Tuesday, September 8, 2009

September 8

Well they are saying that there is a 40% chance of rain here in New Braunfels, in Texas, 20 percent is a really good chance. So we have a better than even chance for rain here. We really need the rain. this is the worse drought in recorded history.

Watercolor, still working on my technique. Having a lot of fun and still doing what I want. Someday some one will like what I'm doing and recognize me for what I have acheived. Still working on my drawing. Working on incorperating pencil into my collage. the first pieces that I have used pencil are: "chaos" and "grass collage", "red collage 20.3", on the "rocks collage 1.2".

The reason I like incorporating pencil is that it gives a different latitude of visual acuity to the piece. The reason for this simple change is since I work mostly in abstracted landscape reconstructions, and the pencil[graphite] give a highlight to light colored water color areas. its isa simple highlight device. I have been doing it here and there for the last 45 years. While the use of pencil is to work intensive for large scale application, it work as a highlight in small areas that need a gray to black shading. The thin black lines enhance my linear style, keeping me true to my concepts.

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I have spent 35 years teaching in schools from New York to L.A.County. I have been a principal in New York and California. I tend to paint what I see, or at least what I think I see in my memories.