Rock stars at work (looks like play)
Happy Birthday, Julia! You know how to celebrate in style.
Monthly Archives: May 2009
New painting: phase 2
Phase 2 is mostly about refinement. Whenever I do these sorts of paintings, I have to paint the same thing over itself several times before I’m happy with it. The challenge with gradients like this is that the whole thing has to be done at once to keep it smooth.
Kind of Bloop
Support this project by Andy Baio on Kickstarter: “What would the pioneers of jazz sound like on a Nintendo Entertainment System? Coltrane on a C-64? Mingus on Amiga? For years, I’ve wondered what “chiptune jazz” would sound like, but there are only a tiny handful of jazz covers ever made. To satisfy my curiosity — Read more…
New painting: phase 1
Since I had such a clear vision of this, I have the whole first layer (plus some detail) done already. It feels good to be painting again. This is a 36″ x 40″ canvas and it’s a combination of latex and acrylic paint.
New painting: a sketch
Had a flash, completed vision of my next painting this evening. I sketched it in oil pastels on a scrap of paper that apparently has my signature imprinted in it…
2569062 miniature (done)
It’s very little. The ink part is maybe 8″ across.
2569062 miniature
I haven’t painted anything in weeks, so I’m easing back into it with another miniature of an exisiting number painting: 2569062. This is all pen so technically I suppose it’s not a “painting”. The blue numbers are card stock stickers. This is the easiest way for me to protect the white space of the numbers–they’ll Read more…
Billy Collins: The Lanyard
This makes me both happy and sad, and triggers the kind of immersive memory that usually only comes from a scent…
What I’m reading now
I enjoy reading more than one book at a time, especially when they’re sort of at odds but possibly complementary. Following a lovely afternoon at the library on Saturday, I’m reading The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas, with commentary by Geshe Sonam Rinchen, and Richard Feynman’s The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. The 37 Practices of Read more…