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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Still life: Apple – Bread – Glass
Although I wish I were a superb draftsman (like, say, a Rembrandt or an Ingres or a Neal Adams – yeah, you wish!), even when you do your oils from photographic materials, you still really do need to know how … Continue reading
Posted in ART, OBITER PICTA
Tagged apple, ‘pencil drawing’, ’still life’, bread, draftsmanship, glass
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WW II – 1
[This is the first of five postings about my growing up in Sweden during WWII.] My earliest memories of Danderyd (a northern suburb of Stockholm then as now) and life in the new house my Mother’s parents had just finished … Continue reading
Posted in MOI
Tagged 1940s, ‘WW II’, ’personal experience of WW II’, ’womanly perfidy’, childhood, Danderyd, grandparents, Sweden
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RWANDA # 362 1970
CAPITAL Kigali MAP of RWANDA LANGUAGES English French Kinyarwanda Introduction to My Philately
Censor
Scratch a censor long enough, find a frustrated hedonist. For what must be censored by someone, must first be heard, read, seen by someone! The protector of public morality has a history of venerable antiquity, but so does warfare, and … Continue reading
Posted in GALLIMAUFRY
Tagged ’sex in the news’, ’violence in the news’, censor, censorship, regulators
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Misha
This painting took me a looong time, and before I got it the way I wanted it I threw away several versions that I had started. Misha was a strikingly beautiful young woman, and although I did not get to … Continue reading
Posted in ART
Tagged 'oil portrait', ‘beautiful woman’, ‘oil painting’, beauty, painting, portrait
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Gambler
I was having a late lunch one Saturday at a popular eatery near campus. It’s a small dark place, but they have great tuna fish sandwiches, root beer floats, and they make their own crunchy version of potato chips. It … Continue reading
RWANDA # 359 1970
CAPITAL Kigali MAP of RWANDA LANGUAGES English French Kinyarwanda Introduction to My Philately
POEM – Topiary
That spring I saw you across the plaza as beautiful as ever in its tessellated rectangles of brick and angled intaglio of walkways that keep asunder trees asleep with passion in the earth after barren winter. Buds sprout on spindly … Continue reading
BUSY, BABY?
Doing up a cartoon idea in watercolor does not involve the ‘risk’ you have whenever you go for oils. Well, one afternoon I got to thinking about how many creatures (in Cole Porter’s timeless phrase) do it and how they … Continue reading
LANGUAGE OLIO 8: Semantic torquing of the lexicon
Communication is difficult – difficult not least because words are just that, words –elusive, labile, nebulous, protean and mutably laden. It would be nice if a word meant what it putatively means in a dictionary, but there it is only … Continue reading
Posted in LANGUAGE
Tagged ‘semantic perversion’, ’lexical spinning’, ’semantic pejoration’, euphemism
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