Finishing this felt like a best effort at making the dead resemble the living: there is no light left and the face has a flat, painted Barbie Doll quality. A last ditch effort with gauche felt like busting out the “full coverage foundation” to camouflage serious skin tone issues. Over the last week, this gal’s gone […]
Author Archives: moonminded
June
25
Peyton (Re)play
posted by moonminded
After finishing this pencil outline a month ago, I spent all of my early-morning-one-hour-pre-work-sessions struggling with another Romare Bearden piece, Circe, 1977. I think I now understand why it took me over two weeks despite the fact that it’s all flat shapes that comprise the female form, but I’ll start painting and posting that soon. […]
May
27
Peyton Play
posted by moonminded
I love Elizabeth Peyton. When I decided to settle into the arc of a blue silk blouse with couture excess, I didn’t know that I’d want to open up Elizabeth Peyton and hope to channel that hue-magic onto a copied image from a catalog. I’m lingering for inspiration on page 179 – Sara, 2002 or […]
May
22
Manet
posted by moonminded
Another Friday’s Eve begins; Thursday is my favorite day. I like drawing straight-up with ink sometimes because there’s no possibility of going back. corrections are limited, and knowing that is freeing to just observe and enjoy the process. I bought the Manet postcard at Musee d’Orsay in Paris last September. She is Berthe Morisot au […]
May
20
Poseidon
posted by moonminded
My morning obsession of the past week: The Sea God, 1977, from a compilation of Romare Bearden’s collage interpretations of Homer’s epic. The underlying grid and the bold shapes and colors scratch a deep itch in my brain. I actually was writing early morning letters two Saturdays ago and pulled out stamps I’ve had for some […]
March
24
Ear Weir
posted by moonminded
I guess that only makes sense if words are fish. But something is being intercepted between aural and neural signals – even if meaning and understanding are microseconds away from the initial slip of the ear. This happens often, although my hearing is supposedly fine. I found this instance amusing and tried to capture it. […]
March
17
Spring
posted by moonminded
Spring equinox is still three days away, but Saturday was temperate with plenty of sun breaks to make everyone cheerful. The Urban Sketchers hit the waterfront park to see the cherry blossoms edging toward wonderful while listening to some intermingled live punk-SKA music at an anti-racism demonstration. However, since at a glance everyone was […]
March
08
Zen Metal
posted by moonminded
Few things can shift vague, stupid anger into focused, righteous anger like listening to heavy metal. (OK, still stupid.) This week reduced me to one small, mindless ZenDoodle and a vague, generalized anger – not a common emotion for me. Busing home yesterday I had Metallica in my head and put on Symphony & Metallica when I […]
February
28
Philtrum
posted by moonminded
It’s almost a likeness and I enjoyed playing with the colors on the paper, but in my mind, what he’s pondering is “Where’s the space between my nose and upper lip? Where has it gone?” Our faces are not symmetrical because they result from five sections growing together and fusing by gestational week 6. […]
February
19
Blue(s)?
posted by moonminded
Since my class a few years ago, where I was introduced to the “scribble” technique of layering marks, I clip random people out of magazines based on facial planes and easy-to-understand-values. Then, fishing them out again, I wonder who they are. Something about the emotion of this woman says to me opera singer or blues […]
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