Back from awhile ago...

It has been quite some time since my lst entry. We have been quite busy. We drove across country, from Goose Creek,SC to San Diego, CA. We visited friends and relatives in AL,TX,AZ and CA. And we camped out about ten times or so. We had never camped out together before and determined that when we returned we would either be happily married or ready for a divorce. Thankfully the resultant was the former.
There were many painting ops but very little time. i did take over 400 pics, many for reference purposes. A full jounal of this trip written by Claudette and illustrated with my photos is available at www.geocities.com/ttt01us/candtpage.htm The above is from our journey. We camped one night in Palo Duro Canyon in north Texas. In the painting I replaced the motor homes with teepees. Currently I'm updating web sites and creating slideshows as well as videos while getting some paintings ready for some of the fall shows.

Studio Music

• Frank Sinatra
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Tony Bennet
• Billie Holliday

~!@#$%^

Sometimes I feel like a motereless child. Always wanted to use that line of the Blind Boys of AL. Been tied up in planning vacation and so on. I am looking forward to seeing new places and new things. I have been doing little painting. My eve is always open to seeing pictures. When I saw the lobster pot marker with the morning sun lighting it I just had to sake the photograph. As apinters we must be ever aware for the "pictures" around us. It maybe the way an object is illuminated or the pattern observed in nature. I am usually composing in my mind.

studio listening matter

• Willie Nelson
• Ibrahim Ferrer
• Bare Naked Ladies

BRAIN S-T-R-E-T-C-H-I-N-G

Yesterday was a good day creatively. i finally got my first inkjet monoprint made. The agressioveness of the mask adhesive was critical. I love it when a plan comes together. Now I will create more complicated
paintings and venture into more color and complex subject matter. There is a rush when you do something completely new.

I've been upgrading my web pages, but I haven't finished them yet. I've been trying to upload some video but haven't been too successful yet. Also the addition of a webcam to my pages will allow people to see me create art.


Studio Listening Matter

• Jimmy Buffett
• Hank williams
• Wilco
• Carbon Leaf
• 7 Nations
  

NEW HORIZONS, OLD MEMORIES

I've been busy working on new ways to create images. With the use of the computer I have been combining computer printing with painted pieces. I have been applying heat transfers over acrylic paint on paper. This can be used to strengthen a weak painting with heavy graphic images. Stencils are used to let the printer print through the stencil and the use of origami pieces as well. Reasonable successful have been my efforts to print on substrates other than paper.
A recent trip to Texas was the imputus to create some new sketches and the photos were put together in a slide show with narration and music. I used Windows Movie Maker. We also saw some great art work in the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Kimbell Museum in the same city. We missed one museum we had wanted to visit in order to go to Billy Bob's Texas, the largest honky-tonk in the world.
Now, I'm back to creating art work and would be a lot faster if I could figure out my new mp3 player!

Studio Listening Matter:

• Carbon Leaf
• Ibrahim Ferrer
• Waylon Jennings
  

And, by the way, the above painting is of a swamp buck, buckus swampus. One of the lesser know creatures of cryptozoology, it lives in the swamp and marshlands of the southeaster United States.

if you gonna play in Texas, you gatta have a fiddle in the band.

I must draw. I believe that it is apart of me. And there is seldom a day that i don't draw. sometimes it is of specific things. I may be using it to design a painting. in the sketch I work out the desing and composition and color before attack ang the paper or canvas. Maybe I will dedicate a page to how many textures I can create with a line. It's all about marks on paper. Sometimes I use it to design my web pages and sometimes to record a recipe. But mostly it is a repository of visual knowledge. All my ideas that reach fruition begin in my sketchbook..

I haven't been doning much painting but I've been following my mantra. I draw every day as my sketchbook attests to it. I decided that Texas is not a Southern state. STANDARD ICED TEA IS NOT SWEET AND BOILED PEANUTS ARE UNKNOWN.

Studio Listening Matter

• Willie Nelson
• Diana Krall
• Howie Day
• Bare Naked Ladies