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8374. alistairconnor - 3/9/2007 10:48:45 AM Damn fine Wiz... but now I can't find the "work in progress" versions you posted a while back... I wanted to compare them. 8375. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 3/9/2007 11:07:50 PM Many thanks, all. Wonk, they're coming, but slowly–I still have a lot to digest about sailboats, and Alistair, I think those studies are somewhere in The Cafe.
I'm getting ready for a show called "Outports And Fishing Sheds."
Here's a watercolor study from Newfoundland . . .
8376. judithathome - 3/9/2007 11:19:52 PM Whoa...I love that! I like how the water absorbs some of the sky color and the village seems to be playing referee between the two! 8377. arkymalarky - 3/10/2007 12:43:13 AM I agree with Judith. I love them both and the red and blue in both. 8378. prolph - 3/10/2007 6:13:20 AM wizard, you are a great artist thanks for your paintings, patsy 8379. wonkers2 - 3/10/2007 7:08:06 AM Wow, that one's great! 8380. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 3/10/2007 6:47:27 PM Thanks again for your encouraging responses. I love the Monopoly Board quality of the little structures and their resilience to the potentially overwhelming power of nature. I tend to associate vulnerability with beauty somehow. There's no grandeur in the buildings, just functionality.
I know this sounds pretentious, but it's really what I care most about when I'm captivated by a place, and why I think it's worth capturing–especially for the souls who will be deprived of these places in the future.
There was a most remarkable British artist, Richard Parkes Bonnington who died at twenty-six and he had incredible talent. He painted fishing villages in England and France in the early nineteenth century and I think, in retrospect, he influenced me more than I realized.
If you're ever in New Haven, there is a wonderful collection of his work at The Yale British Museum. 8381. wabbit - 3/12/2007 3:17:17 AM I want to take a watercolor class with you sometime. 8382. wonkers2 - 3/12/2007 4:42:42 PM Who owns the music of days gone by? 8383. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 3/12/2007 4:42:48 PM Ha! Thanks wabb, though it's highly unlikely that this burned-out teacher will ever teach again.
I just finished a big plate of that subject and I'm very excited about it. I'll post an image after I print something I like. 8384. prolph - 3/15/2007 12:03:23 AM wizardm where will your show be? patsy 8385. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 3/15/2007 12:22:27 AM In Connecticut, Patsy. 8386. judithathome - 3/22/2007 10:30:40 PM Wiz, I tried to email you and it came back...I used the address I always do.
Anyhow, in the mail today I received something you sent me and I am agog at how beautiful they are! Thanks you, thank you, thank you!
8387. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 3/29/2007 9:23:44 PM You're very welcome, Judith! (I just saw this, sorry for the late response.)
If you click on these thumbnails you can see some of the recent harvest . . .
8388. wonkers2 - 3/29/2007 10:15:20 PM Beautiful pictures, Wiz. 8389. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 3/29/2007 11:07:12 PM Thanks wonk, do you want me to send a card to your brother? 8390. wonkers2 - 3/30/2007 2:20:37 PM Please send me one also. We are going to NJ in May for a birthday party and might make it over to Connecticut. 8391. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 3/30/2007 2:33:53 PM Sure thing and if you have the time, come for dinner. 8392. uzmakk - 3/30/2007 2:50:01 PM A reductio ad absurdum:
Courbo's revolution comes to pass. Active citizenship sweeps the region. Thousands begin to attend city council meetings. The interminable public comment period lengthens. Meetings begin to begin before they have ended. Time begins to move backward. A chronosynclastic infundibulum forms...
These are exciting times, Ladies and Gentlemen! 8393. uzmakk - 3/30/2007 2:57:00 PM Extremely appealling paintings, Wiz. So well composed.
Who was it that said they were actually had tickets for that production of 3 Penny Opera at Studio 54(?). Did he see it? Did he do a couple of paragraphs for The Mote?
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