Working online with a Parisian actress, model, clown!
Philosophical poem with naked model
Does the habitual expression of your lips express your personality, / Or does your personality organize itself around such things as / Your lips’ look?
Make lines, lots of lines
Nobody can be waiting for the final withering away of all governments, but how about “a rebirth of wonder,” as Lawrence Ferlinghetti proposed in the 1950s? I’m not holding my breath. Faites des lignes, Ingres said, beaucoup de lignes. Make lines, lots of lines.
On Gauguin being chased from museums for being a savage person and having said and done savage things
Let those sans sin, one might reply / Yet what’s so special about our times, . . . we shun or, better, expose / Those humans painting too unclothed! / And saying, doing, quite savage things. / While we, the pure, accusations sling!
What did you say the subject was – Expressionism?
I think the subject is going to end up being the dog one of the faculty members has brought along. Will he bark? Will he pee?
Talk about Expressionism! Talk about – hey now! hey! – patting the bourgeoisie, . . .
My secret dream of learning how to draw
Some people, much as many artists long ago, first seek to learn some set idea of the basics before they try to make art. But, for one, we don’t know what the “basics” are any more. Perhaps the most basic and hardest thing is learning how to let one’s heart lose on the paper? And how do you learn that?
Portrait of Tasha, by William Eaton, with colored pencils.
William Eaton 