Showing posts with label approx. 6" x 4.5" India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label approx. 6" x 4.5" India. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Tierra de Quixote part 2


Part 2 of the triptych.


Triptych is sold.


What kills me here is not just Rumi's expression, but also his curled-up back feet.

I think he's dreaming of Kayle--everyone, please take a sec to send good healing vibes out to California for our friend Kayle Martin, who just had a mastectomy today due to breast cancer. She is only in her early thirties.





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Sunday, January 10, 2010

New Delhi


Experimenting with a very different palette to suit the mood.

I'm still feeling pretty lousy, but have made it for some limited time into the studio! It's so great to be back in there, surrounded by all the colors of pastels and the smell of linseed oil.


How to ooze. Step 1: Prepare.



Step 2: Let it all hang out.


Tea plantation worker (near Munnar).


Temple offerings.


A former temple decoration or offering, now left to gently and ineluctably become part of the roadside trash.


Tea pickers in the near-perpetual Munnar mist.



A mahout with his magnificent charge.



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Friday, January 8, 2010

Watering can


Begun as simply an abstract, but ended up looking to me like a little tin watering can.
(The center shape looks kind of white here on screen; in reality it is the same hue as its surroundings, just a lighter value thereof.)




Rumi is really too cute. He always has this sort of impish look. His eyes have still not fully normalized, by the way.

I continue to recover from my cold and my back injury. I have had very low energy but am going to try to get into the studio tonight, if only briefly.



...And a few pics from India. Here I am leaving the lovely public bathroom in Munnar. Of course I'd rather avoid these sort of...fragrant...places, but there really is usually no alternative. (And men simply urinate on the street wherever and whenever they feel like it.) When I've asked Indian women I know for advice, they all say the same thing: Just don't go. Now, that's excellent advice in theory...but how does one follow it in practice? Indian women must be born with iron bladders.

(By the way, notice Che Guevara there. Che is everywhere.)




Restless sky near Munnar (the area that Scots historically found to their liking in India).


A couple of hardworking ladies (near Munnar).



A colorful temple (near Munnar). To me, this already looks like a pastel!



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