Daily Art (mas o menos)

Still Working

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:04:00 +0000

The work continues. Getting close. Here's the output from an image analysis application I wrote. This simple still life of mangoes is segmented into regions of similar hue, a kind of mango topography I guess.

Still working

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:05:00 +0000

Some have kindly asked whether I was still developing my new work. The answer is yes, and I'm close to finishing. I've written a prodigious quantity of code since August, doing almost nothing else.

The technical process is complete, now I have to solve some performance issues, which I expect to take another month or so. Then new works should begin to appear.

I've also hardly participated on line at all, except to do research, but I expect to remedy that soon, too.

I've finished wandering in the desert.

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:53:00 +0000

For 26 years I have pursued a single idea concerning computational science and art, not only visual art but text and music as well. It's the reason I got a Masters in English and a PhD in computer science.

Within the last two weeks, after years of daily study and work, I've had a real breakthrough in understanding. At last.

I'll be taking a break from blogging sketches for a while in order to pursue that work. When it reaches a form I think worth notice, I'll begin again.

In the meantime I'll keep up with the many fine posts of others on Flickr, Blogger, and others.

This is a detail of the artwork, acrylic on a birch panel, that opened that door.

Thanks for your interest.

Tangle of a different sort

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:57:00 +0000

A rope tied to a poplar along the Red River.

Pen and ink 4” x 6”.

Some Trees

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:45:00 +0000

Pen and ink, 7” x 5”.

Trolley Night, South Main, Memphis

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:24:00 +0000

Remembering a landscape after walking along the bluffs, sun setting over blue water, Mississippi rolling past from Tom Lee Park to just north of Beale Street, then happening on a man with a monocle who shared wine and olives with us while telling us all about Jack Tucker in Tunisia.

Watercolor, 7" x 5.5"

Almost Seduced by the Objective Again, 1

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:02:00 +0000

I cut off a length of Japanese paper, made fan folds in it to use as a journal for an afternoon, then hiked along the Wolf River again to practice actually SEEING.

Drawn using only the reed pens I made from reeds along the river.

Reed pens

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:01:00 +0000

Found some reeds along the Wolf River. I'd walked past them dozens of times before without noticing.

Turns out they make even more serviceable pens than those at the beach.

Here I've cut a pencil box full of them for my next sketch hike.

It's better to take several with you so the ink can dry, while you use another, before needing to recut the points.

Outer Banks, 4

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:40:00 +0000

Sometime after 1:30 AM.

Ragged half moon rise, Spica, Antares, Saturn's rings, surf, fog, celestial stink: objective is a confusion.

Pen and ink, watercolor, 8” x 5”.

Outer Banks, 2

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:32:00 +0000

She is blue shirt running, straight before, dunescape littered with broken shells, yellow kite twirls, ship's hawser, stingray eggs, king of the mountain, we are saying Moses!, mOzisss! Making dramatic hand gestures.

There was a lot of pointing.

Pen and ink, watercolor, 8” x 5”.

NY, NY, 7

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:42:00 +0000

Tree at the corner of 79th and 3rd.

All afternoon walking in the rain, New York, New York, MOMA again, walking up and down Madison twice before I realized it was Madison AVENUE, walking with a broken down umbrella in the grey and the traffic and the buses.

Probably walked 100 city blocks today.

The stop light has electrical roots and Don't Walk signs for branches.

Pen and ink, watercolor, 5” x 8”.

NY, NY, 3,

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:57:00 +0000

Picasso's Nude Standing by the Sea, drawn at the Met.

Metropolitan Museum of Art in the morning followed by lunch at Cafe Boulud, because the restaurant at the Whitney was closed, Shelby scaring pigeons and taking photos of random dogs then good bye good bye, and I walk from 49th to 87th on Lexington then on 3rd, stopping at Eli Zabar to buy black olives and honey-lavender fromage blanc then eat on the 28th floor and watch the lights come up on the city and be the luckiest person alive.

Sketch #612

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:58:00 +0000

my boots might as well be spaceships

the numinous, the tangled, the shining

pen and ink, watercolor, 7" x 5".

Experimental Phenomenology

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:45:00 +0000

Reading Experimental Phenomenology, watching my mind flip back and forth.

Pen and ink, watercolor, 8” x 5”.

Conjunction, Opposition, Quadrature

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:19:00 +0000

wolf moon
ice falling from the trees

Pen and ink, watercolor, 8” x 5”.

Sketch 609

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:52:00 +0000

meanwhile I'm still thinking

pen and ink, watercolor, 3.5" x 5".

Sketch 608

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:44:00 +0000

Having pho ga, while across the room a small boy chanted, in a kind of song, “you shut up, you shut up, you shut up.”

pen and ink, watercolor, 7" x 5".

Sketch 606

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:46:00 +0000

The line has a tension everybody understands.

pen and ink, 7" x 5".

Black Swan

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:44:00 +0000

I didn't know I was going to make this.

Dried Chili

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:46:00 +0000

At the Chick-Fil-A

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:56:00 +0000

First sketch in my new moleskine watercolor sketchbook, at the Chick-Fil-A.

Watercolor, 7” x 5”

Holiday Travelogue, 17

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:53:00 +0000

The final sketch in this series, and the final sketch in this sketchbook.

It was a good trip.

Watercolor, 7” x 5.5”.

Holiday Travelogue, 16

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:29:00 +0000

Montmartre Restaurant, Eastern Market, Washington D.C.

Pen and ink, 3.5” x 5.5”.

Holiday Travelogue, 15

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:49:00 +0000

Sketching at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

Alexander Calder, Vertical Constellation with Yellow Bone (1943).

Holiday Travelogue, 14

noreply@blogger.com (DRB) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:46:00 +0000

Sketching at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.

William Johnson, Cafe, 1940.