you know how you're ready to quit
and go into the passive mode
turn on t.v. and eat?
sometimes it's a good thing to
make a strong cup of coffee
and throw together a post
on what's happening now.
just for fun, i rewrote ecce homo
by nietchze, made some bread
and a stew. 
i also took a picture
of myself… just to keep you
peeps up to date on the progress
of the crags in my face.
the poem was translated by my belaruse friend lavender, from the german. she did a great job but i had to mess with it.
http://my.opera.com/lavender988/blog/friedrich-nietzsche-and-his-poem-ecce-homo
so here…. transmogrified.
ecce homo
yes,i know the source
of my descent
the scent of pure desert
rises from my flame
so bright, so brilliant, its penumbra
illumines the bowl of heaven.
never say never.
in essence
i am a man unknown,
a knight on bended knee.
I_ArtMan
my grandaughter averyl graces my desktop…
podloonaroon 
That water colour is great! Is it recent? mmmm. Bread. maybe a bread machine will be a near future purchase. mmmm. :p
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yes. a few days ago. i was going to post on my week of housesitting where i gardened and did watercolors but i didn't think it would be interesting enough.this was my second loaf… i love this little machine. only cost $70 and it's going to save me a bundle. plus, the pleasure of fresh bread and the smell… better than incense. :idea:thanks, san for the positive feedback on the watercolor… it's a little dufy-like isn't it? it's from a real sketch au plein air.
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I can close my eyes and I can smell the bread and the stew…I can close my eyes and I can smell the old spice …what a lovely girl Averyl is! I love the pictureand i love ya! :love:
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eating better helps me to eat less. gotta watch this waistline 😆
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Very Dufy like indeed. Very fresh and loose. I just had some bread and butter because of you! I'm worried that if I had a bread machine I might each too much.
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Yeah, the facial cracks. Mine are also beginning to show. They say it's the years… Sure. Just let them think that. I know, it is not as much the years as it is the mileage… By the way, I got myself a straw fedora some weeks ago. We've had tropical summer in Denmark for three years in a row now, so I guess we'd better get used to it. Doesn't exactly help with the face cracks either. The sun, I mean.Have a nice Sunday!
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martin, funny. yep, the things we cannot change we bear with humility.and hats do help to offset the oh so gradual changes. eventually, i expect i will look like a hedgehog with a hat. :lol:of course vanity is instinctive and we can always find something to love about our visage. 💡
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wow! I just noticed the timing of our comments last night!:o amazing again!
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aha, meli :heart: you were here for a split second so i missed your comment.yes. averyl looks good in a garden. i think she is very pretty… and i can see she is good natured. i want to meet her someday. :happy:
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Vanity is not a problem for a couple of goodlooking guys like us, Scott!:cheers:
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Originally posted by I_ArtMan:
she looks like jennifer at her age, no?Originally posted by I_ArtMan:
I know you will :up:
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right martin… if you say so. :cool:yes meli :heart: i sure do hope so. you should see jennifer's two new ones. now they look like my mother at their age. i'll have to post a couple of them soon. maybe a grandchildren album… when will i? soon. soon. soon.
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I like my cracks but not the bags 😀
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Originally posted by I_ArtMan:
pls do!I would love, love to see them! :up:
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That bread looks as good as it smells, and as usual, you make your meals, even the preparation of them, look so enticing and makes me just know everything is as tasty as it looks. Did you make just plain bread or a particular kind?I like the watercolor. It looks very serene and as though you were at peace when you painted it.
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hi linda,this one was banana walnut. the machine is very sophisticated and comes with settings calibrated for each recipe. it's very cool. but i started out with plain white bread. three hours. this was a quick bread, and took an hour and a half. you just put in the ingredients and choose the number which corresponds to the recipe and it does the rest.yes. i was very relaxed dabbling outdoors. 🙂 glad you liked it. :up:
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I'm so amazed!!! It's really cool, zdorovo!!!!:D 😀 😀
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privet katya,Kak dela?thanks for commenting :happy: zamechatelno!
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Originally posted by CultureSurfer:
exactly. five minutes and the amazing machine does the rest. yesterday at the thrift store i even bought a bread box. 😎
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Pretty watercolor! We no longer buy wheat bread but instead bake a loaf once/week (we also have a bread machine). It's a great way to not only save money and control what's in the food you eat, but it makes the house smell so good! I'm surprised more people aren't doing the same considering how little effort it takes!
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Scott,I simply loved your cutlery. Beautiful.
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hi dan,you have a seeing eye dan. they are very old. i got them from my mother who got them from her mother. i guess that makes them heirlooms. they are pure silver. i sold a lot of them when i was starving in cascade mountains… but some were too beautiful to sell.
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…plein air aquarelle. I love it, is beautiful.
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thanks adi, i appreciate the comment. 🙂
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Scott, your sketch is so wonderful, warm. I guess it reminds me Cloude Mone's style!!! I'm so chuffed!:D 😀 😀 :heart: :up:
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thanks kid, positive comments are always welcome. well, even negative comments are accepted. 😎
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the umbrellas in the watercolour are my favourite part of it all – I think. beautiful.avril is lovely. dinner looks, as usual, delicious and congrats on the bread! very poetic renderings of the 'ecce homo" , too…
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jill,you have a good eye. the umbrellas were the whole reason i sketched that in the first place.although i wasn't able to do what oils can do with the watercolor, i kind of like its airiness. thank you for your comment.
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good question jill, yes, it's a place. the outfall of the bologna creek in marina del rey… just south of venice beach. there's a canal from the marina to go out to sea. once i saw three clipper ships cutting into the bay at that spot. anyway, i always sketch outside or at a venue. once in seattle i drew for about eight hours in a jazz joint… no drinking, no eating, just draw draw draw. i like that the most. then when i am comfortable i sometimes use the sketches for paintings. i would have to have ten lifetimes to paint all the plans for paintings i have made.i really don't believe in working from photographs but i have been known to sketch from the monitor. only real life can be surprising. :happy:
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Originally posted by I_ArtMan:
me, too- what would you have tried to achieve using oil? (and thanks!) there is a nice rhythm and balance to the picture,… do you typically sketch things first? do you see this in your head? or was this a place visited?
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do you ever paint something you see in your head?Originally posted by I_ArtMan:
there's an eternity
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jill,now that's what i like, a nice juicy question. :up:there are at least three ways i use to make a painting. i can have an idea (concept) in my head. then i do drawings to compose the picture, then paint the 'cartoon' underpainting on a tone. that's the renaissance way.sometimes i tone a panel or moisten a page for water color and just fiddle with it until i see a direction. this is where the practice of lots of drawing comes in, because if you can't easily make up a tree or an elephant from your mind's eye that forces you into the mindset of the other conceptual painting. results of this procedure are often more unconscious or surrealistic.another approach is from a dream or a vision where what i see is so indelible i just do it without any sketches or underpainting. there are a few other ways i use now and then. :happy:
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Originally posted by Jill:"do you ever paint something you see in your head?":eyes: :no:NOOOO! :ko: :faint:
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nic,:lol: aye, there be dragons there. 🙂
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Yez! :left:
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Originally posted by I_ArtMan:
:confused: what is "on a tone?"Originally posted by I_ArtMan:
I see a lot of flowers in my head (probably from taking pics) before I sleep these days- I think, "Wow! That would be a fantastic painting!" but I haven't the foggiest how I'd go about it… at what point in your art production did you come to sketch or paint what was in your head- had you been drawing a lot of still life, or 'real' things for some time first?
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it's kind of a see through wash or glaze; a thin coat of any color but muted, neutral. the light passes through and bounces off the gesso ground underneath. 💡 it's a real timesaver as far as filling in areas. sometimes i take a rag and pat it when it's wet. that takes some off and mottles it a little. staring at it sometimes tells me what to paint. hard to describe that process, but think about lying on your back, looking at clouds and seeing things in them.here's an example:the whole landscape was shown in the glaze. the armless 'christ' figure was there too. all i did was wet the freshly varnished tone with turpentine which takes it off. and with a rag and a sharp brush details are accentuated. nobody will understand this… 😆
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*Taking notes* :up: Thankyou 🙂
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yw nic, i take it back now… somebody will understand this. :happy:
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OK 🙂
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thank you for the education, Scott! cool to learn some of your process… that figure is very interesting
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yw jill,glad to help. i shoulda been a teacher somewhere along the line. 😎
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You can still make art classes. My father did in Mallorca 🙂
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Yeah! good idea :up:
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if i can get my social security check there. how much does it cost to live in majorca? i hear there are lots of american artists there. 💡
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i guess i could. just advertise. i would, but where. apartment is off limits for commerce. majorca here i come. :happy:
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Americans, Germans, Scandinavians…Hmm. I think the americans work or have fat pensions! The Europeans can live anywhere in the EU and carry their social checks with them!
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i will investigate. :sherlock:
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Please do. It´s easier for all of us to meet in Mallorca! :yes:
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will Nic be giving snorkeling lessons?
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Anytime Jill! :up:
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:yes:
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