Walter Logeman: Journal
My phone shows a photo at random every day. This one came up, and I remember discarding it. Suddenly I like it. I imagine it printed on A1 paper, big, bold.
The date on the picture was 29 March 2017. I made quite a few more on that date, this is the only one that grabs me… it wants to tell me something.
2150 Softly. Walter Logeman Prints
I’ve been scouring my discs for artwork, my obsessive curating. It’s got a soft quality, even though it’s a bold image. The brushes are soft,
Whats been hard is upscaling.
This image is not bad. I’ve been upscaling images and what a frustrating process that has been in the last few days. I got scammed by one online site.
Then I found a delightful program called Upscayl, which is open source. I’ve got it on GitHub. It works exactly what I wanted us to do, except that it smooths out the rough textures that I want sometimes.
So, back to Open Art, it does a beautiful job. Textures and the pixels all work, but it costs money. I’ve checked them, they come down with a watermark on them. That’s okay.
But then I go to put this image, Sofly up to see if it works with this image and it won’t load it up. So that’s frustrating.
But the image is pretty good quality and I have upgraded it using Upscayl and that good on this occasion. So, learning.
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And I’m subbed to Open Art, and the upload worked. This print will look superb on A1!
2558. Walter Logeman Prints
I’m making a feature page on the Prints website, with a few reflections at the top.
I wanted to include this image, so I’m posting that here as well as on the Prints site.
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Here’s the discussion at the top.
This is a Feature for October 2026.
Back when I was I was doing the Thousand Sketches I met with George Sweet, who’s since passed away. We had a delightful talk about simplicity. I just read the blog post I made after our meeting. Its called Isnt it fun being alive! It has a great picture of George and a link to a related podcast!
He said “Simplicity is an advanced course.”
I’ve found a few circles which I think are pretty straightforward and simple so they’re featured here.
How simple can I go? How simple is too simple? And is this simple enough?
So simple circles, please enjoy. I’ll pop up other features from time to time.
Not Rothko
A new sketch today. Called it Not Rothko because it’s inspired by Rothko. I love Mark Rothko. I’ve experienced some of his work live.
It seems like something you can do on the garage door with a roller.
But its not that easy. Even this one, I must have had 2 or 3 goes at it in different versions. Then this particular one has about 25 layers of rubbed out and reinserted versions. I play until I get something and then I stop. I like it. So I’ve put it in the blog post because I want to write about my dilemma.
Is this the sort of sketch I could add to Walter Logeman Prints, Not Rothko?
I think people all over the world do imitations of Rothko’s, don’t they?
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Wednesday, 30 September, 2026
And there are more: Golden Fields
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I did not finish the book. It seemed an endless list of name dropping. I may get back to it.
I wrote about him and some posted pix. Where was that, Thousand Sketches? YES! Here.
Now watching this on Youtube
I love listening to him.
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When I did the Thousand Sketches I thought I was on his path….
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The iPad sends feature sets of photos every day. They do a great job. It’s like someone saying “Hey, I love this photos, I love your art!”
I did a lot of sketches (as I call them). The one the algorithm sent stands out from similar efforts at the time. Just the right balance of dark and light.
I’m enjoying Daily Art.
Today they featured George Henrick Breitner. That led me to to an earlier post, from 2020, about this painting:
Continue reading “George Henrick Breitner & childhood reminisces”
I found this image in a neglected place on my iPad, in an app I was trying out. I must have made it some years ago. Today it resonated. I’ve been thinking about the value of containment and the value of a clear focus on a point. Continue reading “Found”
