The Bebop Revolution

The Bebop Revolution

I think that I need to go back an add some more blue tones in this piece now that I see it on the screen.  I probably can do that by using the Dylusions Spray Inks and a Q-tip.

I have never really been all that musical.  I like music but in high school I was told that it would be better for me to take ceramics than music.  I guess I owe the music teacher some gratitude because that really started me on my art path fifty years ago.  Gosh, fifty years!  That seems like a long time.

The Bebop Revolution #2

I made two color changes on version #2.  I like it better.  My eye is drawn down with the addition of turquoise in the two places near the bottom of the spread.

Armor

Armor

It seems that a rhino already has a tough armored skin.  So to have further armor seems redundant. Perhaps Durer was just exaggerating the skin of the rhino thinking it was like armor.  I think I need to do some research.

Remember Who Are Gone

Remember Who Are Gone

I have an address book that is falling apart.  I can not bear to change to a new one because when I go through it I find the names of friends who are no longer here.  Someone told me that I should add a memorial page in the new address book giving a place for those guys to remain.  I think that is a perfect solution.  It seems we do not hear about AIDS as much now that not so many are dying of it. I am just going down a memory lane at the moment.

Postcard Collaboration

Terry Garrett/John Arbuckle Postcard Collaboration

A funny thing happened to this postcard.  While Terry Garrett was visiting me we worked on adding addresses to postcards one afternoon.  He wanted one of mine to copy the address.  Somehow that postcard got mixed up in his stack.  I guess the postcard decided it needed a Minnesota vacation because that is where it ended up.  I suggested to Terry that he finish it off as I had created only the background.  Thanks Terry, it turned out great.

petit salon de levitation

petit salon de levitation

Sometimes I scare myself with what ends up to be a journal spread.  How the ideas gel together is beyond me but they do and the result is once again something that must have been buried deep in my psyche.

About four or so months ago I was in an antique store where I happened across a woman who mentioned that she had stacks of letters at home written between a person in France and another in NY.  She photographed the stack and sent me the images.  Of course I bought all of them.  I put them away and just today found them again.  Part of one of the letters appears in petit salon de levitation.

August 2015 ATC

For August in my International ATC group we were tasked with the theme self-portrait or something representing the country we live in.  I chose to do a skeletal self-portrait.  The backgrounds were all photos of doors I took when we were in the Virgin Islands last December.

Coupeville Part IV

Coupeville #13

Coupeville # 14

Coupeville #15

Coupeville #15 ends the series, but the memories go on.  Although each of the 15 works are moving on to new homes I have each of them archived on this blog for easy reference.  Isn't technology just the best!