This is a sketch, from memeory, of my cloister/studio on Elm Street in Albany. Complete with armchair and cat.
It will eventually become a painting.
Monday, June 23, 2008
The Cloister on Canvas
This is a sketch, from memeory, of my cloister/studio on Elm Street in Albany. Complete with armchair and cat.
It will eventually become a painting.
Mid-Life Crisis?
After reading this article in Psychology Today online and then reflecting on things, it occurred to me that it is possible that I am actually in a bit of a mid-life crisis. This of course was brought about by three life events: the end of marriage, turning 40 and losing my long-term job.
What is interesting is that it did not necessarily hit me as a mid-life crisis situation until last week, when I learned that I would need either a pair of reading glasses or bifocals. Lots of individuals younger than me have bad eyes, but I guess this was icing on the cake. On the positive side, I will no longer need to put my glasses on my forehead to read and then need to squint to see the beauty in the distance. And I won't need to put a book 7 inches from my face to read it comfortably. It is a positive step in terms of eye care. But something about it just hit me.
Anyway, the article on the mid-life crisis did offer some advice on how to deal with things. Various articles I've seen say one thing: don't ignore and don't try to push it off. In the larger context, a midlife crisis can be a positive transitional process, if one does not just embrace the more impulsive and reckless aspects. Eat healthier, get a bit more exercise, avoid overindulging, and seek help if need be.
It's good to know that this has happened. I could either not put a finger on it or was in denial. But it is what it is.
And I want to be in better health and shape before 2020, when I head off to the tropics to live and paint and enjoy a long long life.
What is interesting is that it did not necessarily hit me as a mid-life crisis situation until last week, when I learned that I would need either a pair of reading glasses or bifocals. Lots of individuals younger than me have bad eyes, but I guess this was icing on the cake. On the positive side, I will no longer need to put my glasses on my forehead to read and then need to squint to see the beauty in the distance. And I won't need to put a book 7 inches from my face to read it comfortably. It is a positive step in terms of eye care. But something about it just hit me.
Anyway, the article on the mid-life crisis did offer some advice on how to deal with things. Various articles I've seen say one thing: don't ignore and don't try to push it off. In the larger context, a midlife crisis can be a positive transitional process, if one does not just embrace the more impulsive and reckless aspects. Eat healthier, get a bit more exercise, avoid overindulging, and seek help if need be.
It's good to know that this has happened. I could either not put a finger on it or was in denial. But it is what it is.
And I want to be in better health and shape before 2020, when I head off to the tropics to live and paint and enjoy a long long life.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Sketch from American Primitive - Paradise
It's about a quiet moment in the picture. It's about a nascent friendship.
Barscapes
Most of these were sketched at 301 Lark Street, while waiting for my drinking, nursing my drink, waiting for company (expected or otherwise) but never being anti-social. They are interior shots for the bar that would likely be called, "The Black Vulcan" in the American Primitive movies.
Friday, June 13, 2008
New Posting on "Notes of an American Primitive"
I have a new posting on my blog about screenwriting and movie making, called "Reading."
You will have to write me to get me to invite you to this blog.
You will have to write me to get me to invite you to this blog.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Honoring a Master
After reading Vincent LoBrutto's wonderful biography of Stanley Kubrick (1997), I have come to a conclusion: the Vanilla Vampire will wait, as will The Philogynist (for now), as perhaps will the remaining three parts of American Primitive. Time to attempt an adaptation. And what an epic I have chosen (see picture above).
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