Sunday, November 4, 2007
"If I Keep Practicing..."
4:15pm
After reading the reviews on Michael Clayton, I was pretty sure I wanted to see it. "Sharp script", "Faultless cast", "Smart and challenging, but never to point of confusion", I was intrigued. Our time at the theater was well spent. There will be awards come Oscar time, no doubt.
Afterwards, we ate at AH SO. Julia got me to try the mackeral sushi, and I was surprised it did not taste or feel 'raw'. It reminded me a bit of pickled herring. Next time, I may even eat a whole piece. The restaurant was quite busy, no doubt due to more humane temperatures encouraging people to come out of their cool caves.
After we got home, (and I threw two loads in the washers), I got to seeing what I could do with the quick sketches. I found some 'wallpapers' and some photos from the movie on the web, and had several tries:
I'm fairly pleased with how Sidney Pollack turned out, for eleven minutes worth of effort. I didn't have such good luck with George Clooney. I ruined about a half a dozen sheets of paper, before I got two that are somewhat decent:
Even though the space between the mouth and his nose is too tall, I like the eyes...
He's too thin of face here, but the shadow effects aren't too bad.
(twelve minutes spent on this piece...)
If I keep practicing, I might be able to deliver decent quick results for live subjects willing to keep still for ten to fifteen minutes. I'll keep practicing....
Monday, November 5, 2007 A
"The Theory"
4:10am
I got up early, as I found my mind very busy, but somehow most of the thoughts have vanished. There was a main thought, though...
...oh yeah, it was about a new way of drawing, where I look at what/who I'm drawing, observe, and try to send the data to my intuitive mind, and then take cues of where to put the lines from the intuitive mind. If I'm to obtain successful drawings of people not being exactly still, I need to figure this out. The intuitive mind, being such a better processor than surface mind, can somehow hold the porportions of a face in mind and how they will hold together as the head shifts this way and that.
At least that's the theory. As I said last time I was here, I'll keep practicing....
Monday, November 5, 2007 B
"The Apple"
9:59pm
I was about to go to bed, and was turning off the lamp that highlights this relief sculpture, when I saw the single apple in the bowl, and how pleasing it looks there, with the backdrop of the ladies and...
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
"Quick Sketches"
7:02pm
The above is my dinner plate, after eating a roasted vegetable pocket sandwich, gourmet chocolate chip cookie and sipping a tiny glass of Cabernet Franc. (Crumbs are from the cookie...)
Original at Articole studios
(Eleven minutes original sketch, scanned as line drawing, speckle coloration added to pants later)
It's an interesting picture story at Articole studios, how they made the huge Anubis that floated down the Thames river. It was to announce in a dramatic way the 'King Tut' exhibit which is now in London.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
"He Holds His Mystery..."
11:04pm
He holds his mysteries in his hands
What should he have said?
What should he have not said?
Thursday, November 8, 2007 A
"Transgender Day of Remembrance"
6:09am
I learned through the web channels of the Transgender Day of Remembrance Gender.org explains "The Transgender Day of Remembrance was set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. The event is held in November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder in 1998 kicked off the “Remembering Our Dead” web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999. Since then, the event has grown to encompass memorials in dozens of cities across the world."
One who will be remembered...
Yuma has been affected, In May 2005, Amancio Corrales was murdered.
As I explained in 2005, "The local person was a 23 year old cosmetologist, originally born in Sinaloa, Mexico. Of a transgendered nature, he was known to at least be a gay female impersonator who went by name Delilah. At least a transvestite, he might have identified with the female gender in the way known to transsexuals. Amancio Corrales was out dressed as a female while at one or more local bars on May 5, 2005, the night of his murder. Yuma County Sheriff's Capt. Eben Bratcher said it was "a significant possibility" that Corrales left one of the bars with people who thought he was a woman, according to the Yuma Daily Sun. There are presently no gay bars in Yuma where the transgendered possibility would be an understood possibility. So the men he went off with were likely thinking he was born female. Corrales might have wanted this illusion to continue. However the speculation is of great rage when his true biological sex was discovered."
There are too many of the mindset that Corrales was going where s/he wasn't welcome and should have known better. There are too many who will say Corrales was naive to think the world should be better. There are too many who despise what they don't understand.
I will remember those who have fallen, and give strength to the forces of understanding.
Thursday, November 8, 2007 B
"Pleasing Reflections"
5:47pm
When we came home tonight, Julia exclaimed, "Look at the arch in the corner, like a rainbow!"
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