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In Context: Compliments from an Engineer
On the journal page in today’s post I’ve done a TV study (verso page) and a watercolor sketch of a man from a 19th Century photo (exaggerating his hair of course; recto page). But I’d like to call your attention to the top left corner of this spread when I jotted down the best compliment […]
In Context: A Brush Pen Portrait and What I Was Reading
You can click on this image to see what I was reading about on this day. This is from a journal I bound using the now defunct Nideggen toned paper.
TV Competition Shows
Chekov was prescient. Brush pen and ink wash in a bookstore lined notebook (because I love painting and using wet media like ink wash on non-art papers).
Wrapping Up Patreon—Going Forward
After four and a half years I closed my Patreon RozInterim paid-subscription blog on May 17, 2024. (Right now there are new videos for the subscribed in a final free month through June, but no new subscriptions are being accepted.) It contained over 57 main demonstration tutorials and hours and hours of themed video chats […]
In Context: My Life Is a Stream of Detective Shows
…often the detectives meet on the page. Update: People didn’t recognize Ray Collins as Lt. Arthur Tragg from the long-running “Perry Mason” with Raymond Burr. Yes, he has nothing to do with Poirot, that’s what I meant by my life being a stream of detective shows—meeting on the page. If you’re one of the folks […]
Euclid, Geometry, and the Practice of Art
Here’s a quotation from an article I was reading in the New Yorker Magazine recently. Beyond geometry the writer, James Somers, reminds us something about the practice of anything. And the many paths to something—whether it’s geometry, coding, art, or…
In Context: Attitudes
UPDATE 3.6.23 at 2:30 p.m. Email responses about this post make it clear to me my post was confusing. In the original post below I’m writing about the serendipity of journaling and its positive effects in our lives. I believe that we can choose how we react to things helped by the process of journaling. […]
In Context: Faces and Advice
No missing text for this post, just an in-context post from my journal. (Bakers from the Great British Baking Show.)
In Context: Quotations
Reading is a way to have conversations when you’re alone in a room. You and the author, trying to decipher what the characters are …
In Context: Thoughts on Downsizing
Today you can click on the image and read what I was reading and someone else’s thoughts on downsizing. My downsizing is ongoing. Often when we are involved in something we find other people who are involved in the same pursuit. It doesn’t matter if it is eldercare, or downsizing, or painting a good watercolor […]