sumptuousdigs

A few thoughts about using computer canvases, details, and new tools in general. First, artists have been known to crop their canvases to capture the essence that they desired, and omit distractions that they found (on final viewing) detracted from their work. With a computer, you don't have to destroy your original. And I like that feature. Second, before brushes, pallet knives, easels, canvases and the like, it was stone walls and fingers. Or perhaps clay and wood, depending on the clime. Masters through the ages have taken great pains to perfect and present their art using the tools at their disposal. We'll be eternally grateful for the

What was I thinking? I just read my last journal entry because something like a whiny diatribe covered half my home page when I opened it. Jeez...who wrote that drivel? Me?! Wlodwin tried to stop me from spilling my guts but nooo...I wasn't having any of that! I'm the guy with the ego of Charlton Heston (as in the Ten Commandments) and the accomplishments of Barney Fife, Lol! Sorry for all the noise. (Hey Andy...can I put the bullet in my gun now?) A little anecdote: Canvas and oils or acrylics have the great advantage of 3D texture...(but don't touch!) Cyber has the great advantage in cost and efficiency. I remember an argument one tim

Sowing seeds. A little biographical history that explains the emotion behind my 'work'.  In 1960 I was a student in the Detroit Public School system. That year they held a citywide float design contest for the annual "Thanksgiving Day" parade. At that time I was considered a rather prodigious little artist...maybe one of the 'best' by my instructor's standards, in the whole 5th grade. A classmate wanted me to draw a rendition of the "Mayflower" (the pilgrim's ship). Since it was my intention to submit the same, I convinced him that a Viking ship would be more novel and appropriate...by this time, as you can see, deviance had already been r