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1. Well, I finished another watercolor - this is the one of the man on the train that I saw on the way home one day. He was wearing this brightly colored checkered jacket and dark sunglasses - which I found quite memorable.
The picture is below the cut. Co-worker and I decided that it is kind of hard to capture watercolors well in a photograph. But I'm trying.
I probably shouldn't share them on social media. This desire to share my art with others may well be my undoing. Why do I want to? What is this? The lovely thing about art is it is truly a subjective thing. There is no such thing as good art or bad art. All you are doing is seeing the world through another perspective - when you look at a drawing or painting or piece of any artwork really. And everyone is different - no two artists are the same. I am working to get caught up in the process of creating the art and turning off my inner critic or censer. So, if you hate it? Don't tell me.
Not all art is to everyone's taste. I get that. But I'd rather not know about it right now. Trying to stay unblocked.
( watercolor of man on subway with checkered jacket )
For some reason photography fades out and flattens the image. It's much better in person or seen with the naked eye. I'm not exactly sure why. May have something to do with the light?
Also, I need to not compare my art to my coworker's. We are very different artists. I'm more intuitive, she's more technical and swings towards hyper-realism, while I swing towards impressionism. Plus she doesn't tend to do people - so much as botanicals and animals. Very different artists, using very different techniques and materials. Also very different training.
You can't compare artists well. There's no real objective criteria in art. Not when you reach a certain point? (I've taken a lot of art courses over the years - but I tend to do best under the intuitive and abstract or impressionistic teachers, the technical realistic or realism profs irritate me.
Maybe I should stay off social media? The good news is we don't have friends in common on social media - so no one is comparing us, but well us.
2. I keep seeing well...this picture on my FB feed...
( picture of beautiful ocean view )
I do not know where it is. He won't tell me. Truth is - it's not my kind of vacation. I am not a sunbather. Never have been. My idea of fun is not lying in the hot sun, reading, and drinking cocktails, while staring out at the ocean. I'd rather read in the shade, inside, away from the bugs and the heat, and without any noises. I get antsy and restless and uncomfortable.
No, I like active vacations. Where I'm doing stuff - whether it's exploring a new culture, hiking through a forest, swimming in the ocean, going kayaking or sailing, touring ruins. I could sit on a porch somewhere with a friend. I think the problem with going to resorts as a single person - is it is kind of boring. I got bored sitting on the beach for two hours with friends in Martha's Vineyard.
3. Picard Episode 6 (I think it is episode 6).
We've finally introduced the rest of the STNG team - La Forge, Data, and Troi are now all involved. ( vague spoilers for Picard )
4. Watched The Boston Strangler on Hulu. Was better than expected.
( vague spoilers )
Reminded me a little bit of Spotlight and She Said. I may hunt down and watch the Pentagon Papers next, I love journalistic process films. They are fun. Actually I love to watch or read anything about artistic or investigative process. It's why I like baking demonstrations, reality shows that focus on making things - such as building/remolding houses, designing houses, designing clothing, throwing and making pottery, doing floral arrangements, stuff like that. What I hate about reality shows - is what other people unfortunately appear to love - which is the back biting, gossiping, sniping, competition, and personal drama. I wish they'd cut that out. The British reality shows have less of it than the US ones, for some reason - or at least the exported British ones do. (We tend to get the better British shows over here - because you don't export the crap. I'm not sure we do either? It's hard to know.)
I won't watch shows about serial killers - I'm not interested in following the serial killer. I'm interested in following the cops hunting down the killer. Or the journalists hunting them down. I don't want to see the killings or rapes. (They show a little of it, but not much.)
Also, finished S1 of Only Murders in the Building finally. It was okay. My attention kept wandering during it. I may like S2 and 3 better.
S1 kind of meandered and was hard to follow.
The picture is below the cut. Co-worker and I decided that it is kind of hard to capture watercolors well in a photograph. But I'm trying.
I probably shouldn't share them on social media. This desire to share my art with others may well be my undoing. Why do I want to? What is this? The lovely thing about art is it is truly a subjective thing. There is no such thing as good art or bad art. All you are doing is seeing the world through another perspective - when you look at a drawing or painting or piece of any artwork really. And everyone is different - no two artists are the same. I am working to get caught up in the process of creating the art and turning off my inner critic or censer. So, if you hate it? Don't tell me.
Not all art is to everyone's taste. I get that. But I'd rather not know about it right now. Trying to stay unblocked.
( watercolor of man on subway with checkered jacket )
For some reason photography fades out and flattens the image. It's much better in person or seen with the naked eye. I'm not exactly sure why. May have something to do with the light?
Also, I need to not compare my art to my coworker's. We are very different artists. I'm more intuitive, she's more technical and swings towards hyper-realism, while I swing towards impressionism. Plus she doesn't tend to do people - so much as botanicals and animals. Very different artists, using very different techniques and materials. Also very different training.
You can't compare artists well. There's no real objective criteria in art. Not when you reach a certain point? (I've taken a lot of art courses over the years - but I tend to do best under the intuitive and abstract or impressionistic teachers, the technical realistic or realism profs irritate me.
Maybe I should stay off social media? The good news is we don't have friends in common on social media - so no one is comparing us, but well us.
2. I keep seeing well...this picture on my FB feed...
( picture of beautiful ocean view )
I do not know where it is. He won't tell me. Truth is - it's not my kind of vacation. I am not a sunbather. Never have been. My idea of fun is not lying in the hot sun, reading, and drinking cocktails, while staring out at the ocean. I'd rather read in the shade, inside, away from the bugs and the heat, and without any noises. I get antsy and restless and uncomfortable.
No, I like active vacations. Where I'm doing stuff - whether it's exploring a new culture, hiking through a forest, swimming in the ocean, going kayaking or sailing, touring ruins. I could sit on a porch somewhere with a friend. I think the problem with going to resorts as a single person - is it is kind of boring. I got bored sitting on the beach for two hours with friends in Martha's Vineyard.
3. Picard Episode 6 (I think it is episode 6).
We've finally introduced the rest of the STNG team - La Forge, Data, and Troi are now all involved. ( vague spoilers for Picard )
4. Watched The Boston Strangler on Hulu. Was better than expected.
( vague spoilers )
Reminded me a little bit of Spotlight and She Said. I may hunt down and watch the Pentagon Papers next, I love journalistic process films. They are fun. Actually I love to watch or read anything about artistic or investigative process. It's why I like baking demonstrations, reality shows that focus on making things - such as building/remolding houses, designing houses, designing clothing, throwing and making pottery, doing floral arrangements, stuff like that. What I hate about reality shows - is what other people unfortunately appear to love - which is the back biting, gossiping, sniping, competition, and personal drama. I wish they'd cut that out. The British reality shows have less of it than the US ones, for some reason - or at least the exported British ones do. (We tend to get the better British shows over here - because you don't export the crap. I'm not sure we do either? It's hard to know.)
I won't watch shows about serial killers - I'm not interested in following the serial killer. I'm interested in following the cops hunting down the killer. Or the journalists hunting them down. I don't want to see the killings or rapes. (They show a little of it, but not much.)
Also, finished S1 of Only Murders in the Building finally. It was okay. My attention kept wandering during it. I may like S2 and 3 better.
S1 kind of meandered and was hard to follow.