I found your beard

Found on a shore of the Chesapeake Bay.

color study: Jasper Johns

I'm not studying Jasper Johns' color palette. I'm using this particular image of one of his works to contemplate my color preferences. Could be the sun penetrating to grass or (as the title suggests) lightly falling snow.

Usuyuki by Jasper Johns (1980)

Source: moma.org via Elaine on Pinterest

All of the base colors are the same brightness and lightness (tints of four colors, basically). They suggest luminousness and joy and dancing and summer warmth. Yet, why I like this piece probably has more to do with pink than the other colors, although I like tropical aqua, too.

Not Winter

I intended to make a winter abstract and this came out instead. I miss summer. Those lazy, childhood summers on the beach with a slight breeze, cool waves, and endless sunny days. Or it could be those summers between my high school years that were so lazy and laid back. Hanging out with friends, swimming, lazing in the grass, dreaming of the future—that kind of thing. Bicycles! Yep. I miss all that.

The Weekly Round

 No  matter how hard I try, who I promise, or what number of interesting topics flit through my mind, once a week seems to be the limit on this blog.

I have noticed that my other output to twitter and the facebook page is also down. I guess all this activity is indoor stuff.

What I really need to do is officially become the Traffic Nazi with a subspecialty in bicycles. But that would mean research and discovering that someone is already at it and I would have to specialize or at least distinguish myself some way. Or I could, I suppose, be just another traffic blogger. I would get some release from my frustrations. I know from past experience that the best way to exorcise anger and irritation is to write about it on a blog. The anger goes away. I wonder if the buddhists have considered it in addition to meditation?

Anyway, all I have today are two drawings I made of me in differing color palettes. Don't ask me to make one for you. I'll never get around to it even if I say yes.