Posts from the ‘The whole Art thing’ Category
Sorry I haven’t been doing much here lately. I’ve been unusually busy for once, putting in long hours that didn’t allow for much blogging. Any time in the past few weeks that Greg has called and asked what I’m doing, I’ve answered “What else? Drawing altar boys.” That sounds pretty weird, and it’s even weirder to […]
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Here’s the essay I did for Melinda’s series of Orthodox artists and writers, My mother tells me that one of the real benefits that I offered to a weary parent (I was the last of four children) was that if you put me in a room with a pencil and paper, I could amuse myself […]
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I happened onto Google’s virtual art museum site by accident a week ago. Those clever people have digitized hundreds of works of art from 17 museums around the world, and you can see them in roughly the same way that you see things via Google Maps. That gives you incredible control (as you’d imagine) but […]
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This has to be seen to be believed. I didn’t even know that there was a show called “Ukraine’s Got Talent.” And I didn’t know there was such a thing as sand animation. I also didn’t know much about the German invasion of the Ukraine in WWII. But here, an artist portrays the invasion with […]
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We’ve had a deliciously mild summer so far, but August seems intent on making up for lost time. So when I take Clementine for the late afternoon walk, I’m all for being focused and brief with our attentions to all the familiar landmarks. But what can you do with a scent hound? Clementine caught scent […]
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A lot of little blogworthy musings on my second-favorite topic have been bouncing around my head. Given that Fr. Alexander observed “Everything in and of our culture is about the Kingdom of God, either for or against,” it may just be that these thoughts dovetail with thoughts about my most favorite topic.
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Finishing up our quick cruise with a stay in a really great hotel, I picked up a book in the room called “On Art and Life” by John Ruskin. I’m not sure anyone was really supposed to read it — it had the look of something that was placed there to lend an artsy atmosphere […]
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As I think I’ve said, I enjoy drawing and painting very much, and it makes me sad that there aren’t more people who get into it as a pasttime. From what I’ve seen, there are two things that kill off the would-be artist right away, long before they’ve had any way of knowing if they […]
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