Chuck Law, a great artist that I have followed for several years. I think we started communicating about crow photos or some such. He does very intricate paintings and has been working lately on plein air pieces which he posts on his blog, Chuck Law's Art Pages. He is a regular on wetcanvas.com in the plein air section. Have a look .. you will find something you like. His "From the Sea" paintings first captured my interest.
Now on with my day:
Today was beautiful and hot eventually. The morning started off nice so we went to the golf course. Our golf playing was about normal which isn't great.
These photos are of hole number 9 at the course we play, Lost Pines Golf Course in Bastrop State Park. It looks beautiful, right? That is one of the reasons I like golf. It is always beautiful and peaceful. Also, we are outside getting a little walking exercise. This is the hole where I take the turtle photos. If you put "turtles" in the search box, upper left, you will find more turtle photos.
Baseball tonight was with Texas Southern, a "small" university from Houston. Texas Southern has just under 12,000 students and Texas has almost 39,000. They are a Division 1 school, too, in the Southwestern Athletic Conference. Texas won 3 - 7 as you see. Have a look at the temperature at 8:46 pm -- 86 degrees F. Whew! It is still 80 degrees at almost midnight.This is only the third time Texas Southern has played at the Disch in Austin, record now 0 in 3. It must be daunting for them to come to Disch-Falk Field and play a top ranked team. The adrenalin must be high and the nerves on edge. They played pretty well even though they used a bunch of pitchers and had three errors.
The game was good and had some interesting moments. You can read about it as usual on Joanna's Longhorn Baseball page and the official Longhorn page.
11 comments:
Thank you for the artist links, Jo - both are wonderful artists with very different styles. Margulis' colors are amazing and I love the close flower focus she does. And Chuck Law's buildings are so well done and tied to their surroundings - plus his "food" works are excellent! Wouldn't they go well with the "junk food" series you're going to do some day??
By tinted paper does that mean something like Mi-Teints? And then she says she "covers" the piece and puts water on it. What does "covers" mean exactly - can you tell I found this very interesting?
Regina, thank you. I have had fun with Chuck, he did a series of sunglasses dropped in sand. I doubt I will ever do food, I would eat it before I finished and working from a photo isn't too much fun.
Bag Blog, Karen usually works on sanded paper .. UArt, Colourfix, or Pastelbord. I looked for the artist/article on wet canvas and didn't see it. I will ask her.. What she means by cover is to put paper or something over the finished part to keep the sprinkled water off the part where she doesn't want the water.
Bag Blog, I checked with Karen and she used Uart on one and Wallis on the other. She says the Uart seems to take wet media much better. Looks like something fun to try. You show me yours. I'll show you mine. :)
Jo: Nice shots of the course, I'm going today and tomorrow in PA.
Jo, I will give it a try - I like the way it looks on Karen's blog.
It is actually hole number 8. Gene
fishing guy, Ah, that should be great and outing and golf! Looks like you are having nice temperatures up there, we are hitting near 100 already. Whew...
Bag Blog, that technique with the water looks great and fun. Let us know how it works. I hope to try it, too.
Gene, thank you. It is hole number 8 as you well know. Must have been and "old timers" moment. :)
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