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So for Halloween '05 I decided to drive to the Bay Area and visit the gang up there. On the Saturday night before, the girls of Team Hawaii decided we would have a drinking party so they could get rid of all the bottles of alcohol that were lying around their apartment. Someone (who will remain nameless) thought it would be a great idea to do soju shooters with tequila chasers.
Oh the folly!
We went through all 3 or 4 bottles of soju and 2 bottles of tequila, plus some other stuff. Everyone got plastered (with the exception of Osvi, Stacy, and Daniel) and later very sick. I threw up all day long the next day. I hadn't been that wrecked in a long time.
So what's the point of the photo? Well, in a nutshell, this:
NEVER LEAVE YOUR CAMERA UNATTENDED AROUND DRUNK PEOPLE WHO HAVE GOTTEN AHOLD OF A LABELMAKER!
I didn't discover their dirty work until a few days later, but it was a funny surprise. I should also point out that these photos were rather hard to take (holding a mirror and a camera in a low-light situation is an exercise in frustration).
I've been thinking about the process of learning art. So I thought I'd go back to the very beginning and as a self imposed assignment paint a picture using only horizontal brush strokes. Somewhere I read a theory that people progress through developmental stages. First you have fun making marks on paper. Then you try various types of marks - horizontal, vertical, circular, diagonal. Then comes differentiation of shape - square, circle, triangle. Next is recognition of edge and volume, then size, and finally space and depth. So, by limiting myself to using just horizontal marks I thought I might trigger an early experience.
Additionally, I placed my iPad in a wire book stand so that it stood up by itself almost vertically on the table as if it were a canvas on an easel and I held my homemade stylus straight up and down between thumb and fingers palm facing me with the tip pointing up. Normally I hold my iPad in my lap and I paint with my finger or hold my stylus like a writing instrument.
It worked. The situation was odd enough that I became aware of the process and realized the many choices and decisions that must make it confusing and overwhelming to someone just starting. What brush size do you use? Where do you start and how do you proceed? What colors do you use and how do you pick them? How much paint thinner do you use? What happens when you work one color into another? How do you blend to a different value or another color? When do you stop? There's really a lot going on.
Much of this is tacit knowledge as opposed to explicit knowledge. It's the stuff you don't know you know; likely the stuff you learned early on and is so engrained that it no longer raises to a level of consciousness. It's stuff that's hard wired and when pointed out to you, you say, "Oh yeah, you do THAT, but it's so obvious I didn't think it was worth mentioning".
This must be what makes learning art so challenging and why it can only be done by doing through observation, imitation, and practice. You can't really learn by reading about it or by following a prescribed step-by-step process.
iPad, ArtRage app, homemade stylus.
Swimming Lessons (July, 2001)
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Place:Woodinville
Date:2001/06/24 13:32:24
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Photograph by Tanya Rosen-Jones
United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey adeptly combines the personal and the historical in her work. Her poem “History Lessons” speaks to her upbringing in the post-segregated South.
In conjunction with Trethewey’s visit to campus and public talk on March 4, a team of students has created the History Lessons Project—a public story sharing effort made up of individuals’ personal “history lesson” statements. Those stories have been crafted into an art piece that will be installed in Oberlin’s Finney Chapel during Trethewey’s talk.
At Modbury State Swim (aka Clovercrest Swimming Club).
It has underwent multiple repaints/refurbishments from time to time.
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Nearly our last Greek lesson before Christmas. Niko's the teacher we always wanted. He started us this May with four helpful books.
- Κλεάνθης Αρβανιτάκης Φρόσω Αρβανιτάκη, Επικοινωνήστε ελληνικά 1(Arvanitakis, K & F Communicate in Greek - Epikoiniste Ellinika 1, Book 1 and the exercise book that goes with it.
- Greek: An Essential Grammar of the Modern Language
- Oxford Learner's Pocket Dictionary
Niko has lesson plans, gives us homework, chats in Greek, records things on my laptop so we can practice pronunciation, helps with writing Greek and is invariably supportive and funny. But our progress seems so slow - or is it? When my mother stayed with us in Corfu in October she had the impression I was speaking quite a lot. Lin says things like :I'm never going to learn". but she was helping me with homework yesterday and translating paragraphs of Greek from a paperback novel. Our lessons are an hour and a half but Niko never finishes by the clock so we often have longer than agreed time. Yesterday as well as going through our homework, which was all about getting the right pronoun for different sentences and remembering the declension of four verbs - μένω - to live, έχω - to have, δουλεύω - to work, and είμαι - to be. Then we did some grammar and punctuation - accents, other diacritics, using capitals and lower case, and the transcription of foreign names. The Greek question mark is a semi-colon. Where English use speech marks "" , Greek uses . Greek divides large numbers with full stops, thus 1.456.777 instead of the English 1,456,777. Where English would use a semi-colon (;), Greek uses a colon or raised point (:).
A sentence to test pronunciation and grammar: "Your donkey's milk is good."
#Rcraftartgroup presents new #service - #dollmakeup #masterclass. The first lesson is successful, the coach and trainee are satisfied with the result.
Новые просторы в проявлении себя - мастер-класс прошёл успешно! Мастер и ученик довольны результатом!
#Rcraft #art #artistsoninstagram #doll #collection #lesson #beforeandafter #dolls #bjd #monsterhigh #customization #original #training #ooak #faceup #makeup #dollstagram #dollmakeup
In the Christmas holidays our childeren like to play with this old train. Their father used to play with it as well when he was a child.
They are practicing for the recital in April.
4月の発表会に向けて、練習中。
Nikon D300 / SIGMA 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 OS
Lesson 3 - Abstracting shapes.
To the left - Similar coloured objects that overlap. Teapot, cup and saucer coloured in watercolour pencil.
To the right - drew out purple in watercolour and brush then filled in rest with second colour to match tea set.
I found both exercises tricky because I was just putting everything into one shape rather than drawing things out individually.
This is an outdoor oven at the cooper molera museum in Monterey ca, using different values to create depth and shadows.
Cottage greyscale value study. I really enjoyed this exercise, but would like to try again with different paper and materials. The grain of the paper shows strongly in the image.
Sorry for the photo my journal doesn't photograph well now that it's filling up!
"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."
~ Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
Ann Dancing, 2007, Julian Opie
Four light emitting display panels (LEDs); paint, aluminum, glass, and lights.
The woman, "Ann," is wearing a sheath dress and sways from side to side in a dancing motion.
Ann Dancing references the historic use of the female form as architectural embellishment. Whether looking at the caryatids on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, or the personifications of Industry, Agriculture, Justice and Literature found at Indianapolis’ own Federal Courthouse, the female form has often been used in the development of inspiring places.
Situated within the Massachusetts Avenue Cultural District, the artwork also reflects the area’s artistic flair. Ann is dancing at the end of the block that houses the Chatterbox Jazz Club, a club that has been showcasing jazz for more then 28 years. The district is also home to independent restaurants and boutiques, theatres, galleries, and more.
"I am really happy that ‘Ann Dancing’ will be in Indianapolis and become part of the street fabric. As I sit in my studio in London, I think of her endlessly dancing for the passing traffic."”
~ Julian Opie, 2008
This school in Arraial do Cabo provided lessons for men who needed to brush up their dancing skills for the upcoming Dia das Namoradas (Brazilian Valentine's Day). There was tinny music coming from a cheap little boombox, and it must have been rather difficult to dance to. The scene was peculiarly static for a dance lesson and the picture does capture the awkwardness to an extent. All of these guys were rather horrible dancers, but you got to admire that they put in the effort so they can lead their ladies to the dance floor on Valentine's Day.
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Had a great experience yesterday. Exposure Detroit hosted a Natural Light oudoor portrait Educational Seminar. Tim White, Deana Barrett, and Ann Gordon were kind enough to take time to share their knowledge of portrait photography. I had the pleasure of following Ann around. I definitely learned a a lot and am very grateful to her for so graciously sharing her information, and I enjoyed her patient and energetic teaching style.
visit:
www.flickr.com/photos/thenytim/
www.flickr.com/photos/deanabarrettphotography/
www.flickr.com/photos/75976921@N00/
to see how its really done.