Thanksgiving:OTI::pic, notes:::11/26/20

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Orange Crate Labels

from search orange crate label thanksgiving

Notes: Early on, I was so taken with Orange Crate Labels, that I thought to use them for my poetry zine Oranges...this 1987 about...I studied them, bought a few, read McPhee's Oranges, and somewhere I gathered in the the 'why' of the whimsical names, words, on the labels...not all of them had these, but the ones that do have the a charm...and my zine covers were to be like that...Mariposa Brand Oranges Poetry...the idea hasn't gone away...the zine morphed into my blogs...I've lost the why of the whimsy, but looking about at labels, I thought, oh, they are like the prompts for Inktober...artists 'brand' their inks with the prompts...see October's posts!...anyway, I'm working on a post about composition, to include the labels, and some other stuff...hmmph...somewhere someone has the whimsy explained...when I find it, I'll update...Happy Thanksgiving!

from etsy

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DavidDavid

DarkandLight:OTI::one pic, notes:::11/22/20

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Tukut's Lair

Horseman and Desert Buttes

Notes: When I did the fog bank plein air at Aliso Beach, the fog was lit up by the morning sun, and the ocean there about too;  the distant white caps were catching the sun light, as well as the Palm tree tops at the Palace atop the bluff...the Palace, bluff face, and beach, waves, in the foreground were all in shade...the fog was in the distance beyond the bluff, glowing with the sun...this description not met with the painting!...and, and I thought, 'oh, that's that trick I often see, a dark foreground and bright light back ground"...hard to explain...when I put the dark band at the bottom of the seashell paintings, strada easel September 2019, turning the 8x10s into 8x8s, it was a hark to the Andean Tocapus-squares as they are...but I noticed how the black band effected the paintings...hard to explain!...so, soh, I happened on Maynard Dixon's paintings...I've skip read so many art books, all my life, so no telling who I've seen before...Dixon in the mix with Russel and Remington and, who was the third of that trio?...anyway, close looking at Dixon on youtube, I thought, I best leave off, his style is contagious...related to Orange Crate style, my favorite...both derived from Lithography of the time...the fewer the colors the easier to reproduce...Dixon's painting ended up on a lot of magazine covers...he obliged his market...and, and he often has a dark band foreground, horsemen and silhouettes and such...maybe wiki has a copyright ok example...brb...

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Maynard Dixon

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so, soh, Dixon has been a contemplation of late, as that simple color use lends itself to acrylics, which are notoriously difficult to blend...I like acrylics, but I can't blend them!...and, this morning I'm browsing painters the youtube algo librarian is providing thumbnails for, these thumbnails of all things under the Sun a new addictive pastime, I dove into 500 paintings by someone...must be Dixon, I thought, but no, another Western Artist...some of these Western Artists live big, large...they  become rich and famous in the their lifetimes...and the artist is Edgar Payne...and he can't get enough of using the dark band...maybe wiki...brb...

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Edgar Payne

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pics from wiki commons

lol...the band in that one nearly makes a 'tocapu square'...in two dimensional design class, a weeks long project was to grid an 8x10 paper into little "8x10"s. and with just two shapes, then three shapes, make arrangements, compositions, thumbnails...square and circle, square. circle, triangle...some famous Swedish designer came up with this exercise...well, wait, doing thumbnails is kinda universal, and, looking about, I find Edgar Payne's noting of this!...go figure....

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Edgar Payne wrote a book called 'Composition of Outdoor Painting' which is considered a classic. I have to confess that I've never been able to read the whole thing, as I find his writing style to be incredibly ponderous and dull. However, the redeeming strength of his book are the numerous thumbnail compositional studies and examples that describe his ideas, analysis, and advice in a very clear and succinct
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http://billcone.blogspot.com/2012/03/edgar-payne-show.html

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anyway, I struggled through that assignment, still have them somewhere, and, don't have much truck with thumbnails!...another curio about Payne, is that early on, as an artist vagabond, he landed in Laguna Beach...one of the Plein Air Founders...and from travels about California, discovered the Sierra Nevada...a fellow somewhere between "John Muir" and "Ansel Adams" his  wiki bio has it...hmmph...been there been that...lol...I'll try to work up my charcoal sketch into a 'dark and light' painting in the style of Dixon and Payne, which is of course what AA was on about too!...brb...

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Ansel Adams from wiki commons

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AA was friends with Dixon, with Payne too?...brb...too old, maybe before Ansel went into the backcountry...Payne spent much time there, and  out and about all over the world...such the benefit of an artist that can live large...like Muir and AA, he began with next to nothing...and he lived and worked often in Laguna, but I can't find any distinctive ones of his of a Laguna Icon...lot of surf and rocks, but I can't distinguish the locations...bb...well, for sometime...google image searches can be a marvel, or a shrug and wth...try a search:.."landscape composition dark foreground"...brb...lol...it has a name..."door jam view"...

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Above: Two paintings by Edgar Payne, where he casts the foreground into shadow. This tool, "the door jamb" causes the viewer to gaze around or over the area at the side or bottom of the painting and into lighter elements in the distance.

https://fineartviews.com/blog/31445/setting-the-stage-with-a-dark-foreground

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oh, the third of the trio...Russell, Reminton, and ?...brb...can't recall...hmmph...maybe it is Dixon...edit: I did a youtube search, Edgar Payne Laguna Beach...and it fetched a take by Laguna Beach Historical Society trying to pinpoint where Payne did his Laguna paintings, and his Sierra paintings too...posted comment...

Watch "2012-09-25 "Edgar Payne" by Eric Jessen" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/vuIQaLYBJx4



I just happened on Payne, and a couple questions came to mind...where are his Yosemite paintings?...answer: "he didn't like crowds", and, where are his paintings of the scenic Laguna Beach bluffs?...I thought that looking at his surf and rock paintings...I dunno...finding where artists/photogs/things like buildings, once stood, a hobby of Yosemite lore fans...Laguna, the whole Orange County coastline, has this feature too...I did a sketch from Shake Shack while snacking at the railing overlooking the umbrellas and rooftops of the preserved Crystal Cove beach cottages, and, and then seeing contestants works of the big plein air contest, like 2016s, noted painting just like my sketch!  😃

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DavidDavid

Scents:OTI::one poem, notes:::11/19/20

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Scents

Oh, Balboa's dogs took his exception
To the natives' gaeity,
Not unlike the delivery of the King's ax,
To the extreme.
So the South Sea revealed to be seen
For Gauguin.
And Picasso read his book,
Noa Noa.
From there the sad news,
The Master at his extremity,
("Master" a deference of Vincent's)
Inspired the drawing,
"Standing Nude, 1903"
Signed Paul Picasso.
Balboa's soldiers made pyramid cairns of stones,
Carved crosses in the trees,
There to mark the view where they first beheld
The Pacific Ocean, Magellan's epithet.

DolphinWords

Notes: thought to look up Balboa, having gone out and back to Balboa of late-see last month's posts...I can binge browse stories of artists nearly 24/7...at Palomar, I found in the library a trove of art books...now youtube the self same...and once upon them, the 'algo librarian' piles more on!...

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DavidDavid

DreameDolphins:OTI::pic,seven poems,notes:::11/12/20

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Monsters

Synchronistical ominisities
Synonomously simultaneous
Intoxicating anonynimities
Perpetuating hippopotomous'

Crocodilian claustrophobias;
Monstroniceties improbability:
Conspiratorous commentarius,
Vlogasaureus promptatality.

Oh, the animosity vloggers go
Above and below, wherever a show,
Trailing fans a twitter, an evenglow,
Before the prophecy of one Hippo.

Project Narcissus mirror mirror
Reflections: Echo's echo long horror.

Benthic

Oh, death feeds us, the benthic undercrust,
Corpses slow rain from the luminous zone;
Whales, sharks, sword fish, sun fish, when in rest,
Sink down to be devoured to the last bone.



Artistry

Geezus!
I'm hanging on the walls, y'know,
Here and there, nails suspended,
My down gaze at your up gaze.

Menagerie

Psycological manipulating
Extraordinare innebriations
Tourbullions intoxicating
Neurolinguistic programmatations.

Psychedelica's fantasticalli
Imenagerie beasteariclings:
Jamesjoysounourous wordcoinmintadae
Aroundaboutus timedatathings.

Can one ever stop the swirling high kites?
Dizzines comes and goes with the moon's glow.
That black audience behind the footlights
Laughs and weeps, terrorized by the dumb show.

What can be found from the sea wrack wreakage
But what the wave's curled, held, for an age?.


Laugh And Dance

I'll dance when I can,
And laugh when I can't....

Dust Ups

I'm on the Moon,
What can you expect of me?
It isn't like there's a hell of a lot to see and do;
I take the Mind Detector out,
And it sounds the alarm,
A Mind below the dust,
And the Hounds hurry out,
And dig it up,
Take care of it-
Out of my hands.
A few a day,
If I'm lucky,
Otherwise it's a long Moonday of nothing
But stirring up dust.
Not that the scenery before was much,
The stars, craters, mountains,
Sometimes the Blue Earth.
Now, just clouds of dust.
Who knew?
The Mormons were right
With their "well of souls",
Millions, billions to dig up,
Each saved like a truffle in the Moon dust.

Sins

Oh, after a fashion,
I'm abrim with second hand Hollywood Sins,
Rock and Roll and all,
Though not so far as Las Vegas-
Nocturnes enough nearby...
But, y'know, second hand sins
Dont cut it with St. Peters,
Enough of those in their own overflow.

DolphinWords

Notes: the Dolphins are from a dream...I have recurring art class dreams...my assignments are late, I've missed too many classes...this one, I had a bunch of ink drawings, Dolphins one on top, and the instuctor asked me if I had my "notes"..."Sure!"...on time for once, and they were like rolled up small carpet, and I put them with everyone elses...and, and I woke up...Monsters and Menagerie grew out of the friction commenting to the youtube Confederacy vlogs...I have a ton of such comments, but since the election, I've left off commenting, or even looking at those vlogs...a sudden, those vloggers have lost their sense of menace, their champion unhorsed, or some such....I dunno...the words in the first two stanzas are five syllables each...the third stanza comes back to reality, sorta...and then the envoy...they're Sonnets...a rebel alliance of Sonneteers the conceit...Dust Ups is remarkable...I learned of the Well of Souls from my Mormon friends....I can't wrap my thoughts around their concepts!...a quibble is how many souls are there!?...Angels on the head of a pin kinda thing...Ray Bradbury story had it deceased book author's ghosts/souls resided on Mars, until their books were no longer read...I moved the whole lot, everybody, to the Moon!...the others are incidentals, kinda beginning things...doing the plein airs in September, the inks in October, like used a different part of my brain, similar to writing, but so different from writing that not much occured to me to write/note, save the vloggers on and ons!...in the Sonnets, it came to me, doing the odd italisized words, and others, what James Joyce may have been up to in his book, Finnigans Wake...I think I have one more five syllable one, but the clutter on my note memo pad hard to search, and I dont recall where this and that is!

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DavidDavid