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<span style="font-size: large;">This last year has brought me all kinds of opportunities for
growth.</span> At this ripe old age I would say that heartbreak in life is
unavoidable. Heartbreak is just the process of us learning to accept the joy that comes
and eventually goes in life. The gifts the universe gives us are all transitory... and if we cannot gracefully accept that all things must pass, than those gifts
become barbed hooks and tear us apart as they move out of our lives again. If
we can open ourselves to joy without attachment then they become waves, washing
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Negotiating that sometimes frustrating, and at turns
transcendent act of awareness is what the practice of painting is about for me.
Not everything I paint is great, not everything I see is great, but if my
awareness is great and my acceptance of things as they meet my reality remains
steadfast, then I feel like I am actually giving a gift back to the universe.
My awareness is a gift of gratitude to the wonders of our world. The breathing
leaves and skipping birds, the dark resting stones and the bright clear sky, the
bent grey branch and the folded yellow petals, and maybe most wonderful, the
way all these parts move with each other, breathing the same air, allowing the
same precious rays of sunlight to bend all over them. Ugh. Its almost too much.
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The other wild thing to me is that most of my life doesn’t
feel like this. Mostly I’m stressing about work or stuck in traffic or trying
to figure out how to communicate with my children, or just feed them before
soccer practice. I often feel frustrated and overwhelmed, or all out scared as
hell. I’m sure we share some of those feelings, however for many of us there is
a practice that allows us to pause, breathe and be grateful. This practice
often allows us to bend or stretch time and heightens our senses, as well as
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Your list is ( I’m sure ) different, but if your at all
interested in how to make creating art into one of those tools in your life,
then join me, ‘cuz I’m ‘bout to get into it again. This time by using examples
of actual paintings that I may consider good or sometimes even not my faves,
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Here we go. The image to the right is a portrait of the west facing slope of mount hood. There I was, a year ago, hoofing it through the dust. I was carrying a heavy heart, and my paint box, not light physically or emotionally. I carry the weight of my eroding marriage with me, as I look over the glacial landscape trying to find something I wouldn't mind staring really hard at for an hour or more. but everything looks gorgeous. How to choose? This is one of those moments I just gave up and sat down and started painting. and its one of my favorites. so much light and surface, it scared me. There was no simple one thing to look at. but the hill, scoured by ice all winter...it killed me. the small life that fought for it, came up all around me. It told me that it is ok to fight for daylight. get your green wings out in the sun, even for a few weeks. This is a barren moonscape graced by the strongest little green living things. I say thank you, to the sun and the earth, and I put the pigment on the paper. The image is what it is..what you see. But there is no way to accurately express the multifaceted sensory experience of life. Yet, we keep trying.<br />
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fast forward a year, and one of the coolest things I've had the experience to learn happened in a workshop at Catlyn Gable school, in a workshop led by Rachel Nelson, during traverse portland, all about...<br />
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now it's all I think about when I'm painting. my mind wants to see things, and see them clearly. But my body has it's own agenda...breathing and feeling tired, hungry, and waving in the breeze, like a filament of a barnacle. MY BODY IS HUNGRY...MY MIND IS ALSO HUNGRY...and the space around me acts out its own impulses, that my brain and body respond to. The Wind or rain could change my mood or ruin the excursion for me. It is the space around me I am here to capture, or to experience. The act of observational painting is the very act of becoming aware in real time of the shifting space that is our very being, the nerves and thoughts and emotions and urges that flow like a rushing current though our bodies and minds, into and out of the space all around us. Mind, Body and Everything Else all three work on me equally, and my identity, the decisions I make, have no firm boundary between them. My decisions are not made just in my head, but in the intersection of these three vectors and so I am greater than just my mind, I am greater even than myself.<br />
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In the moment of this painting, I had sat down on some rocks beside the Wilson River. I had never been to this swimming hole before, and all my senses were open. My mind was in a childlike state of learning, taking in the bird songs and the shapes of leaves, because it was a new space for me. I was eating some salami, and crackers, looking up and down the bank, joyful and grateful, for the love in my life. Belly full, Mind calm, and the world around me becomes the main thing. I accept the world around me and put pigment on paper.<br />
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I would miss out on most of the joy in my life, if not for painting. Painting reveals how temporary everything is. I may return to the same views to see the seasons changing. The leaves drying out and the clouds growing dark, or the ground growing warm and soft and green shoots striking out again.<br />
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Even in the course of a single painting the light is never the same as when I began. The practice of awareness through impermanence helps build in me, a sense of gratitude for the moment as it is happening and an acceptance of change. The two being linked, awareness and a capacity for joy and an acceptance of life slipping through our fingers.<br />
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The reality of things as they appear, is not the same as how they are. There ARE multiple realities at work. My perspective is unique. The sun screams through space, and we, on earth, scream around it. Light does not stay static. Only by accepting change can we paint life. None of my paintings look like reality, as it might be captured by a camera, but all of my paintings capture the emotional state of the hand. That kind of arty sentiment I would have rejected as a younger man, but now I can hear it. Not to say that the emotional state could be universally interpreted, but it is embedded in the color choices, and strokes, and by recalling the moment of craft, I can recall the emotional state.<br />
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The practice of true and open presence, in nay form has the capacity to change our lives for the better. Being aware and connected, allows experiences to be more clearly imprinted in our memories, because it allows us to take more of our experience in. That practice is carried into all aspects of my life. So thanks art...you saved one more soul today.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">About this time last year my life got kind of shaken out.</span> Im not here to tell you about my personal drama, but suffice it to say I ended up having to spend a lot more time by myself and kind of had to decide if I liked myself enough to want to be my own main hang. I was left with a gaping void in my life that just made me want to curl up and give up and generally turned me into a heaving wet mess of a human being. After a few jagged weeks I realized how much my inner dialogue had been controlling my life, specifically getting in the way of my own happiness. </div>
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You ever forget the radio is on in your house and after a while you cant figure out why your so annoyed and then your like "ugh, Im listening to car ads" and some guy with a growly voice is yelling at you to "get on down here and scoop up this awesome low financing option!!!!!!" That's kind of what had been going on in my head for the last thirty some years of my life. A running commentary track of negative self talk, that I had tuned out suddenly was turned up to full volume and I had the opportunity to deal with it directly. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I began actively seeking out the things that bring me the most joy in life and of course painting was high on that list.</span> I also ran a ton, and cooked food for myself and enjoyed every minute I could with my kids. I read a lot of books about improving your life and went to conferences on self empathy. I even fucking meditated for a while. Just saying there was a lot going on, a lot of self care, a lot of learning. So all that and also I started really focusing on painting outside. Thats what I really came here to tell you about.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> First off there is a pretentious french sounding art word for painting outside that you have to get over </span>if you want to go down this road. "Plein Aire" painting is fancy talk for sitting your butt down outside and cussing through an afternoon getting sunburned and bitten by bugs just so you can end up with a drippy mess you might have been better off just snapping a photo of. I mean half the time after an hour and a half I realize I wouldn't even want a photo of this dumb lake or whatever. <span style="font-size: large;">But theres a secret joy to it, I'll explain.</span> I just have to start out being unerringly pessimistic cause thats true to me. Thats really how I feel a lot of the time. Thats the noise in my head.<br />
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Those last two nautical scenes are the first two real plein air paintings I feel like I have done. I mean I painted stuff I saw outside before. I have been making art my whole life but somehow this was different. It was like I knew I was just there to learn, that nothing grand may come of the time I spent seeing those trees and waves and boats and trying to interpret the weight of the warm wet air that separated me from everything I was trying so desperately to see that afternoon, as I sat on the edge of the RV park I was camping in, on the coast of Vancouver Island BC.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyybZsBR8DBpeMwKaHCem-bfjyHDqFU1QRsnXCKy-0byU_s43SvGNUimKJ31LAVxXr7JzfNUerTWdIfPVVNshjtm1tPOzpXHSJ0bHNthgFtZb1L4edL0pzbISvGgoHfecl2XEPHyIx2a1Z/s1600/IMG_7118.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyybZsBR8DBpeMwKaHCem-bfjyHDqFU1QRsnXCKy-0byU_s43SvGNUimKJ31LAVxXr7JzfNUerTWdIfPVVNshjtm1tPOzpXHSJ0bHNthgFtZb1L4edL0pzbISvGgoHfecl2XEPHyIx2a1Z/s320/IMG_7118.jpg" width="320" /></a>The old timers walking their dogs out to the otter strewn dock, commented as they walked past and again on the return trip. It was clear people saw this as a good thing. A real and brave attempt at humanity. That was encouraging, and despite what some people say about doing art for yourself, I am totally honest about the fact that I started drawing as a kid to impress other kids. I wanted a super power, something that made me special. I can't separate myself from that core desire to be recognized by others, but what I have started to learn, is that in addition to that there is a person looking at my work from inside of my own eyes and that seeking to make that man proud is maybe worth something too. Ugh, I'm crying, again, another thing I have learned this year is that turning my love inward is about the hardest thing for me to do. I don't understand the riddle of my life well enough to tell you why, but even saying that I deserve to love myself, that I deserve love at all, cuts me so deep, opens me right up. I know I can't be the only person going through this, so I hope it's not totally selfish of me to share it here. You deserve love too. We all do.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhp4lCJGPxTnA6jEzvVxEH1KP_rWNHFdaW1Wg-JAa-TyKJD2n4Vx6MGlWjSD62DRebb_o2R81YGNoqhuB5HtAfiaDJWYsbdSl0_khV6ATPySWRBYm2As72IXv1AoH-fn9f-HG9Xlsm6zN5/s1600/IMG_0613.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhp4lCJGPxTnA6jEzvVxEH1KP_rWNHFdaW1Wg-JAa-TyKJD2n4Vx6MGlWjSD62DRebb_o2R81YGNoqhuB5HtAfiaDJWYsbdSl0_khV6ATPySWRBYm2As72IXv1AoH-fn9f-HG9Xlsm6zN5/s320/IMG_0613.jpg" width="320" /></a>My mother in law is a painter as well. She makes beautiful watercolors, and a few years ago she gave me a super cute painting box. A little wooden case with drawers and a pop up easel. Manufactured by Royal Langnickel, oddly enough I didn't realize until much later that art company makes my favorite sketchbooks too.<br />
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This little art box sat in my garage for a couple years, but it came with me when I went out to find myself last year. It is about as big as a big ass toaster, and holds paper and paint with room for a jar of water and a book to read if painting isn't going well. <br />
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After a year of travel and adventure it is mostly held together with stickers and dried paint, and last week I passed it on to another painter in hopes of building a contingent of friends who might want to sit on our butts under a blue sky and paint what we see all together.<br />
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It came with me and the crew to Hawaii over the holidays and I must say some beaches are more fun to paint then others. There was a lot of growth and practice between these two trips, and the road ahead sometimes feels wide open, but it's like exercise, you don't always want to get out there. When you do though, you can feel your soul opening up like a new leaf in the sun.<br />
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There is a lot more I want to share about how this little paint box changed my life, opened up my heart and let me feel real peace and joy, and opened up the conversation with the self hating critics in my mind, so I can take them with a grain of salt....all that and a frosty coors light....next time.<br />
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I thought it might be fun to see a big commission piece from beginning to end. This is a 4x4 panel of the amazing prehistoric giant elk, <b><i>megaloceros</i></b>. I set out to paint some prehistoric megafauna and this guy won the race. About two weeks of daily painting, and the hours just flew by.<br />
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Big ups, and gratitude to Babera, Adam, Sarah and Tim, my family and anonymous others for being rad and supportive this last few awesome and creative weeks.<br />
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The goal here is just to get imagining the world of these big beasts, but to be honest I was not very scientific about it. For instance the background is modeled after Hood Canal in Washington, but these guys were found in Europe during the last ice age. So I had to imagine that these happy newlyweds maybe visited the <b>Pacific Northwest</b> on their honeymoon. </div>
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From a purely artistic perspective one thing I find intriguing is that all of the big work is done in the first day or two, and the last few images can barely be destinguished from one another even though that's the real bulk of the work, to complete the textures and details. </div>
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This is also new to me, because in the last few weeks of uninterrupted painting time I really pushed myself for speed and completion/ follow through on the concept. I feel like I've hit a new level. </div>
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So with that I'm ready to start into a new business model for art. I love doing commissions because it feels immediate and the limitations (if there are any) make the process more streamlined. </div>
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Updates for the year.... I've just nailed down slots for art shows in Sept , Jan , and Feb , and I just took down my last show at people's where I managed to sell about six great pieces big and small. I'm hitting up last Thursday on Alberta street for the first time in six years, and super fired up. Selling art on the street is still one of my favorite ways to meet artists and collectors. Plus I feel long overdue for getting back into it with the Portland arts community and that event has always brought me a ton of great connections. </div>
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So if step one is to have an idea, and somehow the last step is to get published, then somewhere in there like step 437 or 438, right after draw all the pictures and then Redraw half of the pictures, is make a felt doll of the main character, to include in the proposal. Is that an absurd notion? Probably. But if it gets this story off of my drawing table (kitchen table) and onto a book shelf at powells or Elliot Bay books someday, than the last fifteen hours of felting will have been worth it. </div>
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The stories came from my own childhood and were honed in my adulthood, by retelling them to my kids. So they are very much a part of me and can be hard to let into the world. My huge insecurities come out in spades when entertaining the notion of producing something this big. I'm fine with doodling some space cats or robot sharks for no reason but this is my life's dream here. I have always been working towards one day becoming an illustrator, and despite being light years away from an actual career, this is really the closest I have ever been. </div>
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This is an illustration I finished maybe a year ago, followed by the one I did this afternoon. One great thing about taking this project on is that I have gotten much faster and more confident in my technique ( if you can call it that). I know the steps well enough that I don't have to second guess myself as much. It's just pencil sketch, colored pencil sketch, erase, paint and finish with colored pencil outlines. So what took me maybe two days last year and ended up needing to be touched up and eventually totally scrapped, took me a couple of hours this afternoon. That kind of improvement is even more satisfying than the product. </div>
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Here's the before and after. I chose to redo because the line work and shapes were awkward and also because the characters looked flat and bored, like they couldn't make eye contact. Also I keep looking for ways to sneak fun stuff in, like the squirrel stuffing his face. Yay cookies!!!</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402014103612407306.post-5550394311356385662015-03-30T19:02:00.001-07:002015-03-30T19:51:38.757-07:00How to draw for a living.<div><br></div>This is, no joke, my life's work right here. This story has been told and retold to and by me for three generations now and needs to finally be part of the world's story. This summer I am tracking down publishing leads and finally becoming slightly more than just a middle school math teacher and summer science educator. Dream with me now folks. It has to be possible.<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBjXDJ0wf2l4Ro-lZ74nqkdC_W8-Tg-xoyh9If2z-Zhyphenhyphen4baVAZJzwZL5ivaDenO-AfCWcHmYuVBmF76xR8mUFWyI-n9NAuuFvAMhInErKZK46_iiagso5bsjYXLInXFCYoY74YqRXasqsH/s640/blogger-image-328289726.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBjXDJ0wf2l4Ro-lZ74nqkdC_W8-Tg-xoyh9If2z-Zhyphenhyphen4baVAZJzwZL5ivaDenO-AfCWcHmYuVBmF76xR8mUFWyI-n9NAuuFvAMhInErKZK46_iiagso5bsjYXLInXFCYoY74YqRXasqsH/s640/blogger-image-328289726.jpg"></a></div><br></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402014103612407306.post-14019299128095996622014-08-22T22:29:00.000-07:002014-08-22T23:40:08.598-07:00egoist, street art enthusiast, beercolor painter and dork...in that order...today.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There is the huge question that wonders me to sleep some nights... "what happened to all the stuff I painted?" Granted a lot of it is in the garage. That is a problem I think a lot of painters face, but even looking through the paintings I managed to document for this blog "project", which represents less than half of the paintings I have done in the last eight years or whatever, the fact is almost everything I have painted in my life is gone. I would estimate that I retain less than five percent of my own work. So where the hell is it?<br />
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I was visiting my dear frienddd (long tangential run on here) whose nickname I recently realized is not even "Greazy DC" but "GC" which does make sense since those are his actual initials and he's not form the DC area, hes from the KC area as the hat (backup hat not pictured) would suggest, (back to the important sentence) AAAAnd realized that <i>some</i> of my art is in his house, along with the art of more talented and interesting painters like Kevin Woida. So I started a new "project" (just these three photos really, in all likely-hood this is the end of the "project") to track down art in peoples lives and homes. How does it share the space with the rest of a persons important things? Does it play nice? I do this because I am an egotistical wretch and need to know that my passing through this world will leave some kind of mark. If not a bruise, a ripple. I am really exited to see how far this "project will carry me. (I have decided to abandon the project just now, because it is too much work and not interesting)<br />
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But something that does interest me is this awesome memorial? to a guy with a beard who may have only been a year old. Found on the top of Black Butte fire watch, where I left my second annual vampire Jet Jet.<br />
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I leave these tiny hastily done paintings around when I travel because I am too old and allergic to jail to do real street art, but part of my job here is to keep up on whats going on in the streets by way of the creative class. This is what I noticed the arty types throwing up on the walls of Portland this month. As well as a big shout out to my favorite dive bar, the epicenter of my love story, and the home of what may well be Portland's best fries.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF_hKQW2A9AGQNBGnYIQYbVWrthKmqRnxLRXGNuiq0p4gUQZmhpb-jIduzIfiE5bfxswu2KOfNMhG_SEc8hRvP4uWkZGAsJisG_C63Blv2fw1cCn7M8NKpkiRbjdFtOsOvDBrOt9NbTDbo/s1600/IMG_2944.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a> Then finally because I am actually turning into a quieter more respectful and observant being with every breath, I continued my watercolor practice. It is so nerdy and makes my brain hurt while I do it. But I am starting to enjoy the flood of considerations that I have to meet as I priorities light, color, shape, distance, perspective, butt pain, bug tolerance and the difference between painting with water or beer. Yes at least one of these is technically a beer-color painting. <br />
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There are so many illustrators who I just love and imitate often. Sometimes as I'm looking through the book shops I see some I don't recognize, and that may have been overwritten by history.<br />
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A couple years ago I had this experience with the work of Harrison Cady and then after seeing his amazing illustrations that once, I have been running into them everywhere.<br />
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The stories of "Reddy Fox" are one of those free downloadable stories I ended up with on my phone and my son listens to them over and over. Then I realized that the handwork teacher at my school reads these books to her students while they work quietly.<br />
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I am just floored by this guys illustrations. Super balanced and full of form. This kind of confident, clean line work and quick hand that is so typical of newspaper illustrators of his time, similar in some ways to George Herriman or <span class="st">Winsor McCay, and even Dr Seuss started working this way under the constraints of deadlines. It was a rich environment to bring up talented drawers in. I sometimes wish I could enforce that kind of pressure on myself to push myself.</span><br />
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You can really see how a guy like this had learned from observing nature and field drawing, and then how well he crafts these perfectly proportioned and dimensional little characters is astounding. Each one is so readable and if you squint looks as perfectly balanced as a yin-yang. <br />
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Harrison Cady had a long association with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton_Burgess" title="Thornton Burgess">Thornton Burgess</a>, illustrating the writer's books, including <i>Happy Jack</i>, and his daily newspaper column, "Bedtime Stories". Their partnership spanned five decades, beginning with <i>Baby Possum Has a Scare</i> (c. 1912), <i>The Adventures of Reddy Fox</i> (1913) and <i>Buster Bear Invites Old Mr. Toad to Dine</i> (c. 1914), The series continued into the 1950s with <i>At Paddy the Beaver's Pond</i> (1950), followed by the reprint <i>The Animal World of Thornton Burgess</i> (1962).</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402014103612407306.post-5809976194552064262014-05-17T19:48:00.002-07:002014-05-17T20:46:11.998-07:00Sketch Book Update. Becoming the old woman I have always been.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There was a time when I was feeling like I had given up on art. When being a dad, or trying to have a teaching career had made the idea of sitting in the garage and painting for hours seem like the most ridiculous waste of time. I left the paint and the garage alone for most of two years I think. But when Audra came back from Bali after helping out with a Flora Bowley art adventure she bought a couple of canvases and made the whole family start painting again. A lot of thinks became clear to me when I began creating art again.<br />
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Firstly I recognized an emotional debt to the task of creating art. I saw that it had been there for me when I was a emotionally retarded high-schooler, drawing anorexic long necked nudists, and gangster rabbits and crap like that. It had gotten me to and through college and helped me make almost all of the important and lasting friendships I still count on now. Not to mention I use it to gain street cred with students and barflies alike. So I felt for the first time that I owed art something.<br />
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I realized also that through art I am not only just enhancing my experience of awareness in the moment of drawing or painting observationally, but even just sketching from my imagination, or painting a sunken landscape full of prehistoric monsters, I am constantly seeking to understand the shapes and forms of the world as it is. My mind is always at work to make sense of space, distance, botanical structures, geology, anatomy, architecture, weather and atmosphere, shadow and light. Drawing and painting becomes a scientific task to recall how things fit together and appear to the eye. To use your sense of sight to recreate the images of your experience is a way of practicing your understanding. Each sketch, drawing and painting is a tiny thought experiment, in which you are literally measuring the dimensions of the world around you. There is no end to the insights that loom out of the fog of a blank page. <br />
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<br />And out of this rekindled desire to seek out artistic practice and strengthen my network of art friends I called up Greazy DC and we went to what I'm certain is not the most awkward life drawing session in the world, because I'm sure it gets weirder on a daily basis somewhere, but <i>the most awkward pony themed life drawing session I have ever walked out on</i>.<br />
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But we didn't give up and the next weekend we hunted down the Urban Sketchers at Palio on Ladd's Circle and I saw what could be possible with just a small watercolor set, a sketchbook and a Saturday morning. It was mostly a crew of lovely ladies and I felt for the first time in a while that I had found people who could teach me something valuable, without the ludicrous tuition costs I had come to expect, because Urban Sketchers is totally free (monetarily and otherwise).<br />
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Of course I am failing to express my point here, but what I am really trying to say is Thanks, to everyone who ever hung out and drew. I have a worthwhile task I can grow old with, and friends to join me in the task. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the least interesting views of the back fence and the woman who came to do the census at our house for five hours.</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402014103612407306.post-90178098693770966972014-04-17T20:40:00.001-07:002014-08-22T22:30:35.840-07:00Road Trip Jet Jets. Littering...Lettering....Letting go.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A town called Beaver. It will grow up to be stronger for the name. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Salt Lake City...goes on forever.</td></tr>
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While Audra drives I get to paint some little Jet Jets to deliver to the stops along the way. It has gotten to the point where any time we go on any kind of road trip I'm packing my little art set first and putting hanging wires on some scrap wood...then packing my clothes. <br />
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Before I started posting them here I had put up maybe a hundred around town over the years. Now it is more of a traveling exhibit. I get the feeling like many of them must just get disposed of lickitty split, but hold out hope that somewhere someone like me is finding these little guys and taking them into their life somehow, maybe to adorn the walls of their bathroom. (Where most wierd little artends up, lets be honest.) It has lately felt like the kind of project that will take years and years before I really know if it is working, or what working is for that matter. Is it reverse shoplifting, or artful littering? I don't know.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402014103612407306.post-31253761137540110182014-04-16T20:55:00.000-07:002014-04-16T20:59:24.964-07:00I just wanna paint water colors! Joy and Pain...pump pump it up!!! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It always seems like it will be this great peaceful time, to sit in the sun and paint some beautiful scenery, and then I am sitting there swearing at the changing shadows and how the paint looks all weak and I realize I am just not the kind of person who creates peacefully. It is an awful and frustrating act to look into the eyes of the world and know you may never really know whats going on in there. It is joyful, don't get me wrong. It is a good way to spend the afternoon while vacationing in some of the most beautiful country in the world but painting what you see is hard work. It is a chance to reassure yourself that no matter how hard you look you will never see it all and there is no way you will recreate all the amazingness you have been gifted with seeing in this life. And then I spilled ink all over it anyway so who cares.<br />
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Sometimes I forget where I leave them and sometimes i forget to take pictures of them, like happened last month when I had gone hiking with the family at the falls in the gorge. I had crawled into this cave set on leaving the painting in there somewhere. I was using my phones flash to see my way and the tiny cave just kept going on and on for fifty feet or more into the darkness. I finally reached the back wall and crawling on my hands and knees in the tiny space I was suddenly curious about the ceiling and took a picture upwards to illuminate the situation. in the momentary light I saw hundreds of spiders crawling all over the walls above me. I threw the painting down and scrambled out on my hands and knees whimpering and squealing, then emerged to the dubious looks of my wife and kids, who watched as I did a horrible little bug dance.<br />
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I tried to grab some shots from our trip to the east coast. Mostly in the city, along the highline. Some weird little details and signage. One of this awesome old mural with the "Bode wizard guy", from Brooklyn right by this little coffee shop called Lincoln Station, and the last shot is from a copy of spray can art that I found in this book shop under the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge. <br />
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Start light, choose a few complimentary colors, reds and yellows. As you add detail you revisit darker areas of the image and fill in the details with lion shaped lines.<br />
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I try to keep the background soft and out of focus, cause that part is really hard to draw, and there's a lot of leaves and sticks on all the trees and that is just too much junk that nobody really cares about. Nobody has ever been like "wow that lion looks cool, but the trees in the background are amazing!" <br />
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Then with the lion I just keep drawing fur all around its head, longer
fur for the mane, cause that's where the long fur is on a lion mostly,
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lion gets this big sourpuss scowl going on and looks all mad about life. <br />
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Add darker lavender hues and be all like "I didn't mean for it to turn
out this way, all drippy and purple and squiggly, so drop it. The world
doesn't need another big grouchy jungle cat going around complaining about how the
art is turning out. What do lions know about water color pencil anyway. Forget you. " If this lion is going to be such a whiner I am done. I'm not even bothering with the paws. Take an attitude lesson. <br />
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Left this Jet Jet in the secret tunnel hedge at Lewis and Clark. My kid calls it the "party hedge" and it definitely seems like the kind of place Lewis Carrol and Tolkien would have chilled out and snuck beers at.<br />
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You know how everyone is always talking about keeping Portland weird, well finally someone is doing something about it. The weirdest sign of the year award goes to the saddest hippies in the world. I just wanted to scrape my barbeque into a ziplock bag and shoot them a text, I feel so awful for them and even worse for laughing at their sign all the way home from Irvington.<br />
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Bobcat Tutorial, for Bobcat Art Enthusiasts!<br />
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1) Find a picture of a Bobcat on the internet.<br />
2) Find your Derwent water color pencils.<br />
3) Draw the Bobcat all night on Friday.<br />
4) Have your son do the fill in parts during breakfast on Saturday after cartoons.<br />
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5) Walk everybody to soccer practice.<br />
6) Draw your Bobcat some more with details and hairs and all the spots and stuff.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This drawing was inspired by my second best camp group of the year, who accidentally named themselves "NEVERMIND"</td></tr>
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