December 18, 2009

Jeanne Eagels ad




Wow. What a great magazine advertisement. I enjoyed watching the movie at my sweet friend's home.

December 14, 2009

Peek of Portland trip





Visited Multnomah Falls on my trip to Portland last week. Beautiful company, beautiful place. And yes, that is loam in dem dere jars!

November 28, 2009

In A Lonely Place - issue 3 out April 2010!




Decided to give it another go...it has been 10 years since issue 2. Yikes!

November 18, 2009

Patterns of nature

November 3, 2009

tower pattern


tower pattern
Originally uploaded by PotatoBenevolence
painting or photograph?

October 31, 2009

Fine finds - lamp shade and insulator (2 shots)



Squirrel living in our chimney





October 25, 2009

Stage one - interior

October 15, 2009

Faces...finally


On this painting.

Hi little ghost guy

October 11, 2009

Clouds and music


Listening to the Wipers and practicing painting clouds.

October 4, 2009

Jean Painleve on Criterion




Finally picked up the films by Painleve. Criterion released all his films in one collection. Beautiful imagery and fascinating observations.

September 26, 2009

Another strange bird - detail and Francis Bacon quote


Not anywhere done this painting. It's a messy one, but I'm pushing myself. Been thinking a lot about this (Francis Bacon) and applying it to an article I'm writing:
6. Another error hath proceeded from too great a reverence, and a kind of adoration of the mind and understanding of man; by means whereof men have withdrawn themselves too much from the contemplation of nature, and the observations of experience, and have tumbled up and down in their own reason and conceits. Upon these intellectualists, which are notwithstanding commonly taken for the most sublime and divine philosophers, Heraclitus gave a just censure, saying, MEN SOUGHT TRUTH IN THEIR OWN LITTLE WORLDS, AND NOT IN THE GREAT AND COMMON WORLD; for they disdain to spell, and so by degrees to read in the volume of God's works: and contrariwise by continual meditation and agitation of wit do urge and as it were invocate their own spirits to divine and give oracles unto them, whereby they are deservedly deluded.