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!
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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Rhythm and rest
Occasionally I come across one of my artworks that I did a decade go that I like and that stand out, here is another
Mashed Traditions
Occasionally I come across one of my artworks that I did a decade go that I like and that stand out, here is one
Mashed Traditions
Fire Man
This popped up in my Apple featured Photos. I recall it from years ago. From a time I was on fire.
Just found this again after 17 years
Across Brooklyn
This is the street where they still make coffins:
the little workshops, side by side.
I pass them with my daughter on our walk to the river.
Are we seeking the bridge itself,
or the famous, much-reported view?
A few planks and nails lie around
and each of the entrances seems to darken.
Far back, out of sight, someone is whistling.
Yes, I suppose we do walk a little faster.
There is a faint noise of hammering, too.
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Got me thinking about New York. Here are some of my sketches from 2007
Image
I just came across one of my digital images and I liked it, and here it is.
The original is a tiff from 21 August 2021