From a painting class I was taking:
- Velasquez
- Francisco Goya
- Artemesia Gentelleschi
- El Greco
- Edoard Manet
- Rembrandt
- da Vinci
- Courbet
- John Singer Sargent
- Maria Fortuny
- Paul Cezanne
- Matisse
- Bonnard
- Alice Neel
- Paula Rego
- Lucien Freud
- Edward Hopper
- Frank Auerbach
- Antonio Lopez Garcia
- Winslow Homer
- Andrew Wyeth
- Richard Diebenkorn
- David Park
- Elmer Bischoff
- Theo Brown
- Paul Wonner
- Catherine E. Murphy
- Robert Bechtle
- Eric Fischl
- Vincent Disiderio
- Claudio Bravo
- Philip Pearlstein
- Jack Beal
- Avigdor Arikha
- Euan Uglow
- Yan Pei-Ming
- Chuck Close
- Hung Liu
- Jenny Saville
- Neo Rauch
- Kara Walker
- Gottfried Helnwein
- Gerhard Richter
Some of these I know already, and some of them I hate (Chuck Close, except for some of his work). Got any suggestions?
Books:
- Hawthorne on Painting by Hawthorne, new 5.95, used from $2.64,
- The Art Spirit by Robert Henri new 13.57, used from $3.00,
- A Treatise on Painting by Leonardo daVinci, drawings by Poussin, new $9.95, used from $5.69 (all AmazonBooks.com),
- The Encyclopedia of Oil Painting Techniques by Jeremy Galton, Sterling Publishing Co. New York,
- The Artist’s Handbook by Ray Smith, Alfred Knopf,
- The Big Book of Drawing and Painting the Figure by Muntsa Calbo I Angrill,
- Color in Contemporary Painting by Charles LeClair,
- A Painterly Approach by Mary Beth McKenzie,
- Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist by Stephen Rogers Peck,
- Life Drawing in Charcoal by Douglas Graves,
- Alla Prima Everything I Know About Painting by Richard Schmid,
- Painting People, figure painting today, Charlotte Mullins
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on Apr 22 12:44 PM,
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I need to journal more! Hmm, I had a great time doing the april fools day posts Been working on site stuff a fair amount lately. Redid the currency conversion. Working on a facebook app. Lots of little things and bug reports. Working with a new guy about getting an agency that might help improve our CPM some over google's. testing posting youtube videos in journals...
I need to journal more!
Hmm, I had a great time doing the april fools day posts
Been working on site stuff a fair amount lately. Redid the currency conversion. Working on a facebook app. Lots of little things and bug reports.
Working with a new guy about getting an agency that might help improve our CPM some over google's.
testing posting youtube videos in journals...
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hmm, not sure how to explain where my last few weeks have gone figure drawing and charcoal class continues. my charcoals are getting quite good, and i'm very proud of the last three I did, especially the big back piece... which i was ready to give up on a few days ago, but its great now that its finished I'm starting to realize using charcoal as a value study for other mediums isn't going to work as well ...
hmm, not sure how to explain where my last few weeks have gone
figure drawing and charcoal class continues. my charcoals are getting quite good, and i'm very proud of the last three I did, especially the big back piece... which i was ready to give up on a few days ago, but its great now that its finished I'm starting to realize using charcoal as a value study for other mediums isn't going to work as well as I'd hoped. also that figure drawing and anatomy is a really really really difficult thing that will take more time than i really feel like throwing at it. I hate it when a discipline suddenly seems to be as difficult as everyone else has made it seem - i love it when things come naturally and you don't have to work very hard for them.
i reorganized the library/baby room, took down one of the bookshelves, put a bunch of books i don't want to read very often in tupperwares in storage. installed the blinds (finally) - the continuous cord loop system has irritatingly to be attached to the wall now, so its not so easy to use them. sometime safety is irritating, but i suppose i'll have to get over that with having kids soon.
lately i've decided writing reviews of things you watch/read makes you remember them much better!
movie reviews:
avatar: best movie i've seen in awhile. such a wonderful utopian view of what life could be like. so what if its naive and the warrior-race really is probably pretty anti-woman and expressive and has authoritarian discipline and a poorly communicative or representational ruling class. or that they're rude and mean. the living world i believed in was very inspiring and i left the movie wishing that i could stay... i found jake's acceptance as one of them very surprising to the point of disbelieve, but it worked with what i wanted to hear so i let it go. his transformation from no legs to avatar creature was so beautiful i cried (alot). it spoke of coming of age in a different way - becoming the creature and person you were always mean to be. they portrayed his navu character so powerfully and capably, it spoke to the inner confidence we could all have..
alice in wonderland:
the 3d wasn't nearly as compelling as it was for avatar. I liked the premise wrapped around the novel. or perhaps it was in the novel and I just don't recall very well - i haven't' read it since i was a tee...
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Tara and I got back from a trip to Savannah, Georgia on Wed night. The CSCW computer-science conference was there, so these are some notes from that (enjoyable) experience. Tara had a workshop on Saturday, so I relaxed, surfed the web (reading a lot about art stuff & wetcanvas), and previewed the conference schedule. The papers weren't on a dvd this year and the usb keys were stuck in china somewhere, so pieced together what papers i could find via google scholar online. ...
Tara and I got back from a trip to Savannah, Georgia on Wed night. The CSCW computer-science conference was there, so these are some notes from that (enjoyable) experience.
Tara had a workshop on Saturday, so I relaxed, surfed the web (reading a lot about art stuff & wetcanvas), and previewed the conference schedule. The papers weren't on a dvd this year and the usb keys were stuck in china somewhere, so pieced together what papers i could find via google scholar online. This was the first conference I was really prepared for, and it was a fun and different experience. I was pretty social, but always had a session I was looking forward to going to. Except for the two afternoon ones that we skipped to go running
Trends - lots of talks about the "facebook era," and different methods of evaluating trends in social networking. For example, I liked Ayman's poster about analysis of twitter post keywords and frequency and comparing terms with the closed-captioning and spikes with pauses in the inauguration speech.
The keynote was great - Clay Shirky was a good speaker and had a lot of thought-provoking ideas to present. One that stuck with me was the 16 year old girl (Gnarly kitty) in Thailand who blogged about the military coup but then the next post was about a photoshopped phone, and she replied to complaints with its my blog - leave me alone. To reject an audience was an interesting point. He also mentioned fanfiction.net, and its policing of plagarism (cassandra claire, when really they're all stealing premises illegally to start with). His talk went on to discuss culture, motivation, and effects. Women in wikipedia. Josh Groban charity groups and corporate identity.
work vs. Work vs. hobbies. work == hobbies to a new level? I'm somewhat confused about the difference, but I think its just in the number of hours and professionalism dedicated to it. Internally, I think, the motivations of either money or social support are somewhat similar, and its easy to treat hobbies as Work.
how is art usable? how do we interact with it? how do we learn about it? how can it be improved?
One of my favorite talks was the first one I attended, doing a text-based social network analysis of chat in a team group setting. Use of punctuation shows friendliness. Can determine who is manager or respected based on language analysi...
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This is one of the many baby books Tara and I have checked out of the library. It has some interest ideas in it, which I'll blog about below so I can remember them when they're useful for my child eventually Kids are trained, just like animals, just like adults. If they always fall asleep on the breast, they'll always only want to fall asleep on the best. Routines are very important. As tara's aunt put it, bath brush book bed. Or as ...
This is one of the many baby books Tara and I have checked out of the library. It has some interest ideas in it, which I'll blog about below so I can remember them when they're useful for my child eventually
Kids are trained, just like animals, just like adults. If they always fall asleep on the breast, they'll always only want to fall asleep on the best.
Routines are very important. As tara's aunt put it, bath brush book bed. Or as the book puts it more specifically (she's big with log-keeping and stuff too... I guess we might try it if we struggle). put on pajamas, snack, brush teeth, read 3 books, get water, go potty, turn on night-light, kisses, hugs, back rub., kid to bed, parents to bed. You can make a poster and put it on their wall.
When breastfeeding at night, always detach as baby gets sleepy, not has fallen asleep. Use a finger to break the seal, then set them down to fall asleep by themselves. They may wake up and root again, then feed them again, but repeat the detach-before-sleeping routine.
Keep logs of naps, their length, sleepy-times, bedtime sleep and # of night awakenings and for what reason. Notice progress. Look for signs of fatigue. Keep daytime naps to 1.5-2 hours. Put baby to sleep pretty early, but try to get an idea of when baby gets tired, especially when starting to try sleeping through the night.
Make night sleeping different from day naps. Day naps have light in room and noises remotely. Night sleeping, try to assure them that its "nite nite". No talking other than that. No lights at night, nightlight only. Change only soiled or very wet diapers. Quick diaper changes with warm wipes if necessary. No activity toys near or in bed. A stuffed animal as a "lovey" is good though. Keep your "smell" in the crib, either keep the sheet in your bed or nightshirt for awhile, or something like that.
Weaning from night-time: have dad sleep in next room and comfort baby when it wakes up, but no mommy.
Key words like "nite nite" are good to repeat as they're going to sleep and when you wake to comfort them in the night. Don't use them when baby is already crying or unhappy or they'll associate them with this state. Much of her suggestions are along these lines - be careful with and use the power of association. Musical night-night queues could work too, as a part of the bedtime routine.
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