tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27698088844993663402024-03-16T22:57:28.498-04:00Julia Likes FrogsJulia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.comBlogger314125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-31563527515709500662024-03-16T16:35:00.009-04:002024-03-16T22:56:55.369-04:00Straightforward Sensory Animation Lesson Plan for k-12 Teachers - The Mindful Class<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Digital devices are addictive.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That's like saying water is wet, or exercise is hard.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Maybe you hesitate to use digital devices in an art class – especially if your focus is on calming the body/mind, and integrating the senses for a better quality of life. But nearly every classroom has the devices, and there are ways to make them work for students.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></p><h3 style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Two Options of Many</span></i></span></h3><div><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Here are two straightforward programs for animation projects (the first one has a free-with-ads version available):</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">- <a href="https://flipaclip.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Flipaclip</span></a> digital animation</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEx-iTFlmdUx7VYbIrBjUAsYVspZ7j5N0eD4aMdAB9lcKyYN0zxdTdrcc0WFYAgm-tPCPMz35-rmWaBsEOMAq5uraNgCgy5iCNm7XUJ0MuR21TCbkxrJK_3NztKULsIff_itss7hjIFnC6yuKKdkbdeo_4Z6fY4qcdOIxBCEimbawhPWdj-o6irUNA/s1169/ScreenshotFlipaclipinaction.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="873" data-original-width="1169" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEx-iTFlmdUx7VYbIrBjUAsYVspZ7j5N0eD4aMdAB9lcKyYN0zxdTdrcc0WFYAgm-tPCPMz35-rmWaBsEOMAq5uraNgCgy5iCNm7XUJ0MuR21TCbkxrJK_3NztKULsIff_itss7hjIFnC6yuKKdkbdeo_4Z6fY4qcdOIxBCEimbawhPWdj-o6irUNA/s320/ScreenshotFlipaclipinaction.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">- <a href="https://www.studioneat.com/products/frameographer" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Frameographer</span></a> stop motion capture application (Stop Motion seems like a good, free alternative app, but I haven't tried it yet.)</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGbnoFr6XRBeS32rm5nqkItx86iG7w77Ij4dcPs-3kRs7lkdZGK6s96hc1YSnjNIU_AmDbEUFUCz6VN_GJuG3xKQT1bkK1Jcibq7PX3RUiegBViATkAxf0L5UYGKP5RJb8ul_qwuEhboN3sNUai_edDSGRBRAG151ToVVCOIWbUpQvH4CL_RFF1tKM/s652/FrameographerScreencaptureStill.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="652" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGbnoFr6XRBeS32rm5nqkItx86iG7w77Ij4dcPs-3kRs7lkdZGK6s96hc1YSnjNIU_AmDbEUFUCz6VN_GJuG3xKQT1bkK1Jcibq7PX3RUiegBViATkAxf0L5UYGKP5RJb8ul_qwuEhboN3sNUai_edDSGRBRAG151ToVVCOIWbUpQvH4CL_RFF1tKM/s320/FrameographerScreencaptureStill.png" width="320" /></a></div><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Both have onion skinning (a see-through frame) available, which can help students build their understanding of movement, or 4D media. </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Onion skinning is the term for seeing the layer underneath, aka the previous frame. When I started learning animation, this was done by holding the separate sheets of paper anchored to the register bar and flipping quickly between the pages. Now, we can see at least two frames at a time, and so we can see the direction of motion a bit easier.</em></p></blockquote><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I recommend these two apps for their simplicity, though the advertising on Flipaclip can get a bit much. So far, nothing inappropriate, just... a lot.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Of the two animation options, stop motion versus digital drawing, I think the stop motion can be a better antidote to an overly digital world, as it involves seeing, staging, and touching real objects. However, the Flipaclip digital drawing can teach more about pacing, and understanding how things move, thereby improving people's abilities to see the world.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I used both methods in a similar elementary art lesson plan unit I created around the SIX Senses.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><h3 style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><i style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The SIX Senses</span></i></h3><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">According to traditional Buddhist perspectives, which I align with, the six senses and their associated stimuli/experiences are categorized as follows:</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">- Eye and the visible world</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">- Ear and sound</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">- Nose and odor</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">- Tongue and taste</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">- Body and touch</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">- Mind and mental objects</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><h3 style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><i style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Six Sense Poem</span></i></h3><div><i style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></i></div><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Inspired by a sensory exploration poem exercise proposed by Lisa Kay in her book, <i><a href="https://www.davisart.com/therapeutic-approaches-in-art-education/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Therapeutic Approaches in Art Education</span></a></i>, I have the students brainstorm 5 ideas for each category above.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvzXjpxeNsHSblgcWJMtBORQYa4H-qjGBRCpJdEnF0C7HJDRP5ls3G7VEPepAGhrO1cDI4ynJ6DKiL9wW1F2-5iMF6kFGsZ1CcFDU5KxwjbSZSKZbduI_GfGEECfJ51Sl2G74dRJMpSdw8TBhMTTbZK2kpEW60hVMoAToEsIwHQ-Es0riRehnjfJjC/s960/senseIllustrationworksheetSenseList.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvzXjpxeNsHSblgcWJMtBORQYa4H-qjGBRCpJdEnF0C7HJDRP5ls3G7VEPepAGhrO1cDI4ynJ6DKiL9wW1F2-5iMF6kFGsZ1CcFDU5KxwjbSZSKZbduI_GfGEECfJ51Sl2G74dRJMpSdw8TBhMTTbZK2kpEW60hVMoAToEsIwHQ-Es0riRehnjfJjC/s320/senseIllustrationworksheetSenseList.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Students can focus on one of the ideas, to give them a better grasp on what they'd like to make into their animation.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc1n9NMZGQn4nn6G4PfOtpDtFHjSc5ii1PVsuy4MDYgvBciJSkr1-AhwqRjRKEZNHxloYWPkbPyX22pCTYWQiIY-xKhDePW9p3WdYTRCm6poJc9cHkXgCmjPVZW9AqpSx3OnqAkuh4EfXy0uLxQlNUA4kjrb_LPrWM2qDf0TlN6pJqkSiNXxuUx4YP/s960/sense%20illustrationPage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc1n9NMZGQn4nn6G4PfOtpDtFHjSc5ii1PVsuy4MDYgvBciJSkr1-AhwqRjRKEZNHxloYWPkbPyX22pCTYWQiIY-xKhDePW9p3WdYTRCm6poJc9cHkXgCmjPVZW9AqpSx3OnqAkuh4EfXy0uLxQlNUA4kjrb_LPrWM2qDf0TlN6pJqkSiNXxuUx4YP/s320/sense%20illustrationPage.png" width="320" /></a></div><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Here is Lisa Kay's "<i>I am</i> Poem" exercise that inspired this lesson plan:</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQA5ARNCnB6xlc6XwbRui5KEiAlm5r69Qm_gEMOsCfl5TYd4liQeh-nf-VSqwaQBgb-3U5Lg7ot248Jge4o5hLRyaFpOxn3Tw7gcQq0VnDuFGXz7V8APd7pvwtK2iD8zJLKsbiMO9Va9v9RqTELY7DCRg-En8SENkEaHzebcnxiEDpCwMLKG1HvSTK/s3822/SensoryPoem.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3822" data-original-width="2646" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQA5ARNCnB6xlc6XwbRui5KEiAlm5r69Qm_gEMOsCfl5TYd4liQeh-nf-VSqwaQBgb-3U5Lg7ot248Jge4o5hLRyaFpOxn3Tw7gcQq0VnDuFGXz7V8APd7pvwtK2iD8zJLKsbiMO9Va9v9RqTELY7DCRg-En8SENkEaHzebcnxiEDpCwMLKG1HvSTK/s320/SensoryPoem.jpg" width="222" /></a></div><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><h3 style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><i style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And... Animate!</span></i></h3><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Here is my tutorial for Frameographer and creating cut paper animation with easily found resources:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g3J806qZZYM" width="320" youtube-src-id="g3J806qZZYM"></iframe></div><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Here is my tutorial for using Flipaclip:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xvNtbGliuTk" width="320" youtube-src-id="xvNtbGliuTk"></iframe></div><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">My animated 6 Sense poem:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AHcsFZ83Fcc" width="320" youtube-src-id="AHcsFZ83Fcc"></iframe></div><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><h3 style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><i style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">National Visual Arts Standards NVAS Anchor Standards:</span></i></h3><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">NVAS Standard 1: Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Students will explore their sensory experiences and create illustrated poems based on their favorite senses.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">NVAS Standard 2: Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Students will organize their sensory experiences into a coherent and expressive illustrated poem, considering composition, color choices, and visual elements.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">NVAS Standard 3: Refine and Complete Artistic Work</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Students will refine their illustrated poems, revising and editing to enhance visual impact and convey sensory experiences effectively.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">NVAS Standard 4: Analyze, Interpret, and Evaluate Artistic Work</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Students will analyze their own and peers' illustrated poems, identifying effective use of visual elements to evoke sensory experiences.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">NVAS Standard 5: Convey Meaning through the Presentation of Artistic Work</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Students will present their illustrated poems to others, explaining the sensory experiences depicted and the artistic choices made.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><h3 style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><i style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Interdisciplinary Standards:</span></i></h3><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Vocabulary Development:</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Students can expand their vocabulary by learning and using sensory-related words such as "fragrance," "tactile," "resonant," "savory," etc., in their poems.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">They can explore figurative language such as similes and metaphors to describe sensory experiences in more vivid and imaginative ways.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Critical Thinking and Analysis:</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Students can analyze and compare different sensory experiences depicted in poems, identifying similarities, differences, and themes.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">They can reflect on the emotional impact of sensory language in poetry, considering how it affects the reader's interpretation and response.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Speaking and Listening Skills:</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Students can participate in discussions about sensory experiences and poetry, sharing their own poems and listening to their peers' creations.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">They can practice oral presentation skills by reciting their poems aloud, paying attention to voice modulation, fluency, and expression.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Cross-Curricular Connections:</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Teachers can integrate science concepts related to the five senses into the poetry lesson, reinforcing interdisciplinary connections.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For example, students can learn about how the sensory organs work and how they contribute to our perception of the world, linking science with poetry and literacy.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><h3 style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Artists Who Make Work About the Senses</span></i></span></h3><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Below, work from artist and anti-ableist activist <span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Sonia Boué, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Conversation with B (2),</span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-c83dcd0c-7fff-e6c2-ed7d-a53b0556cde4"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2021 © Sonia Boué 2021</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Arts Council England funded neurophototherapy Project</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwPO16CBS3CLGf2PirLF6GMkrxxG7YiHfcRIMyKElcqYjQogpcWrKDBxpLeg1_Ccc0cTAETh_I8HdW-G1kfnQvKWAENgpmsRBwqk76mXmt_amkK3dR5O1s7z886CT6BQ3lF_FDD1hwpMD9zN9QpNAp7SpQDHZYenBXpL8c18pny09EU_KPqniJCUm4/s945/SoniaBoueConversationWithB2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="687" data-original-width="945" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwPO16CBS3CLGf2PirLF6GMkrxxG7YiHfcRIMyKElcqYjQogpcWrKDBxpLeg1_Ccc0cTAETh_I8HdW-G1kfnQvKWAENgpmsRBwqk76mXmt_amkK3dR5O1s7z886CT6BQ3lF_FDD1hwpMD9zN9QpNAp7SpQDHZYenBXpL8c18pny09EU_KPqniJCUm4/s320/SoniaBoueConversationWithB2.png" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Next, an experience of smell, by </span></span><span style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Ernesto Neto: Cai Cai Marrom, 2007. Polyamide, wood, turmeric, pepper and cinnamon 196 ¾ x 118 x 118 inches. Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, museum purchase funds from the PAMM Collectors Council. Image courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. © Ernesto Neto. Photo: Jean Vong</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-313e2392-7fff-5458-e291-89ecb3e36ed1"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgJh5kUirsq4TBBeQzwA3tY6_xgg731k4kRXFn_KKX74CBxeC6k3w61NKX7_RV0mncoeJlJX_eLpvIKIgA7Ji0LMVs7QHQvQjxuGUPdUdmTK5dswv3Z59v8w7hTk0WD1yk4y6P54GFrccmCoxMIVomy6D1XYrJuNBYQsYv_whIDS78dxHci7DRAMQY/s664/ErnestoNeto.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="455" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgJh5kUirsq4TBBeQzwA3tY6_xgg731k4kRXFn_KKX74CBxeC6k3w61NKX7_RV0mncoeJlJX_eLpvIKIgA7Ji0LMVs7QHQvQjxuGUPdUdmTK5dswv3Z59v8w7hTk0WD1yk4y6P54GFrccmCoxMIVomy6D1XYrJuNBYQsYv_whIDS78dxHci7DRAMQY/s320/ErnestoNeto.png" width="219" /></a></div><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small; white-space-collapse: collapse;">Healing sound baths held in conjunction with Guadalupe Maravilla: Luz y fuerza, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 30, 2021–October 30, 2022. Healers: Guadalupe Maravilla, Hilary Ramos, and Sam Xu. Digital image © 2023 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Julieta Cervantes</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/877" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="939" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmKhPvzIjWbVEUOeDyNRMAGWzzrVc1EoI_Gw0sC7TPRV94MAiYnQAsYXskfbl271cP9qmX8h7jGmT3qoAYnbL1nka6fRMm6R6Ffzl3s1fk6lXuxes1Pw9-2HDHfNHMWdCNY-oZd8EbqAQSLwxfoL9LH6cff318Yu9hhBfQ5Uzi_Ta9GBWZaPjnevbV/s320/GuadalupeMaravilla.png" width="320" /></a></div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Erik Satie's House in Honfleur, photographer unknown:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisMhQ1aZdfgB415YbIsb2ymQ-PWQmacDL92R47zvWQZWoqy93H362E41ksri_W91pw8p6lf2sufkA9kAIWR5pqdBAm0cwlU068NfhY44hnR6eCKQ5Pwr1d2K5VbilSKI99Y4zGhDCb9tJfSLKJ_cZcPm9Oc10sWUA1Yq_pDs4Dc7LR-LHez9KtpYQR/s800/Honfleur-Les-Maions-Satie.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisMhQ1aZdfgB415YbIsb2ymQ-PWQmacDL92R47zvWQZWoqy93H362E41ksri_W91pw8p6lf2sufkA9kAIWR5pqdBAm0cwlU068NfhY44hnR6eCKQ5Pwr1d2K5VbilSKI99Y4zGhDCb9tJfSLKJ_cZcPm9Oc10sWUA1Yq_pDs4Dc7LR-LHez9KtpYQR/s320/Honfleur-Les-Maions-Satie.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYeg0CPND0cmSzT5V-NXgSRzG_55VUqTk1fvcYIYBkSfR8Lf_8YyrYinvG6B1HIs_IuIuV8w-uu7sMG4siq9eXK8PPYplG9ybAXn6n__3uhB7H5XiVw_O404GLjVdheT2jbAytE0jI9Abqd0M1VDUomztw08vUnCDGxFzx4XSOk0PsEcClxx2H9Y4t/s400/sati2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="400" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYeg0CPND0cmSzT5V-NXgSRzG_55VUqTk1fvcYIYBkSfR8Lf_8YyrYinvG6B1HIs_IuIuV8w-uu7sMG4siq9eXK8PPYplG9ybAXn6n__3uhB7H5XiVw_O404GLjVdheT2jbAytE0jI9Abqd0M1VDUomztw08vUnCDGxFzx4XSOk0PsEcClxx2H9Y4t/s320/sati2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></span>Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-53012794455953553222023-12-28T23:37:00.001-05:002023-12-28T23:48:24.184-05:003 Portrait Painting Approaches - burnt sienna, tonal planes, and using colors as tones<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm teaching portrait painting classes again :) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>[sign up <a href="https://forms.gle/RHcokzzi4rVR82hp7" target="_blank">here</a> for more information about future classes]</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdLWK6MR3iOC2yAm5oogeLXktzAdyopQab3S47BCAmAATFzV7bbNj83RTj8odHCXluhMoScB0mfvlYNgN-XeKsYcKmEmGUx-7PGIirsEvnzq5AEXqaEAygryHAmX7B65Cz_Xu98NSpcuc3KXzllFmm02NpXtyDMPKvqZSg_sSzEFVohyShuGGewgfH/s1080/LucyJauneJuliaGandrud.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="805" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdLWK6MR3iOC2yAm5oogeLXktzAdyopQab3S47BCAmAATFzV7bbNj83RTj8odHCXluhMoScB0mfvlYNgN-XeKsYcKmEmGUx-7PGIirsEvnzq5AEXqaEAygryHAmX7B65Cz_Xu98NSpcuc3KXzllFmm02NpXtyDMPKvqZSg_sSzEFVohyShuGGewgfH/s320/LucyJauneJuliaGandrud.png" width="239" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Lucy and Jaune</i>, acrylic on paper<br />copyright Julia Gandrud 2016</span></div><br />The first time I taught portrait painting classes was back in 2007, and again in 2009, at DotArt in Dorchester, Massachusetts. I led a class of a dozen young adults, high school sophomores through beginning college-aged kids. The day-long classes met every day for six weeks in the summer inside a church at Ashmont Station. <p></p><p><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">It was part of an initiative to keep kids off the streets, but it was pure fun for me. I had one very capable young assistant, a talented painter himself.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I taught the students how to use acrylic paints to build vitality and structure, as well as graphic line definitions, relying heavily on cadmium red hues, burnt siennas, and ultramarine blues.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That final project included striking Shakespearean cutouts, as the director had enlisted the help of a Shakespeare in the Park actor. It's long ago, and I was too young to know I needed to keep tabs on everyone's names. So, if you recognize this young Hamlet by my assistant, let me know...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoLKJvLMqLodt7gbc9ha6l_OTk-D06z0cSjVjMs9Ch0CWapd6Dd6dYTHRKtja2yPnkxIHzYXxUoEUFK145uc2yelJkIqA23MKjnHYJstau87oChzmBKL4QoQ-CpLkijkuIE0FOgyt9LfPdXpV1zenXpzZMJIL9Kyb80qvpZQmvY2ukelHk-PW2Tka5/s2373/6_UnresolvedHamlet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2373" data-original-width="1320" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoLKJvLMqLodt7gbc9ha6l_OTk-D06z0cSjVjMs9Ch0CWapd6Dd6dYTHRKtja2yPnkxIHzYXxUoEUFK145uc2yelJkIqA23MKjnHYJstau87oChzmBKL4QoQ-CpLkijkuIE0FOgyt9LfPdXpV1zenXpzZMJIL9Kyb80qvpZQmvY2ukelHk-PW2Tka5/s320/6_UnresolvedHamlet.jpg" width="178" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Hamlet</i>, acrylic on plywood<br />copyright 2007 artist unidentified</span></div><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It wasn't until the pandemic that I again taught portrait painting online to individual students seeking relief from that experience.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I saw how developing artists can experiment and succeed with their portraits. I learned how to help my students create passable, even excellent, portraits from minimal experience with portrait painting. Often, people work too much on eyes and eyebrows to the detriment of the whole, and ended up with cadmium-red characters from Faust. I learned how to help artists avoid that. </p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So, here are some of my tricks:</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">1 – 4. DO NOT SPEND MORE TIME ON THE EYES THAN ON THE REST</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">5. Never (almost) paint the whites of the eyes as more than middle-toned tan or blue or whatever your palette is. The only time light glints that much in an eye is if someone is feverish and/or psychotic. If you saw that in real life, you'd run.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">6. Consider the planes of the face as though you are welding it with sheet metal. Look at the work of Tamara de Lempicka for a sense of this – in general, the Futurists know how to do this.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7YeDndJnGaa9jeVZzukK76WOUgsznscszqpPTHM8TLvrhdT31dZHgNdmqgN0LkqBq9a_e0JQvVILPzMnMcEZoPc71hc03vdYWBupnKPGfu1cTZ4hecMRnocGv9dWMNN-y1xzQrRuJ6ycKqWw02MEXv5XnH9x0XT_7apdlbRSUO69PBKknoZgOOo_9/s1170/Lempicka_artwork-1170x600.x99359.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1170" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7YeDndJnGaa9jeVZzukK76WOUgsznscszqpPTHM8TLvrhdT31dZHgNdmqgN0LkqBq9a_e0JQvVILPzMnMcEZoPc71hc03vdYWBupnKPGfu1cTZ4hecMRnocGv9dWMNN-y1xzQrRuJ6ycKqWw02MEXv5XnH9x0XT_7apdlbRSUO69PBKknoZgOOo_9/s320/Lempicka_artwork-1170x600.x99359.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">section of <i>Young Lady in Green</i> by Tamara de Lempicka, 1927-1930</span></div><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">7. Try to limit your palette to one warm light, one warm medium, one cool medium color, and one warm dark that is still only as dark as a 75% gray</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Otherwise, just be patient. Absolute mess can still resolve into the right person.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Below are several time lapse videos of my portrait paintings, to give a sense of color and attention strategies:</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gT5nVIQewH0" width="320" youtube-src-id="gT5nVIQewH0"></iframe></div><br /><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3aUPrZCdMNE" width="320" youtube-src-id="3aUPrZCdMNE"></iframe></div><br /><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-48369642964562403642023-11-20T12:29:00.017-05:002023-11-20T13:37:15.690-05:00 How to get started with Midjourney image-generating AI software<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This Midjourney exploration was sponsored by the <a href="https://www.risteamcenter.org/" target="_blank">RI STEAM Center</a>.</span></i></span></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;">All the AI image generator options can be confusing. If you're completely new to it, here's how to delve in with one of the options.</p><p>First off, there's no free Midjourney trial. Don't even get me started on the inequity of access... But that's where we are. To try out Midjourney, you need to pay for the subscription-based model.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;">BlueWillow was a free option for a while, but now LimeWire acquired BlueWillow. You can make around 10 for free. The prompts are easy on the LimeWire site – the results using Blue Willow are, at this moment, less accurately following prompts, more likely to have unintentional wonky cubist output, and less finished looking. Here's a comparison between Blue Willow and Midjourney using the same prompt: </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>"happy fluffy black cat in sunlight in autumn leaves"</i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik1c7CSrblBMlsZnPVdMiV9eUeiolKI07fuRoEhNT__Dt8kywGSGqYXo55xq8WHDeiE-rlmD3I73_ONfgDD2JvXGUkdnYST5OuUjStWj5NVLTIoR-HeZFiDBYV8ikD77Li5YH6Yqe0SX_yI5wyuDHP9T8GN0-cm4zDELM2xPRYo71KdRxYz1ges1CA/s515/risteamcenter_happy_fluffy_black_cat_in_sunlight_in_autumn_leav_225349bc-e99c-48f6-800a-2ab21473b943.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="515" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik1c7CSrblBMlsZnPVdMiV9eUeiolKI07fuRoEhNT__Dt8kywGSGqYXo55xq8WHDeiE-rlmD3I73_ONfgDD2JvXGUkdnYST5OuUjStWj5NVLTIoR-HeZFiDBYV8ikD77Li5YH6Yqe0SX_yI5wyuDHP9T8GN0-cm4zDELM2xPRYo71KdRxYz1ges1CA/s320/risteamcenter_happy_fluffy_black_cat_in_sunlight_in_autumn_leav_225349bc-e99c-48f6-800a-2ab21473b943.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Midjourney version</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFjVACJeRmV0gKr1mdahNHk82f9Wm7k-tgtN_PJslrxMRlfHRyUg1Kz7LN2po6aY9KuNChbVhE6g2exSwiK0OA4beNc58502KJtWA35_F8cxtqfv0AkQDCQrRxwYqNFe2uD4xQqoIskoB0j6E3MH_SLwk0PFoRFo0OQhZecpPi9TR0oP4ZDX2HjzmC/s1024/bluewillowCat.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFjVACJeRmV0gKr1mdahNHk82f9Wm7k-tgtN_PJslrxMRlfHRyUg1Kz7LN2po6aY9KuNChbVhE6g2exSwiK0OA4beNc58502KJtWA35_F8cxtqfv0AkQDCQrRxwYqNFe2uD4xQqoIskoB0j6E3MH_SLwk0PFoRFo0OQhZecpPi9TR0oP4ZDX2HjzmC/s320/bluewillowCat.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">BlueWillow version (they only give one per credit)</div><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;"><i>Aside</i>: LimeWire has a skeevy <a href="https://slidebean.com/story/what-was-limewire-slidebean" target="_blank">history</a>. I'm unsure what's different in this era – I thought it had been shut down. I guess it's all cleaned up now? I sure wouldn't want that brand name, though...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcatYvs015G3JaSUIpnjuY-IuN_ztq2HbwX9l09U478B5BwO5uu7mf4TQmLku3ckDyy-1nz_5DxtCrSNJs2rZh75gs263pmJj-qgogoIvPJZq0HGcNMp1tHhHQcuFOJwkyf5L7Tpt6dV1JeW1noYHnuDRFQrpXjg4FFX1n0kKjJQOsvatG6fFplSGR/s1425/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-20%20at%209.35.24%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="759" data-original-width="1425" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcatYvs015G3JaSUIpnjuY-IuN_ztq2HbwX9l09U478B5BwO5uu7mf4TQmLku3ckDyy-1nz_5DxtCrSNJs2rZh75gs263pmJj-qgogoIvPJZq0HGcNMp1tHhHQcuFOJwkyf5L7Tpt6dV1JeW1noYHnuDRFQrpXjg4FFX1n0kKjJQOsvatG6fFplSGR/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-20%20at%209.35.24%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Midjourney on Discord</div><h4 style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in; text-align: left;">Step 1: Discord</h4><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;">Midjourney uses the <a href="https://discord.com/" target="_blank">Discord</a> platform to operate. While there is a Discord desktop app, I use the web browser version.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;"><i>What is Discord?</i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;">Discord is a free social media app/platform. So far, there are no ads. There's a subscription-based model which allows users to upload larger file sizes. That doesn't affect the AI image generators, so you shouldn't need to pay for anything on Discord now. They make their profit on subscriptions and game sales.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;">To set up a Discord account, go to Discord.com and set up an account using your email address, come up with a username, and you're ready for step 2.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;"><br /></p><h4 style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in; text-align: left;">Step 2: Midjourney</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRARtawkcrjXdc6rkHnH84-sg_N5LaM9NOzg2KOSAO1ZQOLTBsJMrYbMltuFb9j6EMAZW4wiCRsTQal2RHGqnlSY1DhLFBlX3kSUnBLvInuLbbWqhU5nxl6-cJM2vR8jRxNszugBPgbROjaDwSh6Q2LL31lqj0IUezP0ucupoCTXzMoEDd7SJ1sHSV/s1371/Midjourney_Splash_Page.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="817" data-original-width="1371" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRARtawkcrjXdc6rkHnH84-sg_N5LaM9NOzg2KOSAO1ZQOLTBsJMrYbMltuFb9j6EMAZW4wiCRsTQal2RHGqnlSY1DhLFBlX3kSUnBLvInuLbbWqhU5nxl6-cJM2vR8jRxNszugBPgbROjaDwSh6Q2LL31lqj0IUezP0ucupoCTXzMoEDd7SJ1sHSV/s320/Midjourney_Splash_Page.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;">Now that you have your Discord, you can navigate to Midjourney.com</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;">Midjourney.com shows a beta option button and a sign-in button. I'd use the <a href="https://discord.com/invite/midjourney" target="_blank">beta button</a> because it doesn't require your private Discord information. Instead, it invites you to the Midjourney server on Discord.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4wHjAKo2OLcz6W4OesD4RYqWvwgEe1BJCM3yPSGY2OQ-2-SCP87O3B2RQTOmPsWbIYmNemYIhHy-6vmVMypXQll3GAglQHW00kl_kseyXHkxk2wuww5od7-Jlk1voV0hOxHKvpKBsO8z4-B85g62WSyfhhRiUUkw88uRhGXrgFSeVnXuoC97RfjyQ/s988/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-20%20at%209.30.22%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="812" data-original-width="988" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4wHjAKo2OLcz6W4OesD4RYqWvwgEe1BJCM3yPSGY2OQ-2-SCP87O3B2RQTOmPsWbIYmNemYIhHy-6vmVMypXQll3GAglQHW00kl_kseyXHkxk2wuww5od7-Jlk1voV0hOxHKvpKBsO8z4-B85g62WSyfhhRiUUkw88uRhGXrgFSeVnXuoC97RfjyQ/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-20%20at%209.30.22%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;"><br /></p><h4 style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in; text-align: left;">Step 3: Subscription to Midjourney</h4><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;">Navigate to a #Newbie channel by clicking on one of the newbie threads in the menu on the left.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcxU_z8jC33L7FNF-rXv9uQQi6AT-4d_n3fiajagt9HoMsZR9lZCRbkdKNhNuP6AYFBlZPDFgJNqcAdQ7bdFIhkQMjI9NSZofbfFGz4H97G12mhyuu76pSqMiKpuPamgMhp2rfDdPCGcpzQicuE5-C7KztD9gq3n5GFphjvsK2biCGBIrWtvN3S0sU/s751/FindingNewbieChannel.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="468" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcxU_z8jC33L7FNF-rXv9uQQi6AT-4d_n3fiajagt9HoMsZR9lZCRbkdKNhNuP6AYFBlZPDFgJNqcAdQ7bdFIhkQMjI9NSZofbfFGz4H97G12mhyuu76pSqMiKpuPamgMhp2rfDdPCGcpzQicuE5-C7KztD9gq3n5GFphjvsK2biCGBIrWtvN3S0sU/s320/FindingNewbieChannel.png" width="199" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Type /subscribe into the prompt box at the bottom, then press enter. Then, annoyingly, press enter again. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtfyYduL3Mpiq2ssp_iRXZqfof-aWa3yPjdFD3J-zBKLtNIcRI6e17o1pG3lupOz0JDMJPD4e8HAF9162B1WNo1G1xj2PtVHXlFty0zkHaohQQTqHNU2ypIMj97ulk-WACj3Pctz0RH0cgefBmkuLI69NGnuzOiUWxZH4Hm1X9if55OQqzXICmxzUP/s1440/commandtoSubscribe.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="1440" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtfyYduL3Mpiq2ssp_iRXZqfof-aWa3yPjdFD3J-zBKLtNIcRI6e17o1pG3lupOz0JDMJPD4e8HAF9162B1WNo1G1xj2PtVHXlFty0zkHaohQQTqHNU2ypIMj97ulk-WACj3Pctz0RH0cgefBmkuLI69NGnuzOiUWxZH4Hm1X9if55OQqzXICmxzUP/s320/commandtoSubscribe.png" width="320" /></a></div><i>type /subscribe command in chat box </i></div></div><br />A little message alert will appear on the left, and you can click on it. Now, you're chatting exclusively with the Midjourney bot.<p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;"><b>Do all your prompts in an exclusive chat with the Midjourney bot.</b> If you don't, you'll find yourself wading through hundreds of other people's prompts, and you still may never find what you were looking for.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;">They make it look like a free trial option exists, but they will take you through all the steps and then tell you they no longer offer this option due to demand. If you did that, click Subscribe (green button). Otherwise, follow the directions below.</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmPuW1cy_sF4PNz66i30Dv22cmUqNaHenRew1X-b9cJZ_CYvhZLlGOwqKv4v-sqEaDda8FowfQNW8-cI1aj_hkn8sf25WygjKqiYsj9hebI3I73ujzlXxGM5n0wKPXjusjilrBNbRTTWke_SaInv77VwNIizu2RJjtNLNxggBriDkv8lBNiVt17-WF/s1104/gettingtheSubscriptionLink.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="1104" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmPuW1cy_sF4PNz66i30Dv22cmUqNaHenRew1X-b9cJZ_CYvhZLlGOwqKv4v-sqEaDda8FowfQNW8-cI1aj_hkn8sf25WygjKqiYsj9hebI3I73ujzlXxGM5n0wKPXjusjilrBNbRTTWke_SaInv77VwNIizu2RJjtNLNxggBriDkv8lBNiVt17-WF/s320/gettingtheSubscriptionLink.png" width="320" /></a></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;">You can start with Basic and upgrade. If you want to use it often, I recommend Standard and switching to /relaxed mode.</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-TmbRpwNTgrz1EOHVMRbhvBftjwZHziN1rzc4Shjw2OIX4PK0RUrMuO9Q_LujdG4YikZ9pA0M5zHwtPiIUR0foyBlR48Np1GZNyMYByPVmG2nyJLHj05A3YEGRBjnqz1hPMyNaS_H30n6oDg5cbBLFjheHU1Tb_h8aevaREBILhV6lBq9Q1cIhcpp/s615/SubscriptionLeaveAlert.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="615" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-TmbRpwNTgrz1EOHVMRbhvBftjwZHziN1rzc4Shjw2OIX4PK0RUrMuO9Q_LujdG4YikZ9pA0M5zHwtPiIUR0foyBlR48Np1GZNyMYByPVmG2nyJLHj05A3YEGRBjnqz1hPMyNaS_H30n6oDg5cbBLFjheHU1Tb_h8aevaREBILhV6lBq9Q1cIhcpp/s320/SubscriptionLeaveAlert.png" width="320" /></a></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;"><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRRFkvRowpIm1EoIUVSWjggO0OHDfcVLkdCW2p9reMbUFg0yylpjajJ-W0VKN8edImdJOCcQ0nhB5fslp1vuY4SmVRtHOGLEWD4u44SRdpsAHsTgPzu3OV9_sfNpFjepTK8ojxiQiD45zdb5lRzeBqDjuOrG6RmZViQTJyxrATSRmDoeDp-XlI7w-U/s1411/MidjourneySubscriptionPlans.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="710" data-original-width="1411" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRRFkvRowpIm1EoIUVSWjggO0OHDfcVLkdCW2p9reMbUFg0yylpjajJ-W0VKN8edImdJOCcQ0nhB5fslp1vuY4SmVRtHOGLEWD4u44SRdpsAHsTgPzu3OV9_sfNpFjepTK8ojxiQiD45zdb5lRzeBqDjuOrG6RmZViQTJyxrATSRmDoeDp-XlI7w-U/s320/MidjourneySubscriptionPlans.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><h4 style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in; text-align: left;">Step 4: Finding your starting point</h4><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;">Click on a #newbie chat in the menu on the left. See the first image in Step 3 to see where that chat is.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;"><br /></p><h4 style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in; text-align: left;">Step 5: Get in a direct chat with Midjourney</h4><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;">Click on the Midjourney Chat Bot. </p>One huge benefit of doing all this while in direct chat with the Midjourney Chatbot is that you keep track of all your images.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-pNEWzMxCivW8bl8_1O7P67PkxPThnAf2NsL-yHn3sAHmxPyd4E4zIaCD1CxuP4ynRIiyitrZ23RbE8GPPNA2ReQC6zr-F32Yjusq02f5BGWCUxGjFWVz0xtuysH95U8un3kp38FZfGQDoB8MFIbIDVYVDuhW2ndsf0cOE1N2orPaR5ddcxUOEeqa/s665/FindBotHere.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="665" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-pNEWzMxCivW8bl8_1O7P67PkxPThnAf2NsL-yHn3sAHmxPyd4E4zIaCD1CxuP4ynRIiyitrZ23RbE8GPPNA2ReQC6zr-F32Yjusq02f5BGWCUxGjFWVz0xtuysH95U8un3kp38FZfGQDoB8MFIbIDVYVDuhW2ndsf0cOE1N2orPaR5ddcxUOEeqa/s320/FindBotHere.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxGbS2bxyg0UNdy0iu9q-mw78-nhPbVEJK6SiYNTMI_69FnOAgicOy-YVOYHxw0foBaYHz6Bhsv4fEEpAF3NwvrKl5OVXEqwAHMs0dMYXXa95-sBdIP4VT32t-Y0uiThLV7gQggwaxetpYEXfKjpVGcmnbcNaDaYbrDXd2ODZrQnpD-tZpyX4pqy40/s590/afterclickingsendmessage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="590" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxGbS2bxyg0UNdy0iu9q-mw78-nhPbVEJK6SiYNTMI_69FnOAgicOy-YVOYHxw0foBaYHz6Bhsv4fEEpAF3NwvrKl5OVXEqwAHMs0dMYXXa95-sBdIP4VT32t-Y0uiThLV7gQggwaxetpYEXfKjpVGcmnbcNaDaYbrDXd2ODZrQnpD-tZpyX4pqy40/s320/afterclickingsendmessage.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Click on the green Send Message button</b></div></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;">Now you are in a direct chat with the Midjourney Bot, and the fun begins!</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;">Step 6:</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;">Type /imagine into the prompt box at the bottom, press enter, then keep typing in the box (the darker one inside the first box) and try some things out!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9WoIh0l6awx0JyATlhl42cUwCel9ef2sgyXQyazMDGu3uATSkrazMbOFbQM985L-7PB2gCiMecR32ywVGUM-fFbFLwtm-3LUd6u9lyUo190fEUA3nme86X-ywAPp44C42wDlzAuPqQdGCuUGwUKS_akfenBZshwHsDGJjJFrM8IqfHDabZoGrDnXr/s1009/promptingwithMidjourneyBot.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="1009" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9WoIh0l6awx0JyATlhl42cUwCel9ef2sgyXQyazMDGu3uATSkrazMbOFbQM985L-7PB2gCiMecR32ywVGUM-fFbFLwtm-3LUd6u9lyUo190fEUA3nme86X-ywAPp44C42wDlzAuPqQdGCuUGwUKS_akfenBZshwHsDGJjJFrM8IqfHDabZoGrDnXr/s320/promptingwithMidjourneyBot.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPQz1MkV9zEgl3BuDaQOoIXDGF97rK6oSMPMydOIgC4pZ6_g55l_YpF7U4I6PSdPvOeK-xn64ZX7NOBQ0GEwRjsRajAiMsgeopxQB-yYOpoTfeK0QxfuqVjjx_wRae3kBhzwRfDXiNccFg8WV8py8K_9xnoVv7eFsfZJVWrYVIsdN_r_ND2RDGQnKH/s751/imaginePrompt.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="751" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPQz1MkV9zEgl3BuDaQOoIXDGF97rK6oSMPMydOIgC4pZ6_g55l_YpF7U4I6PSdPvOeK-xn64ZX7NOBQ0GEwRjsRajAiMsgeopxQB-yYOpoTfeK0QxfuqVjjx_wRae3kBhzwRfDXiNccFg8WV8py8K_9xnoVv7eFsfZJVWrYVIsdN_r_ND2RDGQnKH/s320/imaginePrompt.png" width="320" /></a></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;">(If you did the Standard subscription plan, I recommend you start by entering the /relax command so you don't use up your hours)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm8fux8GPVW5wXpAGKy5LN4cu-DtnPRekamRer2xPKe1KNrk4_PgTBWjf_cvL7YSBGs9vNQ9HUuWlS6tsjBxj4AhwrtIVP5LXKglZ92FGL09JSd22WzBjZvv0HzblmvO6nJObXFEIqgG1kI7sBpEffZupmcRMpk8us9R9fISovp6I4o25E2WIoEYW5/s718/relaxcommand.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="718" height="91" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm8fux8GPVW5wXpAGKy5LN4cu-DtnPRekamRer2xPKe1KNrk4_PgTBWjf_cvL7YSBGs9vNQ9HUuWlS6tsjBxj4AhwrtIVP5LXKglZ92FGL09JSd22WzBjZvv0HzblmvO6nJObXFEIqgG1kI7sBpEffZupmcRMpk8us9R9fISovp6I4o25E2WIoEYW5/s320/relaxcommand.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>type /relax to avoid using up all your processing hours</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h4 style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Step 7: Choose an image to work with (could be all) </span></h4><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Mn-m7gQxKiicKVX2XZNl-HPxzzOopMxRid9e_O9fU5HSmGIC_jdpVj2CVqY5omWSI6NfqCEzVkmEkIQ1XcGhAVvK5uBbXGBwEaCzQFTlU06VZwMD6LY3D0YAbxE8tjyk7k3ZZMxlw6LxpH0D26g0DnQu_YIT0Pl4jCtxbWC4DwqLki_cHaVNFHze/s515/MidjourneyImageOrder1234.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="515" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Mn-m7gQxKiicKVX2XZNl-HPxzzOopMxRid9e_O9fU5HSmGIC_jdpVj2CVqY5omWSI6NfqCEzVkmEkIQ1XcGhAVvK5uBbXGBwEaCzQFTlU06VZwMD6LY3D0YAbxE8tjyk7k3ZZMxlw6LxpH0D26g0DnQu_YIT0Pl4jCtxbWC4DwqLki_cHaVNFHze/s320/MidjourneyImageOrder1234.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>click on U1, U2, U3, or U4 to enlarge</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>V1, V2, V3, or V4 to get variations on your selected image</i></div><br /><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-weight: 400;">Step 8: Download!</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigP7wgfz0gHMXCUWtnC_sZr4I0GbJX0jH8-OTTs16myJ8R8pUGg9eg8i05jULtkfsrNGibZJnL5WdHnoAt4dMNrEwDQf658BODFloJbmU1lwwtMItecJO9LoRXmz9vw7FdRYWvOpZUyxH8X9E-Ui4fqAkk4G_G3TpCMSwoBw9xF5ajESu_5IwV1nuv/s575/toGetLargerMidjourneyImage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="541" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigP7wgfz0gHMXCUWtnC_sZr4I0GbJX0jH8-OTTs16myJ8R8pUGg9eg8i05jULtkfsrNGibZJnL5WdHnoAt4dMNrEwDQf658BODFloJbmU1lwwtMItecJO9LoRXmz9vw7FdRYWvOpZUyxH8X9E-Ui4fqAkk4G_G3TpCMSwoBw9xF5ajESu_5IwV1nuv/s320/toGetLargerMidjourneyImage.png" width="301" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-weight: 400;">Click on the image you like, and you'll see it larger. Then click the "open in browser" option, and you'll get a fully printable version. Right click and save to your desktop.</span></div><div><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-weight: 400;">At 1.6 MB, and 1024 x 1024 pixels, that's a photo resolution of approximately 4 x4 inches</span></div><div><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><h4 style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in; text-align: left;">Copyrights</h4><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;">Some image generators do not allow commercial use of their output. Midjourney does allow commercial use, but it's a standard illustration license. In other words, you hire the illustrator (Midjourney), and, using prompts, they return something you can now use for, say, your book cover, but they retain the copyright.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;"><i>Aside</i>: This is a standard illustrator's deal that I, and most other illustrators, make all the time. I make you an image for your project, you pay me, and you use it for the intended purposes, but I keep the original and can use it how I deem fit. Letting the customer buy usage, copyright, and the original would cost them two to three times, or more, what commercial usage-only rights costs them.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;">(Remember, this is time-stamped information; everything can change daily.)</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in;"><br /></p>Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-16528188640309984652023-11-06T21:39:00.003-05:002023-11-09T12:17:11.649-05:00Getting OpenAI access for public schools and art educators<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I'm a massive fan of Jo Penn and her <a href="https://www.thecreativepenn.com/tag/podcast/" target="_blank">Creative Penn podcast</a>. Thanks to her, I knew to get involved with AI tools rather than leaving them all to tech types. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And now I feel like a puny artist in the face of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg" target="_blank">Borg</a> ...</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg60M4AvMYUkZjnoilGXKXfwl5j7mvLXFSI21PNGrWUB7laJQ3F1a2Si9w9TS618-ifHdy8aRU5D2aNK4droHSRMO-L1u3OSBFS7Ag_oMDj2FXZdKBdUA2EXDP07hUkIYY3IxyA1p3CMqZcE985Jrj7sscvRCxKM5aylaD8JC3NRLNZd04E2ZBAlo1L/s3510/STEAMJuliaLikesFrogs.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2720" data-original-width="3510" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg60M4AvMYUkZjnoilGXKXfwl5j7mvLXFSI21PNGrWUB7laJQ3F1a2Si9w9TS618-ifHdy8aRU5D2aNK4droHSRMO-L1u3OSBFS7Ag_oMDj2FXZdKBdUA2EXDP07hUkIYY3IxyA1p3CMqZcE985Jrj7sscvRCxKM5aylaD8JC3NRLNZd04E2ZBAlo1L/s320/STEAMJuliaLikesFrogs.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444;">A is for STEAM <span style="font-size: x-small;">copyright Julia Gandrud</span></span></div><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In August, I wrote to Open AI to see if they'd grant educators access to DALL-E without a paywall. No answer.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In September, I tried to get educator licenses from Midjourney, but they don't offer any system. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">After a couple of weeks, I wrote a letter to Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher because they show how aware of the issue they are:</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span>Dear Kara Swisher and Fabulous Scott,</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span>I'm an artist and art educator, and I have a bone to pick with OpenAI. I'd love your thoughts on this. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span>While ChatGPT remains accessible without charge, likely benefiting from user interactions for improvement, tools like Dall-E and MidJourney are gated behind a paywall, even for trial use. This presents a challenge for artists and students, particularly in public education. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span>How would you recommend advocating for access to these tools, especially when bulk or institutional pricing is unavailable?</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span>To put it in context, as a blog writer and an artist who has been putting my work up on the internet for nearly three decades, I feel like they have used my work to learn from, and I would like us to have a crack at learning their stuff in return. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span>What is your position on access to LLMs and Image creation software?</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span>Thank you. Please keep up the silliness and the insights,</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span>Julia (in Providence, RI)</span></p></blockquote><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As far as I know, they have yet to get to my letter (no surprise, with their busy lives -- I'm not slamming them, of course!)</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">My wonderful boss at Rhode Island College, the head of the <a href="https://www.risteamcenter.org/" target="_blank">RI STEAM Center</a>, Dr. Lisa Bain, agreed to use some STEAM Center funds to set up a Rhode Island College <a href="https://legacy.midjourney.com/showcase/recent/" target="_blank">Midjourney</a> account. I'll be using this to educate, for free, artists and educators. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So I had high hopes today when I went to the inauguration of the <a href="https://www.ric.edu/news-events/events/launch-institute-cybersecurity-emerging-technologies" target="_blank">Institute for Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies</a> at RIC. </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">I wanted to ask about protecting artists, who are themselves small business owners, in Rhode Island. </span></b>I also wanted to challenge the panel to advocate for student and educator access.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It was good they didn't allow questions because my Scarlet A in my STEAM mantel wouldn't have been the suitable mode for the celebratory STEM feeling. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">"Rah rah, six-figure salaries!" they all said -- and I would have been like, "Wait, but tech graduates will be making that money by chewing up, without permission or remuneration, the output of artists in this tiny state!" <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">They wouldn't have liked that. Some day, I will learn social graces.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The keynote speaker, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly, spoke of opportunities, as did Lieutenant Governor Sabina Matos. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Senators Reed and Whitehouse were there, as were Governor Don McGee, and Mayor Brett Smiley. Everyone lauded Congressman Langevin's efforts. </p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I'd been hoping to ask a question after all the celebratory speeches. I wanted to ask about AI access, as well as protection of intellectual property, for artists and educators in Rhode Island. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Seeing that RIC has the only affordable art school in Rhode Island with the super-stocked Alex and Ani Hall, shouldn't they be more interested in protecting and defending artistic intellectual property, as well as increasing access for artists and educators? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In my experience subbing at Hope High School, I was dismayed by how little access the students seemed to have to these tools. At the beginning of the school year, my students in 10-12 grades had yet to learn what ChatGPT was, let alone how to use image manipulation tools.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Administrators and other adults seem overly concerned about the academic pitfalls of AI. <b><span style="font-size: medium;">More concern should be shown about AI access and equity.</span></b></p>Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-91307504588128132452023-10-27T15:11:00.004-04:002023-10-27T15:30:35.801-04:00As an artist, I'm finding that Midjourney, an AI image generator, falls short. For now.<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I’ve been trying for weeks to get Midjourney to make anything I feel like looking at. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Yes, I’m visually picky. As an artist, being judgmental and opinionated about what I see comes with the territory. I’m neither proud nor defensive about that. It’s just the reality. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Visual crap pisses me off, and, to me, most of what I see is dissatisfying – other artists will disagree, but that, too, is their job. You don't have to like what I like, either!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I’ve tried every way to Sunday to make an allegorical image of a hand painting an image with an anthropomorphic laptop in the background. I’ve taken source photos, painted my own version, and finally even made a sloppy composite to try to train the platform. I’ll include my painted sketch and composite in this post. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSac6nXwuA5rfP4IhySty1BTkTR7b82MPasnX-T3d4BZlY5PslkzGIAlRzUTyrtwMQrUELQib8Pl_awt8O-y3AiBR-nvZqIecGVXpfMXz9WPyC7J5SHwrP0Nu1EafNwD2J3nteCLGj-jFHS_Jy4tcqpmoh0N3FHYa4SM5s4rQ5K6I_98KZzZa2gaji/s3978/computerhandpaintbrushcomposite.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3960" data-original-width="3978" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSac6nXwuA5rfP4IhySty1BTkTR7b82MPasnX-T3d4BZlY5PslkzGIAlRzUTyrtwMQrUELQib8Pl_awt8O-y3AiBR-nvZqIecGVXpfMXz9WPyC7J5SHwrP0Nu1EafNwD2J3nteCLGj-jFHS_Jy4tcqpmoh0N3FHYa4SM5s4rQ5K6I_98KZzZa2gaji/s320/computerhandpaintbrushcomposite.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Digital composite of my own photos and digital work. </span></div><div style="font-size: x-small; text-align: center;">Do not scrape for AI training without my consent.</div><div style="font-size: x-small; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp9A0oyCtgP4kqWSf7S9eoiXHp_GHQrGmU91wkgSY4Ai1UlIpfcRKB4q6068f38ts3gPcA-8jKwMlRWWrgqZucEev5hI54ca5HpX-O2kp6BR-4JMNslPeJyggX2kYnZbwyFow4IZKgAE8T-sC-vi-O1NR6b7KUN-pOk_K9N13jFA3FU8-WJJLShHlI/s4032/laptopMonsterPaintingOriginalJG.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp9A0oyCtgP4kqWSf7S9eoiXHp_GHQrGmU91wkgSY4Ai1UlIpfcRKB4q6068f38ts3gPcA-8jKwMlRWWrgqZucEev5hI54ca5HpX-O2kp6BR-4JMNslPeJyggX2kYnZbwyFow4IZKgAE8T-sC-vi-O1NR6b7KUN-pOk_K9N13jFA3FU8-WJJLShHlI/s320/laptopMonsterPaintingOriginalJG.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">My painting of the concept to try to help train the AI in the style I was after. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Do not scrape for AI training without my consent.</span></div></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I can only bear to add the very least bile-inducing of the Midjourney attempts. The one below interests me, but wasn't even close to any of the prompts. I guess I could get excited about the hallucination, but...</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjocHifGMfaXKUyiQ30clLAckA28BffxPQunHgGJmjsEDx1jwDhxKZVal7UEzRtIpzbooYZEEeCF4vAxtIAi24pf2qZU_4dt_SeJU6U1-qvbaOaGNcsQraI_wegHF-r1eutn1EZFPDk8QLwiyp_k9j6nhraJ8Mf2UQ0A2uVcmsGIbCT15SUJzANVPvU/s506/risteamcenter_paintingEyeWatercolorWeirdBrushNeonGreenRectangles.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="506" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjocHifGMfaXKUyiQ30clLAckA28BffxPQunHgGJmjsEDx1jwDhxKZVal7UEzRtIpzbooYZEEeCF4vAxtIAi24pf2qZU_4dt_SeJU6U1-qvbaOaGNcsQraI_wegHF-r1eutn1EZFPDk8QLwiyp_k9j6nhraJ8Mf2UQ0A2uVcmsGIbCT15SUJzANVPvU/s320/risteamcenter_paintingEyeWatercolorWeirdBrushNeonGreenRectangles.png" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Midjourney image, using the /blend command</span></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mostly, Midjourney produced pepto bismol rip-offs of Giger paintings. Great if H.R. Giger is your be-all and end-all?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I’d planned on teaching other art teachers how to use this tool. Now, I feel like it might just give them indigestion. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hmm. There are many gut-related idioms here. That says something about where my aesthetics come from and the source of my response to these images.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Seriously, Midjourney, hire more artists rather than just ripping off non-consenting creators. It will improve your product so that the more discerning (by which I mean extraordinarily intolerant) visual consumers can bear to use the tools. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HkZN0ejJKz8wReAvh60sNvfOkimVEy9BZFTDuP_PUwA/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Here</a> is a link to a cheat sheet showing just how much (VERY generic and point-missing in some cases…) it seems to me that Midjourney has been stealing from artists, both living and dead. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>I don't advise using names in your prompts if you don't want legal or moral problems!</b></span></p><div><br /></div>Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-3379978545195123112023-05-16T19:05:00.001-04:002024-01-03T00:10:20.149-05:00Printmaking Samples<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">all images copyright Julia Gandrud 2023</span><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWaiyYdetgIMnQrPuuYRKOAuFJs2nzmShPaiCG6px_1QBZnJvkp27Lce_W1fZrCkMvc605r2kIiH1r4vbKOxEmhe_t-OuKhxISgVhKzkCrpmjbA91G6qXyPALRd-NPAia1KtMhabFEyfBOFljOQ8wK5sqKbqf8CUAtxMUZJZiZ0RsUA0M6WczMdg/s3620/CloudCupSilkscreen.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3620" data-original-width="2631" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWaiyYdetgIMnQrPuuYRKOAuFJs2nzmShPaiCG6px_1QBZnJvkp27Lce_W1fZrCkMvc605r2kIiH1r4vbKOxEmhe_t-OuKhxISgVhKzkCrpmjbA91G6qXyPALRd-NPAia1KtMhabFEyfBOFljOQ8wK5sqKbqf8CUAtxMUZJZiZ0RsUA0M6WczMdg/s320/CloudCupSilkscreen.JPG" width="233" /></a></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Shadow Cup</i>, silkscreen with underglaze on terra cotta, 6x4” 2023</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggH7qnDuZDNTNJQe9oslVYa7ZDap8F4WOsEWDYjSv4Ee-t2vk51e9v-6-obZQbqZs5CygZ4R6tZguRZ1tSOcsE4qFq4UxImo4gCEVx3YaJu3XRtVfINqzrV1_jhlRgGoGmENxMVgvrKTi9Qr5E_wLYOunjE6lN_YDuczmVTsTxUktnzmr_G9PVDQ/s4032/IMG_2724.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggH7qnDuZDNTNJQe9oslVYa7ZDap8F4WOsEWDYjSv4Ee-t2vk51e9v-6-obZQbqZs5CygZ4R6tZguRZ1tSOcsE4qFq4UxImo4gCEVx3YaJu3XRtVfINqzrV1_jhlRgGoGmENxMVgvrKTi9Qr5E_wLYOunjE6lN_YDuczmVTsTxUktnzmr_G9PVDQ/s320/IMG_2724.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Marmot </i>and<i> Bees, </i>monoprint and linocut on clay, 6x3” and 5x3”, 2023</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgROauTd7SCTjHETFUS_r4H_Gw07V52GV4EDRrrIfqsGt_HgK_tpLKfe0HCVjUjfblKLV716SVw7ntgOCAVVC_J_oUPl8oXb0vOBRFr29ninoLwBz7koJc2odVgoGt1ZfIc_uDm8ixMGfqWoAn13vqI8hnchS2z1U5EQGtmwqlYbGok2axFlzp3fw/s436/Jane-reverted.-John-got-hur.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="436" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgROauTd7SCTjHETFUS_r4H_Gw07V52GV4EDRrrIfqsGt_HgK_tpLKfe0HCVjUjfblKLV716SVw7ntgOCAVVC_J_oUPl8oXb0vOBRFr29ninoLwBz7koJc2odVgoGt1ZfIc_uDm8ixMGfqWoAn13vqI8hnchS2z1U5EQGtmwqlYbGok2axFlzp3fw/s320/Jane-reverted.-John-got-hur.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Softee, a love story,</i> sugarlift on zinc, two colors using viscosity printing on a single plate</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD9HUtMTLE8R6Mtf7T0ZaWYt2ZmFMrH16MpfCezYfANVujXTlFH0cCQFmFx7oM8vRhsuTNTyM5DY1-BEbOtXNHKk1OScjT69JNUnDP9rkdsMh2iNCr0qmuzUQ5qW8e2KuAKpo2p5stFOIAMdNk6x_dLkiuH7tyNpiltlqZM81xP5KX64lVcChPLA/s1857/makingfriends.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1857" data-original-width="1420" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD9HUtMTLE8R6Mtf7T0ZaWYt2ZmFMrH16MpfCezYfANVujXTlFH0cCQFmFx7oM8vRhsuTNTyM5DY1-BEbOtXNHKk1OScjT69JNUnDP9rkdsMh2iNCr0qmuzUQ5qW8e2KuAKpo2p5stFOIAMdNk6x_dLkiuH7tyNpiltlqZM81xP5KX64lVcChPLA/s320/makingfriends.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Making Friends</i>, Traditional Japanese Wood Cut 11x9”, 2009</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG6kt3EGvZiVekrQAcdS6au9TnEHCWWzI1aAdFza56lIGmrILfWdx9PmNNsud2nv0adO4A-Au33BFzr4pFzdD-YSTaBNoZZQ3Z0XQNYyROHuk2gVjbeoA5NShZAO5ieIF9OFBKzk1XDVAlKgQQ5-lWI_B8Mnsj454J07KXH1dOcL1JdODdGeRMyg/s733/monsterbookLGcropped.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="733" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG6kt3EGvZiVekrQAcdS6au9TnEHCWWzI1aAdFza56lIGmrILfWdx9PmNNsud2nv0adO4A-Au33BFzr4pFzdD-YSTaBNoZZQ3Z0XQNYyROHuk2gVjbeoA5NShZAO5ieIF9OFBKzk1XDVAlKgQQ5-lWI_B8Mnsj454J07KXH1dOcL1JdODdGeRMyg/s320/monsterbookLGcropped.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Little Book of Monsters</i>, etching on zinc on cotton paper, 3x4” each, edition of 10 books, 2004</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnUwwvVp9CsWoWBv3QOqXjliXrOK6AlOmmTyPuFvX9jNBsl-jeZaxl0xsqXOkwqfH2I4U9bPP8BVgs1PhV4kojVXtOGgSZ7AjNYQXaiZZ7FWZQdUAXeaGhzafIh7j1udpI-5J54ee5iT58UWY-9rF5GjYOn3fatA0rrraAwucIiNOPs1wWuP5SYg/s2272/printbooks%20001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1704" data-original-width="2272" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnUwwvVp9CsWoWBv3QOqXjliXrOK6AlOmmTyPuFvX9jNBsl-jeZaxl0xsqXOkwqfH2I4U9bPP8BVgs1PhV4kojVXtOGgSZ7AjNYQXaiZZ7FWZQdUAXeaGhzafIh7j1udpI-5J54ee5iT58UWY-9rF5GjYOn3fatA0rrraAwucIiNOPs1wWuP5SYg/s320/printbooks%20001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Argos</i>, aquatint on zinc, 16x18”, 2003</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh33FB339ksz-WKdXDV-sV6E4NxwWPNsQ5BchU0zzaLnzC0pLMrk9GhPLBzx8f45kphJSF7GrG61HeOhrkDD0gxXApZhmHo2QlBykTRTAEw5lpFGj33oRXa0PJdY_04R9vP9yLG-xgn1c9Ic-cSEyAgeizCwBsW79kRYAl41A4oUnE-6kYb4MXeg/s596/careertakingoff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="385" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh33FB339ksz-WKdXDV-sV6E4NxwWPNsQ5BchU0zzaLnzC0pLMrk9GhPLBzx8f45kphJSF7GrG61HeOhrkDD0gxXApZhmHo2QlBykTRTAEw5lpFGj33oRXa0PJdY_04R9vP9yLG-xgn1c9Ic-cSEyAgeizCwBsW79kRYAl41A4oUnE-6kYb4MXeg/s320/careertakingoff.jpg" width="207" /></a></div></div><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>At This Point My Career is Really Taking Off.</i> linoleum cut, 8x6”, 2005</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8d6gtvzpjLDIM8O3RS1iFXfi5x_Yci9P8G2W565jpqz5Hiet9GRZmZSAAiKgK9a7e9Syi26RNXh46SYzQNMI0qenmwNurGSxj4MNWy5Tn0uhXHQ6orYdspqw4l6v-aJKZAm9UB4xFFf1tHlQQc2HkRYEEPjTarfbxc7N6BO6DT-5zx5LpgSlfsQ/s2398/shadowsBlindEmboss.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1587" data-original-width="2398" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8d6gtvzpjLDIM8O3RS1iFXfi5x_Yci9P8G2W565jpqz5Hiet9GRZmZSAAiKgK9a7e9Syi26RNXh46SYzQNMI0qenmwNurGSxj4MNWy5Tn0uhXHQ6orYdspqw4l6v-aJKZAm9UB4xFFf1tHlQQc2HkRYEEPjTarfbxc7N6BO6DT-5zx5LpgSlfsQ/s320/shadowsBlindEmboss.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Shadows</i>, blind emboss, 2x3” 2004</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9BAfXf4F9729c5F-4SoaiWGuuZ3NuHM4_tHz3J5A08N5LPh3xqUiCGGCzUcrnQIl5dDlgUQFSSDWKYoD7yPWINS1eW1MItaftTgd0PYjmP_CSo4jQ4C9HVpeesJOfzfWg7fAyxTJiWW2dtA2nXUz8gM6sGm76NZy61VPPHBEsWSKtKzWFPa8TRA/s2224/onedaylarge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1656" data-original-width="2224" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9BAfXf4F9729c5F-4SoaiWGuuZ3NuHM4_tHz3J5A08N5LPh3xqUiCGGCzUcrnQIl5dDlgUQFSSDWKYoD7yPWINS1eW1MItaftTgd0PYjmP_CSo4jQ4C9HVpeesJOfzfWg7fAyxTJiWW2dtA2nXUz8gM6sGm76NZy61VPPHBEsWSKtKzWFPa8TRA/s320/onedaylarge.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Time</i>, lithography, 14x16”, 2002</p></div><br />Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-51083751432492416522023-04-03T12:28:00.003-04:002023-04-03T12:37:34.214-04:00Me editing me via ChatGPT<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Gurmukhi Sangam MN"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I write because it holds my feet to the fire, making me articulate my thoughts and observations no matter how uncomfortable they make me. I write to find truth and flaws in my thinking, as well as revealing the pain and beauty of my feelings. This does not change with the use of AI tools.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Gurmukhi Sangam MN"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Like everyone else, I have been playing with ChatGPT. I took a raw first draft, which had already been called “depressing” by a random reader from a Coursera class, and asked ChatGPT to rewrite it in the style of my blog. The result was probably an improvement.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Gurmukhi Sangam MN"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">First draft:</p><p class="p3" style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px 0px 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">In the beginning, Hulder Astrid avoided Human Hal. His perfume stank, and his clothes were baggy. Not out of neglect or poverty, but by choice. And yet it wasn't stylish. It wasn't until he made a good dinner that she let herself be tricked into wanting the life he offered.</span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px 0px 0px;"><br />ChatGPT rewrite based on my blog style:<br /><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span class="s1" style="color: #38761d; font-kerning: none;">At first, Hulder Astrid steered clear of Human Hal, with his pungent scent and ill-fitting clothes. Not out of neglect or poverty, but rather by choice, and his fashion sense certainly wasn't doing him any favors. However, his culinary skills proved to be a powerful lure, and she found herself drawn to the life he offered.</span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px 0px 0px;">Not terrible, right? I'm not sure it's better, but it's still authentically in my style, I believe.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px 0px 0px;">I then asked ChatGPT:<br /><br /></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">If Julia Gandrud wrote the first version, and ChatGPT rewrote it in the style of her blog (JuliaLikesFrogs), then who has copyright on the ChatGPT rewrite that is written in Julia Gandrud's blog style?</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">ChatGPT answer:<br /><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;">The copyright for the rewritten passage would still belong to Julia Gandrud, as it is a derivative work based on her original text. While the style may have been influenced by Julia Gandrud's writing, the content and expression of the rewritten passage were created by the AI language model and are based on the original text. Therefore, any copyright ownership or intellectual property rights associated with the rewritten passage would still belong to Julia Gandrud.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I asked it to “Regenerate” to look for discrepencies in its answer:</p><p class="p6" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px 0px 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;">The ChatGPT rewrite that is written in Julia Gandrud's blog style would still be considered a derivative work based on the original version authored by Julia Gandrud. Therefore, the copyright for the rewritten text would be owned by Julia Gandrud, as the original author of the source material.</span></p><p class="p7" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px 0px 0px; min-height: 15px;">***</p><p><span style="color: #005b5c; font-family: Helvetica;">My conclusion is that I got an edit from an editor who understands and recognizes my voice, because I have the ability to train it in a second with more than a decade of my own blog posts. So I am using nonfiction me to edit fiction me. I love it.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #005b5c; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span> </p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">***</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial;">Also, here's a gratuitous photo of my cat to feed the AI overlords:</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEL1gwcHGttMajR5HMN3bRJ9Sqy4uOAH2nNsAYGHLAa6-8T8KSdcgmx2_g8UOcE-g12IMyLVEIpS2VUFICN2g_i4jNQDG554NMdCaXztlFaEvt2p6eFSLDXCbvf37sx8jPXmMmvTcW-loScFOr3uOreYP254UehdicXHgJFHiLtwGhZakRF_ympQ/s4032/Wish.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEL1gwcHGttMajR5HMN3bRJ9Sqy4uOAH2nNsAYGHLAa6-8T8KSdcgmx2_g8UOcE-g12IMyLVEIpS2VUFICN2g_i4jNQDG554NMdCaXztlFaEvt2p6eFSLDXCbvf37sx8jPXmMmvTcW-loScFOr3uOreYP254UehdicXHgJFHiLtwGhZakRF_ympQ/s320/Wish.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><p></p>Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-11079580878587243332023-03-31T18:02:00.004-04:002023-04-03T13:05:14.588-04:00Plasma donations and trauma don't play nice<p><span style="color: #004a4a; font-family: "Gurmukhi Sangam MN";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #004a4a; font-family: "Gurmukhi Sangam MN";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjpa5pIhaRNeeGkOM1dLpB0yvUyPfbun1odIUCPbBpkRZE0lVCK_ey-rsmGZJP8R3aDiAjjsTV78RjUQDCfyHy5oKQg1DS_fbBc8ahTWslp3L_cA11wnaeMO4QlfYBRnI744umXQ6oEV0oT49R4yKNwzGxuOdRoykLzPoF0Mc8yiiR5svh3GdmfQ/s3724/StephanieFoo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3724" data-original-width="2096" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjpa5pIhaRNeeGkOM1dLpB0yvUyPfbun1odIUCPbBpkRZE0lVCK_ey-rsmGZJP8R3aDiAjjsTV78RjUQDCfyHy5oKQg1DS_fbBc8ahTWslp3L_cA11wnaeMO4QlfYBRnI744umXQ6oEV0oT49R4yKNwzGxuOdRoykLzPoF0Mc8yiiR5svh3GdmfQ/w113-h200/StephanieFoo.JPG" width="113" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #004a4a; font-family: "Gurmukhi Sangam MN";"><br />Last weekend, I read </span><span style="color: #004a4a; font-family: "Gurmukhi Sangam MN";"><i><a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/02/27/1083361192/what-my-bones-know-is-stephanie-foos-memoir-on-living-with-complex-ptsd" target="_blank">What My Bones Know</a>, </i></span><i style="color: #004a4a; font-family: "Gurmukhi Sangam MN";">a Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma</i><span style="color: #004a4a; font-family: "Gurmukhi Sangam MN";">, by Stephanie Foo. Stories of overcoming complex PTSD fascinate me, with my wind tunnel history of childhood neglect and fear, crappy relationships, and medical trauma.</span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Gurmukhi Sangam MN;"><span style="color: #004a4a;">A few months ago, I devoured </span><span style="color: #004a4a;"><i><a href="https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2022/11/08/jennette-mccurdy-im-glad-my-mom-died" target="_blank">I'm Glad My Mom Died,</a></i></span><span style="color: #004a4a;"> by Jennette McCurdy, with the same intensity. I was thrilled that someone else had the complex view of family I did.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Gurmukhi Sangam MN;"><span style="color: #004a4a;">I want to see what these people see, and learn what they learned. Stephanie Foo is not shy about presenting her worst side, and does not hide behind victimhood. The bigger the asshole she knew her early self to be, the more I identified with her.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Gurmukhi Sangam MN;"><span style="color: #004a4a;">The results of the sprint read through her book are these:</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Gurmukhi Sangam MN;"><span style="color: #004a4a;">1. I feel like a failure for not having built the loving Garden of Eden family life Stephanie Foo has.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Gurmukhi Sangam MN;"><span style="color: #004a4a;">2. Super Type A people are not great mirrors for me.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Gurmukhi Sangam MN;"><span style="color: #004a4a;">3. I feel a vague sense of guilt at having been nearly adult when these things were happening to her, like I need to go back to the 90s and kick the asses of the parents who did that to her.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Gurmukhi Sangam MN;"><span style="color: #004a4a;">4. I see my early self in the shitty behavior she chronicles, and maybe that will make it easier to forgive that young woman.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Gurmukhi Sangam MN;"><span style="color: #004a4a;">5. Reading good books about trauma leaves me feeling raw and exposed for at least a week after.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Gurmukhi Sangam MN;"><span style="color: #004a4a;">6. Reading books about trauma while donating plasma will send me into major emotional flashback of chemo and then general worthlessness. And also maybe donating plasma and the resulting depression and anxiety is not a thing I can get on board with after all – in spite of the macabre thrill of paying the Trader Joe's grocery total with literal blood money.</span></span></p>Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-53923456672882227692023-03-12T20:14:00.001-04:002023-03-12T20:14:21.872-04:00Print on Clay<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYv6bFxqCP9sRM1MvgY8yawNVlfgsNMKqz9NNCCcsD3pvcB-0kzLH721LtpdDZKIA4pG4NSHY9Eozqv71ztdTg-stwkhUhPgyuKam0rKH2hyGv-b2u7Mx9KBTjBOSZTtpfhRRvEQz2D2tklk7d3-S4fztTk5re3YQciqInsmiLaXID_-ise0Wn1A/s4032/IMG_2655.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYv6bFxqCP9sRM1MvgY8yawNVlfgsNMKqz9NNCCcsD3pvcB-0kzLH721LtpdDZKIA4pG4NSHY9Eozqv71ztdTg-stwkhUhPgyuKam0rKH2hyGv-b2u7Mx9KBTjBOSZTtpfhRRvEQz2D2tklk7d3-S4fztTk5re3YQciqInsmiLaXID_-ise0Wn1A/s320/IMG_2655.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I'll be offering another <i>Print on Clay</i> class at the <a href="https://www.artists-exchange.org/classes" target="_blank">Artists' Exchange</a> in Rolfe Square, Cranston, Rhode Island. We're starting tomorrow night, but there are still spaces. Call if you want to join us!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn4LVxPGwCsXJ0uJM4iCDzBZHNLzHsbi3WkCTPT3MnB3IXXZGrUd0a331SVQevaPrv1WZxm4PK0UWOSvQBkiKEjfpGJws36TulRu-5jqxa9A3AmuS9EHYKCQgW7X5tp1sTHngwfVZZB-aBv6pH4fmersu9_hKoB7Q9i7PhXu-bEkUeiSR1tkQ-UA/s4032/IMG_2696.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn4LVxPGwCsXJ0uJM4iCDzBZHNLzHsbi3WkCTPT3MnB3IXXZGrUd0a331SVQevaPrv1WZxm4PK0UWOSvQBkiKEjfpGJws36TulRu-5jqxa9A3AmuS9EHYKCQgW7X5tp1sTHngwfVZZB-aBv6pH4fmersu9_hKoB7Q9i7PhXu-bEkUeiSR1tkQ-UA/s320/IMG_2696.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6mBlM-PmTT9IrOiUDnMpOEMCSawnm9oYGwDSuUyCxnm2vtj00ThfM6gvcNyp_RZ4RYKcQyL4luHwdjXlnfgXIjYsf7pFCLy6v5XWjM-Rj-KXfxYReQxvBrBj9S4ehrOMGJ9F77qPXATjoEGftInPQW6ni8yPmz43gkAf3qISEbh6Ymu-gk8Ei6w/s4032/IMG_2698.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6mBlM-PmTT9IrOiUDnMpOEMCSawnm9oYGwDSuUyCxnm2vtj00ThfM6gvcNyp_RZ4RYKcQyL4luHwdjXlnfgXIjYsf7pFCLy6v5XWjM-Rj-KXfxYReQxvBrBj9S4ehrOMGJ9F77qPXATjoEGftInPQW6ni8yPmz43gkAf3qISEbh6Ymu-gk8Ei6w/s320/IMG_2698.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC9lQMMcknmSLMYbcKZh5u1I_yorCbbaYxAESOOg9DHCZmJY-ofYek05MCiNML_pTY-CO9d6RzkYjS8bVMvh_O8O5FGTN5JjpOiX98CyrwRJT1esVAPXT4Hw7eE9Ys2RemCQKJ9wuTDx0uOYfnpiev4Wkd2pg3YY4aXLVm8OLzZKaxY0dSF5PUtA/s4032/IMG_2724.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC9lQMMcknmSLMYbcKZh5u1I_yorCbbaYxAESOOg9DHCZmJY-ofYek05MCiNML_pTY-CO9d6RzkYjS8bVMvh_O8O5FGTN5JjpOiX98CyrwRJT1esVAPXT4Hw7eE9Ys2RemCQKJ9wuTDx0uOYfnpiev4Wkd2pg3YY4aXLVm8OLzZKaxY0dSF5PUtA/s320/IMG_2724.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-41030454634821991502023-03-02T15:37:00.002-05:002023-03-12T17:39:03.085-04:00Computer Graphics Portfolio<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7h0c1V82iWJC-ymygjyVF4LWNxpHoM9RwkIl0wY7XjZXzgdsOICupcVtvr3AHeJ2L7nxyG33Nz7SicOMcWqRqRULfLCRe0BTxyI33AskewF5EV-YW-glwtMKqrvSZr_6Hafj1sXKHXL7387U81psqosbvVRXAoJuUhWPoJYtqctZMcKfN74BKxA/s989/HeadofCrows.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="746" data-original-width="989" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7h0c1V82iWJC-ymygjyVF4LWNxpHoM9RwkIl0wY7XjZXzgdsOICupcVtvr3AHeJ2L7nxyG33Nz7SicOMcWqRqRULfLCRe0BTxyI33AskewF5EV-YW-glwtMKqrvSZr_6Hafj1sXKHXL7387U81psqosbvVRXAoJuUhWPoJYtqctZMcKfN74BKxA/w640-h482/HeadofCrows.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> 1. Head of Crows, Adobe Illustrator mesh and acrylic painting on paper, 2023, size variable<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi38ey0vjoNl7vMuK7HXm_Tpaoyhc_EYCK5X9Ci3OWCTNGYrinjlAoeCneq3TZPBtHyDjuLovYUrRWCf9xVbq_DWPRynel4i3ihaGhosx5xdP2kdZmGkR3FB1MeaGm62GqxTEz1FaBvf7nMH8YEj16d4XYd13jA4whOibIVKYXuA6Qx3_1bLwIM-g/s1820/Habitatmushrooms.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1383" data-original-width="1820" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi38ey0vjoNl7vMuK7HXm_Tpaoyhc_EYCK5X9Ci3OWCTNGYrinjlAoeCneq3TZPBtHyDjuLovYUrRWCf9xVbq_DWPRynel4i3ihaGhosx5xdP2kdZmGkR3FB1MeaGm62GqxTEz1FaBvf7nMH8YEj16d4XYd13jA4whOibIVKYXuA6Qx3_1bLwIM-g/w640-h486/Habitatmushrooms.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2. Mushroom Inhabitants, Adobe Photoshop and acrylic painting on paper, 2023, size variable</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidIDL2estuv8VR6hcOvykOyRh3Wj78UZB4yRLFXAgks1NHDnSMIsD1aHVXXi7Saw1270MkVGj4bEFTI5s4KLWPOHVXMjRmfLcQDhoxbQf0FWctO0iegn7fmcw0C3a3lCEMJU7TlDjROep4o8VvuCAhv-zfoNdMMkq1Iez_mh6fDQDfsDbHC71HjA/s3352/TreesInSitu.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2303" data-original-width="3352" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidIDL2estuv8VR6hcOvykOyRh3Wj78UZB4yRLFXAgks1NHDnSMIsD1aHVXXi7Saw1270MkVGj4bEFTI5s4KLWPOHVXMjRmfLcQDhoxbQf0FWctO0iegn7fmcw0C3a3lCEMJU7TlDjROep4o8VvuCAhv-zfoNdMMkq1Iez_mh6fDQDfsDbHC71HjA/w640-h440/TreesInSitu.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3. Trees in Situ, Adobe Photoshop and acrylic painting on paper, 2023, size variable</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ9tvxDtw6XMHgam1ucjHVa8OchkX5NPsPxdVLBGdp4KAHs5Y08D9ZDDp0nNsM0NYe6iLg9ZEXiVFCN4gBeOSENK2178BC5dqknWFeBFwrZOg6es411EDGjWohXtW_fDdgsMTSSEWMYUdFl54n40OVZDaQQlsbB1gKsj_H9lHA8MhLJYJLu8ksiA/s1126/Green-Sea-Turtle_full.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1126" data-original-width="924" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ9tvxDtw6XMHgam1ucjHVa8OchkX5NPsPxdVLBGdp4KAHs5Y08D9ZDDp0nNsM0NYe6iLg9ZEXiVFCN4gBeOSENK2178BC5dqknWFeBFwrZOg6es411EDGjWohXtW_fDdgsMTSSEWMYUdFl54n40OVZDaQQlsbB1gKsj_H9lHA8MhLJYJLu8ksiA/w526-h640/Green-Sea-Turtle_full.jpg" width="526" /></a></div>4. Where are We Going?, Adobe Photoshop composite study photo for painting, 2009, size variable<br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>
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<!--End mc_embed_signup-->Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-65729306078992520082023-02-28T20:08:00.004-05:002023-02-28T20:10:00.093-05:00Figure Drawing/Painting Portfolio<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE6mkiEkK1tZ8sAMPJujVu85df2PZzXUNzHDQOva9m7xiqzX68b_aDRLdESC_jKiGITTqvzcLxqrgAOejLxQP6D3aZqRR64d2rRptDOICo4BUm_CD4TxRhaEzKW9cemvl0FniGMjLiXu2myczFjLOvsSKfvIM91_c6yEQS_SQWo5xFDvX2zTmHSg/s1392/tryingtodoallfiguredrawing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1392" data-original-width="1260" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE6mkiEkK1tZ8sAMPJujVu85df2PZzXUNzHDQOva9m7xiqzX68b_aDRLdESC_jKiGITTqvzcLxqrgAOejLxQP6D3aZqRR64d2rRptDOICo4BUm_CD4TxRhaEzKW9cemvl0FniGMjLiXu2myczFjLOvsSKfvIM91_c6yEQS_SQWo5xFDvX2zTmHSg/w580-h640/tryingtodoallfiguredrawing.jpg" width="580" /></a></div>1. Anatomy Drawings, graphite, chalk pastel and charcoal on paper, 2003, sizes varying from 14" x 18" to 36" x 12"<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4dR_xf68PVQSpTFaw-9ErphPcYhqR6edES68UALUlh79XG8WuY4c8OqwduZtwnA6LPGvnsIgF5D0muMS2pkLMltU1ny54R2Xr08LBXaZNuJNMKO5RSOd1etavjOia8jIG3nC1TTEobXB-dsyftXamPkIWkX8uX_32eXDYc7te6wu9jOUin3DvHw/s3104/TrollFamilyPortrait.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1576" data-original-width="3104" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4dR_xf68PVQSpTFaw-9ErphPcYhqR6edES68UALUlh79XG8WuY4c8OqwduZtwnA6LPGvnsIgF5D0muMS2pkLMltU1ny54R2Xr08LBXaZNuJNMKO5RSOd1etavjOia8jIG3nC1TTEobXB-dsyftXamPkIWkX8uX_32eXDYc7te6wu9jOUin3DvHw/w640-h324/TrollFamilyPortrait.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>2. Troll Family Portrait, acrylic on stretched canvas, 2012, 24" x 48"</div><div><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu_9Av5XfPIvtO409Qm70RAzY-6bwmP51JJFIQT2I0hdKo7i7Mesu2a8CrSUD-_SJ5nGpQLQSHT9UJtB8ccAJFqplUXYbay_Rt1z3gwCMiS-wA_eepizku1xUugKCmMVZJEco-2-7KSBPKrSvbSiEdnreSlS3U_SYNtNdXVptFAXagnIszmuFvDw/s2289/baileyRumi%20009.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2289" data-original-width="1851" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu_9Av5XfPIvtO409Qm70RAzY-6bwmP51JJFIQT2I0hdKo7i7Mesu2a8CrSUD-_SJ5nGpQLQSHT9UJtB8ccAJFqplUXYbay_Rt1z3gwCMiS-wA_eepizku1xUugKCmMVZJEco-2-7KSBPKrSvbSiEdnreSlS3U_SYNtNdXVptFAXagnIszmuFvDw/w518-h640/baileyRumi%20009.jpg" width="518" /></a></div>3. Winged Messenger, acrylic on paper, 2012, 24" x 18"</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVVH2dYKQrmTLIOZ784nN2bq0r1mtV6AWCstywXmqmzDr5Q6w0cy2NqE1pHJXYL9YYHxoAFwgcodsFvGK2K_tkmyche1y7fwN8aUxHr_cIMJHxMrEMZZ45ZV62DmTvqu3EXZAAO_0kEzNhrzKAtteU66rv0Qp4nP4iFzwNENvm9gAyDVAVgXe1xQ/s1745/Copy%20of%20incoming.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1745" data-original-width="1276" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVVH2dYKQrmTLIOZ784nN2bq0r1mtV6AWCstywXmqmzDr5Q6w0cy2NqE1pHJXYL9YYHxoAFwgcodsFvGK2K_tkmyche1y7fwN8aUxHr_cIMJHxMrEMZZ45ZV62DmTvqu3EXZAAO_0kEzNhrzKAtteU66rv0Qp4nP4iFzwNENvm9gAyDVAVgXe1xQ/w468-h640/Copy%20of%20incoming.jpg" width="468" /></a></div>4. Incoming, acrylic on paper, 2009, 14" x 11"</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5jM_RKfuAk6NGyW2Gcjrl9zM0MF8CPzkUMyKTiUiwILgVScWwThvYi9A3JdC9g3Ujk-UDz7P2vcuP1Ekx-7emEYrymtYXpFeYaAhWtQbAc1cwJsTOnz7yCtbLb5cyHZ6rhAX5Y4wLCryrtiIYg_WkagYpEXLF315zLDIuVjCuFzfrrVTgzg71Bw/s1364/Copy%20of%20MissMuffet.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1364" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5jM_RKfuAk6NGyW2Gcjrl9zM0MF8CPzkUMyKTiUiwILgVScWwThvYi9A3JdC9g3Ujk-UDz7P2vcuP1Ekx-7emEYrymtYXpFeYaAhWtQbAc1cwJsTOnz7yCtbLb5cyHZ6rhAX5Y4wLCryrtiIYg_WkagYpEXLF315zLDIuVjCuFzfrrVTgzg71Bw/w506-h640/Copy%20of%20MissMuffet.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><div>5. Feeling More Connected, acrylic on paper, 2009, 14" x 11"</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtpyjVumaoJQnOoNvmqju8DU1WI5u2USwz069vqp0VEhoyR_rMq8Jml2XKSZUYhbM8ivKyXMcRu0Smy8NMrrxi35Fz3tq3FJPb4XT5CtoYSUXHfJy-QicKkTx_h_y8QxGJObyC_OCKPNVA08VEs4MOoH7PJMxgyHlPmO6EsufvsSFKbOyLfIsRWQ/s1699/mockTurtleSoup.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1262" data-original-width="1699" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtpyjVumaoJQnOoNvmqju8DU1WI5u2USwz069vqp0VEhoyR_rMq8Jml2XKSZUYhbM8ivKyXMcRu0Smy8NMrrxi35Fz3tq3FJPb4XT5CtoYSUXHfJy-QicKkTx_h_y8QxGJObyC_OCKPNVA08VEs4MOoH7PJMxgyHlPmO6EsufvsSFKbOyLfIsRWQ/w640-h476/mockTurtleSoup.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>6. Mock Turtle Friendship, acrylic on paper, 2009, 14" x 17"</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZKfU93oXzGSETwd6AE9_tZ-LEGm_XLpd0JlWfiL278-vXxRCbP2-wKG6CHlDVRQkYDVqH98PdyXgtATcbdZ3AzdhogAgEoNEndBFHa0YcLD_c9I21vISmx7rQ7hIrdm5PojBfMYj4ZPAV4xOCkxDotBUgEiB6V6-WGb4BgZXOyeY22Vkmr7DHxQ/s1668/Copy%20of%20JinnyPainting2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1668" data-original-width="1326" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZKfU93oXzGSETwd6AE9_tZ-LEGm_XLpd0JlWfiL278-vXxRCbP2-wKG6CHlDVRQkYDVqH98PdyXgtATcbdZ3AzdhogAgEoNEndBFHa0YcLD_c9I21vISmx7rQ7hIrdm5PojBfMYj4ZPAV4xOCkxDotBUgEiB6V6-WGb4BgZXOyeY22Vkmr7DHxQ/w508-h640/Copy%20of%20JinnyPainting2.jpg" width="508" /></a></div>7. Civil Servant Lepidopterist, acrylic on paper, 2009, 17" x 14"<br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div>Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-19085837891395165942023-02-28T16:18:00.002-05:002023-02-28T16:18:37.565-05:00Basic Drawing Portfolio: Perspective and Depth, Line Quality and Variety<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5RebJY17qOaphWg_UhjIPppV6MVSVxQtTYVPNAlmU1SUveM4M8kgyRHMOLetWAhLrP6aHgNlnIrJQvhZVJE6sNX8pd1IF-qTuPAB5IuHfby2D3FcS6dd0keCSdwV86YmjQppLY1mRcERK_NSlooldDS4Pkgzn5hvTgm_GoHJ_59RAmqAEVAN-OQ/s753/landscapeperspective.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="753" data-original-width="575" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5RebJY17qOaphWg_UhjIPppV6MVSVxQtTYVPNAlmU1SUveM4M8kgyRHMOLetWAhLrP6aHgNlnIrJQvhZVJE6sNX8pd1IF-qTuPAB5IuHfby2D3FcS6dd0keCSdwV86YmjQppLY1mRcERK_NSlooldDS4Pkgzn5hvTgm_GoHJ_59RAmqAEVAN-OQ/w488-h640/landscapeperspective.JPG" width="488" /></a></div>1. Fox Point, acrylic on paper, 18" x 12"<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHPxy4PG56Wkw0laRES6OtTqMSAPw0Xe8BZorMdL0YS9w8b0SaBtUBBxP4xpPnCjNnA7knD3Z6uEhfFQR2Cx5PApruts3cJ6Z_JXF-Szte7iBY1l8HUMk_7dlWavCPQT0jHoppazQJ954bytTKavRm4G7TF92-8l98GD9GRi7JKvy5PIWgk-Vb4A/s812/drawingoffellowstudent.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="812" data-original-width="544" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHPxy4PG56Wkw0laRES6OtTqMSAPw0Xe8BZorMdL0YS9w8b0SaBtUBBxP4xpPnCjNnA7knD3Z6uEhfFQR2Cx5PApruts3cJ6Z_JXF-Szte7iBY1l8HUMk_7dlWavCPQT0jHoppazQJ954bytTKavRm4G7TF92-8l98GD9GRi7JKvy5PIWgk-Vb4A/w428-h640/drawingoffellowstudent.jpg" width="428" /></a></div>2. Portrait of Fellow Student From Life, charcoal on newsprint, 2001, 24" x 18" <div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6qUgKPOHFD61Wclp89vlfZWs6Y3HJFc7wX9iCzYQHb9-na4AMa6ETBzct42LL__L2HH5Gg0HgY_xhFZ50g_gkr1aJbgJXVrwQnakjEe9dQhLmNNErg-1sgcq1FPVJwYs5OGNAeTnIiIwLodS6dkkOWvYqa-fYzIqxXBBjVJx-dlRkaxoA6GWN1g/s1293/figureInterior.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1293" data-original-width="981" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6qUgKPOHFD61Wclp89vlfZWs6Y3HJFc7wX9iCzYQHb9-na4AMa6ETBzct42LL__L2HH5Gg0HgY_xhFZ50g_gkr1aJbgJXVrwQnakjEe9dQhLmNNErg-1sgcq1FPVJwYs5OGNAeTnIiIwLodS6dkkOWvYqa-fYzIqxXBBjVJx-dlRkaxoA6GWN1g/w486-h640/figureInterior.JPG" width="486" /></a></div>3. Angles of a Figure - Life Drawing, graphite on paper, 1996, 24" x 18"</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYPCGPPf-pGuSPz--RzrFGDszGhPfBg0WF9wOmcBo5ED8hxQdI6jcFrK4RR3Er0rBTWmkU5hj7YcqiMmIlRoMF6T8VXpqnsZKP1bDNhtZzBfMUeGTZcJiDhpkGs8sPUaSP2RiWwtSkC8bjFkn0oi1bpCj5MApIaKwbtPWlecQb_kBsdLI1YSt7ww/s3264/BlueRaven.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYPCGPPf-pGuSPz--RzrFGDszGhPfBg0WF9wOmcBo5ED8hxQdI6jcFrK4RR3Er0rBTWmkU5hj7YcqiMmIlRoMF6T8VXpqnsZKP1bDNhtZzBfMUeGTZcJiDhpkGs8sPUaSP2RiWwtSkC8bjFkn0oi1bpCj5MApIaKwbtPWlecQb_kBsdLI1YSt7ww/w480-h640/BlueRaven.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div><div>4. Blue Raven, pencil on paper, 2017, 12" x 9"</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcnBtU_QJGIUpdI_hiIpi_e_71dluUc35Y-y1eXVACqDCPqkwzIYPIJ0ldAXlWSufMphSM80jn4Xtt3yfBZ9c22WAfm9MG65QlnKj2wXO9ql6gCtxHWxt8NAZyD_T5dDeXqRF0sTH7MSYTnsewlksaQft_VNQJfjcifC7s2S2rzHXvdklvSzTMwQ/s2799/AdmiralButterflyChasingHornet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2729" data-original-width="2799" height="624" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcnBtU_QJGIUpdI_hiIpi_e_71dluUc35Y-y1eXVACqDCPqkwzIYPIJ0ldAXlWSufMphSM80jn4Xtt3yfBZ9c22WAfm9MG65QlnKj2wXO9ql6gCtxHWxt8NAZyD_T5dDeXqRF0sTH7MSYTnsewlksaQft_VNQJfjcifC7s2S2rzHXvdklvSzTMwQ/w640-h624/AdmiralButterflyChasingHornet.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">5. Admiral Butterfly Chasing Giant Hornet, pen and ink with watercolor on paper, 2021, 6" x 6"</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqbK2UOigY_9YnFM-KoEdvtrXZ9garJPRE-4iOz1fL2k7R8rSp7wJ6HD5So7y4MpwGJ90PN9FWRRKykrJgzlYoAF3tvRiWcX6y-9T3UHdafjhICBUCcS5QrNsB-MA2jpEEDM6_7rRQc32WbG1OuTWLZgIJ0C-kCjEirRfikqwTzt5IVy7PR-81zA/s1076/handandspineoilandgraphite.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="1076" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqbK2UOigY_9YnFM-KoEdvtrXZ9garJPRE-4iOz1fL2k7R8rSp7wJ6HD5So7y4MpwGJ90PN9FWRRKykrJgzlYoAF3tvRiWcX6y-9T3UHdafjhICBUCcS5QrNsB-MA2jpEEDM6_7rRQc32WbG1OuTWLZgIJ0C-kCjEirRfikqwTzt5IVy7PR-81zA/w640-h502/handandspineoilandgraphite.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div>6. Hands and Vertebra, graphite and oil on gessoed paper, 1997, 12" x 14"</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8TWfnGwepNaNcUI9-H5vOIw4O1iXeKO39LNal9QzPlocC5eagU9N0TRxcvV8OGLome0dpX6YIy9Oplng4R6WHHX6hep1fNmEwI24ucY8bE60ruuHlbyvIytHZTm-eoGdsBrBAnpq_-rzO2UWbg3tWqbc1Z7Uni2iWG1YZnaop90ALAo8yE_YvBw/s2990/PatioBerkeleyOil.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2990" data-original-width="2965" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8TWfnGwepNaNcUI9-H5vOIw4O1iXeKO39LNal9QzPlocC5eagU9N0TRxcvV8OGLome0dpX6YIy9Oplng4R6WHHX6hep1fNmEwI24ucY8bE60ruuHlbyvIytHZTm-eoGdsBrBAnpq_-rzO2UWbg3tWqbc1Z7Uni2iWG1YZnaop90ALAo8yE_YvBw/w634-h640/PatioBerkeleyOil.JPG" width="634" /></a></div>7. Berkeley Patio, oil on stretched canvas, 2001, 30" x 30" </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGx9j4iiqAjZDcLktPWSb3sBxr4DfyAmIAoIuCa6Sz2wkYaRb2XEoJBhTArfvKdrrpshVw6xmRxDwRcFm0ySuAAa-bNDpr-Tgf13yFYtol0OsuvQXvuqxlTCKqWlt1X4LJbYUdLFPNqJpGy8Ay76qJGdpFcpQpKScV0GLNRjY0oyRLQ5skocpA2Q/s3592/prehopFroggy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2916" data-original-width="3592" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGx9j4iiqAjZDcLktPWSb3sBxr4DfyAmIAoIuCa6Sz2wkYaRb2XEoJBhTArfvKdrrpshVw6xmRxDwRcFm0ySuAAa-bNDpr-Tgf13yFYtol0OsuvQXvuqxlTCKqWlt1X4LJbYUdLFPNqJpGy8Ay76qJGdpFcpQpKScV0GLNRjY0oyRLQ5skocpA2Q/w640-h520/prehopFroggy.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">8. Frog Study, charcoal and acrylic wash on paper, 2022, 18" x 24"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy4W_hCfimG4ilOFvw4TRyvHeUqHqiCouxU90ysTOQs2Tj7ohAIWibZaRDGRks0uvSq5j6WwaS363ciwl9-LsGYcNsepnz6eGBbwQhUEHx1EwE47uRA0w3qRsZCh_mr1JRzZNyc7lx4JXILptrz1HxuayqLITWxpuFmIlRYSMb_w0fOcAFiVayhQ/s1279/Listening.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1279" data-original-width="855" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy4W_hCfimG4ilOFvw4TRyvHeUqHqiCouxU90ysTOQs2Tj7ohAIWibZaRDGRks0uvSq5j6WwaS363ciwl9-LsGYcNsepnz6eGBbwQhUEHx1EwE47uRA0w3qRsZCh_mr1JRzZNyc7lx4JXILptrz1HxuayqLITWxpuFmIlRYSMb_w0fOcAFiVayhQ/w428-h640/Listening.jpg" width="428" /></a></div>9. Listening on the Hill, linoleum print on rice paper, 2005, 12" x 9"<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn06vG_l85oa6-x5-9uGBtMnE3iwZhnOPOmwM723w7ecIbGvzVFMCGHlKBsFaBqSsz2DPjFo52ZugxtFr7cFMdU2a6beexOt6zbKWvAyZ5LA8t-0yVF7O8BGu6TwFQwgvovbuyzAU58lEMIjfaTZxtr2wy4NlFz6E1F2KbMGZejZBFISV2WVou_w/s1211/BoxDutchOil.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1211" data-original-width="891" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn06vG_l85oa6-x5-9uGBtMnE3iwZhnOPOmwM723w7ecIbGvzVFMCGHlKBsFaBqSsz2DPjFo52ZugxtFr7cFMdU2a6beexOt6zbKWvAyZ5LA8t-0yVF7O8BGu6TwFQwgvovbuyzAU58lEMIjfaTZxtr2wy4NlFz6E1F2KbMGZejZBFISV2WVou_w/w470-h640/BoxDutchOil.JPG" width="470" /></a></div>10. Box Study Dutch Style, oil on gessoed paper, 1996, 24" x 18" <br /><div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div>Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-35469579317199483382023-02-28T12:03:00.003-05:002023-02-28T12:04:33.043-05:00Painting Portfolio <p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Tarot Cards</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidDWzhRr8x1ynU-n8peHd3gBvae1QDZDgtkE79e9ewzYgB6GrLxgA_N08WKiXbMV4OKQJnu8SVcp4UBbXQ0V_6OV2pXb_yJ-EFYAbksempyXr-k_z_lULkj4RYQtKAPrlnGdlTB-E5rZ5tjEiS6kI2ZMt-eJgqW7zEfX4zpR0La4lXrJd3aFpS1A/s3673/2ofCupsPossums.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3673" data-original-width="2674" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidDWzhRr8x1ynU-n8peHd3gBvae1QDZDgtkE79e9ewzYgB6GrLxgA_N08WKiXbMV4OKQJnu8SVcp4UBbXQ0V_6OV2pXb_yJ-EFYAbksempyXr-k_z_lULkj4RYQtKAPrlnGdlTB-E5rZ5tjEiS6kI2ZMt-eJgqW7zEfX4zpR0La4lXrJd3aFpS1A/w466-h640/2ofCupsPossums.JPG" width="466" /></a></div>1. Two of Cups, oil on acrylic on hot press paper, 2022, 19 x 21 cm<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiJmT9x8umhzopjsrYKtwhmqT-EM9c2To4-07WENu9Z5oea2_NP80r4xMxCL_a8qZmQ0aIYj39ofEk6RKDtpBRSo7jpsMk5pV274Q5Ge60leOWcMXPY7SlpSHNozaylYOHOebT0cF7ctYufH-jbUp-zlQwKL2VKkDPq5q8J9vDkuKMEunLmZpN1Q/s3310/7ofPentaclesStarnosedMole.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3310" data-original-width="2420" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiJmT9x8umhzopjsrYKtwhmqT-EM9c2To4-07WENu9Z5oea2_NP80r4xMxCL_a8qZmQ0aIYj39ofEk6RKDtpBRSo7jpsMk5pV274Q5Ge60leOWcMXPY7SlpSHNozaylYOHOebT0cF7ctYufH-jbUp-zlQwKL2VKkDPq5q8J9vDkuKMEunLmZpN1Q/w468-h640/7ofPentaclesStarnosedMole.JPG" width="468" /></a></div>2. Seven of Pentacles, oil on acrylic on hot press paper, 2022, 19 x 21 cm<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij42yjSqHYB7CoM7EtKRn4KFR5-ag0l4UzwvCRtza46PPuxbE99EqtuVn9qjqsm5rCJgE3R3CmAC1Qe2vSVz5T8PrppFuKrhzdeetkOe512MkO6nkZ4CVd3QA_ggQWI3pqMgi7dRGNw10GvrlVA-AJqdISF2cfy8dc_OnuCjy1hWm37i_lE_xgEA/s3686/8ofPentaclesOrbSPider.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3686" data-original-width="2695" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij42yjSqHYB7CoM7EtKRn4KFR5-ag0l4UzwvCRtza46PPuxbE99EqtuVn9qjqsm5rCJgE3R3CmAC1Qe2vSVz5T8PrppFuKrhzdeetkOe512MkO6nkZ4CVd3QA_ggQWI3pqMgi7dRGNw10GvrlVA-AJqdISF2cfy8dc_OnuCjy1hWm37i_lE_xgEA/w468-h640/8ofPentaclesOrbSPider.JPG" width="468" /></a></div>3. Eight of Pentacles, oil on acrylic on hot press paper, 2022, 19 x 21 cm</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkl4Xq6d3zz6da8sRKueV5yXcZ5KS4Fql7KGptV04H0OlPWvFycQ9h5WtlkWrWKiGJr1hI-EaIsMfCntPnn_WvfZaiYYBxN_udan4TUjYT6pQVkWPpuex2NfM0qCw1hHcj8KN01ZiTVSDdZtlvE843Pluo7jSMXRmS3jpkey6OiMPE5esV3YgpsQ/s3716/9CrowHermit.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3716" data-original-width="2734" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkl4Xq6d3zz6da8sRKueV5yXcZ5KS4Fql7KGptV04H0OlPWvFycQ9h5WtlkWrWKiGJr1hI-EaIsMfCntPnn_WvfZaiYYBxN_udan4TUjYT6pQVkWPpuex2NfM0qCw1hHcj8KN01ZiTVSDdZtlvE843Pluo7jSMXRmS3jpkey6OiMPE5esV3YgpsQ/w470-h640/9CrowHermit.JPG" width="470" /></a></div>4. The Hermit, oil on acrylic on hot press paper, 2022, 19 x 21 cm</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrZaORnG6Qa_7Au2DPRXGnFGP41ZZA8K6xx-TewIfSAWRc-95_SZXRW-7nq1OA0JcCJAEPAlCjx_eedMT51DNkZDXWiJveX6Wyp1FV93gx0Tm_xt8fJGubE3Z7b9uQEG_f5H52mKkUOE3bE0q_nxor8DrlU6_nYSsn9QZ7ph_nQc7H2SVIfpq5JA/s3571/4ofCupsFrogs.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3571" data-original-width="2619" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrZaORnG6Qa_7Au2DPRXGnFGP41ZZA8K6xx-TewIfSAWRc-95_SZXRW-7nq1OA0JcCJAEPAlCjx_eedMT51DNkZDXWiJveX6Wyp1FV93gx0Tm_xt8fJGubE3Z7b9uQEG_f5H52mKkUOE3bE0q_nxor8DrlU6_nYSsn9QZ7ph_nQc7H2SVIfpq5JA/w470-h640/4ofCupsFrogs.JPG" width="470" /></a></div>5. Two of Cups, oil on acrylic on hot press paper, 2021, 19 x 21 cm<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Landscapes</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYFJf8mRhYZ2V1hE0oMcDm4ZUIE_OugFwcHDABmbxkpgeBdFxfoqT1DYY-konBRvhQm0rzkhi8VJMtCNL02mnz0v2WWL16IIO9X4n-jRV1FzwjcUovvm9OV9gexSSvi5jBR30x0w8yMjUwYlp7SaV7QgTL_3sIdmRZQXUTvY9iMY9dC-zFgydrkg/s3431/IMG_5686.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2758" data-original-width="3431" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYFJf8mRhYZ2V1hE0oMcDm4ZUIE_OugFwcHDABmbxkpgeBdFxfoqT1DYY-konBRvhQm0rzkhi8VJMtCNL02mnz0v2WWL16IIO9X4n-jRV1FzwjcUovvm9OV9gexSSvi5jBR30x0w8yMjUwYlp7SaV7QgTL_3sIdmRZQXUTvY9iMY9dC-zFgydrkg/w640-h514/IMG_5686.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>6.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">Torrey Pine, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">acrylic paint on paper, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">2017, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">9" x 11"</span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #757575;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #757575;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheUjDiYbyv9moh-WYzSV6XQUtR29yyMn395wEyM72Dj6px6-4OXUtS_v-acxY1LUpnSVUzoAaEe1xc1DdPeoVY47BBU4z0HomGK2z-IiMI_aoxW0iWMfuwqSAcYhf7uI_1p6E1fqXXFGI53CnxWOqOQCvhlxW6FmcWyJWxNbXl50SNku0MLyJIHA/s3767/IMG_5697.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2703" data-original-width="3767" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheUjDiYbyv9moh-WYzSV6XQUtR29yyMn395wEyM72Dj6px6-4OXUtS_v-acxY1LUpnSVUzoAaEe1xc1DdPeoVY47BBU4z0HomGK2z-IiMI_aoxW0iWMfuwqSAcYhf7uI_1p6E1fqXXFGI53CnxWOqOQCvhlxW6FmcWyJWxNbXl50SNku0MLyJIHA/w640-h460/IMG_5697.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;">7. Moreton Bay Fig Tree II, 2018, </span><span style="font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">acrylic paint on paper, </span><span style="font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">9" x 11"</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcVLIKWcGKPHt7KlHLPK-6HmSnvs7W_RsCqQD5bPNKMm63d6OIqMFjZqKfdL7BscAiJpl9mZYuz5EQkjrVnsDULzFfp5Ti0ikSCA6-TMyTu02_phsYMie1sCE8g_1vYIg4X8rw2emN0jPgUiPwLewmzahkcLwQAtBoW-ceDBOhr6Do6Erm1YTIPA/s3855/IMG_5704.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2881" data-original-width="3855" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcVLIKWcGKPHt7KlHLPK-6HmSnvs7W_RsCqQD5bPNKMm63d6OIqMFjZqKfdL7BscAiJpl9mZYuz5EQkjrVnsDULzFfp5Ti0ikSCA6-TMyTu02_phsYMie1sCE8g_1vYIg4X8rw2emN0jPgUiPwLewmzahkcLwQAtBoW-ceDBOhr6Do6Erm1YTIPA/w640-h478/IMG_5704.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>8. <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">Moreton Bay Fig Tree I, 2018, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">acrylic paint on paper, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">9" x 11"</span></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Portraits</span></p><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV1BGhhWzsJh5sO3JbS08LCSUAK_eihtdUloWsCK7hH0lD_zaCL4SgofPD6OWBGqENxgy3P3zmKM-sB7wg-KOzUfjbxuW_ctX7Xo3wf2PG-uXE7iP0tv_UahNmNhJQv24pf1IzRsP4EVOfbRvDQOZeY3MbNomKM_h8QAt-vct1BjWdAXXfQP7zAQ/s3710/KevinCatPortrait.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2925" data-original-width="3710" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV1BGhhWzsJh5sO3JbS08LCSUAK_eihtdUloWsCK7hH0lD_zaCL4SgofPD6OWBGqENxgy3P3zmKM-sB7wg-KOzUfjbxuW_ctX7Xo3wf2PG-uXE7iP0tv_UahNmNhJQv24pf1IzRsP4EVOfbRvDQOZeY3MbNomKM_h8QAt-vct1BjWdAXXfQP7zAQ/w640-h504/KevinCatPortrait.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>9. Kevin and Cat, chalk pastel and acrylic on paper, 2021, 18" x 24"<br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeBWx6ZT0KkfbN6H-R3AtvFii17ujkLkI7koZK5WydzHn0ntEErRBFMtd_aKKEo6XjzAy_oP9epQX_s4mgPK89WM1D285-eTH0OJaNg04a6R0BJXtRSyX0YODf8hVUHzld7RqhGtfTsVMtMViJ4Wdj4hvFk1s4bxISr5C8b2bgaLdjLt3wodYcAA/s3610/MondayPortraitAngel.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3610" data-original-width="2989" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeBWx6ZT0KkfbN6H-R3AtvFii17ujkLkI7koZK5WydzHn0ntEErRBFMtd_aKKEo6XjzAy_oP9epQX_s4mgPK89WM1D285-eTH0OJaNg04a6R0BJXtRSyX0YODf8hVUHzld7RqhGtfTsVMtMViJ4Wdj4hvFk1s4bxISr5C8b2bgaLdjLt3wodYcAA/w530-h640/MondayPortraitAngel.JPG" width="530" /></a></div><br /><p>10. Monday Angel, acrylic, charcoal and pastel on paper, 2021, 24" x 18" <br /><br /></p></div>Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-9185880792848073052023-02-28T10:21:00.001-05:002023-03-12T17:48:51.273-04:00 Sculpture/Ceramics Portfolio<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> Sculpture/Ceramics</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCpejWQppCbsPhGdZ6xnxx9jnckFTunDQJlsDmXQenL33Yaq0Ot6fB8KBACxmMw91Gd5wKQu7hF0E5IzrFTq__7_hF1sw2PG3x5B7Qq8Y8uDhh1EmtSNkg1XN4IMT--CYFmGH0X548B42Deon95Xnz4qz8PG_bV2JjTPFDU56mUbOpJa8rr9M2dA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCpejWQppCbsPhGdZ6xnxx9jnckFTunDQJlsDmXQenL33Yaq0Ot6fB8KBACxmMw91Gd5wKQu7hF0E5IzrFTq__7_hF1sw2PG3x5B7Qq8Y8uDhh1EmtSNkg1XN4IMT--CYFmGH0X548B42Deon95Xnz4qz8PG_bV2JjTPFDU56mUbOpJa8rr9M2dA=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br />1. Bees and Marmot, monoprints on extruded box, and hand colored linoleum print on hand built mug, 2023, 8" x 5" x 5" (box) and 5" x 4" diameter (mug)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLmygOMPuR4n-WCP-ZbmF8JIeNK2zsIs8RJPnFinAVT4XtnfCMscf35jjK73-cpLQb7GVySTs-180NTs5l6MCF1SVXzkTrv2SEA0s5byyFbwIMBgQo_3Em6zAPPLVr_Slk-COVL92UJfsx55C_CkqxZK-uN92gY0KDnws1EzjHCqQtJ3Y4Tfx6Aw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="473" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLmygOMPuR4n-WCP-ZbmF8JIeNK2zsIs8RJPnFinAVT4XtnfCMscf35jjK73-cpLQb7GVySTs-180NTs5l6MCF1SVXzkTrv2SEA0s5byyFbwIMBgQo_3Em6zAPPLVr_Slk-COVL92UJfsx55C_CkqxZK-uN92gY0KDnws1EzjHCqQtJ3Y4Tfx6Aw=s16000" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Pink Octopus Mug, underglaze silkscreen on terra cotta wheel thrown mug, 2022, 5.5" x 4.5" diameter</span></div></span><br /></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimy3aKRQ29VLXADq4gmyMNhYKQetgRhgBgmWEC77oNqYS0N5HF-v-soDRG4neW7rmMW8pIEMcakSt5Bj3gBm_NwEdycUPMqSD2DJwmnfBpdcsq5bx2IaeB92P2OTyypacSx_alF5vzASb1S9Kib8GzJd2OutyIt2Xb8koGeL3sT8UJIoxsJ-ujUg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimy3aKRQ29VLXADq4gmyMNhYKQetgRhgBgmWEC77oNqYS0N5HF-v-soDRG4neW7rmMW8pIEMcakSt5Bj3gBm_NwEdycUPMqSD2DJwmnfBpdcsq5bx2IaeB92P2OTyypacSx_alF5vzASb1S9Kib8GzJd2OutyIt2Xb8koGeL3sT8UJIoxsJ-ujUg=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br />3. The Frog Collection, stencil and monoprint on wheel thrown pots, 2022, from 5" tall to 12" diameter<p></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0kZhR7_oBFMZS-hWM6cPCCF8k9vwGapVjZmWot6ihQK42x0SWr8u6-7YGjIJ8h2ib273tpC9pJG7VTNtcj48wr8VibIGyug7nhxS1UzLgiRYL7rfs6yNroHFSkOPVhbnRQHhJ5MJmTgjgYNADvjsvRAExuDYinXPpwsTcb2p5VRe3bD8RIuvjcQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2063" data-original-width="3694" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0kZhR7_oBFMZS-hWM6cPCCF8k9vwGapVjZmWot6ihQK42x0SWr8u6-7YGjIJ8h2ib273tpC9pJG7VTNtcj48wr8VibIGyug7nhxS1UzLgiRYL7rfs6yNroHFSkOPVhbnRQHhJ5MJmTgjgYNADvjsvRAExuDYinXPpwsTcb2p5VRe3bD8RIuvjcQ=w640-h358" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">4. The Fox Stencil Collection, stencil on wheel thrown mugs, 2022, from 5.5" tall</div><p></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuxj8xEppzLDEQ-g1XkYfl2EFDqdZUJPWngV6Yvx8gUveIaLScK2uOogVFDN72W58LMdPGD92GLTBSNMKCFTqtfhrxnGZgvlj2XFtCEc9e7tDDhVE3CX7DOBkrB7XS1nX-QgzS41IbJasy2SYkMlCTfp_mu1SSa8O3CNuBmTl7E8B-B8CwRI8TkQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1293" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuxj8xEppzLDEQ-g1XkYfl2EFDqdZUJPWngV6Yvx8gUveIaLScK2uOogVFDN72W58LMdPGD92GLTBSNMKCFTqtfhrxnGZgvlj2XFtCEc9e7tDDhVE3CX7DOBkrB7XS1nX-QgzS41IbJasy2SYkMlCTfp_mu1SSa8O3CNuBmTl7E8B-B8CwRI8TkQ=w640-h424" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">5. Owl and Possum Plates, monoprint on hump mold and wheel terra cotta plates, 2022, 14" diameter</div><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNn6_GLc_QaqEFoCenGbbdKfvLt6H9caqwGWaGGc1TvQ4NQRDsjji5F10XTX-73qLZJ18ToCz4HoefLcMYsZjlN7M2PkiLuFA1kiCjYK9AiVC_VfFfo_N1Jq19c4DMNr6WdFDYTco25rOWhtNbsVoxg7FQwT0NaMrS1K0V0nZb1OWnU_aKUP4CvA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1643" data-original-width="1095" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNn6_GLc_QaqEFoCenGbbdKfvLt6H9caqwGWaGGc1TvQ4NQRDsjji5F10XTX-73qLZJ18ToCz4HoefLcMYsZjlN7M2PkiLuFA1kiCjYK9AiVC_VfFfo_N1Jq19c4DMNr6WdFDYTco25rOWhtNbsVoxg7FQwT0NaMrS1K0V0nZb1OWnU_aKUP4CvA=w427-h640" width="427" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">6. Terra cotta bisque fired self portrait, 1996, 12" x 8" x 10"</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEji9kf58I0kjhs7HHof-kPkD0JjSiPSKKzmLsg6fzhGfZfCAbir1HG1LagIDvPOmOqZnFNzAySlGuO-YvFJg4_bv044z4MaU_av2CPCudDFZp7HTNYR_xj-Zta-UKC-sAk_Dk3uWn8EHLXFNLP3FflrykJhksrbW5H9LrL7aXZ4hjpSIlF3t90quQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEji9kf58I0kjhs7HHof-kPkD0JjSiPSKKzmLsg6fzhGfZfCAbir1HG1LagIDvPOmOqZnFNzAySlGuO-YvFJg4_bv044z4MaU_av2CPCudDFZp7HTNYR_xj-Zta-UKC-sAk_Dk3uWn8EHLXFNLP3FflrykJhksrbW5H9LrL7aXZ4hjpSIlF3t90quQ=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><p><br />7. Elemental Horse Pair, greenware on paper armature, 2023, 9" x 6" x 6"</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqz5Fahd9VDuVmLhXAALIi-PE-fJg-7R9kpPY4TwwKa_JjwJwGXk9UmO2YrUcJfUJcQuoirRoq9arfaGTDmg3inIuUxDuJ4ymnDkEU1ZeIYBTraSmX0WlNOlEUrgCXgqD2HkaCLtq_tWszt794EyN9hOWf8E2n3yKludcbgdL5MeTfL5gJu3xLIg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqz5Fahd9VDuVmLhXAALIi-PE-fJg-7R9kpPY4TwwKa_JjwJwGXk9UmO2YrUcJfUJcQuoirRoq9arfaGTDmg3inIuUxDuJ4ymnDkEU1ZeIYBTraSmX0WlNOlEUrgCXgqD2HkaCLtq_tWszt794EyN9hOWf8E2n3yKludcbgdL5MeTfL5gJu3xLIg=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><p><br />8. Three Gourd Boxes, glaze fired close forms from the wheel, then sculpturally altered, 2022, 6" x 12" x 5"</p>
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<!--End mc_embed_signup-->Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-25225843742777039822022-11-08T18:14:00.007-05:002023-03-12T17:41:15.269-04:00Silk screen on pottery<p> I've been building up a collection of photos of beautiful work by the artists in the day program at the Artists' Exchange. Artists with disabilities, and, obviously, abilities...</p><p>It's been my pleasure to teach pottery and printmaking to my friends at AE for the past year. Here's to another year like it!</p><p>This print on pottery method uses screens, underglaze ink that I mix, and leather hard pottery (or chocolate bar hard, as director Shannon Casey calls it.) </p><p>Below are photos of work in various stages of the process. <span style="text-align: center;">Art by Harry B, Lisa M, Ryan F, Stephanie I, and Missy M.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimlDEx0aIL37CQeyQDOfHDFYG3e1QTUJl3XOdUrJREeTrEl4Uph-oYcNwSOb7VEkGNjprNnsEB70YItt7PkOlUSu_nev1lYkC40J6W-e7a_gQjJtp6vFCwPJZEr6JRaS-I2Wj_-ZOhofGCfl8YHpYIUU8DlIAG3i2kixrj_TYTXcAk4E1r4vJBxg/s4032/IMG_0760.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimlDEx0aIL37CQeyQDOfHDFYG3e1QTUJl3XOdUrJREeTrEl4Uph-oYcNwSOb7VEkGNjprNnsEB70YItt7PkOlUSu_nev1lYkC40J6W-e7a_gQjJtp6vFCwPJZEr6JRaS-I2Wj_-ZOhofGCfl8YHpYIUU8DlIAG3i2kixrj_TYTXcAk4E1r4vJBxg/s320/IMG_0760.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<!--End mc_embed_signup-->Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-91467417453052616372022-01-20T15:00:00.002-05:002022-01-20T15:16:04.969-05:00What's the manifesto for a downturn? Art + Necessity<h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">Philosophy in Jest?</span></h4><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">Architect Shohei Shigematsu once joked that he was "doomed to live with the downturn." He was making light of hitting many of his life's significant milestones at times of global economic distress. In a less individualized way, we're all doomed to live with a downturn. The pandemic can make a person worry the entire human race is doomed. On a personal level, any of us nodding acquaintances with our own mortality is familiar with the downturn. And then there's the whole shebang, the whole enchilada: our world's ecological catastrophe.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">Why does architecture make me think about mortality in a way most arts don't? Does building in this day require optimism, resignation, blindness, pragmatism? Are we like bees with their hives and termites with their mounds, who can't help but build? Or is it the same as the artistic drive to paint, even when the resulting painting will never be seen in public? What kind of necessity is that? Is the creative urge such a vital force for human beings that we can't help but be driven towards it? </span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">But here's a distinction: buildings are usually visible and used by humanity. They're a basic building block (ha) of society; we have the physical necessity of architecture. We also have future problems whose solution comes in the fantasies and explorations of the present. Creativity must churn in the minds of billions, just in case. Those gears must always spin, even when they aren't being plugged into a practical problem.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">And yet so much of architecture is hideous, bland, and kills all whimsy and life. I'm thinking of many main drags through American towns where vinyl siding, low buildings, and paved lots dominate. A tree or a garden is a sad vagrant in most of these contexts, as is any creative imagination. (Post Road in Rhode Island, I'm looking at you.) </span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">How did mommy creativity and daddy pragmatism become so divorced? </span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">Shohei Shigematsu clearly wants mommy and daddy to stay romantically entwined. Happily or otherwise.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_eGtL3DZsO4_agcG8ypIAH4TW77_x3BTDtQmpagXcuk2i9oV2BOqBRm09i2tdVIKGI8_12ND_XQIaWqOib6YM7pvHLUfjystdsNQPVcjRoAZJl01tL6X14hV_2HjCIhyYMGSY2alxZ2gR9li7daZUfquhOo0B5cGvCntLSDfJ7VJqqg6xWHekqg=s800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_eGtL3DZsO4_agcG8ypIAH4TW77_x3BTDtQmpagXcuk2i9oV2BOqBRm09i2tdVIKGI8_12ND_XQIaWqOib6YM7pvHLUfjystdsNQPVcjRoAZJl01tL6X14hV_2HjCIhyYMGSY2alxZ2gR9li7daZUfquhOo0B5cGvCntLSDfJ7VJqqg6xWHekqg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Photo<span style="background-color: white;"> by </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212124; font-family: "Proxima Nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Jens Schott Knudse</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #212124; font-family: "Proxima Nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">n</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #212124; font-family: "Proxima Nova", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">© 2012 </span></span></div></span><p></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">Have you seen the CCTV HQ in Beijing? I forgive you if you roll your eyes. After all, I had certainly never seen images of this building before looking up Shohei Shigematsu. It's an Escher-like building, like a Titan's angular tripod, except a leg fell off. "Domineering" doesn't begin to cover it, nor does "foreboding." It feels very self-aware to me. <i>The War of the Worlds</i> meets <i>1984</i>, a looming and peeping Tom. Was this his intention?</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><h4 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">Basic biographical facts:</span></span></h4><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Shigematsu has nested around the planet. He was born in Fukuoka in 1973, and studied architecture in Kyushu and Amsterdam. </span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">He joined the Dutch Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in 1998, a wee whippersnapper at the age of 25. OMA is now famous and was already getting long in the tooth when Shigematsu joined. Early leaders of OMA, Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau were the producers of the indispensable architectural touchstone book: </span><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">S, M, L, XL.</em></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">Shigematsu became an associate of OMA Rotterdam, then director, and became a partner at the OMA NY office. With OMA NY, Shigematsu leads the design team for the CCTV HQ in Beijing, Millstein Hall at Cornell, Prada Epicenter, the Shunjun stock exchange, and Faena Shopping Center in Miami Beach. He has worked with artists such as Marina Obromavich and Kanye West.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><h4 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">Questions for an architect:</span></span></h4><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">And here are my questions to Shigematsu, if I could ask them ;)</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">- Do you think having many national anchors changes how you view location?</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">- What's your fundamental question?</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">- You joked that you were "doomed to live with the downturn." Do you genuinely feel this way?</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">- Is there a manifesto for the pandemic?</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">- How do you feel about the term "starchitecture"?</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">- No building is an island: how did you learn to work with local authorities and planning commissions?</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">- What is your feeling about contextualism?</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">- What about earthworks (Robert Smithson and Robert Irwin, also Nancy Holt) vs. contextualism (Frank Lloyd Wright is the most obvious example)?</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">- What do you think is the architect's role in the era of catastrophic climate change?</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">- What would you say is the principal difference in creative output between your leadership and that of Rem Koolhaas?</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">- Do you feel that NEW work needs to feel new? That it needs to be iconic?</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">- You seem to like glass, concrete, and steel. How do you feel about older traditional materials, such as brick, adobe, wood, and even wattle and daub?</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">- From your list of forms/roles a building could take, I see: "Autonomous, competitive, seamless, subservient." Are there other terms you would add to the list?</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- Public access was valuable to you at </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">the CCTV HQ</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">. Is that an element you always try to include?</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">- Does the structure of the CCTV HQ seem foreboding to you? It feels very self-aware to me. Big Brother, looming and peeping Tom? Was this your intention?</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p>Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-22368668615507521742021-11-05T22:18:00.005-04:002021-11-05T22:18:53.250-04:00What constitutes a portfolio?<p>This is the question I wrestle with periodically: what's my art portfolio? Is it all of a style - only landscapes and no tarot cards, for example? Or is it anything addressing a certain topic... except I don't work that way. That would be like making one's daily journal only address one's taste in shoes.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L9qvV7jc8jc/YYXgXrxHmgI/AAAAAAAABxc/JMBupwei2uYm5C0f0IBaGhXskV8T54PeACNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_9323.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1708" data-original-width="2048" height="267" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L9qvV7jc8jc/YYXgXrxHmgI/AAAAAAAABxc/JMBupwei2uYm5C0f0IBaGhXskV8T54PeACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_9323.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">1. Baba Yaga, 2021, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">collage and acrylic on paper</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">14" x 17"</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XOvW8M6CO9k/YYXggWwHTaI/AAAAAAAABxg/Npk8sKDmSCAbVqC6ywLXbiY-ZH8MuFBBgCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_9455.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1707" data-original-width="2048" height="267" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XOvW8M6CO9k/YYXggWwHTaI/AAAAAAAABxg/Npk8sKDmSCAbVqC6ywLXbiY-ZH8MuFBBgCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_9455.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">2. Your Worth Is Not Measured, 2021, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">pastels and acrylic on paper</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">14" x 17"</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oK_Qy4yrN3E/YYXg03f6O1I/AAAAAAAABxs/o9tNI7ON1BgIjp-D05yNYKPhkmuNk61tACNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0144.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1502" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oK_Qy4yrN3E/YYXg03f6O1I/AAAAAAAABxs/o9tNI7ON1BgIjp-D05yNYKPhkmuNk61tACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_0144.JPG" width="235" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">3. Inconvenient Feelings, 2021,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">charcoal and acrylic paint on paper</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">9" x 11"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M27VZQ21XOA/YYXg_lClGUI/AAAAAAAABxw/pQUPoJHWF1MZnsY5OdcuZLCuFoDmJCtkACNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_8738.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1713" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M27VZQ21XOA/YYXg_lClGUI/AAAAAAAABxw/pQUPoJHWF1MZnsY5OdcuZLCuFoDmJCtkACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_8738.JPG" width="268" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">4. Fox Point Moods, 2020,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">acrylic paint on paper,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">11" x 14"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rFK1-cD671s/YYXg_jG9axI/AAAAAAAABx0/kUMAtS6hJNIiqVA4mL8Xg2V_2bkcpmheACNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/FoxPont2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1564" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rFK1-cD671s/YYXg_jG9axI/AAAAAAAABx0/kUMAtS6hJNIiqVA4mL8Xg2V_2bkcpmheACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/FoxPont2.JPG" width="244" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">5. Fox Point Moods 2, 2020,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">acrylic paint on paper,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">10" x 14"</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QDDj0Ee3HZ4/YYXhLq0_TlI/AAAAAAAABx8/OmfrK7unDEoljryokP9Zvq3vozDYtrxOACNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0075.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1231" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QDDj0Ee3HZ4/YYXhLq0_TlI/AAAAAAAABx8/OmfrK7unDEoljryokP9Zvq3vozDYtrxOACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_0075.jpg" width="192" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">6. Golden Hill Ghosts, 2017,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">acrylic paint on paper,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">4" x 2"</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8NQZiG0X1vs/YYXhLzKNtbI/AAAAAAAAByA/uE1C33XVkWk4goQOq7_anhujSo5ejggqwCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_3696.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1235" data-original-width="2048" height="193" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8NQZiG0X1vs/YYXhLzKNtbI/AAAAAAAAByA/uE1C33XVkWk4goQOq7_anhujSo5ejggqwCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_3696.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">7. Golden Hill Canopy, 2017,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">acrylic paint on paper,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">2" x 4"</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gyjQ4-OQhIk/YYXhYlFo7BI/AAAAAAAAByI/O5PyPJR1yAg5_bYCIIEizsot6ARuC5FiwCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_5697.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1470" data-original-width="2048" height="230" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gyjQ4-OQhIk/YYXhYlFo7BI/AAAAAAAAByI/O5PyPJR1yAg5_bYCIIEizsot6ARuC5FiwCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_5697.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">8. Moreton Bay Fig Tree I, 2018,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">acrylic paint on paper,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">9" x 11"</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ya5hhpc8eDs/YYXhYnPCTmI/AAAAAAAAByM/ArYN72vvzHUSoAMBbiUREd0WCOrJfJ2egCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_5704.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1531" data-original-width="2048" height="239" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ya5hhpc8eDs/YYXhYnPCTmI/AAAAAAAAByM/ArYN72vvzHUSoAMBbiUREd0WCOrJfJ2egCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_5704.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">9. Moreton Bay Fig Tree II, 2018,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">acrylic paint on paper,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">9" x 11"</div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FYQib1kkTvM/YYXiBs-M2YI/AAAAAAAAByc/5SzaHkUHB0kEFtRLLGMqaJlXCwe1dMZvACNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_5686.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1646" data-original-width="2048" height="257" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FYQib1kkTvM/YYXiBs-M2YI/AAAAAAAAByc/5SzaHkUHB0kEFtRLLGMqaJlXCwe1dMZvACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_5686.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">10. Torrey Pine, 2017,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">acrylic paint on paper,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">9" x 11"</div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-60361418951428585762021-08-08T16:56:00.002-04:002021-08-08T17:03:50.375-04:00Women in abstraction: a century and a half of female artists at the Centre Pompidou<p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Women in Abstraction show at the Centre Pompidou was arbitrary, condescending, and totally worthwhile. I mean, Elle font d'Abstraction is just short of “Look! A woman can make a painting! How quaint!” </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Still, go. You won't regret it. </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">They more than make up for any condescension... And if they don't, we're clearly hungry for this exhibit. I counted two women in attendance for every man – yes, really, I counted.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“The utopian ideals of pure abstraction have allowed women artists some kind of entree into art, since a truly universalist art practice would be genderfree... but it was a myth.” - Mira Schor, 2009, from “Some Notes on Women and Abstraction”</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">On a personal note, I hadn't been expecting to have a night alone in Paris. I certainly hadn't expected to have a good time. I'd always associated Paris with exhausting in laws, arguments, and trying to keep up with fast paced conversations in a new language. But my flight out of Charles De Gaulle was scheduled to leave at 1 pm (it didn't, but that's another story) and getting there from Normandy in the morning would have involved leaving before the cows woke up.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I got off the train and headed straight to the Centre Pompidou, one of my favorite museums in the world. It seems permanently under construction, always springing a leak – and the views are the best in the city. Here's one such view, featuring two Ruth Asawa sculptures.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KF6VxL2Jp4Y/YRA2IeMP-0I/AAAAAAAABuc/gQBm2tgkXY4H2tZUEP1M5nVvMMJlURLdwCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_9695.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KF6VxL2Jp4Y/YRA2IeMP-0I/AAAAAAAABuc/gQBm2tgkXY4H2tZUEP1M5nVvMMJlURLdwCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_9695.JPG" width="240" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Ruth Asawa</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Actually, maybe the views are better at the Eiffel Tower, but I've never been in any kind of mood to enjoy anything by the time I've made it up there... Whereas the Centre Pompidou rewards a person for their effort. They have lockers big enough for carry on luggage, bathrooms, reasonable lines, and wonderful gift shops. Even in a pandemic. They required proof of vaccination, and appreciated my negative Covid test, but that was the only potential glitch.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #444444; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hVwZCRmVvvQ/YRA2o6LQsvI/AAAAAAAABuk/ZKa_DxT1E8sN0wsawKz_iBTb9J_u5GXaACNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_9681.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hVwZCRmVvvQ/YRA2o6LQsvI/AAAAAAAABuk/ZKa_DxT1E8sN0wsawKz_iBTb9J_u5GXaACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_9681.JPG" width="240" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-small;">Janet Sobel</span></div></span></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Like many people, I had known about Janet Sobel, the true prospector in the drip method gold mine Pollock so often gets credit for. And any art history class will teach the paintings of Helen Frankenthaler, the installations and performance work of Judy Chicago, the sculptures of Louise Bourgeois. Some of us may have been introduced to the three dimensional paintings and videos of Howardena Pindell, admired the paintings of Joan Mitchell or Lee Krasner. We might have admired the work of Hilma af Klint, or Sonia Delaunay-Terk (though the collage pieces of hers in this exhibit blow her paintings right out of the water for me.) </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yFthua_kqqM/YRA3J8KGTvI/AAAAAAAABus/iT5IBYBpL4YiYOkutKfupjepJbG3nF8BACNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_9653.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yFthua_kqqM/YRA3J8KGTvI/AAAAAAAABus/iT5IBYBpL4YiYOkutKfupjepJbG3nF8BACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_9653.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Sonia Delaunay-Terk</span></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">However, there were so, so many other artists I had never heard of. Here are two of them, followed by snapshots from the exhibition.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Georgiana Houghton (Spain 1814 – England 1884) was an English spiritualist painter. Her delicate line paintings create layered nautilus forms of a single color at a time, culminating in fine swirls and speckled curls as a totally visual poetry atop all the color. It makes me think of ocean tides and seaweed, and calligraphic decorations in mosques. Her paintings are already beginning to permeate and retrofit my visual memory of the world.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6fuEY1-wqyw/YRA35lAFV9I/AAAAAAAABu0/-49m921nqqofv_yHcGl19g9ObdzcvR0EgCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_9642.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6fuEY1-wqyw/YRA35lAFV9I/AAAAAAAABu0/-49m921nqqofv_yHcGl19g9ObdzcvR0EgCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_9642.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Georgiana Houghton</div></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Mary Ellen Bute (Houston 1906 –<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>New York 1983)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I couldn't come up with a more West of the Mississippi name if I tried. In fact, I have a very colorful Iowan aunt named Mary Ellen (“If you all aren't nicer to me, I'm going to Cherokee!” she used to shout, referring to the nearby psychiatric hospital. That was <i>not</i> the time her television was struck by lightning after she was "calling down the demons.") Ahem. Unrelated.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The music Mary Ellen Bute interpreted in the pieces shown at the Centre Pompidou modeled the Westward Ho!, Manifest Destiny kind of marching cowboy symphony that my Iowan grandmother loved. She also animated to Shostakovich, Saint-Saens, and Bach, but if those were on display I didn't see them.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3SDLnSCcmsA/YRA8rexZkGI/AAAAAAAABu8/-oVNOFc0UI0dKKZptOYg6K_daVXA2qV2ACNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_9679.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3SDLnSCcmsA/YRA8rexZkGI/AAAAAAAABu8/-oVNOFc0UI0dKKZptOYg6K_daVXA2qV2ACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_9679.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Mary Ellen Bute</div></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Her work, no matter what the music, is a delightful encyclopedia of effect invention. I don't need to point out to anyone that there was no CGI then, and she did all her abstract visuals with paint, superimposition, extreme contrast, and all the other old school tricks – many of which I suspect she originated. The exhibit had several of her films, and they made me think of the concurrent film, <i>Fantasia</i>, released in 1940. Like Germaine Dulac, another filmmaker in the exhibition, Bute clearly worships in the cathedral of light:</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“I wanted to manipulate light to produce visual compositions in time continuity much as a musician manipulates sound to produce music." from "Abstronics" in Films in Review, June-July 1954. Reprinted in Russett, Robert and Cecile Starr, Experimental Animation: An Illustrated Anthology (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1976)</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">And now, in no particular order, a peek at inspiring work from the show!</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9ldCF9mStIM/YRA9DSL6p8I/AAAAAAAABvE/eM66B7sDOIAUF0B9zdenJqNO-R_A2i-kwCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_9666.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9ldCF9mStIM/YRA9DSL6p8I/AAAAAAAABvE/eM66B7sDOIAUF0B9zdenJqNO-R_A2i-kwCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_9666.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Still from Germaine Dulac's Arabesque</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2unqUkRt55k/YRA9e0CMJ6I/AAAAAAAABvM/oRnVZ-DgoREK4RwBJdSaSrZ5VquplMQbQCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_9659.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2unqUkRt55k/YRA9e0CMJ6I/AAAAAAAABvM/oRnVZ-DgoREK4RwBJdSaSrZ5VquplMQbQCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_9659.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Helen Saunders</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">Maria Helena Vieira da Silva</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TJJemOaALTY/YRA9gRYBh8I/AAAAAAAABvg/KxUN-E0HnN4IW4yw1uWQz9I78iRPidQ2wCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_9709.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TJJemOaALTY/YRA9gRYBh8I/AAAAAAAABvg/KxUN-E0HnN4IW4yw1uWQz9I78iRPidQ2wCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_9709.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Aurelie Nemours</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Vr_1sTNcVcs/YRBBIvqG6_I/AAAAAAAABv8/Em3k3vhmV08-apkia04nfPAIvnx1KlcwACNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_9726.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Vr_1sTNcVcs/YRBBIvqG6_I/AAAAAAAABv8/Em3k3vhmV08-apkia04nfPAIvnx1KlcwACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_9726.JPG" width="240" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Arpita Singh</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eh6eeWu2apc/YRA9hBbDqKI/AAAAAAAABvo/Tq6JdghVqA0ftJWOyGG7L6ox_01iL_5LACNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_9729.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eh6eeWu2apc/YRA9hBbDqKI/AAAAAAAABvo/Tq6JdghVqA0ftJWOyGG7L6ox_01iL_5LACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_9729.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Etal Adnan</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large; text-align: left;">I'd booked myself a cute hotel room on rue Casimir Delavigne, with classic tiny courtyard, barely coffin sized elevators, and closet sized art deco room. I counted four bookstores within two blocks from the front door, and I don't think I saw all of them. I waited for an hour for a place at Le Comptoir, reading and skimming through the 113 photos I took at the museum.</span></div></span>Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-73068730252767220532021-07-04T19:26:00.004-04:002021-07-04T19:26:53.010-04:00Hacked off – the drama of a bad haircut<div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">I think that when the hairdresser heard me say I wanted my hair to look a bit “shaggy”, she must have thought I meant that I wanted to look like Shaggy from Scoobie Doo. What I really wanted was to take six inches off my pandemic long and messy hair. Not so radical, really.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;"><br />Now I feel like an over-the-hill Anne of Green Gables. I’m hiding my head under knit caps in sweltering heat until the miracle of time makes me less likely to wake in the night thinking, “How could I have stopped her? Maybe if I’d had time to drink my morning tea before the appointment?”<br /><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">I have curly hair. I learned at a young age to be mistrustful of hairdressers because they almost uniformly seemed out to humiliate me and make me wish for nice, straight black hair. Hairdressers have in the past made me look like Ronald MacDonald, or the ugly double of Molly Ringwald – and now one had made me look like Shaggy.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">So, once I got home, I got out the scissors, trimmed off the lamb butts she’d left dangling around my ears, presumably to leave me looking feminine. This is the lesson that <i>should</i> have stuck since I’ve been doing it since I was four years old: the only person who can cut a curly haired person’s hair, EVER, is a curly haired person.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">When I was four, I ruined my mother’s plan for how a curly haired redhead should look when going to Easter services in Lutheran land. I don’t remember cutting off all my perfect ringlets, but I’m sure I had them when she put the little white dress on me. My hair goes into natural rag curls at a certain length.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">The following is the progression, from long to short: Janis Joplin hair → ghastly misshapen pageboy with cocker spaniel payos → perfect ringlets → Ronald MacDonald ’fro → sheep’s butt pompadour → rough hewn pixie cut.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">Back to the four-year-old Easter me: I remember reaching up to answer the door of the Northern Minnesotan farm. (We were not farmers, but my father’s family was.) I remember looking way up at my handsome grandfather – black slicked back hair, square jaw, charming smile, and a white or maybe tan suit – smiling at me. I don’t remember my mother screaming at me for an hour, which would normally have been part of the story. This was because my grandfather, who was no one’s angel ever except for that day, did his Cary Grant imitation, saying I looked “real cute.” I was hooked. I cut my hair on the regular starting then.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">Periodically, I’d forget the lesson. Once, it was because I wanted to look like I had a pageboy for straight haired people (like a knight’s squire), and I knew straight haired people got those at hairdressers. So I’d get it cut. Then I’d be mortified and feel like the world’s biggest 80s failure because even Molly Ringwald’s red locks weren’t as puffy as mine.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">I’d let my hair grow for the next six years, brushing it inventively and covering it with a beret. When it was well below my shoulder blades, I cut it all off. Stunned members of my high school class were heard muttering, “I can’t believe she cut it off.” I wasn’t even remotely popular, so this concern seems outsized. It was a good cut, done by me, and they should have appreciated it.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">Years later, when I moved to Providence, I forgot again. I made one last attempt at an adolescent cut, even though I was now 32, to have an English schoolboy/skater cut. I’d wanted to be an English schoolboy, a la Brideshead revisited, for as long as I could remember. Immediately after, I walked up, grinning, to my then husband and our friend, waiting at the park. (This friend’s own hair famously looks like it belongs to the 80s Greatest American Hero titular hero.) They said, “Ooo. Badd cut, hunh?”<br /><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">When I got cancer the first time and knew I would lose all my hair, I had a professional hack it off. The hairdresser was kind and did a great job. This experience led to my (hesitantly) thinking an occasional cut might be doable. It might be nice and grown up to be pampered this way once in a while. Once my hair grew back in enough, a few years later, I got it cut again. This hairdresser blow dried it straight with one of those rolling hairbrushes, and I looked like a lady who lunches. It was fine after I took a shower. Success! I went to her again, and this time told her to hold off on the blow dry. Success again!<br /><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">The third time was NOT a charm. I really should have been warned by that blow dry esthetic. It’s really all my fault. She immediately cut hair from the top of my head, beginning from the top in layering, which is something you NEVER do with curly hair. Unless you <i>want </i>to look like Lionel Ritchie singing <i>Hello, Is It Me You’re Looking For?<br /></i><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">Horrified, I told her the top was way too short, and she tried to fix it by making the rest way more revoltingly puffy. She felt terrible and wanted to get me not to pay, but I’m an artist and a teacher and know what having an off day feels like, so I couldn’t do that. I came home and started chopping off my hair. Then I numbed out by running, then watching television, then painting until bleary eyed. I woke in the wee hours wishing it had been a nightmare. I loved my hair, and now I have a misfired mop squatting on my scalp.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">This is SO trivial. People around the world are dying. I need to find new health insurance just in case I get major cancer a third time (the minor cancers didn’t count). But my vanity is really throwing me for a loop.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">I started thinking about the fact that a headscarf feels too feminine, and lipstick is right out. It’s been a looong while since I could wear a dress. Every time I wear something feminine, it feels like I’m role playing. But I was okay with my hair. I’ve been surgically neutered in so many ways – no breasts, no ovaries, no uterus, no husband (divorce is very messy surgery) – but I was still okay with my pinned up hair.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">I want to be a nonbinary Edith Wharton character. A kind of Orlando with Virginia Wolff’s hairdo. A Miranda from <i>The Tempest</i> who never needs to be unmasked. Or David Bowie at any point in his life.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">Instead, I’m a wide hipped mother (not even thicc, because that requires sexy clothes) who looks like she either plays softball with the coach from Glee or has simply given up all sexual appeal in capitulation to the stressors of middle age. Or both.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">I am grimly waiting six months for my hair to grow out to the length I’d actually requested when I went to the hairdresser. </span></div>Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-25580601254259387592021-06-18T22:30:00.000-04:002021-06-18T22:30:26.902-04:00Frog Stripes - Continued Inspiration from Yayoi Kusama and the Influence of Printmakers<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/T0xACE_LXFc" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><div>Stencils, stamps, and scotch tape... These are a few of my favorite things! </div><div><br /></div><div>Using some of the approaches given to painters by the printmaking world (more on this later – giving thanks to Edo Japan for opening up the ports to foreign commerce in the 1800s), I created the above video to show the process of playing with patterns.</div><div><br /></div><div>My friend Rick Lescault's band, Skyjelly, created the music - Boy48 - and allowed me to use it. </div><div><br /></div><div>I also received permission to share work from two stunningly talented students, Courtney and Ananya. They produced their solutions to this prompt: How can you make a patterned frog and its environment co-dominant?</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JiPcjaAC70c/YM1Vqd71pQI/AAAAAAAABso/0KnKPAB4basydrR5Vt4bytInvGb37SD3wCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/frogAnanyaKusama.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JiPcjaAC70c/YM1Vqd71pQI/AAAAAAAABso/0KnKPAB4basydrR5Vt4bytInvGb37SD3wCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/frogAnanyaKusama.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">frog by Ananya copyright Ananya 2021, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">used with permission</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-odclk2CIChI/YM1VmKCn2rI/AAAAAAAABsk/bCyNRo1bnggyDk_IgFVFL0mjOeRgX8AFACNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_9322.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1386" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-odclk2CIChI/YM1VmKCn2rI/AAAAAAAABsk/bCyNRo1bnggyDk_IgFVFL0mjOeRgX8AFACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_9322.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">frog by Courtney, copyright Courtney 2021, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">used with permission</span></div></div></div></div></div>Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-73651557914420404602021-06-06T11:05:00.001-04:002021-06-06T16:39:16.715-04:00 Hans Hofmann: teaching one abstract painting technique<p>Students are, as I have said before, the best thing that ever happened to my art making process. </p><p>Case in point: I teach one lovely woman who works in a hospital by day, and is exploring color and expression through oil paint on her off days. </p><p>We began with a simple-ish painting of a blooming dogwood in rain, but she quickly expressed a preference for the proto-Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966) paintings I shared with her. By the next week, she'd bought a book on the subject.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53dbeb2ce4b030ce3177df92/1413416470238-IN9DXFLS9CP37F0VVM0V/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kLvvJ-hVI7vUwKMbfdt3tntZw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWQUxwkmyExglNqGp0IvTJZUJFbgE-7XRK3dMEBRBhUpwZWU9DA9PsDveHwqyTXeX18YanrmIaFbpDs2wQiyNgZHBAIxG7trsHygMw4ZtQo4g/image-asset.jpeg?format=500w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="500" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53dbeb2ce4b030ce3177df92/1413416470238-IN9DXFLS9CP37F0VVM0V/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kLvvJ-hVI7vUwKMbfdt3tntZw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWQUxwkmyExglNqGp0IvTJZUJFbgE-7XRK3dMEBRBhUpwZWU9DA9PsDveHwqyTXeX18YanrmIaFbpDs2wQiyNgZHBAIxG7trsHygMw4ZtQo4g/image-asset.jpeg?format=500w" /></a></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span face="proxima-nova"><span style="font-size: 7pt;">Miz—Pax Vobiscum</span></span></em><span face="proxima-nova"><span style="font-size: 7pt;">, 1964</span></span></div><span face="proxima-nova"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 7pt;">Oil on canvas</span></div></span><span face="proxima-nova"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 7pt;">77 3/8 x 83 5/8 in. (196.5 x 212.4 cm)</span></div></span><span face="proxima-nova"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 7pt;">Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX. Museum purchase (1987.3.P.P.)</span></div></span><span face="proxima-nova"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 7pt;">Photography courtesy of Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth</span></div></span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“I told a friend about Hofmann,” she said, “and he said, 'Hold on!' He showed me a painting of colored squares he'd done. But … it was just colored squares on a canvas,” she laughed.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Already she understands that Hans Hofmann's paintings are not just squares of color on a canvas. It's wonderful when a student comes equipped with such sensibility!</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">We decided to reproduce one of his paintings by following his process. The end goal would be to create on canvas what Hans Hofmann called "push pull," and Josef Albers called "non dominance."</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Elaine de Kooning (the better de Kooning painter, in my opinion, and an invaluable annotator of art history as she participated in it) laid out Hofmann's approach in <a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/hans-hofmann-paints-a-picture-2125/" target="_blank">this</a> fascinating article in Art News.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">First, a complicated subject is required. I chose chairs around a kitchen table.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rfEKBMhrOII/YLgSdv2zzgI/AAAAAAAABqs/sE5DiwyIsbwnemesDID_FXgNnxS4wIVlQCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_9171.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rfEKBMhrOII/YLgSdv2zzgI/AAAAAAAABqs/sE5DiwyIsbwnemesDID_FXgNnxS4wIVlQCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_9171.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">study by Julia Gandrud</i></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Hans Hofmann used a messy studio, and the predictability and familiarity of chairs and dresser legs, to help create a space we recognize in spite of the overlapping lines. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">He then blocked out what he wanted to sit back, creating a central subject. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vBwFN3gl6gE/YLgSkmpysCI/AAAAAAAABqw/JB7GSaCkJ2EdJQqYy404s9cYidqzVnIUQCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_9210.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vBwFN3gl6gE/YLgSkmpysCI/AAAAAAAABqw/JB7GSaCkJ2EdJQqYy404s9cYidqzVnIUQCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_9210.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">study by Julia Gandrud</i></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">From there, he began to wrestle with light, immediacy, and push pull by creating large rectangular areas in pure color. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BAPu_F3Tp2k/YLgSqc5NR4I/AAAAAAAABq0/0smbWXS4ltkCt3ALF7egXeWqZTFXUHqOQCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_9212.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1490" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BAPu_F3Tp2k/YLgSqc5NR4I/AAAAAAAABq0/0smbWXS4ltkCt3ALF7egXeWqZTFXUHqOQCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_9212.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">study by Julia Gandrud</i></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">As de Kooning notes, “<span style="color: black;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span>By this time (after three hours’ work), the artist was holding fifteen brushes in his left hand, and his four original colors had each multiplied into as many distinct tones.</span></span></span>”</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Try it out yourself!</p>Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-17747221696815228312021-06-01T14:46:00.006-04:002021-06-06T11:25:35.782-04:00Color Wheels following 3 different rules<p> Creating a color wheel may not be glamorous, but it's a great way to help beginner - and even some advanced - painters step up their color understanding. </p><p>The benefits include: </p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>understanding the spectrum transitions</li><li>learning to mix tertiary colors</li><li>developing a preference for certain pigments</li><li>later use for color scheme selection</li></ul><p></p><p>In this post, I will only address the approaches for the creation of color wheels. Color schemes will come up in another post.</p><p><br /></p><p><i><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;">Dark to white</span></i></p><p>Here is a 12 color wheel with an acrylic base. Each inner circle approaches white, while the exterior circle is mixed with black.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-24f91r49vGo/YLZ5K43rfiI/AAAAAAAABqU/5c5P_R-q0nMDjQDmEYQIDzmeG1CMJSe6wCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/colorWheelJuliaAcrylic.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1933" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-24f91r49vGo/YLZ5K43rfiI/AAAAAAAABqU/5c5P_R-q0nMDjQDmEYQIDzmeG1CMJSe6wCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/colorWheelJuliaAcrylic.JPG" /></a></div><br /></div>The pigments are: <p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Quinacridone Crimson</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Cadmium red hue</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Cadmium red hue & cadmium yellow hue (more red)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Cadmium red hue & cadmium yellow hue (more yellow)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Cadmium yellow hue</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Cadmium green & cadmium yellow hue</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Cadmium green</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Thalo blue</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Titanium white & cobalt blue</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Ultramarine blue</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Ultramarine blue & quinacridone crimson</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Permanent violet dark</span></p><p><i><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;">Tints</span></i></p><p>In the following oil based color wheel I have chosen different pigments. I always use three different blues - you simply can't capture all the sky and wave colors without them.</p><p>This time, the center goes toward gray, mixing in both mars black and titanium white with each interior circle.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2WB1fw-Pink/YLZ7dntUmRI/AAAAAAAABqc/ZUfFDoQGbmYbmJYh6NFq4oC2xJnl0WiXgCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/oiltintcolorwheel.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2WB1fw-Pink/YLZ7dntUmRI/AAAAAAAABqc/ZUfFDoQGbmYbmJYh6NFq4oC2xJnl0WiXgCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/oiltintcolorwheel.JPG" /></a></div>The pigments are: <p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Alizarine Crimson<br />Cadmium red hue<br />Cadmium red hue & cadmium orange hue <br />Cadmium orange hue <br />Cadmium yellow hue<br />Cadmium yellow hue & thalo green<br />Thalo green<br />Thalo blue<br />Cobalt blue<br />Ultramarine blue<br />Cobalt blue & cadmium red hue<br />Dioxazine purple</span></p><p><i><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;">Neutrals</span></i></p><p>In the final color wheel, also oil based, the concept was to focus on the neutrals. I did this by mixing a touch of the opposite color on the wheel (what I sometimes brutishly but not strictly accurately be called its complimentary color). The result can lead to some beautifully subtle colors.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pipqD_nb5aU/YLZ9Yz2R6mI/AAAAAAAABqk/HSrvDr6dffI118Ree9H_0a51st20_K43wCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/oilneutrals.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pipqD_nb5aU/YLZ9Yz2R6mI/AAAAAAAABqk/HSrvDr6dffI118Ree9H_0a51st20_K43wCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/oilneutrals.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p>The pigments are: </p><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Magenta (quinacridone & titanium white)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Cadmium red hue</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Cadmium red hue & cadmium orange hue <br />Cadmium orange hue </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Cadmium yellow hue</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Cadmium yellow hue & thalo green</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Thalo green</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Thalo blue</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Cobalt blue</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Ultramarine blue</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Cobalt blue & cadmium red hue</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">Dioxazine purple</span></p><p>In that last color wheel, notice the transition from the warm purple to cadmium yellow - I have often seen this color in the shadows of concrete structures.</p>Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-25003516396264104762021-04-18T22:50:00.002-04:002021-04-18T22:50:45.776-04:00Moving on by writing it down - the potential healing power of telling your story<p style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Normally, I am a painter and writer of fiction. I also write nonfiction blog posts about art and literature. </span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lately, however, I've been stuck in the writing. It's as if the task of writing will open up floodgates, but I don't have the key right now. I'm having a hard time moving forward with that.</span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">For creative and healing reasons, I wonder if it might help to write parts of my story in long form, however informally. </span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I've recently come out of a divorce, aka death of a two decade relationship. That was after a long struggle to find employment (substitute teaching filled the gap, until I found a better fit with art teaching), and a sense of impossibility for my life as an artist, leading to an emotional inability even to pick up a paint brush. </span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The divorce was immediately preceded by a second bout of cancer, major surgery to remove my womb (read creativity and feeling valued as a woman) during a pandemic year.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zguV7EPMSDE/YHtelgbtpjI/AAAAAAAABo8/EB85S-9mEdkH4vAX3lydwza1k8A31CbzgCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_7257.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zguV7EPMSDE/YHtelgbtpjI/AAAAAAAABo8/EB85S-9mEdkH4vAX3lydwza1k8A31CbzgCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_7257.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-STiAxMKKtLM/YHtelt6k_PI/AAAAAAAABpA/lSDuVhDtpBsBdbjSwT8XyfnWp56ZQeuOQCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_7249.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1587" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-STiAxMKKtLM/YHtelt6k_PI/AAAAAAAABpA/lSDuVhDtpBsBdbjSwT8XyfnWp56ZQeuOQCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_7249.jpg" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thank goodness for teaching – without that, I would not have started painting again. I'd be as stuck in the visual arts as I currently am in my writing. </span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">When that first student wanted oil painting lessons, I felt a bit like a fraud. It had been so long, and my soul felt too ravaged. My creativity felt beaten down, a lifeless animal. I owe my students all my gratitude.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Writing is a different story... hah. I don't know where the person who wrote to THE END on five first drafts went. I mean, I didn't polish and publish, but still.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Maybe I'm too stuck in my own story. Would it help to write a memoir, clear the decks? </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">If I wrestled through my own story, could I move forward with characters and perspectives outside my own again? Would it help me move on to write nonfiction books related to my own story, focusing on how to teach painting?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pix3RGZJ-Is/YHtelmJvp5I/AAAAAAAABpQ/qUX284KTO8YQfSDR0YEB40WRWIXfEp7BACPcBGAYYCw/s2048/IMG_7256.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1576" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pix3RGZJ-Is/YHtelmJvp5I/AAAAAAAABpQ/qUX284KTO8YQfSDR0YEB40WRWIXfEp7BACPcBGAYYCw/s320/IMG_7256.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #454545;">I'd like to write a book, or several, that offers art teachers a few ways to teach painting. Teach others to teach color, pattern, and design non dominance – this is both political and aesthetic in the visual world – in a way that another artist could pass on to their students.</span> </span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Something is holding me back. I wish I could figure out what it is.</span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p>Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-52749318978246211772021-04-16T21:27:00.005-04:002021-04-16T21:34:55.551-04:00Tension between subject and background in painting creates visual democracy - Patterns<span face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 12px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MP_AfGbRxqY/TJ3nebQ8HRI/AAAAAAAAAN8/OkE4JMDgW1IH-oSfzUnDeoVhQmXqZgS0ACPcBGAYYCw/s486/PenroseTilesOnlySmall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MP_AfGbRxqY/TJ3nebQ8HRI/AAAAAAAAAN8/OkE4JMDgW1IH-oSfzUnDeoVhQmXqZgS0ACPcBGAYYCw/s320/PenroseTilesOnlySmall.jpg" /></a></div></span><p>Supposedly, the placement occurrence of motifs in Penrose tilings are impossible to predict in 2, 3, or 4 dimensions. One looks a bit like a joker, another motif like a snowflake, etc. We can assume they will reoccur, much like we can assume that there are no end to prime numbers, but both of those assumptions require fancy mathematical proofs.</p><p>Whatever. My point is that some people think you can predict Penrose tiles in a higher (5th) dimension – planes upon planes colliding and multiplying, in a sense, but ironing out to something comprehensible.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eq0inzOY2y8/TJ3neqe2wYI/AAAAAAAAAOE/7lKGsKLfOT8jTUfAFzsBWzEkPXjkwWtCQCPcBGAYYCw/s484/penrose5colorsSmall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="484" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eq0inzOY2y8/TJ3neqe2wYI/AAAAAAAAAOE/7lKGsKLfOT8jTUfAFzsBWzEkPXjkwWtCQCPcBGAYYCw/s320/penrose5colorsSmall.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p>Here is an earlier post on the subject: </p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.25em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px;"><a href=" http://julialikesfrogs.blogspot.com/2010/09/caspar-david-friedrich-romanticism.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">Caspar David Friedrich, Romanticism, Penrose, and the 5th Dimension</span></a></h3><div><br /></div><div>And then Yayoi Kusama puts a dot on it. Multiple dots. And psychedelic mushrooms in neon colors on black light. Fun. Why? Tension? Democracy of subject? That's my favorite explanation - visual democracy.<br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ek1I6TY4bCc/YHo1gNAYRUI/AAAAAAAABos/z1Q2SavYDNcE1zum_oRFM_o2r4gxPA3bACNcBGAsYHQ/s619/YayoiKusamaMushrooms.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="619" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ek1I6TY4bCc/YHo1gNAYRUI/AAAAAAAABos/z1Q2SavYDNcE1zum_oRFM_o2r4gxPA3bACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/YayoiKusamaMushrooms.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2019/FE07" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">[Image: Yayoi Kusama "Mushrooms" (2005) acrylic on canvas. 24.5 x 50.5cm.]</span></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">***</div></div><div><br />
I wanted to work with students to create this competition between subject and background. We chose a lovely spotted frog as our subject, and a not especially aggressive play on the spots and patterns in the background. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2IunqAFPS38/YHo4u0v1YWI/AAAAAAAABo0/sPGTQ6m081AYfJJGfsyjTw3V0MfomJx-wCNcBGAsYHQ/s351/SmallBlogFrogJuliaLikesFrogs.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="287" data-original-width="351" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2IunqAFPS38/YHo4u0v1YWI/AAAAAAAABo0/sPGTQ6m081AYfJJGfsyjTw3V0MfomJx-wCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/SmallBlogFrogJuliaLikesFrogs.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;">Frog in Frogland, by Julia Gandrud, copyright 2021, all rights reserved</span></div><div><br /></div><div>I'll add a student's work when they are finished with it.</div></div>Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769808884499366340.post-70466403077153773032020-11-30T12:43:00.001-05:002020-11-30T12:46:34.359-05:00Elementary School Pandemic Hothouse<p>I don't know how to talk about the month (only one month) that I spent teaching art in an elementary school during the pandemic. I started, and I left, out of necessity. The first, being willing to work physically in the schools, I volunteered to do because I love to teach, and, as a recently divorced single mother, I needed a job. The reason I left is more complicated. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WRPxB7OeAKQ/X8UvFXHnr4I/AAAAAAAABlE/ePCmjLKIlrswkAGXMB3Mku8QlRFohkBvACNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/COVIDschoolbag.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1584" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WRPxB7OeAKQ/X8UvFXHnr4I/AAAAAAAABlE/ePCmjLKIlrswkAGXMB3Mku8QlRFohkBvACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/COVIDschoolbag.JPG" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999; font-size: x-small;">image copyright Julia Gandrud 2020</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">How to explain the hothouse of love and fear in that literally brick and mortar building? The red alertness on the faces of staff, the fatigue so deep that many adults ran on electricity only? The grief, joy, love, gratitude, rage, abandonment in the words and actions of the beautiful kids? They were the sun, even at their worst. And there was some astoundingly bad behavior... even then, those children were beautiful. My heart breaks, thinking of them, as individuals and as a group, knowing that I abandoned them, in the end. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">As I said, I'm a single mother and have my own kids most of the school year. After only a few weeks of teaching, I was sent home because of close contact exposure (a student who regularly ran around the room, joking and laughing during lunches, mask down, unable to absorb the weirdness of not being able to be a normal kid). </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Wouldn't you know it? During that week, I got a rash. It was so bad that my eyes swelled nearly shut. It was so bad that I couldn't sit still for the itching. I called in for a telehealth session. That nurse wanted me to go to urgent care. Urgent care wouldn't see me because I was on close contact quarantine. They sent me to the emergency room... which was overflowing. Again, I had two kids at home, alone, during this. I couldn't risk wading past the COVID tents (yes, there were those) to wait in the emergency room, then get treated, for the rest of the day.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I went home. I did not get treated. Luckily for me, I have a friend eleven hours away who is a dermatologist. She could do trial and error treatment with me via text and photos, calling in prescriptions. A few weeks later, I still have itches – it was likely poison ivy, not impetigo or the other horrible disease the nurse first thought.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I have had cancer twice – well, three times if you count the minor skin cancer – and can't play around. I chose to quit. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I cried as I wrote the letter to the principal. I felt depressed for days after. My heart breaks, hoping those kids are happy with whoever replaced me. I hope that person is brilliant and strong. </p>Julia Gandrud (aka JuliaLikesFrogs)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09599474074805067799noreply@blogger.com0Providence, RI, USA41.8239891 -71.412834313.513755263821153 -106.5690843 70.134222936178844 -36.2565843