Friday, January 31, 2020

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Glass tiles of wispy clouds



Worth a little detour.

Liquid sky



While I love these days with elaborately drawn pastel-like real skies, it turns out my friends don't really want postcards of every version of this.  Which is a shame, really.   

Monday, January 20, 2020

Shiny lines



Interference green acrylic paint really shows up on Mars black!  And silver reflects too boldly in my dining room's LED lights...

Yes, I am interpreting the one on the lower right to be a disoriented stomach, now that it is horizontal.  It's easy to see eyes in everything - there's a big part of our brain devoted to faces, so Pareidolia sets in easily, on a stomach-shaped drawing or otherwise.

I'd planned to continue my yellow ochre series, but ran out of the right size of paper.  (The scandal! And me up to my eyeballs in watercolor paper, too.  It's just not the right SIZE.)  I've got a magenta series planned, but need to test some new surfaces & sizes & pens.

HOLIDAYS ARE WONDERFUL. This is so unlike what I do for a living!

Saturday, January 18, 2020

First Polaroids of the new year, partly cloudy day



A photo by warm fluorescent lights of... photos.  I had some exposure issues while it was cloudy (lower left), but had better luck as the day went on.

Favorite reflection from vast collection



I am sure I've posted other variations of this.  I am somehow not ashamed.

Ensuring enough corner views

Historical hydrant colors



They started as red, now they are light blue, and here you can see the in-betweens.

Iron & Gold

Friendly glass fish

Stairs of local history



A good use of stair risers to display historic photos near City College of San Francisco's main campus.

Tuesday evening sky



You know I appreciate skies, right?  You know this.


Sunday, January 5, 2020

Wall for expression



There is a wall on Valencia on what I believe was once a police station, many years ago...  (At least, in my childhood thousands of years ago, I dreamt at least twice of something terrible happening, and needing to find this building to get help... and being unable to find it and/or get in?)  I don't know what it is now, if anything, but I DO know it gets a wheatpaste-facial every few days/weeks/months by local artists, especially political artists.  And now, murals!

I often Google references I find here: today I learned about an autonomous region in Syria called Rojava based on posters seen here.

Fun blue



Such a distinctive color.  (There is a fountain pen ink that I write in, Diamine's Steel Blue, that is very close to this...)

Deco



Also in Noe Valley: getting a bit Art Deco.  Those tiles were a surprise to me.

Looking up at Victorians



The variety of the colors and spaces (and spacing) of these old buildings always interests me...  There was so much effort put in to make them look like every area had been treated thoughtfully...  These are from a walk in Noe Valley.