straightwalker

notes from a beginning painter

Summer passing quickly. So far, unable to paint Dmitra from photo, colors too flat, no life in the expression. Time out. Painted an abstraction of the Chosoviot...

On Coffee

Addison-Wooley Gallery in Portland, Maine showed this exhibit during August, 2011. The photographs are 17 x 22 inches, printed in an edition of 40 on Epson Ultr...

On Coffee

(https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmfUgoUS2tiXC7G8bQ9zmL1kpuX5aDsjk928ocCTZBKJoa/image.png) strong hands, clear eyes, wide mouth, unlike any other, yet she steps ...

On Coffee

(https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmebEGHfYNkChtJECuGMF45sPFRQUs3CQv2vuV1tYMBE9R/image.png) firm hip, shoulder, incurving waist, soft round of breast, a slim youn...

On Coffee

(https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmdwZq9LrfDE95ScM66XbktNchoWW7DGiUT86prrX54Jo8/image.png) smooth skin, descending to hip, up and over, also inward, along the pe...

On Coffee

(https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmTV3XsZz1AEyBYkaye2f2bRwLgtTkfgQiLszQGtKU4m8T/image.png) She said, "I got up early and made the coffee. I put the two mugs side...

On Coffee

(https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmeJxeqqcA3oGTYcAK2tfei8scN673TyCtUNP4CKRU4MC5/image.png) I woke up on a wooded path. It was dark and I was severely hungover. D...

On Coffee

(https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmbbYHjgquAaVVdkUuwri9fhDYEk3jzL3zPhhZDRDkro9i/image.png) My first summer job was at a company that made high tech fans for the ...

Michelangelo's Shoulder

Michelangelo’s Shoulder It dawned hot in Georgia. Don rubbed his head and blinked. He got out of bed and paused before a makeshift easel where a drawing, taped ...

Signal Fire

Signal Fire On a deserted beach at dusk, a man rolled a note into a cylinder and stuffed it into one shoe. He patted the wallet, keys, and knife in his pockets,...

Leaving Naxos

I have lived on Kauai, Oahu, and the Big Island. On Peaks Island in Maine. On the Cycladic Islands in Greece, recently. Tomorrow we leave Naxos. It is sad each ...

Walking / Drawing in Greece

Hi, here are some drawings made in the last two months. Please forgive beginner clumsiness. On a spring morning in Rhodes, I entered the Old City and heard beau...

Birthday Card

https://steemitimages.com/DQmPNhLpEWHLD4GkPNAFxXZuPBzjsxP3ov1E7oEWTDaT11E/Folegandros.JPG When I was 24, I wrote that I should "wake the ever present into words...

Getting Small

"I've lost my way, a bit, Batman. I don't know what to do next." "Get small, Joe." "That again!" It's not easy getting small. Like dying---the death of your def...

Beauty and the Auk

Beauty and the Auk Auk, port bow Beauty matters. We need it. But why, what is it? There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion....

Why Draw?

Why Draw Language is a prerequisite of civilization; literature is a consequence. Fine writing explores, models, and sometimes leads culture. At bottom, however...

Batman and The Goddess of the Standpipe

Batman and The Goddess of the Standpipe "What next, Batman?" "That fruit plate looks pretty good, Joe." "Right." Joe Burke examined the purple flesh and tiny bl...

Creating, Solitude, Community, Drinking, and Jung

"The great problems are inherently insoluble as they involve opposing polarities in the self, polarities necessary in any self-regulating organism... Some peopl...

The Enormous Chance

Hi, By way of introduction, here are a few poems from previously published books. Only new ones from now on. Thanks very much for reading! Back In Town Billy Fr...

intro

Hi, please bear with me as I learn how to post, mark up, etc. My name is John Moncure Wetterau. I grew up in Woodstock, N.Y., lived in Hawaii, lived for thirty-...