Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Okay, Icarus

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Stop now and get back down to earth, you're too close to the sun, and anyway you need to work on your book.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Distraction/Engagement

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On the way into the studio to work  on my book, (everything all prepared, a section chosen and waiting on my work table), I noticed I was out of fruit, picked up my prized fruit holder, which is really and antique egg wire basket which looks like a line drawing when you hold it up to the light.  I decided to take a quick picture before work.

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I was so happy with the line drawing effect, I decided to photograph another round object, which also gives me enjoyable looking time.  It's an old Depression Era glass plate, my mom had put on a shelf.  Who knows where it came from.

Such a lovely image. . .  but wait, what if I did this:
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And then what if I put my bird in it?
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Now it's time to go to work, and I haven't worked on the book.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Artists' Building

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This is the page I've been working on for a couple of weeks.  It started with a doodle I did in a very long meeting for my day job a year and a half ago.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

The B & W Railroad Journey

Before I started the book, I hadn't been on the B & W (black and white) railroad for a long time.  I was on the color trail.
"Life On Mars", © chris Mesarch 2006  
But for the last four years, it's been the black white train all the way.  It's starts with a pencil on paper, and there's no stopping.  Or perhaps, it's better to say there are many stops.  Many that have nothing to do with my book, but are because of the book, because it made me want to draw lots of different things in black and white.  I loved the film from erasing that formed on the canvas covering my drawing table.  So I drew on canvas.
"Shadows in the Courtyard"





From this photo taken of shadows on concrete.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Unintended masterpiece?

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A friend showed me about a hundred photographs from her childhood.  This snapshot was taken on the boardwalk at Yosemite.  Did the photographer know he or she had created a masterpiece?