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Paul Dateh – Top 40 Violin mashup
A few minutes ago I came across this video from Paul Dateh which I found quite interesting.
I told my wife you must stop what you are doing and come over and watch this because this is an inspiration, It took a little convincing but once she started watching she didn’t stop.
We both love violin music and while this is Top 40, we were impressed with Paul’s presentation of his effort. He definitely deserves more attention.
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Happy New Year – 2010
Greetings !!!
Happy New Year – 2010!
We have left behind another calendar year. During that time, various things have occurred. We laughed, we created, we learned, we experienced, we faced challenges, we faced fears, and we moved ahead.
No matter what the challenges, we did what we could to make the experience better, we forged ahead despite difficulties (regarding learning or life in general) and here we are, ready to keep on moving.
I have been formulating a post in my mind and just when I think it is the time to post it, something else happens that makes me realize that perhaps it is not yet the appropriate time.
I have come across a few books with very interesting information that has impacted the way I further view art, experiences, life, etc., or perhaps remind me of how I may have seen it before.
Next few posts will be about them, in the mean time…
Carpe Diem
If you have not seen the movie, it is recommended.
Thank you for your readership.
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Local Color – Great Movie
Yesterday I had the opportunity to watch a great movie called “Local Color” – A very uplifting story of a younger person wanting to learn how to paint and an alcoholic painter who has giving up on art and life.
This movie was rented via Netflix, if you have the ability to watch it, I highly recommend it… this movie will definitely be an addition to our collection in the future.
“Don’t you let anyone ever talk you out of what you want to do, what you want to be” – Quote from the movie.
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Dreams – Crows directed by Akira Kurosawa
Just came across this video, the following caught my attention:
“A scene that looks like a painting does not make a painting, if you take time and look closely all of nature has its own beauty …”
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Dutch Light
A couple of weeks ago I noticed that Lou Romano made available the color script of Pixar’s UP movie in his blog.
It was interesting to look at the movie like this. Most of the time we are so caught up on the story that we seldom notice the variations of color, presented to us during the various stages of the story, after all we may go to the movies to unwind, be entertained, be distracted and even be informed as the case might be.
While having lunch with Dice Tsutsumi, and asking him about his role in Pixar, he mentioned that he was an Art Director and dealt with Light, like Lou Romano.
The color script and Dice’s conversation got me thinking about light, up until recently I was preoccupied only with getting it right when sketching, in terms of form, then realized I was striving to make it too perfect (I know, I know – its a sketch not a drawing). I read somewhere If you want it perfect, take a picture… in summary I have come to understand that a sketch is about capturing quickly the feeling of the view before oneself.
While reviewing the art from artists unknown to me as well as those that I admire, I came to realize that in an odd way I may have been on a path to the inclusion of light into my watercolors except that I thought it was a mistake. The watercolor below was one of my first, and strangely enough every time I share my small moleskine watercolor booklet with people they seem to stop at this one (while I explain that the water was never intended to be purple).
While I have been paying attention to everything around me a lot more since I started sketching (and also participating in SketchCrawl), I have now started to pay attention to the contrast of the various tones of light. It’s not that I didn’t pay attention before It is just that I had not conscientiously identified what I was looking at.
This brings me to Dutch Light, while researching lighting I came across a great DVD called Dutch Light
If I recall correctly at one point in the DVD it is mentioned that artists would travel to Holland seeking the Dutch Light that some other artist may have painted… the comment being made was that an artist may seek a location used by another in order to achieve a specific feeling, not realizing that the first may have copied it from yet another artist and/or from somewhere else.
Enjoy!
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Sketching in the Winter
During the past couple of months I have been taking my sketch bag whenever I leave the house, so I have materials at hand when I stop to sketch something on the way back home, however as of late… with the time change by the time I get a chance to sketch something (typically after work on weekdays) It is already too dark.
Solution? I decided to place the following in my car’s glove compartment:
Stratmore small sketch notebook 3.5″ x 5″ and a Pigma Micron Pen (Sepia), small set to carry around and also keep in the car, for any opportunity.
The sketch below was done while sitting in a waiting room.
