Posts Tagged ‘san francisco’
January 27, 2012
This was the view we had from our apartment. We looked at a picture that was always changing. Besides making drawings and paintings for my Artists Book, I made photographs. This photograph was taken at 5:34 in the morning.1.3 sec at f/4.0 The focal length was 28mm ISO 200. I didn’t have a tripod so I set up my Canon EOS Digital rebel XTI on a pile of books on a table. Then, I put the camera on timer and experimented with different settings. A bit crazy, too, it was dark, I’m trying to see the dials with a flashlight – I have to remember where they are on the camera! I’m trying to be quiet so I don’t wake up my husband, then of course when I do try that, I usually crash something.There’s not a lot of time to fiddle around because the light changes rapidly.
I’m working on how to show bigger images on my WordPress site here but so far all I can say it click on the image to see it bigger. It makes a difference. If anyone has a suggestion on a better layout for my blog, I’d love to hear about it.
Tags:Art, Artist Book, Cameras, Canon EOS, photography, san francisco, WordPress
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January 4, 2012
Last week’s drawings were the result of me taking a rest from radiation effects on my body. I stopped blogging about my bout with cancer because I was told my blog was too painful. I wanted to move on. But I kept thinking. This image of what I thought my MRI was like is interesting. So among the small travel drawings here is my interpretation of my MRI experience,
Tags:Abstract Art, California, drawing, India ink drawn with a stick, MRI Xray pastels, san francisco, Travel
Posted in Art and Healing, California, Cancer, drawings, Paintings, Travel Drawings | 7 Comments »
December 31, 2011
In front of the Oakland – San Francisco Bay Bridge, fireworks fill the sky over the Transamerica building. During the holidays, more than 17,000 lights decorate four buildings in the Embarcadero district.
Have you thought of your new years resolution? I have. Tomorrow starts a new series – back to slow art, drawings from my travel sketchbooks starting with Seattle. My plan is to create short posts more often.
Tags:California, fireworks, photograph, san francisco, Transamerica building, Travel
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March 19, 2011
Tags:Art Galleries, Bikes, dogs, Neighborhoods, photography, Racing, san francisco, Walks
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February 4, 2011
Flowers and plants filled the streets of Chinatown last weekend while people enjoyed the flower fair. Plants symbolize growth. If a plant blooms on New Year’s Day, this will signify a year of prosperity. The Chinese believe that without flowers, there would be no formation of any fruits to bear seeds for the next generation. Therefore, it is important to have flowers and floral decorations in the home to begin a new year.
Tags:Chinese New Year, san francisco, Year of the Hare
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October 12, 2010
Yikes! What a bad processing job on the last image. This is the same image processed in Photoshop Elements. The other one was processed in Lightroom 3. Its still not right. With a tap on the keyboard I could change the image to black and white, but, then I need to learn how to balance all that! Another learning curve is about to happen (when enough time has passed for me to forget how long it took for me to figure out my last “lesson” in digital photograpy.
Tags:Blue Angels, Fleet Week, san francisco
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June 8, 2010
I felt I was missing something when I came out of the San Francisco Fine Art Fair. I found some little drawings I liked. I said hello to a sculpture by Manuel Neri but that was about it. Walking back to the car we decided to check out the MFA Graduate Exhibition. That building was full of energy. This self portrait, taken with my iphone, is of Marta Spurgeon’s hanging plastic boxes. They remind me of Ct , CAT scans of the brain or three-dimensional images of the inside of the head from a series of two-dimensional x-ray images. Marta has layers of transparent plastic sheets hanging in space. Each sheet has part of a face painted on it – altogether they make up a whole three dimensional face.
Tags:Art Fair, Marta Spurgeon, photograph, san francisco, San Francisco Art Institute, self portrait
Posted in California, Paintings, Photographs | 4 Comments »
