
Painted this afternoon for another member of Brattleboro Time Trade. Oil pastel 11” by 14”
Painted this afternoon for another member of Brattleboro Time Trade. Oil pastel 11” by 14”
Using a copy of MSF Alert (below) I began a blind contour drawing of the woman with her baby on the cover, but it morphed finally into a collage using African textile patterns printed onto paper. The facial details were added with ink pens.
Apres avoir regardé la couverture (dessous) de la magazine de MSF, j’ai commencé ce tableau avec un dessin de contour à l’aveugle, mais je l’ai changé à un collage, fait de motifs africains imprimés sur papier. Puis j’ai ajouté les détails de visage avec des stylos.
The dog (11” by 14”) was painted for my brother and is a portrait of his dog. Acrylics, on canvas. The cat portrait, done for another member of Brattleboro Time Trade is twice the size of the dog painting and is also on canvas but was done in Sennelier and Holbein oil pastels. Sorry about the watermarks, but it’s necessary.
From drawing to final portrait
Also some photos in France of Guillestre and around there, where I am staying.
Je suis en France depuis déjà deux semaines mais le temps passe vite. Je n’ai que deux semaines de plus à Guillestre et après ça deux semaines à Paris…j’ai tout un tas de photos de vous montrer mais je crains que les photos sans fin des montagnes puissent être ennuyeuses . Je vais essayer de les organiser dans un diaporama, peut-être un peu plus tard. Pour le moment, juste quelques unes de Guillestre et les environs.
i have been in France for two weeks already but time is flying. I have only two more weeks in Guillestre and then two in Paris. Of course I have taken a whole pile of photos to show you, but endless photos of mountains could be boring so I’m going to try to make a slideshow of them, maybe a bit later. For now, just a few photos of Guillestre etc.
found among my mothers art supplies but no one knows what it’s for! If you recognize it or have a good guess, please do comment!
Can you draw a bicycle from memory, without looking at a photo or diagram? Before reading further, take out a sheet of paper and a pencil and try doing this, No cheating or looking at a picture.
Did you have trouble, even after initial confidence that this would be easy? Well, if so you are in good company!
Apparently this is a difficult task for most people and the following article explains why and shows the amusing results when your average person on the street is asked to do so.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3059056/you-cant-draw-a-bike-and-we-can-prove-it
Italian Designer Gianluca Gimini has gone one step further in creating realistic renderings of such “impossible bicycles”.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/35437979/Velocipedia
Nevertheless, I am going to show you how to easily draw a bicycle from memory, so the next time someone asks (if they ever do) Can you draw a bicycle from memory, you will be able to answer: “Of course, drawing a bicycle is easy!”
Step 1
Draw a circle, then at about a half diameter away, draw another identical circle. Find and mark the center of each.
step 2 Add a small circle with approximately a quarter of the diameter of original circles and place it next to one wheel, this will be the rear wheel, with its center on a horizontal line to the center of the big circle.
Step 3 Draw a diagonal line from the center of the small circle to a point outside the “front wheel”, near but not quite vertically above the center, at around 11 o’clock
Step 4 Add a line almost but not quite parallel to this front line, coming from the center of rear wheel.
Step 5 Connect the two diagonal lines as shown below, making a trapezoidal-like figure. Note that this is not a true trapezoid on most bikes, but close to it will do for our drawing.
Step 6 Drop two more lines. One from the upper right corner of “trapezoid-like figure” to the center of the front wheel. Draw another running from the center of the small wheel through the upper intersection of lines on the left (the projection is the location for the seat). To complete most of the bike frame. add a small vertical line at the top in the front for the post that holds the handlebars,
Step 7 Add Chain and pedals as shown to small wheel
Step 8 Add seat and underslung handlebars at the height necessary for your rider.
Step 9 Thicken tires and reinforce bike frame if you wish
Et voila!you CAN draw a bicycle! (add spokes and panniers and water bottle as you wish)
Step 10 is the hardest part– adding a rider to your bicycle! Come back soon and I hope to explain this more difficult task at a later date.
Can you draw a bicycle now? Take out a fresh piece of paper and try it to see how much you remember of this exercise. With only a little practice you will find drawing a bicycle is indeed easy!
The question was this:
Do schizophrenics feel really hurt by their family members who won’t acknowledge their illness?
Four years ago I answered with this response:
First of all, I want to ask you to stop using the short hand word, ‘Schizophrenic” as it is demeaning and reduces a person to their diagnosis. As I have said repeatedly, a person who has had a myocardial infarction, or heart attack, is not called by most people (except the medical staff at a hospital when no one else is listening) “that infarct” and similarly a person who has suffered from Meningitis is not called a “meningitic”! Sorry if I sound somehow PC to you, but I have a personal stake in this, having been diagnosed for nearly 40 years with “schizophrenia” and my preference is to be called, first of all, a person…and then if you want to qualify further, you may add, a person “diagnosed with schizophrenia.” I am NOT my diagnosis and the more one qualified me as simply that, a schizophrenic, the more impossible recovery became. It was only when I walked away from the mental illness system and started speaking up about the word, and how I am a person first of all, that I found the road to health and wholeness.
That said, I was rejected by my father first of all, who disowned me for nearly 35 years…and this led to my entire family, including aunts, uncles and cousins dropping all contact with me. I never received a phone call or a letter or a visit from most of them ( except occasionally my siblings) during all that time, and it was only when my father died (and also after I came out with a memoir, published by St Martins Press) and I attended the funeral that they so much as spoke to me.
Hurt? That does not even begin to describe it. My father told lie after lie about why he had no contact with me, even as I tried mightily to establish some connection. Why? Because he was angry with me for leaving medical school, and being hospitalized…and he decided that whatever my diagnosis, I was a failure and no good for anyone, especially him. But to others who knew me, he told them I had left home and any relationship with him out of rage…even though it was in fact his rage that prevented my name from being spoken in his presence. When he met any new people he said he had three children, never acknowledging my existence. This was so extreme that when I read a poem about and for him at his funeral the attendees there, 400 or so, most did not know who I was, sitting among my siblings behind the pulpit.
To this day, I come across people who have never learned that the good doctor S—- had four children, not three. They were never even told that my own twin sister had a twin who was not being spoken to or about or of…
Now, I was very hurt, yes. At one point, in hurt and outrage, I threatened if he ever made the claim again that he only had 3 children, I would immolate myself publicly in front of his window just so that would be the final vision he would have seared on his retina…As he knew I was capable of this, I think he understood how hurt i was. But he nevertheless never did inform anyone about me, or even when we reconciled did he let a soul except my mother and siblings know this.
I am unclear as to the thrust of this question however. How do most people react to being rejected by their families, on any account? People diagnosed with schizophrenia are HUMAN and have normal human emotions, and to expect that they would not get hurt by such behavior is not only inhuman, it is absurd.
Tried to add photos chronologically but some are still misplaced.
preheat oven to 350F
Line a metal loaf pan with parchment paper
5C spelt flour
2C mixed seeds (sesame, poppy, sunflower and pepitas)
1 Tb baking soda
1tsp salt
(Whisk together all dry ingredients until well combined)
2.5 C vegan plant-based milk
1.5 Tb date syrup, or maple syrup or molasses
Add wet ingredients and stir until a stiff batter has combined everything.
spoon into parchment lined loaf pan and bake 1 hour.
remove from oven and from pan and let cool.
ENJOY!
The following sketches are simply small studies of women dancing, trying to capture the movement in the photograph and drawing quickly. Each sketch took only a few minutes at most, hence the simplicity.
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Apprenez les langues !
Life is too short to be petty-minded
The opinions expressed are those of the author. You go get your own opinions.
What sense in chaos.
A pause to admire nature's unparalleled beauty.
Strange Anatomy, Awkward Perspectives
Punishment is just Abuse with an Excuse
Thoughts on all things Autism and mental health
Not your third grade paper mache
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