Drawing
The Bluegrass festival at La Roche s/Foron
2 August 2010
The Bluegrass festival at La Roche s/Foron is pretty cool, it’s in the center of this small town that is situated not too far south of Geneva (a beautiful area just north of the French alps), is free, it lasts four days and if the groups on stage aren’t enough for you, many of the bands can be found playing in the streets or while sitting around a table at a local café. This year the weather was sunny and warm, perfect for hanging out and getting fat on bluegrass music…
Personas For Firefox
29 July 2010
Had some fun making a few Rattlebrained Firefox Personas.
These, if you don’t know, “let you personalize the look of your Firefox browser!” I think you need Firefox 3.6 for this as well as installing a little add on extension. It’s cool and there are more to come so check back soon.
Wacom Cintiq 12WX
9 July 2010
I’ve been using an Intuos 3 8×6 for the last couple of years and really consider it the most useful tool for working at a computer so I guess it’s no surprise that I’ve been looking at the Cintiq series screen tablets with some curiosity and desire since I focused on them a few months ago. It also seemed that my mom, who is also an artist, could profile by using one. She tried a Intuos 2 way back when, but drawing on the pad while looking at the screen didn’t work for her so after some hesitation I suggested she try one… Which is why she asked me to install it on her Mac a couple of weeks ago, which I quickly tried to do (being in a bit of a hurry at that time), but wasn’t able too. Which led to it coming home with me so I could figure it out first… So here I am adapting, kind of, to a Cintiq 12WX.
Sticking it onto my Windows 7 machine worked fine and it didn’t take long to figure out that it had probably also installed perfectly on my mom’s Mac. The issue was simply that since it’s screen was set as an extension of her main screen I hadn’t realized that unless you set the “display toggle” to “pen display” and “force proportions”, when you switch between the two screens you can end up with the mouse pointer on the main screen but off to one side of it… As it was I couldn’t set anything up since whenever I toggled over to the main display the mouse pointer disappeared. So I’m like “where’s the pen? This isn’t working…” :P
Which is why “what I dislike about it” gets listed first.
Les Mont de Baulmes
17 April 2010
Last week I took a walk above the village my folks live in, with Elstir – their Shetland sheep dog – and made a couple of quick sketches. The one here on the right is of the Baulmine, a stream that has its source about 3/4 of the way up the mountain.
It has been highly canalized over the years because of the amount of water that comes down with the spring thaw as well as during big storms. The size of the rocks the water can carry during those moments is quite impressive, but its a bit late in the season for that now. I’ve drawn it off and on now for nearly 30 years watching the stream bed and its environment changing with time, tamed by man; or at least it seems…
The Attack Of The Cultural Specters
29 October 2009
Towards the end of August I had a chance meeting with the director of our city’s cultural center, the ABC. He asked me if I would illustrate one of this season’s monthly newsletter cover, which of course I agreed to, even if as he warned: their project was to have the participating artists react to a given theme which I would receive shortly after.
Which I did.
What is art and how to make it in today’s rampant commercialistic society?…
More Sketches From Paris
28 July 2009
Continuing from last Sunday’s post, we walked through the Montparnasse cemetery on our way to the catacombs, Place Denfert-Rochereau, which is obviously where this sketch is from. The root of a nearby tree had pushed the whole base of this relatively fancy tombstone up and out of alignment. Nature, the original rebel…
A Few Sketches From Paris
26 July 2009
Don’t remember where this Café was, they had space on their terrace and Guinness so what more could you ask for? There was a weird decorative mural inside with a cafe terrace scene in which a bunch of rosy cheeked, freshly released from school kids generally raised hell in front of a few wide eyed adults…
City Of Light (again)
20 July 2009
Last night we spent the evening with friends from SF who had rented an apartment in a building in Montmartre with a great view quickly sketched here.
Electric Organ Lady Skeleton
2 July 2009
Sunday I was thrilled to receive a “love your stuff” message with a “how about a keyboard playing skeleton?” ending. So I puffed up my chest feathers and gave it some thought.
The truth is that I had already considered a piano playing skeleton last year but didn’t really see it in my head…
The Snow Burger
16 April 2009
After a few “Spring Break” days spent with my folks, here I am back frying my brain with CTR screen radiations…
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