syrinx

This graced the cover of the Austin entertainment section on Thursday, plus a poem "Hal-O-ween". The artist used to do a comic strip back when I originally dragged her out to Texas a dozen or so years ago, so she apparently called them and asked if they wanted something for the holiday.

tags: art

synchronicity or coincidence? These articles and this short film recently came to my attention:
It's All In The Details (skin deep is pretty shallow...)
Why I Hate Beauty (research that hits a hot button...)
Not Pretty, Really (not just a pretty face...)
hmmm...

tags: art beauty research film

My new desktop background

I was fooling around with the "artistic" effects on the photoshop LE and was sort of happy with this result so I left it as my desktop wallpaper. Easier than actually learning how to paint with watercolors. Speaking of which, when I was a yout', the public library had a large copy of Winslow Homer's paintings, and I've always been impressed with his watercolors of the Bahamas as they reflected the light in Key West as I saw it at the time.

tags: wildflowers art bluebonnets watercolor desktop wallpaper memoir winslow homer gulfstream key west

draw a person - poem and portrait

april 1, 2008: draw a person from the cover of the portable dorothy parker and an illustrated version of her poem resume. medium: number 2 pencil on steno pad notebook paper. Put an art museum around it and take another look at the original piece of paper, hmm?
diagnosis. a witty person who will probably die of old age. actually chooses life. Accused of mumbling when others have lost their hearing because they shout all the time.

tags: art psychology drawaperson day dorothy parker resume april fools

draw a person after watching forrest gump and da vinci code

Drawn using poor man's photoshop. Tracing paper using charcoal pencil over compass and #2 mechanical pencil over original sketch on lined and quad ruled Mead Cambridge 9 1/2 x 5 3/8 in spiral bound notebook B-. Scanned as b&w image on an hp1200 series into Paint.Net software and cropped without any hue-contrast-lightness-saturation or other adjustments. as if that technical crap matters. . .

tags: art therapy draw person diagnostic