“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs – ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”- Harold Thurman Whitman
Harold Thurman Whitman Quote
Solar Wheel
Just a quick sketch playing with colors and trying for “looseness”. Overall I like it but I’m always nervous about intense colors. I’m never sure how they will be seen by others. But then I remind myself of all the hideous color schemes I’ve seen in art museums.
About three inches in diameter on Winsor and Newton Professional paper. Colors are Daniel Smith Quinicridone Violet, New Gamboge Yellow, Pyrrole Orange, and Pyrrole Red.
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New Cattail Painting/Design
I’m going to call this done. This is an old design that I wanted to redo in Daniel Smith watercolors and on Winsor and Newton professional paper.
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Rolling Hills
Lots of mistakes on this one, but overall I’m happy with it.
Title: “Rolling Hills”
Fluid 100 HP Paper
Albrecht Durer watercolor pencils
Daniel Smith Watercolor sticks
Carbon Pencil
Mechanical Pencil
Northerners like to think the South is racist but….
Wisconsin has the highest percentage of African-American people in jail.
Hear That Long Snake Moan
I first read Michael Ventura’s essay, “Hear That Long Snake Moan” over twenty years ago. I just had occasion to reread it. It’s good when something from that long ago still has the power to move me.
Recycling Chaos In U.S. As China Bans ‘Foreign Waste’
Recycling companies need to do a much better job of educating Americans in order to get a cleaner recycling stream.
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/09/568797388/recycling-chaos-in-u-s-as-china-bans-foreign-waste
Ace of Reeds
This is what I’m currently working on. It’s mostly pastel pencils on Golden watercolor ground. I have a bit of a love hate relationship with the medium. I may have to work larger in order to get the kind of detail I want.
Is There a Culture War Against Populism?
Is There a Culture War Against Populism?
3/2/18 by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Web player: http://podplayer.net/#/?id=47332263
Episode: https://podcast-a.akamaihd.net/mp3/podcasts/ideas-piv69i4e-20180302.mp3
Is it a positive wave or a troubling pattern? In this age of anxiety over joblessness and immigration, populist leaders in Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Sweden and the Philippines are tapping in. Is populism, as the 1960’s American historian Richard Hofstadter called it, “a paranoid style of politics”? Or is it what others describe as “the essence of democratic politics”?
Breath Arising
“Breath Arising” work in progress. Marker, pastel pencil, colored pencil. About five by seven inches. I’m thinking the background on the lower left still needs work.
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