Two Ballerinas

This piece of art is called "Two Ballerinas" and it was done in the Paint program by Lillian Queen.

I've decided to share this blog with her -- after all, I'm not doing much with it, and perhaps, with her help, we can put more art work and creativity in it more often.

Welcome, Lillian, and keep up the good work!

31 January 2011

The cover for the Piker Press this week, and the illustration for Bernie's piece, "Time."

Sunday 30 January

A little tree study in pastels, done on my newly-rearranged work table in the studio.

Again with the White on Dark

I'm getting so I can imagine what a picture is going to look like before I start playing with it in Photoshop!

I was looking at the palms in the dim light outside and realized I could hardly see any color to them on these gray days. And I thought it would look more interesting if I used a certain filter on a picture of them...

Another Cover: January 17

Using an uncopyrighted photo from the Library of Congress' Flickr site, I made this cover for the Piker Press this morning.

I like using this treatment of pictures in Photoshop; I think that I could learn a lot from trying to duplicate stuff like this with pastels on colored paper.

If it ever warms up enough, or at least the damn fog lifts, I do want to make such experiments a priority.

Movie Review: The King's Speech

That was today's effort, the review of this great movie.

I'll have to post a link to it on Monday.

I was really impressed with the movie. It told a story, certainly, but I know I'm going to watch it again and again to immerse in the depth of the acting.

** Here's the link:

The King's Speech: Review

Green Garlic Dressing

On today's menu was spaghetti, with a salad, and cheesy garlic bread.

When I asked Bernie what kind of salad dressing he wanted, the choices being bottled ranch, garlic (mine) or peppered vinaigrette (also mine) he chose garlic.

It's a simple enough salad dressing to make, but when I went to pulverize some cloves of garlic, I thought it might be cool to make a green garlic dressing, making use of lettuce and spinach leaves -- after all, adding some substance to the mixture would make it cling to the vegetables better, right?

Into the Cuisinart food processor went six cloves of garlic, and about a loose cup of spinach and those curly little lettuce leaves no one in this family likes, plus about 1/3 cup of vegetable oil, and a bit of salt. I buzzed it until it liquified, then added 1/3 cup of water, and let the processor emulsify the whole thing.

It was delicious, although I have no idea how long it will last, but I know that I'll be making this again in the future.