Located in the middle of the north-west New Territories is the MTR Light Rail network, operating as a short distance public transport network around the group of 1970s New Towns. You can read more about it here;

www.checkerboardhill.com/2011/01/mtr-light-rail-the-network/

Water is a miracle .

If you were a teenager in the San Fernando Valley in the eighties, you might remember this place.

Auckland, New Zealand.

Elin Pendleton says every painting has its "the uglies" stage, and that field horizontally across the middle is not very satisfying to me. It looks good at about 15 feet away but not up close.

My policy in posting these phases is not to edit out parts that are less than best (or downright lousy!). So I am showing this.

I am beginning to model a little in the foliage areas, the field, the immediate foreground, and the dark trees and bushes.

I am realizing why it's good to go from dark to light in building a painting. The dark colors are often more to the transparent side, so painting them on top of lighter colors (going from light to dark) is a bit like swimming upstream. (For those of you who have known this for a long time, my apologies!)

Trying not to get carried away with texture.

I have been making a mistake in technique, and that is too thin color, perhaps a legacy of my years painting transparent watercolor. I have to notice this and consciously choose to mix thicker color, more opaque, especially in the latter stages of the painting.

Oh well, onward, and I trust upward. What a blessing that with acrylic, like oils (pastels, casein, gouache, etc.), you get second chances!

William Hook, an opaque style acrylic painter, advises us to scoop up thick impasto color with a bright (brush)--referring to the stage I'm delving into above.

Also, I think I prefer canvas somewhat on the rough side to this super smooth gessobord I'm painting on. It's noticeably harder to get textural brush stroke effects on.

Pigments: for the dark greens, Hookers Green dark, Cad. Yellow Med., Titanium white. For the middle-ground field, Cad. Red Med., Perinone Orange, white. With some Sap green mixed in. For the cooler bushes right under at the base of the buildings, I added some Thalo blue into the mix.

Auckland, New Zealand.

June 17/22

22-625254

Toronto,

Mixed-use Development,

CIBC Square Phase II,

141 Bay St,

Ivanhoé Cambridge,

Hines,

50s,

Wilkinson Eyre Architects,

Adamson Associates Architect,

Long Beach, CA.

I've put primer on the masonry and put up one wall of wallpaper scraps.

Taken for the Scavenger Hunt, through a window

This is one of my favourite shops, I love their clothes, though I can't afford to buy many. Today there was a gorgeous blue party dress in the window and a red evening gown hanging inside the shop..

Singapore.

i'm really pleased with the shading on the panels.

Study nooks and hallway in West Hall.

Pitzer College Office of Communications

Photos taken August 2012 by Chris Costea

Photographer- Valery Shpak - weddings, portraits and commercial photographer from New York @valeryshpakphotography

On 13 and 14 October 2018, ArtRwanda - Ubuhanzi hosted 587 contestants to a pre - selection phase, at Cenetra Hotel, in Kigali.

The pre-selection phase was attended by all contestants, who got passess from the road trips auditions who displayed their talents to different panels of judges, grouped per category and field of expertise. The following art categories were considered: Plastic Arts, Dance and Music, Fashion, Acting and Drama, Cinematography and Photography, and Literature.

From the 587 who auditioned, 70 contestants representing all the categories, were selected to continue to the next phase which is the boot camp. Each category, was represented by the first 10 best contestants, with an exception for the Dance and Music category, which had 20 representatives, as it was the category that had more contestants than all the others (half of the total number of contestants who auditioned).

We had four panel of judges which were composed by: Mr Bruce Itahiwacu - Singer, Ms Nicole Irakoze - Singer and Composer, Mr Bugingo Patrick - Music Producer, Mr Daniel Semivumbi - Singer, Mrs Sandrine Isheja Butera - Radio host, Mr Mani Martin - Singer- Comedian and Actor, Mr Jean de Dieu Kibibi - Artist in Plastic Arts and, Mr Kennedy Mazimpaka - Actor and Film Director, Mr Jean Marie Vianney Kabakera - Artist in Plastic Arts, - Mr Diogene Ntarindwa, Mr Moses Turahirwa - Fashion Designer, Ms Lauren Rwema - Fashion Designer - Mr Phillipe Nyirimihigo - Co-Founder of Illume Creative Studio

Silvester 2014/15

MOB drill

Amtrak 68 crosses the Saranac River Bridge with the #184 phase IV locomotive.

before quilting

draping the outer shell

Source: Stockholms stad

Panama Canal.

SunGeo - Velocity Phase 3

Phase 2 build photos.

These very smart Engineering students made a guitar using lasers for the strings.

Strobist: I have three lights above and behind them with gels to make it look like they are on a stage. This was all shot in our lobby area. I have a soft box to the right and three grid lights on each face. I used a smoke machine to enhance the color gels and to show the lasers where the strings would usually be placed. This is a tricky shot, you can't spill light where the lasers are because it will wash out the lasers. I used a 1/5 of a second shutter to catch the ambient of the lasers from the smoke.

Look closely at the mugs shots of people floating aimlessly in the Universe - is there anyone you know there? I can see at least three actors and a couple of neighbors and maybe a geezer who looks like me - aaaagh! If you spot your father or a favorite uncle then buy them a print at Imagekind - they might be chuffed to find themselves in a work of art.

The basis of Phase contrast microscopy is an optical illumination technique that changes the brightness passing through a transparent specimen in the image. To the naked eye, the phase shifts are invisible.