I’m trying to bend my brain to make something interesting with this old fella. Time of day, weather, b/w? Close or far? I’ll have to visit more often. Probably would look great in pen and ink, but that’s not one of my strong points….
Tag: inspiration
All black
Those little canvasses I bought are a bit too absorbent for my taste, making it difficult to start with a thin, even layer of something. So I wanted to try to gesso some of them first, and then came on the little jar of black gesso which I can’t remember why I bought.
And now I have these black squares and for some reason I’m totally blocked when it comes to working on them! It just feels completely different and I can’t make my brain change into a new gear.
I guess I’ll have to just begin, doing nothing in particular, simply to get over this…
Do you use black backgrounds for specific techniques / effects that I might have fun learning?
I’m still “just” painting, haven’t moved into adding other media/objects so far.
I didn’t scan a black square for you 😉 Here you can see how the paint sucks right into the canvas before I have a chance to blend it in. Which can probably be used for some watercoloury effects (I think).
Sunday debate
âWe should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.â
â Richard Buckminster Fuller
Let this sink in for a little while and note how it makes you think and feel. Then ponder my questions below or make up your own.
- Do you find the idea repulsive, a lazy person’s manifesto?
- Attractive but an impossible dream? (after all we need a roof over our heads, and somebody must collect the trash etc.)
- How many people do you think enjoy having a steady employment vs. those who thrive on “having ideas” regardless of income but feel miserable in “some kind of drudgery”? Would it in fact even out without much hassle or would everybody want to be artsy fartsy useless buggers?
- Would you feel exploited if you did in fact enjoy your day job, to finance the artsy fartsy buggers? And why, if you’re actually enjoying it and they wouldn’t?
- What, in your opinion gives a person the right to exist and be happy (and have a roof over their head etc.)?
- How could we even implement this without becoming a population glued to the tv and smoking weed 10 hours a day? Let’s pretend there was just food for everybody, what would happen?
- Wealth distribution – can we rethink and redo, or are we doomed and determined to do what we’ve always done?
- Which questions didn’t I think of and how would you reply?
I’d love for you to share your sentiments below and feel free to discuss amongst yourselves too. Just keep it civil, please.
Picture wall
Current status on my latest crazy invention: all filled up. As I paint more, I’ll have to find a permanent storage place for older items, probably in a plastic bag in the hayloft where my old painting reside, what’s left of them. Some of them sadly exposed to the dust over the last 12 years.
Or I’ll have that auction I threatened to do. I decided against painting over for now, I thought they would be fun to look at in a few years and see where I’ve been. Unless of course we run out of firewood! XD
What do you think? (I’ve virtually got hair on my chest, if you think it looks silly I can take it) It’s convenient because I can take a peek anytime and perhaps get an idea for the next layer, rather than keeping my wips in a pile.
Empty skies
I can’t help but feeling that the landscapes I’m making in my skies project are too empty. I keep wanting to make something happen. Last night before sleeping I had the notion of adding a whale flying by, held up by red balloons (not very original, I know. Don’t you just hate it when you decide to google one of your ideas and it’s all over the place already?) Or perhaps little stone trolls in some corner? It seems to me all the images are holding their breath….
This is perhaps silly since these are exercises in painting environments and clouds, simple as that. A tool to help me create more complicated images later. But why not indulge, it is after all how I am.
