Tag: Art
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Watercolor Rorschach-like Test in Burnt Umber
Rorschach-Like Test In Burnt Umber Homemade Watercolor Paint powdered iron oxidemediums and bindersproduces quality shadesthe earthy brownsof Burnt Umber water makes it flowinteresting shapesand textures when dryon hot or cold pressrag paper and yupo meditating on thetextured shapesrevealed from dryingtime variances findunconscious designs –LE What do you see in it? Some say it’s a buffalo……
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Making Watercolor Paints
I attended a watercolor paint making seminar last weekend. Here’s the result. Making Watercolors mixing pigmentswith mediums andbinders – Gum Aribichoney – GlycerinThyme Oil pigments – powderedLapis Lazuli forPersian Blue whilered Jasper powdermakes red earthy hues yellows and ocresneed poweredTurmeric for sunbathed desertand beach views a primary color palettewatercolor painting the simple secret known for…
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Laying-on Paint
Laying-on Paint background music to start – sonatas for violin and guitar canvas preparedrough draft ofvision laid down paints on palateessential colorsmixed and ready brush-tip drips colorlaid on canvas andshapes are rendered with patient strokesor dabbed and scrapedwith palette knife bold music changes assessions fly bypainting completed in many winks ofthe eye – studiedthis playful…
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First Love and Lost
Gail P. First Love Lost met in the ticket linefor Hendrix’s first showat the ClevelandMusic Hall we went to lunchgave her my numbershe said she’d seeme at the show called the next day andcanceled wasn’tgoing – made otherplans wished me well doubled with a friendblind date – to bitter endno spark, no fire, justlong with…
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For What It’s Worth – the background?
For What It’s Worth – The Hut Lounge Something’s happening here Buffalo Springfield on the jukeboxLinda Lane slayed us with herintricate guitar work andsensuous vocals What it is ain’t exactly clear Her band – Lady and the TrampsGeorge Hoka on his Hammondmesmerizing sound like the Animalsvoice soulful like Burdon’s There’s a man with a gun…
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Tanglewood ’69
Tanglewood ’69 Intro I was working as a mechanical lab tech for the National Seal Div. of Federal Mogal in Ann Arbor Michigan. Had worked there for about a year and a half, but no seniority and no real prospects for advancement. I was living in a rented room in a house with some students…
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Incompetence
Being inundated with the daily propaganda from our MSM, I’ve been rethinking the importance and devastating influence of incompetence in our world. Incompetence imaginationknowledgepractice andexperienceequal successso they say incompetencenegatespractice experienceknowledge andeven imaginationon any given day seems we aregobsmackedbirth to deathwith incompetenceleaders mediocremendicants inept rebels activistsinnovators yesand me tooinspiring nothingnew just singingthe blues So much forknowledgeimaginationpractice…
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Who Gets It?
Who Gets It? Slaves make wealthmaster gets itsurfs make wealthlord gets itemployees make wealthemployer gets itwealth to our ‘betters’ chattel slave soldonce and for allmiserable existencerelatively securemaster’s interestlittle or nocompetition wage-slave sellshimself daily hourlyno secure existenceonly class statusassured in constantcompetitionwith all its vagaries wage-slaves or serfsor chattel slavesworking classes barelysurviving from ancientEgypt Greece andRome to…
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Dime Novel Dreams
Dime Novel Dreams There was a timelong ago, when I’d say my prayers andgo to sleep dreaming ofmy lady fairwhoever it happened to be that day I’d just rescued her from Tommy the school bullyFu Manchu or Moriartyby Green Lantern’s ring and the Shadow’s fireopal girasol – weeding out the bitter fruit of crime and…
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The Primordial Ooze
The Primordial Ooze the darkness isgrowing and I’m old so what to doone thing onlyfight the growingdark strike a sparka match a candlelight a bonfire spark itwherever opportunity presents tindermake daily choices that brighten not darken our collective futures don’t be deceivedall actions have costs impact ever brighter futures or breed dark superstitions reverse evolution…
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