Sweets of Talents from Sirce Kwai
Yesterday was the 70th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. And what has that to do with this little watercolor sketch? This image is froth with the answers. First, the nail in the wall is not just a utilitarian metal Continue Reading …
Basic tools for sketching with coffee are pencils and coffee. Brewed in the man-shaped Italian espresso maker, black coffee tarts the tongue. Placing the coffee down and picking up the pencil is the piano key note progression. What this mystical Continue Reading …
This is another 17 minute 14 second video about the baby alligator, the grunt. I’m examining more about the anatomy and habitat with Sean Mallee, the Naturalist of DaggerWing Nature in this second video. The Grunt is very soft at Continue Reading …
The baby alligator in my hands is only 4 months old. At this age, they are nothing but sweet. The baby alligator is called a ‘grunt’. Yellow stripes distinguish these from older young alligators. The gender is not yet certain Continue Reading …
Dimple Children portraits differ from adult portraits in detail. Childrens’ faces are simpler and have softer edges. This young one is 10 years old. He sat for me after finishing up his math diagnostic test. Inbetween washing my brush out Continue Reading …
While proctoring a test, I get to sit and watch over a class for ninety minutes. This year, I brought in my 4 x 6″ fine art quality watercolor paper and my watercolor set. This watercolor set is a gutted-out Continue Reading …
European art is based on the rectangle. Asian art adores the round. Without going into the iridiology and pscyhology of these symbolic shapes, I like the round. Old hoola hoops donated by the school’s aftercare director are perfect plant drapes. Continue Reading …
Coffee and Pastel No…the coffee is not that browned blotch on the left hand side. The coffee is why that stayed a blotch. “Hat-racking” trees is not the best gardening look but this poor bush got so big over this Continue Reading …
My musings are most often in spiritual terms. Meditations are visual. My college years were steeped in wisdom development through Calligraphy. My mentor, Don Kunz, kept the Lloyd Reynolds tradition that the alphabet is also a spiritual language. This is Continue Reading …
Purple Vase Did I take the title from the old Jimmy Hendrix era? It’s been one of those color expressions that live on beyond the originator. Last year I bought this purple vase for the patio. Continue Reading …