Random Musing No. 1

The human eye has a range of 120°, mostly peripheral vision, compared to the camera’s typical 200° or more. That is why the figures sometimes seem distorted at the edges of a photograph. We make up for this seeming deficit by moving our focus (in movements called “saccades”) around a scene to build up a gestalt awareness of its appearance.

A painting, curated by human intelligence, is superior in every respect to a photograph, except for how long it takes to make it. If cameras took three hours to create the exact same image as they do now in a split second, there would be no question as to which medium people would choose when they needed an image recorded.

Plein Air Season!

Just getting started on outdoor painting. Here are a few new ones.

 

 

Wendy’s

Mystic

Pawtucket Falls

Siberian Iris

Motif No. 2 to the N minus 1 (Solar Farm, Foxborough)

More Art, 2016

Dandelions; in watercolors and in oils.

Nemoset River; Purgatory Chasm 2016; Watson Pond; Nickerson Woods.

Housatonic River; Nemasket Street Bridge; Long Island as Seen From Spectacle Island; Leach Pond; Loosestrife (given to Gerry Puleo)

Tomorrow: nudes!