I enjoy Austin Keon’s stuff — one of the newsletters I have not unsubbed from.
The thing is I get inspired. I’d love to do collage like that – I carry around a paste stick — and use it too!!
But
Inspiration is a distraction.
Keep the focus!
Clock
Hope River
I walked from Windy Point to the Half-way Hut / Hope Shelter. Loved it.
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798
There is a verse in this poem I may have put on this blog before, but here is the whole poem with that verse highlighted. It fits for me – recollecting my past but also still loving the bush. That verse is loaded with line after line that are each a “meme” on the internet. (the image above is nothing like the sylvan Wye but it is like the places I roam.)
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798
BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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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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Boat Stealing (excerpt from The Prelude) (1850) William Wordsworth
Boat Stealing (excerpt from The Prelude) (1850)
William Wordsworth
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Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution — Mike Duncan
Lockdown with kids – Ink!
We’re having fun with ink. I am and the boys, 5 & 7 give it a good go. Here are our efforts. The feature image above is mine, the rest mostly kids with my selections of detail.
Blogging
We’re in lockdown and I’m into a burst of work on the blog. Addictive. In one of the first posts I took all morning to sniff out art stuff:
https://psyberspace.walterlogeman.com/2021/9349/
Art
I’ve just sent up two posts, one on van Gogh and another on Egon Schiele, they are related. Without Van Gogh, no Scheile.