometimes you undertake a project without any consideration about how much time it will take. Such as the project at the left. This whole idea began with wanting to add the sound of a shutter on a camera closing synchronised with images in a slideshow. Simple idea...but then the "What if?" syndrome is started.

• What if I added captions?
• What it I added video?
• What if I added titles?
• What if I added a background image?
• What if I added background music?
• What if?

That's how a project that should have taken a few minutes took a few hours and a few hours more. But it was a learning experience.