by Rich Brimer | Aug 9, 2008 | Painting |
Today I added the knitting needle to the scarf that is being made. I tried adding an additional knitting needle floating in the foreground (see photo) and hated it, so I wiped it off. So, below is the current status of it, sans extra needle.
by Rich Brimer | Aug 4, 2008 | Painting |
With the pile of yarn now in place, you can see it coming together. I have also added a layer of cable-knit to the scarf that I am pleased with. I am going to attempt to add a knitting needle to the scarf to show that action of knitting. I did try a glaze of...
by Rich Brimer | Aug 2, 2008 | General |
So at the start of this year, I decided to find a local life drawing group. I did find a couple of them but they were in the mornings. I have a day job, so it would not be possible to attend the weekday one, the other is on Saturdays, which is often busy. So… I...
by Rich Brimer | Aug 1, 2008 | beauty, Painting |
So I now have the second draft of this painting. I worked the background sufficiently enough that it matches “Threshold” now much better. I think I will have one more go at the background tomorrow after this dries. Then – when side by side, I will do...
by Rich Brimer | Jul 20, 2008 | Painting |
So, I have started a new painting. It seems like this is going to be a nice companion to “Threshold” and one that I have been thinking of this painting for about a year. As you can read in the previous post about the sweater and scarf, there is this sense...
by Rich Brimer | Jul 19, 2008 | memior, Painting |
So, as I have been reading listening and talking to others about the state of the Church and Christianity, I am beginning to understand what “deconstructionism†can mean for it. Pete Rollins (author of “How (Not) to Speak of God“) was at a talk that I attended...
by Rich Brimer | Jun 28, 2008 | General, Painting |
So, I took some friends out to the beach because they wanted to learn to paint. El Matador beach seemed like a likely choice because I love the rock structures thee and it is very interesting. Christina is from Dallas and she “says” that she has never...
by Rich Brimer | Jun 19, 2008 | beauty, memior, Painting, quotes |
John O’donohue tells us about “thresholds”… “thresholds which comes from “thrashing” – which is to separate the grain from the husk. So, the threshold is a place – you move into a more critical, challenging...
by Rich Brimer | Jun 17, 2008 | General |
By Kathrin Raab-Questenberg Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Re: your June 14 article, “Nude art up, down, back up on a T.O. public wall: Officials deal with complaint plus the issue of censorship”: I am responding to comments concerning some pieces of art in the...
by Rich Brimer | Jun 14, 2008 | Painting |
Well, “any press is good press” so the saying goes. Hopefully this article in today’s Ventura County Star will raise the issue in the Conejo Valley that there is a great need in our community for a proper art gallery/museum – instead of the...
