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The Ghost Writer, Happiness, Life During Wartime, OSCAR BUZZ
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Happiness The Ghost Writer (2010), B- I didn’t think this movie was particularly compelling. It looked like a Polanski movie, it felt like a Polanski movie, but it wasn’t as...
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Shoot the Piano Player, The 400 Blows, Francois Truffaut
So today I watched two French Films directed by Francois Truffaut. These are his first two films. I watched them out of order. Shoot the Piano Player (1960), B+ This film had a similar feel to...
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Virtual Paintout-Guggenheim, Breathless, Pierrot le Fou, The Secret of the Grain
Guggenheim For the last month I’ve been developing a technique of painting that is a throw back to some of the whimsical paintings I did of Northampton in 1997. I decided to try some of my...
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WFCR Art Mug Entry
WFCR Art Mug - my entry 2010 Here’s my entry for the 2010 WFCR art mug. I found out yesterday that I didn’t ‘win’ the contest to get my entry on the fund-raising mugs. Congratulations to Claudette...
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Drawing study
drawing studies This is a drawing study of a wooden figure. I got a book a few weeks ago at the Book Bear called “Master Class in Figure Drawing” by Robert Beverly Hale. This is an excellent book which...
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computer problems, george condo, crayons
I’m typing this not knowing is the computer is going to suddenly crash. Monday was the ‘white screen of death’. Three days later i had figured out that my options were to either put the hard-drive in...
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Figure Drawing Studio
Went to a figure drawing studio the other day. Here are a couple sketches … This was a 5 minute pose. We had a very professional model. She didn’t move on one pose–and they were difficult poses....
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drawings for stencil – process
Drawings for stencils – process art. This is for a stencil art collaborative project that I’ve been working on. I’ll make stencils of this drawing. I’m in the end stages of the design. This drawing...
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Drawing for a Pochoir – Kathy’s Diner
Here’s a drawing for a new 11×14 pochoir. Next I’ll do one or two more drawings based on this one — but thinking more in terms of how I will eventually be cutting the stencils and incorporating that...
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Drawing study for a Pochoir
drawing study for a pochoir. After the Kathy’s Diner pochoir attempt (see youtube videos Mar 9 – 12, 2013) I’ve adjusted my approach to the larger pochoirs by executing as exacting a drawing study as...
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20th century art – Heather McQueen drawing
I’m continuing archiving and found an old drawing Heather did probably 1997, maybe 1998 of the Farmer’s Market. I like how she put us tucked away on the side of the painting. This would make a nice...
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Kathy’s Diner – drawings, paintings, stencils, process art
Found a small group of Kathy’s Diner works. I was developing a stencil last spring (2013) that had progressed quite far, but for some reason I stopped working on it. These are the types of things I am...
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’70s TV Talk Shows
Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, and The Last Remake of Beau Geste. Three movies from my childhood with Marty Feldman in them. Such an interesting person. He had a quiet self-awareness on screen. A...
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Learning and Knowing
This is a drawing a made a few years back for the Return of the Lowbrow show in Easthampton. That group of small artworks included a dozen or so small graphite drawings of various celebrities. That was...
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Three Month Plan
I just read there was a fire overnight at the Platinum Pony in Easthampton. I don’t have much more info, but encourage everybod to chip in somehow to help them out to get them back on their feet....
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