Open To Interpretation
Jack in the Box
plein air
#stradaeasel
Notes: game on...on the radio...Angels at Rangers....bottom of second...Angels 2-0...was up late reading about Greek philosophers...apparently, the Socratic Method begins with a definition, which is then taken apart, or some such...not unlike how my post format has taken shape!...actually, I begin now with 'keywords" as google makes a log line with them...a viewer search can see what they are getting into!...often, the pic is in the log line too...the 'taking apart' is the 'notes'...another Socratic idea is the "daemon", one's conscious/conscience, one's "Jiminy Cricket"...stradaeasel's challenge, its daemon, is to draw/paint from life, once a day for the month of September, later January...'plein air'...ideally, one sets up in a natural setting, with one's easel and paints, and does the painting in one setting...in Yosemite, I saw an artist bring his painting back summer after summer, a plein air effort...so, it can be stretched out, the time taken, or even completed in studio, at home...top of third, Ohtani up, in lead off spot...or, it can just be a pencil or charcoal sketch, to be completed as a painting in studio...the ideal pein air effort is sorta one's daemon's desire...4-3 ground out...every morning I feel the tug to go to the beach, Laguna, set up by waves and bluffs, but, it's too much at moment!...first week and a half I went through three tanks of gas...I've thought to take the buses, but afraid of the contagion...even before, I felt uncomfortable packed into a public bus...so, soh, it's a Socratic turning of a thing: plein air or studio, everyday!...my studio has expanded!...furniture all gone from the living room and kitchen...I can, ala Picasso with his castles, fill them up with my paintings!...as often as I snack at Jack in the Box, here, there-Laguna, it needs to be included!...the two sketches are memory glimpses...sat in Denny's snacking for the big one, at home on the drive, the little one...I could just 'look' at the photo!...but that's way beyond beyond the parameter of the challenge...the memory glimpse is the heart of plein air because of the changing light, if one is including light!...so, I work on that, a lot...all day, day before, day after, I'll wonder about a glimpse...bbk with report...Angels 7-2...and listened to Padres at Dodgers...Dodgers 11-9 in a wild thing...Mookie the Menace Betts homered to begin come back when Padres up 9-5...then, like four more Dodger home runs followed...even Bellinger, the outfielder, hit one, tying it...then Seager drove in two with one...Dodgers two behind Giants...Giants 1, D'Backs 0...Mariners won, still have slim chance...only getting a wild card slot is like just a chance to grab the bat, but it's a chance...of mixed blessings!
:)
DavidDavid
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