Entries Tagged as ‘Art I live with.’
October 31, 2009
Happy Halloween. Have some Eight-Circuit Brain Candy.
One of the single greatest treats of my life was delivered to our door exactly one month ago today. Three drawings created by my brilliant wife Nina were published in my favorite author’s new book. It was a hallowed evening that will last the rest of my life.
I share these treats with you today, on the [...]
October 5, 2009
“So, is that a picture of love?”
I was using that painting this morning teaching second graders about abstract art. I explained that this is not illustration; we are not drawing planes or trains, dogs or frogs. We are just drawing designs with shapes and lines. One little girl raised her hand and asked…
“So, is that a picture of love?”
September 25, 2009
I love my job.
I wish you could have been been here for this. Juan Carlos was drawing the perfect example of the lesson, so I took a picture of him and projected it on the SmartBoard for the whole class to see. He exploded into bubbling embarassed laughter that lasted for twelve whole minutes. Neither of us will [...]
March 18, 2009
Weekly Wonder Word: One.
“This is traditional art + photography + digital art. I have blurred the boundries of these factions. In essence there shouldnt be factions at all, all art is mixed media.”
(Temporary tag and quote by zoomrhy.)
When I was twenty one, I had an awakening of sorts. I realized that everything is a unified hole. I distilled the experience [...]
March 11, 2009
Weekly Wonder Word: Mask.
(Watchmen cards by katiecookie.)
The mask symbolizes all sorts of deep human meaning and mystery. We don’t know who we really are, so we confuse the matter further and squeeze out just a bit more joy from our existential wounds.
Rorschach’s inkblot mask in Watchmen stretches the twist to exquisite lengths. It morphs and bleeds and portrays the [...]
