eye-tiredness

Do you sometimes get tired...and your tiredness seems to be leaking from a particular spot...like your eyes?  That is a new feeling for me  this eye-tiredness...

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ink watercolor  rives bfk 11x15

...as unbelievable as it may seem, though I painted these only yesterday,  I cannot recall exactly what I used when painting these.  It really makes me mad, I mean you'd think ah come on fella you don know how you done these?  But you see, what I mean is like did I use rubbing alcohol...?  old paint remnants dried in various jars where I add a bit of water and let them sit for awhile...?  did I just barely paint it then rush back to fill it just before it dries?...at the time you paint them the only important thing is to loose oneself in the process.

Is this the sky?

this is a nice one...I like it a lot though once again I must admit that I am a poor photographer...cause this painting is actually quite a bit bluer than it looks here...you know sometimes I wonder if the colors I see are actually the colors that exist...

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let's talk about rats ...for a moment

I know most of you know that James Audubon drew rats along with all the other animals and flowers he did...In fact as he studied rats, he moved naturally to New York City.  He even wrote the mayor and got special permission to shoot rats on Sunday mornings down by the Battery.

The funny thing about them rats is that the more you kill them...shooting them but mostly poisoning them -the higher their pregnancy rates climb.  Their pregnancy rate is always about what it is with humans...In fact they say now that coincidentally there are five times as many children in Iraq than in the entire United States.

Later on Audubon's eyesight failed and he moved up to 157th street, which is now settled by people from the Dominican Republic...which is coincidently also the home of Audubon himself.

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olde valentines

these are just some old ones...done on crane paper for the most part 4x6...after I had sent them out there were always a few left over

happy Valentine's Day

Now here is an interesting fact...when the people of Oshima in Japan wish to make a new Kimono the first step they take is to procure the finest silk made in the world. They soak it and roll it up and tie it together...then the walk over to the edge of the mud that lies there...and throw it in...and leave it for several months...then move it closer to the tree with the red berries and leave it again...

Now these are said to be the finest kimonos in the world and cost between six to ten thousand dollars when finished....

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