art talk

Ken's article did not add a different aspect, it, and almost every article across the media, have said the same thing.  That other thing where Biden was pressuring the Ukraine to not investigate his son comes only from Trump's mouth and his echo chamber.  You can choose which to believe. 

I never got Windows 10.  Some years back Windows 10 tried to take over my machine.  Whenever I left it alone for, I don't know, half an hour, I would come back and it was loading.  I eventually clicked on something that disabled windows from sending me any updates at all.  You might think that would impair the behavior of my computer but apparently not. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Last  month walking west on Irving Park Road between Hermitage and Paulina I came across this alley and, with a few beers in me, it was a stunning sight, you know with the sky and the telephone poles and the perspective and all. 

So that's what I'm painting now, (actually I've divided it into four paintings, the upper left, upper right, lower right, and lower left).  I'm starting with the upper left and as I got to painting it I began to wonder what was really going on there,  like what is that odd leftwards protuberance to the left on top of the telephone pole, and what is that bright yellow thing in the distance, a sign from the next block?

I went to google earth but I could not get the right angle from the street.  Yesterday afternoon I went out there and took photos.  That protuberance is not part of the telephone pole at all, it is jutting out from the building, and that light in the distance is probably just light shining unto the tree.

Well what makes a painting good?  Is it a beautiful portrayal of a beautiful scene, or is it just a pleasing mixture of colors and shapes that may be formed in a photo taken maybe at random?

Take that telephone pole.  What I really liked about it were those things hanging from it, transformers, I have learned, whatever that means.  But see, I didn't know what they were, I was vaguely aware that telephone poles sometimes have these things but what difference did it make?  What I liked about them was not the fact that they were transformers, because I didn't even know that when I took the photo, but I just liked their boxy shapes hanging beneath the graceful outstretched arms (though it turns out that the leftwards arm does not even belong to it) of the pole. 

What do you think so far?