CLAUDE: Here’s the read, organized by what each answer actually reveals rather than what it claims to be about. 1. Reciprocity as a natural law, not a transaction You framed this as a binary — negative transactionalism vs. positive innate balance — but the structure of your own account answers the question. You don’t renegotiate terms […]
Robert Bruce Williams
Portrait painters: Robert Bruce Williams Source: World of Portrait Painting
Thick Paint
And sometimes I simply want to throw paint thickly onto a surface and see how it looks. Why not? And play with the colours. And with the shadows and the light. And not to think. And not to care about the objects of my attention but use them as an excuse to throw paint onto […]
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Just Found Myself a New Beacon in The Face of Frank Kern
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Looking for a Yummy Distraction?
Through my wandering to” I don’t know where, searching for I don’t know what” I found a great distraction (yet another one!) – GhostWriterDad blog. Actually, I am going through Sean’s free ebook (you can find it on his blog), which is refreshingly different from tons of BS abundant on the Net. Well, I hope […]
Mezzotint and more… Margaret van Patten
While looking for artists working in mezzotint, found an amazing art by an artist Margaret van Patten. Paper Thin photo by Harold Hutchinson Etching with mezzotint The image is rich in content – messages from conscious and subconscious levels merge in an emotional and elegant manner. The technical diversity the artist applied to creating the […]
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“Thank you for being a loyal reader and supporter of ReelSEO.” – said the top line of today’s newsletter, but to me it read like “Thank you for being a royal leader and supporter of ReelSEO. Well, my pleasure, say I. Or say We. Because REEL SEO newsletter is my favourite of all newsletters that […]
Mezzotint video. Artist Toru Iwaya
Found this video of a Japanese mezzotint artist. Curious, how a technique developed by a Eropean became so Eastern. It is slow, meditative, withdrawn, laborious, solitary. And that’s why I love it.
Eureka!
An hour ago I was sitting on my potty and staring at the tiny spot on the bathroom rug. It is plain cotton, off-white, at the moment moderately clean rug from IKEA. As it often happens, the patters of the surface, specks and all, formed into something definable. (For instance, when I lived in Tashkent, on the toilet door frame the shadows […]
