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Sunday, June 29, 2014

How Artists chose Color?

At a Furniture store, I saw a big painting of a Zebra Portrait. Only its an impossible Zebra with stripes of all colors. When do the artists decide to switch the color gear?
Today's painting, a horse with its face with multi color smears. there must be a time while they are working, when they think they'll put the horses' color and then go, there's something different about this animal that they are painting?

The Iceberg of Culture



I came across the Iceberg model of culture in The Business book.

Frida & Diego: Art, Love and Life



I had seen Frida's movie, been to Heard Museum during Frida's art display., read Diego: Bigger Than Life and still enjoyed reading this book 'Firda & Diego: art, Love, Life' for its pictures and paintings and the Mexican political landscape during the life of the artists Frida & Diego. I wasnt aware of Diego's effort to save pre Columbian Art and that Diego dabbled with cubism. Dr Atl is another reference that I take away form this book for further study.

Thursday, June 26, 2014

The FootLoose American


Before reading this book 'The FootLoose American: Following the Hunter S. Thompson Trail Across South America", I had read the author Brian Kevin's book on Yosemite. Yosemite is a well covered place, yet his book had pictures and events that I hadnt seen in other books. so I was interested in this travel book too.
I liked the author's approach to travel of 'wandering around through the pleasantly pedestrian tableau' and 'grasping around for links with history.. compelled to travel this way, always sniffing around for the cultural-literary-historical significance of this or that'. All this overlayed on Hunter S Thompson's travels, getting an idea of various people of different countries in S America, the role of Peace Corps.
Thompson articles
Nomads from Affluence by Erik Cohen
Along the Gringo Trail




Saturday, June 21, 2014

Icecream with many scoops



This icecream cone with many scoops is an out-of-the-box picture for me. The flower boquet kind is what I would come up with stretched imagination.


Pineapple Flan

The idea for Pineapple Flan came from a blender cook book
 Pineapple Flan

Even simpler recipe Rozanne golds pineapple flan

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Imitation

To imitate life in a painting is bringing a 3D world onto 2D. A Hyper-realistic drawings by Ruben Belloso brings a portrait to be a protome

Rubiks cube Art

My friend sent this link to  Rubiks cube art
Most people usually have one or no Rubik's cube in their house.
A pattern on one cube would have set off the artist to gather more and coming to the realisation that the artist would need so many Rubiks cube is a crazy Eureka moment. Making icon pictures out of icon material is a hedged tete-a-tete with audience (for lack of a specific term for art readers). 

To read or not to



A First Grader's Dad is in a fix. His son is reading Junie B books but Junie is not upto the english that he wants his son to acquire by reading.

Snakemaster

Have you ever come across an article which matches a book that you are about to read that week. Thats what happened to me with From genes to fangs snake venom recipes remain mysterious and Snakemaster by Austin Stevens


Kalbeliya - Sanke Gypsies documentary