Posted in art, Art Gallery, Art Show, art,poetry,writing, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Photography, Quotes, San Diego, wanderlust, tagged beach, mission beach, Pacific Ocean, san diego, sisters, summer, water on June 19, 2016| 1 Comment »
Mission Beach, San Diego, California. 19th of June, 2016
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Photography, Traveling, wanderlust, tagged balmy nights, beach, december, eirie, Jamaica, mixtape, montego bay, Photography, searching for the sun, sun, travelingAqua Green Water, water on December 31, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Posting from sweet Montego Bay, Jamaica.
To ‘post’ something once referred to mailing a missive – it’s ironic we use the terminology of a technology that the internet has almost replaced to explain the workings of said internet. Sort of like how in the early 19th century the workings of the brains were referred to in terms of hydraulics.
Nonetheless, I am sending out these digital postcards for the passer-byes, the dear ones, the far away ones.
Life is good here …paradise.
It is the end of the year, so today I scheduled all the remaining posts for 2013…all the ones i promised – don’t be overwhelmed;)
Music on my mind. I made a new podcast, an uptempo one this time, and called it Wicked Mojito – for all your wicked nights.
Download the uninterrupted flow here (technical difficulties) or listen play by play on 8tracks.
Enjoy. Make it a good one tonight ;).
See you in 2014.
This is the beach I get to go to…and no, I did not take this photo,{courtesy of coming-to-jamaica.com} ..but all the rest, yes:) enjoy….
My Boxing Day coffee…
My spot.
I can’t stop looking at this sculpture on the beach. SO beautiful.
Posted in Architecture, art, Paris Diaries, Photography, Quotes, tagged colors, fall, fire, impressionist painting, lanterns, Paris, Photograph, seine, water on October 24, 2011| 2 Comments »
Lanternes et Notredame. Paris. 2011
To walk in Paris is to behold, and be part of, a living and continuously changing painting.
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Books, Cures for the Nothing, Drawing, Experiments, Fruit, Watercolor, Writing, tagged Artist's Way, beach, Raspberry, Value of Education, water, Watercolor on March 13, 2010| 4 Comments »
Sea Fruit. Watercolor, charcoal and white Prismacolor pencil. March 13, 2010
This is a mental recollection of an exquisite painting, smaller than 8 X 10, that I once saw in my friend Sophia’s place. It was an oil painting, varnished, and the raspberry on the beach looked so large, lustrous and luminous. You could tell the translucent quality of the skin. This is my humble attemp at recreating that piece in watercolor: oil paint allows for more luster, and maybe one day I will try that as well, even though most of my painting are done in acrylic .
What symbolism this piece recalls, and what do you see, I wonder…
I had a wonderful art session with my favorite artistes today, a lunch at my favorite French Bistro and a stroll through Little Italy’s Farmer’s Market, where we picked up fruit and vegetables (our models). A good, full day, not untouched by worries ( hard times to be had by all) rather, a respite…and realizing that, in the words of a fellow New York Times reader:
‘A good academic degree pays for itself in a flexible mind and an ability to adapt as well as the richness of inner resources to survive hard times without despair.’
Sitting in Cafe’ Italia, with my watercolors, and my ‘model’ perched on a napkin, envisioning faraway beaches and the quality of the water in Calabria– and feeling glances from patrons–I realize Art is a wonderful privilege, an ability to lose one’s self and a giving of kind, compassionate time to one’s self. Like every privilege, to me at least, art is also a responsibility. Of course the endless list of chores awaits, yet I felt what art offers is more than escapism or absorbing creativity produced by others , as in savoring a book or basking in a glorious movie ( I love both): with art we create our own narrative, as in writing a book vs. reading one. Does it make sense to be then a bit exhausted after a creative session? Perhaps it is all about resistance…learning to teach the wrist and mind to embody ‘effortlessness’.
Not to mention the refinement of the medium. This was the fourth serious attemp/experiment with watercolor I have done.
I will never forget, while following ‘The Artist’s Way’, one was to go for a week without reading. Reading has been in the past a way to procrastinate creating in the first person, a way to be vicariously creative . We must watch that.
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