Sunday, October 7, 2007 B

"A Tourist in my Own Town"
6:21pm

I'm taking a title cue from Lorianne who wrote A tourist in your own town. She got the idea from a writer, Natalie Goldberg. If it works for writers, it works for photographers.

So Julia and I headed to Old Town in hopes of picturesque pictures. I'd read there was a new mural in town, and I certainly wanted a shot of that before our harsh sun fades the paint.

However our walk in Old Town got off to a bad start. I fell off a huge curb and scraped my knee. I wasn't so worried about the knee, for it would heal. I was much more worried about the camera, which took the fall with me. Gratefully, it's still working fine.

On the way back, I had Julia pose by the high curb:


There is nothing to give indication of its depth when approaching from the other side...

We saw the latest art shows at the Yuma Art Center. I noted the sign "No photographs", ruefully certain my camera was broken. There was two artists' works there who intrigued me. Cristina Cardenas used to live in Mexico and now lives in Tucson. I particularily like one piece called The Smile and one of a couple in which the man reminded me of Adrian Brody. But they were all interesting. I also like the masks of Zarco Guerrero. Some were Japanese in style while others reflected Indian and Mexican influence.

From there, we stopped in an antique shop. I saw elephants everywhere. It was wild. I was timid to try to photograph them, not wanting to confirm my suspicions. We walked all the way down Main Street, finding the other antique shops closed. That didn't stop me from seeing another elephant poised at a tour agent shop. Julia urged me, "Try your camera, you might find it works!

It worked:

When we walked by the first antique shop, Julia wanted to go in, as she remembered a coin pendent with Hermes on it. Alas, the shop was now closed. That didn't stop me from catching the elephants that were in the front window:

And we found the mural:


Yuma, Gateway of the Great Southwest...


by Cortni Sinz and Claudia Reveles

"Sinz is an art educator at Arizona Western College and Yuma Catholic High School. She also belongs to the North End Artists' Cooperative. Reveles is a 2007 graduate of Yuma Catholic and plans to attend AWC in the fall." (Yuma Daily sun)

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

"Take Five"
9:12pm

Finding nothing interesting in my initial intuitive attempts, I decided to go for observational art. I looked for intriguing head shots, some saved to disc, some found in random Flicker results. I wanted to practice my quick sketch skills, in hopes to improve it should I ever find live subjects willing to sit still for five minutes. I did five sketches, most in just five minutes. (One took eleven minutes, but that one is not here.). These are the two best:


Original old man with pipe
found at Flicker

Thursday, October 11, 2007

"!"
9:52pm

Friday, October 12, 2007 A

"Link of the Month"
6:42am


My mandalas are
link of the month!

"Mandalas are for me an important avenue of discovery. They can express many truths. Within each, there is the interplay between the subjective world and the objective world. While the outer edges demand attention, there is always the call to the center. This expresses being inwardly directed, finding wholeness and balance within one's Self." "Really, any artistic endeavor is a process of discovery, in which inner world and outer worlds reveal themselves as the creation evolves. I enjoy the sense of FLOW I can feel when creating. For me, there are few better ways to feel fully alive."

Friday, October 12, 2007 B

"Quick Sketch of Pachauri"
9:14pm


I noted with satisfaction that Al Gore won the Nobel Peace prize for his efforts to educate the world about global warming and how we can stop and reverse this trend. As I searched the news items, I learned it was not only Gore, but also his research team, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the award.

An Indian newsource explained, "Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri is the chairman of the IPCC, the influential body established by the World Meteorological Organisation and the United Nations Environment Programme, to investigate global warming and its consequences for Earth." They featured photos of both Gore and Pachauri. I found Pachauri's face much more interesting to draw than Gore's!

Sunday, October 14, 2007 A

"What Was, What Is, What Will Be"
8:04am


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