Month: November 2025
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Latest drawing in the Red Book.
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Update from the earlier photo showing the light, but wet!, first snowfall (more like slushfall) we got this afternoon. Gayla was saying that we can look forward to a fairly different snow-covered garden this season given how much has changed over the year. There’s a kind of winter architecture that’s exciting in gardens. We leave…
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A short video with photographer Jem Southam that was linked from Jörg Colberg’s newsletter. Watch the video here Southam expresses in the video the process of discovery in creating The Red River body of work. Though my own landscape photography work is far less practiced (mostly non-existent these days) I feel a kinship with how…
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I wrote a second post for the new Much Quality publication that Gayla and I started recently. American Beauty is a look at fan-art, archives, subcultures, and digital ephemera.
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Dark and wet morning but the fall colours are still revealing themselves. We have a patch of snow forecast for this afternoon/evening but like most November snows of recent years it will likely only last a day.
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A new quick start for a drawing in the Red Book. You can see the “blank” page in the second photo. The pages that have strong pre-existing images are interesting because depending on the image, my initial urge is to either highlight or obscure.
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I’ve been scoring my sourdough loaves with an X recently and today’s turned out really nicely. Making simple bread at home is such a rewarding thing. It’s a remarkably easy thing to do with three very basic ingredients.
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This is the 16th drawing in the Red Book. I started this page with some loose “blackout poetry” that provided the main phrase that I later added with some vintage white Letraset. I found a thick roll of heavy striped wrapping paper at the thrift store and I love the high-contrast punch it adds. I…