The Fish

Editorial assignment. The poem is "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop.
More multimedia. I cut up some jeans to make the gills.

poem, "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop

The Twa Sisters

This image was intended to be based of the Scottish folk song "The Twa Sisters".
Apparently, this story has variants in almost every European culture.

The narrative of 'Twa Sisters', also known as "The Cruel Sister", is a story about a woman that kills her sibling over the jealousy of a potential husband. She pushes her sister off a cliff into the ocean. In the story, the victim is always fair-featured, while the aggressor has darker features. So I have a blonde woman washed up on the beach. However, I don't think that this image at all manages to communicate that story, even with the background information. Whatever, it was a good practice in color and textures.

"The Cruel Sister" by the band Pentacle

Ruff stuff. Anyway, its a poodle on a mo-ped. It's supposed to be Provincetown in the distance. The tower is the Pilgrim monument.

Making a Scene

An assignment for my color class. We were told to do an interior night scene. The point was to render forms in shadow and darkness, yet still keep the colors saturated. A person would be compulsed simply to add black to an image to suggest darkness, but of course what we think of as blackness when we look into a dark location is hardly ivory black paint we get out of a tube.


















High contrasts of light and shadow can still be suggested with fully saturated color. I used a medium magenta probably mixed with pthalo blue to get the purples I used as the shadows on the flesh. Alot of the "darks" really aren't dark at all if you look at them by themselves. They just appear dark next to much brighter areas of color.














I used alot of texture in the painting that is lost in the smaller resolution image. I've really been having fun with building up texture in my acrylic paintings.

Food for Thought

Delicious.

Had an assignment to pick an animal that was known for its specific color, and then to do a painting in just one hue. So I picked an Irish Setter, and I only used Alizarin Crimson, mixed only with blacks and whites. I like this picture, I think its fun. Style of the dog strongly reminds me of a Chinese lion.

Lilac Sunday

So Lilac Sunday is apparently a local Boston festival. The second Sunday of every May there are events in the Arnold Arboretum coinciding with the bloom of the lilac bushes. Incidently, the arboretum hosts a specific breed of lilacs, I believe, called "Lilac Sunday".
















A class I was in submitted designs for a t-shirt competition. The accordion-type instruments called a 'melodeon' is there because melodeons are a primary instrument accompanying an English folk dance called 'Morris dancing' that enjoys a popularity during the Lilac Sunday festivities.

Lilac Sunday's Wikipedia page

Some Morris dancing
This set seems to incorporate a bit of Irish jig. My understanding is that the maneuvers with the wooden batons are more characteristic of the Morris dancing.