Dan, what a profound thought, which shows the depth of your soul more than mine! I was just thinking how I could do a post to pass off a lame sketch, and the metaphysical meanings didn't occur to me.1817 - Situated at the entrance of the Delaware Bay. Now that I've got my art form, I just need to figure out how to make a living at it! This may sound funny, but I've never seen videos Bob Ross or the other guy you mentioned (I heard about them, and have seen their stuff in art stores) because I don't have a TV. CraigStephens, I loved your point tha the blog is the art form. I'm a great admirer of your son Ezra, who is a superb artist, a curious mind, and a fine young man with a sense of service. And Pastor Mark, how cool that you could let us know what the guy inside the lighthouse is thinking. The wreck was pretty banged up and the whole aft bridge section was broken off the rest of the vessel. Thanks, Tom, for the information about the wreck. Oh well, kind of a long comment for me and I apologize if I got a little off topic. I think the shows were kind of brilliant. I have to say that I watched more than one show from beginning to end even though I've never had a desire to paint like that and I find the paintings themselves kind of boring. The constant patter that they kept up about what colors they were mixing and how to angle that two-inch brush just right to make the reeds in the foreground of that lake painting helped move the show along and added a sometimes quirky insight into what was going through their heads as they worked. We got to watch as they magically made a palette knife smear of titanium white look like a snowy mountain peak. Those guys made a half hour video every week about how fun painting could be. It wasn't until years later that I realized that the paintings were not the end product. We'd decry the paintings for being clichéd or unimaginative. When I was in art school those shows were often the butt of our late night, self-important bull sessions. Bob Ross and before him Bill Alexander made those goofy painting shows about how to paint landscapes that were a fixture on public television. I like the fact that the paintings can be taken individually as paintings but I am also becoming more aware of the fact that the blog itself is a sort of work in progress. ![]() In this case your painting, the photograph and what you had to say about it all add up to a delightfully insightful combination and who is to say that that combination is not the point? In my own blog I don't write much but I do have a long record of continuously recording the little paintings that I do. The painting or drawing may not necessarily be the end product. ![]() Posting words and images on a daily basis has made me think about painting and art in a different way. The story of what wasn't shown makes your little study so interesting. A whole range of subjects can be dismissed as sentimental,and the nihilist avant garde establishment has tried to define for us, all landscape not dripping with industrial blight as sentimental.Because of that I often joke with my painter friends ,out on location, "would this be a better painting if I put a burning phone booth in it? "Still there are good paintings yet to be made of children and flowers.Here is a link to a lighthouse painting of my own. Personally I hate monkeys, particularly those who throw their feces or carry the Ebola virus,I can't stand all their nasty yammering and grimacing, but I might enjoy a good painting of one. I think light houses are a fine subject,as I paint often along the coast and on the islands of Maine they are a characteristic part of those places,and they also break the horizon line in what can often be a stripey environment.I think we dislike them because we see so many amateur jobs done from a photo or some production painter making what our predecessors in this game called Buckeye art.I am more interested in the quality of the painting than its subject.For me its not what its a picture of, but how its a picture of.
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