Some of My Art. . .

[catscradle]

After finally seeing Frida yesterday, I felt a bit inspired. I scanned a bunch of my doodles and thought I'd share. I haven't finished the gallery yet, but here are a few pieces. . .

One I did last night:


Heart of the River

About a month ago:


Leary's Brain

Two years ago:


Despair

Four years ago:


Rat

Six years ago:


Jellyfish

Comments

[damoyre.livejournal.com]

Very nice! Don't ever tell me again that you can't draw, because I won't believe you! I think the jellyfish is my favorite. :)

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

Actually, I can't draw. I think the ability to draw means that someone can say "Draw me a picture of a cow" and then you produce a cow. I can't do that. When pencil sketching, I need a model or the picture turns out looking nothing like what it's suppose to. And forget people, I can't get a resemblance to save my life. I'm okay painting and using oil pastels if the subject is abstact and resides in my head - but I can't draw *g*

=)

[versailles-rose.livejournal.com]

I love the jellyfish! There was this big ole jellyfish in the Charleston Visitor's Center last year in this tank. I'd see him every day. He was so cool. =))

Re: =)

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

Jellyfish are cool ! Every year while on vacation, my sister would get stung by one. Hmmm. . . And there's a very cool jellyfish tank at a Sushi bar down town. . . I'm thrilled that most people seem to like this one *g*

Oh, and you did make me smile the other day =) I miss the gathering at O'Flaherty's. . .*sigh*

[geckodru.livejournal.com]

I have a couple scans around...
"I have cried .... tears left."
AND
"...: Portrait of woman in misery."

Between the titles I've given these paintings and reading through many of my old internet posts, I scarcely recognize who wrote all that angsty, haltingly grammatical balderdash. Not that I don't have my moments now, but the lapses in grammar are far less common and my usual balderdash dwells more on nothing than misappropriated scorn.

Still: Do not misunderestimate my capacification for Busheries and other -isms!

Give me some time and prodding and I may turn up those old pictures.

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

It's occured to me that we had quite a few quiet discussions in class on index cards - which I kept in part for a rather long time, but have misplaced after various moves - or perhaps they remain in a sealed box in Ohio. Have any of those treasures saved? My favoite being on stereo bullshit and surround sound (featuring Sean, Todd and John). Priceless in my book.

Thank you for all you've supplied me with thus far.

[geckodru.livejournal.com]

Yes. Stereo bullshit is a term that I haven't used frequently enough. Punk rock attitude is what it was. Plenty of it still there, though I am not as ready to deride people even when they are thoughtless and confused. Thoughtless and confused. Haven't we all been?

I miss those notes. I don't have much of anything from college. Turns out that people who don't take notes don't have notebooks to look back at to jog their memories. And here I thought those pages were only for the tests.

Minogue and Waller were so much more Zen the Bache could ever be.
Can you imagine Bache trying to remain calm while two undergrads pass notes and
ignore his lectures?

Amazing!

Amazing.

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

I think Minogue and Waller realized that we were the two best students and were probably exchanging important dialogue that would only strengthen our brilliance. Or maybe Waller really was just that laid back. As a behavioralist, he very much believed we couldn't do otherwise. Minogue. . . I don't know why Minogue let us get away with that. Except that he knew us well by then. He knew how we tested and how we participated in class. Though I do recall a time he asked you to shut down your computer when it started making loud beeping sounds.

Amongst those who would light a classroom on fire, there is a brotherhood.

[geckodru.livejournal.com]

In my first Minogue class, I sat in the front row. The first few sessions I read a book, then I decided that I would be able to do something else entirely. Not a week had passed by and I was spreading pages and pages of sheet music on those big desks. I tried not to hum too loudly. Brendon only asked once what I was doing, more interested than offended. "Writing music."

In Critical thinking with Bruce Waller, the class made it to appeal to authority, to which I responded that what was written in the book was wrong. Bruce, being the author of the book, was not at all offended. He said that he's had arguments over that section with Dr. Minogue and other people and has not changed it because nobody else sounded right. He summed up their arguments. I replied that I knew exactly what was wrong with his and his critics definitions of appeal to authority. We continued our exchange outside of the class. He changed his book. I was in the acknowledgements for one edition. I passed on the opportunity to actually write that section of the book.

My thoughts are that they didn't so much recognize brilliance as INSANITY! We were completely nuts and they did not know what to do besides smile and nod.

Re: Amongst those who would light a classroom on fire, there is a brotherhood.

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

You may be right. Minogue once denied ever teaching me that relativism nonsense I was espousing in one of his classes - I think one you were in too. . . can't remember the exact class, but it was the one where I had the epiphany of what you were talking about during your Josiah Royce obsession. Minogue said "I never taught you that! You didn't learn it from me!" Um, yeah, I did actually. Didn't hear about it till you. You made it very appealing too. "I did not! You read that on your own!" Or maybe it was that Minogue was insane. . . He did set the classroom on fire. . .

[vasiliki.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you draw too! Very interesting art. VERY interesting!
I like especially Rat and Jellyfish, but Heart of the river and Leary's Brain too! (and this means a lot coming from someone who doesn't like modern abstract art!)

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't really draw. I think Rat, which most artists could do in a minute, took me a few hours and I had to look at a picture of a rat *g* I'm glad you like my stuff though. I'll have the full gallery up in a few days =)