Not keeping up with the blog

The crisis of conscience that I have had about whether what I want to say is to caustic for the public has made it difficult to get motivated to write. But lets face it, is anyone really reading this anyway?

I have been keeping busy with the C'huppa for the wedding (above), which still has some loose ends (how will it be electrified? Supports? Etc)

I have also bought 5 30"X40" canvases for the "haunted mansion" theme. The idea is to get family photos and graft them onto scary portraits. I am a bit daunted by the challenge, but I will welcome the opportunity to do some portrait painting on a large scale...The real trick will be to get acceptable photos of the family...I hope they can all take a joke.

Went to the Scott Brooks opening, Jumping through hoops, at gallery Neptune. This is a really good thing for Scott and the work looked fantastic. When making drawings the artist is at the most raw. Hence, most drawing has the look of experimentation, or unresolvedness, this manifested itself very rarely in Scotts work, but when it did, you could see that he was trying hard to cover it up. Not to sweep it under the rug, but to downplay it in such a way as to not make it a focal point of the work. These were very well resovled drawings, clearly not purposed for preparation for a painting, they were the works in themselves. The sepia/grisaille look of these works makes them more substantial (more presence, more levity) than some of the painted work he has done.

Much more could be said about his work, but I have to do some work of my own..Bye bye

Mac Problems

It seems that Blogger doesn't like macs. I can even spellcheck (let alone post pictures) from my mac at home. But my XP at work has all the bells and whistles...Oh well. I guess Ill have to wait to post those photos of Tommy that Sandy Kosel sent me. And I guess you will have to wait to hear me kevetch about my experences with LTA and Tommy (or more likely go through some tortured explination of why I shouldn't badmouth people on the web VS what good is this fourm, creatively, if I cant express my true feelings?)

Maybe Ill just take the whole damn thing off the web, and just keep it as a personal journal...Or I should write all this under a pen-name....

Tunnel of Love

This is the graphic that is going to be on the invitations for our wedding. I think that it helps solidify (or perhaps demonstrate to our reluctant relatives) our intent to have a nontradtional, Halloween wedding. The orginal is 5"X7", done in my usual, cut paper then painted, manner.
The tunnel of love has been a theme of mine for a while now, and I am hoping to incorporate it into the scenery for the wedding.

Snappy Titles and Shaky Starts

Welcome to Between the Tines. This blogs main purpose is to serve as a repository of exposition, musings, photos, art and nonsense that have been cluttering up my sketchbooks for many years.

The simple fact is that I have always had a hard time writing by hand. I don't know what it is, but I don't have the patience for writing longhand. My penmanship is horrible. I can't stand the way my words look on paper.
The other problem with writing in my sketchbooks is that I think much faster than I write. Typing seems to alleviate some of that problem, but I still run unto trouble (namely poor sentence construction and spelling, thank god for spellcheck).

Lastly, the problem with sketchbook notes and musings is that they are directed at me. I have tried to write to "my future self", but that really feels phony. I always feel like I should be writing some grand treatise that will be some great revelation to me when I read it, fifty years from now. I have tried to solve this problem by writing letters to Johnny Cash. Don't laugh, it is a hell of a lot better to write your thoughts to someone "out there" (Johnny Cash just happened to be someone who I thought I could get to know better) than talking in some kind of narcissistic dialogue.

I may still write to Johnny Cash, seeing as he has been a good listener, lets just hope that he doesn't start commenting....

In the end, this is going to be a log. A log that happens to be on the web. I may spout off about something, but I don't intend for it to be taken too seriously. I also ask that all of you have patience with me, I don't tend to grasp the technological side of things quickly, so I might not have many links or photos for a while.

This is probably boring you to tears right about now, but, I just want to get one more thing out in the open. This is a public space. I may be more likely to say things here than I would in the "meatspace." Which means that I may wind up hurting peoples feelings. I don't know the best way to go about this. On the one hand I am inclined to try to be as brutally truthfull as I want to be, and on the other I have to consider the fact that the truth hurts. I don't think that changing names will really solve the problem because anyone involved could see right through it. Speaking in vague terms seems like it might water down the whole endeavor. I am going to have to think more about this before continuing. I wonder if there is a bloggers bill of ethics? or would that fall under etiquette?