What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat – Amy Gordon I remember, way back in high school, I was a clip from Dr Phil where they put a hidden camera on an obese woman while she sat…
Monthly Archives: January 2022
Trying To Write My Rambling Thoughts About Final Fantasy XII
Two warnings for this post. 1) I’m going to bounce back and forth between talking like you’ve never played FF12 and like you’re as familiar as I am. It’s too tedious to try and explain everything and bring the reader…
Posted in Pop Culture
Recent Paintings
This first one isn’t on black canvas, it’s actually the last of a pack of white but I’d painted the diagonal background one day and thought, the next day, it would work with this reference. In the original photo he’s…
Posted in Painting
Abandoned People Abandon People
I read this phrase last night and I must say I’ve never thought about it that way. And I would say abandonment is pretty much my main thing. Given up on by one parent then the other then by my…
Posted in Depression & Suicide, Pragmatism
Today’s Painting (the time I finally cropped the photos)
I was painting on the narrower canvii today which are impossible to squarely take a photo of and so now we’ll find out how cropped photos look on the blog. Hurray? Man, it really shows my photos aren’t squared off…
Posted in Painting
Sobriety day 14
I’ve based everything I think about these sober stretches on an article I haven’t been able to find again. I happened to read it at exactly the right time when I was planning on taking a break from drinking and…
Posted in Depression & Suicide, sobriety
Recent Paintings (and talk about painting in themes)
Welp, I gave myself so much to write about that it became a chore to put off and now I have even more to write about. Okay so, painting 1 is another rendition of Praying Fighter but the sharp eyed…
Posted in Painting
Sobriety day 6
Last night was such a bad night and then this morning was such a manic rush. The biggest effect I noticed at the end of my drinking season was the broken sleep. If I drank I’d lay awake in bed…
Posted in sobriety
Today’s Painting (The Struggle of Foreshortening)
I originally got this reference thinking it’s such a cool pose and didn’t realize it really requires foreshortening – unlike everything I’ve worked on previously. So I did that first painting and the front leg just bugged and bugged me.…
Posted in Painting
Recent Paintings
First things first, or last things first, this was the last painting I did in 2021. I had two squares left, figured I’d do something dual, had a reference for a different project and came up with the idea. Did…
Posted in Painting
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