How to push your art further? Look at those who are doing something you like and then figure out how they're doing it. And that's what this is. Alvaro has a loose approach to his painting and so I figured I'd try and deconstruct it by trying to emulate it. Lots of darks and suggestive rather than precise. What do you think?
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All right! It's taken a few centuries but FINALLY women can flaunt their junk just as weirdly as guys did back in the Renaissance. The guys back then got codpieces. Incredibly obvious sacks for their dangly bits. You look once and then you do a double take. REALLY?
Really. And now women are apparently getting into the act and I only now learned of it from one more learned than I in the trends of fashion. And not just a sack like the guys had but a puffed version of "real life stuff". Ready to see and be seen on a set of panties. As shown to the right of the codpiece rocking lad below. It's the next bold step beyond falsies, I guess. Who would have thought it? My Statcounter report shows that an old blog post of mine, from way back when I was considering
Weebly as a host, prior to rejecting it in favor of a different platform, has suddenly come back to life. From around the world, people are coming back to it. Strange. This one. I received this email a couple of days back. Made no sense to me and so I checked my PayPal account and found no messages listed. And I then sent an email to PayPal and they verified it wasn't from them and suggested sending such stuff to spoof@paypal.com
But my main question is ... what was their plan? To click on the link they gave and something evil would happen? Reply to the email and again, somehow, it'd be nefarious? Any ideas as to how this was meant to profit them? Just came in the mail. What do you think? My newest shirt.
Decided it would be cool to do a Plein air of a peregrine falcon’s eyrie “near” me. Packed up and realized “Huh, it’s farther than I’d remembered”. Got to a place with a view. But there was a trail that got closer! So I decided to lug my gear along it. And then the trail kind of disappeared. But wait, it kiiinda seems to be a sorta trail going up that 45 degree slope. Shouldn’t be too bad. Ugh. Okay,it’s kinda bad. But just a bit more ...
“Snap” That was my right calf. Okayyyy, can I get down? Let’s try. (SLIP!) Snap! (Again). Hmmm, that’s not good. Can I slowly slide/slip on my butt to the bottom? I can?! Oh, what joy. Yay, now I need to go up again. Is that seven foot broken off branch up for being a crutch? It is? Yay! And so on and so forth. Happily, while waiting for the ranger and his bumpy rescue-mobile, I was at least able to finish a pencil sketch of the falcon’s home. From the same vantage point I’d passed so many minutes before. Total win! And the next day ... just now. Sitting down to paint instead of standing. Ugh. Not used to that. But this scene is gonna get painted, broken calf notwithstanding! (Hey, I'm kinda notwithstanding too!_ Decided this morning to do a plein air painting and half towards downtown thought "Hey, why am I not painting my local mountain - Mount Diablo?" I know that mountain intimately well, having cycled up it to the tune of 2 million feet of vertical climb. Forgive me but I didn't cycle - I took my car this time.
This one is flying off the shelves in my Zazzle store.
Or is it lemonaide? Or lemonaid? So many questions.
Anyway, here's a practice collection of pigments. Purely made up image to try some effects. Nothing too fancy and certainly not ready for prime time. But ready for a Crow's Prose post? Sure, it's up for that. |
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