Reading harold_maude's journal

As my laundry hangs dripping over the tub, I learned that wringing out too many clothes after washing is painful on the hands and so I let them hand for about an hour before I wring them out, I was thinking about this project I have going on.
It's a set of 25, or will be in a few days, of 25 moncromatic drawings in color on black.

Now the virtues of drawing on black paper are many. Using black to start with tends to mess with how we see the world.
You deal with only the light reflection if your going for something along the lines of a still life, and the colors that are generally reserved for highlights becomes main players on black.
I'm not fond of drawing in pink. It doesn't do alot for me, but on black it's amazing.
When I'm done with the set, I have planned to go to kinkos to get them onto disk so I can show them on line.
I don't have a good digital camera and no scanner at the moment, this is the solution left to me.

It's been good doing these. With so much of life these days consumed with doing what needs to get done, doing something creative with a goal is a good thing.

I love working in colored pencil and it seems to like me back.
My favorite pencils are prismacolor because they are as close to pastel as you can get without going the road of dealing with tools that are way to fragile for the intensity I tend to draw with.
I'm thinking that when I get it all done I want to attach cloth binding to each one and turn it into a book of art.

I have been working on the brown paper comix but I'm stuck in some places as well. The best inspiration for brown paper comix is life in stripped down mode.
So that is comming along. I just finished a list of fun things to do in winter that will be in the first issue:

1. Watch the thermometer drop. Take bets as to how long it will stay attached to that loose nail.

2. Count rasins.

3. Make cookie sculptures.

4. hold a spit freezing contest. The winner gets an armband made of aluminum foil and a tube of tooth paste.

5. list all the things you can't remember. This is challanging because if you can't remember than how can you list it?

6. Stop in mid-sentance. Don't start talking again for a few minuets. Look at the person your talking to with a really puzzled look. Say "OK and thank you" and let them wonder.

7. Discuss the life of a bean.

8. find something.

9. Make a chicken head out of an empty egg carton. Put a for sale sign on it and ask a $1,000 for it.

10.challange someone to lick their ear.

11. Take turns making shit up.

12. laugh until your sides hurt.

13. explain where toothpaste comes from. be creative, the more outlandish and strange you can make it, the better.

14. color snow.

The list is endless. So that is slowly growing.

The black works were started on Easter. I spent the majority of the day drawing and that's something I haven't done for a very long time. When given time I am prolific artist.

It will be easier when I get a scanner because then when something is done I can just scann it and put it up.
A website has been discussed and I'm thinking about it.
All art all the time...something like that.
I know I want to put as many artists on it as I can, at least links to their sites.
Of all the forms of communication that humans are capable of, to me art is the most profound and the most revealing about the person doing the art.
The viewer is invited to share the artists world. We need more art in the world, and more music.
Much more.

I got to hear some classical music today that was put to techno.
It was awesome. Beetoveen's ninth done in techno...it's yes..
They did the moonlight sonta as well. You can dance to it and it's fun and full of energy.
The moonlight sonta is also fun to put your own lirics to as well.
I was singing about squirels to it today. I've sung about socks as well.
It tends to make me smile and it's hard to sing while these immages are going through my head.

A few months ago I was introduced to sympony x, and I fell in love. A perfect marriage of metal and classical music.
I have felt for a long time that metal and classical were the perfect partners. They are both powerful in nature and equally intense. Both conjour immages and can take you away.
So when I heard it I naturally got goose bumps all over.
It was nice to find out that my feeling was right.

Well, I gotta go draw now. :)

14. color snow.

May I ask...

Consider yourself hugged.

The idea is to use the immagination here.
I'd go with a non toxic something. Jello might be fun, but somewhat sticky.
Or food color would be cool, thin it down to make a lot and put it it in a spray bottle and let go.
Watercolor paint would work too, but it's important that the paint you use won't harm the grass later on.
Unless your coloring snow over concrete.

Hmmm..that gives me another idea. Freezing water with color in it and then have an ice carving contest. Or making colored ice cubes and when they are frozen wetting them and stacking them in strange shapes.

:)

I think Bernie was thinking you meant yellow snow.. which is not colored by immagination. :)

If the world should blow itself up,the last audible voice would be an expert saying it can't be done

I'm not sure if that's what he was thinking, he never said.
I hadn't thought about that when I thought about it, does that make sense?

But you could color snow that way, although I'm not so sure that I would want to, it being winter and that cold.

Heh, yeah, that what I was thinking. Sorry, I thought I'd already replied to this post.

Consider yourself hugged.

Now I have to include something about snow writing in the list.
It's too intriging a thing to not include it.

For guys only: A contest to see who can write the biggest word in the snow.
It has to be a guys contest. Makes me wonder if somewhere there is a record for the longest word ever written in the snow.

My first name has 6 letters, and I only ever seem to have just enough for that. :P

You're here, aren't you? You're talking to me, aren't you?

Well, I've found one site that says that drinking will increase the amount of "ink" you have to use.
Yes, I actually found a site with instructions.
It's called "eHow How to do just about everything"

I read another one that says that snow writing is a time honored tradion that is passed down from father to son.
We have a traditional activity. :)

Now I've got stuff about snow writing in my favorites...I had no idea it was such a big deal. This is definately something for further reading. :)

This post was edited by harold_maude on Apr 11, 2008.