Thought I’d drop a quick dinosaur picture here commissioned by Stanford University Magazine. They approached me asking for a blue whale, a minke whale, a dreadnoughtus and a person for size comparison. Go read the story about the efficiencies of being a gigantic whale and eating all your mea...
The large murals in the first room draw inspiration from traditional Islamic ceramic tiles, pottery and textile arts such as carpets and embroidery; while the tension and synergy between the organic components and fractal patterns rediscover the importance of elemental rhythms of nature, in the second...
“Blest be the art which can immortalize,”said Cowper. But remember how few painted portraits really give their subjects. Recollect those wandering Thugs of Art whose murderous doings with the brush used frequently to involve whole families; who passed from one country tavern to another, eating ...
Esoterica: Stop just before you think you’re really finished. You have made something new. After letting your work dry, give yourself a chance to study it from a distance while doing something else, like eating dinner. You can ask yourself a few questions: ...
amaze me with their curiosity. Still can’t believe that we are killing these gentle giants in 2023. However my favourite domesticated animal is surely the dog, especially Golden Retrievers, as I consider them to be gentle giants too. Do some of you rememberThe Gentle GiantTV show in the ...
On the way out of the city, we stopped to take pictures at the Grandma and Grandpa –Tatik and Papik–monument, two ugly-to-me faces composed of giant red rock. The man face was tall, square and stately, the woman’s head squat and triangular, as though tented by a headscarf. On ...
Create a giant loom. Create mosaic art with beans, tissue paper, beads, etc. Do a paper mache project. Paint on large cardboard boxes. Draw a self-portrait. Create chalk art outside. 4. Go camping in your backyard. You don’t have to drive to a campsite to go camping during spring...
Outside of Catavina, I first drove into a region of burnt mesa the color of rust, then into a vast field of house-sized boulders, a giant Sequoia forest, white sand dunes offering distant glimpses of an elusive coastline, and finally a deep canyon pass opening onto the Golfo de ...
A giant oil-on-oak painting measuring more than 7 by 12 feet, The Garden of Earthly Delights (1490-1510) was painted during the Renaissance around the turn of the sixteenth century by Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch and is still one of the most famous and mysterious works of art in the ...
“Blest be the art which can immortalize,”said Cowper. But remember how few painted portraits really give their subjects. Recollect those wandering Thugs of Art whose murderous doings with the brush used frequently to involve whole families; who passed from one country tavern to another, eating ...