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4 years ago!
Pen and watercolor on paper.
4 X 6 inches.
From imagination.
Simultaneous left and tight-handed, blind (eyes closed) drawing, with right-handed, sighted watercolor.
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As for the rest - I think the last couple days shows that drawing with both hands together and eyes closed leads to some creepy self-portraits!
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My simultaneous left-and right-handed drawing has gotten alot better but maybe not with my eyes closed. I'll have to try this again some time soon.
This is a past self-portrait from my Daily Portrait Project, in which I made a non-photographic image of myself every day for three years, from 3/15/07 to 3/15/10. Soon they'll all be loaded on flickr, you can find them in this set: www.flickr.com/photos/juliakay/sets/72157619599543783/
The first year of the project is now available as a book: www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2418516
Volumes II and III coming soon...
Various water-soluble pencils and crayons on paper.
From life / observation / mirror
26 X 20 inches
Started as left and right handed together, but after the first 10 minutes, converted to strictly left-handed with right-handed erasing.
Day 01 - 01/18 - 30 m - red oxide. Left & a little right.
Day 02 - 01/19 - 70 m - deep rose. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
Day 03 - 01/21 - 30 m - leaf green. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
Day 04 - 01/22 - 30 m - payne's gray. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
Day 05 - 01/23 - 36 m - dark purple. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
Day 06 - 01/24 - 30 m - thistle. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
Day 07 - 01/25 - 35 m - dusky purple. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
Day 08 - 02/05 - 30 m - prussian blue. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
Day 09 - 02/07 - 35 m - prussian blue & indian red. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
Day 10 - 02/10 30 m - prussian blue & light olive. Drew with the left, erased with the right.
~6 hours... so far.
Since it can be hard to see without lining them up side by side... main differences here are the left eye and more work on the hair.
I know this isn't the best Crossbill photograph but it is illustrative as it does show the crossed mandibles quite well. Crossbill bills can be either left or right handed, and (in Common Crossbill) there is a pretty even split between both types. The upper mandible is fixed to the skull and is centrally placed but it is the lower mandible that can swing either way. The ones like this where the lower mandible goes to the left are known as sinistrals and when the lower mandible points right they are known as dextrals. Sinister and Dexter are Latin terms for left and right and derived words are still in use today. Left-handedness was once associated with a shifty personality and the word sinister comes from that. Dextrous, meaning adept or nimble-fingered comes for the word for right-handedness. Back to Crossbills, as well as having an asymmetrical beak, they also have more developed musculature on one side of the lower cheek, and left and right handed birds approach cones from different directions. This one's a male with orange-red plumage while females are yellow-green. I photographed this one near Holmfirth in West Yorkshire.
~6 X 8 inches
Colored pencil on paper
Left and right handed moving together.
Maureen's great artwork: www.flickr.com/photos/maureennathan/
Photos and portraits of Maureen: www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/discuss/7215762428692...
The photo I was working from for all of these: www.flickr.com/photos/maureennathan/9731687245/
I wanted to work with another subject the way I work with my own image - not worrying about likeness, having fun with process, indulging in whatever artistic impulse strikes me in the time I have each night. Maureen was kind enough to agree to let me have at her 'no holds barred'. I also like to work in series so I chose to make 50 portraits over 25 days, all from the same photo. The images range from likeness to insane, from detailed to quite rough, some interesting and some that I wouldn't ordinarily display, except I'm posting the whole series.
These were all done in a lined spiral notebook with fairly thin paper that I received last year at a computer conference. I had used the first 50 pages for a series of ink self-portraits, and now I turned it over and starting from the back, filled it with these 50 portraits of Maureen. It is now completely filled.
These are, of course, portraits for Julia Kay's Portrait Party (JKPP). If you're an artist and you'd like to join an international community of artists who make portraits of each other, please consider applying to join us at the Portrait Party on flickr. First read the group guidelines here: www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/rules/ Then click join here: www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/
Pen and brush markers on paper.
8 X 10 inches.
This is part of my Daily Portrait Project, which can be viewed in it's entirety at studiojuliakay.com/portraitproject.
It's also part of series within the project, which I call left-hand-blind (LHB), in which I draw with my eyes closed and my non-dominant hand. I do open my eyes and use whichever hands I feel like for adding color.
Another picture of me studying in my dorm room in Waveney Terrace.
Oddly enough, there don't seem to be any photos of me drinking beer from that year.
Sometimes you have an unpleasant day at work. This is a good example of that. I had been cutting metal pieces with a chop saw most of the day. I'm extremely comfortable with the chop saw. Then I had to change gears and switch to cutting panels of masonite and PVC on the portable table saw. Not my favorite, but I'm fairly competent with 1/8" panels, especially when I have a spotter. Now when a 1/4" piece came my way, I didn't really think about the difference in thickness and just went about my business. That's when the dang saw kicked back right as I was finishing the cut. Slammed the PVC into my hand, skidded up my arm, bounced off my shoulder and flew over me. Luckily, I was wearing gloves or this nasty swelling would probably be an exploded hand. It still makes me shudder when I look at this. Luckily, my hand is fine. Just severely bruised, with a little scar left on the tendon of the pointer finger. Don't try this at home, kids...
Well, go ahead and try this at home, just hope that your table saw has a guard and you have more skills than I do!
Me VS 1/4" PVC
San Francisco, CA
July 2009
My son and my wife work on their homework. My son's in middle school; my wife is working on a graduate degree in clinical psychology.
Water miscible / soluble oil paint on gessoed paper, using water as the only medium.
Left and right handed together, only a little bit of favoring the right. I tried to keep the darks in one hand/brush and the lights in the other so both hands had work to do...
From life / observation / mirror
That right eye is too far over but I was afraid of overworking if I moved it... and it was bedtime.
~ 6 X 6 inches
~1 hour
Various water-soluble pencils and crayons, and very little water, on paper.
From life / observation / mirror
26 X 20 inches
Left and right handed together, multiple pencils in each hand.
30 minutes
Cutting scissors can be used to cut layers and create contour line. 4V*2 point cut: to create light & soft hair ends effects. 4V+4E horizontal cut: to create one-length, bob and geometric hair ends effects.
剪層次、輪廓用裁剪類剪刀。兩支4V美髮剪刀組合，斜剪髮尾輕柔；4V與4E美髮剪刀組合，橫剪髮尾豐厚。4型號優質型，使用日本440C鋼材鍛造。
Is this the world's smallest police car? Taken at a police recruitment exhibition in Bristol, England.
USA 2007. Íslenski Fylkisgarðurinn - The Icelandic State park. Norður Dakóta - North Dakota.
Taken from www.fellpony.f9.co.uk/country
David Trotter: "You would be up in a morning, say four o’clock, with a pair of horses, and mow, and then come home and milk, leave your mowing machine in the field sort of thing.
"If it was a small field you'd mow it in one, but big fields, you just used to mow it in beds then. You didn't mow a lot, well you didn't know how the weather was going to be, if you could get a lot - well, it used to take us a month to haytime. Same as today they'll mow the bloody lot won't they, and then they'll work it and they'll get it all, sort of in a week. If it was a small field then you'd mow it in one, but big fields, you just used to mow it in beds.
"There was one spot we mowed with a single horse: the mower had a Petter engine on, and that drove the cutter-bar, and the horse just had to pull it, but usually it took two horses, you know, they had to go at a fair old rake o' knots."
McCormick grass-mower for harvesting hay. The cutter bar is guarded here for safety. It was driven by the rotation of the wheel on the right of the picture.
"First spot I ever went at, you used to go down with your mowing machine, it would be sort of on the inside, your horse would go down the dyke-side (field boundary: hedge or wall), and you would mow this way round, lefthanded, happen about four times, and then somebody would come on, usually t'farm lad, and would rake that back, as they call it taking the backswathe back, and he would roll it against itself, over, so that you could come in with your horse, tÂ’other way on, righthanded, and mow the rest. And then youÂ’d to come with a ley (scythe) and mow right up to the dyke-side, so you got every bit of hay.
"Now the first time that we didn't do that was down at Alec Hornby's. Up till then, whenever I mowed, we took the backswathe out. Anyway, I was mowing, and I got the field finished, and I was going to do t'backswathe, and Alec's father said, "no, no, don't bother wi' that, no," he said, "we'll just put cows in," which is what they do now. But they take it younger now, you see; when we were mowing, you weren't taking it until sort of July or August, whereas they take it in April and May now don't they. When it goes for silage, it isn't that long, and cows go in afterwards and clean off round the edges. It used to be real long and tough, three foot high, you know, and then they wanted every bit of winter feed they could get off the field."
Taken from Wikipedia:
Icelandic State Park is a state park located in Akra Township, Pembina County, North Dakota. Located on Lake Renwick, the park consists of 912 acres (3.69 km2) of land, and includes the Pioneer Heritage Center and the Gunlogson Homestead and Nature Preserve. The park was established to preserve evidence of the Icelandic heritage in North Dakota.
The Gunlogson Arboretum Nature Preserve is an arboretum and nature preserve which is now part of Icelandic State Park, 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Cavalier, North Dakota.
The preserve lies along both banks of the Tongue River and is dominated by mature elm and basswood. It had been in the Gunlogson family for over 80 years when it was donated to North Dakota by G. B. Gunlogson in 1980.
The preserve's woody plants include Acer negundo, Betula papyrifera, Cornus stolonifera, Corylus cornuta, Crataegus rotundifolia, Eleagnus angustifolia, Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Populus tremuloides, Populus balsamifera, Prunus virginiana, Salix amygdaloides, Salix bebbiana, Tilia americana, Ulmus americana, and Ulmus pumila. About a hundred other species are also represented on the site.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 1 (AP) — Nellie Fox, former second baseman for the Chicago White Sox, who was the American League's most valuable player in 1959, died today at University Hospital. He was 47 years old and lived in St. Thomas, Pa.
Mr. Fox entered the hospital in mid-October suffering from widespread skin cancer.
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Epitome of Hustle
by DEANE McGOWEN
He was christened Jacob Nelson Fox, but to his major-league teammates and to thousands of baseball fans he was Nellie, a strange nickname for one of baseball's tough guys.
Like Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds, Nellie Fox was the epitome of "hustle." Hustle was the chief reason Nellie Fox became a successful ballplayer.
He was irreverent, too. The late Casey Stengel, then managing the New York Yankees, said of Fox: "That little feller, he ain't so big, but he's all fire. He's caused me more grief than any other player on the White Sox."
Stengel related one story as a case in point. In a game between the Yankees and Chicago, a close play at second base brought Stengel running from the dugout. As Stengel arrived to give the umpire a piece of his mind, Fox snapped, "What're you doing out here? Gonna tell us a couple of your funny jokes?" The ebullient Stengel was silenced.
Some Distinguishing Things
Fox's trademarks in baseball were a giant-sized chew of tobacco jutting from his jaw, and his bottle-sized bat and his ability to get a piece of the ball at the plate.
The late Connie Mack discovered Fox as a 16-year-old in spring training in Frederick, Md., at a World War II baseball camp of the old Philadelphia Athletics.
But Fox did not really arrive as a major league second baseman until he was traded to Chicago in 1950. He played 14 seasons for the Chicago club before being traded to the then Houston Colt .45s of the National League. Fox had a lifetime Major League average of .288, and teamed with Luis Aparicio, at shortstop, to form one of the best double-play combinations in baseball.
In 1959, they combined to lead the White Sox to the American League pennant. Chicago lost the World Series to the Los Angeles Dodgers in six games. But Fox batted .375 against the Dodgers.
Though only 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing 160 pounds, Fox was a solid performer. He hit only 35 home runs during his career, but he set a variety of records.
He led the league in singles the most consecutive seasons, seven, the most seasons overall, eight, and had the most seasons with 600 or more at bats, 12.
Fox, who batted lefthanded but threw righthanded, also led the league 13 times with lowest strikeouts. He also held the record for the most consecutive games played at second base, 798. Fox retired as a player in 1965, having played in 2,367 games, with 2,663 hits.
In 1973, he retired as a coach for the Texas Rangers.
He was born on Christmas Day, 1927, in St. Thomas, Pa. During Christmas 1943, he had his first date with Joanne Statler, a girl from St. Thomas. They became engaged on Christmas Day, 1946, and were married in June, 1948.
He is survived by his wife and two daughters, Tracy and Bonnie.
Nellie Fox Obituary
Phil Mickelson makes his return to Colonial in 2010, after having to miss the 2009 Crowne Plaza Invitational due to his wife being diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Shot in Fort Worth, Texas.
After making two lefthanded mounts on my first run (sigh), I edited the design a bit and decided to use slightly thicker 3/4" wood for the whole thing, to house my cam locks. And, of course, this time I labeled EVERYTHING.
Various water-soluble pencils and crayons, and water, on paper.
From life / observation / mirror
26 X 20 inches
Left and right handed together, sometimes multiple pencils in each hand.
30 minutes
Before adding water on the left, after on the right.
4 years ago!
Pen and watercolor on paper.
4 X 6 inches.
From imagination.
Simultaneous left and tight-handed, blind (eyes closed) drawing, with right-handed, sighted watercolor.
This is a past self-portrait from my Daily Portrait Project, in which I made a non-photographic image of myself every day for three years, from 3/15/07 to 3/15/10. Soon they'll all be loaded on flickr, you can find them in this set: www.flickr.com/photos/juliakay/sets/72157619599543783/
The first year of the project is now available as a book: www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2418516
Volumes II and III coming soon...
The Australian batsman scoring 133 runs on the 3rd day of Australia versus Pakistan test match in Dubai International Cricket Stadium. Handheld capture from over 100m (tripod NOT allowed at the ground!)
Halfstock percussion rifle made by Theodore Clark Spangler, in either Neponset or Annawan, Illinois. It is .34 caliber, with back action lock, and made for a left-handed shooter. Left handed firearms were very rare during the 19th Century. If one was born left-handed, it was considered a birth defect. Most were "converted" to be right-handed at home or in school.
Theodore Clark Spangler was born in Center Township (now Wyanet Township), Bureau County, Illinois, July 11, 1850. He was one of twin sons (Theodore & Theory), born to Jacob Young Spangler and his wife, Jane Clark, who came to Bureau County from Ohio, in 1847. The family moved to Manlius Township, Bureau County, in 1852.
Theodore Spangler is listed as "Gunsmith & Town Marshall" in Neponset, Bureau County, in "Taxpayers & Voters of Bureau County, 1877". He is listed in the 1880 census as a gunsmith in Annawan Village, Henry County, Illinois, which is just across the county line from Bureau County. Theodore Spangler married Janetta Peebles, in Annawan, Illinois, December 11, 1871. By 1885 he was a gunsmith in Tabor, Iowa. He died in Nebraska in 1903.
Halfstock percussion rifle made by Theodore Clark Spangler, in either Neponset or Annawan, Illinois. It is .34 caliber, with back action lock, and made for a left-handed shooter. Left handed firearms were very rare during the 19th Century. If one was born left-handed, it was considered a birth defect. Most were "converted" to be right-handed at home or in school.
Theodore Clark Spangler was born in Center Township (now Wyanet Township), Bureau County, Illinois, July 11, 1850. He was one of twin sons (Theodore & Theory), born to Jacob Young Spangler and his wife, Jane Clark, who came to Bureau County from Ohio, in 1847. The family moved to Manlius Township, Bureau County, in 1852.
Theodore Spangler is listed as "Gunsmith & Town Marshall" in Neponset, Bureau County, in "Taxpayers & Voters of Bureau County, 1877". He is listed in the 1880 census as a gunsmith in Annawan Village, Henry County, Illinois, which is just across the county line from Bureau County. Theodore Spangler married Janetta Peebles, in Annawan, Illinois, December 11, 1871. By 1885 he was a gunsmith in Tabor, Iowa. He died in Nebraska in 1903.
Left-handed hermit crabs have one smaller front claw on the right side and a bigger one on the left side, which you can't see here. You can see the Asterina Starfish riding on his shell. Taken with 105mm lens.
Write or draw with your left hand! I decided to write AND draw!
This was so hard for me since I'm such a perfectionist with my handwriting.
Established in 1980, Southpaw Guitars is the world's largest left-handed music shop. My brother is a left and it was a life-long dream to visit this shop. I admit it was a fascinating experience to see all these pieces of art.
Southpaw Guitars. Houston, Texas.
for FGR (Sinister Bearded Men in Hats) and TRP (heros)
I'm relying on my sinister bearded lego man in a hat while I hide behind the heros (sp) in the background...
because my beard is gone. And I'm not that sinister (unless you consider that sinister is Latin for Left-handed, in which case I'm VERY sinister!)
oh... and I didn't wear my superhero outfit because I'm still a little cautious about revealing my secret super identity!