Art, architecture, teaching, life with children, thoughts on being, and a lot of paintings as they emerge onto the paper at MBK Studios.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Self Portrait
When I'm painting I'm usually excited.
When I'm thinking about art I'm often critical or dissatisfied. Grumpy.
I need to paint more or lighten up.
And lose a pound or two.
You are not being very kind. You look dissatisfied at everything going in one ear and out the other. You are critical of yourself; quite harshly, in fact. How are a house and a wedge of cheese related? Hmm . . .
By the way, in that portrait you seem to be anti-listening. I thought the other day it would be amusing to say, "oh you never see anything around you - it's in one eye and out the other."
I would say that I'm a pretty good listener when it comes to sounds, but not the sounds of people talking. I'm a bad listener in the traditional sense. But I'm a good looker. In the using my eyes sense. Not the people like looking at my fat face sense.
Okay... I have pin-pointed the expression... You know when a baby just goes 'eeerrgh" - well that's when it grows another lump of itself. Science fact. That is your face there :) OR you had a bored afternoon and a bad pic of yourself. Put 'em together... it was moider.
You are not being very kind. You look dissatisfied at everything going in one ear and out the other. You are critical of yourself; quite harshly, in fact. How are a house and a wedge of cheese related? Hmm . . .
ReplyDeleteSimple - they both smell of houses.
DeleteOne of these months? Good luck.
ReplyDeletefewer dinners = focussed mind, (focussed mainly on dinners).
ReplyDeleteBy the way, in that portrait you seem to be anti-listening. I thought the other day it would be amusing to say, "oh you never see anything around you - it's in one eye and out the other."
ReplyDeleteI would say that I'm a pretty good listener when it comes to sounds, but not the sounds of people talking. I'm a bad listener in the traditional sense. But I'm a good looker. In the using my eyes sense. Not the people like looking at my fat face sense.
DeleteOkay... I have pin-pointed the expression... You know when a baby just goes 'eeerrgh" - well that's when it grows another lump of itself. Science fact. That is your face there :) OR you had a bored afternoon and a bad pic of yourself. Put 'em together... it was moider.
ReplyDeleteMoider-
DeleteA Wigan term - to pester someone, or generally collar them on a particular subject beyond the realms of polite conversation.