Blog: Studio, Shows, Reading, Random Thoughts
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Don’t Drop the Ball
I previously posted a couple of photos showing progress on a large print. Printmakers like to call multiple runs through the press “drops”. Here is an entry on the first drop (or stage). And here is one of the second. Shown above is the 5th state, where it sits now. Below, there is some intermediate…
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If I should fall from grace with God, Where no Squishtoid can relieve me, If I’m buried ‘neath the sod, But the angels won’t receive me, Let me go boys let me go boys Let me go down in the mud where the rivers all run dry -The Pogues The Pogues were a definite part…
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2006
I posted a few images from 2006 on my fan page on Facebook. There’s also 2004, from a previous post, and as I slowly organize my digital files ( and scan in the old slides), I’ll try to catch up on all the other years as well. Also, as the class didn’t fill, the deadline…
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Round Peg In a Square State of Mind
Whew! Yes, it was a frantic September; yes, procrastination tends to feed on itself, and yes, (oh-no!) the Days-Without-Job portion of the Squish-o-meter is ticking off its final days. What I like to refer to as Square State Tour ’09 did not provide a lot of cash. In retrospect not so surprising given the economy,…
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Stage (2) Fright
As promised, stage 2 of the aforementioned, as-yet-untitled print I posted a few weeks ago. The blues and tans give it a bit fuller, more painterly feel, but of course, there is a little bit busier, patchier look now. Planning an image is a bit tougher when you start from the black and brown ghost…
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Hot Off the Press
I’ve been adding fences and telephone poles to create at least a little tension. I do like the rhythmic minimalism, but fear that they don’t communicate the real visual power of western landscape. I often post new images, including intermediate stages at my fan page on Facebook. Days without Job: 146Squishometer: Squish, or be squished!
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Weekend Squish: Book Review
It’s Pynchon month in Squishytown! We started the festivities off by bussing down August 4 to Tattered Cover for his latest, INHERENT VICE. Things really ramped up with a 94-word run-on tribute sentence wedged into the previous Squishtoid post – still far short of the 400+ monster that opens MASON AND DIXON, but I guess…
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Goin’ Down the Road…
We’ve all got wheels, to take us far away. We’ve got [Squishtoid blogs] to say, what we can’t say… -Flying Burrito Bros. Spent the weekend listening to mountain music. That specific mix of Bluegrass, Folk, and Country Rock I first inhaled after leaving the bleak, Hard-Rock steel yards of the Queen City of the Lakes…
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Progress
I did say I would post this image, from the plate in “Prelude to a Squish”. I don’t have a title yet, not unusual for this stage in the proceedings. It’s 42×30″, and contrary to the original post, I don’t think it’s “finished” yet. This sort of indecision is also not unusual. I like to…
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Hard at work, getting ready for a show in Salida, CO. The complete info is on my Facebook page. Here’s a link. For those in Denver or the Rockies, it’s a great little daytrip, and you get a good view of College Peaks. The show itself is right on the Arkansas River. The website for…
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