Easy to taste Art History with Waldemar

I am intensely enjoying Waldemar Januszczak‘s art history episodes on YouTube. I started with https://youtu.be/M4o1dc41r28 , his Dark Ages: An Age of Light, and YouTube rounded up https://youtu.be/M4o1dc41r28 Baroque: From St Peter’s to St Paul’s. There seem to be quite few. more.

Having completed a binge watch of Tony Robinsons’s Time Team, Wladimir is a delightful find.

The Wikipedia piece sums it up pretty well:

Januszczak has been described as “a passionate art lover, art critic and writer. His presentation style is casual but informed, enthusiastic, evocative and humorous. He bumbles about on our TV screens, doing for art what David Attenborough has done for the natural world,” and someone who acts out of “a refusal to present art as elitist in any way. He makes it utterly accessible and understandable.”^[5]

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All I know is he left the building.

Four heads

Wow. Picked a neglected brush in a Procreate and drew these (bragging) with no underdrawing, but direct. All lively accidents intact.

Getting Out of the Byron Bubble

The View from Oxford & Maitland

In my very first column, I wrote about living in Byron in good ole London Ontario, a very busy life and how I was oblivious to and ready didn’t care as to what was happening in the rest of the city. I am not picking on anyone from Byron or any other suburb. I am speaking from my own experience.

I knew we had homelessness, drugs on the street, a dying downtown and I really didn’t pay much attention to it. I was in my comfy ranch home in Byron with my big backyard and two cars in the driveway. I didn’t give much thought to issues those with disabilities faced or crime, unless it was in my neighbourhood. Oh, we had crime in West London, but, unless it affected me, I didn’t give it much thought. This wasn’t a conscious decision to ignore it. Life was moving pretty damn…

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Sometimes, in between.

A four panel comic for Sammy.

I got a copy of Polarr Deep Crop (iPad) and one of the things it does is this four frame collage with a chosen image cropped in various ways. The AI chosen crops for this structure seem random, but they seem to have a story telling feel.

And I found Comic Draw app (iPad) which basically has everything one needs. Used here for boxes and lettering.

Georgian Bluffs. Not by David Milne.

From a walk along The Bruce at Georgian Bluffs

Man with scythe

# Man with scythe
Maybe late 50’s, early 60’s, after we had moved to the Queens Ave house, I would walk along Queens Ave to Queens Place and down that small lane to Lorne Avenue School\. The dirt lane off English Street was more fun, but the bully thugs hung out there\. Still, I got to bark at the dogs living down Queens Place\.
One morning on the lawn of the cottage opposite Queens Place a man swung a scythe over the overgrown lawn\. The grass was well overgrown\. A mower wasn’t going to cut it\.
From the glimpse of my memory, he wore a fedora, and dark suit jacket coat\. Maybe the pants were blue jeans\. It wasn’t a full suit, but a dark jacket, white shirt and fedora\.
I watched him swing the scythe a few times, decided he wasn’t Death come for me, and walked down the lane to school\.

She makes children of us all’: Guardian writers pick their favourite Kate Bush lyrics

Could be in a dream

Our clothes are on the beach

These prints of our feet

Lead right up to the sea

No one, no one is here

No one, no one is here

We stand in the Atlantic

We become panoramic

And

Who knows who wrote that song of Summer

That blackbirds sing at dusk?

This is a song of colour

Where sands sing in crimson, red and rust

Then climb into bed and turn to dust

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/sep/12/guardian-writers-favourite-kate-bush-lyrics-book

Sometimes events just get away from you

One of the delights, and one of the devils are the same thing: the rapidity of electronic media. It allows immediate responses and demands immediate postings. And even the start of this image is buried beneath how easy it was to dive in, refine, refinish and cover up everything from the beginning scribbles.

The first finish is on the left. I knew what I was drawing so didn’t really see how it wasn’t clear until posted and blogged, and then in the wait, it was obvious what wasn’t obvious, and what was obscuring what needed to be seen. It is also shamefully easy to fix.

Here our provincial premier overreacts to a problem – of his own causing, called by the courts as overreach. The only way out? Nuclear escalation.

Here is a rational explanation

On a roll. Five cartoons this week already and it’s only Tuesday.

On the throne

Go investigate the Dems!

Sometimes you need to look up.

The answer might be there.

I wish I could be calm and quietly articulate about this betraying lying bastard.

 

Outrage and anger comes first. Funny, maybe, comes later.

The Modern Fascist Uniform

From left to right—well, ‘left’ only because the picture plane is flat…

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