Just to put things into perspective, this is a brand new site and I am at the very beginning of the learning curve.
Patience and Encouragement are appreciated
Blog
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Overhauling the Site
I’ve spent the last two days moving my site from one theme in Word Press to another. It’s been an educational experience to say the least. The old site was cumbersome to edit and up date, especially since my expertise in site editing is very limited. I understand the principles well enough but as always the devil is in the semicolons, hash tags and back slashes. I’ve worked in html before but this wysiwyg stuff just isn’t and it gets in the way of the underlying code which I’d rather not deal with anyway so it’s a mixed bag of blessings. Any way here it is and now I’ll be much happier developing the content. That should take me the rest of my life I hope.
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My most recent oil painting
I recently finished this Pastoral scene of three cows standing in a New England field. I like the cows looking inquisitively at the viewer. I like to think of them as three witnesses.
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Painting with Gouache
So I recently started painting with Gouache media and found it very satisfying.
This is a studio work up from a photograph and is done on plain paper in my 11″x14″ sketch book.
While researching the medium I noticed that gouache is typically used in a very saturated and mostly opaque style common to advertising and graphic illustrations and looses the subtlety and transparency of watercolor.
I found this to be limited as it was demonstrated and so I began to experiment with blending very diluted layers of paint on top of one another.
The result was more akin to what is seen in watercolor with the added advantage of being able to overlay lighter color on top of dark which is nearly impossible to do successfully in watercolor.
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New to Blogging
This is just an announcement post to formally launch my journey into this realm of personal exposition in this social medium. I’m essentially an introverted person shunning the lime light but embarking on this endeavor to build a web site and define a presence on the internet for my art, forces me to represent myself and my unique perspective on the world in this most public forum. A necessary task for my art to be visible which is fulfillment of it’s function.
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Forming new Habits
Art is Dying and it’s ARTificial intelligence that will kill it ! This post is in the form of a Rant.
Artificial Intelligence is just that. Artificial. Meaning fake. Real intelligence is spirit driven. Artificial intelligence in my estimation is devoid of spirit.
Can AI generate an original thought or anything for that matter.
to be continued…….