Gathered these at last.
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Let me tell you
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.
Image-9, now called Softly
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!
Circles
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
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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Ninth Street Women (book)
I did not finish the book. It seemed an endless list of name dropping. I may get back to it.
Alex Katz
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….
pix follow
Searching for a place to stand
2016 was a colourful year!
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.
George Henrick Breitner & childhood reminisces
I’m enjoying Daily Art.
Today they featured George Henrick Breitner. That led me to to an earlier post, from 2020, about this painting:
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