Author: Mark
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Finger Painting July 1
Today’s art is simple. SketchPad has ten basic colors. I chose four of those for this piece. The dark green background as a base against light green hills was the beginning. There are only two greens so I went with brown for the grass. I wanted to do ladybugs but the app isn’t detailed enough…
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InkScape June 30
I have an obsession with hands. There are so many artistic ways to do them. I want to draw the perfect hand. But I don’t want it to just be a photograph. There is something about hands that I find compelling to draw. They can be very simple. But more often then not they can…
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Finger Painting June 29
So I do my “finger painting” on a mobile app called SketchPad. It’s difficult to make exact marks with the tip of my index finger, so sometimes when I try to draw a small line I get a couple of dots instead. You can see a few of those in the grass. It’s also difficult…
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InkScape June 28
I’m learning the mathematical modelling of the program. Today it’s the straight lines of a courtyard.
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Introversion vs. Extroversion
I was raised within a duality paradigm. The world divided into binary categories: male or female, good or evil, right or wrong, black or white, introvert or extrovert. But that paradigm always, always, always failed to capture the complex reality that surrounded me. Duality is an illusion we use to simplify our reality. I recently…
