They were adorable. And the rhinos. And the unicorn.
This was at the San Diego Zoo Wild Animal Park near Escondido. You can take a "caravan safari" where they take up up this close to many animals. We also got to feed and pet some rhinos!
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Feeding the Giraffes
Mary is feeding the giraffes!
They were adorable. And the rhinos. And the unicorn.
This was at the San Diego Zoo Wild Animal Park near Escondido. You can take a "caravan safari" where they take up up this close to many animals. We also got to feed and pet some rhinos!
They were adorable. And the rhinos. And the unicorn.
This was at the San Diego Zoo Wild Animal Park near Escondido. You can take a "caravan safari" where they take up up this close to many animals. We also got to feed and pet some rhinos!
Saturday, July 27, 2013
First World Problems
Anyone know what it takes to get Comcast actually installed? First appointment, postponed one week. Second appointment, showed up with the wrong equipment. Third appointment, never showed up, never called, never tried to re-schedule. But "records" say the equipment was installed. If they start billing our credit card, they'll be hearing from our lawyer.
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Art 33A: Two Dimensional Design
This is an exercise in focal point and eye movement featuring my lovely wife, Mary.
This is an exercise in asymmetrical balance. It is black Artagain paper cut and glued onto 18x24 drawing paper.
This is an exercise in symmetry. It is black Artagain paper cut and glued onto 18x24 drawing paper.
This is an exercise in transition between two figures. The figures are the harp and bull found on Irish coins. It is black Artagain paper cut and glued onto Bristol paper.
This is an exercise in Motif. The two motifs are the celtic knot on the top and the diamond pattern around the perimeter.
Another view of the Motif project. I painted this on an old plastic clock. The colors in the other photo are truer.
This is an exercise in asymmetrical balance. It is black Artagain paper cut and glued onto 18x24 drawing paper.
This is an exercise in symmetry. It is black Artagain paper cut and glued onto 18x24 drawing paper.
This is an exercise in transition between two figures. The figures are the harp and bull found on Irish coins. It is black Artagain paper cut and glued onto Bristol paper.
This is an exercise in Motif. The two motifs are the celtic knot on the top and the diamond pattern around the perimeter.
Another view of the Motif project. I painted this on an old plastic clock. The colors in the other photo are truer.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Travels with Mary
This is a book I made for my 2-D Design class, Art 33A at Mission College.
This is the front cover of the book. This is a book that contains many of the art projects I've based on photographs of Mary.
Mary on the Brooklyn Bridge. This is a Photoshop rendering of a photograph. Mary is mounted on a wobbly spring so you can make her shimmy by tweaking her.
Mary in Paraguay. This painting was done from a photograph in Advanced Photoshop class using the mixer brush tool. Julio (the bird) is mounted on a wobbly spring so you can make him bounce by tweaking him.
Mary in Yellowstone. This is a block drawing done in Illustrator and printed in black and white on Bristol paper. It was then colored with watercolors and shimmer. The clouds were done with a resist. I drew the text by hand with a Micron pen.
Mary in Disney World. This is a line drawing done in black and white in Adobe Illustrator. I printed it and painted it using acrylics.
The back cover of the book has my logo.
This is the front cover of the book. This is a book that contains many of the art projects I've based on photographs of Mary.
Mary on the Brooklyn Bridge. This is a Photoshop rendering of a photograph. Mary is mounted on a wobbly spring so you can make her shimmy by tweaking her.
Mary in Paraguay. This painting was done from a photograph in Advanced Photoshop class using the mixer brush tool. Julio (the bird) is mounted on a wobbly spring so you can make him bounce by tweaking him.
Mary in Yellowstone. This is a block drawing done in Illustrator and printed in black and white on Bristol paper. It was then colored with watercolors and shimmer. The clouds were done with a resist. I drew the text by hand with a Micron pen.
Mary in Disney World. This is a line drawing done in black and white in Adobe Illustrator. I printed it and painted it using acrylics.
The back cover of the book has my logo.
Art 31: Beginning Drawing
Erden Eric, a man who rowed around the world. Copied from an "Outside" magazine article using a grid. Charcoals on art paper. 18x24.
Leonardo da Vinci's Coix, or Job's Tears. Copied using a grid. Pencils on drawing paper. 18x24.
Exercise in two-dimensional perspective. Based on a magazine photo, but not copied. Pencil with charcoal background. 18x24.
Self portrait. Pastels on art paper. 18x24. This is one of the first project we did in this class.
Hand tools inspired by Jim Dine. Black micron pen and watercolors. 18x24.
Leonardo da Vinci's Coix, or Job's Tears. Copied using a grid. Pencils on drawing paper. 18x24.
Exercise in two-dimensional perspective. Based on a magazine photo, but not copied. Pencil with charcoal background. 18x24.
Self portrait. Pastels on art paper. 18x24. This is one of the first project we did in this class.
Hand tools inspired by Jim Dine. Black micron pen and watercolors. 18x24.
Monday, December 31, 2012
2012 Recap
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would still go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. – Martin Luther King Jr.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. – Gladys Bronwyn Stern
Every path has a puddle. – George Herbert
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. – Benjamin Franklin
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength. – Corrie ten Boom
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes. – Marcel Proust (courtesy of Get It Done Guy)
Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates. – Thomas Szasz, courtesy of Get It Done Guy
Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation. (Psalm 149:4 ESV)
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. – Thomas Edison
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. – Marilyn vos Savant
There are many Ph.D.’s who choke in their spiritual immaturity on the things of God. And there are many less–educated saints who can feed with pleasure and profit on the deepest things of God. – John Piper
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. – Harriet Braiker
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. – Henry David Thoreau
The Psalms are songs and poems, and songs and poems exist because something more should happen to us than doctrinal refinement. – John Piper
Seven hundred years before Good Friday God announced why his Son was being put to death. (Isaiah 53:10–12) – John Piper
April 1. Happy Psalm 14 day. The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. – Bruce Lee
The biggest problem in the world is us exchanging God's glory for images, especially the one in the mirror. – John Piper
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. – Elbert Hubbard
Always desire to learn something useful. – Sophocles
Men and women hide the candle that God has lit under the bushel of business and domestic cares. – Spurgeon
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. – Pablo Picasso
When we pray, nothing never happens. – Tom Steller
The mark of consumer culture is the reduction of 'being' to 'having.' – John Piper
One of the primary purposes of being shaken by suffering is to make our faith more unshakable. – John Piper
To be holy is to be wholly God's. – Tim Keller
Love reproves faults but does not desert him who falls. – Martin Luther
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Arthur Baldwin
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. – Babe Ruth
The message that secular leaders hear from the church's worship is that Jesus is Lord, not Caesar. – Doug Wilson
Whatever is the latest thing too easily becomes the surrogate for discipleship. – Crawford Loritts
God takes us from where we are, not from where we should have been. – Doug Wilson
How people treat you should never define you. It's not what people call you, but what you answer to. – Crawford Loritts
You don't produce the fruit of the Spirit. It is the fruit OF the Spirit. – Crawford Loritts
Repent of wallowing in our self pity and deifying our disfunction. Yield to God. Believe him. – Crawford Loritts at the Desiring God Pastor's Conference
Men are God's method. – E. M. Bounds
God is not disinclined to do you good. He is a Father, not a mortgage holder. – John Piper
Praise will abound to God in greater measure because he has brought his people through struggles to perfect victory in the end. – John Piper
If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible. – J. I. Packer
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. – A. A. Milne
Our time will surely go down in history, at least as far as the West is concerned, as the age of the God-shrinkers. – J. I. Packer
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. – Gladys Bronwyn Stern
Every path has a puddle. – George Herbert
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. – Benjamin Franklin
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength. – Corrie ten Boom
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes. – Marcel Proust (courtesy of Get It Done Guy)
Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates. – Thomas Szasz, courtesy of Get It Done Guy
Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation. (Psalm 149:4 ESV)
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. – Thomas Edison
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. – Marilyn vos Savant
There are many Ph.D.’s who choke in their spiritual immaturity on the things of God. And there are many less–educated saints who can feed with pleasure and profit on the deepest things of God. – John Piper
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. – Harriet Braiker
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. – Henry David Thoreau
The Psalms are songs and poems, and songs and poems exist because something more should happen to us than doctrinal refinement. – John Piper
Seven hundred years before Good Friday God announced why his Son was being put to death. (Isaiah 53:10–12) – John Piper
April 1. Happy Psalm 14 day. The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. – Bruce Lee
The biggest problem in the world is us exchanging God's glory for images, especially the one in the mirror. – John Piper
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. – Elbert Hubbard
Always desire to learn something useful. – Sophocles
Men and women hide the candle that God has lit under the bushel of business and domestic cares. – Spurgeon
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. – Pablo Picasso
When we pray, nothing never happens. – Tom Steller
The mark of consumer culture is the reduction of 'being' to 'having.' – John Piper
One of the primary purposes of being shaken by suffering is to make our faith more unshakable. – John Piper
To be holy is to be wholly God's. – Tim Keller
Love reproves faults but does not desert him who falls. – Martin Luther
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Arthur Baldwin
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. – Babe Ruth
The message that secular leaders hear from the church's worship is that Jesus is Lord, not Caesar. – Doug Wilson
Whatever is the latest thing too easily becomes the surrogate for discipleship. – Crawford Loritts
God takes us from where we are, not from where we should have been. – Doug Wilson
How people treat you should never define you. It's not what people call you, but what you answer to. – Crawford Loritts
You don't produce the fruit of the Spirit. It is the fruit OF the Spirit. – Crawford Loritts
Repent of wallowing in our self pity and deifying our disfunction. Yield to God. Believe him. – Crawford Loritts at the Desiring God Pastor's Conference
Men are God's method. – E. M. Bounds
God is not disinclined to do you good. He is a Father, not a mortgage holder. – John Piper
Praise will abound to God in greater measure because he has brought his people through struggles to perfect victory in the end. – John Piper
If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible. – J. I. Packer
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. – A. A. Milne
Our time will surely go down in history, at least as far as the West is concerned, as the age of the God-shrinkers. – J. I. Packer
Humor 2012
People are making apocalypse jokes like there's no tomorrow. – 12/20/12
Everything is easier said than done. Except talking. That's about the same.
Today is a day for firm decisions! Or is it?
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
BREAKING: Apple Maps projecting Barack Obama to win Brazil.
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.” – Theodore Roosevelt
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity—and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand. – Richard Feynman
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. – H. L. Mencken
"Son, when Lincoln was your age, he was studying by firelight."
"Dad, when Lincoln was your age, he was President."
This girl said she recognized me from the vegetarian club, but I'd never met herbivore. – David Pogue
When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble. – David Pogue
I know a guy with an addiction to brake fluid. He says he could stop any time.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. – Emo Philips
***I HATE MOOD SWINGS!!*** They're awesome, though.
How is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? – David Pogue
I'd love to go to Holland someday. Wooden shoe?
If you're going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country. – David Pogue
The word for today is "Paraskevidekatriaphobia." – Friday, January 13
Q: What do you get when you cross the Atlantic Ocean with the Titanic?
Everything is easier said than done. Except talking. That's about the same.
Today is a day for firm decisions! Or is it?
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
BREAKING: Apple Maps projecting Barack Obama to win Brazil.
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.” – Theodore Roosevelt
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity—and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand. – Richard Feynman
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. – H. L. Mencken
"Son, when Lincoln was your age, he was studying by firelight."
"Dad, when Lincoln was your age, he was President."
This girl said she recognized me from the vegetarian club, but I'd never met herbivore. – David Pogue
When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble. – David Pogue
I know a guy with an addiction to brake fluid. He says he could stop any time.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. – Emo Philips
***I HATE MOOD SWINGS!!*** They're awesome, though.
How is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? – David Pogue
I'd love to go to Holland someday. Wooden shoe?
If you're going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country. – David Pogue
The word for today is "Paraskevidekatriaphobia." – Friday, January 13
Q: What do you get when you cross the Atlantic Ocean with the Titanic?
Thursday, August 2, 2012
John Fogerty and Mountain Winery
At The Mountain Winery. Waiting for John Fogerty concert to begin. With Mary for our pre-anniversary.
Still waiting for concert to start. Having fun with phones.
I can hear my ol' houn' dog barkin', chasin' down a hoo doo there ...
Second hand smoke at Mary Jane's last dance ...
Still waiting for concert to start. Having fun with phones.
I can hear my ol' houn' dog barkin', chasin' down a hoo doo there ...
Second hand smoke at Mary Jane's last dance ...
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Petaluma
Staying at the Quail Meadow Inn in Petaluma. Had dinner at the Smokehouse BBQ Bistro in Sebastopol. Topped it off with a gluten free ice cream cone at Screamin' Mimi's. Amazing ice cream AND gluten free cones! Two thumbs up. Mary's excited.
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