Category Archives: Thoughts on Art

If there is a way to cover it with art, I will. This is my kitchen wall. I started painting this mural back in Newburyport while caring for my ill Mother. I used 3 Baimbridge board panels so it would … Continue reading →

The Creative Experience class assignment was to design a ‘Place Setting’ for a famous person. The class had to guess who the famous person was just by the creation. I unveiled Shrimp with Lemon Moon. Picasso obviously. Right? They all … Continue reading →

I came across this old comic from the funny pages that I had saved. It still cracks me up! Copyright by Berry’s World.

When I was contemplating how I would introduce my artistic proclivity to my techno-geekology…I had a Vision! Creativity meet Technology. Computer Illustration done with Photoshop.

This Bronze Age, 374 feet (110 m) long, 3000 year old, man-made, prehistoric Hill Figure Figure is located in Uffington England. The figure is deeply carved onto the hillside and packed with white chalk. Traditionally the figure was religiously ‘scoured’ every 7 … Continue reading →

My neighbor across the way has a Fairy Ring in his side yard. The circular pattern of the Marasmius Oreades is created when the mushrooms are left to grow unhindered. (Kind of like the round, moldy fuzz that forms on … Continue reading →

My niece’s elementary school class put together a book called World Peace to send to the President. They asked their families and friends to contribute a page. She asked me to do something arty. John Lennon ‘s words came immediately … Continue reading →

There are many traditional fairy tales that use the color red to signify evil and danger. The Evil Queen gives Snow White a poisonous red apple. The deathly red dancing slippers already mentioned. Poor Dorothy who puts her self and … Continue reading →

Humans have always loved to fashion intentional recognizable some-things out of something else. In prehistoric times a piece of cast off, unusually shaped bone is deliberately saved for later and chipped and fashioned by idle hands to make it in … Continue reading →

Let’s talk a moment about Art and our prehistoric Artistic ancestors. I maintain that all humans are by their innate nature prone to create some understandable order from disorder- this human tendency is called Simulacra. Without all the Psychological babble … Continue reading →