A lighted box on legs displaying a symbol.
This sort of thing happens all the time.
Saturday, October 09, 2004
October Clouds #1
(I posted the one below last night but it didn't publish, so I did this one today, and then when I posted it they both appeared. Thought I leave them both)
The great thing about clouds is that they are there for everyone to enjoy and appreciate; just look up at the sky, there they go, like great galleons saling in a bright blue ocean.
They are never the same; they are always changing, season to season, morning to evening.
Recently I was trying to paint clouds and found it rather difficult. It's easy to fall into the childhood symbolic drawing image of a cloud - round, fluffy things. Like anything you draw the most important thing is to look carefully and draw what you actually see, not what you think you see. Draw what you see.
OK, I will...
The great thing about clouds is that they are there for everyone to enjoy and appreciate; just look up at the sky, there they go, like great galleons saling in a bright blue ocean.
They are never the same; they are always changing, season to season, morning to evening.
Recently I was trying to paint clouds and found it rather difficult. It's easy to fall into the childhood symbolic drawing image of a cloud - round, fluffy things. Like anything you draw the most important thing is to look carefully and draw what you actually see, not what you think you see. Draw what you see.
OK, I will...
Friday, October 08, 2004
October Clouds #1
I like clouds and recently I have been trying to paint them, but I'm finding out how difficult it is. It's easy to draw a symbolic, cotton wool round cloud shape, but real clouds aren't like that... almost nothing is.
One reason my first attempts at painting clouds were not successful was because I forgot that like everything else clouds obey the rules of perspective and of light and shade. I shall try again. I shall keep my head in clouds and my eyes to the heavens...
What I loved about the skies in England when I was there last winter was the (occassionally) blue skies, clouds and the thin straight white con trails of the high flying jets. There is something about those white lines in the blue sky... perhaps it's the sense of scale they give.
One reason my first attempts at painting clouds were not successful was because I forgot that like everything else clouds obey the rules of perspective and of light and shade. I shall try again. I shall keep my head in clouds and my eyes to the heavens...
What I loved about the skies in England when I was there last winter was the (occassionally) blue skies, clouds and the thin straight white con trails of the high flying jets. There is something about those white lines in the blue sky... perhaps it's the sense of scale they give.
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Zebra Crossing
How to cross the street:
Keep your eyes on the signals, don't look at the traffic, or the street to left or right.
If the walk signal is red keep looking at it, don't look at the street. There maybe nothing on the street at all, in either for direction, empty streets as far as the eye can see. That is not important. What is important is the colour of the signal.
When the signal changes from the little red man standing to the green man walking then walk across the street.
Do not look at the street either side. The signal is now green and therefore no vehicles will come. They will not come because the signal is green.
Now live your whole life according to these rules.
Congratulations! You are now Japanese!
Keep your eyes on the signals, don't look at the traffic, or the street to left or right.
If the walk signal is red keep looking at it, don't look at the street. There maybe nothing on the street at all, in either for direction, empty streets as far as the eye can see. That is not important. What is important is the colour of the signal.
When the signal changes from the little red man standing to the green man walking then walk across the street.
Do not look at the street either side. The signal is now green and therefore no vehicles will come. They will not come because the signal is green.
Now live your whole life according to these rules.
Congratulations! You are now Japanese!
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Concrete Dinosaur
Isn't this one a Stegosaurus? With those plates running down his back. Wasn't that to cool his blood? Or was it for protection? A little of both I guess. Him and his concrete mates were in the children's zoo, but he is not to scale I feel; he should be bigger. He was bigger in Jurassic Park.
When we become extinct do you think there will concrete human figures, also not to scale? I think we are out of scale right now - we appear bigger than we really are.
When we become extinct do you think there will concrete human figures, also not to scale? I think we are out of scale right now - we appear bigger than we really are.
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